The moment Yun Zi Mo’s voice fell, everyone in the room cast their gazes to Lou Mu Yan.

Lou Mu Bai’s expression darkened slightly and his brows furrowed together unhappily. Just when he wanted to speak, Lou Mu Yan tugged his sleeve to stop him.

“Do you mean Lou Mu Yan? She won the first place in the freshman’s Earth Class, and she obtained the place with her own abilities.” Among the people sitting here, only Lou Mu Yan was at the Great Sword Master cultivation stage. Who Yun Zi Mo was referring to was evident, so Yun Cang explained with an amicable expression.

After thinking a little, he added: “She defeated a Middle-Phase Sword Spirit strength student.”

Yun Zi Mo raised his eyes and glanced at Lou Mu Yan coldly, nodded to Yun Cang and stopped talking.

Yun Cang knew what sort of temperament Yun Zi Mo had, but he also didn’t want Lou Mu Yan to misunderstand him. The Imperial Family still wanted to exchange the Marrow Cleansing Pill from Lou Mu Yan for Yun Zi Mo to use in preparation for the Continental Tournament for Hegemony. He couldn’t let any misunderstandings form between the two.

“Lou girl, Zi Mo is your captain for the Selection Trial this time, so he also asked this out of consideration for safety reasons. Don’t think too much into it.” Yun Xang looked at Lou Mu Yan with an amicable smile.

Lou Mu Yan sneered: “Just say that you’re afraid I’ll be holding everyone back, why make it sound so pompous.

There was a smile yet not quite a smile on her lips. Although she knew Yun Zi Mo didn’t deliberately target herself, but this sort of roundabout way of saying she would hold everyone back still made her unhappy. Who new who’s be the one to hold others back.

Her words that left no face made the expressions of many people change. Yun Zi Mo was the number one cultivator among the younger generation in the Empire and he had an extremely cold temperament. Almost no one dared to provoke him, not to mention choke him like this.

They didn’t know whether it was because Lou Mu Yan had nothing to fear as she had a strong backing, or because she didn’t know any better. Being young sure made one courageous.

“I sure do not like to hear such words you’ve said Young Miss Lou. My Young Royal Uncle is also thinking for everyone’s safety. He only spoke the truth. Why are you this angry.” A yellow-clothed woman who sat beside Yun Xin revealed a look of displeasure when looking at Lou Mu Yan.

Her meaning was very clear: You are the one to hold us back. What my Royal Uncle said was right, so now you’re only angry because you feel guilty.

They were all elites amongst the younger generation. In order to participate in the Trial competition, they had all been in Closed-Door Cultivation until now, so they didn’t watch the Grand Competition. In her eyes, Lou Mu Yan was still the well-known trash of the Empire. It must’ve been mostly luck to be able to defeat a Sword Spirit student.

“Spoke the truth? With which eye of yours did you see that I’ll be dragging you guys down? Or maybe your younger royal uncle has the ability to predict the future? If you just pulled a guess out from thin air, then please keep your mouth shut.” Lou Mu Yan sneered, “I’ll keep my own life safe during the Trial, so I won’t need you elites of the Empire to be concerned about it.”

Although Lan si had warned them that if they caused trouble for themselves, which end up taking their own lives, then they must take responsibility for that themselves. She knew that to be the truth, but the superiors of Yan’zhou Kingdom wouldn’t, as much as possible, let those that participated in the Trial to die. And Yun Zi Mo, expectedly, should be one of the people from the two teams they would’ve secretly ordered to take care of in the Trial.

Her choosing to participate in the Trial meant that she naturally had certainty of success. At the very least, she wouldn’t be worse off than anyone in this room in terms of having life-saving skills. She didn’t need anyone to protect her.

Facing Yun Zi Mo’s doubts, Lou Mu Yan actually wasn’t that angry. She felt that Yun Zi Mo didn’t have malicious intent towards her, and instead, it was the other members of the Imperial team that looked down on her greatly. Except, after coming to this world, she had already grown accustomed to these strange eyes she occasionally received. The reason why she deliberately created conflict and counterattacked was so that she could more conveniently facilitate the implementation of her plan.

