Chapter 173: The Secret of the Trial

Xia Hanzhou looked on in silence.

"The difficulty of this trial is a bit low this time," he said in a low voice.

Before he could even see how Chen Yan would struggle, the other party had already split the tree trunk with a snap and discovered the Blazing Sun Tree Pattern.

Is it perhaps a bit too simple?

"However, you clearly said before that this trial was a bit difficult," the Masked Man teased from the side.

Xia Hanzhou gave a low hum, but a trace of annoyance appeared in his eyes.

Someone surnamed Chen is not necessarily from the Five Clan Chen Family Side Branch.

But as it happens, this Chen Yan is.

If one ignores the surname, the other party's performance can be considered extremely excellent.

If it were ordinary times, it would be normal for him to appreciate it.

But at this moment, Xia Hanzhou's mood was very complicated and very uncomfortable.

Seeing someone from the Five Clan Chen Family shining so brightly within his own trial grounds, he had the urge to immediately drive the other party out.

Beside him, the Masked Man seemed to see through Xia Hanzhou's thoughts:

"Although he is a Side Branch of the Five Clan Chen Family, one does not necessarily have to judge a person by their Family.

Besides, he is a genius from Yunmeng City, born into poverty."

"Enough," Xia Hanzhou waved his hand:

"Do not say any more, I will continue to watch."

The Masked Man nodded and said no more.

Yet, within the Yanyang Liechi, Chen Yan, whose Avatar was Bing Yi, moved swiftly, heading toward one Stone House after another to perfect his Blazing Sun Tree Pattern.

Therefore, to absorb the essence within the Blazing Sun Fertilizer to the greatest extent, one must wait for Chen Yan to completely perfect the Blazing Sun Tree Pattern.

Before completely perfecting the Blazing Sun Tree Pattern, Chen Yan only absorbed five pieces of Blazing Sun Fertilizer per hour, reaching the standard to avoid Elimination.

Chen Yan discovered that the more perfect the Blazing Sun Tree Pattern, the better the conversion efficiency of the Blazing Sun Fertilizer.

A very strange Array Pattern.

Chen Yan felt surprised in his heart.

Not only the Blazing Sun Tree Pattern, but even this Blazing Sun Fertilizer was very strange.

It clearly contained vast Qi Blood Energy within it.

But it could not be utilized without being converted, and even the Saint Realm Tree could not perceive it.

Recalling the battle in the Illusion Realm earlier.

That Chi Mi who killed Shen Keqing and fought against Xia Hanzhou.

Her whole body erupted with Ice-Fire Dual Attributes of Qi Blood.

Extremely powerful!

Until the end, even though Xia Hanzhou erupted with such powerful Spear Intent, he still lost to Chi Mi.

Ice-Fire...

Chen Yan pondered; there were only three Trial Grounds for the entire Tianjiao Trial.

Shachen Road, Yanyang Liechi, and the Extreme Cold Northern Lands.

Shachen Road was a checkpoint for eliminating large batches of Heavenly Pride, so it was not worth considering.

That left only the Yanyang Liechi and the Extreme Cold Northern Lands.

Ice-Fire again.

Normal people do not like others prying into their history.

But why would Xia Hanzhou turn his own experiences into trial checkpoints?

Chen Yan keenly felt that Xia Hanzhou must have held his own purpose when creating the trial grounds.

Perhaps, it was to deal with that Woman named Chi Mi.

Furthermore.

There was another question.

That is, did Shen Keqing actually die or not?

Clearly, in the illusion, the Woman named Shen Keqing died in Xia Hanzhou's arms.

It was precisely because of this that Xia Hanzhou fought against Chi Mi.

But the problem is, before Chen Yan entered the Tianjiao Trial, Chi Lao.

Clearly told Chen Yan to go and see if there was a woman named Shen Keqing in the trial grounds?

Was Chi Lao hinting at something to him?

Thinking this, Chen Yan picked up another piece of Blazing Sun Fertilizer; ahead, a Stone House was floating within the Huo Hai.

Chen Yan decisively entered and once again shattered the tree trunk inside the Stone House.

This time, Chen Yan came out a bit later.

The fire waves in the Yanyang Liechi were not as simple as they looked.

The closer one got to the center of the Lake, the shorter the time Chen Yan could sustain himself within the Huo Hai.

Perception of the Brain.

Although Chen Yan had not yet started absorbing Blazing Sun Fertilizer in large batches.

The Casting Degree of his brain was only about two percent.

