"Bai Ying! How are you still alive?"
Ruan Xinrou shouted loudly, attracting the attention of hundreds of cultivators in the square.
Her fingers clenched tightly at the hem of her clothes, and her carefully drawn willow-leaf eyebrows twisted into an odd angle.
Just three zhang away, the girl who should have been terrified was slowly ascending the jade steps, her plain white Taoist robe fluttering like a butterfly in the wind.
"System! Didn't you say she was completely annihilated?" Ruan Xinrou questioned sharply in her mind. She clearly saw the ancestor strike her with a single palm, leaving no trace of her body. How could she still be alive?
The system was clearly surprised as well: "She's not dead?"
Bai Ying stopped on the last stone step. The midday sun pierced through her slender body, casting a pale, almost transparent shadow on the jade floor.
"Junior Sister, how have you been?" Her voice was as soft as melting snow in early spring, yet it made Ruan Xinrou feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave.
"System, what's going on?"
Ruan Xinrou's system quickly calmed down.
"Xinrou, don't worry. Don't you still have the power of the Ancestor's Void Refinement? You can kill her in public."
If everyone sees her die at your hands, then you will have plundered all her luck.
And you will truly take your place and become the protagonist of this world.
Haha, so what if she didn't die?
"Won't it become a stepping stone to your success?"
"good!"
Ruan Xinrou burst into laughter. She slowly stood up, pointing arrogantly at Bai Ying and proclaiming to the crowd, "Fellow Daoists, please look!" She channeled her spiritual power, amplifying her voice throughout the entire area, "This is Bai Ying, the traitor who colluded with demonic cultivators, leading to the destruction of the Lingyin Sect! Today, I, Ruan Xinrou, will act on behalf of Heaven!"
Several cultivators from the Huayang Sect on the viewing platform exchanged glances. They whispered to Ruan Xinrou, "Junior Sister Ruan, it's really strange that Bai Ying didn't die under those circumstances. Keep her calm for now, we'll go tell the Ancestor and ask him to come over..."
But Ruan Xinrou couldn't wait any longer.
"boom!"
Ruan Xinrou suddenly launched an attack, and the pressure of the Void Refinement stage erupted like the sky collapsing and the earth sinking.
The blood-red rune between her brows suddenly lit up, like a third ferocious blood-red eye, and the power of the forbidden technique planted by the Huayang Ancestor surged and boiled in her meridians.
The snake whip in his hand swelled with the wind, transforming in an instant into a hundred-foot-long giant python. Every scale gleamed with a poisonous light, and the saliva dripping from its fangs corroded a pit ten feet deep into the jade ground. The rising poisonous mist caused the spiritual herbs within a ten-foot radius to wither instantly.
"This...this is the true power of the Void Refinement stage!"
Among the spectators, an elder at the Golden Core stage staggered backward, his protective aura flickering erratically in the aftershocks. The young cultivator beside him fared even worse, coughing up blood as the shockwave caused his magical artifact to crack open with a loud "crack."
"As expected of Fairy Ruan!" The Huayang Sect disciple was so excited his face turned red. "The power of that attack could probably level a mountain!"
"I heard that when the Lingyin Sect was wiped out three days ago, Fairy Ruan single-handedly broke through the sect's protective formation," someone said in a low voice. "Even at her peak, Bai Ying was only at the Nascent Soul stage; now she's probably..."
The murmurs abruptly ceased. Everyone stared wide-eyed at the center of the battlefield, where the girl in white remained completely unmoved in the face of this devastating attack.
Her Taoist robes fluttered in the strong wind, but her clear, cold eyes remained as calm as a deep pool.
"Terrified, aren't you?" Ruan Xinrou's lips curled into a cruel smile, her fingertips shifting her magic seals once more. "Then take your ignorance with you to the Yellow Springs!"
The giant python let out a deafening roar, and the eerie light condensing on its fangs suddenly surged.
At this critical moment, Bai Ying suddenly raised her right hand.
The seemingly ordinary longsword in her hand suddenly emitted a dazzling light, and dense ancient inscriptions appeared on its blade.
"bite!"
A clear, resonant sword cry echoed through the heavens. Time seemed to stand still at that moment; the giant python's fangs hovered three inches in front of Bai Ying's brow, unable to advance any further.
The starlight flowing along the sword's edge transformed into a tangible barrier, completely shutting out the towering poisonous fog.
"Impossible!" Ruan Xinrou's beautiful face twisted in agony as she frantically called out to the system in her mind, "Detect her cultivation level! This is definitely not the power a Nascent Soul stage cultivator could possess!"
The system's voice rang out: "Warning... Target energy level exceeds threshold... Void Refinement stage fluctuation detected..."
Bai Ying's figure gradually blurred in the dazzling starlight, only her eyes, reflecting the Milky Way, remained clearly visible.
With a slight flick of her wrist, the longsword traced a perfect arc in the air: "You think... you're the only one with the power of Void Refinement?"
Before the words were finished, the inscription on the sword suddenly came to life, transforming into thousands of starlight that shot into the sky.
These points of light intertwine in the sky to form a magnificent celestial map, with each star corresponding to the trajectory of Bai Ying's sword moves.
The giant python let out a mournful howl, its hundred-foot-long body disintegrating inch by inch in the starlight.
"This is... the power of the Void Refinement stage!" On the viewing platform, a white-haired Taoist suddenly stood up. "How is this possible? How can Bai Ying also possess Void Refinement power? Could it be that she also has a Void Refinement stage expert behind her?"
Ruan Xinrou's expression changed drastically. She had thought that only she could be favored by the Void Refinement Master and obtain his source power for attack.
But where did this white firefly get its Void Refinement power?
She gritted her teeth and looked at Bai Ying: "So what if you have the power of Void Refinement? How much can the big shot behind you give you?"
"boom!"
The two pressures from the Void Refinement stage collided violently in the air, instantly cracking the bluestone slabs of the entire square.
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