The tone was extremely light. The leaves rustled, vaguely covering this seemingly unspoken question.
Shen Xingcong almost thought he had heard it wrong.
He was stunned: “What is the relationship between the two?”
Xiao Lin muttered: “Probably, it is what I and senior brother want to.”
In other words, it was a give-and-take condition.
After a short period of astonishment, Shen Xingcong really carefully considered this suggestion from the other person.
If he didn’t see Lan Jin, then would Xiao Lin promise not to see Mu Xiaorou? After this, he would no longer need to follow everything, just like an old mother.
He swallowed his saliva: “Then I will try not to see Teacher, you…”
Xiao Lin lowered his eyes and hooked a smile: “This word try can really be a good word.”
He seemed to be dissatisfied with this vague statement of his.
“I understand.” Shen Xingcong broke the jar, “Then I will only go see him once in seven days!”
Xiao Lin looked into the platform: “I wonder what that person’s name is.”
Shen Xingcong: “Once a month!”
He followed closely, “There can be no less. You know how often I have been before, I will disturb Teacher whether I have anything to matter or not. If I don’t go all of a sudden, I’m afraid he will still be worried.”
Xiao Lin looked at him and didn’t say anything.
Shen Xingcong: “…”
“…fine.” He slumped his shoulders and said with a frown, “After this, if Teacher doesn’t look for me, I won’t take the initiative to find him.”
Xiao Lin’s eyes curved slightly: “That’s good.”
Shen Xingcong glared at him.
At this time, cheers came from the direction of the platform, and it was estimated to end soon.
Shen Xingcong raised his foot: “My head doesn’t hurt anymore, let’s go back.”
Because of the depressed anger in his heart, Shen Xingcong went forward.
Xiao Lin followed soon after.
For him, if Shen Xingcong still had a very significant person in his heart, it was indeed very inconvenient.
So, he just took this opportunity to distance the relationship between the two.
As for the person that senior brother didn’t want him to meet, he didn’t have any interest.
Only one thing.
Senior brother agreed to his conditions so quickly, is it possible that the direct disciple is so important?
Xiao Lin looked at the back of the person before him and pondered in his heart.
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Back on the platform, the second round of the competition had already ended. Wu Chang Peak won.
Mu Xiaorou must have performed well just now, and the surrounding area was discussing her graceful bearing on stage.
“Seeing her flustered, I was on edge for her. I didn’t expect she would be able to pull off such a big move in the end.”
“Xu Yu Peak was taken by surprise. Perhaps because they got the upper hand in the early stages and underestimated the enemy.”
“No matter what, she is still the Sect Leader’s favorite disciple. At most, she is not good at actual combat, but if she accumulates more experience, we will have another character in the Xiaoyao Sect.”
Senior Sister Yun Xiu was also discussing with her two junior brothers. Seeing Shen Xingcong and Xiao Lin return, she asked: “Where did you two go just now? How come you two weren’t there for the entire competition.”
Shen Xingcong was afraid of being questioned closely: “I wanted to observe the environment of the platform, so I stood a little farther away.”
Yu Fei nodded: “It is also important to win with the advantage of the environment. I didn’t expect that you don’t have much experience in actual combat, yet you have such insight.”
Shen Xingcong was thick-skinned: “Senior brother is flattering.”
At the end of the preliminary examination, the victorious and defeated groups were decided. The final examination will be held in the afternoon.
Some of the crowd dispersed. Yun Xiu was about to take a few people from Jin Xin Peak to rest when she was suddenly called out.
“Senior Sister Yun Xiu.”
Shen Ke’er approached: “Senior Brother Murong is really powerful, the winner was decided in a few sticks of incense. It’s a pity that I didn’t see senior sister on the stage.”
Yun Xiu nodded slightly: “Please advise me more in the next match.”
In the afternoon, Jing Xin Peak drew a round with Wu Chang Peak.
Shen Ke’er: “I heard that Senior Brother Yu Fei was injured, so Jing Xin Peak changed to a new disciple. Now the pressure is all on senior sister.”
“Winning or losing is a common occurrence.” Yun Xiu said, “You and I don’t have much actual combat on ordinary days. This Daoist Discussion Conference is a rare opportunity, and newcomers should be given more opportunities.”
Shen Ke’er raised her eyebrows: “Speaking like this, it’s not to fill up the numbers? Is Jing Xin Peak really going to send a Foundation Building on the stage?”
Before Yun Xiu could reply, she heard a voice beside her.
“What’s with Foundation Building or not,” Shen Xingcong ridiculed, “You know perfectly well it is me.”