This did not mean that Chen Yan's progress in Qi Blood strength was too slow.

Rather, it meant that the capacity of Chen Yan's Spirit organ was too terrifying.

The perfectly excavated Five Viscera seem to have a capacity more than seven times that of the sum of the Five Viscera.

Terrifying.

Two minutes later, Chen Yan heard a sound outside the house.

Glancing at the completely destroyed tree trunk behind him, Chen Yan took a deep breath.

Everything was done by Bing Yi.

This blame, he, Bing Yi, will shoulder; it has nothing to do with Chen Yan.

Walking out of the Stone House, Chen Ning, wearing a long dress, was swimming over from the other side of the Huo Hai.

Her entire body was covered in a layer of formless flowing water, blocking the erosion of the flames.

Beneath the Mask, Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

This woman had previously helped him stop someone who wanted to kill him, but the other party was clearly also a Lao Chen.

The other party not killing him was not out of kindness, but out of concern that killing him would cause a bigger incident.

Chen Ning swam over and first swept a glance at Chen Yan; Bing Yi's Mask prevented the other party from seeing Chen Yan's true face clearly.

"Have you seen Chen Yan?"

Chen Ning asked.

"Blazing Sun Fertilizer." With Cold Intent pressed against his throat to change his voice, Chen Yan asked in return.

Chen Ning narrowed her eyes and looked at Chen Yan indifferently; a Heavenly Pride from a small place actually dared to bargain with her?

Immediately after, Chen Ning waved one hand, and a piece of Blazing Sun Fertilizer flew out.

"I have seen him." Chen Yan said.

"When did you see him?" Chen Ning asked.

"Blazing Sun Fertilizer."

Cold intent surged in Chen Ning's eyes, and she directly threw out two pieces:

"Tell me everything!"

"Not enough."

Chen Ning took a deep breath and threw out the remaining five pieces in her hand.

Only then did Chen Yan say:

"About an hour ago, in that direction."

He pointed casually in one direction.

Chen Ning was stunned; an hour ago, Chen Yan was actually still alive.

"Was anyone chasing him?" Chen Ning asked again.

"No."

Chen Ning's Mu Jin trembled; did Chen Bao, who was chasing Chen Yan, die, or did Chen Yan shake him off?

She did not pay any more attention to the Masked man's departure.

Chen Ning stood frozen in place, pondering continuously.

Since Chen Yan was not dead, she had to continue looking for Chen Yan.

After all, the task Chen Zhihe gave her was to ensure Chen Yan was not killed by Chen Teng and the others, and to eliminate Chen Yan from the Tianjiao Trial.

But...

There was clearly a great opportunity laid out before her right now.

Xia Hanzhou's Spear Intent, who wouldn't want it?

Is it to waste time looking for Chen Yan, or for herself...

Chen Ning pondered as she entered the Stone House.

The next moment, she was instantly furious.

"Damn it!!!"

"So he is Bing Yi!"

At the same time, above the Lake.

"Heh..." Xia Hanzhou gave a Cold Snort:

"The Chen Family Side Branch has truly learned the merits of the Main Family: intrigue and being selfish."

The Masked Man nodded; he had originally wanted to directly expel these Lao Chen.

But seeing that their internal conflicts were so intense, he gave up.

Since that is the case, you dogs bite dogs, and I will enjoy watching.

Although he thought this way, the Masked Man still noticed that Xia Hanzhou also held a trace of disdain for the Youth named Chen Yan.

Currently, Chen Yan's temperament and talent both satisfied Xia Hanzhou.

But the Hatred buried deep in Xia Hanzhou's heart still caused the other party to have strong prejudice against Chen Yan.

Now that the other party was mocking the Lao Chen, they were naturally also implying Chen Yan.

……………

At the same time.

On the Monitoring Screen of the Golden Formation Disk, there were leaderboards for the Extreme Cold Northern Lands and the Yanyang Liechi respectively.

And the leaderboard for the Yanyang Liechi was based on the consumption rate of the Yanyang Liechi.

Yet, looking at the leaderboard.

【Tianjiao Trial Second Trial: Yanyang Liechi】

【Using the consumption rate of Blazing Sun Fertilizer as the scoring standard】

【First Place Dantai Juntuo: 243 pieces】 (Chen Teng disguised)

【Second Place Shao Hengyang: 215 pieces】

【Third Place Li Mengsheng: 202 pieces】 (Chen Zhan disguised)

【Fourth Place Huo Tingnan: 197 pieces】 (Gong Family Hidden Prodigy)

…………

Beyond the Trial Grounds, there were many people.

