After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

After a few seconds of stunned silence, Tao Zhizhi ran away as if fleeing, prompted by her master.

……

Seeing that her ranking was far ahead, Lin Yan didn't want to risk going out to hunt monsters. In order to ensure that no one could catch up with her points, she decided to grind for another night.

After dealing with many more monster corpses, she listened carefully and sensed someone rushing towards her, so she quickly hid herself.

Lin Yan released her divine sense and saw that it was Tao Zhizhi running over, with no one behind her and no other disciples following her. She smiled and immediately made a decision!

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...

Lin Yan's first thought was not to dodge, but to set up a formation, wait for someone to come over, and then launch a sneak attack to deliver a fatal blow.

The Secret Realm Trials already have a system for eliminating disciples, so it's normal for her to be rough when eliminating people, right? It's also normal for her to accidentally kill someone, right?

The trials in the secret realm are inherently dangerous, so it's not unusual for disciples to encounter accidents, is it?
She had too many good reasons to cover for her, how could she possibly let go of the opportunity for Tao Zhizhi to be alone!

Lin Yan swiftly took out spirit stones and precisely scattered them in the designated locations, her hands rapidly forming hand seals. In the blink of an eye, an illusion array took shape and concealed itself in the surroundings.

She entered the formation herself and used the formation plate to set up a second formation.

Once the person arrives, the formation will activate, and the person will be eliminated within the formation.

Once inside the array, Tao Zhizhi would lose all means of seeking help from the outside.

Let them experience what it's like to be completely helpless and have no one to turn to!
I've experienced so much isolation and helplessness because of her, so isn't it reasonable to take revenge once?
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On the other side, Tao Zhizhi panicked and ran blindly, thinking that she would be safe once she got far away. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the pair of purple eyes were not chasing after her.

She hadn't realized that although her invisibility cloak could conceal her body, she had forgotten to hide her presence in her panicked escape. Even with the cloak on, she could still be seen by scanning with divine sense.

Just as she was about to ask her master what it was, before she could even speak, a sudden mist rose around them, and in a dizzying moment, they found themselves in a misty forest.

Tao Zhizhi was shocked and hurriedly activated her spiritual power to defend herself, her body enveloped in a light blue shield.

It's obvious she's fallen into a formation. The only question is whether this formation was left behind by previous generations or set up by the current batch of disciples participating in the trials.

She looked around warily, and seeing that the formation was not attacking and no one else was coming to ambush her, she quickly used her consciousness to communicate with her master inside the bracelet.

"Master, I've accidentally entered a formation. How do I break free?"

Tao Zhizhi is also a Golden Core cultivator. Half of her current cultivation level is due to the use of pills and rare and precious materials. She herself has not practiced diligently and knows nothing about formations.

It wasn't that she couldn't learn it, but rather that the array formation class was boring and uninteresting, and she didn't pay much attention during the class.

Because she was communicating with her master inside the bracelet using her consciousness, and she hadn't learned the art of multitasking, she remained motionless while communicating with her master, her expression blank and her eyes unfocused.

Lin Yan, hidden within the formation, saw Tao Zhizhi's dazed state, as if possessed, and knew she was communicating with something.

I often communicate with the three little ones using my spiritual sense, and I am particularly familiar with what it is like when my mind is divided.

Bringing contracted beasts into the secret realm trial is strictly prohibited; any violation will result in disqualification. She didn't believe Tao Zhizhi would dare to violate the rule. If it wasn't a contracted beast, then who was the other person communicating with? Lin Yan made a hand seal, covering her divine sense within her own formation, but didn't detect any abnormal energy fluctuations.

Does this mean that Tao Zhizhi must be carrying some kind of magical artifact that can shield her from detection?
Unsure of her opponent's trump cards, she didn't reveal herself directly. She took out a high-grade spirit stone from her storage bag and threw it out; the moment it landed, the spirit stone transformed into a demonic beast.

Monsters emerged from the bushes and quickly surrounded Tao Zhizhi, who was breaking the formation.

The demon beasts transformed from high-grade spirit stones are not just pretty faces; they can launch attacks, and the damage they cause is real.

Faced with the sudden attack of a horde of demonic beasts, Tao Zhizhi had no choice but to stop breaking the formation, her face showing panic.

The surrounding demonic beasts were all low- to mid-level demonic beasts, which she could easily handle with her Golden Core cultivation. However, the demonic beasts were too ugly and ferocious in appearance, and she had never encountered a scene of being surrounded and attacked by a group of demonic beasts before, so she was momentarily panicked.

Half of her cultivation was built up with pills and rare treasures, and she lacked practical combat experience. When facing a group of demonic beasts alone, she had no idea how to deal with them with the least amount of effort.

With the monsters attacking, she naturally couldn't multitask, and could only plead in a tearful voice, "Master, I'm surrounded by a horde of monsters, what should I do now?"

When Tao Zhizhi faced the monsters alone, she was able to take advantage of her calmness to try to launch an attack instead of simply dodging the magical attacks she was receiving. She then discovered that although the monsters looked intimidating in groups, they were actually quite fragile.

"Don't panic. If the demonic beasts that appear in the formation are not illusions, their strength is not very strong. Just take action, disciple." Ling Yun's voice came from the bracelet.

There was no other way; his beloved disciple was too terrified, so terrified that he couldn't communicate with his mind, and he could only speak.

Hearing her master's words, she suppressed her fear, gripped her longsword tightly, concentrated her strength, and thrust it towards the nearest demonic beast.

It dodged, then lunged at its prey with a kick, only to be killed by a flurry of swords.

The demonic beasts formed from spirit stones are inherently fragile. Even those formed from high-grade spirit stones, which can inflict substantial damage on cultivators, are still vulnerable.

Fortunately, Lin Yan had enough spirit stones, and the monsters she conjured with them came in waves, one after another, and she couldn't possibly defeat them all.

The fog within the formation grew thicker, and the number of demonic beasts increased with each battle. Tao Zhizhi's spiritual energy was being depleted, and without timely replenishment, she was starting to feel the strain.

"Master, we can't possibly defeat all these demonic beasts, and their numbers are only increasing. What should we do?"

Ling Yun, unable to see what was happening outside from inside the bracelet, deduced from his disciple's words that the person who set up the formation intended to use a bunch of conjured monsters to exhaust the people inside the formation until they were out of physical and spiritual energy before making a move.

"I almost fell for their trap. The person who set up the formation wanted to use these conjured monsters to distract me from breaking the formation, and then launch a sneak attack once my physical and spiritual energy was exhausted."

"What should we do now?"

After weighing his options, Ling Yun decided to make a move. He had absorbed so many sect disciples to accumulate the power to reshape his physical body, and he was unwilling to let him relinquish that power.

But he knew that if he didn't intervene, his beloved disciple would be killed, and he would lose his support. He made his choice in almost a few seconds.

However, as soon as he appeared, a golden array appeared above their heads, and in the blink of an eye, they were sucked into another array.

Lin Yan affixed sealing talismans to the array plate, placed it in a safe location, and then entered the illusion array within the plate herself. (End of Chapter)