33: test

Under Luo Hongyi's brainwashing, Lin Fan eventually bit the bullet and chased after them.

However, Lin Fan deliberately slowed his pace, maintaining a distance from Li Qiuyue and Su Xuan.

Before long, Li Qiuyue and Su Xuan arrived at a Puppet array. Once they crossed this array, they would reach the Trial Grounds.

As soon as he stepped in, Su Xuan felt a dangerous aura emerge.

"Be careful! Before entering the Trial Grounds, you must defeat the Puppets guarding the entrance!"

"The Puppets here are at least of the Linghai Realm. You need to be careful!"

Li Qiuyue reminded him.

"Don't worry, Qiuyue! There's no need to be concerned; this small difficulty won't stump me!"

As his voice faded, Su Xuan shattered a Divine Power Realm Puppet with a single palm strike.

"Amazing! He truly is the man I've set my sights on!"

Seeing this, Li Qiuyue's eyes sparkled.

The Cultivation Technique Su Xuan just used, if she wasn't mistaken, was a Heaven-tier Cultivation Technique, and a very Advanced one at that!

Moreover, Su Xuan had actually cultivated this technique to the Grand Completion stage! How old was he? To possess such talent!

Although such talent was nothing compared to her own, their backgrounds were different.

She had grown up under the tutelage of Saints since childhood, with all sorts of free resources poured into her.

As for Su Xuan, he was merely the son of a Venerable, yet with just that, Su Xuan possessed talent no less than hers!

Su Xuan, this Holy Son, was truly worthy of the title!

In contrast, Lin Fan had no background, no strength; he clearly looked like someone who lived off women!

But if you want to live off women, you need to have strength! Either strength or good skills. Which one did Lin Fan have?

Soon, after the two of them jointly dealt with wave after wave of Puppets, they finally arrived in front of a mysterious cave.

Thick spiritual energy permeated the area around the cave, and a dust-covered stone lion stood at the entrance.

"Such dense spiritual energy! Cultivating here is about ten times faster than cultivating outside!"

Su Xuan took a deep breath of the rich spiritual energy. With just one breath, he felt his Bottleneck loosen considerably.

"According to my mother, as long as we place our tokens on the stone lion, the trial will begin!"

Li Qiuyue said.

With that, Li Qiuyue and Su Xuan exchanged glances, simultaneously took out their respective tokens, and walked towards the stone lion.

The moment the tokens touched the stone lion, a light flashed in the stone lion's eyes, dust flaked off its body, and an ancient, powerful aura rushed forth.

"You... are the Holy Son and Holy Maiden of this generation?"

An ancient voice came, originating from the stone lion before them.

"Senior, it is us!"

Li Qiuyue respectfully replied.

"You are not from Tianwu Holy Land, are you?"

The stone lion looked at Su Xuan.

As the guardian here, the stone lion could perceive some unusual things.

The Su Xuan before him did not seem to have entered the Secret Realm using his own essence blood; the essence blood he used belonged to someone else!

And that person seemed to be on their way! This made things interesting.

However, the stone lion didn't say much. He was only responsible for testing, and it didn't matter to him who came to be tested.

His consistent principle was that the capable should hold the position. Even if the Su Xuan before him used some underhanded means, he would still admire him.

After all, on the Tianxuan Continent, to become stronger, one had to seize resources; everyone went through this.

If the Holy Son of this generation failed to protect his own fortuitous encounter, that was his own problem.

"Replying to Senior..."

Li Qiuyue was unaware of Su Xuan's situation, so she began to explain the events of the past few decades to the stone lion.

"I didn't expect such things to have happened in the past few decades!"

The stone lion sighed with emotion.

No one had come here for decades, and it had almost bored him to death.

"My name is Senior Lingxiao, and I am the guardian of this trial ground. Since you have arrived, are you ready to accept the trial ground's test?"

Senior Lingxiao spoke.

"We are ready!"

Su Xuan and Li Qiuyue said in unison.

"Wait a minute! There's me too! I also want to participate in the test!"

Just as Su Xuan and Li Qiuyue finished speaking, the earlier Lin Fan also caught up.

"Lin Fan! You're truly persistent!"

Li Qiuyue said in a sarcastic tone.

"Thank you for your concern, Miss Qiuyue!"

Lin Fan smiled faintly.

He had overheard the conversation between Senior Lingxiao and them. As long as he displayed his true strength here, Li Qiuyue would surely see Su Xuan's true colors.

"Disciple, you'll have to rely on yourself from now on. Your Revered Master needs to rest well!"

Luo Hongyi spoke.

Because the current Lin Fan was too weak, he had only managed to pass through the Puppet array earlier with Luo Hongyi's help.

For this, Luo Hongyi had expended a lot of energy.

"Don't worry, Revered Master! Since I've made it here, I definitely won't fail!"

Lin Fan said confidently.

"Senior, wouldn't this be a bit inappropriate... Three people participating in the test, it's the first time!"

Li Qiuyue said.

"No matter! Since there are three participants, and the relationship between the two of you is somewhat unusual, why not see who can pass the final test to determine the ownership of the Holy Son position?"

Senior Lingxiao suddenly spoke.

"Senior, you might not know this, but this Lin Fan came here without a token. Logically speaking, he is not qualified to participate in this test!"

Li Qiuyue said.

"Holy Maiden, you might not know, but the connection between these two is probably more interesting than you imagine!"

Senior Lingxiao smiled wickedly.

By rights, Su Xuan was the one who shouldn't have been qualified to participate in the test, yet Senior Lingxiao still allowed him to.

Simply because...

The Su Xuan before him was unfathomable, which filled Senior Lingxiao with curiosity about Su Xuan.

He wanted to see what abilities Su Xuan possessed to compete with Lin Fan, this great bearer of destiny.

Hearing Senior Lingxiao say this, Li Qiuyue couldn't say anything more, only glaring at Lin Fan.

Facing Li Qiuyue's gaze, Lin Fan didn't care, simply shifting his attention to Su Xuan.

"Su Xuan, do you dare to accept the challenge?"

Lin Fan challenged Su Xuan with a provocative look.

"Of course I dare to accept the challenge, but I think this matter still needs Miss Qiuyue's consent!"

"It is well known that the relationship between the Holy Son and Holy Maiden of Tianwu Holy Land has always been delicate!"

"Isn't our competition treating Miss Qiuyue as an object to be competed over?"

Su Xuan's gentlemanly speech won Li Qiuyue's great favor; she hadn't even thought of that point!

"Su Xuan... he's truly considerate!"

Li Qiuyue thought to herself.