With a whoosh.
Li Yuanling landed on the other party's wooden boat. Her bright, spirited eyes, borrowing the candlelight from the boat, caught sight of the jade token held in one of the young men's hands.
Without saying a word, she swiftly extended her snow-white lotus-like arm. Her pale, delicate face became completely fierce as she instantly transformed into a bandit and robber, directly reaching out to snatch it.
The three young people who reacted were immediately startled.
They didn't know why such a beautiful and lovely-looking young lady would strike with such terrifying ferocity.
This wasn't snatching a jade token at all, it was as if she wanted to tear them apart and devour them alive.
But their strength truly couldn't match Li Yuanling's, and in just a few moves, she knocked them to the ground.
After snatching the jade token from their hands, Li Yuanling's previously fierce expression immediately relaxed like a spring breeze, her face revealing a secretly delighted look.
"So easy to obtain one."
She turned her head and waved the jade token in her hand toward Li Musheng, but Li Musheng had his eyes closed in meditation, not bothering to acknowledge her at all.
Seeing this, Li Yuanling pursed her lips. However, she didn't let her guard down. She turned back and carefully put away the jade token.
Her gaze swept over the three young people huddled in a corner of the wooden boat, then she suddenly narrowed her eyes and fiercely blew out a breath, directly extinguishing the candle flame on their table.
Then, with a step of her foot, she leaped toward another nearby wooden boat.
On the pitch-black wooden boat, the three young people watched the direction where Li Yuanling departed into the darkness, all simultaneously having one thought in their hearts:
What a vicious woman. Not satisfied with just snatching their jade token, she even extinguished their candle flame, not giving them any chance at all.
The patterns they had originally accumulated were already insufficient to reach ten patterns. Now they didn't even have the opportunity to relight the candle flame. They could only sit in complete darkness on the wooden boat, waiting to be eliminated after half a double-hour passed.
Meanwhile, Li Yuanling, having tasted success from her excellent start, gradually began to develop a trend of "killing spree."
Next, she continuously leaped from one wooden boat to another, and almost every leap would yield her a jade token.
It must be said that as a princess of Great Li, her martial Dao strength was indeed not weak.
But more importantly, Li Yuanling also had good judgment. She didn't provoke anyone who looked difficult to deal with, specifically picking soft targets to squeeze, and she hadn't failed once so far.
Of course, after snatching jade tokens each time, she also didn't forget to "eliminate future troubles" by extinguishing the other party's candle flame as well.
Therefore, in the eyes of those whose jade tokens she had robbed, Li Yuanling's reputation was extremely poor. Some people hated her to the point their teeth itched.
Some people even couldn't help but deliberately point toward the direction Li Yuanling had left when they encountered experts from other nearby wooden boats passing by, loudly instigating them, "Chase her quickly! That woman has snatched dozens of jade tokens. If you catch up to her, you'll definitely get into the top ten."
But in reality, Li Yuanling currently only had seven jade tokens on her.
Regarding this, most people who heard this didn't really believe it and continued following their own plans to snatch jade tokens from nearby wooden boats.
However, there were also a very small number of people who, with a mentality of trying their luck, did pursue in the direction where Li Yuanling was.
At the same time, Li Musheng sat calmly and composed on his wooden boat. Under the illumination of the candle flame on the table, he let the wooden boat slide toward the center of the underground lake.
Just at this moment, a middle-aged man wearing blue robes suddenly leaped out from the darkness and landed on the wooden boat where Li Musheng was.
He had a square face with a broad forehead, a robust physique, and a goatee on his chin. His martial Dao aura was also quite strong.
The middle-aged man swept his gaze over Li Musheng on the wooden boat and said in a deep voice, "Hand over the jade token."
Hearing this, Li Musheng raised his eyes to glance at the other party, spread his hands, and said, "It's not on me."
The blue-robed middle-aged man carefully examined Li Musheng for a while. Seeing that he indeed seemed to be just guarding the wooden boat with no jade token on him.
He then shook his head and prepared to turn and leave.
He was only completing his young master's task. If he could avoid fighting, he didn't want to easily enter into conflict with the other party.
However, just at this moment, a young man's voice came from a nearby wooden boat, "Zhang Fu, if there's no jade token, you can't make the trip for nothing. Extinguish the candle flame on his boat. We can reduce our competition by one person."
Hearing this, the blue-robed middle-aged man turned his head toward the source of the voice and acknowledged, then directly raised his palm and struck out, sending a palm wind toward the candle flame on the table.
Then, the blue-robed middle-aged man withdrew his gaze and prepared to leave the wooden boat to continue snatching jade tokens from nearby boats.
But the next moment, he suddenly stopped in his tracks and abruptly turned his head to look at the table behind him, his brows furrowing tightly.
Clearly just now he had already struck out with his palm wind, which was completely sufficient to extinguish the candle flame.
And the young man on the wooden boat before him had not a trace of true qi on his body. When he made his move, the other party also showed no signs of taking action.
But extremely strangely, the candle flame on the table had not been extinguished. It was completely unaffected by his palm wind and was still burning at this moment, emitting a dim yellow glow.
The blue-robed middle-aged man subconsciously glanced at Li Musheng sitting motionless across from him, but saw that his expression was completely normal and he hadn't said anything.
Regarding his action of trying to extinguish the candle flame, he seemed not to care at all.
"Could it be that I made a mistake just now?"
The blue-robed middle-aged man showed a suspicious expression. He immediately circulated his true qi again, staring at the candle flame on the table before him, and struck out with his palm.
The strong palm wind created a sharp whistling sound, directly blowing past the candle flame before him.
And what made him find it hard to believe was that the candle flame before him remained completely motionless. His palm wind had absolutely no effect on it whatsoever.
"This..."
A trace of shock appeared on the blue-robed middle-aged man's square face. At this moment, an alarmed and angry shout rang out from the nearby wooden boat, "Who is it? Who just extinguished our candle flame?"
Hearing his young master's voice, the blue-robed middle-aged man hurriedly turned his head to look, only to see that the candle flame on his young master's wooden boat had already been extinguished. It was now pitch black there.
However, because they had accumulated forty patterns by passing the first trial perfectly, they had four chances within three breaths to relight the candle flame.
Thus, the young master on the wooden boat immediately quickly relit the candle flame.
However, the next moment, just as the candle flame was lit, it suddenly and silently extinguished again. The wooden boat immediately fell into complete darkness once more.
"Who is it? Who on earth is it?"
The young master on the wooden boat roared furiously, but no one answered in the darkness.
A companion beside him stood up and swept his gaze around in all directions, similarly discovering nothing.
Having no choice, they could only relight the candle flame again. However, this time both of them released their true qi to protect the area around the candle flame, making it completely impenetrable.
However, the next moment, the previous situation occurred again.
The true qi around the candle flame silently dissipated, and the burning candle flame was once again extinguished.
"This is truly ghostly..."
In the darkness, the young master was somewhat dazed, but he didn't dare to shout loudly anymore.