The Second of the Departed

"Dou Zhi Li, Three-stage!"

Seeing the bright red words appear on the stone monument, the Clan Examiner's eyes filled with disdain. He deliberately raised his voice as he announced the result, drawing whispers from the crowd below. Every exchange was steeped in contempt and scorn.

"A worthless piece of trash is still worthless trash. After all these years, she hasn't improved at all."

"She's the Clan Leader's daughter, too. If it were me, I'd have killed myself long ago."

"Why does the Clan Leader keep her in the clan? She's just wasting resources to raise a cripple."

"Hey! Don't let the Young Clan Leader hear that, or he'll be unhappy again."

Listening to the undisguised ridicule and mockery from below, Hun Ying stood before the stone monument without expression. Her scarlet eyes contained not the slightest emotion. She turned and walked off the Testing Platform. The examiner, unwilling to spare another glance at this clan's worthless trash, looked toward the next participant. Reverence was plainly visible on his face as he shouted.

"Next participant, Hun Yan Young Clan Leader!"

As his words fell, a figure descended from the sky and landed on the Testing Platform. The people below immediately forgot Hun Ying, whom they had just mocked, and raised their hands as they loudly praised the handsome young man on the platform.

"It's Hun Yan Young Clan Leader!"

"Hun Yan Young Clan Leader was already a Five-star Dou Wang during the last test. Who knows how strong he is this time?"

"Is there even a need to ask? With Hun Yan Young Clan Leader's strength, he must have broken through to Dou Emperor!"

Praise poured out endlessly from below, but it only made Hun Yan frown.

It was not that he disliked being praised like this. Rather, compared to Hun