Phoniex Requiem
Chapter 47: Second Round

Chapter 47: Second Round

Yun Ruoyan's group guessed that the two corpses had been eaten by the mystical-eyed lion or handled by Pei Ziao's group, so they didn't think too much about it.

Without staying any longer, they ignored their energy and hunger and left the valley. If they are silent until nightfall, they may be stuck for another day.

Since Lin Qingxue was slightly heavier than Zhuo Lin'er, Zhuo Yifeng was assigned to carry her, whereas Yun Ruoyan and Lin Qingchen would take turns holding Zhuo Lin'er. When it was Yun Ruoyan's turn, she was still extremely shocked by her unusually light body.

Yun Ruoyan had always thought that the reason Zhuo Yifeng looked as if he could fly even while carrying Zhuo Lin'er was because of his extraordinary physique, but that was not the case.

Carrying Zhuo Lin'er felt like carrying an empty sack on his back, and was not at all a hassle!

There were fewer beast carcasses in the valley than yesterday, but no one wanted to dig out the beast cores anymore as they passed through the bodies of low-level beasts.

After all, they were in a hurry to meet the deadline, and they had already obtained a much better treasure, to the point that what was left behind did not seem to be too much.

By late afternoon, the group finally came out of the valley and found a small river to set up camp.

This relentless battle over these few days had left everyone exhausted and exhausted, but they were all supported by the treasures they had accumulated.

Of course, the one who gained the most was Yun Ruoyan, after finally breaking through the restrictions placed on him by the poison and becoming a fourth rank sword master.

He believed that, after passing through this hurdle, and being equipped with abundant spiritual energy in the pocket dimension, his subsequent cultivation would be much smoother.

They had actually been in this region for an entire week, and it was time to return starting tomorrow. If they could avoid any battle, three days was enough for them to find a way out.

Everyone felt that the ten-day expedition was too short, and they would happily stay another ten days if they could. But given the rules of the trial, they had no other choice.

After making sure Zhuo Lin'er and Lin Qingxue settled down, Zhuo Yifeng was responsible for hunting and cooking, while Lin Qingchen and Yun Ruoyan obtained water from the river bank to make soup.

They had been grilling meat all week, and although Zhuo Yifeng's grilling skills were outstanding, they were tired of eating the same thing over and over again, and wanted to change it.

After filling their stomachs, the two noticed a cool and clear flow of water, suddenly feeling uneasy.

After fighting and running non-stop for the past few days, who knew how many layers of sweat and dirt were clinging onto their bodies? Their clothes were full of stains, and they began to wriggle as soon as they thought of their skin.

"Ruoyan," Lin Qingchen looked at Yun Ruoyan as she said solemnly, "I want to take a bath."

Yun Ruoyan looked back at him and said, just as sincerely, "Me too!"

The two cousins shared a smile.

To finish it off quickly, they decided to take a shower at the same time, with no one to look after. Afraid of Zhuo Yifeng suddenly appearing, the two girls went upstream slightly.

After they found a quiet location, they immediately took off their dirty clothes and went into the water.

As Lin Qingchen helped wash Yun Ruoyan's back, her hands touched the skin on her back. It was white and soft, as smooth and shiny as silk, and she could not help but comment, "Ruoyan, you are beautiful."

Yun Ruoyan hesitated for a moment before she smiled bitterly. "Sister, you're just comforting me, aren't you?"

"No no!" Lin Qingchen explained, “Indeed, your back, shoulders, and neck are very pretty. If only you had no birthmark on your face.!”.

Yun Ruoyan's appearance was completely shattered by her birthmark, but this did not affect the rest of her development. Although he looks a bit thin, even ************ is slowly filling in.

Moreover, since she focused on her training and diet, she had done a meticulous job on her originally malnourished body.

Yun Ruoyan patted Lin Qingchen's hand and sighed, "Actually, this birthmark isn't all bad."

"really? What's good?” Lin Qingchen asked skeptically.

Yun Ruoyan lowered her head and looked at her reflection in the water. The scar on the birthmark, red and swollen, caused half of his face to look somewhat distorted.

He looked at his ugly shadow and continued slowly, “It helped me see some people, some things, more clearly. It tells me who and what I should trust or surrender"

"Sister Ruoyan, I don't understand what you mean." Lin Qingchen was still a little skeptical. Although he was intelligent, some things really had to be experienced before it could be understood.

"Don't worry about that." Yun Ruoyan twisted Lin Qingchen's body and helped her wash her back. "I hope you will never understand what I mean, that you and Qingxue will always be able to live without worry, that the Lin family will grow and develop."

As the two of them were talking, a shadow suddenly slipped by the shore. Yun Ruoyan seemed to sense something, as she stopped rubbing Lin Qingxue's back.

