Chapter 12: Sect Competition

"Junior brother, today is the sect competition, you must not lose face for me." Yun Mei carefully helped Xiao Yichen tidy up his clothes while whispering in his ear. She looked like a wife seeing off her husband, full of tenderness.

Hearing this, Xiao Yichen only smiled faintly, but he was quite excited in his heart. If he could show the strength of the Body Tempering Realm in this competition, then with his talent, he would definitely attract the attention of the sect's top leaders. At that time, if there was a female disciple with a stronger cultivation than Yun Mei who took a liking to him, then his chances of escaping from the Meiyu Sect alive would undoubtedly be greater.

Noticing the change in Xiao Yichen's expression, Yunmei paused slightly, a little puzzled. She put her ear close to Xiao Yichen's chest and listened quietly: "Junior Brother?... What are you thinking about? Why is your heart beating so fast?"

In response, Xiao Yichen just chuckled and said a few sweet words, and soon coaxed Yunmei into stopping asking questions. After seeing Yunmei off, there was still about half an hour before the competition, so Xiao Yichen simply lay on the bed, recalling his experiences over the past year.

"It was really torture. I practiced day after day, reached the peak of the mortal realm, and then took the risk of using thunder to break through to the body tempering realm. In the entire world of immortal cultivation, this training speed should be considered relatively strong. Fortunately, I succeeded after all." With a light sigh, he had no doubt about his talent. After all, to be able to travel to the world of immortal cultivation, there must be something extraordinary about him.

However, when the excitement in my mind gradually faded, a feeling of reluctance surged deep in my heart.

"To be honest, Yun Mei treats me really well. If... this were in a normal sect, how great it would be." But when he thought that Yun Mei was so nice to him just to use him as a cauldron five years later, his heart seemed to be pulled hard, and a feeling of cramping kept rising up.

He thought of Liu Qingqing again. Ever since they formed a brother-sister relationship, this little girl has followed him around all day, calling him "Brother". He just didn't know how to face her after this competition.

He shook his head and stopped thinking about these troubles. After resting for a while, he stood up and walked out of the house.

At this moment, the sect's fighting arena was already crowded with many disciples. He arrived at the right time, as the referee had just finished reading out the rules of the competition.

Male and female disciples competed separately. After all, in the Meiyu Sect, the overall cultivation level of male disciples was much lower than that of female disciples.

In more than a year, he also roughly understood the overall strength of all the younger generation disciples of Meiyu Sect. Among the female disciples, Yun Mei and Zhang Qingyue were the strongest. Both of them were at the peak of Qi Refining and were only one step away from being promoted to the Core Formation stage.

"I don't know who is stronger between Senior Sister and Zhang Qingyue. I heard that this competition is also related to the selection of the next Saint of the sect." After hearing these discussions, Xiao Yichen naturally tended to favor Yun Mei. In addition, after recovering from the serious injury before, Yun Mei's strength must have improved. Although she has not yet reached the threshold of the Jindan realm, she thinks she is not far away. Her strength should be able to surpass the other party.

As for the younger generation of male disciples, the strongest one currently was only at the early stages of Qi Refining. Although much stronger than Xiao Yichen, the gap between him and female disciples like Yun Mei was far from even a fraction.

While Xiao Yichen was still lost in thought, the referee on the stage had already announced the official start of the competition.

At this moment, the first people to compete on the stage were two senior sisters whom Xiao Yichen had met once before.

At this moment, both of them were staring at each other intently. The next second, they attacked at the same time, holding their weapons tightly, and attacked each other. Just from the way they attacked, it could be seen that they had practiced together a lot, and they knew each other's moves well. They fought with each other, and it was difficult to tell the winner for a while. Both of them were at the peak of body tempering, and they could only rely on physical skills to fight. Seeing this scene, Xiao Yichen couldn't help but smile unconsciously.

"It seems that before I advance to the Qi Refining Stage, I will not be able to control spiritual energy to assist in combat. Then the energy in my body is just like a cheat."

Not long after, the battle between the two people on the stage made new progress. The relationship between the two was pretty good. They looked at each other and understood each other's thoughts. They didn't have any gambling agreement, and winning or losing was not very important to them. In order not to delay too much time, the two decided to decide the outcome with one move.

Powerful sword energy suddenly surged on the stage. The two men gathered their strength and launched the strongest attack they could currently control at the other. Finally, with a loud "bang", a figure was knocked out of the arena.

Xiao Yichen turned around and was not very interested in this. He did not pay attention to who won or lost. To him, these were of no use at all. He stepped out of the crowd and found a shady place to rest for a while. Who would have thought that the shade of the tree was already crowded with people. A group of male disciples were hiding under the tree and being lazy, and did not go to watch the game.

