A hundredfold return! My unfilial disciples are all reincarnations of the Empress.

No sooner had the words left his mouth than the calm surface of the lake suddenly began to churn violently!

A massive column of water shot into the sky, and a water dragon appeared above, its eyes cold and indifferent, like a deity.

A deep, resonant voice echoed from the sky: "You wish to participate in the Trial of Water?"

Lin Feng looked up at the water dragon, a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth: "If you don't want to participate, we can just stay here and enjoy the scenery."

Shui Long ignored his words and glanced at the three of them: "To participate, each person needs to pay one thousand mid-grade spirit stones."

Lin Feng was stunned. No one had ever said that you had to spend spirit stones to participate in the trial!

"...So expensive?"

Shui Long remained unfazed: "The Trial Grounds are a legacy of the ancient water god; only those with great fortune can enter. A thousand spirit stones are hardly expensive."

Chi Yao muttered to herself, "That seems to be true?"

Lin Feng turned to look at his two apprentices and saw that they both had eager expressions on their faces.

He clutched his bleeding chest, silently thinking: Both of his disciples are incredibly lucky; since they want to go, they certainly won't lose out…

That's right...

He poured spirit stones out of his storage bag, and they spilled all over the ground, three thousand mid-grade spirit stones piling up half a stone platform.

The water dragon swept the spirit stones on the ground with its tail, and the spirit stones fell into the water.

Its tone remained indifferent: "The trial has begun. Participants will land at random locations. Go in."

The three of them stopped talking and stepped onto the stone platform in the middle of the lake.

The moment they stepped onto the stone, the stone slab beneath their feet suddenly lit up, and water surged up from the edge of the platform, instantly engulfing the three of them.

When he opened his eyes again, he was standing alone in a long, icy corridor. The Frost Sword was gone, and there was no one around him.

Lin Feng walked forward on the ice crystals, his reflection constantly reflected in the surrounding ice crystals.

With each step, the ice surface crackled and crunched, like walking on brittle bones.

I walked for a long time and there was no one around.

Just then, footsteps suddenly came from around the corner ahead.

The next second, a Lin Feng dressed in modern clothes walked out from around the corner.

His hair was disheveled, his face was pale, and he was wearing a white t-shirt, black jeans, and flip-flops.

That face was exactly the same as his, even the position of the mole on his neck was identical.

"Cold...so cold..."

He kept rubbing his arms to warm them, his head down, walking with a trembling body.

Only when he got close did "he" look up at Lin Feng.

The person in front of him looked at his clothes, and their eyes instantly lit up with hope, as if they had seen a lifeline.

"Clothes...clothes!!! Take them off and give them to me!"

He reached out to pull at Lin Feng's clothes.

Lin Feng's eyes widened, and hesitantly pushed "him" away, sending "him" flying a meter away.

The person in front of him was furious, and looked at Lin Feng with the eyes of a vicious wolf.

He swung a fist at us directly.

Sensing the faint trace of demonic energy in his breath, Lin Feng instantly understood.

"I see……"

The way to pass this level should be to kill this counterfeit.

Lin Feng also raised his fist and smashed it towards "him".

After several rounds, "he" was ultimately no match for Lin Feng, whose physical abilities were off the charts.

Looking at the face in front of him that was exactly the same as his own, showing an incredibly real expression of pain, Lin Feng understood the disgusting nature of this trial.

"Damn it," he muttered under his breath.

The blood flowing from his mouth smeared his neck, and he curled up on the ground in pain, howling, with tears welling up in his eyes.

"It hurts so much... Please don't kill me..."

Lin Feng remained expressionless, searching around for something.

A moment later, he appeared with an ice pick in his hand, raised it, and flicked it.

A flash of cold light—

The next second, "he" disappeared.

A thousand high-grade spirit stones and a white pill appeared beside him.

He held the pill to his nose and smelled it, then his eyes widened instantly.

It's actually a top-grade Spirit Awakening Pill!

Ordinary people who consume it can directly develop the five elements of spiritual roots, but they usually develop mixed spiritual roots.

Suddenly, the ice crystal corridor began to tremble, and the ice wall in front of it cracked open to the sides, revealing a straight passage of light, in which the Frost Sword lay.

Lin Feng walked through the passage with his sword, and the space in front of him suddenly opened up.

On the circular stone platform, Liu Yushu and Chi Yao were waiting outside, with Chi Yao holding a jade slip in her hand.

Upon seeing Lin Feng emerge, the two men went to greet him.

The moment Lin Feng appeared, his two disciples rushed forward to greet him.

"Master! Are you alright?"

"fine."

Liu Yushu: "What I encountered was a mirror, reflecting all the images of my deepest fears."

Lin Feng raised an eyebrow: "And then?"

"Then the disciple smashed it." Liu Yushu said calmly.

Lin Feng: "..."

Yes, she has the air of an empress.

Chi Yao handed over the jade slip: "Master, this appeared on the stone platform after I cleared the level."

Lin Feng took the jade slip, scanned it with his divine sense, and his pupils dilated slightly.

A water-attribute celestial-level cultivation technique – the Taiyin Profound Water Technique.

It is in the same lineage as the Taiyin Guiyi Technique he gave Liu Yushu before, but it is more inclined towards water system control.

"Give this to your senior sister." Lin Feng handed the jade slip back. "This cultivation technique is compatible with her physique."

Chi Yao had no objections and handed it directly to Liu Yushu.

Just as the three were about to leave the stone platform, the ground beneath their feet suddenly began to tremble violently.

The entire stone platform began to slowly sink, and large swaths of lake water poured in from all directions.

"The trial is over?" Chi Yao's eyes widened.

Lin Feng grabbed his two apprentices' wrists: "Run!"

The three of them took off into the air on the Frost Sword. As soon as they left the stone platform, the entire Water Trial Space collapsed.

They reappeared on the edge of the lake in the Sunset Secret Realm.

The lake returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

Lin Feng patted their shoulders: "Let's go, the harvest this time was not bad, let's go back to Qinglin City to rest first."

The group left the secret realm and returned to the courtyard.

That very night, Liu Yushu began to comprehend the Taiyin Profound Water Technique, and the blue spiritual light surrounding her did not subside throughout the night.

Chi Yao practiced her movements in the courtyard.

Lin Feng stayed in his room, taking stock of the spoils from this trip to the secret realm.

One seventh-tier demon core, several pieces of dark gold scales of the earth dragon, one thousand-year-old soul-condensing grass, several demon cores from the third to the sixth tier, plus that heaven-rank cultivation technique.

He had just closed the storage bag when a system notification sounded.

"Ding! Detected that the host led his disciple through the Water Trial, accelerating the disciple's growth!"

"A random reward has been triggered!"

"Congratulations, host, you have obtained: 3 Space Teleportation Talismans, 10 Top-Grade Antidote Pills, and a 5% increase in disciple cultivation efficiency."

He carefully put away the teleportation talisman and the antidote.

The next morning, Lin Feng opened the window to let in some fresh air.

The aroma of steaming noodles wafted from the noodle stalls on the street ahead, and Chi Yao had already pulled Wang Xiao to join the queue.

Liu Yushu emerged from the next room, her face beaming with joy, and said, "Master, I have already comprehended the first level of the Taiyin Profound Water Technique."

"So fast?"

"Yes, it has similarities to the Taiyin Guiyi Technique, and it's easier to pick up than I expected."

Lin Feng clicked his tongue inwardly in amazement; the reincarnation of the Empress was indeed a genius.