In early winter, the first snow fell in Tai'a Divine Kingdom. Ten months had passed since Yi Yun left Tai'a Divine City.
The group of trialists who entered Tai'a Divine City with Yi Yun have become second-year soldiers.
The new generation of Tai'a Divine City trialists also entered Tai'a Divine City more than three months ago and completed their initial chores.
Now, it's time for these newcomers to compete in rookie qualifying.
In this year’s rookie ranking competition, the rewards have doubled compared to the previous year!
This is mainly because the Lord of Tai'a Divine City's birthday is approaching!
A person of the same level as the City Lord of Tai'a Divine City usually holds a birthday banquet once he turns 100, and because on the day of the birthday banquet, he may be in retreat, or go out to explore the ruins, and many other reasons, and cannot hold a birthday banquet.
In fact, the contemporary Lord of Tai'a City is somewhat mysterious. In recent hundreds of years, he has rarely appeared, let alone held such formalistic birthday banquets.
The specific affairs of Tai'a Divine City are all handled by Jiange and Cangyan, the two elders.
This time he suddenly announced a birthday banquet, which was very surprising. Some people speculated whether there was some special reason here.
Of course, this is something that only high-level officials should consider. For the trialists of Tai'a City, this is definitely a great event.
Not to mention being able to attend the birthday banquet of such a legendary figure and witness such a grand event, it is a great fortune.
Moreover, during the birthday banquet, the prices of various resources in Tai'a Divine City were discounted, and the corresponding rewards were also raised. This is the most practical benefit!
Of course, the newcomers who ranked high in the newcomer qualifying competition became the biggest beneficiaries of the city lord's birthday banquet.
In order to compete for the first place for this newcomer, the newcomers worked hard and showed off their special skills.
At this time, this game is the competition for the rookie championship!
The two parties in the competition are a boy and a girl.
The young man's name is Lu Jie. He is not from a prominent family and can only be regarded as an upper-middle-class noble. The girl Wen Yu comes from a noble family and is truly a proud daughter of heaven.
Both of them were thirteen years old, and their battle attracted much attention. Many senior trialists came to watch.
Qi Niu and Chu Xiaoran were also among them.
As soon as they reached the center of the field, someone immediately recognized them.
Qi Niu and Chu Xiaoran both ranked among the top 1,000 in the world rankings within one year!
Especially Chu Xiaoran, at the end of the first year of the trial, her ranking on the Earth Ranking had reached 890, and the Heaven Ranking was even more exaggerated, reaching 860!
For a newcomer in the Tai'a Divine City, it is already a big deal if one of them ranks among the top 1,000 in the Heaven and Earth Rankings within the first year, which is enough to create a storm in the Tai'a Divine Kingdom.
And Chu Xiaoran’s ranking in the top 900 on both lists is even more shocking!
For this new class of freshmen who came to Tai'a Divine City for the first time, their senior sister Chu Xiaoran is definitely a legend. She successfully condensed the Dharma Totem in front of the Yuanji Realm, and her understanding of the Dharma is far beyond that of warriors of the same age. So many halo blessings are there
Chu Xiaoran, so much so that these newcomers have become Chu Xiaoran's loyal fans.
The arrival of Chu Xiaoran and Qi Niu caused quite a stir, and the newcomers made way for them one after another.
Including Lu Jie and Wen Yu, who were about to play, also admired the two of them. Although they were also geniuses, they also knew that there was still a gap between them compared to Qi Niu and Chu Xiaoran.
They also heard that the winner of the last rookie qualifying competition was not actually Chu Xiaoran. It was a young man named Yi Yun. However, this Yi Yun was young and frivolous, and entered the forbidden area of Falling Star Abyss alone for the pilot test.
Refining.
He disappeared after that. It is said that Elder Cangyan of Tai'a Divine City even went to the Falling Star Gate to look for Yi Yun. But he found nothing.
Up to now, Yi Yun has been missing for more than ten months.
In addition to recording each person's identity information, dragon scale runes, and the accumulated points of wild beasts killed, the original trialist's identity token also has a positioning function.
But even if you search using this positioning function, you can't find Yi Yun.
From this point of view, it is possible that Yi Yun's identity token has been destroyed in the Falling Star Gate.
This identity token, which is an ordinary magic weapon, is not very strong. In a chaotic environment like the Falling Star Gate, it is not surprising that it was burned and destroyed by the flames of the pure sun.
As a result, Yi Yun's situation is not optimistic.
Some people think that Yi Yun may have died. According to Tai'a Divine City's practice, people who have been missing for a year are considered dead.
In history, there were some super ruthless people who spent nearly a year in Shenhuang.
There are even people who were originally considered dead and returned safely.
However, such incidents are rare.
Even if there are, they are not like Yi Yun.
According to the news brought back by Chu Xiaoran and Qiu Niu, Yi Yun went to the Falling Star Gate to practice. No matter how awesome and ruthless a person is, he would not dare to practice there for so long!
Therefore, most people felt that Yi Yun was in danger.
In the Kingdom of Tai'a, only the geniuses who have grown up receive much attention. As for the missing and fallen geniuses, they are quickly forgotten.
