The female lead thought she had a "proud and arrogant" character script.

For Luo Qingcheng, who had already made a name for himself in the outer sect, time flew by.

The day of the outer gate promotion tournament has arrived.

When Senior Brother Xu Tianxin was teaching swordsmanship to everyone, he discovered that this class was the best he had ever taught. After reporting this to the inner sect elders, the elders waved their hands and decided to bring forward the qualifying rounds.

Fourth Elder: Because the spiritual energy stored in the spirit stones at the spirit stone exchange contribution point disappeared some time ago, a large part of the sect's income disappeared. Since the sect's income was not enough to support its expenses, we had no choice but to advance the qualifying competition early and ask other sects that came to watch the competition to give some gifts to maintain our livelihood.

Even the Grand Elders, who are under the Sword Master's wing, have been sent out to do high-difficulty missions to earn spirit stones. For these small fry, their greatest contribution is to find a gimmick for the sect to earn spirit stones.

It was precisely because the outer sect advancement competition was brought forward that the required contribution points were reduced by ten points by the Fourth Elder, who was in charge of the sect's finances.

All outer disciples: We really will thank you :)

The plan changed, and Luo Qingcheng's final contribution points did not reach 1990, only about 1 point (he didn't even have time to earn any), so he had to borrow spirit stones from Wanwan to exchange for contribution points.

Only then did they register.

Luo Qingcheng sighed.

I never imagined that I, a former rich woman, would fall to the point of owing money to children.

In that case, she must qualify for the inner sect, which means she has to be in the top three of the qualifying competition!

Luo Qingcheng made up his mind.

But the competition is fierce.

After her recent enlightenment, Senior Sister Hu Muyu seems to have had a breakthrough, and her cultivation is progressing by leaps and bounds. She has been consolidating her cultivation these past two days, and she will surely complete the process by the time of the advancement competition.

There's also Senior Brother Liu, who was previously in charge of leading these outer disciples. According to Senior Sister Hu, Senior Brother Liu has also reached the Foundation Establishment stage and is currently in the mid-stage, striving to reach the late-stage.

The senior brothers and sisters who have been in the outer sect for a long time are all formidable.

Even little Wanwan, with her terrifying talent and pure heart, has already reached the early stage of Foundation Establishment and is currently preparing to break through to the middle stage.

And she remains a useless little good-for-nothing.

The spiritual power was fused into the physical body. Previously, the spiritual power was borrowed from the system's Qi Refining Great Perfection spiritual power fusion. Although spiritual power of unknown origin was added later, it did not cross the threshold of Foundation Establishment. Therefore, Foundation Establishment cultivators could beat her as easily as beating a baby.

In this way, Luo Qingcheng would become a mortal again when facing a Foundation Establishment cultivator. She couldn't break through the Foundation Establishment cultivator's defenses, and if a Foundation Establishment cultivator attacked her, she would be defeated with a single sword strike.

Therefore, if Luo Qingcheng wants to win, he must raise his physical strength to another level before the qualifying rounds.

At the very least, she must be able to break through the Foundation Establishment's defenses, and the Foundation Establishment must be helpless against him.

Ultimately, we still have to find the system.

The system has been completely silent lately, as if it were dead.

Luo Qingcheng wasn't sure if the system had already quietly disappeared, so she tentatively called out in her mind: [System?]

System: [In.]

Luo Qingcheng breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the system's response.

Her current cultivation is inseparable from her cheat system.

[System, what is the price for lending me the spiritual power of a Golden Core cultivator at the Great Perfection stage?]

[Spiritual energy lending only requires the host to be able to bear it; if they cannot, the consequences will be the price to pay. However, each level can only lend once.]

Luo Qingcheng nodded.

She had discovered when she was preparing to kill the demonic cultivator that the shattered meridians were a side effect of the spiritual energy infusion. No other side effects appeared afterward. She had borrowed the spiritual energy of a Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator when she tempered her body last time, and she had withstood it without paying any other price.

Therefore, Luo Qingcheng guessed that, although she didn't know why, lending spiritual energy was the most cost-effective option for her as long as her body could handle it.

