At this moment, Feng Xi and Xing Wu were locked inside cages.
Xing Wu had already begun probing his opponent, while Feng Xi was studying the cage.
"Oh? This cage isn't real? Looks like it's formed by a formation!
I originally thought this thing could be sold for a bit of money, but it seems I thought too much."
The formation beast she was ignoring: "..."
It howled and pounced over!
Feng Xi lightly dodged and frowned, "Are you that eager to die? Wouldn't it be better to live a bit longer?!
Have you never thought about doing something meaningful in your short life?"
Formation beast: "..."
What nonsense are you saying? I don't understand!
I just want to eat you!
Feng Xi dodged again and said with a smile, "How about we cooperate? Let's break open the cage and see what good stuff is outside?"
Formation beast: "..."
Melon-eating onlookers: "..."
Feng Xi continued chattering, "You only live once, don't you want to see the scenery outside the cage? Or are you too afraid?"
"Forget it. Judging by how cowardly you look, you probably don't have the guts. Pretend I didn't say anything!"
...
The formation beast snorted and kicked the ground with its hind legs, who are you looking down on?!
Its big head slammed fiercely into the cage!
Sparks flew!
Feng Xi pressed her lips into a smile and began attacking the bars with spiritual qi.
Hard work paid off. After a long struggle, the bars of the cage… didn't move at all.
Feng Xi: "..."
Formation beast: "..."
Feng Xi thought brute force wouldn't work, this thing must have a formation plate!
So she directed the formation beast to dig at the ground.
Dig and dig, it dug out a formation plate.
Feng Xi: (✧◡✧)
As soon as this rascal removed the spiritual stones from the grooves of the formation plate, the cage disappeared.
Immediately after, a new cage appeared, enclosing Feng Xi and the formation beast, along with a new formation beast.
Formation Beast No. 2 looked at Formation Beast No. 1 in confusion.
Wait, how are you still alive?
Isn't this my assigned target?
Are you here to steal my job?!
Feng Xi patiently communicated with Formation Beast No. 2, Formation Beast No. 2 clearly had more personality than No. 1. It ignored her chatter and charged forward howling.
Feng Xi tilted her chin toward Formation Beast No. 1, "It's time to prove your strength! Go!"
Formation Beast No. 1: "..."
Fine, since it's already like this!
Let's just fight randomly!
Thus, the two formation beasts began fighting each other.
Feng Xi took out a small stool, sat down, and watched while cracking melon seeds.
When she was pleased, she even clapped for them.
When the time was right, she made her move and knocked Formation Beast No. 2 down!
"Submit or not?"
Formation Beast No. 2 was no longer stubborn and obediently nodded.
So Feng Xi directed them to dig out the formation plate here as well and put it away.
Then the third cage appeared…
At first, Feng Xi still had to spend some effort dealing with the new formation beasts. Later on, as more formation beasts gathered on her side, they could knock down the newly arrived formation beasts in the blink of an eye!
So later on, she only needed to pocket the formation plates!
Eventually this rascal couldn't even count how many formation plates she had taken. Feeling bored, she said to the formation beasts, "I'm tired of playing. Kill yourselves!"
Formation beasts: "..."
Formation Beast No. 2's rebellious streak instantly swelled!
There were dozens of formation beasts here, killing this girl would be no problem!
It howled a few times, calling all formation beasts to attack together!
Feng Xi curled her lips, "Now this is a bit interesting!"
She summoned her wooden sword and headed straight for the last formation beast that had appeared.
One sword strike, instant kill.
The cage and the other formation beasts instantly disappeared.
Did they really think she was just watching for fun?!
While watching, she had already found the weaknesses of these formation beasts. If she wanted to, she could have dealt with them herself.
She simply didn't want to waste time, so she directly targeted the newest formation beast and quickly cleared the second trial.
The expressions of the melon-eating onlookers outside the Heaven-and-Earth Banner were identical, necks stretched, eyes wide, mouths open enough to fit a duck egg!
This works too?!
Others enter and wait for the Heaven-and-Earth Banner's reward. Feng Xi… finds her own rewards.
After a long while, Xiao Baidao said, "This child Xiao Xi has been sensible since she was young, she never troubles others with things she can do herself."
Everyone: "..."
Elder Si Jichuan of the Dun Demon Clan saw the human side's morale rising and snorted, "Feng Xi has no real ability, she only relied on her glib tongue to fool the formation beasts.
In the next trial, if there are no formation beasts, I think she'll be the first to be eliminated!"
Quite a few humans thought the same. Feng Xi's performance in these two trials was stunning, but not because her cultivation was high, only because her brain and mouth were sharp.
However, some didn't think so.
Hu Wankui, Sect Master of Beast-Taming Sect, thought highly of Feng Xi.
Everyone had only seen her chatter, but had overlooked her final sword strike.
With so many formation beasts in the cage, her flying sword not only deftly avoided the others but also killed with one strike. What did that indicate?
It indicated extremely precise control over her flying sword, and very keen observation and judgment. Otherwise, she couldn't have found the formation beasts' weakness without fighting.
Not only him, Lu Zhenkuan, Sect Master of Wan Jian Sect, thought the same.
He couldn't help but sigh inwardly, Feng Xi had the brains and comprehension, once her dantian healed, she would definitely astonish the world!
Xiao Baidao had accepted a good disciple!
If he had known, back at Baili Muchen's disciple recruitment assembly, he should've taken Feng Xi first.
Unfortunately, there's no medicine for regret in this world.
Only endless regret.
But now he's even more curious on what reward the Heaven-and-Earth Banner would give Feng Xi. Would it be like the previous trial, giving her many rewards?
Feng Xi also looked forward to it. She even set up a spiritual qi shield in advance, afraid of being hit painfully.
She waited and waited. Xing Wu received an Earth-rank spiritual plant, but she received nothing.
If it was someone else, they would have let it go. After all, on someone else's territory, even a dragon must coil.
But Feng Xi never tolerated such humiliation!
She sneered, "If you can't afford to play, then don't play! If the rules can be changed at will, why call yourself the Heaven-and-Earth Banner? You might as well call yourself Stingy Banner!"
As soon as her words fell, a heap of rewards clattered down.
Some were in jade boxes, some in porcelain bottles, some in brocade cases, some in bags.
Feng Xi casually opened one and saw a Heaven-rank spiritual plant inside. Knowing the Heaven-and-Earth Banner wasn't cheating her, she tilted her chin at Xing Wu, "Pick two!"
Xing Wu felt like he was the happiest person in the world!
He closed his eyes and grabbed two, lest Little Junior Sister think he deliberately chose the most valuable ones.
Seeing this, Feng Xi casually took two more and stuffed them into his hands.
Xing Wu's eyes welled with tears, "Little Junior Sister, you're really too good to me!
No need to say more, whatever you need in the future, even if it means climbing mountains of blades or diving into seas of fire, I'll give it my all without hesitation!"
Feng Xi said with a smile, "We're true senior and junior siblings, there's no need to say such things!"
Outside the Heaven-and-Earth Banner, Hu Wankui and Xiao Baidao: "..."
You two are true senior and junior siblings, how come we, as your masters, don't know that?