Mu Jinyu saw Chen Qiuqiao snatching the pass token from her hand, a faint smile appeared on her lips, yet she said nothing, her figure soared through the air, and she returned to Jian Ruyan and Wen Rou's side.
"Will you blame me for giving him the token?" Mu Jinyu asked Jian Ruyan, who appeared calm.
Jian Ruyan gently shook her head and said, "I understand your intent. You want me to deal with him personally, letting him be eliminated in the first round is too lenient for him!"
Mu Jinyu: "..."
"Mm." Mu Jinyu nodded lightly, "As long as you understand."
Mu Jinyu was conversing with Jian Ruyan and Wen Rou.
Meanwhile, after Chen Qiuqiao had snatched the pass token from Mu Jinyu's hand, he couldn't calm his anger, proudly lifting his chest and gazing directly around at everyone!
He had endured Mu Jinyu's humiliation, so why would he fear the disdain and mockery of others?
However, contrary to his expectations of meeting with scornful looks and disdainful smiles as he lifted his head...
the gazes of the crowd appeared very calm, with hardly any mockery or even pity.
Chen Qiuqiao's gaze became bewildered.
It turned out that the pity and mockery he thought he saw in everyone's eyes were just his illusions; in fact, from the beginning, not many people looked down on him.
They only thought that he was extremely unlucky, being one of the top three outer sect disciples but still being eliminated!
Even a few who held the pass tokens had thought about giving their hard-earned tokens to him.
But Mu Jinyu was faster, so they gave up the idea.
Lin Feng saw that Chen Qiuqiao had accepted the extra pass token from Mu Jinyu's hand, he nodded in satisfaction, then patted Chen Qiuqiao on the shoulder without saying much, leaped back onto the high platform, and announced:
"Alright, the selection test ends here. Now, the fifty disciples who have obtained the pass tokens should start their matches according to the numbers on their tokens. Number one and number fifty, prepare for the first match, number two and number forty-nine, get ready..."
The rules of the match were easy to understand, and Lin Feng didn't elaborate further. After finishing his speech, he said to Mu Jinyu, "Let's go, let's go down!"
Mu Jinyu checked the back of her pass token, which was engraved with the number seven, indicating her match would be the seventh one, and it was still quite some time away.
Then she looked at the pass tokens of Jian Ruyan and Wen Rou. Jian Ruyan's number was three, Wen Rou was thirteen.
"Mm, let's go."
Mu Jinyu withdrew her gaze, called Jian Ruyan and Wen Rou, and followed Lin Feng and Elder Cheng down the platform.
This high platform was the competition platform used for the upcoming outer sect competition!
Since they were not the next ones to compete, staying on the platform was naturally inappropriate.
Mu Jinyu walked down the platform with Lin Feng. They didn't stay together but headed towards Wu Lei and Li Xiaoxiao along with Jian Ruyan and Wen Rou!
She wanted to ask them what their numbers were, to see if they might meet earlier in the competition.
While they were moving, those who had obtained tokens number one and fifty had already ascended the high platform!
They were only disciples of the first and second layers of the Divine Transformation Realm, considered the core strength of the outer sect disciples. They started fighting on the platform, and it was quite lively!
With each punch and palm strike, they stirred the nature's spiritual energy furiously!
If not for the competition platform being made of special material and engraved with defensive formations, it might have been destroyed by their blows in just a few hits!
Soon, these two had determined the winner, and the disciple with the number one token ultimately won!
Next, it was the turn for those with numbers two and forty-nine!
As it happened, the pass token obtained by Li Xiaoxiao bore the number forty-nine!
As soon as she stepped onto the platform, it caused an uproar!
Her opponent, however, was just a disciple at the first layer of the Divine Transformation Realm!
The young man turned pale with fright when he saw his opponent was Li Xiaoxiao.
"I concede," Li Xiaoxiao said, standing with her hands behind her back, her dress fluttering as if she were a fairy standing on a cliff, ready at any moment to ride the winds up to the moon's Guanghan Palace!
The young man clenched his teeth and bowed with clasped hands, "Sister Li, no offense!"
