Lucky
Two months have passed since the trial began, and from this point on, everything in the secret realm is about to undergo a major transformation.
Historically, the scores and rankings for the two-month trial period have become largely fixed, and it's difficult to find new spirit beasts to gain points. Therefore, the disciples refer to the last month of the trial as the "escape month."
If in the first two months the contestants were only thinking about how to steal their opponents' storage bags, in the last month everyone stopped pretending, and the trial would be about escaping and surviving among the other contestants.
To increase the difficulty of the competition, the sect leaders deliberately chose to start from the last month, which would delay the scoring and create confusion.
Qi Yuan hid behind a tree, quietly observing the movements over there.
Nangong Xu and Ye Hanyun started arguing half an hour ago, and it hasn't ended yet.
"Damn it, all you do is waste time fighting with that Ye Munian. Don't you know how to avoid him?"
"Why should I hide? Hiding would be admitting defeat. Am I afraid he's a coward? Who knows, I might actually be able to steal his points."
"Then why don't you just rob it!"
Nangong Xu grabbed his hair in frustration and said in despair, "Didn't you know to use magic when you were fighting him? We're cultivators, you know that?"
"I just got carried away with my emotions and forgot. I'll definitely do it next time." Ye Hanyun rubbed her hands together.
"There's going to be a next time?! I'm terminating our cooperation!" Nangong Xu shouted helplessly, driven to desperation.
Ye Hanyun turned to leave, but suddenly felt a surge of spiritual energy rushing towards him from behind.
He blocked the attack, frowning as he said, "What? You want my points right after we ended our cooperation?"
"No way?" Nangong Xu raised an eyebrow and approached step by step.
Nangong Xu pretended to use his spiritual power, and in the instant he closed the distance, he pounced on Ye Hanyun and began to search her body.
Ye Hanyun gritted her teeth and fired flames at the person on her body, but unexpectedly, Nangong Xu happened to be practicing water-based magic, and the flames were extinguished when they met the water.
He was pinned down and unable to move; his fingers could only reach his waist, and he couldn't draw his sword.
"Where did I put the storage bag?" Nangong Xu muttered to himself as he rummaged through his clothes, finding all sorts of random things, including erotic pictures and wooden sticks.
Ye Hanyun slightly bent his knees, and as the other person touched his shirt, he secretly took out a storage bag from under his leg with his left hand and stuffed it into his shoe.
Fearing that Nangong Xu might crush his jade pendant in a fit of anger, he kicked the other man hard.
Taking advantage of Nangong Xu's movement, Ye Hanyun sprang to her feet with a somersault, triumphantly clutching the jade pendant hanging from her waist in her hand: "What doesn't belong to you, you can never have!"
"How cringeworthy," Nangong Xu replied calmly.
Ye Hanyun was so excited that she accidentally crushed the jade pendant in her hand.
As Nangong Xu drew his sword, he looked up and found that the person in front of him had disappeared. He vaguely heard a "Damn it!" It was very likely that he was hallucinating.
"Real-time update. Ye Hanyun of the Silver Bamboo Sect has been eliminated." Yun Xingjun's voice echoed throughout the secret realm.
"What is this?" Nangong Xu murmured.
He was a little confused. It couldn't possibly be that Ye Hanyun crushed the jade pendant herself, could it?
"Nangong Xu, it was you who eliminated Ye Hanyun!" Ye Ting walked up from behind and said angrily.
Nangong Xu: ?
He turned around and pointed at himself in confusion: "Me?"
"You two are teammates, how could you be so cunning as to use his trust to eliminate him!" Ye Ting said as he rushed forward.
"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding!"
No matter how Nangong Xu explained or resisted, the other party wouldn't listen. When he saw that Ye Ting was about to touch his storage bag, he gritted his teeth, forcefully tore off the storage bag, and threw it into the empty woods before continuing to fight.
According to the rules, as long as the storage bag is not taken by other participants, it's fine.
Nangong Xu felt that his method was flawless and very effective in delaying time. If Ye Ting went to pick up the storage bag, he could simply detonate the jade tablet and still retain his points.
Hiding behind the tree trunk, Qi Yuan looked at the storage bag that had fallen at her feet with a subtle expression.
"?" Nangong Xu hadn't even made a jade token yet when he was inexplicably teleported away.
"Real-time notification. Lingjian Sect's Nangong Xu has been eliminated."
When Ye Ting saw Nangong Xu disappear in front of him, he assumed that the other party had crushed the jade pendant himself and was not too surprised.
Having snagged 15,000 points, Qi Yuan quietly slipped away through the woods. Due to the delay effect, no one knew that she had obtained Nangong Xu's storage bag.
"It was her!" Nangong Xu stood up abruptly after watching the replay, his voice trembling.
He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.
They're all passed down through personal connections, don't get angry, don't get angry.
*
Two disciples were eliminated in a short period of time. As everyone knows, they were on the same team. Everyone speculated that these two were eliminated because they encountered Qi Yuan or Ye Ting, or perhaps Pei Yin as well.
Lu Wenxing consistently maintained fourth place. When he went up the mountain alone, he encountered Wu Shangyao and his group of four.
Bai Zhuo, holding his sword, stammered as he said, "Senior Brother Lu, we...we want to steal your points."
“…Yes! Just surrender…” Yu Guanzhi said nervously, his voice growing softer and softer.
Ye Yu and Wu Shangyao both blushed and nodded frantically.