Quite a few merchants seized the business opportunity, pushing small carts to sell outside the Trial Grounds.

Chen Yuhu was naturally one of them.

He had originally been selling Fried Noodles, and now that many people knew he was Chen Yan's father.

Chen Yuhu had earned a great deal these past few days.

"Old Chen, you should raise the price of your Fried Noodles; fifteen pieces is too little, at least twenty pieces!"

Beside the Fried Noodles stall, Lao Li said while helping out.

"I used to sell them for three pieces," Chen Yuhu said with a smile.

Lao Li was speechless, then spoke again:

"Your son is a Five-Stage General Star, after all; you should just take a rest. There will be plenty of money in the future, and you're losing face for your son by being here."

Chen Yuhu was slightly taken aback, then looked at Lao Li earnestly:

"Face is something you give yourself, and dignity is also something you build yourself.

I sell Fried Noodles here, and I earn it honorably.

If I just sat there idly, others would think that I, the father of a General Star, was taking money from others in private; that would be shameful!"

Lao Li fell into Silence; many people had sent money to Chen Yuhu these past few days.

The amount was huge!

But Chen Yuhu had refused it all.

He chose not to add trouble to his Son.

Instead, he honestly sold Fried Noodles.

Many people saw this in their eyes.

What seemed like a simple matter was actually very difficult to do.

The father of a General Star is also not simple.

It was right at this moment.

A few people came over:

"Chen Bo Bo, Chen Yan is only in fifteenth place; aren't you nervous?"

The people who came were a few girls around the same age as Chen Yan.

Chen Yuhu looked over, only to see that on the leaderboard, Chen Yan's ranking was currently fifteenth.

【Fifteenth Place Chen Yan: 78】

"Fifteenth place is already very impressive," Chen Yuhu said with a smile.

"But he is a Five-Stage General Star," a blonde girl said.

Afterwards, she was hurriedly pulled away by the girl beside her.

"Sorry, we've caused you trouble, Uncle," the other girls said apologetically, hurriedly covering the blonde girl's Mouth.

"Do you not want to live anymore? You dare to gossip about a Five-Stage General Star?"

"I... I wasn't gossiping, Chen Yan is so handsome..." the blonde girl muttered:

"It's just that others were gossiping about him, so I came to ask Uncle if Chen Yan has some kind of plan..."

Only to see.

Not far away, there were a few Youth standing.

They looked at Chen Yuhu with some lingering fear, then someone hummed lowly:

"Can't we even question him? A Five-Stage General Star, only in fifteenth place; there is clearly a problem."

"That's right, during the Shachen Road, Chen Yan's ranking wasn't very high either..."

"But that matter with the Gong Family has spread."

"I don't know, but this ranking is too low."

…………

Seeing this scene, Chen Yuhu shook his head.

"Having a son who looks too much like yourself is also a troublesome matter; his popularity is a bit too good."

Beside him, Lao Li was extremely speechless:

"With that rough face of yours, you can say that?"

Chen Yuhu's brows knit:

"Lao Li, what do you mean by that?"

"It means nothing, I'm just joking."

Neither of them paid any attention to those who were questioning Chen Yan.

It was right at this moment.

A tall and graceful figure appeared, heading toward the front of those few gossiping Youth in the distance:

"The Five-Stage General Star was personally evaluated by Xia Zhangguo.

Now, are you questioning the vision of the Zhangguo?"

The person speaking was a woman dressed in the uniform of the Martial Officer, around twenty years old, with a gentle and pretty appearance.

Those few youths instantly shut their mouths, shaking their heads in a panic one by one, and hurried away.

Si Wenyi glanced at the few youths who had slunk away, then came before Chen Yuhu's stall:

"Uncle, give me a bowl of Fried Noodles as well."

"Coming right up, Si..."

"Just call me Siwen," Si Wenyi said, tucking back her hair.

"Oh, Siwen, Xiaoyan is only ranked fifteenth, how does the Martial Officer side view this?" Chen Yuhu asked, feeling somewhat nervous at this moment.

It would be a lie to say he wasn't nervous; he just hadn't needed to show it.

His Son was a Five-Stage General Star; he shouldn't have this ranking.

"I don't know..."

Si Wenyi took a look at the rankings, then smiled:

"But please rest assured, I have never seen a genius more Cai Neng Jue Yan than Chen Yan."

Chen Yuhu breathed a sigh of relief:

"That's good, that's good, my Xiaoyan must have some other reason."