Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Especially when the young man said he was from the Seven Dream Tree, Ye Yuchan actually believed him for a second!

What should we do now?

Ye Yuchan looked up and gazed into the young man's wise and gentle eyes. After a long pause, she finally asked, "You say you are the Seven Dream Tree, what proof do you have?"

"Evidence?" The young man narrowed his eyes curiously. "My very existence is the evidence. If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do."

The meaning is quite clear—believe it or not, it's up to you.

Realizing that this question couldn't be explored further, Ye Yuchan shrugged. "Alright then, let's put aside the question of whether you're from the Seven Dreams Tree. At least you don't seem like a bad person."

"Don't I look like a bad person?" the young man retorted.

"If you really had ulterior motives towards me, you would have done it when I passed out. Why wait until now to make this entrance? You couldn't have just come here to show off this special way of making an entrance, could you?"

Upon hearing this, the young man nodded: "That does seem to make sense."

Ye Yuchan shrugged and continued sitting on the ground as if nothing had happened. "That settles it then. So let's just assume you really came here for the trial. Hey, can I withdraw from the trial?"

"Withdraw? Withdraw?" The young man's eyes widened, completely unable to believe what Ye Yuchan had said. "This is the Seven Dream Tree Trial that countless people dream of finding, and you still want to withdraw?"

"So... are there any benefits?"

"Of course there is, but we'll have to wait until you finish the trial."

The young man wanted to say something more, but at that moment, a look of fear suddenly appeared on his face, and he coughed lightly, looking slightly pale.

His gaze shifted to a dark corner at one moment, he pursed his lips, and waved his hand.

A thick, red book landed in front of Ye Yuchan.

"Ahem!" He cleared his throat and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "Since you were able to enter my trial and even complete the first level, you are destined to be with me. You can take this martial arts manual as a reward for the first level of the trial."

……What?

Wasn't the reward supposed to be given after the trial was completed? Why is it being given now?

Ye Yuchan blinked, puzzled, and picked up the red book in front of her.

Three large black characters were written on the ancient book. Ye Yuchan vaguely recognized them as ancient script used in prehistoric times.

Fortunately, she had also studied the reading and understanding of ancient characters in Tianbei Valley. This thing is similar to classical Chinese, and she could understand it to a great extent.

Black Flame Arrow

—A fairly simple name.

Ye Yuchan had never even heard of this martial arts technique before, let alone seen it, so she couldn't determine its level. However, since it was a gift from someone else, she couldn't refuse it, so she simply waved her hand and put it into her storage ring.

After seeing Ye Yuchan accept the martial arts technique, the young man breathed a sigh of relief, turned his back to Ye Yuchan, and muttered something under his breath.

"Big brother... is this alright?"

"Well, it's alright."

Hidden in the darkness, Yunping nodded in satisfaction and then put down the knife he had been holding on the roots of the sapling.

"call……"

The young man breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that his roots had survived, and his complexion gradually returned to normal.

He turned around and faced Ye Yuchan again, as if what had just happened was just an illusion.

"Then, this person destined for us throughout the ages, please proceed to the second level of the trial."

"The second level of the trial..."

The voice just fell.

A towering tower fell vertically from above, landing precisely on the vast open space in front of Ye Yuchan.

The young man had a gentle expression and a slight smile on his face.

Its name is the Tower of Testing Hearts.

40. Tower of Testing Hearts

The Tower of Testing Hearts.

This ten-story, octagonal pavilion-style tower stands in the darkness, its exterior simple and ancient. From a distance, it looks like a prism reaching to the sky. The tiles on each floor are white and blue, and there are bronze arches at the corners. Silver-gray ancient bells hang under the upturned eaves.

It does resemble a pagoda-shaped ritual implement from ancient times.

Without much thought, Ye Yuchan stepped forward to the dusty, pale red metal door, placed her palms on the cold door panel, and exerted force with her arms.

crunch--

A hazy gray fog swept over her again. Ye Yuchan stared at the thick fog on the first floor of the tower, so thick that she couldn't see the interior. Her steps faltered for a moment.

She turned around, pointed to the Tower of Trials with a smirk, and asked the still smiling young man a question.

"Um... just wondering, how many floors do I need to clear in this Trial of Hearts Tower to pass?"

"Your cultivation level is currently only at the Spirit Palace stage. Theoretically, you only need to pass three levels to be considered as having passed the test."

"Three floors..." Ye Yuchan lowered her head, pondered for a while, and then asked, "Can I quit halfway through?"

"Uh... you can quit anytime you want."

"Oh, that's fine then. I was worried that I'd die inside and no one would collect my body."

Ye Yuchan smiled faintly, and then stepped into the first floor of the Trial Tower without hesitation.

