After Shao Yumiao agreed, Song Cha also began to draw a number plate.
This time, Song Cha drew number twenty-one.
It was a relatively late number.
Unlike the numerous cultivators in the Qi Refining and Foundation Building stages, there were fewer cultivators participating in the Golden Core stage competition, only fifty-three in total.
Since the age limit was also imposed in the Cultivation World’s Grand Competition, there were indeed many Golden Core cultivators, but there were far fewer Golden Core cultivators within this age range. Additionally, they had to be willing to participate in the competition.
Therefore, there were only fifty-three cultivators drawing lots in the entire venue.
The luck of a cultivator was also very important.
Out of fifty-three cultivators, it was destined that one would have no opponent.
And the person who could advance directly without an opponent was the one who drew number twenty-seven.
Song Cha didn’t know who had such good luck, but at this moment, it was more important to watch the battles.
After deciding, Song Cha began to watch the battles from below the stage.
Soon, two contestants began to fight.
Unlike the fighting techniques of Qi Refining and Foundation Building cultivators, by the Golden Core stage, these cultivators generally used spells. For a time, various spells emerged on the stage one after another, dazzling the audience.
After all, Song Cha had just entered the Golden Core stage and lacked a lot of combat experience. After seeing the battles on the stage, she became even more focused.
Before she knew it, almost an entire day had passed.
By this time, only ten matches had been conducted.
The duration of battles in the Golden Core stage was obviously longer than those in the Foundation Building and Qi Refining stages.
While Song Cha was intently watching the competition, someone approached her.
“Big Sister Song Cha,” a gentle voice came from the side.
Song Cha turned her head and saw Wu Longyue.
“Longyue,” Song Cha called out.
Wu Longyue revealed a smile, “Sister Song Cha, have you broken through to the Golden Core stage?”
“Yes.” Speaking of this, Song Cha looked at Wu Longyue tenderly: “I have to thank Longyue for the lotus you gave me, which allowed me to break through to Golden Core.”
“It’s because of Sister Song Cha’s exceptional talent that you’ve made the breakthrough,” Wu Longyue said even more gently, her delicate face softening completely: “Sister Song Cha is the most talented person I’ve ever seen!”
Song Cha: “……”
Listening to Wu Longyue’s words, Song Cha found it hard to believe.
Wu Longyue was surrounded by geniuses, even the number of talented pursuers she had was not small.
Under such circumstances, how could she possibly be the most talented person Wu Longyue had ever seen? After all, she only started cultivating at the age of ten.
But even though she knew Wu Longyue was deceiving her, Song Cha still had to pretend to be fooled: “Longyue, there are many more talented than me.”
“No, you are the most talented!” Wu Longyue’s words were indisputable.
Song Cha: “……”
Looking at the determined Wu Longyue, Song Cha was at a loss for words.
However, although she started cultivating a bit late and didn’t cultivate for the first ten years, making her realm lower than the original female protagonists in the story, she worked hard to cultivate.
So what if Wu Longyue broke through to the peak of Golden Core at eighteen? So what if Wu Longyue decided to awaken her witch bloodline and, at the age of seventeen, advanced to the mid-stage of Golden Core within a year?
They all started cultivating early! They began at the age of three!
If she had also started cultivating that early, who knows, she might have been even more formidable than them!
After psyching herself up, Song Cha’s entire demeanor became even more extraordinary and transcendent.
She… was the best.
Watching Song Cha brimming with confidence, Wu Longyue couldn’t help but smile.
Song Cha sister is really cute.
It’s just… Song Cha has just broken through to the Golden Core stage and must be lacking resources for the Golden Core period.
“Song Cha sister, let me take you shopping,” Wu Longyue offered proactively.
Song Cha: “……”
Song Cha had only gone shopping with Wu Longyue once, and it was during that shopping trip that she acquired a Golden Core period magical artifact. So, Song Cha was very willing to go shopping with Wu Longyue.
Thinking of the fan magical artifact from the Golden Core period, Song Cha nodded: “Okay.”
Having decided to go shopping, the two quickly made their way towards Qingfeng City.
Recently, Song Cha realized that she always went shopping with someone else now.
In the past, Song Cha would go shopping alone, usually to jewelry and clothing stores, but now she could also browse vegetable stalls and magical artifact shops.
