Chapter 23

"Then what happened?" Senior Brother Xiao asked.

"Of course, they are cheering for us. They only have the right to cheer. Among the new disciples, my and Senior Sister Qin's lightness skills are the highest." Junior Brother Bu said, directly ignoring Senior Brother Xiao's existence and treating the commotion below as cheers for him.

"Regarding the first part, you are right, but the latter part is completely wrong. You won't be the best, at least not as long as I am here..." Senior Brother Xiao said indifferently.

"Senior Sister Qin, I'll go ahead first." At this moment, Senior Brother Xiao suddenly sped up, the previous strain instantly disappeared, and he pulled away from Junior Brother Bu.

As for Qin Shuang, she still followed, neither too fast nor too slow, still with some reserve.

"How is this possible? How can you still be hiding your strength..." Junior Brother Bu looked disbelieving.

"Just playing with you earlier. Now, I'm getting serious." Senior Brother Xiao turned back and smiled lightly while leaping, and there was a clear hint of mockery in his smile.

"You... didn't expect it..."

Junior Brother Bu looked indignant, but soon his expression changed, becoming full of smiles—

"Actually, I was also just playing with you!!"

As Junior Brother Bu said this, he also sped up, and it seemed his speed was a bit faster than Senior Brother Xiao's.

"..." Senior Brother Xiao's expression also changed, but it was the opposite of Junior Brother Bu's.

However, even though Junior Brother Bu sped up and was a bit faster than Senior Brother Xiao, it was only a bit, and the two were still in a deadlock, with no clear winner.

At the same time, Qin Shuang seemed to be in the same situation, maintaining the same speed as them and still having some reserve.

This made them all realize that among the three, Qin Shuang actually had the best lightness skills, but she didn't compete with them. To put it bluntly, their competition was just for the second place.

"Wow..."

At this moment, they heard the commotion below become even louder, as if something particularly exciting had happened, making the crowd below very enthusiastic.

"They are cheering for me!"

"They are cheering for me!"

The two looked at each other and said a proud sentence to each other, then coldly turned their heads away...

In their hearts, they also somewhat agreed with each other's words. The people below were either cheering for them or for the other, and now only they could have such cheers.

However, soon they realized that the cheers were not for them, nor for Qin Shuang beside them, but for a mysterious newcomer.

They saw a young man running over, stepping on a steel wire as if it were flat ground, truly as if he were walking on flat ground. This young man was actually running on a steel wire the whole time, no matter how the wire changed, he always ran on it.

This meant that the young man was adapting to the changes in the wire, and this adaptation was astonishingly synchronized. If he could achieve such synchronization, it almost indicated that his lightness skills were extremely impressive.

However, there was something a bit strange. The young man seemed to be running the whole time, without any leaping or other actions, without any sense of grace, completely like an ordinary person running, which made it very strange.

Should they say his lightness skills were good, or that his running was good?

But putting that aside, the young man's speed was very fast, there was no doubt about that. Just at the moment they saw him, he had already closed the distance by a large margin, and this speed was truly terrifying. They believed it wouldn't take long for him to catch up.

Look, right? Just a moment later, the young man was already beside them.

The two noticed that the newcomer was already beside them and wanted to observe him, but the newcomer didn't give them the chance, not even looking at them, and directly "ran" past, looking very rushed.

This made their mouths, which were about to greet him, stay open for a long time. Then, they noticed that Qin Shuang, influenced by the newcomer, also sped up, leaving them far behind, almost matching the newcomer's speed.

At this moment, if someone could see, they would notice that Qin Shuang was no longer so relaxed; she seemed to be using all her strength.

Qin Shuang looked at the newcomer, a bit surprised by his lightness skills. Although the newcomer was always running, from some of his movements, his lightness skills seemed to be excellent, even better than hers.

What surprised her even more was that the newcomer's lightness skills seemed to be very advanced, surpassing what she had learned. This seemed almost impossible because what she had learned was a Xuan-level technique, a five-star technique, and in the Qingyun Sword Sect, the highest was only a four-star technique, the Qingyun Sword Technique barely counted as one.

As for lightness techniques, the Qingyun Sword Sect seemed to only have the勉强算三星的移星步, and this technique wouldn't be accessible to new disciples. Could the newcomer not be a new disciple?

No, he looked even younger than her, definitely a new disciple.

Wait, what was he muttering?

At this moment, Qin Shuang noticed that the newcomer was muttering something, but the wind made it hard to hear clearly. She could vaguely hear something about "shallow skills," could he be saying my skills are not good enough?

Hmph, daring to look down on me!

Qin Shuang sped up again and quickly overtook the newcomer, at least a bit...

In the end, Qin Shuang was the first to reach the top of the Qingyun Path amidst the cheers of the crowd. There were naturally many people waiting there, and seeing Qin Shuang's arrival, they cheered. Many of them had come for Qin Shuang.

Qin Shuang didn't pay attention to the cheers of the crowd; she just turned back to wait for the newcomer. This wait didn't take long because he was right behind her.

She wanted to see what kind of person this young man was. She hadn't seen him clearly earlier and wanted to know what kind of technique he used, which was even a bit better than her five-star technique.

Soon, the newcomer arrived. When Qin Shuang stood ready to speak to him, she found that he directly ran past, not even stopping for a moment, not even looking at her, and even sped up.

Indeed, the Qingyun Path would limit speed, but after leaving, he would naturally be faster.

But this didn't seem to be the point. Why didn't he stop, why didn't he come to me? Wasn't he supposed to show off in front of me to get closer to me? This kind of person almost made up eighty percent of the Qingyun Sword Sect, and she was so used to it that she naturally assumed it was this.

But in the end, she realized that the newcomer was truly just a random arrival. He had no intention of finding her; he had his own destination...

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Tonight, I'm pushing for the rankings. Everyone, come support at 12 o'clock, preferably after midnight... hehe...

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