Chapter 9: Competition (Part 2)
On the overly noisy Yunxiao Peak, there is a corner that is eerily quiet.
Fan Qingyue wanted to directly check Ye Qingzhou's situation, so he reached out and grabbed Ye Qingzhou's wrist, trying to extract a trace of spiritual power.
However, before he could fully move, he heard someone not far away forcefully interrupting his movements.
Fan Qingyue looked up at the other person. He was also a cultivator who looked not very old. He was wearing the uniform of the Discipline Hall, and he happened to know him.
"Ye Lingyun?"
Ye Lingyun is a disciple of Yuxu Peak and also a member of the Cangwu Ye family. As soon as he arrived, he protected Ye Qingzhou behind him.
"Qingyun Sect's competitions place the utmost importance on fairness. Your interference is against the rules."
"Then it's within the rules for the kid to use a killing move?"
Fan Qingyue didn't give in at all and directly confronted Ye Lingyun.
The aura of the Jindan stage continued to spread, and many people even ignored their own fights and subconsciously looked in that direction.
The air was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, as if a fierce battle was about to break out.
"What are you doing?"
The fluctuation of the spiritual power of the Jindan period attracted the attention of Zhao Tan who had been stationed there. He arrived with an extremely tough momentum and eliminated the battle invisibly.
"Elder Zhao, the internal competition should be stopped at a certain point. It was you, the disciple from Yuxu Peak, who made the first killing move." Fan Qingyue said.
Zhao Tan looked at Ye Qingzhou, frowned slightly, and said, "I am not a partial person. I will give you a fair result."
After saying that, Zhao Tan took Ye Lingyun and Ye Qingzhou away together.
The referee monk finally breathed a sigh of relief, patted his head which was a little confused for some reason, and went to prepare for the next task.
Fan Qingyue took Lu Fei away and carefully checked his injuries.
The area around Lu Fei's neck had turned purple, but Fan Qingyue instinctively felt that something was wrong, as if something that had been entangled in Lu Fei's wound and could actually kill him had disappeared.
Fan Qingyue frowned, wondering what was going on with this new disciple of Yuxu Peak?
On the other side, Zhao Tan's scrutinizing gaze swept over Ye Qingzhou, and his spiritual power and divine consciousness also followed suit, but there was nothing unusual.
"Master," Ye Qingzhou knelt down with a plop, his knees colliding with the hard rock, making a painful sound. "Disciple has not done anything that violates the Qingyun Sect's precepts. I just lost my composure during the competition."
Ye Lingyun beside him also chimed in, saying, "Yes, Master, Qingzhou has just entered the Dao path, so it's normal for him to not know the importance of his subordinates."
Zhao Tan thought that after all, they were young disciples, and it was likely that they would lose control during a fight. The Discipline Hall had to deal with such things every time there was a sect competition.
So, he didn't doubt it too much, but just pulled Ye Qingzhou up and said, "It was an unintentional mistake, but it's still a mistake. Pick a day to go to Yuxuan Peak and apologize."
Ye Qingzhou naturally agreed quickly, and after Zhao Tan left, Ye Lingyun put away his pleading behavior, lowered his body to look at him with a very strange expression, and said, "Tell me, what did you use?"
"I really don't!"
Ye Qingzhou wanted to swear to the heavens just to prove his innocence.
"I'm different from them," Ye Lingyun whispered in his ear, "We're all from the Cangwu Ye family, why should we be so distant?"
Ye Qingzhou sneered in his heart and thought, they are all side branches marginalized by the Ye family, right?
But he remained silent, and continued, "Brother, what are you talking about? If I really did something, how could Master not know? If I could hide it from Master, I would be too capable. How could I have only just begun to draw Qi into my body?"
Ye Lingyun agreed when he thought about it. Since they had been driven out of Cangwu, Ye Qingzhou definitely couldn't have any additional uses for his bloodline.
He cursed himself in his heart for not thinking of it earlier, then he lost interest in Ye Qingzhou and left on his own.
Only then did Ye Qingzhou finally breathe a sigh of relief. He covered his face and collapsed to the ground, thinking to himself: That voice is indeed reliable.
When he first arrived in this world, he was in the dangerous Yuyuan. If he had relied on himself, he would probably have died long ago. The old voice said that although he wanted to help him, he was unable to do anything in his current condition.
However, before he was seriously injured, he left three talismans hidden in Yu Yuan.
Ye Qingzhou successfully left the dangerous place by relying on one of them, and just now in the competition with Lu Fei, he used the second one.
Sure enough, even the Discipline Elder Zhao Tan didn't notice anything wrong. He became more and more convinced of the method of cultivating the spirit described by the old voice, but why did the voice stop making any sound?
Yunxiao Peak.
The incident between Ye Qingzhou and Lu Fei was just a small episode in the Qingyun Sect competition and did not cause much commotion. Most cultivators were still fighting.
As time went by, the competitions in the Qi training stage and the foundation building stage were all completed.
And after that, there are the Golden Core Stage and the Nascent Soul Stage.
A cultivator who can reach the Golden Core stage already has a high status in the world of immortal cultivation. Even in the Qingyun Sect, he can get a position as an outer sect elder.
Of course, there are also people who are unwilling to leave the peak they originally belonged to, such as Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan.
So the two of them stayed on Yuxuan Peak.