That’s why she especially came over to pick a fight.
Probably still holding a grudge from a year ago. New hatred piled on old, hatred on top of more hatred.
Shen Ke’er purposely ignored this person who was standing behind Yun Xiu, but she didn’t expect to be actively talked to by the other person.
“I just don’t want to pressure you.” She looked askance over, “If you’re just here to fill up the numbers, anyone can understand if you don’t go on the stage.”
Shen Xingcong originally didn’t want to go on stage.
He went up and had to perform, carefully controlling the power to not exceed it too much. In the full view of everyone, it would be inevitable for him not to make a slip. It was really tiring.
He was about to make use of the slope to get off his ass, but he heard Yu Fei’s righteous indignation: “Shen Ke’er, don’t look down on people! Who hasn’t come from Foundation Building? Even if he can’t win a fight now, it’s not certain in the future.”
Yun Xiu: “Xingcong’s talent is not inferior to yours, and he will definitely be able to make some progress in the future.”
Murong: “Don’t bully the youth.”
Shen Xingcong: …what are you all saying?
Although they were helping him to speak, it was as if he had already been determined to be defeated.
It was inevitable. After all, he was a “Foundation Building stage” thrown into this pile of Golden Core and Nascent Soul big shots, just like a small chicken. He could only shiver.
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Shen Ke’er was widely known as domineering by nature. To put it nicely, she was eloquent and unrestrained; to put it bluntly, she was impudent and pretentious.
Senior brothers and sister of Jing Xin Peak wouldn’t bother about her, just worried that Shen Xingcong would be shocked. They looked at him together.
Seeing them open their mouths, Shen Xingcong raised his hand first: “I’m fine! Not shocked at all.”
Senior Sister Yun Xiu was relieved: “Good job. Cultivation for cultivators is actually cultivating one’s mind, there is no need to care too much about the eyes of others.”
Yu Fei laughed out loud: “Thick-skinned is Xingcong’s strong point.”
Murong: “Does being thick-skinned count as a strong point.”
Shen Xingcong: Hey!
It felt like the words of the senior brothers and sister were more distressing than Shen Ke’er’s.
It was the afternoon in a blink of an eye.
Perhaps it was because Shen Ke’er had provoked a bit before, Senior Sister Yun Xiu purposely let Shen Xingcong be the first to go on the stage.
Most people knew about the time when Jing Xin Peak replaced someone and were especially concerned about this match.
“I still believe it was just to fill up the numbers, I didn’t expect to really let a Foundation Building stage go on stage?”
“Jing Xin Peak might be in danger this year.”
“Who’s on the side of Wu Chang Peak? Shen Ke’er?”
“Hiss, Wu Chang Peak is bearing down menacingly this year. It is said that Shen Ke’er has also broken through to the middle stage of Golden Core, wouldn’t it be easy against a tiny Foundation Building?”
The Elder seats were similarly discussed.
“Elder Jing Xin.” Elder Ling said, “What exactly are you thinking this year? Are you tired of taking first place?”
Elder Jing Xin: “The directory is all handled by Yun Xiu, I have not interfered much. But…”
He stroked his beard and laughed, “Since the Daoist Discussion Conference’s purpose was to exchange, there’s nothing wrong with giving more opportunities to new disciples.”
Elder Ling grunted and said no more.
Shen Xingcong took the long sword and was about to go on the stage. Suddenly, he was called by Xiao Lin.
“Senior brother.”
Shen Xingcong paused and turned back.
Xiao Lin: “Senior brother will really lose?”
Shen Xingcong was a bit surprised: “You don’t want me to lose?”
Xiao Lin: “Just think it is wasteful.”
Yu Fei didn’t understand what these two were saying and urged from the side: “Winning or losing isn’t something you can decide. Xingcong, there’s already someone on the opposite side, so hurry up and go.”
“Okay, I’m going now.”
Shen Xingcong answered and took one last look at Xiao Lin.
“You look at me properly.”
.
Standing on the platform, Shen Xingcong realized how high the place was.
The surface of the stage was a floating stone especially found by the main peak’s disciples, and it was a full zhang above the ground. The surrounding scenery was evident to be seen.
Shen Xingcong had just climbed over when he heard the voices of the people around him discussing spiritedly.
“That’s him?”
“Too much courage. When I was at the Foundation Building stage, not to mention togo up on stage, just standing here and watching made me feel inferior to others.”
“I’m afraid he is going to get beaten up miserably. Ai, I do not dare to look.”
Shen Ke’er’s spiritual weapon was a long whip. When she raised her arm and swung it heavily downward, it caused the entire stage to tremble three times.
