"This is not a normal person! Absolutely not a normal person!"
The energy ball kept approaching the elders. The broken energy barrier had embedded itself into their bodies. Now, the elders felt their energy dissipating. The little bit of spiritual power they had painstakingly gathered disappeared just as they were about to use it!
"I was careless! I was so careless!"
The elder dusted himself off and stood up from the ground.
"What's wrong with the elders! Why aren't they making any defenses! If someone gets hit by that energy ball, at the very least they'll be blown to pieces!"
"That's right! What's wrong with the elders? How did Xie Zhou manage to do that?!"
"I don't think it's that the elders don't want to build a defense, but that they simply can't. Look at the weakest elder, the Eighth Elder, he can't even get up now!"
Suddenly, one of the trainees noticed something amiss.
"No... this is impossible. Xie Zhou is just someone who hasn't even started cultivating yet. How could he possibly have such powerful strength?"
"Let's accept reality! She does indeed have the ability to defeat all the elders. Looking around, who on our side could do that?"
One person uttered a single sentence, and those who were still unable to accept reality immediately slumped their heads.
Indeed, none of the onlookers could guarantee that they would escape unscathed and even have the power to fight back under the combined attack of the eight elders, but Xie Zhou could!
"Don't you guys dislike me?!"
"Don't you all think I'm a piece of trash, unworthy of cultivating in the Sword Sect?!"
"Please continue!"
Xie Zhou roared almost hysterically.
"Alright, Xie Zhou."
Lingfeng suddenly appeared on the arena and caught all the energy Xie Zhou threw out.
"Immortal Venerable..."
The elder was now completely dejected, and there was no trace of the arrogance he had shown when he had just been taunting Xie Zhou.
"Alright, you can go and heal your wounds now. Do you have any further objections to this?"
Lingfeng, however, looked at the dejected elders with a calm and collected expression, even showing a hint of pride.
"We will obey the Immortal Venerable's orders; we have no objections!"
The elder sighed, glanced at Xie Zhou who was still dripping blood in the distance, and then they helped each other down.
"alright."
Lingfeng waved his hand, and several disciples went up on the stage to help the elders down.
Perhaps only these few disciples could realize that the eight elders now seemed like ordinary old people who had no spiritual power at all.
A sense of fear arose in the hearts of those disciples towards Xie Zhou.
On the other side, Xie Zhou squatted down, curled up into a small ball, and was sobbing.
"Xie Zhou, how are you? Are you alright?"
Feng Lingxue was stunned watching from below the arena. When Xie Zhou squatted down and began to cry softly, she hurriedly went up to the stage to treat Xie Zhou's wounds.
"It's alright, the injuries aren't serious, just some superficial wounds. We'll put on some medicine and bandage it up in a bit, and it'll be fine."
Feng Lingxue truly felt sorry for Xie Zhou.
"Now I hereby announce that, from this day forward, Xie Zhou has officially become my personal disciple."
Just a second ago, everyone in the Sword Sect was still immersed in wondering how Xie Zhou had managed to do it.
The next second, however, Lingfeng announced an even more shocking piece of news.
"What! The Immortal Venerable has actually accepted a personal disciple! This...this..."
"This is too sudden! Didn't Master say that he would focus on cultivation and never take on any more disciples? Why has he changed his mind again this time!"
"Xie Zhou! Xie Zhou! Doesn't this name sound familiar to you?!"
One of the trainees in the audience cried out in surprise.
"Xie Zhou! Could it be that..."
"Shh! Don't make a sound. If the Immortal Venerable hears this, even ten lives wouldn't be enough to appease him!"
Everyone was utterly shocked.
"Xie Zhou, you made great contributions in subduing the Devouring Beast, luring the Demon Spider and the Devouring Beast to fight each other, which allowed us to reseal the Devouring Beast and rescue our fellow disciple Luo Fantian from the beast. You deserve to be commended!"
Lingfeng then continued to speak at length.
"Holy crap! She's the jinx you guys were talking about? I don't think she's anything like it! She's obviously amazing!"
"I think so too. Suddenly I don't think she's so ugly anymore, she even seems kind of cute?"
Amidst the clamor of the crowd, Xie Zhou was brought back to the Frost Palace.
She vaguely felt someone wiping her body.
"What...what's wrong with me...?"
Xie Zhou slightly woke up.
"You passed out after the fight!"
The system reminded Xie Zhou in his mind.
"Huh? I've fainted again. Why do I always faint after a fight? Is this some kind of opportunity for my strength to evolve?"
Xie Zhou murmured a sentence.
"Thank you, Zhou, you're awake."
The fairy sister gently helped Xie Zhou sit up.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch! My arm hurts so much, waaaaaah..."
Xie Zhou silently shed tears.
"Pfft... Why are you crying again? You weren't like this when you were fighting the elders. You were ruthless back then."
A fairy covered her mouth and laughed as she spoke.
"Absolutely! With so many people watching, I can't back down, right?"
After listening to the fairy's words, Xie Zhou chuckled, but as soon as he moved his neck, he felt another sharp pain.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch, why does my neck hurt so much too? Waaaaah, I'm so sad, waaaaah..."
Xie Zhou's eyes welled up with tears again, which made the two fairies who were taking care of him smile.
"But this bed is so comfortable! So comfortable, hahaha..."
Xie Zhou couldn't move his neck and arms at this moment, so he could only use his legs to feel the softness of the bed.
She remembered that she originally didn't even have a proper room and could only sleep in the woodshed. Later, seeing how pitiful she was, they arranged a room for her, but that room didn't even have a mattress, so she could only sleep on a hard bed board.
Now it's great, the bed is so soft and fluffy, and it's even pink!
"Haha, now that you're Sword Master's disciple, your treatment will naturally be different."
The two fairy sisters smiled again and said to Xie Zhou.
"So that's how it is. So being a disciple of a Celestial Venerable is so comfortable."
Xie Zhou simply had the two fairy sisters help her lie down, and she felt the warmth of the bed.
"The Immortal Venerable said that you have two days to rest, and then you will need to follow him in your cultivation."
The fairy relayed the immortal's words to Xie Zhou.
"Wait, only two days! Will my injury even heal by then? This...this pain is excruciating!"
Xie Zhou looked pitifully at the two fairy sisters.
"Well... that depends on your luck..."
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