Due to the ranking tournament, the members of the Wang family who were gaining experience outside hurried back one after another.
In addition to the Wang family disciples of the main family, many members of the branch families also came to participate in the tournament.
For those from the branch families, as long as they could achieve good results in the ranking tournament, they could earn the qualification to stay at the Wang family's main residence.
If they could stay in the Wang family, their cultivation resources would also double!
The ranking tournament season was one of the methods for the Wang family's branch members to stay in the main residence, as well as one of the channels for the main family to screen good seeds from the clan.
With so many people, the Wang family also became lively.
When Wen Jingshu arrived at the peak of the mountain, it was already crowded with disciples.
Someone shouted, “Miss Fuyan is here!”
Following that, countless eyes turned to look at her in unison.
Wen Jingshu calmly nodded to them as a greeting before heading to the Golden Core Stage division.
“Why did Miss Fuyan go to the Golden Core Stage division? Isn't her cultivation at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage?”
“Did she go to the wrong place? Why didn't anyone guide her?”
“Are you stupid? With Miss Fuyan's status, how could there be no one to guide her? Miss Fuyan registered for the Golden Core Stage division!”
A peak Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator registering for the Golden Core Stage division of the ranking tournament?!
Their eldest young lady was going to challenge across realms!
“Wait, is Miss Fuyan really that fierce? In all the ranking tournaments I've attended in my life, this is the first time I've seen someone challenge across realms!”
One must know that Foundation Establishment and Golden Core might seem to be separated by just a minor realm, but fundamentally, they were two completely different concepts!
How many cultivators spent their entire lives unable to break through to the Golden Core Stage!
“Miss Fuyan is only sixteen, right? Can she really defeat those old-timers?”
“I think she can! Just because we can't do it doesn't mean Miss Fuyan can't! This is the difference between a genius and an ordinary person!”
As soon as the female cultivator finished speaking, the others came to a sudden realization and nodded in agreement.
Indeed, geniuses were different from ordinary people like them! Miss Fuyan was a genius among geniuses; a mere cross-realm challenge would certainly be nothing to her!
The disciples in the Golden Core Stage division were equally surprised.
When they saw Wen Jingshu arrive, someone kindly reminded her, “Miss Fuyan, this is the Golden Core Stage division. Have you perhaps come to the wrong place?”
Wen Jingshu replied, “I have not.”
Upon receiving a definite answer, some of the crowd admired Wen Jingshu's courage, some were curious about her strength, and some believed she was overly ambitious and didn't know her limits.
Regardless, Wen Jingshu's participation in the Golden Core Stage division was set in stone. When the time came, they stepped forward to draw lots.
Wang Yanci arrived late. He first bowed to Wen Jingshu, “Aunt.”
Then, he went to draw a lot.
As luck would have it, Wen Jingshu drew a bye in this round.
The eager female cultivator clicked her tongue and stuffed the Leishuang Sword back into her storage ring.
While the others fought, Wen Jingshu sat comfortably in her exclusive seat, watching their moves.
She had thought that the battles between these clan disciples, who hadn't gained much experience outside, would be extremely dull, but the matches turned out to be incredibly exciting.
There were battles between talisman cultivators and sound cultivators, hammer cultivators against formation masters, and the arena of spell cultivators was even more captivating, with dazzling arrays of magnificent techniques.
If even the clan's internal ranking tournament was this exciting, wouldn't the Sect Tournament of the Qingyun Sect be even more spectacular?
At this moment, Wen Jingshu felt a hint of regret for not visiting the Sect Tournament back then.
But what was done was done, and Wen Jingshu was not one to dwell. She adjusted her mindset, hoping to draw a lucky opponent on the second day!
As a result, she drew another bye!
“Miss Fuyan's luck is truly incredible!”
“Miss Fuyan won't draw byes all the way to the finals, will she? I specially prepared a recording stone, but it went unused again today.”
Even Wang Yanci sighed in amazement, “Aunt has great luck.”
In response, Wen Jingshu curled her lips and said, “This kind of good luck should be saved for finding opportunities when going out.”
