"Although it doesn't seem like there are many people, it feels like there are a lot of people."

"Uh, a lot of people?"

Li Chengyi became alert instantly upon hearing this.

Although the guy beside him wasn't as strong as him, his luck, or rather, his intuition, was frighteningly accurate.

He often managed to avoid most trouble and danger just by following his intuition.

Ye Jinhuan nodded slightly, looking at the nearby lake and its surroundings: "The area around this lake gives me a very dangerous feeling, it's better not to go there for now."

"Huh?"

Now, not only Li Chengyi but also the other two members of the team turned their heads in surprise towards Ye Jinhuan.

Danger?

Are you serious?

The team composed of Zhongyuan Academy's fifth-year students ranked first, seventh, ninth, and eighteenth.

And they are all from combat professions, you're telling us that the surroundings of the lake feel dangerous to us?

"Of course, you can choose whether to go or not, I'm going to stay in the forest and see what happens."

Ye Jinhuan spread his hands, revealing a slightly feminine, fair face and said with a smile.

"Alright, we trust you more, so let's just stay here in the forest."

In the end, Li Chengyi, who was the squad leader, made the decision.

He trusted Ye Jinhuan's intuition; staying in the forest was undoubtedly the best choice.

Time passed, and by noon, more people kept arriving.

However, everyone chose not to reveal themselves, and even after two teams who had fought before met, they did not continue the battle.

Everyone was strong, and each team had one or two members with keen perception, or cards that could detect enemies.

With many people here, in order to vie for the final "treasure" and to avoid the situation where someone else would benefit from their battles, the area fell into an eerie silence.

"Is this still the battlefield of the joint examination between the four academies?"

Yu Chengtian observed the scene and stroked his bald head, feeling somewhat strange.

"To have so many candidates stay quiet together, Jiang Yuan really has some skills," Jin Lingyu said with a smile.

"There are two people who got eliminated, and they were also planning to go to Sunken Star Lake, should we go ask them?"

"Okay."

After Jin Lingyu finished speaking, Miao Xinghuo nodded, glanced at the three people sitting steadily fishing, then helplessly shook his head, stood up, and waved to those two candidates.

"Principal Miao, are you looking for us?"

The two eliminated candidates, who seemed to be from Beimang Academy, quickly stood up and came over to them after seeing Miao Xinghuo gesture to them.

"Why are you two going to Sunken Star Lake?"

Seeing the two candidates like this, Miao Xinghuo had a clue.

These two candidates should be students from his academy, but he didn't show that he didn't recognize them and directly asked.

"Huh?"

The two students hesitated for a moment, looked at each other, and then looked at Miao Xinghuo with some uncertainty.

"Isn't it the new rule announced by the headmaster of Zhongyuan Academy?"

"What new rule?"

Miao Xinghuo was puzzled, and the other three vice-principals were also curious, looking up at another place where the headmaster was, and then turned to the two students.

"Explain in detail."

Miao Xinghuo slightly frowned and asked the two students.

"It's like this, last night we had a dream, in which the headmaster told us that there would be an additional part to this assessment, and that he would throw a treasure into the lake, a treasure containing a Powerful Card that could ensure a high probability of us getting into the top two hundred. Then he said whether we go there or not is up to us."

One of the candidates said, glanced at the other candidate next to him, and then continued: "At first, I didn't believe it, but he also had the same dream, so we thought, could this be really a new part added by the headmaster?"

"And then you guys decided to go there, right?"

"Yes, as Powerful Cards that could give us a high chance to get into the top two hundred are very intriguing to us, even if we can't get them ourselves, we don't want others to get them and then use them against us," the two candidates nodded and said.

"Okay, I got it."

After speaking, Miao Xinghuo signaled that the two students could go back.

"So, is this something Jiang Yuan did?"

Guan Chutian, looking at Jiang Yuan, who was still on his way on the screen, asked curiously.

"Not sure."

Yu Chengtian shook his head, curious about the Jiang Yuan on the screen: "Why doesn't he just fly himself?"

On the screen, the small bird that Jiang Yuan had transformed into was sitting on Zhao Gongming, who had transformed into a black bird with golden wings.

If there were any of Zhao Gongming's Daoist friends present, they would recognize the bird Zhao Gongming had transformed into right away.

The Golden Winged Dapeng!

It was the true form of a Chan Sect feathered immortal!

However, unfortunately, the Golden Winged Dapeng that Zhao Gongming had transformed into did not have such a fast speed.

Or rather, the speed-related Divine Skills of a Golden Winged Dapeng.

After all, the 72 Transformations' Fake Shape only changed the appearance, not the opponent's Divine Skills.

Even so, Zhao Gongming's speed was still very fast.

"Estimated to arrive in about half an hour."

Jiang Yuan, on Zhao Gongming's back, glanced at the time and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At this moment, there was still more than forty minutes to the agreed time of two in the afternoon.