After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

"You're like a dog, why are you biting people?"

Xu Ze shook his hand, revealing two rows of clear teeth marks on the back of his hand, along with some saliva.

“That’s right, I was born in the Year of the Dog,” Mu Qinghe said, getting up from the ground and rubbing her sore bottom. “...If you dare to bully me again, I’ll bite you to death!”

But now she looked rather comical, her delicate face puffed up with anger, and her hair disheveled from her earlier escape and playful antics.

At this moment, she was rubbing her bottom with one hand, completely lacking the demeanor of a princess.

"puff……"

Xu Ze looked at her and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"You're still laughing!" Mu Qinghe was even angrier and made a move to pounce on him again.

The two played around for a while until the light of spiritual energy reappeared below.

This time, unlike before, there wasn't just a faint trace of spiritual energy.

Instead, there were a dozen or so clusters of spiritual light flickering in different locations within the ruins.

The lights, some bright and some dim, echoed each other, scattered like stars across an area of ​​a hundred feet in radius.

Beneath each cluster of spiritual light, the outline of a spirit herb could be faintly seen.

Those were more than a dozen [Earth Spirit Grass]!

"So many?" Xu Ze's eyes lit up.

Mu Qinghe also stopped playing around and followed his gaze.

When she saw the number of those spiritual lights, her face turned pale instantly.

Having learned from the last lesson, Mu Qinghe refused to help Xu Ze "pull the radish" no matter what; she was already traumatized by the zombies.

"You don't need to lift a finger. Just pull it out for me, and then I'll cut it down with one sword."

It took a while of coaxing before the little girl reluctantly agreed to help.

However, she also became curious about Xu Ze's methods:

"You're a sword cultivator?"

"Yeah, can't you tell?"

Because the teacher is a female sword immortal, Xu Ze's attack methods are all sword techniques.

As he spoke, he waved his sleeve and instantly killed all four or five human puppets that had just crawled out of the ground.

Most of these puppets only had the strength of the early stage of the Golden Core realm. Some of the older and more robust Earth Spirit Grasses could be pulled out to the middle stage of the Golden Core realm, but they still couldn't withstand Xu Ze's sword.

This first level is quite simple.

However, it is quite well-designed, combining exploration, herb gathering, and enemy combat, making it a decent test.

However, Xu Ze's strength is so great that he is considered to have few rivals in the Golden Core realm.

These monsters aren't even good enough to warm up.

Perhaps even he himself doesn't know just how strong he is now, with his flawless golden core, combined with the sword spirit root and the burning heaven sword intent...

“I can’t tell at all.” Mu Qinghe shook his head. “You don’t even have a sword on you.”

How would anyone know you're a sword cultivator?

"I didn't want to either. Ordinary flying swords are not durable at all. They're not as good as the sword energy I can just create by flicking my finger."

Ever since Xu Ze used the Azure Cloud Sword, he has longed for such a natal magic weapon.

Using a regular sword just doesn't feel right.

This might be why it's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

In addition, the power of the Burning Heaven Sword Intent is too fierce, often turning iron swords into molten iron...

"Are sword cultivators rare in Central Continent?" After dealing with all the remaining puppets, Xu Ze began cleaning up the battlefield and turned to ask.

Mu Qinghe nodded: "Yes, people in Zhongzhou are basically born with cultivation, mostly talisman cultivators, weapon cultivators, alchemy cultivators... sword cultivators and body cultivators are the fewest."

To put it bluntly, most of the people in Zhongzhou are delicate young masters and ladies who cannot endure the physical hardships required for sword cultivators and body cultivators.

If it weren't for Ding Wan's devilish training, the double torture of body and mind... plus all kinds of medicinal baths, how could Xu Ze have made such rapid progress?

Just thinking about this little girl in front of me, born with perfect Foundation Establishment, not having to do anything every day, and now already at Golden Core stage...

Xu Ze was so angry that he almost ground his back teeth to powder.

No, they're about to form their Nascent Soul while lying down!

Just as he finished collecting the spiritual herbs from the ground.

in the sky.

The ancient and mysterious voice emitted a rustling sound.

It was like an old, malfunctioning radio emitting jumbled electronic sounds.

Then, a huge screen of light appeared in the sky.

[Real-time Ranking of Earth Spirit Herbs]

[1. Xu Ze: 14]

[2. Lin Jianshen: 9]

【3. Frostbite: 8】

[4. Song Yubai: 8]

……

[Remaining trial time: 2 hours and 25 minutes.]

The person who comes in first place in each round of trials will be directly promoted to inner disciple and receive special rewards from the sect.

"...Wait, why does this thing look so much like a system panel?"

Xu Ze was stunned for a moment when he saw the light screen in the sky.

Furthermore, what does "2 hours and 25 minutes remaining" mean?

Shouldn't it be based on the time of day?

He saw Mu Qinghe standing to the side with her mouth agape, and knew that he wasn't the only one who could see this.

It’s weird.

From the moment you enter this secret realm, everything here exudes an eeriness.

And there's always a sense of familiarity that's hard to explain.

At the same time.

The Tianjiao team eventually split into two groups.

The woman in green from the Jin family took away six Golden Core cultivators, while the remaining eight followed Song Yubai.

Looking at the rotten fish and shrimp around him, his face was very gloomy.

"What...what is that?!"

"Truly worthy of being the work of an ancient sect, such a miracle can still occur after ten thousand years."

"Young Master Song, you must tell my mother after you get out, and ask her to come and save me! And remember the ten thousand spirit stones you promised me..."

"Don't worry, don't worry, everything will be alright."

Song Yubai was already seething with anger, but he forced himself to remain calm and tried to soothe the young man beside him.

That's right.

Through Song Yubai's vigorous persuasion, the young masters in this team, whose cultivation was low or whose minds were not very quick, who originally just wanted to join in the fun, were persuaded to join in.

They finally agreed to hand over all the collected [Earth Spirit Grass] to Song Yubai.

In return, Song Yubai promised that as soon as he went out, he would immediately notify their family and also have a Nascent Soul Realm elder from the Song family come to rescue them.

In addition, each person will be compensated with 10,000 spirit stones.

Ultimately, it was these people who stayed.

Originally, Song Yubai only planned to ensure that he could advance to the top ten.

But after he saw the line of small print at the very bottom of the screen...

A greedy flame ignited in his eyes.

"Xu Ze must be that kid. He and that girl are only two people, yet they managed to gather so much?"

There were nine of us on our side, but it took a lot of effort to defeat each of those invulnerable puppets.

Fortunately, Song Yubai was cautious enough and brought a trump card with him before leaving home—

A talisman crafted by the Song family's Void Refinement stage ancestor!

"With this talisman, I can kill even a Nascent Soul cultivator."

"As long as I find this kid, I'll take all his earth spirit herbs..."

"Then I'm definitely number one!"

A wicked smile crept across his lips.

For the next two hours.

Xu Ze and Mu Qing acted swiftly. When they arrived at a place with earth spirit herbs, they instantly killed the puppets with a single move, took the herbs, and left.

Before long, the gap between him and the second place widened.

The current second place is Fairy Qing Shuang.

Her earth spirit grass had reached twenty-six plants.

And Xu Ze already has a full fifty trees!

"Given the strength of this puppet, it would take three to five people to defeat one ordinary early-stage Golden Core cultivator, and even a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator would have a hard time defeating one."

"It seems he and that little girl have quite a few treasures on them, otherwise, with one at the early stage of the Golden Core realm and the other at the middle stage, it would be absolutely impossible for them to defeat so many people in such a short time..."