Unwilling to concede without a fight, even knowing he was bound to lose, he wanted to lose knowing he had given his all, and he wouldn't abandon hope and lose heart!
With that, he immediately made his move, drawing the sword from his waist, and with a flick, a bright sword light surged into action.
Some disciples below felt their eyes were almost dazzled shut!
"Good, that's the spirit. Sister supports you!"
Li Xiaoxiao saw the young man not giving up but instead taking the initiative to strike, she didn't get angry but smiled, lightly tapped the ground with her lotus foot, maneuvered to dodge the sword shadows, and then suddenly drifted in front of the young man and gently released a palm strike!
"Bang!"
The young man was instantly sent flying out of the competition platform and had already lost.
He stood up with a wry smile, finding himself unharmed, clearly, Li Xiaoxiao's palm strike, although sending him flying, was skillfully delivered and hadn't truly injured him!
"Thank you for the guidance, Sister Li!"
The young man said with his hands clasped in front of Li Xiaoxiao, his tone filled with admiration.
"Mm." Li Xiaoxiao nodded at him, then gracefully left the platform.
Next is number three against number forty-eight!
And Wen Rou was number three.
"Little Mu, I'm going up."
Wen Rou looked quite nervous, after all, this was her first time fighting someone in front of strangers under the public gaze.
"Mm, do your best!" Mu Jinyu smiled.
Jian Ruyan also rarely said, "Do your best."
Wen Rou then went up to the platform.
The disciple with the number forty-eight possessed surprisingly the strength of the Third Layer of the Divine Transformation Realm.
He watched Wen Rou slowly walk onto the platform, his expression turning somewhat ugly.
It wasn't that he thought Wen Rou was more powerful than him, and thus worried about not being able to defeat her.
He could tell that Wen Rou had just broken through to the Fourth Layer of the Divine Transformation Realm, but her realm was somewhat unstable, and she obviously lacked combat experience, so he was confident he could defeat Wen Rou.
However, knowing that Wen Rou was Mu Jinyu's woman, if he accidentally used too much strength and injured her during the fight, wouldn't that offend Mu Jinyu, this spiritual genius?
So he was a bit conflicted!
If Mu Jinyu knew of this guy's worries, she probably would find it quite amusing.
A guy at the Third Layer of the Divine Transformation Realm looking down on Wen Rou seemed far too arrogant.
"Senior brother, please instruct." Wen Rou clasped her hands and spoke politely to her opponent.
"Hmm! Please!"
The disciple number forty-eight, gritting his teeth, decided to stop worrying about that much. If he did injure Wen Rou during the fight, then so be it.
Just being at the Third Layer of the Divine Transformation Realm, it was already difficult to fight against Wen Rou who was above his level. If he restrained himself further due to Mu Jinyu, he'd be even more prone to errors, increasing his likelihood of defeat!
As soon as he finished speaking, disciple number forty-eight suddenly made a move, launching a fierce attack on Wen Rou!
Wen Rou indeed lacked his combat experience and was caught off guard at the start, falling into a disadvantage, but she soon calmed down, fought steadily, and quickly pushed her opponent back into a disadvantage!
"Bang!!"
In the end, Wen Rou found an opportunity, delivered a palm strike, and sent disciple number forty-eight flying out!
"Is this... True Cold Ice Essence?!"
Lin Feng and Elder Cheng, seeing Wen Rou's move, couldn't help but widen their eyes in astonishment!
The day they inspected the True Yuan of the three people including Mu Jinyu to see if they were really from Huaxia, they only confirmed that Mu Jinyu had a Wood Spirit Root, but failed to detect that Jian Ruyan's body and True Yuan also contained Ice Attribute!
The reason was because Mu Jinyu's True Yuan had already transformed into Life Source Energy, and no matter what the Concealment Art was used, it couldn't suppress the nature of True Yuan!
But Jian Ruyan's True Yuan hadn't completely transformed into Ice Attribute, it was only when her Ice Phoenix Bloodline was activated, that her True Yuan would carry the Ice Attribute!
With the aid of the Concealment Art, they had managed to hide it from the Sect Leader!
Today, once Wen Rou made her move, it was naturally exposed!