"Then why are you grinning like that? It makes people think you're really happy about it!" Akashi hissed angrily. He didn't care; it was all her fault!

Nian Wanzhou was unhappy. Why could they bully her? "So what? If you have the guts, go and curse your senior brother. Why are you cursing me? Did I force you to come up here?"

"You...you're being utterly unreasonable!" Akashi was furious, her face flushed red. "It's all your fault anyway!"

Nian Wanzhou looked at him speechlessly: "Hey! Can you stop being so childish?" How come he's even more childish than her, a little kid? Oh no, at least she's not a child.

Forget it, I'll let it go.

Akashi got even angrier: "You're the childish one! Who's like you? You're just a pathetic little dragon cub, and I'm your older brother, for crying out loud!"

Nian Wanzhou, her head throbbing from his noise, finally snapped, "Can't you just shut up?!"

The oppressive aura spread out in all directions.

Akashi stared at her, eyes wide, momentarily forgetting how to react.

The disciples below the sparring platform: What is this? What, is it releasing its oppressive aura without warning??

Le Xi's face darkened: Here we go again, when will this ever end!

He was a member of the Jiao clan, which was already subordinate to the Dragon clan. This pressure was even more unbearable for him. Le Xi suspected that this junior sister was specifically targeting him!

It was intentional.

No, he had to hold back; he couldn't lose face here.

Nian Wanzhou was extremely annoyed. Who wanted to stand there forever? She quickly urged, "Alright, let's start. The sooner we finish, the sooner we can all get down. Are we just standing here like monkeys?"

Akashi was furious: "..."

It felt like punching cotton; it wasn't satisfying at all. And something just felt off.

"Sword cultivator, Foundation Establishment Stage 1, Ming Shi." He impatiently announced his strength, "Please enlighten me."

"..." It wasn't that Nian Wanzhou was unwilling to reveal her cultivation level; it was that she had no idea where her strength lay. "Um... a body cultivator, currently without cultivation level, Nian Wanzhou. Please enlighten me!"

People below the stage: What? She doesn't even have cultivation? This junior sister seems a bit weak.

"You don't know your own cultivation level?" Akashi asked incredulously and somewhat devastated. No way, was he really that unlucky?

“Yeah, I’ve only been at the sect for seven days, how could I have any cultivation?” Nian Wanzhou scratched his head.

"Aaaaaah!" Akashi was truly devastated, grabbing her hair and screaming to the sky, "I'm already at the Foundation Establishment stage, what are you going to use to fight me?!"

Nian Wanzhou didn't understand this and looked at him blankly: "This should be fine, right? I beat up a few senior brothers who were at the mid-level or above of the Qi Refining stage a few days ago, and there didn't seem to be any problems during the test."

She wasn't showing off; she genuinely didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

"Junior brother, just go for it. Demons, spirit beasts, and divine beasts are all pretty much the same—thick-skinned and tough. You don't need to worry about your cultivation level." Le Xi wouldn't let go of this opportunity to play dirty tricks behind someone's back.

Anyway, Nian Wanzhou won't get hurt; he's just giving her a lesson. "Your senior brothers are all here, so don't worry."

He quickly reassured Akashi, telling him to go into battle without worry.

Ming Shi glanced at Nian Wanzhou, then at Le Xi and his shameless senior brother, and finally gritted his teeth, drew his longsword, and unleashed a sword aura.

But there was no cry of pain as expected.

On the contrary, the little girl opposite him caught his sword energy with her hand, easily grabbed it, and threw it to the ground.

With a "snap".

It was as if their faces had been thrown to the ground, making a crisp, melodious, and pleasant sound.

Akashi was stunned. He really meant to beat her to a pulp just now, how could this be...?

Nian Wanzhou frowned, giving them an air of "you're so weak." Actually, she just suddenly remembered that her senior brother on the day of the test really didn't hold back.

Akashi refused to believe in bad luck and unleashed seven or eight sharp sword strikes in succession, as if he wanted to get revenge.

The sword energy was unleashed as if it were free, without any regard for spiritual energy.

Nian Wanzhou was not afraid at all, and she easily caught each move without getting hurt, and was even ready to receive the next move.

They exchanged barbs and verbal sparring remotely for a quarter of an hour, until Akashi on the other side was about to break her hand from all the waving.

Nian Wanzhou... still had that relaxed demeanor from the beginning.

The disciples below the stage were all shocked. This was unbelievable! How did she do that...?

Le Xi was also stunned. He knew that Nian Wanzhou was very special and thick-skinned, but now it seemed that he had underestimated her. She was even more bizarre than he had expected.

Moreover, she seems to be strong without realizing it, as if she's playing a game. Is she really that strong?

No, he didn't believe it.

Seeing that he had run out of moves and seemed tired, Nian Wanzhou asked him, "Don't you know any other moves? How about we rest for a bit before continuing?"

Akashi was furious at the provocation, but speechless, she could only retort fiercely, "I don't need to rest!"

He drew his longsword again and thrust it at her. Nian Wanzhou quickly dodged, but she was careless and failed to dodge.

Akashi launched a sneak attack from behind.

Five or six moves, imbued with all his spiritual power, struck Nian Wanzhou's back, and then he kicked the little boy away.

Then, he secretly swallowed a pill to restore his spiritual power.

"You attacked from behind? You have no sportsmanship!" Nian Wanzhou was kicked so hard that she rolled several times on the ground, her hair disheveled and her face covered in dust.

At this moment, she looked at Akashi with disbelief, her eyes wide open.

The disciples below the stage: That's really unethical! His sword skills couldn't even knock down his junior sister, so he actually kicked her like this.

They almost thought their junior sister was going to be seriously injured and were about to intervene, but then this junior brother delivered such a cheeky kick. Who's ever seen a big kid kick a little bean curd like that!

Those last few sword strikes were no joke; one wrong move and they could cost Junior Sister her life.

Playing...this big?

The disciples looked at Le Xi uneasily, asking him with their eyes whether they should stop the sparring.

"Senior Brother Yue, Junior Sister doesn't understand the rules of this sparring match either, so why don't we let her come down?"

“Yes, what if something happens... we won’t know how to explain it to the Sixth Elder and the First Elder.”

"That's right, Senior Brother Yue, why don't we just let it go..."

Lexi also felt that she was now in a difficult situation, and who knew things would develop like this.

This brat is really too reckless.

That side.

When Nian Wanzhou came to her senses, she was furious. She had never been ambushed like this before, and her back ached from the blow.

She nimbly scrambled to her feet and unleashed another flurry of punches on Akashi, specifically targeting his face. "How dare you! I'll teach you to hit me, to sneak up on me, to kick me!!!"

The crowd below the stage exclaimed: "Junior Sister is so fierce! This can't go on, Junior Brother is going to be completely overwhelmed!"

Ming Shi, who had just recovered her spiritual power, was rushed over by Nian Wanzhou and given a brutal beating. Before she could even react, the longsword she had just drawn was kicked away by her little feet.