Meng Zibin wasn't acting alone. He was with Chen Xiaohan.
Meng Zibin only had a strong opinion of Wang Teng for the time being. However, he also knew his own limitations. He had started cultivating later than the others and couldn't possibly compare to Li Qingyun, who cultivated at a monstrous speed, nor to Bai Nianchen, who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage in one go.
But if he were to compete, he thought he could strive for third place because he felt that Wang Teng wasn't very smart. Even if Wang Teng was at the early stage of Tendon Transformation, he wouldn't be much better than Meng Zibin.
But Chen Xiaohan was different. She was the one who wished Li Qingyun dead the most.
She wanted to team up with Meng Zibin and put all the monster cores they hunted together on Meng Zibin so that her man could top the ranking list!
In that case, Li Qingyun, who was highly expected and was the Son of the Great Dao, the most talented cultivator with the highest cultivation level, wouldn't be able to hold onto the first place on the ranking list. He would definitely become a laughingstock for everyone!
Thinking of this, Chen Xiaohan couldn't help but get excited.
Meng Zibin looked at Chen Xiaohan, who had a sinister smile on her face, and slowly had three question marks pop up above his head. Since the day their qualifications were identified, Chen Xiaohan seemed like a different person. There was always a gloomy look on her face. He knew it was because of Li Qingyun, but the problem was that Li Qingyun had never paid attention to her from start to finish!
"What are you laughing at?"
Chen Xiaohan put on a very gentle smile, held Meng Zibin's arm, and said softly, "Zibin, go and compete for the first place. All the monster cores we obtain together will be yours. Let's pull that high and mighty Son of the Great Dao down from his pedestal..."
Meng Zibin was stunned for a moment. He was tempted, but subconsciously, he felt that this wasn't right.
Just as he was about to say something, a murderous look flashed in his eyes. He pulled Chen Xiaohan behind him, grabbed a small sun in his hand, and threw it directly towards the front!
The intense high temperature made the air distort. In front of him were two first-order monster beasts, Snow Crows, that were trying to launch a sneak attack.
Snow Crows were monster beasts that usually lived on snow-capped mountains. They were about the size of a person.
They could simply create hail attacks and had sharp claws.
Both of these were at the late stage of the first-order and were about to break through to the second-order.
Meng Zibin and Chen Xiaohan were at the late stage and middle stage of Qi Refining respectively. The two Snow Crows discussed it and thought they could give it a try!
However, they didn't expect that, unlike the other humans, this Meng Zibin was really fierce. He directly threw fireballs at them.
With a shrill scream, one Snow Crow was directly hit by the flames and burst into inextinguishable fire on its body!
The cultivation technique that Meng Zibin cultivated was "The Picture of the Falling Sun". The flames were the True Fire of the Sun!
Then, Meng Zibin reached out and grabbed one Snow Crow's wing and tore it off brutally.
The other Snow Crow sensed that the situation was not good. It flapped its wings and was about to abandon its teammate and run away directly.
But at this time, Chen Xiaohan, who had been hiding aside, pounced over and knocked the huge Snow Crow to the ground. The Snow Crow struggled frantically, and its sharp claws scratched Chen Xiaohan's skin, leaving several marks.
Chen Xiaohan gritted her teeth, forcibly kicked it away, and then got up from the ground in a rather embarrassed manner.
The Snow Crow thought it had escaped danger and was overjoyed. It flapped its wings crazily and flew towards the sky!
However, just as it flew into the air, the whole bird seemed to have suffered a major blow. It wailed in horror and then fell straight down.
It twitched on the ground once, purple thick smoke came out of its mouth, and it died on the spot.
Chen Xiaohan was breathing nervously. She was holding a small knife in her hand. There was a faint purple light symbolizing poison flashing on the knife, as well as the blood of the Snow Crow.
"Corroding Bones and Hearts! Ha ha!"
She laughed rather contentedly. Under the attack of her poison technique, this Snow Crow couldn't survive for even ten seconds!
Meng Zibin had already taken out the monster core from the Snow Crow he had killed. Seeing Chen Xiaohan's appearance, he frowned deeply.
He was a bit worried about his girlfriend's mental state.
But Chen Xiaohan quickly put on that look of a girl next door again. She handed the monster core she had just obtained to Meng Zibin and said with a hopeful look on her face, "Zibin, take this and trample that damned Li Qingyun underfoot!"
Meng Zibin: "..."
Chen Xiaohan had an expression that seemed to say she would rather die if he didn't take it.
Meng Zibin sighed and took the monster core from her hand and then said, "I'll keep it for you for now..."
From the battle just now, it could be seen that Chen Xiaohan's combat effectiveness was okay and she was definitely not a burden.
The two of them working together would definitely have a high rate of obtaining monster cores. But he felt that this didn't make much sense. There would be plenty of opportunities to surpass Li Qingyun in the future!
His goal this time was third place. Because he was worried about Chen Xiaohan's mental state, he just took it for her for the time being.
Compared to the previous three people, these two were much less spectacular. Instead, people were more amazed by Chen Xiaohan's poison technique.
"This Chen Xiaohan is Li Qingyun's ex-girlfriend, right? She actually dumped the Son of the Great Dao!"
"I feel that there's something wrong with her eyes and expressions. She's like a venomous snake, with a sinister smile!"
"Damn it! A crazy beauty? Love it!"
"I love her too... Well, forget it. She can use poison..."
"..."
It's okay. This was Chu Yang's evaluation of them.
After all, they had started cultivating about half a month later than Li Qingyun, so the two of them definitely couldn't afford to provoke third-order monster beasts. At most, they could only deal with second-order monster beasts.
Looking at Meng Zibin's calm appearance, he didn't seem like someone who would court death, so this guy should be fine.
Among the Pioneers of the Cultivating Immortals Era small group, the ones that Chu Yang was most worried about were Luo Xiaowei and Qin Xiaoxiao.
Luo Xiaowei simply couldn't keep up with his talent and his cultivation speed was slow. After absorbing so many spirit stones, he was still at the late stage of Qi Refining.
And Qin Xiaoxiao, she was a bit weak in character and was only at the middle stage of Qi Refining. She didn't seem very smart either...
Well, at least she was quite cute.
Qin Xiaoxiao had been a fan of Li Qingyun before. She finally got into the same group, but there wasn't any spark between them. After entering the trial, she was very scared and wanted to ask Li Qingyun to take her with him. But that guy actually said seriously, "Didn't you say you wanted to compete for the first place?"
"Ah? I..."
"Then we're opponents! It's not appropriate for opponents to team up, and the resource allocation wouldn't be reasonable either. So I can't take you with me!"
Qin Xiaoxiao was stunned. She suspected that Li Qingyun had done it on purpose. Everyone could tell that she had just been talking tough at that time, right?