Chapter 58

Just as Gu Fei entered a deep meditative state, in the peach grove at the back of Taixuan Peak, two figures in white stood under a peach tree in front of a wooden house.

"Senior Brother, how confident are you about winning first place in tomorrow's competition?" A handsome young man, whose beauty could make even a beauty pale, said to a plain-looking young man in white.

This peach grove at the back of the mountain was Li Lingfeng's cultivation place. The plain-looking young man was Li Lingfeng, and the one speaking to him was his junior brother, Ziyu.

"Who wins or loses, I don't really care, but this time, the Nine Veins Examination seems to be particularly important to the Sect Master. I feel that something is about to happen," Li Lingfeng said with a frown.

"Hmm! The atmosphere between the Sect Master and the other seven pulse leaders seems a bit off? I heard from some senior brothers who have reached the Transcendent Realm that in previous Nine Veins Examinations, the various pulse rarely used precious treasures. But this time... the seven pulse leaders have bestowed precious treasures, as if determined to ensure their disciples win the competition," Ziyu said.

The Xutian Realm opens once every hundred years, and even among the three major Daoist sects, few people know about it, let alone these young disciples who have only been in the sect for ten years.

However, Li Lingfeng and Ziyu could vaguely sense something was amiss during this Nine Veins Examination.

After discussing for a while, they couldn't come to any conclusion, so Ziyu took his leave, and Li Lingfeng also entered the wooden house.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, making the mountains seem particularly quiet. Apart from the occasional roar of a beast from the dense forests and high mountains, there was no other sound to break the tranquility.

However, hundreds of miles away in the sea of clouds outside Taixuan Mountain, a golden rainbow "puchi" broke through the clouds, emerging like a dragon.

"Whoosh!" The golden light, like a dragon, darted and turned, tearing through the night sky like a golden lightning bolt, flying towards Taixuan Mountain. In an instant, it disappeared into the horizon.

At the summit of Taixuan Peak, in the back hall of the Taixuan Hall, where Sect Master Xuantian was cultivating, Xuantian suddenly opened his eyes and then instantly disappeared from the meditation cushion.

The next moment, Xuantian's figure appeared in the air above the Taixuan Hall, standing in the sky with his sleeves fluttering and his white hair gently dancing, exuding a transcendent aura.

Xuantian, like a celestial being, looked towards the eastern horizon and saw a golden light flashing in the sky.

At first, the golden light seemed far away, but in an instant, it approached rapidly, like a golden lightning bolt, emitting a faint sound as it flew into the range of Taixuan Mountain and soon reached the vicinity of the nine peaks of Taixuan.

"Hmm? A flying sword message from the Square Altar Sect?" How sharp were Xuantian's eyes? He immediately recognized that the golden light was a flying sword released by a sword expert.

This bright golden light was only about three feet long, but its shape was not visible, quite different from a real sword. From a distance, Xuantian could feel the cold and sharp sword qi emanating from the golden light.

The cold and sharp sword qi emanating from the golden light was righteous and not evil, indicating that it was definitely a flying sword cultivated using orthodox Daoist techniques.

The Square Altar Sect practiced the authentic techniques of sword immortals, with all their skills focused on the sword. With a sword in hand, they could wreak havoc in all directions, making them the most powerful offensive technique among Daoist sects.

At this moment, the golden sword qi had already flown to the sky above the nine peaks of Taixuan. However, at this moment, a tremendous force seemed to be activated, and a wave-like force blocked the golden sword qi outside the nine peaks.

It turned out that the protective array of Taixuan Sect had come into play. After the attack by the Six Dao Demon Lord, the protective array of Taixuan Sect was broken by the mysterious Taiji Diagram. It took Taixuan Sect a whole year to勉强 restore the array.

The spirit stones used to activate the array were very rare in the cultivation world. It was difficult to gather eighty-one such spirit stones containing vast amounts of spiritual energy. Without spirit stones to anchor the array points, other spiritual objects were used as substitutes.

However, activating the protective array in this way made it much weaker than the original array. Even so, no matter how the golden light attacked from outside the array, it could not break through, demonstrating the power of the protective array.

Xuantian frowned as he looked at the golden sword light in the distance: "Why is this old monster Xuanyuan sending me a flying sword message?" Saying this, Xuantian extended his right hand and reached out towards the golden sword qi.

Instantly, a faint, illusory hand transcended the spatial distance, extending out from the array and grabbing the golden light, then pulling it back into the array.

Xuantian took a jade slip from the flying sword, then released it. The golden light immediately shot up from his hand, flashing a few times before quickly flying out of Taixuan Mountain.

Soon, the golden light, which had come from the east, returned to the east and disappeared into the eastern horizon.

Xuantian held the jade slip and, with a thought, his mind penetrated the jade slip, instantly understanding all the information it contained.

After reading the content of the jade slip, Xuantian could no longer maintain his composure. He muttered to himself, "I didn't expect the Xutian Realm journey to be advanced."

Xuantian lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then his body flickered and he disappeared from the sky above the Taixuan Hall.

On the third day of the Nine Veins Examination, in the early morning, the melodious sound of a bell echoed through the mountains. All the disciples of Taixuan Sect emerged from their cultivation places and gathered towards Taixuan Peak.

Today, the top ten young experts would be selected from the fourteen outstanding disciples who won yesterday. The title of the top expert was believed to be between Gu Fei and Li Lingfeng.

Gu Fei and Li Lingfeng were both formidable young experts, with cultivation levels far surpassing their peers. They were considered the most outstanding and most promising geniuses among the young generation.

Compared to Li Lingfeng, the senior leaders of Taixuan Sect placed more emphasis on Gu Fei, because the difficulty of cultivating the techniques of the Cui Ling Peak lineage was unimaginable.

This ancient body-cultivation technique, considered a trash technique, had been cultivated by Gu Fei to the eighth level of the Awakened Realm, which was hard to believe for those who knew the technique.

The competition began, and the fourteen people were divided into seven pairs, fighting on the first to seventh platforms. As a result, two platforms on the square were left empty.

These fourteen people were the most outstanding young experts of the nine veins of Taixuan. However, it was a pity that Zhao Zirou lost both of her matches yesterday and was eliminated in the second round.

On the third platform, Gu Fei faced his opponent, his sharp eyes like a blade, his body radiating a powerful and intimidating aura.

The person he was so focused on was none other than Ziyu, a disciple of the Sect Master's lineage, with a beauty that could be described as monstrous.