Can't you afford to lose?
Qin Baoyao happily watched her fellow disciples enter the assessment site. The sect leader, the heads of each peak, and the elders watched the disciples go in before gradually leaving.
Qin Baoyao skipped along beside Qin Jun and asked him, "Brother, who do you think will take first place?"
"Walk carefully, don't fall on the ground again." After all, Qin Baoyao had experienced this before. Qin Jun warned her, but he didn't force her to walk properly. Instead, he watched her as they walked, and then answered her doubts: "In the past, the top three would definitely be those guys from Jianfeng, but it has been many years since we have seen so many different types of cultivators teaming up, so it's hard to say for sure."
After a pause, he asked, "What do you think, Yaoyao?"
Qin Baoyao recalled what she had seen while leaning against the wall these past few days, thought for a moment and said, "I'm more optimistic about the teams of formation cultivators, talisman cultivators, and music cultivators."
Qin Jun looked at her but didn't say anything. He just thought she was daydreaming. After all, even if it was a team battle, the strength of the sword cultivators and knife cultivators was there. It would be great if a team led by the three cultivators of formation, talisman, and music could enter the top ten.
Qin Baoyao skipped and followed her brother away, ready to go and see how Brother Kang Chuan was doing with his weapon forging.
After she left, a figure looked at her in disbelief, and a female voice murmured, "System, what's going on? Didn't they say it was a team assessment? Why isn't Qin Baoyao on the assessment team?"
Hearing her questioning tone, another voice sounded impatiently: "You ask me? How would I know?"
"Didn't you monitor Qin Baoyao while I was in seclusion?"
"How dare you say that? Who would waste such a good opportunity? Even a hidden mission was discovered by others, forcing me to use my points to cover for you." The voice became increasingly unhappy. "You secluded yourself and asked me to monitor Qin Baoyao? Do you know how much energy and points that cost me? Who made you so useless?"
"But I did that mission. Who knew Qin Baoyao would do something like that?" the female voice argued. "Besides, as the system, didn't you realize Qin Baoyao would expose herself? It's not just my fault!"
The two of them started arguing fiercely, accusing each other of incompetence.
At this time, there were only a few people left in the square, and they were scattered very far apart. If Qin Baoyao had not left so quickly, she would have been able to discover some clues. Unfortunately, she was in a hurry to leave and did not have this opportunity.
The two quarreled for several hours, in the square and in the yard. Finally, the woman became thirsty and ended the quarrel.
While the woman was drinking water, the system also calmed down. It was the first time that one person and one unification had such a fierce quarrel. The main reason was that they had originally designed Qin Baoyao to be contaminated with the Lingmei Pill, and they were going to make Qin Baoyao a hidden mine buried in Guiyi Sect. After they had made other plans, they would detonate this mine and provoke conflicts between Guiyi Sect and other sects in the world of cultivation. However, Qin Baoyao, who was the mine, blew herself up.
"Okay, it's just one test, nothing bad can happen. Let's think of other ways to deal with Qin Baoyao." The system said after calming down.
The woman knew that it was useless to continue arguing, so she nodded and said, "So, what's your new trick?"
"You do this first... then this... and then this..." The system kept outputting, and the woman nodded in agreement as she listened.
After each of them had made their plans, they nodded in satisfaction: As long as Qin Baoyao was said to be a waste of cultivation, they didn't believe that she would not make an irreparable mistake.
Half a month passed quickly.
These days, Qin Baoyao, who had been either eating and drinking or lying down in the sun every day, also came to the exit of the assessment site on this day to wait for Shi Yue and the others.
The teams came out one after another, and the scores of each team and individual players were displayed on the list in the square.
As the teams came out one after another, the scores and rankings on the list were constantly being updated. Everyone looked at the teams led by the three sword cultivators at the beginning. Except for Bu Jitong's team, the other two teams kept falling back from the top three positions. After all the teams came out, the two teams finally fell back to a ranking outside the top ten. Everyone was shocked.
The disciples of Jianfeng were the first to be dissatisfied. Surprisingly, only a team led by a sword cultivator made it into the top three, and they even came in third place.
The first place was the team led by Yu Ying, a medical practitioner, and the second place was actually the team led by Fu Xiu.
"First place: Team Yu Ying."
"Second place: Team Wu Ji."
"Third place: Bu Jitong's team."
"The above are the top three in this team assessment. Congratulations!" Miao Fu was also quite surprised to see the ranking of the results, but this was exactly the result he wanted. In this way, he would have the opportunity to encourage his disciples to team up with other cultivators more often in the future.
"Brother, brother, brother! Look, look, I told you I was optimistic about Zhen Xiu, Fu Xiu, and Le Xiu. Even though only one team made it into the top three, the other teams performed well too. Senior Brother Fu Xiu and his team got second place! Second place!!!"
Qin Jun was a little surprised that a disciple who practiced talismans led the team to the top three today, but his idea was the same as Miao Fu's. In any case, this achieved the effect they wanted.
What surprised him even more was that the teams led by his other two sword-cultivating junior brothers and sisters didn't even make it into the top three, and they didn't even make it into the top ten.
