Preparation for the Secret Realm Departure

As soon as Gu Xiaoyue's scornful words left her lips, the students looked at her with anticipation.

Did she have some kind of trump card?

Even if both the Qingluan and the Darkwing Thunderhorn Lion were at the Young life stage, level 10, their combat power couldn't possibly be matched, right?

Even if the Qingluan had control skills, it probably still couldn't win.

Just then, Gu Xiaoyue calmly summoned her Qingluan, leaving the students completely stunned.

Gu Xiaoyue was a freak, that was confirmed!

A Mature stage, level 1, early-phase Qingluan hovered low beside Gu Xiaoyue.

Its size was a full double that of when it was at the Young life stage, level 10!

"Mature stage!"

"Is she even human?"

"How is Gu Xiaoyue's leveling speed so much faster than Wei Liuyun, who has a Heaven-tier talent!"

"Why did you have to go and provoke her!"

Wei Liuyun's expression was incredibly ugly. He had thought this was a guaranteed victory; was he going to lose again?

He had already restricted Gu Xiaoyue so much, yet he was still going to lose?

Wei Liuyun's resentful expression fell into Gu Xiaoyue's eyes, and she said, "If you don't dare to fight, just admit defeat!"

Once again, she had thrown the words Wei Liuyun used to mock her right back at him!

The audience was in an uproar, saying that the heavens had a cycle of retribution and that Wei Liuyun had lifted a rock only to drop it on his own feet.

Wei Liuyun wanted to fight, but the gap between a pet at the Young life stage and one at the Mature stage was not just a little bit.

The noise under the arena grew louder and louder. The Qingluan let out a cry to the sky, and the students' Mental Power all trembled along with it.

Was this the strength of a Heaven-tier Mental Power pet?

Wei Liuyun really didn't want to admit defeat, so he bit the bullet and commanded the Darkwing Thunderhorn Lion to attack.

The Mature stage Qingluan was more agile, quickly dodging the attack and taking the opportunity to throw an Ice Flame skill at the Thunderhorn Lion.

The Thunderhorn Lion tried to dodge but was still hit on its right shoulder.

Qingqing used Luan Song, and the Thunderhorn Lion, which was about to attack again, froze in place.

Qingqing then unleashed Ice Flame, hitting its left front paw.

A high-level Luan Song could directly control an opponent for 3-4 seconds. Since the Thunderhorn Lion's level was lower than Qingqing's, it didn't react for a full 4 seconds.

By the time it regained its senses, its right shoulder and left front paw were already frostbitten, and it let out a whine to its master.

It wasn't that it lacked the strength to fight, but it knew this was a battle it was destined to lose!

"It's not too late to admit defeat now. Don't wait until your pet gets injured and ruins your chance to go treasure hunting in the Secret Realm!"

The students watching below laughed out loud; Gu Xiaoyue seemed to especially enjoy throwing the words Wei Liuyun used to belittle her back at him.

Wei Liuyun knew that a gap in strength truly existed between the two, so he conceded in dejection.

Then he put away the Darkwing Thunderhorn Lion and stood on the arena waiting.

Last time, when Gu Xiaoyue injured Fang Xiaoyu's pet, she had given him lanzhi grass.

"Wei Liuyun isn't waiting for Gu Xiaoyue to give him lanzhi grass, is he? Does he have no shame?"

"It's fine to have slightly less strength or be a bit arrogant, but his perspective is just too poor!"

Gu Xiaoyue looked at Wei Liuyun's somewhat expectant expression and thought, 'What kind of delusional nonsense is he thinking about!'

No wonder he insisted on fighting her even though he knew he couldn't win; he thought he would get lanzhi grass if he lost?

Gu Xiaoyue was speechless; she even felt that Wei Liuyun was somewhat shameless.

She didn't want to look at him for another second and cleanly turned to leave the arena.

Wei Liuyun had been waiting for Gu Xiaoyue to give him lanzhi grass. Seeing her walk off the stage directly, he even felt some resentment toward her double standards.

In the end, Wei Liuyun had to awkwardly go find the healing teacher.

The Darkwing Thunderhorn Lion wasn't badly injured, but frostbite was harder to recover from than external wounds.

They were about to go to the Secret Realm for training, and it had to recover before then so it wouldn't delay the trip.

Chu Li was so angry at Wei Liuyun's behavior that his teeth itched.

Unfortunately, the challenge rules had changed, and he couldn't squeeze Wei Liuyun out of the freshman ranking!

However, he still challenged Wei Liuyun, causing him to drop to fourth place on the freshman ranking and lose a full 1.5 million star coins!

