The big trees in the forest covered the sky and the ground was covered with fallen leaves. Lu Zhaozhao shuttled through the forest, leaving behind the rustling of dead leaves wherever he passed.

She had just experienced a fierce battle, but she did not dare to stop at all. After simply stopping the bleeding, she kept running.

He covered the injured shoulder while running, fearing that any blood would attract the injured spider behind him.

Lu Zhaozhao's mind was working rapidly, and his five senses were vigilantly observing his surroundings.

The most urgent thing is to find a hiding place. After all, this place is full of dangers, which are much more powerful than that spider, and her current condition is really too bad.

Lu Zhaozhao glanced around and suddenly found a cave as tall as a person not far away. He moved and slipped into it.

The cave entrance was covered by weeds and the inside was pitch black. The first thing Lu Zhaozhao did when he stepped into the cave was to light the mermaid candle.

Warm light filled the entire cave.

The cave was carefully checked again and again. After confirming that there was no danger, Lu Zhaozhao set up a formation at the entrance of the cave, tied a hexagonal bell as a warning, and then collapsed to the ground completely.

The prolonged fighting and the untreatable injuries had taken a toll on her mind and body, and she was in urgent need of rest.

Her consciousness gradually became confused and her eyelids kept closing. Since she entered the book, she had never felt so tired as now.

Lu Zhaozhao held Niye tightly and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up again, the wounds on his body had begun to scab over due to the rapid recovery of his body after the body training.

I don’t know how long I slept. Lu Zhaozhao rubbed his sore shoulders and took out the Yuanxu Mirror.

The mirror surface was covered with dense cracks, one of which ran through the entire mirror, splitting the reflected portrait into two.

Lu Zhaozhao rubbed the mirror bitterly. This mirror had helped her block many attacks, but now it was broken, which was really heartbreaking.

She invested a bit of spiritual power into it, and after exploring it for a while, she found that it had really turned into an ordinary mirror, and finally gave up.

Turning it over, the only good news might be that the structure on the back used to judge time was still intact, which made Lu Zhaozhao breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, there is no change of seasons in the back mountain, and it would be troublesome if there were no tools to judge time.

Although there were heavy casualties in the battle, there were gains in the end.

Lu Zhaozhao sat cross-legged in meditation. She could feel the spiritual power that had been stagnant for a long time begin to flow into her dantian continuously.

She seems to have improved a lot compared to before, and perhaps she will be able to reach the great perfection of the Golden Core Stage in the near future.

The curtains around him opened and a figure appeared. It was Wei Zhanjie who had been elusive for a long time.

Lu Zhaozhao looked at him with some resentment.

Wei Zhanjie felt a little embarrassed by being stared at. He touched the back of his head and said, "Let me explain!"

"I'll listen to your excuses." Lu Zhaozhao replied.

"Hey, that's wrong. I'm doing this for your own good!" Wei Zhanjie said with a solemn oath, "Look, that spider is only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage. Although it's a bit difficult for you to kill it, you see it's not that easy to injure it. And you've gained a lot from this battle!"

Lu Zhaozhao listened to his endless nonsense without refutation. After all, she did gain something, but she almost lost her life.

"Then what? What should I do?" Lu Zhaozhao interrupted Wei Zhanjie's chattering.

"Then? Then continue to fight monsters and practice." Wei Zhanjie said casually, "I just used my spiritual power to explore. It seems that there are also levels of rules here. The strength of the demons on the outer layer is about the same as that spider just now. Once you stay here and reach the great perfection of the Golden Core Stage, you can go inside."

Lu Zhaozhao nodded, said "OK", and closed the book, blocking out the endless chatter that followed.

After closing the book, she quietly pondered in her mind.

There are still a little over four years until the Golden Palace Banquet.

In her memory, the champion of the previous session was Yue Cong, a disciple of Qingsongzi from Wenyuan Academy, whose cultivation level was in the middle stage of Nascent Soul.

Going forward, it was her senior brother Ying Che, whose cultivation level was at the late Nascent Soul stage at that time.

Going further back, there was Zhou Liang of Emperor Huizong of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, he had been trapped in the late Nascent Soul stage for twenty years. He was the undisputed number one person below the Out-of-Body stage. After winning the top spot, he went down the mountain to travel far away and has not returned to this day.

Almost all those who can make it to the Golden Palace Banquet list have the strength of a Nascent Soul, and have already gained some fame in the world of cultivation before participating in the competition.

Therefore, the most urgent thing is that she must be promoted to the Nascent Soul stage before she can have the strength to fight.

Besides that, cultivation alone is far from enough.

There were also people who participated with Yue Cong with the same level of cultivation as him, and some even had higher levels of cultivation than him. The reason why he was able to suppress the crowd was inseparable from the profound foundation of Wenyuan Academy.

Except for the independent cultivators, all of them have the support of a sect in terms of weapons, skills, and techniques, and the sects have unique advantages in this regard.

Yue Cong's cultivation might not be the highest, but he was the strongest in overall strength in that session. The moves he used alone were enough to allow him to compete with those in the late Nascent Soul stage.

Therefore, among the three major sects, except for the Tianyin Sect which was not good at fighting, the leaders who finally ascended the Golden Terrace basically came from Wenyuan Academy and Emperor Huizong of the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, it is not impossible for disciples outside the three major sects.

A hundred years ago, Fu Zhuchen appeared out of nowhere and single-handedly defeated all the factions and ascended the Golden Platform alone.

After the competition, all parties searched for him and found out that he was just a casual cultivator who practiced in the mountains all year round. He happened to come out of the mountains and saw the grand occasion of the Golden Que Banquet, so he participated in it. After winning the championship, he went back to practice again.

The Jinque Feast has a long history, and many of its leaders have come from smaller sects or independent cultivators. Regardless of their origins, the only thing they share is that they were all undeniably the best of their time!

Lu Zhaozhao let out a long sigh and rubbed his left shoulder, which was still a little sore. His long, distinct eyelashes revealed an unstoppable fiery gaze.

She looked towards the cave entrance, where she could hear the sound of soft bells from time to time. Perhaps some monsters were passing by the cave, and she was about to chase them.

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