Now it turns out that it is so.

[Loan commencement.]

The spiritual power of the Golden Core Perfection cultivator instantly poured into Luo Qingcheng's body.

She was jolted, and then she tried her best to endure the pain and integrate the external spiritual energy into her body.

Previously, Luo Qingcheng had carefully borrowed the spiritual power of the Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator to fuse with the power, but only realized it wasn't enough halfway through. So this time, Luo Qingcheng skipped the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection option altogether.

However, it was clear that the spiritual power of the Golden Core Great Perfection was too much for her, and she would have to spend more effort to integrate the spiritual power into her physical body.

Having learned from the previous experience, Luo Qingcheng experienced some pain this time, but nothing unexpected happened.

But the final result was not as good as Luo Qingcheng had hoped.

Luo Qingcheng's physical strength has only reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, not the Great Perfection. This means that as long as you reach the late stage of Foundation Establishment, it will still be as easy as beating a baby to beat her.

Now she can only pray that she doesn't run into Senior Brother Liu before the finals.

On the day of the qualifying match.

The entire Wenjian Sect was bustling with excitement because of the qualifying matches.

The competition venue was set at the foot of the mountain, so that ordinary people from Wenjian City could come and join in the fun.

For the Sword Inquiry Sect, anyone who can give them spirit stones is a distinguished guest, regardless of whether they are immortals or mortals.

Many disciples from the sect who went to the city to do part-time jobs were bossed around by ordinary bosses.

The inner disciples happened to be setting up a stall at the foot of the mountain.

They weren't very interested in the scene of these inexperienced disciples fighting amongst themselves; instead, they were quite fascinated by setting up street stalls.

Because the number of competitions open to mortals within the Wenjian Sect is extremely limited, mortals generally won't open their own shops during this period, but instead go to the Wenjian Sect to spend money in order to join in the fun.

This gave many inner disciples an opportunity.

Besides alchemy, talisman, weapon, and array techniques aimed at cultivators, those who only cultivate swordsmanship can also sell snacks; there's always a way to earn spirit stones that suits everyone.

While Luo Qingcheng was taking Wanwan to draw lots, he also took the opportunity to place a bet on himself to be among the top three in the betting pool that was run by the Fourth Elder.

The top three favorites are Senior Brother Liu Ben, Senior Sister Hu Muyu, and Senior Brother Zhao Peng, all of whom have been disciples in the outer sect for several years.

These odds are low. The others are tiered according to cultivation level, with higher cultivation levels resulting in lower odds. Luo Qingcheng, who is recorded as having no cultivation level, has the highest odds, reaching 1 to 100.

Clearly, no one thought she could get into the top three.

Besides betting on the top three, you can also bet on who is first, second, and third, with even higher odds.

Luo Qingcheng didn't dare to bet on this. According to the Phoenix's Pride Law, she should be number one, but after thinking about it for a long time, she gave up.

She still owes Wanwan spirit stones, so it's best not to be too arrogant.

Seeing that she had beaten Luo Qingcheng to the top three, Wanwan also took 10,000 spirit stones to beat Luo Qingcheng to the top three.

Luo Qingcheng suddenly felt immense pressure.

She wanted to advise Wanwan, but when she thought about how Wanwan was a little rich, she recalled that when she was rich, ten thousand was nothing to her. If someone with no sense tried to persuade her to be more frugal when she was spending money, she wouldn't appreciate it at all.

In the end, Luo Qingcheng didn't try to dissuade her, after all, she herself had staked 10,000 spirit stones.

With 20,000 spirit stones placed, Luo Qingcheng's odds decreased slightly.

Then Luo Qingcheng took Wanwan to draw lots.

This qualifying round doesn't differentiate by cultivation level; it's a random draw. If you draw someone with a higher cultivation level, you can only consider yourself unlucky.

Since the number of applicants was odd, Luo Qingcheng didn't expect to get a pass and just hoped for an easy task. But when she took out the bamboo skewer and looked at it, she felt like the heavens were against her!