The cultivator named Ye Li suddenly took first place.
Pei You'an and Qin Baiyi followed close behind, taking second and third.
This shift in the rankings... had indeed exceeded Gu Qingchen's expectations.
Still, she was not angered by it.
As long as she could enter the second stage, her exact ranking made no difference to her.
Below, Lin Yue hurriedly explained:
"Fairy Qingchen!"
"Someone has already taken our points! There isn't a single point left in our jade tokens!"
"Please show mercy and let us leave!"
Gu Qingchen finally raised her eyes.
"Are you looking down on me?"
Lin Yue's expression froze.
"I'm not..."
"Of course I know you have no points left."
Layers of frost appeared over Gu Qingchen's body as she interrupted in an indifferent voice:
"Otherwise, I wouldn't have attacked you outright."
As she spoke,
several human-shaped silhouettes of light slowly appeared before her.
Their faces were indistinct, but their figures seemed to correspond to Lin Yue and the others!
Gu Qingchen raised her little finger.
She lightly tapped one of the silhouettes on the forehead.
Thud!
An unaffiliated cultivator standing beside Lin Yue suddenly stiffened.
Then the light rapidly faded from his eyes, and his body collapsed to the ground.
Upon further examination, the true spirit within him had vanished!
"What kind of evil art is this?!"
The survivors were terrified and tried to flee.
Yet their bodies could not move at all, as though they had become those little silhouettes of light, their bodies and lives entirely under Gu Qingchen's control!
Her face filled with terror, Lin Yue demanded sharply:
"Gu Qingchen!"
"As a true disciple of the Yin-Yang Sect, how dare you murder people like this during the trial!"
"If word of this gets out, aren't you afraid of angering every cultivator under heaven?!"