Gu Xiaoyue's strength made many students who originally thought she relied on Chu Li treat her much more kindly.

However, there were still people who felt that her strength was just piled up by Chu Li using rare treasures.

Gu Xiaoyue didn't care about that; she just waited for the freshman ranking to be released and collected her money.

On the night the freshman ranking was released, the class instructors notified the top ten students that they could start forming teams.

The team formation time was for the next two days, and they would enter the Secret Realm for training early on the third day.

Chu Li reported to the instructor that he was on a team with Gu Xiaoyue, so the student ranked eleventh became the captain of the tenth team.

Originally, on the day before the ranking was released, this tenth-place student had been pushed to eleventh by Chu Li, and he had been very depressed.

He hadn't expected that Chu Li had actually planned it all along; although he lost 1 million, he hadn't lost his qualification for the Secret Realm training!

The Secret Realm would be open for a total of 30 days, starting on the day the rankings were released.

Excluding the time for team formation, the school leaders' intention was for these 60 students to train in the Secret Realm for 25 days.

Because Gu Xiaoyue and Chu Li had been dominating the rankings, they didn't have any close classmates.

They just wanted to bring Ye Wanrou and Chen Yixuan along.

Unexpectedly, Fang Xiaoyu came to talk to Gu Xiaoyue, hoping they could take him and his girlfriend along.

Gu Xiaoyue didn't understand; Fang Xiaoyu could clearly form his own team, so why did he want to find her?

And who was his girlfriend?

Fang Xiaoyu explained the reason: he just felt that Gu Xiaoyue and Chu Li were both powerful and had good character, so it wouldn't be wrong to follow them.

As for the girlfriend he had only just started dating a few days ago, it was Gu Xiaoyue's roommate—Han Qiao.

Gu Xiaoyue didn't agree immediately, only saying she had to discuss it with Chu Li and the others.

The result after the discussion was that they agreed to let Fang Xiaoyu and Han Qiao join their team.

The group sat down to first discuss the distribution of earnings.

Gu Xiaoyue proposed that the beast corpses be distributed equally and kept by her until they left the Secret Realm, then traded at Hualian Shopping Mall collectively.

After all, she and Chu Li were diamond members, so they could sell them at a higher price.

The others had no objections, but Han Qiao jumped out to oppose it.

She believed that although Chen Yixuan was a healer, his abilities in all aspects were not very good, making him a dead weight, so he shouldn't get such a large share.

But in fact, the healers generally brought in teams had a fixed distribution of earnings, ranging from 5% to 10%, with everyone else splitting the rest.

Gu Xiaoyue had already given Chen Yixuan a relatively small share.

Ye Wanrou heard Han Qiao insulting Chen Yixuan and wasn't happy about it. She pointed at Han Qiao and said that she was the real dead weight, and if it weren't for dating Fang Xiaoyu, she wouldn't even be able to enter the Secret Realm.

Fang Xiaoyu knew that Han Qiao was in the wrong, but he had to coax his own girlfriend, so he could only try to smooth things over in the middle.

Disdaining a healer was a particularly character-damaging thing to do. Chu Li made the final decision: if Han Qiao didn't accept it, she and Fang Xiaoyu could go form a team elsewhere.

Han Qiao quieted down then, waiting for Gu Xiaoyue to continue.

Gu Xiaoyue's intention was that if everyone encountered any rare treasures together, they would be distributed according to contribution, but if an individual encountered and discovered something, then it belonged to the individual.

As for any rare treasures they wanted, they would have priority to purchase them according to need. If no one in the team bought them, they would be sold externally, and then the star coins would be divided.

No one had any objections to this, so the group created a Star Affinity group chat and went to report to the instructor.

Fang Xiaoyu's move made the student ranked twelfth incredibly happy.

There was one less captain in the top ten, so the twelfth-place student had picked up a bargain and went to find people to form a team, overjoyed.

As for Gu Xiaoyue and her group, because they had plenty of time, the four of them went together to purchase supplies needed for the Secret Realm.

Originally, Chu Li wanted to use the Youming Tiger; after all, the current Youming Tiger was already at the Young life stage, level 8, and its hidden space was 128 square meters, so the four of them could easily fit.

But with Fang Xiaoyu and Han Qiao tagging along, he couldn't expose the Youming Tiger, so he bought a lot of supplies.

Everything was prepared, and they just waited for the time to go to the Secret Realm.

However, Gu Xiaoyue finally sent two sentences in the group chat that only the four of them were in.

Although Chu Li, Ye Wanrou, and Chen Yixuan didn't understand what she meant, they all replied uniformly—Received!