In the hall on the first floor of the inn.

  Andre and the middle-aged man were sitting in a corner.

  "Andre, do you think that kid will be afraid of our sneak attacks and won't be willing to go out again for a while? Why has there been no movement at all for such a long time?" The middle-aged man looked a bit restless, and his eyes kept glancing towards the entrance of the inn from time to time.

  "Of course not." Andre smiled faintly, looking calm and confident, in sharp contrast to the middle-aged man's restlessness. "In the disciple trial, who would be willing to give up?"

  "But..."

  "Don't forget that he has an elder-level item in his hand. Rushing up recklessly would be just courting death." Andre's eyes suddenly turned cold, and his gaze made the middle-aged man shrink back and look away.

  "Besides, even if he goes out now, we can't follow him immediately." Andre said casually.

  "Why?" The middle-aged man asked in confusion.

  "Just because he has already discovered our existence." Spreading out his slender five fingers, Andre stared at them narcissistically for a while before saying in a tone that seemed to have everything under control:

  "Having a terrifying elder-level item and knowing that someone is coveting it beside him, if he still acts rashly under such circumstances, that would be suicidal."

  The middle-aged man was at a loss for words when he heard this. After thinking carefully, he couldn't refute it at all.

  "Yes, under such circumstances, he will surely be cautious everywhere and definitely won't give us a chance to ambush him. If we're not careful, we'll end up getting ourselves into trouble." Thinking of this, he couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

  With a sneer, Andre said with full confidence, "So, the most important thing now is to remove his guard and make him think that the people coveting him no longer exist. Then we'll have an opportunity."

  "Andre, tell me, what should we do?" The middle-aged man's eyes lit up.

  "Hehe." Chuckling softly, Andre said with a smile, "Don't worry. Lina has already gone to take care of it."

  "Hmm?" Only then did the middle-aged man remember that his female companion had gone out half a day ago. He didn't know what she was busy with, but now it seemed that she was acting under Andre's instruction.

  While they were talking, the glamorous woman walked in with a beaming face from outside.

  "Andre, it's done." Facing the somewhat eager gazes of the two men, Lina smiled charmingly.

  "Great..." Hearing Lina's words, Andre immediately looked relaxed. Just as he was about to explain, his eyes narrowed as he happened to see Chen Yue's figure walking out of the inn's door.

  A playful smile appeared on his face, and Andre said, "Just in time. He's also gone out."

  "Lina, what exactly did you do?" Seeing that both of them were looking like they were waiting to watch a good show, the middle-aged man couldn't help asking.

  "It's actually very simple." Lina smiled and said, "Although he knows that someone is coveting him from the side, he doesn't know exactly who it is, because it's impossible to see my appearance clearly at that distance. So, all we need to do is to instigate a few arrogant and greedy guys to go and trouble him first."

  "Greedy people won't tell others about this and will only want to enjoy it all by themselves. This ensures that no extra people will interfere with our plan. Arrogant people won't think carefully about whether the news is true or not. Unexpectedly, it's not that hard to find such fools." Lina giggled.

  "So, they can only be cannon fodder." Squinting his eyes slightly, Andre said calmly.

  ...

  Outside the Red Stone Plain.

  When Chen Yue noticed that there were two apostles following him from behind while Andre and the other two didn't follow, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

  "It seems that things won't be so easy to solve."

  As if sensing that they had already been discovered by Chen Yue, the two apostles behind him simply gave up hiding and surrounded him with malicious intent, looking at Chen Yue and sneering coldly.

  Before getting close, they even summoned two main battle demonic servants.

  One was a melee-type and the other was an elemental-type, both of which were three-star demonic servants.

  "Kid, if you don't want to die, hand over all your third-grade life essences." A tall and thin third-level apostle bared his fierce look, not bothering to hide the greed in his eyes.

  "What do you mean?" Chen Yue narrowed his eyes.

