Junior Sister must ascend this time!

Yun Qing merely glanced at him indifferently. "What am I supposed to wait for? Why don't you run away a bit, so I don't have to go through the trouble of sparing your life?"

Chen Zheng was trembling with anger. Yun Qing kindly said to Wang Jin, "Turn off your senior brother's vibration mode."

Chen Zheng is spitting blood...

At this moment, Elder Linxu on the platform stood up, cleared his throat, and his voice echoed throughout the entire square:

"The selection competition for personal disciples has officially begun!"

The entire room fell silent instantly.

"The competition is simple. All disciples will enter the Trial Valley for three days. During this time, they can freely use spiritual artifacts, talismans, pills, etc. However, one thing to note is that you must not harm anyone. In case of emergency, you can crush your identity jade token to teleport out."

The Trial Valley is divided into three areas: the Misty Forest, the Monster Valley, and the Sword Array Swamp. This time, you will be entering the easiest area, the Misty Forest. I have placed two hundred flags there; the final result will be determined by the number of flags each individual collects.

As soon as he finished speaking, one of the participating disciples became excited.

"Trial Valley? Isn't that where personal disciples usually train? This Misty Forest is not only shrouded in fog year-round, but also occasionally teeming with demonic beasts. And this is actually the easiest one? Being a personal disciple really isn't so easy!"

"Don't be so discouraged. I've heard there are quite a few rare spiritual plants inside. If you're lucky enough to encounter a high-level spiritual plant, it'll be worth it even if you're eliminated."

Yun Qing listened silently from the side, then raised an eyebrow. Spiritual plants—she just happened to need them for alchemy.

Elder Linxu continued, "The Trial Valley is now open. Disciples, please enter in turn using your identity jade tokens."

Yun Qing casually followed the group, tossing her identity jade token behind her. After passing through a barrier, she was stunned...

That's outrageous!

Who walks in and immediately locks eyes with a Foundation Establishment stage demon beast?!

Besides, it was ugly! She had seen many monsters, ugly, strange, and terrifying, but she had never seen one this ugly before.

It resembled a giant toad, its body covered in bumps, each oozing a yellowish slime. Its skin was grayish-green, its eyes bulged, and its pupils were eerie vertical lines. Its mouth was enormous, almost taking up half of its face.

Yun Qing felt as if her eyes had been attacked after just one glance.

Although the beast wasn't very intelligent, Yun Qing's expression of disdain was too obvious; it hated being looked at with that kind of expression.

So it suddenly leaped at Yun Qing, wanting to swallow her whole.

Yun Qing took off running. Not only was this thing disgusting to look at, but the slime it spewed out was even more disgusting. Although it wouldn't kill you, if it got on your skin, it would cause bumps to grow on your skin just like the thing itself.

The surroundings were shrouded in thick fog, making it impossible to see anything with the naked eye. One could only advance little by little by projecting one's divine sense.

Fortunately, Yun Qing had studied formations in the Stele Forest for a month, and her spiritual sense was much stronger than that of the original body, so traversing within it was not too difficult.

At this moment, she seemed to see several figures in front of her. After she used her divine sense to see them clearly, her eyes suddenly lit up.

"An acquaintance"!

Chen Zheng and Wang Jin's group entered the Misty Forest relatively smoothly and quickly found the three flags.

Even more fortunately, they found a mid-level spiritual plant and were currently squatting on the ground digging it up.

Wang Jin felt uneasy and said to Chen Zheng, "Senior Brother Chen Zheng, did you hear anything? Could it be that that brat Yun Qing has come up with some naughty idea again...?"

Chen Zheng glanced at him. "So what if she comes? I'm more worried about her not coming, that I won't have a chance to deal with her. Hurry up and dig, stop talking nonsense!"

Wang Jin said "oh" and continued digging for spirit plants. Maybe he really did mishear.

"Chen Zheng! Wang Jin! I've come to bring you gifts!"

Yun Qing's voice rang out behind them. Upon hearing this voice, Wang Jin reflexively tried to get up and run away, but Chen Zheng grabbed him.

"Useless thing! Scared like this by a mere Qi Refining stage cultivator. Stand at the back and let me deal with her!"

Having said that, he summoned his spirit sword, "Yun Qing, prepare to die! I..."

Before he could finish speaking, Yun Qing brushed past him, ran up behind him, and shouted:

"Ugly thing! Come at me if you dare! You can spit out slime, can't you? I'm standing right here, do you dare spit?"

Chen Zheng: ? ? ? Who is she talking to?

What ugly thing? What slime? I can't see anything in front of me.

Chen Zheng used his divine sense to "see" a giant, rascally toad running towards him, its mouth wide open and its drool-filled tongue waving back and forth.

That shameless toad was blind too; provoked by Yun Qing, it forgot to even recognize whether the person in front of it was her.

He could only vaguely see a figure, so he spat a large mouthful of viscous fluid at him.

Before Chen Zheng could react, the sticky liquid was smeared all over his face and body.

It was warm, sticky, and had a nauseating, fishy odor.

Even Wang Jin and the other disciples standing next to him were not spared, though not as badly as Chen Zheng.

Immediately, screams of agony echoed through the misty forest from Chen Zheng and his companions: "Aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!"

"Yun Qing! I'll kill you!!!"

Si Mingche, standing outside the light screen, was laughing so hard he couldn't straighten up.

"Junior Sister Yun Qing is so clever! How come I didn't think of that? It's a pity Second Senior Sister doesn't like this kind of place and can't witness such an interesting scene. No way, I have to record it with the recording stone, hahahahahaha..."

Jiang Mian clung tightly to her pants, "You can laugh all you want, but why are you pulling on my pants?!"

Si Mingche chuckled and released his grip. "If Junior Sister Yun Qing could become my junior sister, I'd definitely not be bored in the days to come."

After smoothing out a small wrinkle in his clothes, Pei Shubai said, "With your IQ, you'll just be played by her and won't get bored."

Si Mingche:…………

The toad on the other side jumped in front of Chen Zheng and the others and then realized something was wrong. Why were there so many people?

Wasn't that a cultivator in the Qi Refining stage just now?

Why are all the people in front of me at the Foundation Establishment stage?

How dare you mess with the Toad King! You're asking for trouble!

So, the rascal toad changed direction and chased after Yun Qing again.

This time, Yun Qing didn't run away. She still needed to find the flag and didn't have time to waste with this ugly thing.

She lightly touched the ground with her toes, turned around, and summoned the spirit sword that Cen Ning had forged for her. She had gotten to know it well over the past few days, and it was time to put it to practical use.

Yun Qing gripped her spirit sword tightly and swung it at the rascal toad.

The rascal toad also got serious, flicking out its tongue and curling it towards Yunqing's direction.

Its tongue is as fast as lightning; once it gets entangled, it can cause suffocation at best, and being swallowed whole at worst.

Just as the toad's tongue shot out, Yun Qing's figure vanished.