Trials of Life, Leaving Zi'an Alone

The Azure Sparrow Holy Realm was vast and boundless, lush and brimming with life.

Unlike the Nine Nether Void Realm of the Nine Underworlds Sect, this place truly resembled a real world rather than a Secret Realm.

Disciples who entered would automatically be matched by the rules and experience different lives within. Once their lives reached perfection, they would receive fortuitous rewards.

That was right. The disciples did not need to explore this place at all. The opportunities had already been placed by the rules within the rewards for their life trials.

Every disciple who entered would obtain an opportunity. It was only that the lives they experienced and the degree of perfection they achieved differed, resulting in different rewards.

The disciples who had just entered were soon enveloped in mysterious Azure Light and vanished with whooshes, departing to experience different lives.

Yet one person was an exception. He had not been enveloped by the Azure Light and remained in the original Azure Sparrow Holy Realm.

At that moment, he was somewhat dumbfounded, staring blankly at his surroundings.

"What's going on? Where did everyone go?"

This person was Zhu Zi'an. For some unknown reason, it seemed that he had been rejected by the rules and was not included among those undergoing life trials.

Mei Yingyin, whom he had originally been holding in his arms, also vanished with a whoosh like the other disciples. Zhu Zi'an maintained the posture of holding someone for a long while.

Only after quite some time did Zhu Zi'an calm down and begin surveying his surroundings.

He descended and strolled through a lush forest. Suddenly, a massive mottled python sprang out from the dense grass beside him, raised its head, and opened its bloody maw to swallow Zhu Zi'an.

Zhu Zi'an looked disdainful. "A mere python