Chapter 513: Consecutive Battles and Token Snatching

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The Three Holy Lands Joint Trial.

Since the beasts within the Martial Refinement Ruins were weak.

The real focus of this trial was the disciples’ ability to snatch tokens from one another.

For instance—

At this moment, Hu Da and Hu Er, two brothers from Piao Miao Holy Land, had encountered Tang Ao and Tang Hu from Qing Yun Holy Land.

The four were engaged in a fierce battle over a token.

All four were at the early Transformation Realm, resulting in an intense, evenly matched fight.

However, the Hu brothers, being actual siblings, had excellent coordination.

As time went on, they began to gain the upper hand—

“Victory is ours!”

After Hu Da found an opening and struck Tang Hu squarely in the chest.

Seeing Tang Hu fall to the ground in disarray and Tang Ao, exhausted and struggling against his younger brother, Hu Er.

The Hu brothers, still brimming with energy, smiled victoriously:

“You might as well hand over the token and spare yourselves more pain!”

“…Damn it!”

“Curse you!”

After a few angry curses, the defeated Tang Hu and Tang Ao had no choice but to agree, looking thoroughly disheveled.

“We surrender!”

With that, they reluctantly pulled out the tokens they had collected.

“Here! Take them!”

“Good!” Satisfied with their compliance, the Hu brothers approached to claim the tokens.

However.

Just as they reached out to take them.

They noticed the triumphant smirks on the faces of Tang Hu and Tang Ao—

“Something’s wrong, it’s a trap!”

Hu Da’s instincts kicked in, and a sense of foreboding washed over him.

“Watch out!”

He instinctively pushed his younger brother aside.

At that moment—

Hidden weapons shot out from the sleeves of Tang Ao and Tang Hu.

Sharp steel needles flew at the Hu brothers with incredible speed.

“Big Brother!”

Caught off guard, the Hu brothers were instantly injured.

Hu Er was lucky, with only his arm being hit, but Hu Da wasn’t so fortunate.

His chest was drenched in blood.

“Big Brother, are you okay?!”

“…Not really…”

Seeing his elder brother so severely injured, Hu Er, holding him in concern, glared furiously at the two “deceivers”:

“How dare you go this far! You’re nothing but despicable scoundrels!”

“Hahaha, it’s your own fault for being stupid!”

Instead of being offended, Tang Hu and Tang Ao burst into laughter at Hu Er’s insults.

“Hidden weapons are part of our strength!”

“If you had them, you could use them too. No one said you couldn’t!”

With that, they approached the incapacitated Hu brothers:

“Losers!”

“Did you really think you could defeat the Tang Clan’s Twin Freaks?!”

“Now hand over your tokens!”

To add insult to injury, they kicked the Hu brothers hard, venting their earlier frustrations.

“You bastards!” Furious at their excessive behavior, Hu Er could do nothing but grit his teeth and hand over their tokens.

“Hmph, smart choice!”

After taking the tokens, Tang Hu gave another spiteful kick.

“Hahaha, look at these two pathetic losers!”

Watching the Hu brothers limp away, the Tang brothers laughed smugly.

Then, they turned to continue searching for more tokens.

But just then.

A cold voice rang out—

“Hand over your tokens.”

A beautiful woman with an emotionless expression appeared before them.

She casually extended her hand, as if asking for the tokens.

“…Who are you?!”

Stunned by her stunning appearance, Tang Ao quickly recognized her identity—

“Jiu You Holy Land’s Xi Qingmeng!”

A late Transformation Realm expert and one of the top threats in this trial!

“Split up and run!”

Knowing they were no match for her, especially after their recent battle with the Hu brothers, Tang Hu and Tang Ao exchanged a glance and bolted in opposite directions.

“This way, she can only chase one of us!”

However, while their plan seemed sound, reality was far less forgiving.

As the two ran in opposite directions, Xi Qingmeng remained still, her expression unchanged.

The next second.

Both Tang Hu and Tang Ao suddenly collapsed.

Faceplanting into the ground, they realized their legs had gone weak—

“Damn it!”

They quickly understood what was happening. “It’s poison!”

At some point, Xi Qingmeng had poisoned them!

“This is just a trial, and you’re using such underhanded methods?!”

As Xi Qingmeng approached, the two, now too weak to even use their hidden weapons, began to protest.

But Xi Qingmeng couldn’t be bothered to respond. She simply kicked them over, flipping them onto their backs.

Then, with another kick, she sent their tokens flying out of their pockets and picked them up.

“You’ll recover in an hour.”

In truth, she had no interest in the trial’s outcome.

But she found the Tang Clan’s Twin Freaks particularly annoying and couldn’t resist teaching them a lesson.

After addressing the two disgraced men lying on the ground.

Xi Qingmeng turned and walked away, her expression as indifferent as ever.

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However.

Before she could take more than a few steps, a calm voice sounded behind her.

Someone else had arrived—

“Hurt my brothers and think you can just walk away?”

Xi Qingmeng turned to see a man gently stroking a rabbit in his arms.

“…Tang Xiaochuan…”

“That’s right.”

Ignoring Xi Qingmeng’s wary stance, Tang Xiaochuan slowly approached his fallen subordinates.

After neutralizing the poison in their systems, he looked back at her:

“The Three Holy Lands are supposed to support one another, yet you resort to something as despicable as poison.”

“You’re courting death!”

Tang Xiaochuan, who only cared for his rabbit, had no intention of showing mercy to the beauty before him—

“So naturally, I must seek justice for my brothers!”