The competition among Jindan-stage cultivators must be supervised by at least a Yuanying-stage cultivator, so Chu Menghuai personally served as the referee.
Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan are not considered old among the Jindan stage cultivators, or they are too young, so that even their fellow disciples would feel envy, jealousy and hatred towards them.
For example, Fan Qingyue’s opponent, Li Daosheng, the head of the Dan Yao Hall.
He was also in the early stage of the Golden Core, but even in the early stage of the Golden Core, he broke through by force with the help of the power of the elixir. Since then, his cultivation has not improved at all.
The lifespan of a Jindan cultivator is 500 years, but he is already over 400 years old.
He was able to become an outer sect elder and take the position of head of the Alchemy Hall, all thanks to his alchemy skills.
Therefore, Li Daosheng's actual combat level should not be very strong.
But on the stage, Fan Qingyue did not dare to take it lightly. After all, he had just made a promise with his master that he would win first place.
The crowd watching saw various magical lights flashing, and then Li Daosheng's talisman sword was placed on Fan Qingyue's neck.
"Thank you."
The cultivators in the Jindan stage knew the importance of fighting, so their competition ended safely.
Then comes the Nascent Soul stage.
The Nascent Soul stage is already a very powerful existence in the world of immortal cultivation. Even in the Qingyun Sect, there are only ten inner sect elders who have reached the Nascent Soul stage.
The Nascent Soul stage competition is no longer judged by Chu Menghuai, but is presided over by the sect leader Yun Zhongzi himself.
"What is the sect master's cultivation level?"
In a corner of Yunxiao Peak, Lu Fei asked Fan Qingyue with a little doubt.
Fan Qingyue wanted to be a responsible senior brother in front of his junior fellow student, but this problem really stumped him.
He shook his head slightly and replied, "No one knows what the Sect Master's cultivation level is. Some say he has reached the Divine Transformation Realm, while others say he is even above that."
"What is above the level of transformation?" Lu Fei asked again.
Obviously, Fan Qingyue still couldn't give an answer, so he could only continue to shake his head and said, "I don't know. I only know that the Qingyun Sect was founded by the Sect Master."
Jiang Tan, who was standing by, frowned slightly when he heard this and asked, "How long has the Qingyun Sect been established?"
Fan Qingyue still shook his head.
No one knows how long the Qingyun Sect has been established, just like no one knows how powerful Yun Zhongzi is, only that he is unfathomable.
"Come to think of it, isn't this a Nascent Soul stage competition?" Jiang Tan didn't dwell on it too much and asked, "Why isn't Master here?"
Fan Qingyue looked up at the stage, counted them, and said, "Aren't there exactly ten people, no more, no less?"
"No," Jiang Tan said calmly, "Qingyun Sect has a total of ten inner sect Nascent Soul elders. Isn't it because the Sect Master is also on the stage right now?"
Fan Qingyue suddenly realized, and asked repeatedly: "Where has the master gone? The drawing of lots will start soon."
There are ten elders in the Nascent Soul stage, so their duels are decided by drawing lots and they fight against each other in pairs.
"You go to Yuxuan Peak, I'll go to the back mountain, and Junior Brother Lu, you stay here. If anyone comes to ask, just say that my brother and I went to look for the master." Jiang Tan arranged everything in no time.
Lu Fei nodded slightly as a sign of agreement, and Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan split into two groups.
Jiang Tan remembered that the last time she met Jian An Ning was when she had just come out of seclusion, so Jian An Ning might be at Yuxuan Peak.
However, it has been a few days since that day, and Jane An Ning has not been seen in these days, so she might be the same as before.
Jiang Tan stepped into the back mountain.
Jian An Ning once instructed that if there was an emergency and she couldn't be found anywhere, then they could go to the back mountain to look for her, and Jiang Tan had indeed found her here several times.
Compared to other places, the spiritual veins in the back mountain are much weaker, so the cultivators are not very willing to come here, and the spiritual monsters also prefer to run to other places.
Therefore, the back mountain is rarely visited by people. Because it snowed a few days ago, the ground is covered with white.
If someone looks down, they will find that there is not even a footprint here.
But Jane Anning didn't necessarily walk.
Jiang Tan thought about it and stepped into the woods behind the mountain.
The cold air made her chest ache a little when she breathed. Perhaps because the back mountain was too quiet, Jiang Tan found that even though she was already in the Golden Core stage, she still felt cold.
However, logically speaking, one can already resist cold and heat during the foundation-building stage.
Jiang Tan didn't think too much about it, she just walked along the familiar road.
In the middle of an open space in the back mountain, under a big tree that was so thick that several people could hug it, Jane An Ning was found sleeping in a daze.
Jian An Ning was still wearing a green dress, with a jade bracelet on her fair wrist and a book in her hand.
"Master?"
Jiang Tan called out softly, but Jian An Ning seemed to be soundly asleep and showed no intention of waking up.
Do Nascent Soul cultivators need to sleep? It's clear that even in the Foundation Establishment stage, meditation can replace sleep. She felt a little confused and raised her hand to throw out two sound transmission notes, each flying towards Fan Qingyue and Lu Fei.
Then she received a message from the Great Elder, asking where Jian An Ning had gone.
Jiang Tan thought about it and felt that he could not delay the sect competition, so he carried the person on his back and took her away from the back mountain.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but even though the trees had no leaves in the season when all things were withering, she seemed to hear the rustling sound of leaves in the wind.
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