“You actually came.” She raised her willow eyebrows, “The span between the Golden Core stage and the Foundation Building stage is not as small as that between Qi training and Foundation Building.”
Of course.
Shen Xingcong said in his heart.
The span between the Golden Core stage and the Unification stage was even more frightening as severe floods and fierce beasts.
Shen Ke’er saw that Shen Xingcong didn’t respond, thinking he was frightened. Her chin rose slightly: “Let’s do it this way, I’ll let you have three moves. Lest people say I’m bullying you.”
“Many thanks senior sister.”
Shen Xingcong wasn’t polite.
With a finger of his hand, countless long swords immediately floated up from around his body.
This was the basic illusion technique. It looked like there were numerous weapons, but in reality, only one was real.
“Hmph, an insignificant skill.”
Shen Ke’er didn’t panic when she saw several long swords coming. With a wave of her long whip, she swept away all of them and destroyed them. The only one left clattered to the ground, alone and impoverished.
The crowd sighed as they watched from the audience.
“The Foundation Building stage is still really far-fetched against Golden Core.”
“To even use tricks against the Golden Core stage, wouldn’t that be seen through at a glance?”
“Now that the weapon has also been taken away, what other tricks are there?”
Xiao Lin stood in the audience, his pitch-black pupils gazing upwards. Suddenly, he felt someone approaching beside him.
He turned his head sideways.
The competition on the platform was still going.
Shen Ke’er: “Come over and pick up your sword, I won’t attack you.”
Shen Xingcong’s hand pointed over.
Shen Ke’er didn’t react and raised her eyes to see a sharp object coming into her eyes.
She was taken aback and subconsciously swept to the side.
With a “clang”, the long sword plunged straight into the rock slab.
Not an illusion?
Shen Ke’er was stunned.
This wasn’t all. Then, countless long swords came from the sky, raining down menacingly like a torrential downpour.
Just how many of these things were there!?
Her heart became annoyed, and she simply rolled them up and swung them directly at Shen Xingcong.
There was a harsh wind blowing out at once. Shen Xingcong’s robe then puffed up, and his hair moved with the wind.
But for some reason, those long swords disappeared out of thin air.
…this time, it was an illusion.
Shen Ke’er couldn’t figure it out and immediately looked around. She found that two weapons had fallen to the ground.
One is a long sword, the other is a short blade.
At first, Shen Xingcong used a short blade when he attacked over. Hidden in the illusion of countless long swords, she hadn’t realized it. Because she had a preconceived notion that this person had only taken one weapon.
When the wind stopped, Shen Xingcong took care of the hair that stuck on his face: “Didn’t Senior Sister Ke’er say that she would let me have three moves? How come right after the second move, you make a move?”
Shen Ke’er couldn’t keep her face and immediately came with a whip: “Don’t talk nonsense!”
This person dared to insult her again and again! She wanted to fight a quick battle so that this person would recognize the difference in strength and raise his hand to surrender!
In her rage, Shen Ke’er didn’t withdraw her strength. For a moment, the platform shook, and strange lights flashed.
Yu Fei felt a chill run down his spine: “This Shen Ke’er’s strikes are too ruthless. It’s all clear up to this point, how can she be so serious?”
Yun Xiu’s face was grave: “Murong, go up in time depending on the situation.”
Murong: “All right.”
Shen Xingcong dodged Shen Ke’er’s attack in the extraordinary light.
To be honest, the other person’s speed was too slow in his eyes, and he was able to dodge it while yawning. Just as a “Foundation Building stage”, it was also not good without injury, he could only pretend to take a few moves.
When she heard ** muffled sound, Shen Ke’er raised her strength and moved more ruthlessly.
Shen Xingcong dodged a piercingly painful spell.
Originally, before this morning, he was still thinking of losing as early as possible.
Senior brothers and sister didn’t care much about the rankings. And he was a “Foudation Building”, in the competition to lose was more normal.
Besides, it would be too much effort to rack his brain to think about how to “naturally” defeat his opponent.
But after the experience just now, he changed his mind.
Because he really wasn’t a patient temper. Shen Ke’er climbed all over him to provoke him. If he lost, perhaps she would be even more cocky.
Then he would experience one kind of senior brothers and sister’s bombardment of “care”.
He was afraid that Senior Sister Yun Xiu would take this matter quite seriously and instruct him even more harshly than before so that he could wipe out his past shame.
Once he thought of sitting in the Jingshi for dozens of hours, Shen Xingcong trembled with fear.
Because even if he was running on his spiritual energy, he couldn’t absorb the slightest amount of spiritual energy.
