After disappearing for ten years, the junior sister made the entire sect kneel down to welcome her.

Luo Zhenzhen walked through the assessment array of countless disciples, and some disciples even followed in her footsteps after seeing her to escape the predicament and obtain perfect evaluations.

"Where is Elder Breaker? How did you set up this formation?!"

On the spirit boat, questions rang out.

The academy elder who taught the formations was sweating profusely.

He stared at the small figure moving casually through the screen and murmured in a daze, "There's only one possibility—the formation is too low-level, and it's useless in her eyes."

Fortunately, not all disciples followed Luo Huanzhen out of the formation.

Most of the disciples, including Su Mingyue, mistook her sudden appearance for an illusion within the formation or a miasma demon.

She was caught in an illusion, and was standing in a maze.

Besides being trapped in a maze-like state where she couldn't find her way out, she was also frequently attacked by miasma demons that transformed into human form.

This test assesses whether cultivators can maintain a clear mind and find a way to break the formation even under external threats.

Holding her spirit sword, Su Mingyue suddenly sensed a small, jewel-adorned figure appearing in her illusion array.

A small, white scroll of light was floating above her head, displaying the red "completed" status for the four tasks: medical skills, weapon crafting, formation breaking, combat, and demon slaying.

Only one duel remains, currently showing as "matching in progress"...

Su Mingyue stared at the few that had been completed, her feelings extremely complicated.

He really had a deep psychological trauma from Luo Huanzhen, and actually took the nonsense she said before the sect competition seriously. Even in the illusion array, she haunted him.

There was no chance to kill Luo Huanzhen within the sect, but venting one's anger on illusions was possible.

Su Mingyue's eyes hardened, and she immediately raised her spirit sword, thrusting it towards her—

Luo Huanzhen's expression changed. He bent down and dodged the attack, then delivered a spinning kick to Su Mingyue before turning around and arrogantly leaving the formation.

Su Mingyue was in so much pain that she convulsed.

She looked down at the purplish-blue footprint on her lower abdomen, incredulous. Could an illusion array really cause her such substantial damage?

Could the Luo who just appeared really be real?!

An outrageous idea popped into her head, but Su Mingyue quickly dismissed it.

No, this bruise must be fake.

Once she breaks through this illusion array, finishes the test, and leaves the secret realm, her skin will regain its fair complexion.

As for Luo Huanzhen, she is definitely still trapped in the Foundation Establishment stage assessment field, and it is unlikely that she will enter the Golden Core stage assessment field so quickly.

Luo Huanzhen stepped out of all the illusion arrays, and a second white mission scroll floated above his head.

[Breaking through the formation at the Golden Core stage, perfect clear.]

Luo Huanzhen walked briskly toward his next destination: the Refining Hall.

On the spirit boat, after seeing Luo Huanzhen's choice, the elders subconsciously looked towards the weapon cultivator elder.

Elder of the Artifact Cultivation Cultivation: "..."

Why do I suddenly feel a little panicked?

Could she really conjure up a top-grade magical artifact with her bare hands?

There were many disciples in the weapon-refining hall. They were all disciples who chose to refine weapons as soon as they entered. When they saw that small, jewel-adorned figure appear, with two mission scrolls floating beside her, all the disciples were shocked.

No.

She really cleared the Foundation Establishment test field in a flash and moved on to the Golden Core test field?

Luo Zhen ignored the shock in everyone's eyes, selected the materials on his own, and then carried them to a slightly shorter forge to begin refining.

Luo Huan tiptoed and threw the materials in, then increased the heat, infused it with spiritual power, and used his mental energy to forge and shape them.

She wasn't tall, but her movements were as smooth as an old blacksmith's.

The surrounding disciples were stunned.

The elders on the spirit boat outside, who had been watching Luo Huanzhen closely, were also stunned by what they saw.

Two hours later.

The furnace lid was opened, and a short blade radiating golden light appeared before everyone.

The aura it exuded was clearly that of a spirit treasure-level magic weapon used by Nascent Soul stage cultivators, and it was even a top-grade golden spirit treasure.

The disciples watching gasped and all crowded around.

Everyone stared at the tiny baby in front of them, who wasn't even as tall as the forge, as if he were a monster.

"No! Doesn't she have any weaknesses?!"

"Sect Master, didn't you say her spiritual root was damaged, becoming a low-grade, inferior spiritual root? This doesn't seem like something a disciple with a low-grade spiritual root could produce!"

Elder Qi Xiu stared at the image on the water screen.

My feelings are just a jumbled mess.

Ah... Luo Zhen really didn't create a spiritual weapon with her bare hands; she refined a spiritual treasure, which is a higher level than a spiritual weapon.

Luo didn't waste any time. He ran to the puppet elder at the entrance of the weapon-refining hall with the dagger and handed it over.

Then he turned and headed to the next location for actual combat and demon slaying.

The people on the spirit boat had already reached a fairly unanimous conclusion regarding Luo Huanzhen's speed and decisiveness in capturing and killing demons:

She might do the same thing as the Foundation Establishment stage test site: go in, pick the most powerful demon beast in the Golden Core stage, kill it, and then leave.

It turns out.

They were right.

With lightning speed, Luo Huanzhen found a Golden Core stage peak-level Azure Feather Wolverine in the dense forest and killed it with a single punch.

The elders: "..."

That's exaggerated, way too exaggerated.

This Golden Core stage test seemed to pose no difficulty for her; killing him with a single punch was already the greatest respect she could show.

Besides the elders being captivated by Luo Huanzhen's performance, a considerable number of disciples in the vast plaza had already noticed him, and more and more were coming after hearing the commotion...

They floated in mid-air, stood in the square, or hung from the treetops, their eyes fixed on the tiny figure in the Golden Core stage water curtain.

"Look, Junior Martial Aunt has gone to the pharmacology room!"

"Frontline report! Junior Sister Mingyue has also broken through the illusion array and arrived at the Pharmacology Room."

"What Junior Sister Mingyue just experienced was an illusion. Luo Zhenhuan even passed right next to her, but she mistook it for an illusion. I wonder how they'll react when they meet again in the apothecary room later."

"A battlefield of carnage! A battlefield of carnage! How exciting!"

"This year's sect competition is amazing!"

……

It took Su Mingyue a full three hours to finally find the core of the illusion array, destroy it, and escape from the illusion array.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead.

After glancing at the perfect review on the floating scroll, a relieved smile appeared on her pale and frail face.

Fortunately, this speed of breaking through the formation is among the top tier.

Next, we'll go to the pharmacology lab and get her the score for the exam she's most confident about.

However, the smile on Su Mingyue's face froze when she stepped into the pharmacology room and saw the small, bejeweled figure inside.

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