Five years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Xiao Li's cultivation has reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment. This is only the cultivation she has shown.

In fact, she had already reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, making her even stronger than Luo Xuan, who was in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

On the day of the competition, Xiao Li drew several byes. She didn't want to fight in the arena at all, but her master told her to go, so she went and had a go.

Wen Xi's cultivation has also reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment. Her fellow disciples are all speculating about who is more powerful, her or Wen Li.

Qingran has also successfully established his foundation, but he is still at the early stage of foundation establishment. He is very frustrated. His junior sister is too powerful. He really tried his best, but he still can't compare to her.

Fortunately, his junior sister said she would still call him senior brother and not judge seniority based on cultivation level, which made him happy.

"Junior sister, this is the Yin-Yang Sword that Master gave me. You can borrow it for a moment."

He took out all his treasured swords. He was a wood-type celestial spirit root, and his swords would be very compatible with Xiao Li's water and wood spirit roots.

He had just overheard someone saying that his junior sister was definitely no match for him. How could she possibly lose? He had watched her advance; her advancement speed was simply unprecedented…

Okay, he admitted that Wen Xi was also a genius, but with his Yin-Yang Sword, his junior sister would definitely win.

Xiao Li smiled and took it, "I'll return it to you after the competition."

She has not used any weapons, mainly because her master said that her cultivation level is too low and it is not advisable to forge anything too good right now. She should wait until her cultivation level is higher before forging any weapons.

Qingran was even happier. If her Yin-Yang Sword could help her junior sister, that would be wonderful.

Luo Xuan smiled and tapped Qingran's forehead. "Look at you, so pathetic. How could your junior sister not have a weapon? Hurry up and take your Yin-Yang Sword back."

She took out a cyan longsword from her storage ring and handed it to Xiaoli.

"This was crafted by Senior Brother Luo Feng, and it's perfectly suited to your Water and Wood spiritual roots. It was originally intended as a gift for your advancement to the Golden Core stage, but I'm giving it to you ahead of time."

Xiao Li took it with both hands, pricked her fingertip, and dripped blood onto the sword. The spirit sword immediately emitted a dazzling halo.

Xiao Li vaguely saw a dragon coiling around the sword.

Luo Xuan exclaimed, "What a fine sword! It is indeed worthy of the three months of painstaking work my senior brother put into forging it, and it even uses the soul of a dragon that I have treasured for a long time and is about to transform into a dragon."

"Xiao Li, you can come up with a name."

Xiao Li liked it very much. This sword was of a high grade and could be upgraded in the future. She stroked the sword.

"You shall call it Azure Dragon Sword."

The sword trembled slightly, as if in response.

Three days later.

Xiao Li stepped onto the arena; this was her battle against Wen Xi.

Xiao Li sensed that the divine senses of many powerful figures were gathered here. She looked at Wen Xi, wondering if she knew that there were also divine senses looking down from the sky at this moment.

Wenxi cupped her hands in greeting to Xiaoli, "Senior Sister Li, please!"

Xiao Li returned the greeting, and then slowly drew her long sword.

The two clashed instantly, sword light scattered across the arena, and their figures moved erratically, occasionally interspersed with magical attacks.

A hint of envy flashed across Wen Xi's face, then she scoffed. What use is cultivation level that's built up with elixirs? Even with divine weapons, they're just external things; trash is trash.

In his previous life, Wen Li was only at the Qi Refining stage, but in this life, he has entered the Foundation Establishment stage, and Wen Li has also reached the Foundation Establishment stage. Isn't this just jealousy?

She felt a sense of pride. She didn't have a master; she had cultivated herself to her current level entirely on her own, unlike some people who, upon hearing that their master was scavenging for spiritual herbs, had closed off the Spirit Herb Peak to them.

She completely forgot that she also used water from the space well to cultivate.

Xiao Li was a little confused by her disdainful look. What was she imagining?

"Be careful!"

Xiao Li gently reminded her that she had almost pulled Wen Xi's hair just now. She really needed to be careful; what if she had won?

Wenxi was a little annoyed when she heard this. How dare she, a good-for-nothing who relied on elixirs, scold her?

Wenxi's sword became increasingly sharp and her speed increased.

Xiao Li was slightly satisfied. That's it!

She withdrew her spiritual power, and Wen Xi swept across the battlefield with a single blow. Xiao Li couldn't dodge in time and held her sword in front of her chest, but was struck by Wen Xi.

Xiao Li flew off the ring. She adjusted her posture, thinking that she wouldn't feel so much pain when she fell later.

"Xiao Li!"

It was her master's voice. A gust of wind blew, and Xiaoli fell into a large embrace.

Xiaoli felt relieved; she caught it and wouldn't fall.

Hehe~

A soft laugh came from above. Xiao Li looked up and saw that it was not her master, but a young man with cold features and deep eyes.

He lightly touched the ground with his toes, steadied himself, put Xiaoli down, and even smiled at her.

He blinked. "I am Mingcheng. You can make your performance even more realistic."

Xiao Li came to her senses and forced out a mouthful of blood.

"puff……"

Xiao Li coughed up a mouthful of blood, closed her eyes, and collapsed onto Ming Cheng.

This is the eldest brother! He makes me feel so safe.

Mingcheng held Xiaoli, feeling both amused and exasperated; she hadn't asked her to pretend to faint.

Luo Xuan ran over quickly and snatched the person away from Ming Cheng's arms.

"Xiao Li, what's wrong? Are you alright?"

She kept stuffing the elixir into Xiaoli's mouth, and Qingran also ran over; he was very worried too.

Mingcheng wanted to say something, but then swallowed it back.

"Master, let's go back."

Luo Xuan then noticed her eldest disciple, "Xiao Cheng, you're back? Come on, let's go back to the peak."

After speaking, Luo Xuan telepathically told the sect leader, then left with her three disciples.

Luo Feng muttered to himself, "He doesn't even want the reward for being the second-place disciple? That's really rare."

The sect leader sighed and rubbed his forehead in exasperation. His junior sister had just said to send the reward to Guanyun Peak. How could his money-grubbing junior sister have forgotten about the reward?

When Luo Xuan received the reward, she was overjoyed. How could she refuse it when her disciple had risked his life for it?

Viewing Cloud Peak.

Xiao Li looked at the senior brother opposite her, who had a teasing expression on his face.

"Um, Senior Brother, how did you figure that out?"

Mingcheng chuckled, "I didn't realize it either. I only found out after I caught you. Your body is so relaxed, you don't have a single injury."

Xiao Li sighed inwardly, realizing she had been careless. She was just thinking about how to bribe him when Ming Cheng spoke up.

"Okay, okay, I'm just kidding. I won't tell anyone."

He really didn't want to see his junior sister frowning, her little face all scrunched up.

Xiao Li then smiled happily, and Ming Cheng also felt that she had done the right thing.

My master wrote to inform me that she had taken on a new disciple and asked me to return to the sect immediately. It turns out my junior sister is so adorable.

Luo Xuan ran in from outside. She had just gone to the Spirit Medicine Peak and pleaded with her senior sister to give her a bottle of high-grade Rejuvenation Pills.

"Come on, Xiao Li, eat this quickly, you'll get better soon."

Xiao Li felt a little guilty, but she couldn't tell her master about it, lest she reveal her secret.

"Master, I'm fine now. I just need to rest for a while."

Luo Xuan checked Xiao Li's pulse again before she felt relieved. She didn't mention the competition, but instead took out several spiritual medicines for Xiao Li to nourish herself.