fore observing others climbing the five peaks of this desolate wasteland and gauging their states, he had already devised a countermeasure.Moreover, Ginger had a sense of familiarity during the climbi..."Boom!"

As Xiao Yi's words fell, the lion-shaped sculpture suddenly trembled violently, giving the feeling that it was about to come to life.

This scene naturally made many new disciples, even the ten selected individuals including Ginger Cloud, look astonished. Apparently, they had no idea what had happened.

While the younger disciples were shocked and confused, the older disciples around them all wore expressions of knowing. Even so, their eyes remained fixed, unblinking, on the statue.

"Whoosh!"

After the tremor, a dazzling light suddenly erupted from the gaping maw of the beast sculpture, covering an area nearly ten feet in radius on the square.

Vaguely visible, there were figures within the light!

A flicker of thought crossed Jiang Yun's mind as he pondered, "This must be the teleportation formation people speak of. It can transport someone to a distant location in a very short time. I never expected that the formation would be hidden inside the beast sculpture. I wonder if the remaining three beast sculptures also conceal formations."

Moments later, the light spewing from the beast sculpture gradually converged, the tremors subsided until everything returned to normal. However, in the square, besides Jiang Yun and his ten companions, there were now ten more people.

These ten people were a mix of men and women, with diverse appearances. However, without exception, each person's face bore an air of arrogance.

From the blue tokens hanging from their waists, it was not difficult to tell that they were outer disciples from the Five Peaks of Inquiry, the very opponents that Jiang Yun and the ten others would face in the upcoming competition.

The purpose of the junior disciple trials is primarily to let new disciples experience what combat between cultivators is like, allowing them to gain some experience and broaden their horizons. Therefore, each time the trials are held, the opponents for new disciples are veteran disciples from the five peaks, most of whom are outer sect disciples.

Although it is said to be a mutual learning process, strictly speaking, it is actually an old disciple guiding a new disciple.

After all, most new disciples haven't participated in actual combat, so their chances of winning are low. Therefore, inner disciples generally wouldn't have the leisure to participate in such a small competition.

The appearance of the ten outer disciples meant that the sparring matches were about to begin, and their spectacular entrance naturally caused a wave of excitement and discussion among the spectators.

Of the ten men, Jiang Yun immediately spotted a yellow tiger measuring several feet long. Naturally, he recognized the man with a yellow face glaring viciously at him beside the tiger as Xu Chongshen.

Jiang Yun simply ignored Xu Chengshan's gaze, only glancing at him before shifting her attention to a female disciple beside him.

She was a woman, with a blue dragon-shaped token at her waist. She wore purple clothing and looked to be in her early twenties. Although she wasn't stunningly beautiful, she was still quite pretty. However, the red birthmark at the corner of her right eye marred her overall appearance, adding a hint of fierceness and mischief.

"Ten people, with two from each of the five peaks. Then this woman must be the senior sister who framed Xiaoyu!"

Just as Jiang Yun was sizing up this woman, the woman seemed to have also noticed Jiang Yun's gaze. Coincidentally, Xu Chengshan whispered something in her ear, and instantly, a sneer appeared on the woman's face, and her eyes looking at Jiang Yun were even more filled with sarcasm.

At this time, Xiao Yishu's voice sounded again: "These ten are disciples from the outer sect of Wufeng, who are also your opponents today. You can choose one at will to challenge, the choice cannot be repeated. If you don't choose, they will choose you! No matter the outcome of the competition, the sect will give certain rewards!"

"I choose him!"

As soon as Xiao Yishou finished speaking, Xu Chengshan eagerly took a step forward and pointed at Jiang Yun!

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Everyone was taken aback for a moment. They naturally didn't understand why Xu Chengshan, as the younger brother, was so anxious. But Jiang Yun knew exactly what was going on; the other party had come for revenge this time, worried that he wouldn't choose him or that he would be chosen by someone else, so he spoke up first.