  "Stop pretending." The other short and stocky third-level apostle roared and looked at Chen Yue as if he were looking at a dead man. "Cut the crap. We want all the dozen or so third-grade life essences in your hands."

  "Idiot, don't talk nonsense." The tall and thin apostle cursed.

  The short and stocky apostle was taken aback. It seemed that he also realized he had let slip something. Looking a bit embarrassed, he quickly said in a flattering manner, "Brother, I'll check the surrounding situation first."

  After saying that, he summoned a two-star flying-type demonic servant. The demonic servant flapped its wings and quickly flew into the air.

  "There's no one nearby." After a while, the short and stocky apostle received the information from the demonic servant and said in a flattering tone.

  After that, he looked at Chen Yue with disdain again. "Brother, he's just a second-level guy. Do we need to be so careful? I can easily kill him with a flip of my hand."

  "I just don't want others to spoil our good thing." The tall and thin apostle sneered coldly, looking at Chen Yue with an indescribably cold gaze. "Once we get this kid's life essences, we won't have to struggle outside anymore."

  The two of them were asking and answering each other, completely not taking Chen Yue seriously, as if they could easily crush him.

  "So, you know that I have a dozen or so third-grade life essences." Chen Yue smiled coldly at the corners of his mouth, completely not paying attention to the two of them.

  He casually called out Yun Jing.

  "Yun Jing, check the levels of these two demonic servants."

  The two apostles were a bit stunned, looking at Yun Jing with puzzled eyes. "What, what is this thing?"

  "Thing..." Hearing their words, the little one immediately got angry. She opened her True Vision Pupil, took a quick look at the two demonic servants, and then shouted loudly in an extremely sarcastic voice, "They're just third-star and first-rank. Humph, they're all trash."

  Indeed, these two were just ordinary third-level apostles. Such people were not something Chen Yue had feared even before coming to the trial ground.

  "Trash?" Although they were quite surprised that Yun Jing could tell the ranks of their demonic servants at a glance, Yun Jing's and Chen Yue's somewhat contemptuous attitudes undoubtedly angered them. Especially when they thought that Chen Yue was only at the second level, they couldn't hold back anymore and couldn't help saying in a sinister voice, "Kid, do you want to die?"

  "Want to die?"

  Chen Yue sneered coldly, with an indescribable sarcasm between his brows:

  "With only third-star and first-rank demonic servants, and not even using the only flying-type demonic servant properly, yet you dare to come after me. You guys are really tired of living."

  The moment the words "tired of living" were spat out, Chen Yue exerted force with his feet and rushed out like lightning.

  The two apostles were shaking with anger, but they still didn't forget to make the two demonic servants launch attacks.

  However, the third-star and first-rank demonic servants were really no match for Chen Yue. He easily dodged the attack of the elemental-type demonic servant. At the moment when he passed by the other melee-type demonic servant, the Blade Beast easily killed it in an instant.

  "This is impossible." The two apostles screamed in panic. They quickly activated their protective spheres and hurriedly retreated backwards. The short and stocky apostle even hurriedly summoned the flying-type demonic servant in the air to come to their rescue.

  At this moment, they finally understood what Chen Yue had meant just now.

  However, it was already too late.

  Chen Yue didn't give them any chance at all. With a gentle slash of the Blade Beast, he easily killed the other elemental-type demonic servant in an instant. In the blink of an eye, he caught up with the two apostles. In their horrified gazes, he killed them one by one with a sword. In the face of the powerful ability of the Blade Beast, the protective spheres didn't play any role at all.

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  "Cannon fodder."

  Chen Yue curled his lips in disdain, looking calm.

  They were just two trash apostles. The strongest demonic servants they had were only at the fourth level. The protective items they could exchange for - the protective spheres - came from the exchange system for ordinary apostles. It would be strange if such people could survive a round in Chen Yue's hands.

  For the Blade Beast, which was now at the third-star and second-rank and the fifth level, it could instantly kill anything below the fifth level. As for apostles, if they didn't have protective items from the exchange system for disciples or above, including the disciple level, they couldn't withstand a single blow.