And most importantly, senior brothers and sister didn’t care about the rankings, but they cared about him.
He didn’t care about the rankings either, but he also cared about what his senior brothers and sister thought.
It was just a little bit troublesome, and there’s nothing he can’t do.
Shen Ke’er only felt that she had greeted this nuisance’s body with all her attacks, which was so refreshing.
She glanced at the audience from the corner of her eyes and saw that everyone was staring in disbelief.
She was pleased in her heart and prepared to make her final strike.
It was a big move she had prepared carefully. Beautiful and powerful. The only drawback was just that it would consume a lot of spiritual energy.
But the moves would end after that.
Shen Ke’er retreated a few steps and let go of the long whip. Obviously, no one was driving it, but the long whip surrounded its owner as if it had wisdom.
Then, the speed got faster and faster, and it seemed like a hurricane was rising from under Shen Ke’er’s feet.
Even the surroundings of the platform were affected.
Because of the howling wind, countless people were unable to open their eyes due to the wind blowing. Because of the spiritual energy hidden in the wind, they might be scratched if one took a step closer. It was like a sharp blade cutting through the skin.
“Murong!” Yun Xiu shouted and was about to go forward with him. But suddenly, she heard a message from within her mind.
【Wait a moment.】
It was Master’s voice.
She wasn’t the only one who heard it, Murong obviously heard it as well.
The two of them stopped and looked up to the high platform above.
Shen Ke’er stood in the center of the hurricane, her long hair fluttering with the wind, but the wind blade didn’t hurt her in the slightest. She approached the person in front of her step by step.
“You forfeit.” Shen Ke’er said, “Any closer, I’m afraid I’ll hurt your life.”
Shen Xingcong: “You can’t get any closer either.”
What?
Shen Ke’er frowned her brows slightly, but she saw flame rising in the other person’s hands.
Fighting the wind with fire?
Ridiculous. The thought was good. Unfortunately, the difference in cultivation was too great. Look at her blow it out directly!
Shen Ke’er pressed closer and closer.
She didn’t know where the sand and ash were drawn together into the wind. The hurricane instantly became a sandstorm. The two people on the platform were circled into it. The visibility became lower and lower.
Now, even the elders on the high platform couldn’t see much clearly. They could only sense it with their divine awareness.
One silhouette approached the other, and the other retreated backward, soon about to fall off the platform.
Falling off the platform meant losing the competition.
“Ke’er has made great progress in a year, and is actually able to utilize such a spell.” An elder praised, “It is mostly Elder Ling who taught her well.”
Elder Ling was delighted in his heart but didn’t show it on his face: “I am flattered. Ke’er has many shortcomings, she still needs to work hard.”
Within the hurricane, Shen Ke’er was a bit unable to see the path clearly due to the suddenly swirling sand.
But she sensed that there was someone in front of her, and she was thinking of forcing the person back.
It was reasonable to say that if it were changed to someone else, they would have been unable to stand it by now, and their skin would have been torn and flesh gaping. How come he hasn’t begged for mercy yet?
She was puzzled.
She stepped into the air all of a sudden, but suddenly lost her balance and fell down.
The spell broke, and the howling winds still. Her beloved long whip fell limply, falling to her side with a patter sound.
How, what’s going on?
Before Shen Ke’er could react, she saw someone above her fall to the edge of the platform.
It was Shen Xingcong.
It was different from what she had imagined. Although the other person had suffered some minor injuries, he was still fully clothed and didn’t look like he had stood in the middle of a hurricane at all.
The person glanced at her and asked the assessor disciple: “She fell down, she is considered to have lost, right?”
The disciple was stunned: “Yes, yes it is.”
“Okay, it’s over.”
The man clenched his fist as if he had accomplished something great. Without looking at her again, he walked back to the center.
Lost?
Shen Ke’er collapsed under the platform, not yet accepting this reality.
How could she have lost?
She was in the middle stage of Golden Core and was Elder Ling’s proudest disciple. How could this mere Foundation Building stage, which had just been squeezed in from the outer sect, be able to defeat her?
Thinking back to a moment ago, the sand from nowhere confused her eyes. She could only vaguely see the silhouette in front of her.
Because that person set the fire, she wanted to blow it out quickly to force him down. As a result, she didn’t pay attention to her feet for a moment.
Thinking of the illusion, could it be that the silhouette that attracted her was also a fake? But from when?
Shen Ke’er couldn’t figure it out.
She thought she had been staring at Shen Xingcong, pressing step by step. When exactly did she miss it?