Xu Chengshan's mind was completely occupied with defeating Jiang Yun at that moment, so he didn't notice the strange looks, even a hint of disdain, in the eyes of the people around him.

Because in everyone's opinion, Xu Chongshen chose Jiang Yun as his opponent, it was clearly picking the easiest target.

Although Jiang Yun had raised his cultivation to the third level of Tongmai in half a year, he was only at the strength of the third level of Tongmai. As for Xu Chongshen, as an outer disciple, he was at least at the seventh level of Tongmai.

Besides being a disciple of Baishou Peak, Xu Chongshen also had a spirit beast. With his seventh level of pulse connection against Jiang Yun's third, it wasn't even fair. It was practically two-on-one bullying!

"Cough!" Xiao Yishou coughed, took a deep look at Xu Chongshen, then turned to Jiang Yun and said: "Junior Brother Jiang, as the new disciple, you have one chance to refuse."

A new disciple selects a senior disciple as their opponent, and the senior disciple cannot refuse. However, the reverse is not true; the new disciple can refuse. This is considered a form of protection given to the new disciple.

As Xiao Yishu's words fell, Jiang Yun immediately and without hesitation responded, "I refuse!"

Jiang Yun's answer came as no surprise to everyone, because no matter who it was, as long as they didn't want to lose, they would definitely refuse to fight Xu Chongshen.

Although choosing other opponents would almost certainly mean losing, it's better than facing a two-on-one situation!

Xu Chongshen's face suddenly darkened. He wanted to speak, but Xiao Yishu had already nodded and said, "Okay, then let's start with you. You choose your opponent first!"

Jiang Yun stretched out his hand and pointed to the purple-clothed woman with a birthmark beside Xu Chengshan, saying, "I choose her!"

After seeing clearly who Jiang Yun had chosen as his opponent, the entire arena suddenly fell into a strange deathly silence. Even Xiao Yishu's face showed a hint of strange expression. Only Bao Yuanqiang, hiding in the crowd, had a sinister smile on his fat face.

Xu Chengshan was eager to choose Jiangyun as his opponent, while Jiangyun wanted to choose another disciple from Baishou Peak.

Although everyone is still unclear about Ginger Cloud's purpose, at least one thing they can be certain of is that there must be a past grievance between Ginger Cloud and Beast Summit.

But this ginger cloud, it seems, does not know the identity of the woman in purple he chose...

As for the woman in purple, upon hearing Jiang Yun choose her as his opponent, she was taken aback for a moment, but then laughed, the mockery in her eyes deepening.

After withdrawing his gaze from the woman in purple, Xiao Yi turned back to Jiang Yun, his brows furrowed slightly. "Are you sure you want her as your opponent"

Ginger Cloud nodded affirmatively. "Yes!"

"Alright!" Xiao Yishu nodded, then suddenly clasped his fists and bowed to the woman in purple. "Sister Fang, your opponent is this Junior Brother Jiang Yun."

"Sounds good!" the woman in purple chuckled. "I'll definitely give my brother Ginger some pointers!"

At this moment, Jiang Yun wished he could immediately dash to the purple-clothed woman's face and force her to reveal Lu Xiaoyu's whereabouts. His gaze was entirely focused on her, so much so that he didn't notice the strange expressions on the faces of those around him, nor did he notice how Xiao Yishu, as an inner disciple, treated this Fang shimei with such courtesy.

"Alright, everyone else hurry up and choose your opponents, let's start the mini competition right away!"

After the other nine new disciples had each chosen their opponents, Xiao Yishu shouted loudly: "According to the order in which you are standing, please proceed with the preliminary match one by one. Remember, the purpose of the preliminary match is to learn from each other, so stop at a point, do not go too far!"

After a moment's pause, Xiao Yishu glanced at Jiang Yun and the woman in purple and said, "The two of you, please make your final appearance!"in the dark about what exactly happened.At this very moment, Xue Dongliu remains seated within the prison cell. Upon his own nine-layered blood tower, a thick stench of blood hangs in the air around h...