The most melodramatic rebirth in history

Chapter 197 Li Tian's Pursuit

At that moment, Hu Ye felt a chill in his heart, curled his fingers into a claw, and with a wicked smile, flashed forward, preparing to teach the other party a small lesson in front of everyone!
"Groping on the breasts?" Upon realizing the direction the grab was aimed at, many female inner disciples blushed, while male inner disciples were indignant!

"You're courting death!" Two male voices rang out simultaneously. In the next instant, a sharp purple streak of light streaked across the sky, accompanied by a piercing tearing sound.

"Hmph!" A frosty aura swept across the entire area through the sword energy. A cold white figure delivered a sword strike, but suddenly stopped.

"Boom—!" Just as everyone was confused, a powerful shockwave crashed into the arena, which stretched for a thousand meters and shook violently.

"puff--!"

Immediately following, three consecutive explosions erupted, sending up plumes of thick black smoke. Before the purple light reached him, the man who had unleashed his claws suddenly had his pupils contract, leaving him no time to dodge.

"Ah—!" With his entire right arm a bloody mess, Hu Ye screamed in agony as he coughed up blood and was thrown backward like a cannonball.

"Bang!..."

A powerful gust of wind tore at a disheveled figure, carrying him for hundreds of meters, smashing through two fifty-meter-high floating stone platforms along the way, but still failing to stop his momentum.

Until the outline of a medium-sized suspended platform, about 100 meters high, came into view...

The terrifying force was only completely dissipated after the edge of the third dueling arena that Hu Ye encountered was smashed open, leaving an irregular crack two meters long.

"hiss!"

Everyone gasped in shock. This dueling platform had been reinforced once again by the legendary elders, so its sturdiness was beyond doubt.

Even so, it was still torn open by the white-skirted woman's sudden sword strike, leaving a terrifying rift.

So……

"Elder Liu, just how advanced is your disciple Leng Ning Shuang's cultivation?" All the elders were filled with doubt, and several senior experts at the ninth level couldn't help but ask the kind-faced elder first.

With their level of cultivation, they could only vaguely sense that the woman in the white dress was very powerful, but they couldn't discern her specific cultivation level at all.

However, these old guys still have sharp eyes. Even though they have shortcomings in their cultivation level, they can still see many problems and oddities from the fact that Hu Ye was defeated by the opponent in one move!

"More or less, mid-to-late stage of the tenth level!" Liu Yidao suddenly narrowed his eyes, staring intently at the woman in the white dress with a very complicated expression, muttering to himself:

"This girl's improvement speed is too fast. When she reaches the peak of the tenth level and advances to the legendary level with Qiu Bai, then I will truly be all alone!"

No, I've been suppressing this for ten years...
That's about enough.
I need to get through this hurdle as soon as possible!

Just as Elder Liu Yidao was sighing inwardly, he did not expect that his thoughts had been discovered.

"Ten years...!?" The man in purple in the back seat was startled. What kind of patience must it take to endure for ten years!
Finally, as time passed after entering the Jade Purity Sect, two of the many questions that had been weighing on Feng Ling's mind were finally answered...

"No wonder even the Grand Elder is wary of him!"

The man in purple glanced meaningfully at the kind-faced old man seated before him. Logically speaking, shouldn't the Grand Elder, as a legendary expert, have some reservations about those "ants" below the legendary level?
This is the first point of doubt!

As soon as Feng Ling returned from Sunset City after advancing to the legendary realm, he sensed a vast, yet hidden and terrifying energy within Elder Liu Yidao's body.

That energy made Feng Ling feel a slight tremor in his heart!

This is the second point of doubt!
"Suppressing one's cultivation level, impressive...!"

Immediately, Feng Ling clicked his tongue in amazement, once again giving the kind-faced old man a higher regard. Several people with formidable open strength combined probably weren't as terrifying as someone who knew how to conceal his abilities in secret!
The Jade Purity Sect Master should know this, otherwise he wouldn't have considered Liu Yidao as his right-hand man. As for the withered old man, he also considers him a right-hand man, which is simply related to the dream that Xuanweizi entrusted to Feng Tianjue!
The Jade Purity Sect has a fair number of legendary experts, but the sect master doesn't think much of Ling Weiyun's peak tenth-level strength as displayed by his clone.

If Feng Tianjue were to give a definitive assessment:

It's barely passable!
"Huh?" Several faint mental fluctuations suddenly entered his mind. The man in purple raised an eyebrow and then directly captured several ancient voice transmissions.

"He can't even figure out his own disciple's cultivation level!"

Seeing the kind-faced elder also looking surprised and uncertain, the Ninth-Rank Elders couldn't help but feel greatly disappointed. Their curiosity unsatisfied, they couldn't help but mutter to themselves, "What a disgrace to the title of teacher!"

