How did you know?!

Liu Yunzhao paused his attack and looked at Liu Yunqing with some shock.

Her spiritual roots are only said to be dual ice and water spiritual roots, both of which are of extremely high purity. In order to make them even purer, she wanted to use the special properties of the Golden Crow's essence blood to remove the water spiritual root and leave only the ice spiritual root.

In fact, Liu Yunzhao does not have a complete water spirit root, nor does he have a complete ice spirit root.

Instead, it is a semi-mutated spiritual root formed by the combination of two incomplete spiritual roots.

Since my cultivation level is currently low, it doesn't have any impact yet, and I can advance as quickly as an ordinary Heavenly Spirit Root.

In addition, Liu Yunzhao has high comprehension, so his cultivation is even more divinely aided.

However, if this kind of incompletely mutated spiritual root cannot be resolved before reaching the Nascent Soul stage, even if one manages to form a Nascent Soul, it will be absolutely impossible to reach the Divine level.

At that time, not only will one's cultivation be hindered and unable to make any progress, but one's ice will also be neither firm nor soft enough to melt into water, resulting in a lose-lose situation on both sides.

In his previous life, Liu Yunzhao obtained the essence blood of the Golden Crow at an early age. With the help of the blazing heavenly fire of the Golden Crow bloodline, he completely cleansed away the water spiritual root as an impurity. With the help of other methods, he made Liu Yunzhao completely become a mutated ice spiritual root.

With the rare and precious materials in the Golden Crow Ring, Liu Yunzhao effortlessly became the most dazzling new star in the Sun Realm, which also served as the greatest affirmation of her status as the Daughter of Heavenly Fortune.

Liu Yunqing was indeed unaware of these matters.

But during the hunting competition, the white frost on the corpses of those monsters that melted when heated made Liu Yunqing suddenly understand.

However, even though Liu Yunqing knew this, she wouldn't kindly offer Liu Yunzhao any answers; in fact, she hoped Liu Yunzhao would feel even more uneasy.

After all, how can winning someone's heart not be considered an attack?

Moreover, cultivators should avoid having their minds blocked or obstructed.

Therefore, Liu Yunqing simply gave Liu Yunzhao a sweet smile and seized the opportunity to quickly manipulate the hand seals, making the attack impenetrable.

Unfortunately, just as Liu Yunqing could challenge opponents of higher levels, so could Liu Yunzhao, so the difference in their cultivation levels—a major level above each other—was not eliminated at all.

If Liu Yunqing's attack were used against an ordinary Golden Core cultivator, the two would be evenly matched, and Liu Yunqing's special fire spirit root would even give him a better chance of winning.

But in Liu Yunzhao's hands, it was indeed somewhat inadequate.

After hearing Liu Yunqing reveal his secret, Liu Yunzhao's brief panic and unease subsided, and his gaze toward the other became even more determined.

Liu Yunqing could sense that Liu Yunzhao was now fully committed to killing.

"Yun Qing, you are really too insensible."

Liu Yunzhao changed his hand gestures, and the enlarged bracelet hovering in the air began to make a "click-click" sound from its mechanism.

Liu Yunqing barely managed to raise a spiritual energy shield when the rain poured down on her head with a rustling sound like raindrops hitting leaves.

But it wasn't rain; instead, it was transparent needles as thin as cow hair, and it wasn't hitting fallen leaves, but rather Liu Yunqing's spiritual energy shield.

The domineering and scorching spiritual energy shield, which made it impossible for anyone to get close, shattered into pieces as easily as a leaf when pricked by these fine needles.

If Liu Yunqing hadn't been cautious and secretly activated his protective magic item, he would probably be riddled with thorns by now.

Seeing Liu Yunqing's discomfiture, Liu Yunzhao's eyes gleamed with smugness, and he spoke in a tone full of advice:

"Yun Qing, don't treat others like fools. I've already been taken advantage of by you once. Do you think I'll suffer the same loss again?"

While awkwardly parrying the attacks, Liu Yunqing sneered disdainfully:

"Are you sure it's just once? It seems Fairy Yun Zhao's memory isn't very good."

