Chapter 704 It’s Time
Deep in Baihe Ridge, Shuihua Sect.
In the martial arts arena, Yan Yan was sparring with a few of his fellow apprentice sisters. Suddenly, he feinted and retreated, then turned to look towards the back mountain.
The others then stopped and looked at her in confusion.
"...Second Senior Sister, what's wrong?" Ling Yuan asked.
"Wait...it seems to be...the quiet place in the back mountain?" The speaker was Ling Zhou, a twin brother who looked the same as Ling Yuan but had a completely different style. He looked towards the back mountain thoughtfully and narrowed his eyes.
As soon as she finished speaking, a tornado rose into the sky from the direction of Jingdi. In just a moment, everyone felt that the spiritual energy around them, which had been becoming increasingly rich, gradually became thinner.
Yan Yan's pupils shrank slightly, and he immediately put away his sword and ran towards the back mountain.
"No way...isn't my junior brother in seclusion over in Jingdi?" Murong Fuxue widened her eyes and hurriedly followed him.
Ling Zhou and Ling Yuan looked at each other and followed behind.
Everyone in the sect was alarmed by the unusual movement in the back mountain, and they all rushed to the entrance of the quiet place in the back mountain. They saw that Sect Master Kong Zhao was already standing at the entrance, quietly looking at the center of the quiet canyon.
There was no one to be seen there, only an astonishing cyclone rising straight into the sky, and a strong sense of oppression came over me.
"Master..." Yan Yan walked behind Kong Zhao and spoke softly, "Is this noise... from Junior Brother?"
Kong Zhao nodded slightly, his eyes looking a little complicated:
"He said he wanted to achieve a breakthrough before the Xuanmen Conference. At the time, I thought it was a fantasy, but I didn't expect him to actually do it."
"Are you really my junior brother?" Murong Fuxue bit her lip.
My junior brother used to be able to fight me to a draw even though he had no skills at all... Well, my second senior sister lost to him, so I probably can't beat her.
If he could actually successfully draw the Qi into his body, wouldn't he be able to walk all over the sect in the future?
The spiritual energy vortex lasted for a whole day and night, and finally gradually subsided.
All the disciples held their breath and focused their gazes towards the depths of the canyon.
Murong Fuxue unconsciously clenched her sleeves, a hint of inquiry flashed in Ling Zhou's narrowed eyes, and even the usually calm Yan Yan involuntarily took half a step forward.
A slender figure slowly emerged from the fog.
Xiao Changheng walked in the morning dew with steady steps. Tiny water droplets stained his dark robe, which shimmered in the morning sun.
...There was no trace of spiritual energy fluctuation around him, and he still looked like a mortal with no cultivation.
Kong Zhao stared at him without blinking, a hint of doubt in his eyes.
Logically speaking, being able to trigger a spiritual energy vortex of such a scale should at least be a sign of successful foundation building, but the disciple in front of him could not even feel the most basic flow of spiritual energy.
"Changheng, what are you doing..." Kong Zhao's voice was a little hesitant.
She suddenly thought of another person with unfathomable cultivation, who also looked so reserved and calm, without even a hint of spiritual fluctuation—her genius disciple-in-law, Yun Qingqing, who was also the chief leader of the thirty-six sects in Baiheling.
But his little disciple clearly didn't have the aptitude for cultivation, so when he came back and said he wanted to break through, he didn't really believe it. He just asked him to go into seclusion and give it a try.
However, the spiritual energy tornado that lasted for a day and a night was unprecedented. How could it be explained?
Under Kong Zhao's complicated gaze, Xiao Changheng walked up to her and nodded slightly, his expression unchanged:
"Master."
Kong Zhao looked him up and down intently, frowned slightly and said:
"Come here and let the master take a look."
Xiao Changheng still stepped forward and stretched out his wrist, allowing Kong Zhao to feel his pulse.
After Kong Zhao tested it, the expression on his face became more and more strange.
She found that she could not figure out Xiao Changheng's strength. This was not like the behavior of a cultivator who had just broken through. This would only happen if the other party was much stronger than her.
She found that she could no longer see through this little disciple.
Xiao Changheng calmly withdrew his hand and bowed slightly to her, his attitude as respectful and polite as ever:
"Thank you for troubling me these days, Master. I still have some things to take care of and will be back before the Xuanmen Conference."
Kong Zhao nodded subconsciously, and saw Xiao Changheng waving his right hand towards the ground. A white light flashed, and a formation pattern unfolded out of thin air on the ground beneath his feet. In a blink of an eye, he and the formation disappeared from the spot.
The senior sisters from Shuihua Sect were left stunned.
"What the hell..." Murong Fuxue muttered, "Does it have to be so outrageous..."
"It's the Divine Movement Formation." Yan Yan's eyes flickered slightly. "The head sect leader has used it before... Junior Brother is truly a genius."
"He just said he'll be back for the Xuanmen Conference," said Senior Sister Wen Muyan, the most pragmatic of all. She suddenly smiled. "Then wouldn't it be a great honor for our Shuihua Sect to have our disciples compete against each other this year?"
As soon as she said this, all the disciples came back to their senses and became happy.
"Oh, that's right! That's great!"
"With my little brother-in-law here, we will definitely not be at the bottom of the Xuanmen Conference this time~"
"Have some ambition! Look carefully! Setting up a formation with bare hands! Even those first-rate sects don't have many people who can do it!"
A group of disciples were excited, but Yan Yan found that Kong Zhao turned and left without saying a word.
She quickly followed and whispered:
"What are you worried about, Master?"
Kong Zhao was silent for a moment:
"Don't you think Chang Heng... is a little different this time? I always feel that he's in a hurry to practice and participate in the Xuanmen Conference. He knows something is going to happen... I hope I'm just being overly suspicious."
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Yun Qingqing spent a full seven days in seclusion this time.
Although the white jade-like flower was translucent, it seemed to be inexhaustible and continuously supplied her with spiritual power.
For the first time since her return, Yun Qingqing felt nourished by such abundant spiritual power. She concentrated all her energy on absorbing and refining it, and successfully broke through to a new realm. Her cultivation level is still continuously rising.
By the time the flower finally dissipated completely and everything returned to calm, her Qi Sea had once again been filled to its limit, and she was just one step away from another breakthrough.
As long as Yun Qingqing was willing, she could break through immediately, but she calmed down and suppressed her cultivation, stopping at the critical point.
Her intuition told her that now was not the time.
Yun Qingqing slowly opened his eyes, exhaled, pondered for a moment, and entered the inner scene.
The inner scene in this memory is no longer just the distant starry sky. The nearest stars have become extremely large, and even the terrain texture on their surfaces can be clearly seen.
The inner world of a practitioner is his or her own inner world, and its integrity directly reflects the depth of the practitioner's practice.
Yun Qingqing sat cross-legged in mid-air in the center of this vast universe, unfolding the three major array plates of heaven, earth, and man. This time, the patterns on the array plates were unprecedentedly complex and huge, and they slowly rotated in the starry sky.
Although it was still some distance away from the peak state, Yun Qingqing finally felt clearly for the first time since her rebirth the avenue of heaven and earth flowing through the array.
She took a deep breath and concentrated her mind to make some hand gestures.
It's time to ask the heavens for divination again.
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