She came to the Glacial Mountain Range not only to participate in the Trial, but also because she had a very important thing to to—that is, to find the Deep Orchid and refine the Foundation Establishment Pill. When that time came, it was naturally impossible to act with these people.

“That’s what you said, don’t regret it when the time comes” Yun Ge smiled with ridicule and looked down upon Lou Mu Yan with extreme disdain.

“Yun Ge, shut up.” Yun Lan furrowed his brows and berated roughly, suddenly feeling a sense of disgust towards this younger sister of a different mother.

Yun Ge didn’t expect that his Royal Brother would scold her for Lou Mu Yan’s sake, revealed an unconvinced expression, but didn’t say anything again. Lou Mu Yan can go and seek death as long as it didn’t implicate them. It wasn’t like she would help her anyways.

In the Imperial team all but Yun Lan cast looks of hostility towards Lou Mu Yan. Yun Zi Mo was their legend, was their object of worship, and they couldn’t tolerate Lou Mu Yan belittling and slandering him so.

Yun Zi Mo remained sitting coldly and expressionlessly, providing no indication of anything. He didn’t mean to look down on Lou Mu Yan, not did he believe that she would hold them back. He simply routinely asked the members of the Trial teams about their situation.

The cultivation base that Lou Mu Yan displayed was only a Great Sword Master. With such strength, it was extremely dangerous to do missions in the border between the outer ring and the inner ring. To be more precise, it was impossible to stay alive. He meant for it to be a reminder but ended up blundering. However, his temper was always cold, so he didn’t intent to explain.

This time, he not only had to participate in the Trial to compete for a place, but he also shouldered the responsibility of looking after other people as much as he could. He couldn’t be wilful, so no matter what Lou Mu Yan said, if she was really in danger, he would still take action.

Yun Cang took a deep look at Yun Ge and already had determined the result of her Trial in his heart.

“Alright, I’m going to talk about the rules of the Trial now.” Yun Cang understood not to mention what happened just now. It was useless to say anymore, and he could only hope that Lou Mu Yan wouldn’t hold a grudge against Yun Zi Mo because of such a trivial matter.

“In the Trial, between your two teams, you would compete for the six quotas that allowed you to participate in the Continental Tournament for Hegemony. And your Trial this time was divided into three main segments.

“First, all of you will set off from here and head for the border between the outer ring and the inner rind of the Glacial Mountain range, during which no internal fighting is allowed. Second, after arriving, you can freely form teams and complete two missions each. Those that don’t complete them will be eliminated. And third, the remaining people could still form teams freely, and the six people who have completed the final mission will be the winners.

“The content of the missions will be told to you by this old man when arrive at the given locations on the outer and inner rings of the Glacial Mountain Range.” Yun Cang glanced sharply at the two teams and said with a stern warning: “You are allowed to snatch any mission article from anyone in the Trial, but you are never allowed to deliberately kill each other. Offenders will be killed without mercy!”

These Trial rules were all set to adapt to the Continental Tournament for Hegemony. Allowing them to form teams was so that the future six could adjust to and support each other when they enter the Tournament for Hegemony and compete with players from other countries.

While allowing the Trial members to compete with each other was so that they could understand the cruelty of the world and better train their resilience and mind.

“Yes!” Everyone replied in unison.

“Don’t be relying on luck. Even the periphery of the Glacial Mountain Range is extremely dangerous. Everything you do should sit on the premise that you are kept alive. Don’t force anything.” Yun Clan panned the room and emphasised the issue of safety again.

The people who sat here were all outstanding among the younger generation of Yan’zhou Kingdom. He didn’t wish anyone to fall after the Trial, and even if it was unavoidable, he hoped to at least minimise the loss.

“Yes!”

“Early tomorrow morning, the few instructors will lead you all to the border of the outer and inner ring of the Glacial Mountain Range first. Yun Zi Mo will be the captain of your first segment. You must follow his every command, do you have any problems with that?” Yun Cang’s look relaxed somewhat as he asked.

“No!”

“Then dismissed. Go have a good rest.”

“Yes, Imperial Teacher!”

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