"What's up, Ruoyan?" Lin Qingxue also detected Yun Ruoyan's pause, and turned her head to ask why.

Lin Qingchen nodded almost without feeling.

"Hold your breath with me." Saying that, Yun Ruoyan suddenly shouted “Oh!” before pulling Lin Qingchen into the water, pretend to suddenly slip.

"Please help!" They pretended to call, then they both threw themselves into the water before drowning.

Dou Yue had been downstream collecting water, and Yun Ruoyan and Lin Qingchen were bathing upstream. Although they did not make much noise, Dou Yao's hearing was excellent, and he could vaguely hear something from upstream.

After turning, the scene of two beautiful girls bathing was enough to make him nosebleed that never stopped.

The two bodies, fair-skinned under the scorching sun, were adorned with beautiful black hair. Even from afar, he could almost smell the fragrant scent of a woman's body.

Dou Yao covered his nose as he hid in the bushes, finding their clothes strewn nearby. He planned to steal them so that he could see two beautiful women running around naked, and if their cultivation was fortunately beneath him, then.

As he was thinking this, his body went towards the discarded clothes of Yun Ruoyan and Lin Qingxue, but Yun Ruoyan managed to catch the faint rustling sound she made as she dove into the bushes.

I'll dig up your eyeballs as soon as I catch you, just wait!

Dou Yao was just about to pick up the clothes when he heard the two beautiful women floundering in the water, shouting for help.

Dou Yao grinned, the most convenient reason to enter the scene had just presented itself without any effort on his part, and he immediately stood up from the bushes.

Suddenly, a beam of light flew past his scalp. Dou Yao felt the back of his neck numb as the hair he had grown for seventeen years fell from his head.

"Gee!" He was so frightened that he shouted loudly before turning around and rushing away.

"Hmph, he ran faster than a rabbit!" By the time Yun Ruoyan poked her head out of the water, there was no trace of Dou Yao left. He recaptured Feilai Blade, his revenge halting for a while.

"Sister Ruoyan, let's get back on land." Lin Qingchen's face was somewhat distorted, although the women in the Chenyuan continent were not very conservative, it was still frightening to be spied on while bathing .

The moment the two of them reached the land and put on their clothes, they walked back to the campground, coincidentally finding Zhuo Yifeng rushing back to the other side. In his hands were two wild ducks that had just been caught.

“I hear you guys screaming for help now! What the hell's been going on?" He asked worriedly.

"There's nothing." Yun Ruoyan clasped her hands, her face windy. “We saw a big mouse and were about to catch it to throw in the stew, but he ran away. I'm so mad!"

"Aah?" Zhuo Yifeng was a little confused, and she turned to Lin Qingchen by asking.

"That's right, big rat." Lin Qingchen's face was similarly pouting. He replied briefly before following behind Yun Ruoyan.

"Boiling rats?" Zhuo Yifeng looked back at the wild duck in his hand.

Naturally, they did not have rat soup that night, but Zhuo Yifeng managed to equip the duck with two fish from the river, along with a duck egg from the forest. The end result is a fragrant fresh egg soup with fish, coupled with roasted duck.

Everyone has a very satisfying meal.

After eating, Lin Qingxue raised her hand and exclaimed, "I'm coming back to life!" Then he came back for a while, and everyone laughed out loud.

The next day, as they continued on their way back, they found several other groups of people here to be selected. Fortunately, none of them tried to start a fight or steal their treasures.

But there was a group of disciples from the Dou family who asked Yun Ruoyan if she had ever seen a young man named Dou Yao, around sixteen or seventeen years old, slender-bodied and big-eared.

Yun Ruoyan claimed she had never seen him, but remembered his name in her heart.

Due to Zhuo Lin'er and Qiuqiu, the group was even able to avoid some ferocious beast ambushes. Two days later, they finally arrived at the entrance of the trial.

As they handed their tokens to the guards, they were told that they had passed the second exam, and waited for the acceptance notice to Kongming Academy to be sent to their home.

The group was still somewhat dazed, they passed the examination very easily! The beastkin brothers were very worried that they might have been discriminated against because of their identity, but everything seemed to be going much more successfully than anticipated.

Kongming Academy, which used to seem so far away, is now almost within reach.

Of course, what made them most happy was not only the fact that they had died, but also that they had met Yun Ruoyan and his two cousins. After a long time, they finally had a friend from outside their clan!

Of course, the trial was by no means easy, at least half of the incoming cultivators had come out halfway, and many had lost their lives. No more than a hundred people actually graduated.

But, after overcoming their struggles, their group naturally felt that what they were experiencing was not much behind.

"Young lady, you're finally out!" Lin Bo looked at Yun Ruoyan's group from afar and quickly jumped from his carriage to greet them. "I've been waiting for you all here for three days!"