Not only Shen Ke’er but even the disciples in the audience were dumbfounded. Just now, the sand blown by the wind was too strong. Most of them had retreated some distance back to protect themselves and were blindfolded.
They originally thought that Shen Ke’er’s victory was a sure thing, but Shen Xingcong was able to hold on for so long and even played tricks on this person at first, it was true that he performed well. But they never expected that it was the latter who won in the end.
Only after a long time did someone slowly talk: “Did the Foundation Building stage win?”
“It was the Foundation Building stage that won the Golden Core!? Oh my God, I didn’t see it wrong.”
“I get it, that sand blown by the wind must have been made by Shen Xingcong. It’s just to cover up the illusion. I didn’t understand much about it before, but I didn’t expect him to be good at it!”
“I just can’t figure out how he avoided Shen Ke’er. Have you aall seen it?”
“One of the key points of illusion is to divert the target’s attention through superfluous movements. I guess it was some kind of technique that fooled Shen Ke’er’s attention.”
One person sighed, “Although the moves are not very powerful, a Foundation Building stage can use so many moves one after another. It must be the use of spiritual energy to a certain realm. And he was not afraid of Shen Ke’er’s big move, but instead utilized it for himself, and the reaction was really fast enough.”
“Come to speak of it, a year ago he also did a meritorious deed, saving several fellow disciples. At that time, even at the Qi training stage, he dared to deal with demon cultivators, his courage and insight are really hard to underestimate.”
Everyone sighed and mentioned Shen Ke’er.
“Hahaha, Shen Ke’er just said that she would allow three moves. As a result, not only did she not let the three moves finish, she ended up losing in a complete mess. I can’t even bear to watch.”
“It is indeed a bit humiliating.”
As Elder Ling’s chief disciple, Shen Ke’er liked to stand at the forefront, liked to command others, and even more so, liked to be in the limelight.
But what she wanted was by no means this kind of attention!
Previously, she had been made a fool of when investigating the invasion of demon cultivators and originally thought that she would be able to wipe away the humiliation this time around. But she didn’t expect——!
Once she thought about being defeated by Shen Xingcong, or even defeated by a Foundation Building stage, Shen Ke’er was so angry and hateful that she just wanted to find a hole in the ground to get into.
The results of the competition have been determined, and there were Wu Chang Peak’s disciples who came to help her but were shrugged off.
“Leave me alone!”
Shen Ke’er got up on her own and left angrily from the crowd.
Shen Xingcong walked over to the audience.
Upon seeing Shen Ke’er raise a hurricane, he thought about creating a sandstorm with the help of sand. Make movement more convenient.
After all, for the time being, one could only use spells within the Foundation Building stage, and illusions were extremely easy to see through. With the sand blown by the wind covering it, the chances of it being seen through were greatly reduced.
Later, he deliberately lit a fire so that Shen Ke’er mistakenly thought he was trying to use fire to attack and divert her attention.
At that time, he had already moved his body above her.
The moves weren’t difficult. The difficulty was that spiritual energy was limited in the Foundation Building stage. Often, after making a few moves, the spiritual energy is exhausted.
Therefore, if it was really a Foundation Building stage disciple, it would not be easy to use this method.
There are people watching along the way.
It was not Shen Xingcong’s original intention to be in the limelight, but the feeling of being praised wasn’t bad.
Moreover, Xiao Lin should have seen his performance. It was so wonderful that he definitely wouldn’t look away to find someone else.
That’s right.
Thinking this way, Shen Xingcong cast his gaze towards the crowd.
Senior Sister Yun Xiu, Senior Brother Murong, and Senior Brother Yu Fei were all looking at him with surprise and joy, seemingly extremely unbelievable.
And behind them, Xiao Lin was inclining his head, not knowing who he was listening to.
It was a young girl.
A young girl who had reached the age of fifteen. Her appearance was delicate and pretty, and her hair was tied in a bun on both sides behind her ears. For some reason, her cheeks were blushing.
Shen Xingcong was frozen in place, petrified motionlessly.
Isn’t that Mu Xiaorou?!
Xiao Lin, when the hell did you——!
Huhuhu, he beat her!
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Shen Xingcong’s jealousy arc starts here! 🥳
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Thank you for your translation!
And oh, I have a question.. Can’t some chapters be uploaded on Fridays or Sundays? I mean, add additional days for downloading. This question has always been on my mind, translator
Hmm I can consider it, and I want to if I can, but I have stuff going on in my real life, that’s why I can only upload 1 chapter/week
Oh, what a pity 🥹🥹💔
No problem, Every Monday 🥹👌❤️🩹