There’s a saying: “Sword energy spans thirty thousand miles, a single sword’s cold light chills the Nine Provinces.”
This sword energy not only sliced through the battlefield but also struck fear into the hearts of everyone present.
The next moment, a figure full of charm and allure gracefully descended beside the chasm carved by the sword energy, causing the enemy opposite to hesitate and not dare to advance even half a step.
“Master?”
Su Ling called out.
The newcomer was none other than the Seventh Elder of the Xuanling Sect, Linghua.
The Seventh Elder turned around, smiling, and with graceful steps, approached the young girl, gently patting her head and softly said, “Are you alright?
Good thing I arrived in time.”
“What could happen to me?”
Tang Xin spread her hands, looking at her in confusion.
“Did you pat the wrong person?”
“Little Lingling is quite resilient,” Elder Linghua denied, “I’m more worried about your safety…
You seem like the type who won’t live long.”
“…”
If you can’t speak properly, can you just say less?
“Finally awakened the first stage,” the Seventh Elder then looked at her disciple, “Honestly, as my disciple, your progress is a bit slow.”
“I’m sorry, Master,” Su Ling didn’t retort this time but lowered her head to admit her mistake, “I’ve been slacking off recently, but I’ll work hard on my cultivation from now on.”
“Alright.”
The elder brushed her sleeve, nodded with satisfaction, and then addressed Xu Lexian.
“Thank you, Saintess, for your assistance.”
“Senior, you’re too kind,” Xu Lexian, who rarely saluted elders from other sects, quickly cupped her fists and said, “It’s what I should do.”
“Alright then,” Linghua smiled, “I’ll handle the cleanup.
You young folks can’t hog all the cool stuff.”
She moved to the front of the chasm, facing the Nascent Soul peak cultivator opposite.
“Why haven’t you run yet?”
Linghua asked.
“Run?”
The other snorted coldly.
“We’re both Nascent Soul cultivators, why should I run?”
Indeed, if you only looked at their cultivation level, Linghua was also at the Nascent Soul peak, not much different from the opponent.
He wasn’t some nameless rogue cultivator either, possessing all sorts of ultimate moves, and this was his home turf, giving him an advantage in battle.
“Got it,” Linghua said indifferently, “You must be an old relic who just came out of seclusion after a long time, right?”
“What do you mean?”
The opponent frowned.
“Otherwise, why haven’t you heard of my name?”
The Seventh Elder looked at the other person with disdain.
“You don’t even know the number one beauty of Qingzhou?”
A few young women behind her started whispering among themselves.
“Is that true?”
“I haven’t heard of it either.”
“That’s just a title she gave herself…”
“Hmph,” the Nascent Soul peak cultivator’s true energy burst forth as he rose into the air, coldly addressing the beautiful elder below, “Pretentious.
If you dare to come alone, don’t expect to leave!”
He formed seals with his hands, and a massive light orb, several dozen feet in size, condensed in the air, then transformed into numerous beams of light shooting towards various parts of the camp.
“It’s a formation!”
Xu Lexian’s expression changed as he shouted, “Senior, stop her quickly!”
“Heh,” Linghua just waved her hand dismissively, “No need for that.”
The beams activated the pre-set formation eyes, and the sky was suddenly filled with dark clouds.
A raging energy storm whipped up strong winds on the ground.
This level of formation was enough to influence battles between high-level cultivators!
“Let me show you the deep foundation I’ve accumulated over the years!”
The Nascent Soul peak cultivator shouted, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth transformed into the shape of a fierce tiger, several dozen feet in size, looking like a divine beast had descended!
“Go!”
The fierce tiger charged forward, thunder rumbling wherever it went, and it seemed as if its terrifying power would tear through space itself!
But Linghua stood still, merely shaking her head and saying, “What a disgrace.”
She waved her hand as if brushing away something dirty.
A sword aura shot up into the sky.
At first, it was just the size of an ordinary spiritual sword, not much different from what Su Ling had released, but within a few breaths, its size exploded, quickly reaching several dozen feet.
Before the opponent could react, the sword aura spanned the sky, and the divine beast white tiger seemed no more than a kitten in comparison.
As the two met, a blinding white light enveloped the entire camp.
Boom—
The sword aura effortlessly sliced the white tiger in half and continued upward.
The powerful formation only lasted a moment before it too was destroyed.
The dark clouds dispersed, and the sky regained its clarity.
Linghua vanished from her original spot, and in the next instant, she was above the Nascent Soul peak cultivator, expressionless as she said, “So weak, and you dare call yourself a Nascent Soul cultivator?”
Bang!
The enemy with Nascent Soul peak cultivation fell from the sky, crashing into the ground and creating a large pit, their life or death unknown.
“This…”
Tang Xin watched the Seventh Elder’s display, swallowing hard.
“When I used to ride on her back, how did she not swat me to death?”
This battle was so one-sided that calling it a crush would be overstating the opponent’s strength.
From the start, the two sides weren’t even on the same level.
Su Ling’s absurdity was a small absurdity; her master’s was a grand absurdity.
Hmm, her figure is also…
“Elder Linghua… unmatched in the Nascent Soul stage,” the Saintess took a deep breath, “Her true strength is definitely at the level of a Spirit Severing expert, but even Spirit Severing experts don’t want to provoke her…”
The reason is actually simple.
A Nascent Soul cultivator can casually attack a Spirit Severing expert, but if a Spirit Severing expert gets angry and retaliates, it violates the “consensus among high-level cultivators in the cultivation world,” escalating the issue to a higher level.
They might end up dealing with an entire sect’s leaders.
In short, the Seventh Elder of the Xuanling Sect is like a bug in the system, so even the Saintess holds her in high regard.
Elder Linghua returned to the ground, her expression changed, and she sneakily put her arm around Tang Xin’s shoulder.
“So, what do you think?
Has Su Ling completely changed her view of you?
With her personality, saving her life is like making her promise herself to you!
See, I’m pretty good to you, right?”
“I’m more interested in you right now…”
Linghua’s appearance signaled the end of the whole affair.
The reinforcements brought by the Saintess quickly broke through the camp’s defenses.
After a fierce battle, all the kidnapped genius cultivators were successfully rescued.
The blind old man, to hold off the transfer of personnel, exhausted his lifespan in advance and ended his life in the way he wanted.
Originally, this was just an ordinary operation organized to rescue Su Ling, but the subsequent attack on the Saintess and the discovery of more missing genius cultivators greatly increased the impact of the whole incident.
Names like Saintess Xu Lexian, Xuanling Sect, and Nine Star Pavilion quickly became known to all the forces, big and small, in Qingzhou.
On the way back.
“Senior Sister, Senior Sister,” Shui Qiu excitedly called out while holding the little fox, “Do you think it’s gotten a little chubbier?”
During Tang Xin’s solo actions, the little fox was left in Shui Qiu’s care.
“Really?”
The Senior Sister of the Xuanling Sect rubbed the fox’s head.
“You’re doing well, huh?
Forgot what I told you again, right?”
This little guy, it seems, didn’t miss any chance to sneak food while I was away, and it’s about to level up again.
“Whimper—”
The little fox showed an innocent expression, snuggling in Shui Qiu’s arms.
“Don’t bully it, Senior Sister.
We teamed up to fight off a lot of enemies…
If there’s punishment, then, then punish me!”
“Can you not say that with a blushing face…”
“Got it, the Senior Sister of the Xuanling Sect likes to play these kinds of games…”
Tang Xin and her group were in high spirits, but the accompanying Senior Sister Yirou didn’t look as happy…
