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Yun Ji nodded her head, feeling that this question was still as fair as ever. Even if the questions she had chosen were Tang Ao's own, she would recognize them as well. She felt that she wouldn't be able to answer this fellow's question.

Picking out the first question was indeed Tang Ao's question. However, when Yunji saw the answer, she quickly knocked the gong.

”Miss Yunji, Little Wang hasn't started, so that doesn't count. This question should be answered by Tang Ao instead.” Mu Rong Xiu said with a smile.

Yun Ji could do nothing about it, this was indeed what she was worried about.

Tang Ao gave the correct answer and accumulated some points.

The second question was posed by Yun Ji. While Tang Ao was still deep in thought, Yun Ji had already rung the gong after Murong Xiu told him the start. Thus, she also got a point.

The two of them almost alternated their points. Tang Ao's chance of getting a question was not very high, and there were even some questions that were quite difficult for Yun Ji to answer, but Tang Ao was actually able to answer them correctly. And there was one very simple question, although Yun Ji got it, but she answered it wrongly, so she gave the chance to Tang Ao instead.

In this way, when the first round of the competition ended, Tang Ao won 11 points, while Yun Ji won 9. The gap between them wasn't that wide.

Murong Xiu told the two of them to rest for a bit before starting the second test. Since it was a question that had to be answered, he asked them to scissor. The losers would have to answer the questions first. He also taught the audience the rules of the stone scissor cloth. After that, the traditional guessing boxing style in Xili's capital was gradually replaced by the stone scissor cloth, and that was the end of the story.

Yun Ji had lost her guess punch, so she would definitely answer the first question. Yun Ji had taken up most of the topics that Murong Xiu had randomly chosen, which was why Yun Ji had gotten a perfect score on them.

The audience immediately burst into applause. Everyone was very excited. This beautiful girl was also very intelligent. Only beauties and talented girls would attract more attention.

When it was Tang Ao's turn, the group of West Li Capital's noblewomen once again broke out into enthusiastic applause.

Tang Ao also came up with his own question for the majority of the questions. However, he didn't answer two of Yunji's questions, so in the end he only got 18 points.

At this point, both of them had a score of 29 points, a draw.

With an excited tone, Murong Xiu told the audience, ”Seems like the real victor is the final test. If you win, you win. If you lose, you lose.” Murong Xiu patiently explained the rules of the competition to the audience. Afterwards, he brought Yun Ji and Tang Ao to a room directly opposite the stage.

”The rooms on the left and right are exactly the same. Your props are also exactly the same, just these things in front of you.” Then he said to the audience, ”If you're all interested in these two rooms, you can have four people take a look at these props and these two rooms for a notary.”

Immediately, two women came out of the group of noblewomen, and two officials came out of the group of officials. The four of them looked at the two rooms and the tools, and the four of them confirmed that what the Prince had said was exactly the same.

The incense began to burn. The first thing the two of them did was finish setting up the formation in the room before the incense was finished. There was no point in this process, but the time limit needed to be deducted, so the two of them were quite nervous.

When Murong Xiu noticed that Yun Ji didn't use as many items as Tang Ao did, he couldn't help but be a bit worried about Tang Ao's formation. Although Murong Xiu hadn't studied formations systematically, ever since he had mastered the Book of Heaven's Path, he no longer felt that these formations lost their mysteriousness. He could even set up small formations of his own. He had yet to completely master a formation that was too large, but he still had some understanding of its mechanism. He also knew that if he wanted to set up a formation in a secret room, the items he needed wouldn't be as many as possible. The more flaws a cultivator had, the more likely he would be able to break through the formation.

Yun Ji was the first to exit from the room as she finished setting up her own array formation. Only when the incense stick had almost burnt down did Tang Ao slowly walk out. Soon after, a new incense stick lit up. Tang Ao entered the room first in order to gain more time.

Everyone stretched their necks and anxiously looked at the doors of the A and B. Seeing that the incense was about to burn out, the door of room B opened first. All of a sudden, all of the male members of the audience cheered while the ladies booed. Some of them even started to pinch their husbands' ears.

Thus, it was very clear that Yun Ji had won this match. After the incense stick had burnt to the ground, Tang Ao finally walked out of the 'A' gate. Moreover, his entire body was in a sorry state. It seemed that the formation set up by Yunji had put him through quite a bit of trouble.