The things she bought were also exceptionally expensive.
Although… it wasn’t her who paid.
Song Cha and Wu Longyue soon arrived at Qingfeng City.
“Longyue, where shall we go this time?” Song Cha asked, puzzled.
“Where does Song Cha sister want to go?” Wu Longyue looked back at Song Cha.
Song Cha: “……”
Song Cha remained quiet, not saying a word.
In fact, after arriving at Qingfeng City, there were many places Song Cha wanted to go.
But these were things she couldn’t speak of, especially after the last visit to the magical artifact shop where Wu Longyue gifted her an expensive magical artifact.
Song Cha gazed at Wu Longyue and gently said: “I’ll accompany Longyue.”
Wu Longyue: “…”
Looking at Song Cha’s gentle demeanor, Wu Longyue’s heart felt incredibly soft.
“Then I’ll take Sister Song Cha for a casual stroll around,” Wu Longyue suggested.
“Okay,” Song Cha agreed.
After their conversation, the two of them started to wander around.
Qingfeng City was truly vast, with all sorts of goods for sale.
They quickly passed by various shops, continuing forward.
While passing these shops, they came across a clothing store.
This was the very store that Song Cha used to frequent.
Upon seeing the store, Song Cha couldn’t help but take a longer look inside.
In the past, Song Cha enjoyed buying clothes from this store.
However, as a Foundation Building disciple, she only received a monthly allowance of one high-grade spirit stone, which limited her purchasing power to clothes that cost a few dozen mid-grade spirit stones each.
But now, things were different. Song Cha had advanced to the Golden Core stage, and disciples at this level received a hundred high-grade spirit stones each month.
Moreover, Song Cha still had the two thousand high-grade spirit stones she won as the first-place prize in the Foundation Building competition.
So now, Song Cha could certainly afford to shop there.
“Sister Song Cha, let’s check out this store,” Wu Longyue suggested just as Song Cha was contemplating the clothes inside the store.
Song Cha, of course, wouldn’t refuse an invitation to this store: “Okay.”
After speaking, the two headed towards the store.
Before they could even push open the door, a shop assistant came to greet them.
“Immortal Song Cha, you’ve come to shop!” the assistant said eagerly, “And this immortal as well, welcome to our store to buy clothes.”
“Mm.” Song Cha glanced at the shop assistant, the very one who admired her.
“Come on in, come on in.” The assistant became even more attentive after hearing Song Cha’s response.
Song Cha and Wu Longyue followed the assistant into the shop.
Upon arriving, Song Cha headed straight for the white clothes.
Wu Longyue followed behind Song Cha, also making her way toward the white clothes.
During Song Cha’s absence, many new styles of clothing had arrived at the shop.
Looking at these new styles, Song Cha felt a strong desire to buy.
But… after taking a few more glances at the white clothes, Song Cha suppressed the urge to purchase.
She walked past the white clothes and headed toward the blue ones.
Wu Longyue was currently wearing blue clothes.
Song Cha didn’t know what color Wu Longyue liked, as it was never specifically mentioned in the novel. So, under these circumstances, buying blue clothes for Wu Longyue was the safest choice.
“Longyue, which clothes do you like?” Song Cha took the initiative to ask.
Hearing Song Cha’s words, Wu Longyue’s eyes lit up: “Is Sister Song Cha going to help me choose clothes?”
“Yes.” Song Cha nodded.
“I like this one.” Wu Longyue took down a piece of clothing from the middle.
Seeing the piece Wu Longyue chose, Song Cha estimated the price in her mind. Such a garment would cost at most ten high-grade spirit stones, well within Song Cha’s budget.
“Do you like anything else?” Song Cha continued to ask.
“This one…”
“Anything else?”
“This one.”
Under Song Cha’s persistent questioning, Wu Longyue chose three blue garments.
Three pieces of clothing, at most thirty high-grade spirit stones.
After confirming the price in her mind, Song Cha turned to the shop assistant who had been following them: “We’ll take all three of these, please wrap them up.”
“Of course, Fairy Song Cha.” The shop assistant’s smile grew even more attentive. “The total for these three garments is twenty-seven high-grade spirit stones. I’ll give you a discount, Fairy Song Cha, just twenty-three high-grade spirit stones.”
