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"This trial cannot be passed through underhanded tricks. What it tests is real, solid strength!"

"And that is precisely what you lack most!"

Among those waiting to see Jiang Xuan make a fool of himself was Qin Feng.

Within the Star Daoist Academy, Xie Hanyan was solitary and aloof, while Fang Xiao came from the Cold Gate and was somewhat lacking in foundations and resources. With those two excluded, Qin Feng regarded himself as the leader of the Star Daoist Academy, and many of its students had indeed gathered around him.

This had made him exceptionally imposing and unmatched in prominence when they first entered the Trial Road.

However, Qin Feng harbored the same thoughts as Jiang Xuan: conceal his strength, endure in silence, and build up power, all for the final contest over first place in the Three-Academy Joint Examination.

Thus, although many followed him, he had made even fewer moves along the way than Jiang Xuan.

As a result of such calculations, Qin Feng, who had begun with a great number of subordinates and an aura only slightly inferior to Chen Qianjun's, now had fewer surviving followers beside him midway through the Path of Purgatory assessment than Jiang Xuan did.

Moreover, with Jiang Xuan as a comparison, the gazes of those survivors toward Qin Feng had become strange, disappointed, and even filled with barely concealed resentment.

Those unusual looks were becoming unbearable for Qin Feng, who had always been proud and thought highly of himself.

Therefore, he very much wanted to see Jiang Xuan stumble and fall into desperate straits.

However, the Path of Purgatory assessment would never give anyone the leisure to stop, watch, and secretly compete.

Although monsters in the Late Spirit Pivot realm blocked the road ahead, the rules of the Path of Purgatory had