As soon as Lu Fuyue stepped off the arena, Lu Zhengming's voice entered her mind, "You must do everything in your power to win first place in this cultivation competition."
She paused, then looked up at Lu Zhengming on the high platform.
Lu Zhengming seemed to sense something and met her gaze. He paused for a few seconds, then looked away and continued to twirl the cup in his hand.
Upon seeing this scene, the sect leader of the Li Huo Sect spoke with an ambiguous tone, "Sect Leader Lu, your daughter is beautiful. Unlike my disciple, who has cultivated for so many years, she is still not even half as good as her."
Those lifelike water dragons just now, I doubt even he could have caught them.
Indeed, he truly deserves to be called a peerless genius who successfully formed his Nascent Soul in less than a century.
Lu Zhengming smiled faintly, but did not reply. Instead, he lowered his head and took a sip of tea.
Indeed, he was no match. His disciple had just been defeated by Fu Yue in less than three moves. These words were too hurtful to say, so he kept quiet to avoid rubbing salt into the wound.
The sect leader of the Li Huo Sect could see through Lu Zhengming's smugness. He snorted coldly and stopped looking at him.
His disciple was not as good as his daughter, but that doesn't mean others were not. Don't forget, the legendary Pear Blossom Fairy also participated in this competition.
The second round of the cultivation competition.
Only Lu Fuyue and Yan Nanfei from the Tianxuan Sect advanced to the next round. Jiang Yin was defeated by a rogue cultivator, and Xiao Ming and Su Chen also failed to advance.
The third round of the competition was also conducted by drawing lots.
When Lu Fuyue opened the slip of paper for drawing lots, an unfamiliar name appeared on it—the rogue cultivator Pei Yanqing.
Her eyes darkened slightly, and she pursed her lips. She had never heard of this name before, but Jiang Yin had just drawn a rogue cultivator. Could this person be him?
The next match is tomorrow at noon.
That night.
After returning home, Lu Fuyue went straight to her room to meditate and cultivate.
The sound of cicadas chirping rose from the grass at night, and the night was cool and refreshing.
In a daze, her soul left her body again and appeared in another place, but this place was different from the previous one.
Lu Fuyue looked down at the spot where she was lying, which was paved with a huge, round white jade stone, covered with dense, mysterious, and ancient runes.
She paused slightly, her palm unconsciously rubbing against it a few times. The white jade felt warm and smooth to the touch, and a faint surge of spiritual energy and another familiar aura flowed into her body, coursing through her. The next second, the phoenix bloodline within her surged violently, resonating with the spiritual energy emanating from the jade beneath Lu Fuyue.
Lu Fuyue's pupils contracted slightly as she instantly understood what was happening. The Phoenix Body Refining Technique and the Yin-Yang Life and Death Technique were activated within her body, and two different forces surged forth.
Soon, phoenix phantoms appeared behind her, flapping their wings and letting out long cries. The power within the jade surged into her body, gradually expanding her meridians.
Just then, countless footsteps could be heard outside.
"Clan leader, there's some commotion in the ancestral temple!"
"What? What happened?"
"We don't know either. With our bloodline concentration, we can't even get into the main hall of the ancestral temple. But there was definitely a commotion inside, which even caused the Phoenix Spirit Jade to vibrate, resulting in a surge of spiritual energy into the hall."
"Oh no, could it be a spy from another race?"
"Go quickly! We must not let those people disturb the peace of our ancestors, and we must not let them destroy our Feng family ancestral hall."
Inside the main hall at this moment.
Lu Fuyue transformed back into her true phoenix form, flying in mid-air with her eyes closed. The jade beneath her slowly changed from white to crimson, and a phantom image of a phoenix appeared on its surface.
At the same time, a large amount of red spiritual energy surged from the jade and entered Lu Fuyue's body. In less than a moment, the bottleneck of the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm loosened. With a crack, the barrier was broken by a large amount of spiritual energy, and her cultivation level changed from the peak of the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm. The next second, she climbed to the peak of the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.
He even cultivated the Phoenix Body Refining Technique to the late-stage peak of the fifth level.
With a bang, the main door of the hall was opened from the outside.
A group of cultivators with phoenix patterns embroidered on their collars rushed in. The white-haired old man at the head of the group froze instantly when he saw the fire phoenix floating in the center of the hall. He pointed forward with trembling hands, his eyes wide, and muttered something under his breath.
"Did you see that? It's a phoenix, a phoenix, it really is a phoenix..."
The cultivators following behind the white-haired old man were also stunned, stammering excitedly, "Clan leader, it really is! The Holy Maiden has appeared! Our Feng family is saved..."
However, at that moment, the spiritual energy within Lu Fuyue's body quickly calmed down, transformed into human form, and instantly disappeared from the main hall.
"Chief, the Holy Maiden... the Holy Maiden has disappeared..."
"Quickly, quickly, go find the High Priest! The Holy Maiden has appeared; the High Priest must have a way to summon her back..."
...
Light streamed in through the window, scattering across the floor in a flickering pattern.
Lu Fuyue opened her eyes again, and when she realized that she was back in her original room, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, the aura of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm emanating from her body made her pause in surprise.
The aura of the phoenix clan, the burning phoenix bloodline, the jade that gradually turned from white to red, and the various murals with phoenix totems carved in the main hall last night...
These things were clearly images that appeared in her mind when she was refining the memories of the Phoenix Clan.
Just then, the knocking sounded again. "Senior sister, the time for the third competition is almost here, it's time to set off." Jiang Li stood outside the door and knocked three times and two times.
Lu Fuyue got up from the bed, casually cast a dust removal spell, and her clothes, which were soaked with fine sweat, instantly became clean and comfortable. "You go first, I'll be back in a bit."
An hour later.
Lu Fuyue and her group arrived at the arena of the cultivation competition.
Her opponent this time is Pei Yanqing, the rogue cultivator who defeated Jiang Yin yesterday.
Pei Yanqing outwardly displayed a cultivation level at the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage, but Jiang Yin said that the person was definitely holding back and was not as simple as he appeared on the surface.
When Lu Fuyue went on stage, the person opposite her also went on stage.
Pei Yanqing, dressed in a blue robe, was elegant and approachable, with a handsome face and a touch of scholarly refinement.
He cupped his hands in greeting and said, "The rogue cultivator Pei Yanqing greets Fairy Lu."
Lu Fuyue nodded slightly and returned the greeting, "Lu Fuyue, disciple of Tianxuan Sect."
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