That is to say, the second-year trialists who were in the same class as Chu Xiaoran and Qi Niu had particularly deep memories of Yi Yun's demeanor back then.
As for the new generation of trialists, they don't know much about Yi Yun's name anymore. Even if they hear about it, they just treat it as a novel story.
At this time, the game begins.
Wen Yu and Lu Jie each used their own methods and fought brilliantly.
The two of them have already reached the top 4,000 in the local rankings. This showdown is their final battle to decide who will be the rookie champion.
The game on the field quickly entered a heated stage, but in the audience, Chu Xiaoran was distracted and his mind was obviously not on the game.
"What's wrong, Xiaoran, do you think of Yi Yun?" Qiu Niu asked beside Chu Xiaoran.
"Hmm..." Chu Xiaoran nodded. She came to watch this rookie qualifying match, not to pay attention to Wen Yu and Lu Jie. The two of them would not pose a threat to Chu Xiaoran in the future.
Chu Xiaoran came to the arena to remember her battle with Yi Yun at this time last year. Although she lost that battle, it was the most impressive battle in her life so far, which made her feel deeply.
"When we were training in Luo Xing Yuan, without Yi Yun, we would have died when we were intercepted by the Cangxue Ape in the canyon, and when we were besieged by the strange fish in the deep pool. Yi Yun saved us twice.
."
"Who would have thought. In the end, we all came back safely, but Yi Yun was missing. Although even Elder Cangyan felt that something might happen to Yi Yun, I still thought that Yi Yun would not die that easily, just because of some reasons.
You're not back..." Chu Xiaoran said quietly.
Qiu Niu nodded and said: "Yi Yun is a lucky person, and he really shouldn't fall so easily. But... now his identity plate has lost contact, which is why it is worrying. We can only pray for the spirits of the sages.
Bless him..."
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A hundred miles away from the Tai'a Divine City, in a swamp.
This swamp is not a blackwater swamp. As an area very close to the Tai'a Divine City, the wild beasts in this swamp are very weak. Generally, only newcomers will come here to test.
It is said to be a trial, but in fact it is just to see the world and get familiar with team cooperation and fighting wild beasts. This will lay the foundation for them to truly walk in the divine wilderness in the future.
At this time, in the swamp, there was a team of newcomers hunting the swamp wild beasts.
Because they were all out of the city for the first time, even if they were only within a hundred miles of the Tai'a Divine City, they were all nervous and felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
"Captain, look there, there's someone there!"
A member of the security team suddenly saw the end of the swamp. A young man came over with a knife.
This young man looks really well dressed.
He has a slender figure, but the clothes he wears are obviously one size too small and are so worn that they can be described as ragged.
His hair seemed to have not been taken care of for a long time, hanging down to his shoulders like tangled grass.
The knife he held in his hand was still half-cut, and it looked like it had gone through a disaster and then been robbed again.
The team members are not even sure if this guy is a trialist from the Tai'a Divine City. Could he be a member of the Divine Wilderness?
When the young man approached, the team became alert.
"who?"
Seven or eight people asked, holding the guy.
The young man grinned, showing two rows of white teeth.
After so long, I finally met someone!
Loneliness is really an emotion that cannot be ignored. Even Yi Yun feels doubly lonely after practicing alone for so long.
Now that I suddenly see the same kind of people, I feel a warm feeling in my heart.
"Hello everyone, I would like to ask, what year is it now?"
Hearing Yi Yun's question, several young men were stunned. Are they really savages? They asked about the year as soon as they opened their mouths...
"It's the seventh day of winter in the sixty-eighth year of Qingfeng."
Qingfeng is the reign name of the current divine emperor. The Tai'a Kingdom uses the reign name to mark the year. Generally, only the last two digits are mentioned. The first ones are too long and are simply ignored.
"On the seventh day of winter, which is also the seventh day of November, I was in Chunyang Sword Palace and I have been practicing for so long without knowing it..."
Yi Yun lamented that it really took no time to practice.
"Hey, you haven't said who you are yet?"
The team leader asked again.
"Me?" Yi Yun smiled, looked at these young men who seemed to be younger than him, and said, "I am also a trialist in Tai'a Divine City."
"Trialist?" Several trialists were stunned for a moment, and they all looked at Yi Yun strangely.
This guy is also a trialist? This must be such a miserable situation!
As newcomers, they already belong to the relatively tragic category. Now looking at this young man, it is really unbearable, he is almost like a beggar.
"Brother, have you been beaten by wild beasts? Your knife is broken and your clothes are torn... Go back to the city quickly. Be more prepared next time. Bring more formation disks, formation talismans, thunder beads and so on.
, although these one-time magic weapons may seem wasteful, they can save lives at critical times. These dragon scale runes cannot be saved!"
The captain of the rookie team looked very enthusiastic and used the experience he had recently learned to give instructions to Yi Yun.
Yi Yun laughed and didn't care. He said, "Thanks! I really have to go back to the city. See you later!"
Yi Yun was in a good mood as he was about to return to Tai'a Divine City.
He spent nearly ten months in seclusion in Chunyang Sword Palace. On his way back to Tai'a Divine City, he hunted wild beasts all the way to consolidate his Dharma Totem.
Now, Yi Yun's cultivation has reached the peak level of purple blood.