Despite the complaints, they still enjoyed watching the fight between the two beauties. The aesthetically pleasing scene was a welcome contrast to the gory and violent content. While laymen enjoyed the spectacle, those in the know understood that their training was quite different from what everyone else described; at least both women were fighting for real, without any hint of vulnerabilities.

Xu Yuehuai's spiritual energy reserves were greater than those of ordinary people, which was a major reason why she was able to fight continuously. Therefore, she was not inferior to Ji Yaocen. Ji Yaocen was starting to run out of energy. She was injured and was not suitable for a prolonged battle. However, she had been fighting Xu Yuehuai on the stage for quite some time, almost half an hour.

Normally, these two quarters of an hour would be enough for a warm-up, but now they've become a deadly chain of events. Xu Yuehuai didn't go all out. When Ji Yaocen finally collapsed to the ground, exhausted and drained of her spiritual energy, she said, "I concede. Senior Sister's strength is not to be underestimated. I was wrong."

Ming Qing stood up from her seat, her eyes filled with anxiety. When Ji Yaocen walked up to her, she immediately stepped forward to support her. "Senior sister! Why did you give way to her! You could have taken care of her from the beginning."

A trickle of blood flowed from the corner of Ji Yaocen's mouth. She glanced down at it, raised her hand to wipe the blood from her lips, and her lips parted in a smile. "You don't understand. You'll understand later."

Ji Yaocen patted her head and leaned most of her weight on Mingqing, who then helped her leave the scene.

Xu Yuehuai suffered no less internal injury than Ji Yaocen. As she stepped off the stage, she stumbled and passed by Fu Ziyi.

Fu Ziyi's body reacted faster than his mind. His attention was always on Xu Yuehuai, observing her constantly. He was the first to reach out when he noticed something was wrong with her.

Xu Yuehuai's gaze lingered on him for a brief second because of his action before quickly shifting away, and she returned to her seat. Zisangyi transmitted her voice, "How are you feeling? If you're not feeling well, I'll find an excuse for you to leave first."

As she was saying this, Zi Sangyi turned to look at her and saw Xu Yuehuai holding a bottle, pouring pills into her mouth. Zi Sangyi's lips twitched. "Who taught you to eat pills like this? Even the best conditions can't withstand your wasteful behavior!"

In her excitement, Zi Sangyi forgot to use telepathy and blurted out what she wanted to say. Several elders around her turned to look. The one closest to Xu Yuehuai was the Grand Elder. Xu Yuehuai thought she had a kind face. The Grand Elder said, "Is the young lady an alchemist?"

Xu Yuehuai was taken aback. She had never revealed her identity before, and she did not expect that the Grand Elder could tell her identity in just one sentence. Xu Yuehuai did not hide anything and nodded, saying, "To be honest, before coming to the second floor, I studied alchemy with the academy's master."

The elder nodded, a smile playing on his lips, his eyes filled with admiration, which he made no attempt to hide. He even harbored a desire to snatch Xu Yuehuai away. This thought was immediately exposed by Zisangyi, who said, "Let me tell you, don't even think about taking my disciple. She has already gone through the formal apprenticeship ceremony and is my rightful disciple. Don't even think about making a move on her!"

While some people were chatting upstairs, a fight broke out downstairs. Some were there for the rewards set up by the sect, while others simply wanted to spar with stronger opponents. Therefore, they disdained to choose Xu Yuehuai and his group of newbies.

Xu Yuehuai was happy to have some free time. After taking countless elixirs, her body was recovering rapidly. Ji Yaocen left the venue after the competition, but returned not long after. However, her face was still pale, even worse than when she first arrived.

Xu Yuehua noticed this and quietly gave her several bottles of pills, saying, "Eat them."

Ji Yaocen stared blankly at the thing in her hand. She didn't refuse and readily opened a bottle and ate one pill. Instantly, she felt a sense of comfort throughout her body, which was very different from the pills she usually took. Ji Yaocen looked at Xu Yuehuai in surprise.

"These pills... I'm returning them to you; they're too precious." With that, Ji Yaocen handed the rest back to Xu Yuehuai, but Xu Yuehuai refused to accept them.

"These are all for you to eat, why did you only eat one? You ate them all." Xu Yuehua frowned slightly. She really couldn't understand why they only ate one pill. It wasn't anything precious, just some ordinary healing pills.

Hearing Xu Yuehuai's words, Ji Yaocen felt a lump in her throat. Nangong Yu, who was standing next to her, also poked his head out to join in the fun, "Senior Sister, you can't be biased when it comes to good things. There are so many people here, all of whom are your own brothers and sisters. How can you only give it to one person? Senior Sister can't do such a thing."

Xu Yuehuai looked at Nangong Yu and felt that he was like a different person, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what had changed. Only Nangong Yu knew that he used to regard Xu Yuehuai as his junior sister, but after the experience of the past ten days, he felt that this girl in front of him, who looked younger than him, was not necessarily weaker than him. Falling in love with such a girl was beneath him, so rather than letting himself sink deeper, he should stop in time so that they could still get along as friends and avoid losing even their friendship in the future.

If Xu Yuehuai knew his whereabouts during this monologue, she would definitely praise him.

Upon hearing this, Xu Yuehuai was very generous and took out a lot of pills, which were distributed to each elder's disciple. Nangong Yu did not expect that Xu Yuehuai would take his joking remark to heart.

He took the white porcelain bottle of pills from Xu Yuehuai's hand in a daze. "Senior Sister, are you serious?"

Xu Yuehuai smiled and looked at the others, "Of course, didn't you say that? Senior Sister should set a good example. Is my sincerity enough?"

Nangong Yu wanted to refuse, but after hearing Xu Yuehuai's words, he changed his mind. Xu Yuehuai's attitude clearly showed that he didn't lack one or two bottles of pills, and it would seem pretentious for him to refuse.

Nangong Yu carefully guarded the items, while on the other side, Ji Yaocen had already consumed a bottle of pills under Xu Yuehuai's command.

She immediately felt that the changes in her body were visible to her own eyes, and could be described as a miracle. She turned to Xu Yuehuai with surprise and asked, "Senior Sister, what level of alchemist are you?"

Xu Yuehuai was taken aback for a moment, then said, "I don't know about that. I only refine pills for my own use. I haven't paid much attention to fame and fortune. I just think these pills are quite useful, so I'm sharing them with you."

Xu Yuehuai could roughly guess that Ji Yaocen was able to say such a thing because her pills were extraordinary, but she didn't care; it wasn't time to sell pills yet.