"A bunch of unambitious guys." He secretly complained about them in his heart, and then shamelessly squeezed in among them. Soon, a group of them started to chat about gossip happily.

"Guess who will be the last one laughing among the female disciples in this sect competition? I heard that the winner of this competition has a chance to be selected as the next Saintess."

"Needless to say, it's Senior Sister Zhang. I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. I passed by Senior Sister Zhang's courtyard a while ago, and the pressure emanating from her house almost made me kneel down on the spot. I think Senior Sister Zhang is about to enter the Jindan realm."

"It's hard to say. I still think Senior Sister Yun has a greater chance of winning. Some time ago, Senior Sister Yun was on a mission outside and was seriously injured. Later, Junior Brother went to Junior Sister Liu to ask for a healing pill for her. Only then did she recover from her serious injury. Her strength must have increased a lot. However, because of this, Junior Sister Liu was fined by the sect for half a year's worth of training resources."

At this point, everyone's eyes turned to Xiao Yichen, who was still listening to gossip. Seeing many of his fellow brothers looking at him, Xiao Yichen could only smile awkwardly.

However, this was the first time he heard about Liu Qingqing being punished. He really couldn't understand this bizarre rule with his stupid brain. A sect of immortal cultivators was so perfunctory in dealing with the injuries of their disciples. Not only did they not take the initiative to heal the disciples, but even disciples who helped each other would be punished.

"What a shitty sect." He secretly complained in his heart, what's the difference between this and capitalists exploiting labor.

"Speaking of which, does anyone know what mission Senior Sister Yun was on last time that left her so badly injured?"

Hearing this, everyone shook their heads and turned their eyes to Xiao Yichen, but he also didn't know.

He once asked Yunmei what had happened that caused her to be so seriously injured, but every time he asked, Yunmei gave a perfunctory answer. Over time, he stopped asking.

At this moment, Liu Qingqing's voice was heard from the stage. Hearing the noise, Xiao Yichen immediately stood up and said goodbye to his senior brothers.

He still had to go and watch Liu Qingqing's game, otherwise when that girl knew he didn't go, she would complain to him for a month.

Slowly squeezing to the front, Xiao Yichen was stunned by the sight of Liu Qingqing fighting with her opponent on the stage.

"It seems like this is the first time I see Qingqing taking action. Why is she a bit violent?" He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he came to watch her game. If Qingqing on the stage found out later that he was not there, she would probably not just complain. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and carefully observed the movements on the stage.

The female disciple opposite and Liu Qingqing are both in the middle stage of the Body Tempering Realm. It seems that the opponents in the sect competition are not selected randomly. Each disciple's opponent is someone with a cultivation level similar to theirs.

However, although their cultivation levels were almost the same, Liu Qingqing relied on a desperate fighting style to firmly suppress the opponent. It was very obvious who had the upper hand. Xiao Yichen never expected that Liu Qingqing, an alchemist, would have such a fighting style. He didn't know where he learned it from.

Soon, the competition went as Xiao Yichen had expected. The female disciple on the opposite side was kicked off the arena by Liu Qingqing.

Seeing Liu Qingqing dancing on the stage, Xiao Yichen also smiled slightly. When Liu Qingqing's eyes fell on him, her two little fangs could no longer be hidden. She ran towards Xiao Yichen's position under the stage happily, jumped and hung on him, attracting the attention of many senior brothers and sisters around her.

There was a rule within the sect that each disciple could only have one Daoist companion, but in everyone's memory, wasn't Xiao Yichen Senior Sister Yun's Daoist companion? How could he be so close to Liu Qingqing?

Feeling the gazes of the people around her, Liu Qingqing jumped off Xiao Yichen a little embarrassedly.

Just at this moment, the referee on the stage called out the names of Yun Mei and Zhang Qingyue. Upon hearing this, they both turned their eyes to the arena.

At this moment, Yun Mei and Zhang Qingyue were slowly walking towards the stage amid the cheers of the crowd.

Arriving at the arena, Yun Mei glanced at Xiao Yichen below and Liu Qingqing who was holding his arm, and shook her head with a wry smile. This little girl was too clingy and didn't take her, her "sister-in-law", seriously at all. If she didn't know that she was simple-minded, she would have wanted to get off the stage immediately and teach these two a lesson.

As her thoughts turned back to her, Yunmei's expression began to become serious. She looked at Zhang Qingyue opposite her with fear in her eyes. This old rival had been against her for a long time, especially some of the rumors she had heard recently. If they were true, it would be a bit tricky.

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