Shangguan Ling won without any surprise, retaining her ranking. All the alchemists knew that her strength was not limited to this, and she should be able to break into the top twenty.
Shangguan Ling's combat strength is already formidable, and coupled with her unparalleled speed, if she had a selfless alchemist behind her, she could easily wear down her opponent.
After Shangguan Ling's performance, the subsequent challenges seemed less exciting. Like Shangguan Ling, Su Shaxuan, who possessed both beauty and strength, was also challenged by a demon with a cultivation level of half-step into the Divine Transformation realm.
Given Shangguan Ling's previous behavior, many people speculated about the lineage of Su Shaxuan—perhaps a crane or a blue phoenix. Their strong gossip-loving nature was unstoppable. In fact, Su Shaxuan was a genuine human.
After all, the divine beast race has been extinct for so long, and only some collateral bloodlines remain in the world. They no longer possess the world-creating power of the divine beast race. There are several reclusive sects on this continent founded by descendants of the divine beasts. They live in seclusion, focusing on cultivation, hoping to restore the glory of the divine beast race.
In fact, unless the divine beast reappears, the divine beast bloodline in their bodies will become thinner and thinner until they can no longer even transform into beasts and can only become ordinary races.
Mount Saintess was lucky to encounter a descendant of the Vermilion Bird, so the fact that Sassoon was human did not deter them.
In fact, although Su Shaxuan is human, she is still able to crush Shangguan Ling, a descendant of the Vermilion Bird. She is talented, wise, calm, and cold-blooded enough.
She practiced basic sword techniques thousands of times a day, and had already mastered their essence. How much more so would she be able to master other advanced sword techniques? Su Shaxuan's swordsmanship, like herself, was sacred and vast, leaving no one able to resist it.
The demon who dared to challenge Su Shaxuan with such language was truly courageous. Shangguan Ling possessed a Holy Body of Light, with pure and powerful light energy within her, making her the nemesis of the Dark Demons. This willful demon only sensed the annoying light energy emanating from Su Shaxuan, never imagining that Su Shaxuan was not an ordinary swordsman with light attributes, but rather a one-in-a-million Holy Body of Light, whose authentic Great Light Sword Technique made those imposters from the Illusionary Heaven Palace utterly ashamed.
"Little Yezi, Su Shaxuan and Shangguan Ling are about to completely replace Yi Ruowu's position and become the new generation of goddesses on the continent."
"Isn't this natural? Can Yi Ruowu compare to these two in terms of bloodline and talent? In a battle between geniuses, one step behind leads to a cascade of disadvantages. Yi Ruowu is already far behind. Unless she encounters some great opportunity, she has little hope of catching up with these prodigies." Ye Xiruo took a bite of passion fruit and continued, "Saintess Peak has countless prodigies. If someone like Yi Ruowu goes in, she probably won't be able to find them anymore!"
"That's outrageous!"
"It's not an exaggeration at all. I don't know how the Holy Maiden takes on disciples, but they all have excellent talent and most of them are of good character."
"And what about looks?"
Qingzhiyi's fan landed mercilessly on Huarong's head again: "What does this have to do with you? You will never set foot on Saintess Peak in your life."
Ye Xiruo nodded: "But there is still a chance to meet the people of Saintess Peak! When they reach a certain stage, they will come out to gain experience. It just depends on whether you are destined to meet them."
"I see!" Hua Rong nodded, giving up. The continent is so big, and if he wanted to have a spectacular encounter, it would have to be a match made in heaven. He should stop daydreaming.
"Is this demon a joke?" Hua Rong quickly changed the subject.
"Just like Murong Zhi, I didn't expect Senior Sister Su Sha to be so powerful."
"It looks like he's about to be defeated, but I wonder if he's as insane as the rumors say!"
"You mean self-destruction?" At this point, self-destruction—does he really think he can confidently drag Senior Sister Su Sha to the underworld with him? What a joke.
The demon was engulfed in thick black mist, his aura radiating outwards. It was unclear what secret technique he had used, but his current strength had reached the Nascent Soul stage.
A pair of transparent wings of light appeared behind Su Shaxuan, exciting many people. Sure enough, it must be some rare species! But upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a flight combat technique that Su Shaxuan had cultivated. These two thin wings of light looked very weak, but when they were in full operation, their speed was terrifying. This was also an important reason why Su Shaxuan was able to overpower Shangguan Ling and become the senior sister of Saintess Peak.
The Great Bright Sword quickly clashed with the overwhelming black clouds. This was something similar to the Demon Clan's realm or domain. Due to the user's insufficient cultivation level, its power was only about half. However, such an attack was almost unstoppable for half of the Nascent Soul cultivators.
But who is Su Shaxuan? The senior disciple of Saintess Peak, she immediately sheathed her sword and began to condense light energy in her hands. Soon, a fist-sized ball of light was formed, followed by a second, and a third. Su Shaxuan's speed increased rapidly. These small balls of light were controlled by her, transforming into a giant ball of light. With the addition of a little flame, it became a golden-red fireball, which slammed fiercely into the black mist shield. The seemingly powerful shield was torn open like paper, leaving a hole the size of a ball of light. It then flew straight towards the demon. The speed wasn't very fast, but to the demon, this ball of light was enough to kill him.
This was no ordinary light energy. The demon roared inwardly, but no one could hear his furious cries. His supreme magical artifact hadn't even had a chance to function before vanishing into nothingness. His natal artifact destroyed, he couldn't even muster the blood he was coughing up: "I admit defeat..." Sadly, he would never have the chance to utter the last word. Su Shaxuan had planned everything perfectly, including the speed of the light sphere's flight and the demon's reaction. She had also calculated the demon's death.
On the arena, the ball of light gently landed on the demon, then began to purify or rather burn, quietly and without making a sound, until it turned into ashes and disappeared.
This is the first person to die in the second challenge; the person who did it was a woman named Su Shaxuan.
"Well done, Senior Sister Su Sha! You really killed the demons! Well done!" Ye Xiruo said excitedly.
Jing Li, Xiu Qiyu, and the mysterious demon clan looked at the golden-red orb that had disappeared from the arena, their minds deep in thought. Without a doubt, it was the aura of a strange fire, but they didn't know what kind of strange fire it was.
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