"Oh? Is that so?" Lu Wenxing smiled gently at the four young new disciples.
He swiftly moved in front of Bai Zhuo, who stood there dumbfounded. Lu Wenxing took the storage bag from Bai Zhuo in just two seconds and said gently to the others, "Is this it?"
Bai Zhuo opened his mouth but didn't make a sound. A second later, he was teleported to the elimination area.
"Real-time update. Bai Zhuo of Lingjian Sect has been eliminated."
The other three became even more wary, swallowing hard as they stared at the man.
Lu Wenxing moved his fingers and said softly, "My lovely junior brothers and sisters, if you don't leave soon, I won't be able to keep you here."
The three of them snapped out of their daze and ran down the mountain.
"The younger generation is so shameless," Lu Wenxing thought to himself.
He turned to look at the bushes on the hillside and said gently, "Come out. It's uncomfortable to keep hiding."
Song Yu paused, slowly stood up from the bushes, and slashed at Lu Wenxing with his sword.
Lu Wenxing raised his sword to block, but when he opened his eyes, he found that he had blocked air. It was just a feint; Song Yu was actually running down the mountain.
He realized what was happening and quickly followed Song Yu down the mountain.
Ye Munian rushed out from the foot of the mountain, stood in front of Lu Wenxing, and shouted, "Go ahead and eliminate me if you dare! Don't touch my senior brother!"
“Okay,” Lu Wenxing replied.
Not long after, Ye Munian was defeated and collapsed to the ground. But strangely, no matter how hard Lu Wenxing searched, he couldn't find Ye Munian's storage bag or jade token.
"Why don't you eliminate me?" Ye Munian said provocatively, blood still dripping from the corner of his mouth.
"You're pretty arrogant," Lu Wenxing said with a slight smile.
Then Ye Munian got a severe beating.
He exploited a loophole in the rules. The rules only stated that the storage bag could not be in the hands of other participants, but they did not say that the jade pendant could not be in the hands of other participants.
Therefore, Ye Munian placed the jade token with Song Yu, who had higher combat power, and hid the storage bag in the bushes in a secluded corner. He was very confident in himself and believed that no one would find the storage bag.
*
"Qi Yuan, aren't you number one? How come all you can do is run?" Cheng Jin pressed on relentlessly.
"Then why didn't you get first place?" Qi Yuan asked, turning around.
The two chased each other. From the time Cheng Jin encountered Qi Yuan in the woods not long ago until now, they had been constantly fighting and running. They even passed by Qi Yi and Sima Chu along the way, but the two of them did not dare to join in.
Qi Yuan took a long breath, stamped her feet, pushed off the ground with her toes, and leaped up, landing on a tree branch. Using her lightness skill, she quickly moved away from Cheng Jin, one tree at a time.
Cheng Jin sneered inwardly, leaped into the air, and used his lightness skill to chase after Qi Yuan ahead.
After descending the mountain, Ye Yu and his two companions saw two strange white shadows flash by in the trees and thought they were seeing things.
This guy is so hard to shake off! He's still following me after all this time.
Qi Yuan glanced back and realized that she had already traversed most of the secret realm. She understood and jumped down to run to the vicinity of the swamp that Xue Gang had just reached through the second passage. There, dead trees were everywhere, and there was also lush grass. It was a place that Cheng Jin did not know.
She closed her eyes and relied on her instincts to leap into a large patch of grass, where she finally caught her breath and rested.
Qi Yuan opened her eyes and found something in front of her that looked a lot like a storage bag.
"Live broadcast. Yinzhu Sect's Ye Munian was eliminated."
It's confirmed. It's a storage bag. And it belongs to her fellow disciple Ye Munian. And hidden in a place like this, he must be exploiting a loophole again.
Is it really that lucky? Qi Yuan couldn't help but start to doubt, but she was mostly filled with admiration.
She looked at the rankings, and the 15,000 points that had been delayed had now been added to her score, making her the undisputed number one.
Looking down, Ye Munian's score is still displayed—8500 points. It will soon be added next to Qi Yuan's name.
Three minutes ago—
Even after being hit, Ye Munian didn't change his arrogant and irritating tone: "So what if you hit me? I'm still here, aren't I? Eliminate me then! Eliminate me then!"
"..." Lu Wenxing looked at this person with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot, too lazy to pay attention to him.
"Elimination..." Ye Munian's expression changed before he could finish speaking.
He was eliminated.
Lu Wenxing showed little reaction after hearing the announcement, simply uttering a few words: "He got his comeuppance."
"Sect Master, why was I eliminated?" Ye Munian asked with a dark face.
The sect leader of Lingjian Sect glanced at him sideways: "Isn't it because you hid your storage bag?"
Who took it?
There is a delay.
"..." Ye Munian's eyes widened, and he fell silent.
"What are you yelling about? You're causing trouble as soon as you're eliminated! Why ask so many questions? You got 0 points anyway." Ye Hanyun walked over impatiently.
The two stared at each other, and Ye Munian pointed at him and shouted, "My God, don't think I don't know! You were eliminated by accidentally crushing your jade token, and you still have the nerve to criticize me? Where did you get the nerve!"
"Then I also have 13,000 points! Only you would try to exploit loopholes in the rules and think you're so clever, but you've wasted two months of your time!" Ye Hanyun retorted defiantly.
Yun Xingjun frowned and stood up: "What's all the noise about?"
The two quickly shut their mouths, one sitting on the far left of the elimination area and the other on the far right, neither willing to concede to the other.
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