  The stupidest thing was that they clearly had a rare flying-type demonic servant but completely used it in the wrong way.

  Such guys were really an insult to be Chen Yue's opponents.

  After the two apostles died, without the support of the contract, all the demonic servants immediately became illusory.

  "It seems that even useless people can be useful in some ways."

  Looking at this scene, Chen Yue smiled.

  Coincidentally, after suffering the heavy blow from the first impact, the Frozen Rabbit had been greatly weakened. This was just the right time to make it recover.

  Two three-star demonic servants, three two-star demonic servants, and two one-star demonic servants. Soon, a total of seven life essence cores appeared in the air.

  With some effort, Chen Yue smashed the invisible channels one by one, and these life essence cores were immediately exposed. After releasing the Frozen Rabbit, Chen Yue immediately retreated to a distance. He knew that the coercion generated by the silver matter after the life essence cores were broken was something even he couldn't bear at present.

  Watching the Frozen Rabbit smilingly bite through the life essence cores one by one and absorb their essence, Chen Yue also fell into deep thought.

  These two people were cannon fodder, but their appearance was rather strange.

  If they hadn't let something slip, Chen Yue might not have been able to think of anything. But now...

  "They knew that I had a dozen or so third-grade life essences, but I had never told anyone about this. However, judging from the expressions of these two people, they were extremely certain." Chen Yue narrowed his eyes.

  "So, someone must have leaked this to them."

  "Those who could know this are only Andre and the others, because they could roughly infer it from the number of Stone Spirit Beasts in the valley."

  "But, why did they do this?"

  Chen Yue continued to think deeply.

  "They also coveted the life essences in my hands, but they didn't come to kill me immediately. Then there's only one possibility, that is, they were wary of my strength or couldn't figure out my strength."

  Chen Yue knew that Andre and the others were extremely powerful and were definitely not comparable to this lousy duo.

  And seeing so many Stone Spirit Beasts and the corpses of third-grade primeval beasts in the valley, they probably had a certain understanding of Chen Yue's strength. So, it was only possible that they were wary of Chen Yue's strength.

  "Being wary, but there's no need to send these two cannon fodders here at all. This makes no sense."

  In order to deal with Andre and the others, Chen Yue had also collected some information about them and knew that Andre was an extremely smart person and was quite conceited in his actions.

  Such a person was unlikely to do something that made no sense.

  Unable to figure it out for a while, Chen Yue simply asked Yun Jing beside him, wondering if her powerful computing ability could help him.

  After listening to Chen Yue's story, Yun Jing thought hard for a moment.

  "Insufficient data, unable to analyze." She spread her hands helplessly.

  "However, why did they take a fancy to these two guys? Could it be that these two trash have something special?"

  Chen Yue was stunned when he heard this and then said thoughtfully, "They... If there's anything special about them, there's only one thing, and that is that they have flying-type demonic servants."

  You know, flying-type demonic servants were also quite rare. Although they were far less rare than the Blade Beast and the twin demonic servants, few apostles could possess them.

  "Flying-type, flying-type... Ah, I understand." After muttering for a while, Chen Yue suddenly exclaimed.

  "So that's it. This guy is really not simple." With a glint in his eyes, Chen Yue finally understood the other party's intention.

  "That woman also has a flying-type demonic servant. This should be the only common point between these two groups of people. Andre is really smart. He should have guessed from some clues that I had discovered their existence, so he planned to mix the false with the true and use these two guys to lower my suspicion."

  Chen Yue's train of thought gradually became clear.

  "If it were ordinary apostles, seeing these two people, knowing not only the fact that they had a dozen or so third-grade life essences but also that they had flying-type demonic servants, they would probably regard them as the ones who were coveting them. After dealing with these two people, they would think that the trouble was solved. In that way, when they were caught off guard, Andre and the others would have an opportunity."

  A cold smile gradually appeared at the corners of Chen Yue's mouth. "However, no matter how smart Andre is, he definitely wouldn't have thought that I have such sharp eyesight and already knew exactly who they were."