She was here to fight, not to vacation.
But then again, when she went out to find opportunities, her luck really was quite good...
Regardless, Wen Jingshu couldn't fight today either.
The opponent Wang Yanci drew yesterday was relatively weak and was defeated after only ten moves against him.
Today, his opponent was a minor realm higher than him, yet he fought her to a standstill. A cross-realm challenge was already eye-catching, and with Wang Yanci being the young master of the Wang family, this duel attracted almost everyone's attention.
Watching Wang Yanci's moves, Wen Jingshu felt admiration. His movements were as smooth as flowing water, and his strikes were clean and decisive. With every rise and fall of his saber, a hint of Dao Charm could be felt; he must have already comprehended Blade Intent.
As expected of the twenty-eighth on the Heavenly Pride Board! She looked forward to fighting him even more!
Wen Jingshu was eager and raring to go, but on the third day, she drew yet another bye!
Originally, today's matches should have paired everyone up perfectly, but someone had won a narrow victory yesterday and couldn't recover their condition today, so they could only forfeit...
Such situations were very common in tournaments.
Wen Jingshu was speechless. Looking at his aunt's luck, Wang Yanci felt both amazed and a bit envious.
He wanted such great luck too...
With consecutive byes, Wen Jingshu drew her way straight to the finals.
Unsurprisingly, Wang Yanci became her opponent.
The battle between Miss Fuyan and the clan's young master! Almost as soon as the two of them stepped onto the stage, the surroundings were packed with people. Many even pulled out recording stones, preparing to record this historic match!
Taking into account Wen Jingshu's peak Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation, Wang Yanci made a gesture of invitation and said:
“Please guide me, Aunt.”
Wen Jingshu did not hesitate either. With a wave of her hand, over a dozen commonly used talismans hovered behind her. Holding her sword in her right hand and pinching a hand seal with her left, two Thunder-Attracting Talismans instantly shot toward Wang Yanci.
As per her old habit, she started the match with two Thunder-Attracting Talismans to warm up the arena!
A deafening boom shook the surroundings as two silver-purple heavenly thunders, powerful enough to rival a heavenly tribulation, tore through the clouds and crashed down with destructive force.
Wang Yanci took a step forward and swept his long saber horizontally. His Blade Intent poured out completely as pure white lightning surged into the sky to head-on clash with the heavenly thunder.
Bang!
The two forces of lightning clashed violently!
All this time, Wen Jingshu's heavenly lightning spiritual root had enjoyed a massive attribute advantage. Now that her heavenly lightning spiritual root was facing an equally matched mutated lightning spiritual root, she watched the forces cancel each other out, the fighting spirit in her eyes burning even brighter.
Before Wen Jingshu could make another move, she felt a sudden numbing sensation. It turned out that Wang Yanci's residual lightning had seeped out through the gaps of the lightning collision, seizing the opportunity to cling to and entangle Wen Jingshu's spiritual energy meridians.
Wang Yanci's mutated lightning spiritual root actually came with a built-in numbing effect!
This time, it was Wang Yanci's turn to seize the initiative. Borrowing the momentum from earlier, he rapidly retreated. With a flick of his finger, he threw out a formation plate. As the spiritual light touched the ground, a Four Directions Spirit-Locking Formation instantly formed, restricting Wen Jingshu's space to move.
Wen Jingshu hastily unleashed “Following One's Heart,” the first stance of the 《Xianguan Sword Art》. Over thirty sword qi precisely bombarded the formation base. At the same time, she dodged sideways to avoid the incoming saber shadows. Her sword light flowed as countless basic sword moves progressed layer by layer, each sword arc drawing upon the power of heavenly lightning, crackling continuously as they slashed.
‘Boom... Boom... Rumble...’
Watching the crackling lightning and thunder on the stage, the crowd below felt their skin prickle with imaginary pain.
Someone said blankly, “I'm numb. Is this the kind of genius that I can never hope to reach in my entire life?”
Heavenly lightning spiritual root versus mutated lightning spiritual root...
It's so freaking violent and direct!
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