The first to make a fuss were the disciples of Jianfeng. In their opinion, the three teams led by sword cultivators should be ranked in the top three. In this way, although only three of them could get the reward, the status of Jianfeng was unshakable. However, the facts disappointed them.
Although there were four sword-cultivating disciples in the three teams, this result was not what they wanted at all.
The disciples of Jianfeng often pride themselves on their status as sword cultivators. Most of them are powerful cultivators of the same level. How is it possible that after forming a team, they get such mediocre results?
As soon as the head of the teaching hall, Miao Fu, announced the results, someone started shouting that it was unfair.
"Yes, it's not fair!"
"Is this assessment something you, Uncle Master, created to suppress us sword-cultivating disciples?"
“That’s right!”
"Otherwise, why is it that only Third Senior Brother made it into the top three?"
"Well said, we want to know that too!"
"We are dissatisfied with this result! Absolutely not!"
"Right! We don't believe our senior brothers and sisters have such bad grades! We need to investigate thoroughly! Thoroughly investigate!"
I don't know who started the commotion first, but they almost said that the other teams were cheating.
Qin Baoyao, the prize provider, stood on the stage, ready to lead everyone to Baoyao Pavilion to select their prizes. She was originally happy that one of her good friends was among the top three teams, but when she heard this, she became extremely angry. Before Miao Fu could speak, she angrily demanded, "Can't you guys afford to lose?!!!"
"I've told you long ago that you guys don't cooperate well. Didn't you all say that I, a Qi Refining Stage person, don't know anything? Why, now that you've lost, you let your fellow disciples spread rumors that other teams cheated?" Qin Baoyao questioned the other two sword cultivation teams below.
When she had gone to peek at the training of those teams before, she felt that the sword cultivators were too arrogant. However, in other people's teams, the sword cultivators were just team members. No matter how arrogant they were, at least they had a captain to keep them in check, such as the sword cultivators in Yu Ying's team.
However, because the two sword-cultivating brothers were the team leaders, they were very arbitrary when giving orders. They did not listen to other people's suggestions at all and relied on their strength from beginning to end.
At that time, she had kindly reminded them, but they told her that she was only in the Qi Refining stage and shouldn't point fingers at others. As a result, now her grades are so bad, and they still have the nerve to let other junior brothers speak out and make irresponsible remarks.
"Junior Sister Baoyao, although you are only in the Qi Refining Stage and did not participate in the assessment this time, you are a sword cultivator after all. How can you say this about other sword cultivator brothers? Besides, spreading rumors is too serious." After hearing what Qin Baoyao said, the chief disciple of Jianfeng came out to speak to her.
"What? Senior Brother, do you think I'm wrong?" Qin Baoyao is a sword cultivator, but isn't that because sword training is something all Guiyi Sect disciples must learn? Plus, her wood spiritual roots are so poor that she can't even be a spiritual plant master, so she can only be a sword cultivator.
"The main thing is that you are spreading rumors. We, the disciples of Jianfeng, are not the kind to spread rumors."
"Hmph, don't think I don't understand. What's unfair and what's unacceptable? It's just because the other two teams led by Senior Brother and Sister Jianfeng performed averagely. In previous assessments, Jianfeng always took first place. Has anyone ever said they were dissatisfied?" Qin Baoyao was almost mad.
Senior Sister Yu Ying and Shi Yue were both on the first-place team. By saying this, aren't they accusing Senior Sister Yu Ying and the others of cheating? How is that possible?
Sometimes the more you are around, the more ideas a person with such a good brain can come up with.
When it comes to teamwork, a team is not about the strength of one person, but the strength of the entire team after cooperation. When she watched it before, Shi Yue and his team cooperated so well. Although it was a bit unexpected that they got first place, it was not impossible!
"Junior Sister Baoyao, what you said is not right. After all, it is undeniable that the strongest ones are my junior brothers, right?" Jianfeng's chief disciple was actually a little skeptical. After all, he knew his junior brothers and sisters well. They were invincible among their peers. How could they get such a shameful result?
"Brothers and sisters, your individual strength is undeniably strong, but brother, this is a team assessment, not an individual competition. If you don't coordinate well, what's the point of having a good individual performance?"
"That's right! That's right!"
The disciples from other peaks had long been suppressed by the people from Jian Peak, especially those from Zhen Peak, Fu Peak and Le Peak. Although there was only one team led by a Fu cultivator in the top three, at least the Zhen Xiu team and the Le Xiu team both made it into the top ten, and they were really satisfied with this result.
As a result, before they could celebrate happily, they were questioned by the people from Jianfeng. Before they had the chance to argue, Qin Baoyao took the lead, but it did not prevent them from agreeing with Qin Baoyao's words.
Miao Fu, the sect leader, and the others exchanged glances before deciding to wait for the disciples to finish. After some back-and-forth, Qin Gu spoke up, "Ahem... Since some are questioning the fairness of the assessment, let's make public each team's scores, along with the photo stones of any teams with doubts. Let's see if it's fair."
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