"Me?"
Xu Taiping was taken aback by Qin Ming's question.
Ghost King Qin Ming immediately gave a hearty laugh and said:
"Zhenwu Qingxuan Xu Taiping, you've certainly stolen all the limelight these past two days!"
Xu Taiping immediately understood and said with a smile:
"You flatter me, Lord Ghost King."
Qin Ming suddenly grew serious.
"I watched your match against Xiao Huang. Your combat strength truly far exceeds that of cultivators at the same realm."
Then he changed tack.
"But even so, passing this trial of our Fengdu Prefecture will be no easy feat."
Xu Taiping immediately replied with a solemn expression:
"Thank you for the warning, my lord."
Ghost King Qin Ming nodded lightly, then turned around. As he walked toward the rear door of the main hall, he said to Xu Taiping without looking back:
"Come with me. As it happens, two other cultivators are preparing to undertake Fengdu Prefecture's trial today."
As he spoke, he glanced back at Xu Taiping.
"They're a little different from you, though. They only wish to train in ordinary forbidden grounds, but since they have no Fengdu Tokens, only letters of recommendation, they have no choice but to undergo Fengdu Prefecture's trial."
Xu Taiping hurried after him and asked curiously:
"Then will my trial be the same as theirs?"
The Ghost King replied without looking back:
"Of course. Everyone is treated equally!"
As they spoke, they passed through the front hall and arrived directly at a vast clearing in the Central Courtyard.
Though called a clearing, it looked more like an enormous graveyard and was particularly eerie.
Just then, a Golden-Haired Cultivators looked impatiently at Qin Ming and said:
"King Qin, why hasn't the trial started yet?"
Another cultivator, a powerfully built martial cultivator, also spoke with considerable impatience:
"King Qin, if