Back in the day, that person was also so quick-witted. I don't know where the wood spirit slipped up, but they were caught.
It's just... such a shame...
Elder Yuan shook his head with regret.
"What is that?" The disciples gathered outside saw a small green ball that Bai Ran had caught, and they were puzzled.
What on earth was this thing? It could even move trees?
In the screen, from the foot of the mountain to the summit, a clearly visible path lay brightly before them.
"She's going up the mountain," a disciple said, pointing at the moving Bai Ran.
"Now this is going to be good."
More than half the disciples had already gathered in the plaza. They hadn't expected that this new student would be able to reach the summit smoothly.
However...
The disciples looked at Bai Ran, who was moving towards the summit, with a sly smile.
The rules of the assessment weren't to reach the summit and retrieve the flag...
Bai Ran held the wood spirit and walked towards the summit.
"Why aren't you letting me go yet! I already let you go!" The wood spirit struggled fiercely in Bai Ran's hand.
"When did I say that if you let me go, I would let you go?"
A cold voice transmitted, and the wood spirit looked aggrieved, on the verge of tears.
Humans are truly wicked...
Sob sob sob...
Thanks to the wood spirit, the trees obediently made way, and the person and the spirit quickly reached the summit.
Bai Ran looked at the white flag fluttering in the wind before her and a smile curved her lips.
"Ol-old Yuan!" Elder Pei stammered, pointing at the screen with disbelief.
"This little girl actually!"
Elder Yuan looked at the screen filled with red light, his eyes filled with surprise and eagerness.
With a wave of Bai Ran's hand, a cluster of Sky Burning Fire landed on the flag.
In an instant, a raging fire engulfed the snow-white flag, burning fiercely on the mountaintop, illuminating Bai Ran's stunning face. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
The surrounding disciples swallowed hard, staring at her dumbly.
She actually knew the rules...
And! The flag could be destroyed so easily?
The white flag, prominently placed on the summit from the beginning, would attract many unsuspecting disciples to retrieve it.
However, once the flag left the ground, the assessment would immediately end, and the new student would be deemed to have failed.
Conversely, the correct approach was to destroy the flag.
Because the flagpole and the flag itself were made of special materials, they were extremely difficult to damage.
Being able to break the flag would indicate a high potential value for the new student, while failing to break it would only show that they had mediocre aptitude.
And this new student not only saw through every stage but also easily destroyed the flag!
There's no comparison without harm! The disciples thought of their own foolishness during their assessment and wanted to hit themselves.
"Did you sense the wood spirit following you back then?"
"I didn't even know those Xuan Beasts were illusions, let alone!"
...
So, this new student was truly a genius?
The plaza was silent. Looking at Bai Ran, who was effortlessly handling the situation on the screen, they felt only shock and disbelief.
With the flag destroyed, the assessment ended, and Bai Ran was teleported to the plaza.
She noticed the complex gazes of the surrounding disciples.
"Hahahaha!" Elder Yuan, with a beaming smile, walked up to her.
"Little girl, you've truly given us a surprise!"
Bai Ran looked at the enthusiastic elder before her and asked, "Senior, who might you be?"
"Look at my brain! Come, come, let me introduce you!" Elder Yuan slung an arm around Elder Pei.
"I am the Third Elder of the Que Tian Sect, you can call me Elder Yuan."
"This is the Second Elder, Elder Pei."
Elder Pei stepped forward and asked, "Little girl, how did you discover the wood spirit?"
So that was a wood spirit. She remembered the small green ball she had discarded on the mountaintop and said, "It's alive."
Anything alive would leave traces and scent.
Elder Yuan looked at the calm young figure before him with great emotion.
This seemingly simple assessment, to get the flag and destroy it, sounded easy.
But the disciples who had actually participated in the assessment knew that there were three difficult stages.
The first was the Xuan Beast illusion in the mountains. Many disciples, upon seeing Xuan Beasts far stronger than themselves, would flee in terror without even considering if it was an illusion.
The second was the maze created by the wood spirit. The wood spirit controlled the trees to move inadvertently, trapping the assessing disciples.
Disciples who passed the Xuan Beast illusion stage would then start to wonder if the trees before them were also illusions.
In doing so, they would inadvertently head down the wrong path.
The third, and most difficult, was not to take the flag, but to destroy it.
Disciples who passed the first two stages would be unable to suppress their joy and impatience, never considering that the flag itself was another assessment.
The final stage eliminated the majority of the disciples, catching them completely off guard.
It could be said that the number of disciples who fully passed the entire assessment was pitifully small, and those who did were all among the very best core disciples.
"By the way, little girl, are you also an alchemist?" Elder Pei remembered the flame and asked.
The nascent flame possessed only by alchemists, this little girl also had it, indicating a high possibility that she was an alchemist.
As expected, Bai Ran nodded. Since her flame had been exposed, someone was bound to guess she was an alchemist.
Elder Yuan enthusiastically leaned in, "Little girl, do you have a master?"
Such a fine talent, strike while the iron is hot!
"Hey, hey, hey! How can you jump ahead!" Elder Pei pushed Elder Yuan away irritably and moved closer himself.
"I am an alchemist, and a fire-attribute one at that. Little girl, you should take me as your master!"
"Old Pei! I've finally taken a disciple after so long!"
"I refuse! I've rarely met a disciple after my own heart!"
As the two inexplicably started arguing, Bai Ran, the person in question, secretly slipped away while they weren't paying attention.
They're gone, so what are you arguing about...
The disciples watched the two old mischievous men bicker back and forth, completely unaware that the person had already left.
As Bai Ran returned to her room, she sensed something was amiss.
Someone was here.
She saw a woman in magnificent attire sitting arrogantly in the room.
"You are Bai Ran?" The woman's name was Liu Yingying.
She stood up and scanned Bai Ran dismissively, her eyes full of mockery.
Such a vixen's face was truly displeasing.
Judging by Liu Yingying's gaze, she knew trouble had arrived. "You entered my courtyard without my permission?"
"So what?" She crossed her arms and looked down at Bai Ran.
Liu Yingying's strength was at the fourth stage of Nascent Soul, while Bai Ran was currently only at the first stage. It was no wonder Liu Yingying was so arrogant and looked down on Bai Ran.
"You've contracted a Vermillion Bird, haven't you?" Liu Yingying drew a sword and pointed it at Bai Ran.
"Hand it over!"
Bai Ran looked at the cold, sharp sword and a smile curved her lips.