Are you really trying to cultivate immortality? Something feels off.

Xie Weixing grabbed Shen Chunri, letting out a cold snort: "Cold snow and cold moon, three feet of cold."

The moment his words fell, the surrounding spiritual energy surged back, and a bone-chilling cold instantly spread outward from his side. A pale frost-like spiritual light poured out from Xie Weixing's palm, transforming into three-foot-long ice shards that covered Wenlong's scales. The whip's body shimmered with a light like shattered snowflakes, and wisps of cold mist lingered around its edge.

The long whip spun in mid-air, sending shards of cold light flying everywhere. The Southern River Flame Stream that Nie Shiyun had just unleashed collided with this layer of snow and was actually cut off, creating a gap. The flames were momentarily sluggish.

A fierce confrontation instantly erupted on the arena, with one side a frozen wasteland and the other a raging inferno.

Xie Weixing held Shen Chunri's arm firmly with one hand, protecting her behind him, while his other hand held a loose grip, the cold blade in his palm flowing at his will.

Nie Shiyun possessed the blood of the Southern River Phoenix, so it wasn't surprising that he could rival Nie Shiyun's eighth-tier Azure Water Lion.

But only someone at the Taixu Realm could suppress him to this extent.

Xie Weixing's expression was meaningful as he looked through the surging flames and gazed directly at the woman in the sea of ​​fire.

"Nie Shiyun," Xie Weixing raised an eyebrow slightly, his eyes filled with inquiry, "something's not right with you."

As soon as the words were spoken, the arena fell silent.

The howling wind and fire currents, the sizzling clash of ice and fire, and the chaotic surge of spiritual energy all seemed to freeze briefly at this soft question.

Upon hearing this, Nie Shiyun, who was engulfed in flames, suddenly chuckled softly.

"You have a sharp eye."

The dark red flames around her suddenly surged several feet, and the fire that had been suppressed by the cold blades instantly broke free of its restraints. The blazing divine fire cleaved through the surrounding frost and mist, and the scalding waves of fire rolled up layer by layer, forcing Xie Weixing's fingertips to tremble slightly, with frost light faintly floating.

Nie Shiyun raised her eyes, her peach-colored robes glowing red in the fire and wind, her skirt fluttering wildly, her brows and eyes tinged with the color of wildfire, the pure spiritual power of her top-grade fire spirit root merging with the blood of the Chidi Phoenix.

The firelight made the sharp glint in the girl's eyes shine through: "What, are you saying your Feng Hua Sect is allowed to have geniuses?"

The previously noisy disciples below the stage fell silent instantly, and the hall erupted in uproar.

The Realm of Great Void!

Another Taixu Realm expert has appeared!

Fu Yao, sitting in the audience, frowned slightly.

It doesn't mean that other sects besides Feng Hua Sect are not allowed to have Tai Xu Realm cultivators.

However, after parting ways at Wanjian Mountain several years ago, Nie Zhao and Tan Suiting were both at the Nascent Soul stage. Now that they have ascended to the Taixu realm, their cultivation speed is indeed as if divinely aided, but it is still reasonable.

But Nie Shiyun was only at the Golden Core stage back then, and he was imprisoned in the Nie Mansion in Nanchuan for two years. If he had cultivated normally, how could he have reached the Great Void stage now?

Fu Yao sensed something was wrong, so she pinched open a wisp of the communication talisman that Xie Weixing and Yu Xintang had been researching together and sent it to the inn.

Ning Xiang, who was standing nearby, turned her head and whispered, "You also think there's a problem?"

Fu Yao leaned back in her chair, her eyes thoughtful: "Any normal person would feel that something is wrong."

Taking advantage of Xie Weixing's momentary pause, Nie Shiyun instantly changed her fingertips and drew them out in mid-air.

"Nine Flames of Southern Brightness—" Her eyes were cold. The Southern Brightness Flames, which had been scattered and clashing, suddenly converged and became one. The domineering offensive of the wildfire was gone, and it transformed into a wisp of extremely refined crimson fire, as thin as a hair and as fast as thunder. It pierced through layers of cold blade barriers and attacked Xie Weixing directly. "Vermilion Bird Purification!"

"Feng Hua Sect, your pride ends here today."

A scream suddenly erupted from the audience.

"Auntie! Stop going crazy!" Shen Chunri cried out in despair, patting her burning skirt. "Yu Xintang! She burned my clothes!"

These were new clothes that Yu Xintang had carefully selected for them after they secretly went down the mountain together. She wanted them to look presentable in the sect competition and bring some honor to the Feng Hua Sect. But they were burned like this after only two days of wearing them!

Xie Weixing was driven crazy by her noise. A layer of frost covered him and finally extinguished the intense fire of Nanchuan.

"Nie Shiyun, you are really wicked," Yu Xintang said, her eyes filled with indignation. "You even burned someone's newly bought clothes. There isn't a single good bird in Nanchuan."

He also cursed a certain phoenix that was resting at the inn.

Nie Shiyun paused for a moment, then sneered, "You're sick in the head. Go back to your Penglai and change your clothes!"

"Who gave you permission to tell lame jokes while you're fighting?" Xie Weixing was utterly speechless. Using Frost Moon as his blade, he drew several cold arcs, severing all the stray sparks that rushed towards him. The chilling energy flowed back along the fire veins, briefly restraining the spread of the Southern Bright Fire. "End the pride of the Feng Hua Sect? With this broken Tai Xu from your crooked, heretical methods?"

The dragon scales he held in his palm still gleamed with a cold light.

The young man snorted coldly, his charming peach blossom eyes carrying a murderous intent, his brows and eyes full of arrogant spirit: "It's not like I haven't fought against people in the Taixu Realm before."

The bloodline power of the Azure Lion and the Southern River Fire clashed fiercely, sending dark red sparks and silvery frost flying everywhere, causing the arena barrier to tremble incessantly.

Nie Shiyun's dark fire phoenix flapped its wings as if about to pounce, its cry so loud it hurt people's eardrums. The immense fire pressure of the Taixu Realm pressed forward layer by layer, about to break through the Frost Moon Barrier.

Just then, a purple shadow suddenly swept to Xie Weixing and Shen Chunri's side.

Yu Xintang, dressed in purple robes that billowed in the wind, with her long hair loosely tied up, possessed a face as beautiful as a piece of jade. Her fingertips held several talismans that shimmered with purple spiritual light, and the runes lit up instantly as she infused them with her spiritual power.

"Give us back our little snake's clothes first," Yu Xintang said in a clear, gentle voice, raising her hand and flicking her sleeve, sending several talismans swirling into the air. "Then we can talk about anything else!"

Spiritual energy surged from his body, converging into a hurricane with sharp edge, and suddenly transformed into a huge vortex of wind in the center of the arena. The talisman paper exploded one after another in the whirlwind.

"boom--!"

The swirling talisman light continuously cut through the oncoming Southern Bright Fire, splitting and entangling the raging flames, forcefully halting the Fire Phoenix's advance.

Yu Xintang brought her index and middle fingers together and held them in front of her eyes, her purple pupils as clear as glass: "Soaring Clouds, Wind's Whisper."

Wind runes instantly flew up, lying between the sea of ​​fire and the frost blades. The gale was like countless sharp blades, constantly shaving and grinding the crimson flames. Nie Shiyun's fire phoenix crashed into the wind rune barrier, bursting into a huge burst of fire. With each impact, the purple runes flickered, and pebbles fell from the blue stone platform below the barrier.

The fire in the girl's eyes burned even brighter, and her Phoenix Blood fueled the continued surge of the Southern River Blaze: "You're all so troublesome! Get out of here!!"