As Liu Yunqing spoke, a fireball that looked familiar to Liu Yunzhao suddenly appeared in his hand.

Upon seeing the fireball, Liu Yunzhao couldn't save face.

How could she forget that the second drop of Golden Crow essence blood was also stolen by Liu Yunqing?

That time, she was tricked by an empty fireball, which made her lose face.

No, that's not right. Ever since Liu Yunqing escaped from the Liu family, every time she's been embarrassed, whether directly or indirectly.

She could tolerate the embarrassment, but more importantly, missing out on the Golden Crow's essence blood again made solving her spiritual root problem even more difficult.

Seeing the incoming fireball, Liu Yunzhao's anger was reignited by Liu Yunqing, and he swung his sleeve to slap it hard, saying:

"You ungrateful wretch! Die!"

With a casual flick of his wrist, Liu Yunqing dispersed the fireball and then forcefully pressed down on the bracelet hanging above his head.

"Boom—bang bang bang—!!!"

Unable to resist the force, Liu Yunqing was slammed down by the enlarged bracelet, creating a crater within a crater in the ground.

Enraged, Liu Yunzhao had no intention of giving her time to calm down. He thrust a sharp, gleaming water sword into the crater Liu Yunqing had created.

Unfortunately, before the water sword could be released, it suddenly turned into white smoke and dissipated.

Liu Yunzhao frowned, but then heard a "whoosh" sound. He turned his head and saw that his clothes had caught fire!

But those weren't ordinary clothes; they were defensive magic robes!

"Sizzle—"

The next instant, the sound of tearing cloth rang out, and Liu Yunzhao's defensive robe turned into strips of cloth, the fire clinging to her body penetrating her skin.

The excruciating pain of having flesh and bones torn apart overwhelmed Liu Yunzhao. Ignoring the motionless Liu Yunqing in the pit, he raised his hand and enveloped himself in a giant water sphere.

Before she could even catch her breath, the dim flame reignited in an instant.

Seeing that the flames wouldn't go out in the water and couldn't be shaken off, and even seemed to be spreading to other parts of his body, Liu Yunzhao's eyes revealed a fierce light he had never seen before.

"Sizzle—"

"ah--!!!"

The next instant, the sound of flesh and blood flying everywhere was accompanied by Liu Yunzhao's screams.

Fortunately, she had already advanced to the Golden Core stage, so even if Liu Yunqing's Foundation Establishment stage fire was powerful, it wouldn't burn her to death that quickly.

Looking at the flesh and blood that had just left the body and had not even turned to ashes, Liu Yunzhao swallowed a handful of pills and turned to walk towards the crater that Liu Yunqing had smashed.

Liu Yunqing has completely enraged her!

Liu Yunzhao's anger, accompanied by her Golden Core stage power, caused a fierce gale to rise in the windless underground tunnel.

Unfortunately, Liu Yunzhao's anger was suppressed as soon as it reached the edge of the pit.

Because there was no one in the pit.

Before Liu Yunzhao could even feel confused, a chill ran down his spine, accompanied by a strong killing intent.

He turned around abruptly and was met with Liu Yunqing's hand, which was covered in flames and reached for his heart with lightning speed.

"You dare!"

Liu Yunzhao's eyes were bloodshot with rage, and his usual calm and composed demeanor was gone.

Trying to dodge, Liu Yunqing, covered in blood, gave him a strange smile, revealing a row of white teeth. Liu Yunzhao instantly felt a sharp pain in his mind, slowing his movement by half a breath.

In that brief moment, Liu Yunqing's fiery fingertip precisely pierced Liu Yunzhao's heart.

"Doesn't Fairy Yun Zhao like to draw blood from people's hearts?"

"Let me see whether it's the blood from Fairy Yun Zhao's heart that's black, or the ink from which she wrote this!"

As soon as the word "black" was uttered, flames burned into his heart, and Liu Yunzhao let out a shrill scream, madly throwing a jade pendant at Liu Yunqing.

"No--!!!"

"ah--!!!"