A bonfire had already been lit outside, and there were two female cultivators on night watch: Zhu Liucui and Gu Jin.
They didn't have a magical artifact like An Zhengzheng's, after all, that was the top prize awarded by the Siyue Sect.
They don't have the ability to be top students.
The group can only camp out in the wild now, and the female cultivators cover themselves with blankets and other similar items.
"What do you think of what happened tonight?" Zhu Liucui asked softly.
Gu Jin was nudging the fire with tree branches, and the sound of the branches popping could be heard from time to time.
She said, "Everyone was touched by what happened today. You asked me what I think... I can only say that I think the same way you do."
Gu Jin grew up with her grandmother, working as a rogue cultivator in the cultivation world, without any great skills.
When Zhu Liucui was clamoring for a male cultivator to step forward, she had also silently wished for it in her heart.
But today, four women came to their rescue.
It was all women who drove away the wolves.
It was the first time they had ever seen a girl so decisive and ruthless; it was impossible for them not to be moved.
Zhu Liucui remained silent for a while, seemingly lost in thought.
“There are female cultivators who work hard on a regular basis, but everyone has a standard in their hearts, and they always feel that no matter how hard they try, they can’t get much better.”
In the firelight, Zhu Liucui's face flickered in and out of focus, changing with the shifting light.
Her voice was somewhat blank: "...She really opened my eyes."
Recalling An Zhengzheng's actions of stabbing the wolf in the back and shooting it with an arrow, Gu Jin still couldn't help but feel admiration.
She shrugged and said, "Who isn't?"
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Behind them, some female cultivators were unable to sleep.
Zhang Guo'er was one of them.
She rolled over several times, An Zhengzheng's words lingering in her ears.
When they opened their eyes again, they found several small paper figures patrolling around them.
An Zhengzheng was also secretly keeping watch for them.
...
The next day, as the sun was about to rise, An Zhengzheng opened her eyes.
She stepped out of the tent and retrieved the paper figures that had been patrolling all night.
Two unfamiliar female night watchmen nodded to her, and An Zhengzheng returned their smiles.
She sat down on the spot and performed a calming mantra.
After a while, An Yirou and the others woke up, and soon, the female cultivators from the other team also woke up.
"Sister." An Yirou and the others came out.
After putting away the magical artifacts, An Zhengzheng stood up and asked them, "Did you rest well last night?"
An Yirou, Song Juan, and Su Ying, with dark circles under their eyes, said, "I guess so."
Although I fall asleep quickly, three hours is still not enough sleep.
An Zhengzheng led them to say goodbye to the group.
Zhu Liucui mustered her courage and asked, "Would you like to team up with us?"
An Zhengzheng still refused: "This trial is scored based on the number of monsters killed. If there are too many people, it will be difficult to score monsters."
The points for defeating high-level monsters in a team are split equally, which is very disadvantageous for An Zhengzheng.
After she said that, no one dared to stop her.
So they said goodbye with reluctance.
Zhang Guo'er suddenly stopped An Zhengzheng. After hesitating for a long time, she said, "What happened last night was my fault."
An Zhengzheng was very surprised.
To be honest, she knew that many women in the world held fixed views, so she didn't expect all women's thoughts to change.
An Zhengzheng had considered taking it step by step.
But to everyone's surprise, Zhang Guo'er figured it out in just one night.
She smiled and said to Zhang Guo'er, "You'll have to work harder in the trials to come."
Zhang Guo'er said hesitantly, "Definitely."
An Zhengzheng smiled and said goodbye to them, then led An Yirou and the others to the next mountain.
These past few days have been very fulfilling for them, hunting down and killing monsters, clearing out mountains, leaving no stone unturned.
Compared to the dramatic plot of the first day, the later parts were much more uneventful.
"The trial period truly lived up to the word 'trial'."
An Zhengzheng watched as An Yirou and the others progressed from injuring monsters to being able to kill them ruthlessly, and was amazed by their rapid growth.
An Zhengzheng dared to kill the monsters directly because she had been trained to be brave in her previous life, and during her summer vacations in junior and senior high school, she was sent to the army to temper her character.
As for hobbies like archery, horseback riding, skiing, shooting, and boxing, these are hobbies that only wealthy young men can afford.
Drawing a bow and arrow goes without saying, but horseback riding and skiing are very useful for taming animals and maintaining balance...
That's why she learns things very quickly in this life.
They occasionally encountered other groups along the way, but they rarely interacted.
On the last day, they reached the final checkpoint and met Zhou Xu there.
At this moment, Zhou Xu had just killed a giant python and was still somewhat disheveled, covered in blood.
He turned around and saw An Zhengzheng and the others, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes: "It's you?"
Surprisingly, these "burdens" around An Zhengzheng managed to hold on until the end.
He knew how weak they were.
An Zhengzheng remained calm. This was the last day of the trial, and only one in a hundred cultivators could last until now.
It's not surprising that I met Zhou Xu.
Song Juan asked, "Hey, where's Yu'er?"
She was simply confused.
Zhou Xu felt a little embarrassed and said lightly, "I don't know, maybe she was eliminated."
An Zhengzheng raised an eyebrow. This person was truly heartless; it seemed he had simply abandoned Zhou Yu'er.
The final challenge is at the end of the magic circle.
An Zhengzheng glanced around and saw that almost all of them were male cultivators; there were thirty-five of them, including Zhou Xu.
These four female cultivators seemed out of place here.
The male cultivators spontaneously formed teams, and their gazes toward An Zhengzheng and the others were quite strange.
No female cultivator could hold out until this point.
A male cultivator came up and asked, "Which sect are you from?"
An Zhengzheng countered with, "And you guys?"
There were seven people in the group of male cultivators. One of them spoke up: "We are from the Beast Taming Sect."
"Huh, Beast Taming Sect...where are your beasts?" An Yirou looked around and saw that there was no one beside them.
The male cultivator explained, "I just joined the sect a few days ago and haven't even hatched yet. I can't use it for the trial."
An Yirou nodded: "Oh..."
Song Juan said casually, "We are Fu Xiu."
Su Ying didn't say anything; she was a little shy.
"Is this female cultivator also from the Talisman Sect?" Another male cultivator looked at An Zhengzheng with a questioning gaze.
An Zhengzheng felt uncomfortable with that look in her eyes. She kept a cold face and didn't say anything.
He was rebuffed and said awkwardly to the male cultivator next to him, "Tsk, what a temper. Maybe he really got promoted because of the male cultivators."
Another male cultivator chimed in, "Look at the people next to them, the one next to them is the genius of the Zhou family, they're probably hanging around him."
"Hey, it's easy for someone like him to find a girl... oh, and more than one."
They didn't try to hide these harsh words; on the contrary, it seemed like they were saying them intentionally.
They seemed to think that girls should swallow their anger when they heard such harsh words.
After all, which respectable girl would dare to listen to such things, and which respectable girl would dare to resort to shrewish behavior?
Besides, could they possibly defeat male cultivators?
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