——(POV Li Huang)——

"What..?" I didn't know what to say.

As I knew Hu Anjing's personality, I know that there is a good chance that she is playing with me.

"Yeah, yeah. Can you name another twelve year old who can create sword Qi? Huh? I thought so…" I couldn't accept being called lazy because although I wouldn't cultivate until birds nest on my head, I do train diligently.

Okay, I might be nagging a little to grandpa Long but that's it, I won't shy away from the training.

Hu Anjing laughed at my reaction and I just looked at her resentfully as now I know for a fact that she was playing with me.

"Sorry, I couldn't stop myself…" Hu Anjing said as she collected herself.

This time I didn't even bother answering her as I remembered something more important.

Shouldn't the trial be over or something? It didn't take long for my question to be answered.

"You got to know what the other one is hiding from you the most and didn't resent each other. You pass the test." The female voice from before spoke again.

I was more composed this time as I was sure that the female voice couldn't/wouldn't do anything against us.

"Let's get the reward then!" I didn't want to waste more time here as we had limited time in the trial so I gestured Anjing to follow me to get our rewards.

It was only at that moment that I remembered that we can't get anything in our current forms. Luckily, I didn't need to think much because we were back to our physical forms the next moment.

Unlike the last formation that I entered, this one didn't finish in an instant so our bodies were on the floor and sore because of the weird angle that our body was in. From how my body feels, the test should have at least take a day to finish.

——(POV third person)——

With a grunt Li Huang lift himself from the floor and Hu Anjing did the same.

"This test really didn't care about our physical bodies…" He said with displeasure. Last time he was sitting on a chair but now he was unconscious on the hard floor.

"…" Hu Anjing just looked at him. This was one of the moments that she remembered that he is a young master. To her, this floor was way better than most of the environments that she was in before joining the sect.

To be fair, Li Huang also had his past life's mentality so being on a hard floor in an uncomfortable position is not something that he can accept with open arms but Hu Anjing doesn't know about that…

Looking around them, they located the reward of this formation on a podium.

The podium was almost empty except for two iron rings on it. They looked like simple training equipment if you disregarded their high-class craftsmanship.

There was also a small note beside the iron rings. Li Huang opened the note and he and Hu Anjing started reading it.

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~~ Rings of trust.

When the wearer is in mortal danger, you will be teleported to the other ring's location. ~~

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Li Huang and Hu Anjing looked at each other and could see the disappointment in each other's eyes.

Although these rings seem interesting, they are not practical. When you are in mortal danger, all this can do is to deliver your body to the other side so this is not very useful for us and mostly can be used for a couple as a show of trust between them.

"I think it would sell well…" Hu Anjing said.

"I think so too. Let's sell it later." Li Huang nodded to her words. He also didn't think this would be useful so it is better to use the money they can gain from it to buy something useful. Now that he has new training expenses, he has to do something to gain more money and this could be the first step.

As they collected the rings, Li Huang gave his 'thanks' to the creator of this test and got ready to exit.

"Let's get out as we have to get back to others soon." Li Huang said. He trusted Jin Fen to do something stupid so getting back soon was one of his priorities.

"Yes, let's go." Hu Anjing didn't know about this but trusted his judgment so she didn't ask much.

A few seconds later, they stepped on the exit formation together and got back on the cold terrain that the formation was on.

'Not only the test was lackluster, but the terrain around it is also dull and dead.' Li Huang thought. The previous formation gave him such reward that anything else would seem like trash in front of it, so he was a bit salty about this formation.

Getting back toward the temporary camp of the heavenly sword sect was uneventful for the most part as no one was insane enough to traverse these lands except Li Huang and Hu Anjing who had a destination and to them, this was only the path.

Half an hour passed and they had less than half of the way to go. From what they have understood, the test took a day to finish as they were seeing memories, the memories didn't take that long to watch so they think that the test took some time to find what they were hiding before they got to see it.

——(POV Ye Ling, temporary camp of the heavenly sword sect)——

A day has passed from the time senior brother and senior sister went out of the camp. They told me that this could take a while but I hope that they come back faster as they could really help if something happens.

Fortunately, everything was fine in the past 24 hours so I didn't have much to do other than some routine inspections. We had two disciples who were injured but it wasn't anything that couldn't be solved with some pills and rest.

Today, three of our disciples decided to go and try their lucks in finding a fortune on the trial grounds. I would like to try my luck next when senior brother and senior sister are back as I have to be here now.

Looking to a corner of camp I located the disciple named Jin Fen that senior brother Li Huang warned me about.

Contrary to what I thought he was very stable this past day and I don't think he has done anything other than staring into the distance and thinking.

Ye Ling was naive or else she would know that Jin Fen is not staring into the distance but is looking at Lai Xinyue…

From what I know they should be back by tomorrow at most so I am confident in being able to wait one more day and then go on with my own adventure.

I was thinking about where to go after this, that suddenly a shadow passed my eyes. I thought it was an attack but soon I was proven to be wrong.

The shadow was one of our disciples who went out today, Hou Junxiong. It took me a few seconds to figure out what was happening, someone dared to not only act like this but also show it to our face without any hesitation.

There is only one possibility for the culprit— Blue Bull Sect.

"Li Huang, I, Cai ZhenKang, have brought you the challenge letter, do you still dare to run away?" a hoarse voice said.