"Everywhere you look, people are two-faced. The Jade Purity Sect is in deep trouble!" Seeing that what the people said and what they thought were completely different, the man in purple sighed and shook his head with a bitter smile.

It wasn't that Feng Ling intentionally used mind-reading to spy on the group; rather, he had just detected a slight mental fluctuation between the white-haired elder and the other two elders. In order to hear it more clearly and to prevent them from noticing, he kept his mind-reading ability covering a wide area.

"To the left of the sect leader, there are two elders, the fourth in black and the fifth in white. You must be on guard!" An aged voice transmission reached his ears. The man with the purple-gold crown, who was watching the changes in the dueling arena, raised an eyebrow and sneered inwardly, "The fourth and fifth elders, huh?"

"Thank you for the reminder! Elder Ling, you are truly a divine being!" The Jade Purity Sect Master glanced meaningfully at the withered old man on his right, without offering any further explanation.

With Feng Tianjue's keen senses, how could he not notice something amiss among the group? However, what he didn't expect was that the usually indecisive fourth and fifth elders had also sided with the First Elder!
What Feng Tianjue didn't expect was that the withered old man beside him, whose cultivation level was clearly not high, had such amazing insight!

"Sect Master, you flatter me. I'm just a wandering sorcerer!" The withered old man raised an eyebrow and replied, then stopped talking, each lost in their own thoughts.

Feng Ling had only heard fragmented phrases such as "Everything is ready", "Everything is ready except for the east wind", and "Cannot swallow the entire Yuqing Sect".

Ultimately, he didn't allow Ling Weiyun's clone to give the Jade Purity Sect Master too many warnings. Because of this, the Jade Purity Sect Master's defenses were insufficient, leading to a huge blunder that he was unaware of until later.

"Peak of the Tenth Rank...!" The Third Elder raised an eyebrow slightly, and without making any other move, he spoke to the kind-faced old man without any attempt to hide his feelings: "Old Liu, the little girl you took in has quite good aptitude!"

"Third Elder, you flatter me!" Upon hearing this, all the elders below the legendary level were startled, but the kind-faced old man suppressed his shock, turned his head, clasped his hands, and revealed a smile.

Even the most powerful experts at the peak of the tenth level could only discern that the woman in the white dress was at the late stage of the tenth level. Yet, someone defied the odds and declared that Leng Ning Shuang's cultivation was at the peak of the tenth level!

If this person were not the Third Elder, one of the most authoritative figures in the Hall of Offerings, the other elders would probably scoff at him.

"Third brother, are you sure you're not mistaken?"

"Elder, believe it or not, it's up to you!"

Seeing the white-haired old man to the right of the Second Elder's original empty seat casting a surprised and uncertain glance at him, the Third Elder glanced at him indifferently and uttered rather unfriendly words.

Heh, just the peak of the tenth level?

Feng Ling chuckled inwardly. Ever since he met Leng Ningshuang in Gujing Village half a year ago, he had been very sensitive to her aura.

Half a year ago, the battle with Gui Lingzi forced Leng Ning Shuang to leave, after which she broke through to the tenth level. Later, when they met again at the Jade Purity Sect to help her out, her cultivation was at the peak of the early tenth level. When they met again at the Myriad Sounds Pavilion in Sunset City, her cultivation was at the peak of the mid-tenth level; and when Feng Ling rushed to Shili Slope to provide aid, what amazed him was:

After countless bloody battles, Leng Ning Shuang's cultivation had actually reached the peak of the tenth level!
This rate of improvement is terrifying, even compared to Feng Ling before he absorbed the Smiling Foreigner and had his "lucky break".

It could be said that Feng Ling silently memorized every breakthrough Leng Ningshuang made and every change in her aura. But this time, he felt that Leng Ningshuang's aura was off; it seemed to be more than the peak of the tenth level, yet not quite legendary...

"Junior Sister Leng, you...!" In the deathly silence of the entire arena, a faint voice suddenly came from the edge of the dueling platform, 600 meters away.

"Well……!?"

The stunned disciples paused for a moment, then, without daring to breathe, they stared intently at the disheveled figure who had crashed into the stone platform.

The dueling arenas were all three-dimensional cylindrical structures. Beside a semi-cylindrical dueling arena, about a hundred meters in size, lay a man covered in blood, his body motionless, as if frozen in time.

"Whoosh...!" At the edge of the arena in the center, a wisp of wind was flicked from the hand of the old man with furrowed brows and waving sleeves. It instantly traveled hundreds of meters and landed on the man.

Then, as if something had been severed, thick, gushing blood, carrying the heavily injured body, slowly slid down the crack in the dueling platform.

"Such a powerful aura blockade...!"