“Here you go.” Song Cha directly took out a storage bag filled with spirit stones and handed it to the shop assistant.
The shop assistant quickly accepted the storage bag and began to pack the clothes for Song Cha.
Because Song Cha asked for the price and handed over the spirit stones so quickly, Wu Longyue didn’t even have time to react.
By the time Wu Longyue came to her senses, Song Cha had already paid and was handing over the wrapped clothes to her.
Wu Longyue looked at the clothes that had been packed in her arms, feeling somewhat overwhelmed.
Song Cha was being too good to her, accompanying her shopping and even buying her clothes.
“Sister Song Cha, you didn’t have to pay for me.” Wu Longyue looked at Song Cha’s clothes, which were only worth a few dozen medium-grade spirit stones, and then at her own bag containing three garments that even after a discount cost twenty-three high-grade spirit stones each, feeling that Song Cha was too naive.
“You are my best friend, it’s only right for me to buy clothes for you,” Song Cha said with a hint of innocence.
Wu Longyue: “……”
Hearing Song Cha say that she was her best friend and that it was only right to buy her clothes, Wu Longyue felt a warm feeling inside.
Song Cha was just too kind, treating her friends with such open-hearted generosity.
While she could only afford clothes worth a few dozen medium-grade spirit stones, Song Cha would buy her precious food worth hundreds of high-grade spirit stones and clothes worth dozens of high-grade spirit stones.
Song Cha was really too good to her.
It’s just… even when treating friends, one should have some reservations.
Treating others with such wholehearted devotion, Wu Longyue always worried that Song Cha would be taken advantage of.
“Song Cha sister, come take a look at the white clothes,” Wu Longyue felt she must repay Song Cha.
“Okay.” Song Cha agreed with pure simplicity.
The two of them returned to the white clothes section.
Among the various colors of clothes, white had the most in both quantity and variety.
After all, the cultivators who came to Qingfeng City to buy clothes all shared the dream of donning flowing white garments. Besides, white is a timeless classic color, always in high demand, naturally resulting in a wide variety.
Wu Longyue looked at Song Cha: “Song Cha sister, which one do you like?”
“Let me see,” said Song Cha.
After speaking, Song Cha began to browse through the white clothes.
Her gaze lingered on the clothes in the very center, pausing momentarily on each garment before moving on to the next.
All of these clothes were very attractive.
After looking over the clothes in the center, Song Cha picked up the most inconspicuous one among them: “I want this one.”
Although it was the least eye-catching, it still looked very nice when taken on its own.
“How many spirit stones for this one?” Song Cha looked at the shop assistant.
“Three top-grade spirit stones,” the assistant replied with a smile. “However, our shop is currently having a promotion. This garment is on sale, and with the discount, Song Cha fairy, you only need to give me one top-grade spirit stone.”
“Here you go.” One top-grade spirit stone was not worth the trouble of reaching into a storage bag, so Song Cha took out a top-grade spirit stone from her spatial ring and was about to hand it to the shop assistant.
However, before Song Cha could hand over the spirit stone, Wu Longyue stopped her.
“Song Cha sister, wait a moment,” Wu Longyue said.
Song Cha looked at Wu Longyue with curiosity: “Longyue, what’s wrong?”
Wu Longyue did not answer Song Cha’s question but instead turned to the shop assistant: “How much for all the white clothes in the middle?”
“Three hundred top-grade Spirit Stones, with a discount, that’s two hundred and forty top-grade Spirit Stones,” the shop assistant said.
“Alright, wrap them all up,” Wu Longyue quickly handed a storage bag to the shop assistant after hearing the price.
“Okay!” the shop assistant responded.
After the shop assistant finished speaking, he began to package the white clothes in the middle.
Since there were so many clothes, with a total of more than thirty pieces, the shop assistant had to get several people to help with the packaging.
Seeing this scene, Song Cha was ‘stunned’, she stared blankly at Wu Longyue: “Longyue, these clothes…”
“These clothes are for you,” Wu Longyue said without hesitation.
Song Cha: “……”
Song Cha frowned slightly, “Longyue, these clothes are too expensive, let me give you the money back.”
“Song Cha sister, you don’t need to give it back to me.” She smirked cunningly, repeating the words Song Cha had said to her: “You are my best friend, buying clothes for you is the right thing to do.”
