Sect Leader Li finally withdrew her hand, her usual gentle expression returning to her face.
She patted Ming Yun on the head and smiled. "What are you saying? You're my proudest disciple. How could I possibly blame you?"
Had both of them not been harboring their own hidden schemes, it might have been a heartwarming scene.
But in a place like the Heavenly Dawn Sect, such things were ultimately nothing more than a luxury.
The Heavenly Dawn Sect's Trial Grounds were situated on a separate mountain peak. It was enormous, comparable in size to the Azure Tide Sect's Five Elements Peaks, except that it consisted of only one main peak with no subsidiary peaks. Layers upon layers of drifting clouds and mist surrounded it.
From a distance, it lay half-hidden in the clouds and mist, like an immortal paradise descended from the heavens.
Su Jiu and her companions floated down from the Flying Boat. Only upon landing did they realize that this seemingly simple mountain peak concealed no fewer than several hundred formations of all sizes.
Still, Sect Leader Li had said earlier that these formations were meant for the sect's disciples to undergo trials, so their difficulty should not have been outrageously high.
But Su Jiu had her doubts about that claim.
Whether these trial formations were difficult or easy, she would not let her guard down.
The instant she landed, Su Jiu activated her otherworldly eyes. Whether because this mountain restricted divine sense or for some other reason, her divine sense could not reach very far, and her otherworldly eyes were consequently restricted as well.
Su Jiu kept feeling a vague sense of something uncanny here, yet after examining her surroundings with her otherworldly eyes, she found nothing at all.
"A Jiu, the competition is about to