As she stepped into the tower, the previously open door closed again, and the handprints imprinted on the dust slowly disappeared, leaving only the Tower of Trials standing steadily in place.

Ring ring~

The silver bells under the eaves of the first floor of the Test of Heart Tower swayed and made a clear, ringing sound.

This was Ye Yuchan's performance upon reaching the first level of the Trial Tower. After that, every time she ascended a level, the corresponding silver bell would shake twice to indicate the progress of the challengers outside.

Upon seeing that Ye Yuchan had finally begun the first trial of the Trial Tower, Yun Ping, who had been hiding in the darkness, breathed a sigh of relief and emerged from the shadows.

"Phew—I've been holding back for so long, now I can finally come out and chat with you openly."

"That's right." The young man frowned with a wry smile, looking at the sapling in Yunping's hand, his expression twisted like a bitter gourd. "Brother, can you... give it back? I'm a little uneasy holding it in your hands."

Yun Ping's face immediately fell, and he continued to play with the sapling in his hand: "What do you mean? What do you mean you don't trust me? Do you think I would care about your sapling?"

……

Tiny, tiny saplings?!

That thing is the Seven Dream Tree! The twenty-second ultimate, independent of the twenty-first ultimate!

Even saints would lose their entire fortune over this thing. If a mortal obtains it, he will surely be able to enter the Void Realm and become an ancestor-level figure. If a saint obtains it, he will be able to enter the realm of immortals and become a half-step true immortal. You think it's a sapling?!

The young man looked as if he had seen a ghost, but then he thought about it and realized that the person in front of him didn't seem to care much about the existence of the ultimate.

He became completely dejected.

Yunping could easily see through the silly boy's intentions. He patted the young man's shoulder and comforted him, "Alright, don't be too sad. I just took it to play with for a bit. Once my little Yuchan has completed all the trials, I will return your original body to you."

"...We still have to wait for your disciple to complete all the trials?" The young man looked at Yun Ping with a bitter face: "Don't you have any idea what kind of aptitude your own disciple has?"

"Her talent is not outstanding at all. Compared to your previous disciples, she is practically a weakling. She is also extremely weak in actual combat. She almost killed herself in the first round. If you hadn't intervened, she would be dead by now, okay?"

"Not only that, I see that she is restless, weak-willed, and spiritually unstable. At most, she can only rely on her physical body to get through the first level. She will definitely not be able to stand the second level as soon as she steps in.

"Let alone the third trial, she can't even pass this Trial Tower."

The young man blurted out all his thoughts without realizing that the master of the person he was complaining about was standing right next to him.

However, Yunping not only did not refute the young man's words, but actually agreed with them.

Just as the young man said, Ye Yuchan's aptitude was ridiculously poor in every aspect. This aptitude refers to her mental qualities, cultivation speed, and comprehension, rather than the good fortune she possessed.

One can seize destiny, create magical artifacts, and refine one's physique, but cultivating one's character is extremely difficult.

Ye Yuchan's character is terrible.

That being said—

"Don't worry, the Trial Tower is a piece of cake for her."

Despite having the above points, Yunping still had great confidence in Ye Yuchan.

This made the young man tremble involuntarily. "Hey bro, you didn't give her some weird magical artifact, did you? Let me tell you, this Trial Tower is very precious to me. If you break it, I'll be in big trouble..."

“I didn’t give her anything,” Yunping replied.

The young man's face was full of disbelief as he retorted, "Then why did you say she could pass the Trial Tower?!"

“If I say she can, she can.”

"cut……"

The young man pursed his lips and didn't continue the conversation.

It is the Seven Dream Tree. Although the number of people it has tested in this life is pitifully small, its realm and the special nature of its existence have given it the ability to see the whole picture of a person. Ye Yuchan could see it more clearly than anyone else.

To be honest, with Ye Yuchan's talent, if it weren't for Yun Ping as her teacher, she would probably only be able to stay at the Xuanmen stage for the rest of her life, and would never be able to break through or condense a spiritual platform.

Her physical constitution and spiritual roots determine that her lower limit will not be low, but her extremely poor character also determines that her upper limit will not be high.

Seven Dream Tree has seen many people like this.

During the conversation, a melodious silver bell sound suddenly rang out from afar.

Ring ring~

The silver bells on the second floor swayed.

— Ye Yuchan arrived at the second floor of the Trial Tower.

The time has come to witness the truth.

41. The flames of despair are burning.

The moment Ye Yuchan stepped onto the stairs and entered the second level of the Trial Tower—

Countless gales from the surrounding heavens and earth ravaged her delicate figure, and endless torrential rain pierced every inch of her skin like silver needles, as if trying to destroy her body.

Pain swept through my entire body in an instant.