Many core disciples and 10th-level experts frowned and exclaimed in surprise. From the moment Leng Ning Shuang made her move until the end of their open and covert conversation, Hu Ye's figure was frozen in place, demonstrating the strength of the qi blockade.

Qi blockade is also a type of qi suppression. It is a common technique used by high-level experts to suppress lower-level weaker individuals.

"What a refreshing breeze!" Just as the elders were once again marveling at the woman in the white dress, the man in purple stared in astonishment at the swirling, disappearing air currents.

The Second Elder's seemingly casual move not only severed the qi blockade but also dissipated the aftershocks of the battle. This demonstrates the depth of his strength and foundation.

"Senior Brother Feng Ling, your insight is brilliant!"

Upon hearing this, several core disciples who were nearby immediately turned to the purple-robed man and began to flatter him. The other elders who spoke also gave Feng Ling an approving look.

"Heh!" The man in purple chuckled lightly, unimpressed by the situation. He thought to himself, "That's how the world is—might makes right! Whoever is the strongest and has the biggest fist is the boss and can be the senior brother or sister!"
In the past two days, Feng Ling has not only refreshed everyone's perceptions, but also killed the core disciples of the eighth and ninth ranks, thus diminishing their prestige and spirit.

Whether they meant it sincerely or not, everyone changed their address to him, respectfully calling him "Senior Brother," and would secretly fawn over him from time to time!
Today, this is even more true...!
All the tenth-level core disciples were below the dueling arena. Among all the eighth and ninth-level core disciples who remained here, Feng Ling was the strongest, so most people naturally regarded him as the first person to curry favor with!
"You...you're so cruel...!"

A hoarse voice abruptly stopped, and after falling to the ground with a thud, Hu Ye's consciousness gradually blurred. He only managed to utter these five words before fainting due to excessive blood loss.

"Pat, pat—!"

A strong, pungent smell of blood permeated the air. A large pool of hot, bright red blood, steaming, dripped in twos and threes down the suspended stone platform, making a series of scattered dripping sounds.

After the sound of water assaulted everyone's ears, a blinding purple light spanning hundreds of meters between the two dueling platforms gradually weakened.

But that faint, exquisite color lingered in the air, carrying a hint of alluring danger...

"Senior Sister Leng, when she gets angry... it's terrifying...!"

"Yeah, I was so scared! We almost died...!"

Seeing the three wrecked floating stone platforms lined up in a row, many inner disciples felt lingering fear, while those facing the woman in the white dress couldn't help but pat their chests and gasp for breath.

Due to their perspective, the visual effect from their point of view is undoubtedly the most stunning.

Suddenly, a terrifying purple streak appeared out of nowhere, unstoppable, carrying a blood-spitting figure as it smashed through several floating stone platforms, and finally surged towards them, swarming towards them!

If Hu Ye hadn't ultimately been stopped by this medium-sized dueling arena, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

Perhaps everyone was too distracted, because when they uttered sounds of shock and fear, no one even noticed that the floating stone platform in front of them had moved slightly out of thin air.

"Frostbite wins!"

Hundreds of meters away, the old man with beard and hair appeared out of nowhere and stood in front of the unconscious man. After carefully checking the man's physical condition, he announced the result of the competition in a very helpless tone.

"How could this girl be so ruthless?"

As the Second Elder announced the results, the excited cheers of the disciples gradually drowned out the previous atmosphere of shock, while the Second Elder frowned slightly: "His entire spine is shattered, and his entire right arm is crippled...!"

Although the Second Elder's expression was very unpleasant, he felt no sympathy for the half-dead man in front of him, and he showed no remorse for the woman in the white dress who had struck him so hard.

"Boom, boom...!"

The elderly man with the beard and hair was skilled and quickly sealed the acupoints and set the broken bone. During this time, the man was awakened by the stimulation, and then fainted from the pain.

"Men, drag him away to recover from his injuries. We'll deal with this officially after he apologizes to 'Purple Serpent' in public on another day!" After letting out a sigh of relief, the old man with the beard and hair immediately gave the man who was being dragged away by several eighth-rank core disciples a cold look.

Even though Hu Ye was his personal disciple, he was no exception in committing such a despicable act...

Even the Second Elder, after realizing that Hu Ye was not in mortal danger, had abandoned his intention to save him.

Purple Serpent?

The man in purple smiled inwardly. Feng Ling knew that the "Purple Serpent" mentioned by the old man with the beard and hair was a quasi-title for Leng Ning Shuang, which was also a habitual way for some older people to address younger people with outstanding talents.

Thinking this way,

unexpectedly,……

"Junior Sister Leng, congratulations...!"
You are qualified.

Be my...
...We've become Daoist partners...!

Life isn't about persevering because of hope; it's about seeing hope because you persevere.

Amidst the myriad troubles and disturbances of the world, may the sages bring you, the readers, a pure land for your souls.

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