"Why do you seem so excited?" Chu Feng looked at Bai Yunqing.
"Big Brother Chu Feng, aren't you excited? We're going to undergo the trial together with the juniors of the Seven Realms Sacred Palace."
"They represent the absolute pinnacle of barrier arts across the entire vast Cultivation World." At this point, Bai Yunqing deliberately switched to secret voice transmission for the rest of his words. "Wouldn't it feel amazing to one-up them?"
He used a secret transmission because he didn't want the old woman to hear — after all, she was also from the Seven Realms Sacred Palace.
"It would feel pretty great." When it came to that kind of satisfaction, Chu Feng's version of it was probably something even Bai Yunqing couldn't fully grasp.
After all, the reason his mother had been imprisoned was precisely because the Seven Realms Sacred Palace looked down upon cultivators who weren't part of their ranks.
In short, they believed that Chu Feng's mother had given birth to Chu Feng, and that was an insult to the Seven Realms Sacred Palace.
If one day Chu Feng could trample every one of the Seven Realms Sacred Palace's peers beneath his feet, just the thought of it sent his blood boiling with exhilaration.
And now, there was actually an opportunity for a small test of his skills. In truth, Chu Feng was even more excited than Bai Yunqing.
With the old woman leading the way, the two of them quickly arrived at the spot where the juniors were gathered.
"Why are there outsiders here?"
The moment they arrived, the juniors of the Seven Realms Sacred Palace noticed Chu Feng and Bai Yunqing, and one by one they cast looks that were both surprised and hostile.
"These two will participate in the trial alongside you, young masters and young ladies," the old woman said.
"They? Participating in the trial with us?"
"Senior, they aren't from the Seven Realms Sacred Palace, are they? On what basis do they get to join our trial?"
Sure enough, the moment they heard this news, the juniors of the Seven Realms Sacred Palace immediately put up fierce resistance.
Whether male or female, the way they sized up Chu Feng at this moment made his skin crawl with displeasure.
Chu Feng had encountered plenty of people who were arrogant and full of themselves.
But the looks in the eyes of these Seven Realms Sacred Palace juniors were the most infuriating of them all.
Their contemptuous and disdainful gazes made it seem as though they were nobility, while Chu Feng and Bai Yunqing were nothing more than commoners.
In their eyes, Chu Feng and Bai Yunqing didn't even deserve to stand in the same space as them, let alone participate in the same trial.
These people were arrogant to the extreme.
"This is Lady Frost Rain's arrangement," the old woman said.
"Lady Frost Rain?"
Upon hearing this name, though the juniors still looked unhappy, the number of voices raised in protest diminished noticeably.
And this so-called Lady Frost Rain was none other than that dark-haired middle-aged woman.
Clearly, the woman held some degree of status and authority. Otherwise, learning that this was her order wouldn't have been enough to shut the mouths of these self-important Seven Realms Sacred Palace juniors.
Just then, three more figures came flying over from the distance.
Two women and one man — all of them juniors as well. Their barrier arts were nothing to scoff at. The two women wore Gray Dragon God Robes.
As for the man, he wore a Blue Dragon God Robe.
The man arrived flanked on both sides by the two women, clearly a person of considerable standing.
"Is that him?" The moment she saw the man, Bai Yunqing's expression shifted.
"It's Young Master Jie Yu."
At the same time, the very same Seven Realms Sacred Palace juniors who had been acting haughty and untouchable moments ago began calling out the man's name. Some of the women even let out excited squeals.
The eagerness they showed was practically a different world from the disdain they had directed at Chu Feng and Bai Yunqing just moments before.
"Bai Yunqing? What are you doing here?"
When Jie Yu spotted Bai Yunqing, he couldn't help but ask.
"Young Master Jie Yu, it was Lady Frost Rain's arrangement. She wanted these two to participate in the trial alongside you," the old woman explained once more.
"What? Let two outsiders join us in the trial? On what grounds?"
"Young Master Jie Yu, why don't you go talk to Lady Frost Rain about it? I don't want to train alongside outsiders."
"Yeah, it's so uncomfortable."
The two women at Jie Yu's sides chimed in with delicate, whining voices.
"Don't underestimate him. Do you even know who he is?" When Jie Yu said this, he was looking directly at Bai Yunqing.
Hearing him say that, the two women beside him, along with every junior present, turned their eyes to study Bai Yunqing once more.
"Who is he? I don't recognize him," one of the women asked.
"His name is Bai Yunqing. He's a Guest Grand Elder of the Totem Dragon Clan and a disciple of Taishi Xingzhong," Jie Yu said.
"Oh — Taishi Xingzhong. I've heard of that name. So he's actually that person's disciple?"
Upon learning this, the juniors present actually began to look at Bai Yunqing with a measure of new respect.
"Bleh — this queen is going to throw up. So this is what passes for someone from the Spirit World Master holy land?"