Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 272 First Competition within the Sect
time flies.

The past month has been a rare experience for Pei Xia.

Thanks to the help of the Heart Fire, the influence of the calamity on him is at its lowest point ever.

He had a lot of energy and time to face the world again, to eat, sleep, and defecate. Recently, he even had the leisure to fish by the stream in front of his cave, and even made a few strange-looking traps and put them in the woods around his remote dwelling, hoping to catch some prey.

For Lu Li, Pei Xia's change was even more striking—he had even begun to guide her cultivation!
The key point is that, in terms of Su Shi's cultivation level, Lu Li is already at the sixth realm, which is higher than Pei Xia's.

This guy has too much energy right now, so all he can do is instruct Pear on martial arts.

Oh my goodness, Pei Xia trained every three days, exhausting Lu Li to the point of tears. Luckily, Old Han rescued her in the end.

Old Han said he could teach Pear her own avatar technique, which would also be considered an improvement.

Learning supernatural powers and magic is always easier for pears than learning martial arts, but Pei Xia actually hesitated for a long time, pretending to be serious, which made Han Youzhi kick his shin: "Is there something you're not satisfied with my magic?!"

"...Never won."

"You're talking nonsense! I've won far more than a million times with my avatars!"

Pei Xia was indeed being unfairly critical. Han Youzhi's external avatar was extremely ingenious in terms of its spell structure, belonging to the bottom level even among major sects. The only inconvenience was that it required a medium to cast the spell.

Han Youzhi is a rabbit she raised herself. The better she raises the rabbit, the closer her avatar's strength gets to her original form.

Back in Beishi City, Han Youzhi himself was Tianshi, and his external avatar was even able to defeat Xianzhu, one of the Five Greats of Guigu.

At this point, Pear seemed to have found a breakthrough and launched a fierce attack on Pei Xia: "Look, look! If you had let me raise little spiders back then, I would have them ready-made now!"

Pei Xia scoffed at this: "It's such a big spider, it's inconvenient for you to carry and raise it. With its size, who knows who will raise whom when it grows up... Don't worry, I'll help you solve this problem. I have an extremely brilliant idea."

That's what Pei Xia said at the time.

Lu Li believed it too.

But even after the announcement of the competition for the Liancheng Illusionary Realm slots was issued, Pei Xia still didn't reveal the mysterious medium for casting the spell to Li Zi.

The sect's Hall of Records is responsible for registering participants for this martial arts competition.

Considering that Pei Xia is now an inner sect elder, it would be too conspicuous for him to register in person, so Han Youzhi had to register on his behalf.

Han Youzhi was somewhat reluctant before she came. She probably understood that her presence at Dianji Hall might attract more attention than Pei Xia's.

Indeed, that was the case. As soon as she stepped onto the main peak, her ponytail and disciple's robes, her slender and tall figure, drew the attention of many disciples who were secretly glancing at her.

Upon arriving at the entrance of the Hall of Merit, one is met with even more attention.

That said, the Long Whale Sect claims to be indifferent to the quotas for the Liancheng Illusionary Realm, but there are still a great many people participating in the sect's internal martial arts competition.

Han Youzhi thought about it and understood. Cultivation sects are based on martial arts, so all kinds of competitions should be endless. They should compete in the same cave, on the same peak, and among the same sect members, they should compete every year and every month. In comparison, the Changjing Sect is relatively restrained in this regard.

Taking advantage of this illusory martial arts competition, this was Pei Xia and her group's first large-scale competition since they joined the sect.

Now that Pei Xia has become an inner sect elder, Han Youzhi's status has also risen, and he has become an inner sect disciple.

However, she didn't do anything special. She lined up obediently and calmly helped Pei Xia register, all under the watchful eyes of the disciples.

By the standards of the Liancheng Illusionary Realm, Pei Xia's Transcendent Realm cultivation is only the minimum requirement. Based on past experience, only those with formidable strength who have established their own academies have a chance. However, by the standards of the Changjing Sect's internal competitions, this Transcendent Realm level is still quite intimidating.

The disciple in charge of registration hadn't paid attention at first, but when Han Youzhi announced Pei Xia's cultivation level, he looked up in astonishment: "Tongxuan?"

"Yes, Tongxuan, what's wrong? Is there a limit to cultivation level?"

"Oh, no, no."

The disciple of Dianji Hall picked up his pen and wrote down the name of the inner sect elder, Pei Xia, while still feeling a little uneasy.

Because the Long Whale Sect has never achieved any results in the Illusionary Realm Martial Arts Competition over the years, many of its lower-level disciples are not even clear about the true purpose of the competition.

In their view, this was a large-scale sect competition. According to Huang Bing's arrangement, the top few would receive excellent rewards, but those who could achieve good rankings would at least receive a considerable amount of quota. Don't underestimate it; these quotas could be exchanged for medicinal pills and materials.

Having registered and received a small wooden tag, Han Youzhi turned to leave.

A sharp, cold laugh suddenly rang out from the crowd: "An inner sect elder dares to compete with us disciples for these quotas? He has no shame at all."

Han Youzhi tilted her head, her black hair slipping down, and glanced at him sideways.

Ugh, I was wondering why that sounded so disgusting.

Across the queue, on the other side of the Hall of Merit, Chai Yun sat in a chair, flanked by obsequious young disciples. He, however, looked at Han Youzhi with a defiant glint in his eye.

Old Han has now mastered the skill and is too lazy to pay attention to him, his feet never stopping.

Chai Yungang chewed on a fruit, spat it out at Han Youzhi, then pointed at her back, looked left and right at his lackeys, and laughed heartily.

The fruit pit flew through the air, and suddenly a cold light flashed, illuminating the Hall of Merit in an instant.

The cold light came and went without a trace, leaving only two halves of the fruit pit lying on the ground.

Han Youzhi tucked her ponytail back and said in a voice that seemed soft but everyone could hear, "I think I heard a dog barking..."

Chai Yun's laughter stopped abruptly. He slammed his hand on the table, preparing to get up and teach this ignorant woman a lesson.

In his view, Pei Xia was promoted to the inner sect because of his merits, while Han Youzhi did not have the qualifications and strength of an inner sect disciple. Given his status, even if they really fought, what could happen?

But to his surprise, the table was fine after the slap, but the chair under his buttocks collapsed with a loud crack.

Chai Yun was caught off guard and fell to the ground with a thud.

The neat, smooth cuts on the chair legs startled him slightly.

Did this woman just attack me with her sword?
She actually dared to draw her sword against me?!

How dare you confront me!
Chai Yun angrily got up from the ground, drew his sword, and shouted that he was going to fight this woman to the death.

Looking around, I found that Han Youzhi had already left.

Fine, you surnamed Pei, you went to Su Bao Zhai with my woman while I was away from the sect.

Do you still dare to send your disciples to provoke me?
Do they really think they can outmaneuver someone as an inner sect elder?
He turned to one of his lackeys and said, "Go and call Liu Yun over here!"

(End of this chapter)