Sister, I don't want to be a furnace anymore. I'm about to become an immortal.

Chapter 13: An unexpected event

On the arena, everyone's attention was focused on Yun Mei and Zhang Qingyue standing opposite each other.

Today, Yunmei was wearing a white long dress, which was completely different from her usual look. Her figure was still graceful, her long hair fluttering in the wind, and she looked at the opposite side with a firm gaze, no longer as charming as before.

Zhang Qingyue on the opposite side maintained her usual style, wearing a purple slim-fitting dress, with a smile on her face, and her eyes occasionally revealing a hint of charm and arrogance. As leaders of the younger generation, both of them are graceful and neither of them is inferior to the other.

There was no exchange of words between the two sides. With the ringing of a clear bell, the battle began instantly.

Yun Mei took the first step and ran towards the opponent quickly, with spiritual energy constantly condensing in her hands. When she was about to get close to Zhang Qingyue, a palm print came out from her hand and hit the opponent's vital points. However, Zhang Qingyue acted very calmly. She waved her hand lightly in the air, and a barrier rose up, just offsetting the palm print. She flashed and quickly came to Yun Mei's side, summoned a spiritual sword and stabbed it towards her.

Seeing this, Yunmei instantly retracted her palm, changed direction, stretched out her fingertips, which emitted bursts of purple light, and lightly tapped the sword that was stabbing towards her, deflecting it from its original trajectory.

The two's movements became faster and faster, and the spiritual energy fluctuations around them became stronger and stronger. They moved around the arena, their figures moving left and right like ghosts, dazzling the people below.

Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, Yun Mei drew out her long sword. With the blessing of spiritual energy, the sword emitted a trace of purple light. The sword was sharp and attacked Zhang Qingyue. Seeing this, Zhang Qingyue just narrowed his eyes slightly, retracted the sword that gathered spiritual energy into his body, and drew the sword from his waist. The two long swords collided in the air, making a crisp sound.

The battle entered a stalemate again. The sword moves of both sides were taught by the same master, and they knew every move of each other. Powerful spiritual power continued to spread on the arena, and they fought back and forth, neither side giving in.

However, just when everyone in the audience thought that the battle would end in a draw, a powerful aura suddenly burst out from Zhang Qingyue's body, and spiritual power surged out like a flood. Yun Mei's face changed drastically, and she had no time to dodge, so she was blown several meters away by this force.

"Puff..." Half-kneeling on the ground, Yun Mei spat out a mouthful of blood. Her face looked very ugly, and her eyes were fixed on the front. At this moment, Zhang Qingyue's breath was still surging.

"You really will do anything to defeat me." Yun Mei spat out the blood from her mouth, gently wiped the corner of her mouth, stood up, and looked at Zhang Qingyue, whose cultivation was about to break through to the Jindan stage.

Zhang Qingyue, who was in the vortex of spiritual energy, just sneered at the words and said, "Haha, Senior Sister, you're not right. You should know better than me what the Saint Maiden can gain. Although I picked my husband's Dao Fruit in advance, it's nothing compared to what I will gain after defeating you."

Hearing this, Yun Mei frowned more and more. The opponent's current strength has surpassed hers. If she continues to let her break through like this, she will definitely lose. However, the rule of the sect is that no matter what the circumstances, one cannot interrupt a fellow disciple's breakthrough for any reason. Violators will be severely punished. Now she can only wait obediently for Zhang Qingyue to break through to the Jindan stage.

Thinking of this, cold sweat began to seep out of her forehead, and her eyes unconsciously looked at Xiao Yichen in the audience. Xiao Yichen in the audience had also been looking at her. Their eyes met in the air, and he smiled at Yunmei on the stage.

She turned her gaze back to Zhang Qingyue in front of her, gritted her teeth, and as if she had made a decision, she put her sword back to her waist. In the surprised eyes of everyone, she actually sat cross-legged on the ground. The next moment, the surrounding spiritual energy began to surge and continuously rotated around her body.

"Senior Sister Yun, are you trying to force a breakthrough?"

Hearing the discussions of the disciples around him, Xiao Yichen felt something was wrong. Although Yunmei's cultivation had already reached the peak of Qi training, there was still a certain gap between her and the Core Formation stage. If she forced her way through like this, she might get seriously injured. The disciples below the stage had also heard what Zhang Qingyue had said just now. The other party had picked the Taoist fruit of her Taoist partner in advance, so she was sure of a breakthrough in one fell swoop, but Yunmei's situation was completely different from hers.

Liu Qingqing subconsciously increased the strength with which she held onto Xiao Yichen beside her, staring at Yun Mei on the stage without blinking, her eyes full of anxiety. It was obvious that she also knew the consequences of forcing a breakthrough.

"Is senior sister crazy? What if it fails?" Xiao Yichen looked at the girl beside him, patted her on the shoulder, and signaled her to be at ease and to trust senior sister, but when he turned around, his own face showed an expression of great worry.

He turned his gaze back to the two people on the stage. At this moment, the spiritual energy around Zhang Qingyue continued to gather towards her dantian. Her face was also very painful. It seemed that she was undergoing great torture. Every time she frowned, the spiritual energy in her body would leak out. It seemed that she was trying to compress the spiritual energy in her body to form a pill, but she had not succeeded yet.

Looking at Yun Mei again, she was forcing herself to form a pill without sufficient preparation. Her condition was much worse than Zhang Qingyue's. Blood kept flowing from the corners of her mouth. Her internal condition must be extremely bad. Sure enough, not long after, a large mouthful of blood spurted out of her mouth, and the spiritual energy in her body instantly became manic and kept dissipating outwards.

"Not good." An old lady in the distance suddenly stood up and flew towards the arena at high speed, dispersing the surrounding barriers. She immediately came to Yunmei and checked her injuries.

Xiao Yichen, who was sitting in the audience, didn't know what was going on. He broke free from Liu Qingqing's hand and rushed to the stage. Before everyone could react, he was already in front of Yun Mei.

"Go down..." A majestic voice came from the old man's mouth, shaking Xiao Yichen's body slightly, but his eyes were still fixed on Yun Mei lying on the ground.

"I told you to get down." The old man seemed to have his authority challenged. A powerful aura spread outward, pushing Xiao Yichen off the arena. Then he picked up Yun Mei and left.

"Damn, why did this old woman hit me so hard?" Xiao Yichen lay on the ground, covering his chest. If the old woman had used a little more strength, he would probably be vomiting blood like Yun Mei.

Liu Qingqing quickly ran to him and slowly helped him up from the ground. At this moment, a strong wind suddenly blew up on the stage. The spiritual energy within a hundred meters radius continued to gather towards Zhang Qingyue on the stage and all of it went into her abdomen. The next moment, Zhang Qingyue's body continued to emit a rich purple light, which made people dare not look directly at it. After feeling this powerful breath, everyone retreated with shock on their faces.

"It's done, Senior Sister Zhang has successfully broken through to the Jindan realm." I don't know who shouted this, but the next moment, the atmosphere at the scene was instantly ignited, and everyone cheered and congratulated.

After channeling all the spiritual energy in her body into the golden elixir in her dantian, Zhang Qingyue slowly opened her eyes and looked at her hands. An extremely excited expression appeared on her face. She laughed loudly and listened to the cheers of the people below the stage. She felt extremely happy in her heart. Although she was breaking through just now, she still saw the scene where Yunmei failed to break through. She cast her gaze at Xiao Yichen lying on the ground, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly.

"Junior brother, now I have won. According to the bet between Yun Mei and me, from now on, you are mine."