Reborn as the Strongest Immortal Cultivator in Modern Times

In the center of the square, Mu Qingchuan politely greeted the girl with the soft whip.

He gazed at her tenderly, his handsome and gentle smile making the girl blush.

Neither of them made the first move; they simply stared at each other.

Then a spoilsport voice came from the audience: "Hey, are you two going to compete or not? Are you two just having a romance here?"

"Exactly, if you just look at each other like that, how can you determine a winner?"

Hearing the people around her say this, the girl felt embarrassed and annoyed, and said, "Take this!"

He lashed the soft whip in his hand toward Mu Qingchuan.

Mu Qingchuan opened his folding fan to block the incoming whip. Seeing that his first attack had failed, the girl lashed out with another whip.

This time, Mu Qingchuan closed the folding fan, letting the end of the soft whip wrap around it.

The girl tugged hard, but the whip didn't budge.

Mu Qingchuan chuckled, forcefully pulled his folding fan back, and pulled the girl close, embracing her in his arms.

He gently reminded her, "Be careful."

The girl blushed again, looking at Mu Qingchuan with a shy and timid expression.

This lasted for a few seconds, then the spectators yelled again, "So, are you guys going to continue or not? If not, get off here already and let the next contestant come up."

Once the girl regained consciousness, she pushed Mu Qingchuan away with one hand and nimbly twirled a few times in the air.

Then she brandished her soft whip, drawing a graceful arc in the air as she attacked Mu Qingchuan.

Her whip skills were superb; the whip danced in the air as if thousands of silver snakes were coiled around it, densely covering the surrounding space, dazzling the eyes.

Mu Qingchuan also began to move. He seemed to be dodging the whip, but his steps were very methodical.

Ye Yu looked at the places he had walked through, and gradually, a formation formed, surrounding the girl.

When the formation was formed, he changed the original feng shui position. Although the girl's soft whip was aimed at Mu Qingchuan, it could not touch him.

When the whip's tail landed, it could only stir up the surrounding floor tiles, splashing up a large amount of dust.

The girl gradually realized something was wrong, because her whip tail was always aimed at Mu Qingchuan, but the sound of breaking the floor tiles was getting closer and closer to her.

Finally, a floor tile at her feet broke.

Sitting in the audience, Ye Yu said to Shen Yunling, "Mu Qingchuan is going to win."

Shen Yunling immediately asked, "Why? I only saw Mu Qingchuan dodging, and he didn't retaliate at all."

"Although he appeared to be dodging casually, every step he took had a fixed direction, forming a formation around him and then spreading the formation to the plaza. Finally, he reversed the positions within the formation, which is why the soft whip was getting closer and closer to the girl."

Sure enough, the sound of the whip cracking rang in the girl's ears the next second. Mu Qingchuan immediately stomped his right foot, and the formation stopped rotating.

A gust of wind swept past the girl's ear, knocking her earring to the ground.

Mu Qingchuan said, "Let's end the duel here. I'll be heartbroken if you get hurt."

After saying that, he picked up the earring that had fallen to the ground and returned it to the girl.

The girl seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and looked towards a certain direction in the audience, where her elders appeared to be sitting.

She took the earring and said to Mu Qingchuan, "Thank you, I lost."

After she finished speaking, she stared at him with lingering reluctance and slowly walked off the stage.

Ye Yu was speechless and said to Shen Yunling, "Don't even admire him, he's too greasy."

Shen Yunling burst into laughter.

By the time the competition ended, it was already dark, and lanterns were hung all around the square.

After saying goodbye to the Shen family, Ye Yu prepared to head towards the place where she had rested the previous two days.

She hadn't gone far when she spotted the middle-length-haired man from the Wu family following behind her.

Ye Yu guessed that they must want to know how she knew the art of controlling objects.

However, she doesn't have time right now. The finals are tomorrow, and she wants to try to break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining today so that she will be more confident in dealing with the others.

Ye Yu used her divine sense to navigate the winding village and quickly shook off the group.

Midday on the moon.

The spiritual energy around Ye Yu surged rapidly into her body, and even the rice ears in the surrounding fields rustled.

Fortunately, the spiritual energy here was more concentrated than outside. Although it took several more hours, we finally managed to get inside.

Ye Yu opened her eyes. She had now entered the fifth level of Qi Refining. Her spiritual power was twice as much as before, and her divine sense had also increased by about 100 meters.

As she was spreading her divine sense to test the distance, she noticed someone walking towards her.

Upon closer inspection, the person who came was actually Zhao Yuxuan.

"What is he here for?"

Ye Yu withdrew her divine sense, flew down from the tree, and straightened her clothes.

Zhao Yuxuan approached and spotted Ye Yu standing under the tree, uttering his first words to her since they met: "Were you practicing your martial arts here just now?"

His thin lips parted slightly, his words were extremely clear, and his voice was very cold, as if he had just come out of an ice cellar, cold but just right without being frozen.

Ye Yu thought his voice was extremely pleasant to hear.

However, she replied nonchalantly, "I was indeed practicing martial arts just now."

Zhao Yuxuan sized up Ye Yu for a while: "You've advanced to the mid-stage of the Profound Rank."

Ye Yu raised an eyebrow slightly: "Yes, I just advanced."

Zhao Yuxuan then said, "Your manipulation of objects is very powerful, unlike that of the Wu family. It's controlled by your mind, isn't it?"

Are you trying to trick me into revealing information?

"No, I was just curious."

"Oh, then I don't want to tell you."

The atmosphere suddenly quieted down, with only the chirping of crickets in the rice paddies audible.

Zhao Yuxuan pursed her lips: "Are you from the Hidden Sect?"

"Hidden Sect?" Ye Yu asked, somewhat puzzled. "Which sect here is it?"

"Haven't you heard of the Hidden Gate?"

"No."

Zhao Yuxuan fell silent again.

Just as Ye Yu was about to chase him away, she heard footsteps approaching.

She extended her divine sense to investigate and saw a man and a woman embracing and approaching her.

The two hugged and kissed as they ran. Ye Yu didn't have time to dodge, because one of them was Mu Qingchuan, who would definitely notice.

Zhao Yuxuan also noticed someone approaching, and upon closer inspection, she saw this intimate scene.

He turned around to tell Ye Yu, only to find that Ye Yu had already leaped up a tree and hidden herself.

He was stunned for a moment, not expecting Ye Yu to move so quickly. However, he was also afraid of witnessing such an embarrassing scene, as there were rice paddies all around and it would be difficult to hide. So he followed Ye Yu and flew up into the tree.

Since the tree wasn't very big, Zhao Yuxuan could only squat down next to Ye Yu.

Only the branch where Ye Yu was located had dense foliage, enough to completely conceal the two of them.

Just as they had hidden themselves, the two people who were embracing and kissing came to the vicinity.

Ye Yu then realized that the woman was actually the pretty young girl who had competed with Mu Qingchuan earlier that day.