  "That is to say, all his calculations were in vain."

  "Although Andre is an extremely intelligent person, he also has a weakness, that is, he firmly believes in his own judgment." Chen Yue sneered. "He thought that I would regard these two people as the ones who were coveting me. After dealing with them, I would completely relax. At that time, it would be the best time for them to launch an attack."

  Raising the corners of his eyes and looking towards the distant sky, a confident smile appeared at the corners of Chen Yue's mouth:

  "Perhaps, they're already on their way here."

  ...

  Riding on the huge Horned Eagle, Andre and the other two were flying rapidly in the air. Soon, they approached the Red Stone Plain. Looking down from a high altitude, they could vaguely see Chen Yue's figure.

  "Andre, you're really brilliant." Seeing Chen Yue slowly walking towards the depths of the Red Stone Plain, the middle-aged man couldn't help showing a look of wild joy.

  Andre smiled faintly and said, "This person is undergoing the trial to become a power-holding disciple. His level is one grade higher than mine. What he needs is also three fourth-grade life essences. However, he's only at the second level and his strength is far from enough. That's why the people behind him gave him an elder-level item."

  "However, even with such a powerful tool, it's extremely difficult to complete the trial. Therefore, he definitely won't waste time. Once he thinks that the people coveting him have been dealt with, he will surely start killing primeval beasts again to obtain life essences."

  "Giggle, primeval beasts are not that easy to deal with. When he's killing primeval beasts, he will definitely reduce his protection for himself. That's the best time for us to launch an attack, right?" Lina giggled coquettishly, with a look of admiration for Andre on her face.

  "Exactly." Andre smiled slightly.

  Below, Chen Yue had already entered the Red Stone Plain. Upon seeing a human who was their mortal enemy, all the primeval beasts immediately went into a riot.

  Soon, a large group of primeval beasts rushed towards Chen Yue, and more Stone Spirit Beasts launched long-range attacks one after another.

  However, Chen Yue didn't immediately launch an attack. Instead, using his nimble movement skills and speed, he slowly gathered a large group of primeval beasts together. Under the situation where he only evaded and didn't attack, he managed to hold on with some difficulty.

  "Hmm, just as I thought. That elder-level item should have the ability to cause large-scale damage, so he was able to kill so many at once. Okay, let's get ready."

  Andre said in a solemn voice. After saying that, he summoned his demonic servant, a third-star and third-rank demonic servant. The other two also followed suit. Although they couldn't compare with Andre, they were also third-star and second-rank.

  "Wait a moment. When he rushes towards that group of primeval beasts, we'll go down and launch an attack at the same time." Andre narrowed his eyes slightly, and a flash of murderous intent appeared in his cold eyes.

  Lina and the middle-aged man nodded at the same time. They were confident that if they launched a surprise attack with three demonic servants that were at least at the fifth level when Chen Yue was caught off guard, even if Chen Yue had protective items from the deacon-level exchange system, it would be useless. Not to mention that he also had to face a large number of primeval beasts at the same time.

  Thinking of the huge gains they were about to get, the breathing of the three of them became a bit heavy.

  Below, Chen Yue, who had been running away all along, suddenly spun around, put his right hand on his waist, and rushed towards the large group of primeval beasts.

  "Now's the time."

  Andre roared. At the same time, the Horned Eagle dived down at high speed. Almost at the moment when Chen Yue rushed to the front of the group of primeval beasts, the Horned Eagle also rushed to a few meters above Chen Yue. The wind pressure caused by the sudden dive even made several nearby primeval beasts unable to stand firmly.

  "Ha ha, die for me."

  In the next moment, the three demonic servants simultaneously launched their fatal attacks with all their strength. Seeing this scene, Andre couldn't help laughing wildly.

  However, just at the instant when all the attacks were about to land on Chen Yue, Chen Yue suddenly looked up, showed a smile towards the direction of the few people, a smile full of