After eting up with Yu Rou and Xia Jingyi inside Cultivation Online, Yuan asked them, "You want to participate in a contest?"
"Yes, there will be other players there as well." Yu Rou nodded.
"Are you sure? I assu there will be a lot of players there since there is going to be a free Earth-rank technique." Yuan said.
"Well, it won’t hurt to take a look at the place. If there are too many people, we can leave." Yu Rou said.
"Alright. How far is this place? Do we need to take a carriage there?"
"No, it’s only about a two-hour walk from here."
They proceeded to leave Seashell City shortly after.
A little over two hours later, they arrived at the city.
However, they were imdiately baffled by the number of people there.
"Heavens..." Yu Rou mumbled in a dazed voice when she saw the sea of people outside the city waiting to go inside.
If there were this many people outside the city, she can only imagine how many people were inside.
"I have underestimated the value of an Earth-rank technique... probably because of you, brother..." Yu Rou sighed a mont later.
"Do you still want to participate in the contest?" Yuan asked her with a smile on his face.
"Uhhh... I will be shocked if we can enter the city before the contest is over," she sighed again.
"What else do you want to do now?"
"Well... I kind of want to study the technique I got yesterday."
"Should we go to the Cultivators’ Haven?"
"Nah. I’m getting bored of the bland room inside the Cultivators’ Haven. We can study outside for a change, and it’s not like we’re cultivating, so a little disturbance should be fine. There’s a lake about a mile away. We can go there instead."
"Alright. Let’s go." Yuan nodded.
"Wow, this place is beautiful." Yu Rou said.
"This place kind of reminds of a school trip we had last year." Xia Jingyi said.
"Oh, you an the one we had towards the end of the year? I rember, but the water there wasn’t this clear."
"The atmosphere here is quite refreshing..." Yuan looked at the lake with a look of admiration.
"This is your first ti coming to a place like this, right?" Yu Rou said to him.
"Yes... Our parents would never take us to these kinds of places, after all." He said with a bittersweet smile.
"By the way, where’s Miss Lan?" Xia Jingyi asked when she realized that she was gone.
"Oh, she’s right here," he said while pointing to the snake bracelet around his wrist.
"Huh?" Xia Jingyi raised her eyebrows upon hearing this.
"Co out for a bit, Yingying."
The next mont, the white bracelet around his arms began moving, before transforming into Lan Yingying.
Xia Jingyi’s jaw dropped after seeing her transformation.
"Y-You’re not human?" Xia Jingyi asked.
"No, I am a Divine Serpent," Lan Yingying said.
"Do you want to see my beast form?"
Xia Jingyi nodded with curiosity.
"I also want to see it!" Yu Rou said.
Lan Yingying then transford into her serpent form.
"Whoa! You’re very big!" Yu Rou was dumbfounded when Lan Yingying transford into a massive white snake larger than even a bus, almost like a mini train.
"You have very pretty scales..." Xia Jingyi said with a dazzled look on her face.
"Thank you."
"Hmm? Jingyi, do you like snakes? I thought most girls hate snakes." Yu Rou said.
"Yes, I like snakes. I find them very cute. In fact, I have a pet snake at ho." Xia Jingyi nodded.
"Really? I should visit your ho one day."
"You can co whenever." Xia Jingyi said.
Soti later, Lan Yingying returned to her human form.
"I’m going to study the technique now." Yu Rou said to them before taking a seat by the lake and retrieving one of the two Heaven-rank techniques she’d recently acquired.
Xia Jingyi followed her and also started studying her new technique.
"What about you, Yingying? What kind of technique did you take?" Yuan asked her afterward.
"Oh, it’s a fla technique. I was hoping it’d synergize with my Sacred Fire," she said.
Lan Yingying then took a seat sowhere in the shades under a tree and began studying the technique.
"I’m also going to study my technique," ixiu said before going to where Yu Rou and Xia Jingyi were studying.
"Since everyone is studying, I might as well study too, but I kind of want to enjoy the scenery for a bit." Yuan proceeded to lay beside the lake and looked at the sparkling water for a whole hour before he started studying his own technique.
After studying for a few hours, Lan Yingying was the first to learn her new technique.
She then walked to the lake and started practicing her new technique.
Lan Yingying took a deep breath, then she proceeded to summon her Sacred Fire on her palms.
A white ball of fire appeared, and Lan Yingying controlled the Sacred Fire, transforming the ball of fire into the shape of a lotus.
Once she was satisfied with the shape and its consistency, Lan Yingying tossed the lotus into the lake.
Whoosh!
This attracted the attention of everyone there.
"Wow, what beautiful white flas..." Xia Jingyi mumbled in a low voice, seemingly srized by it.
"Look at the flas! It’s not going out even though it’s touching the water! I have never seen anything like this before!" Yu Rou exclaid when she noticed the fire wasn’t going out as it laid on top of the water, making the lake look as though it was actually on fire.
However, Lan Yingying wasn’t satisfied with the results, so she continued to create these flaming lotuses until she ran out of spiritual energy.
By the end of the day, Lan Yingying was capable of creating two lotuses at a ti.
"What kind of technique did you learn?" Yu Rou couldn’t help but ask her towards the end of the day.
"It’s a technique called Fiery Lotus. It significantly enhances the power of flas, but it consus a lot of spiritual energy," she said.
"Really? It didn’t look like it consus a lot of spiritual energy because you’ve been shooting them all day." Yu Rou said.
"That’s because I made sure to limit the strength of the technique and focused on mastering the control first, and if I used the technique at its full strength, it’d disturb you guys."
"Can you use its full strength now? I am curious."
Lan Yingying nodded.
She then created another lotus using her Sacred Fire, but it was much larger than all of her previous lotuses today.
In fact, compared to the palm-sized lotuses she has been practicing with throughout the day, this one was as large as a large waterlon.
Once she’d poured enough spiritual energy into the lotus, Lan Yingying tossed it towards the lake.
The next mont, the lotus exploded into a fiery hell that consud the entire lake, illuminating the sowhat dark place.
"Wow! So pretty!" Yu Rou said as she watched the lake burn with white flas that danced on the surface of the water.
Soti later, Yu Rou and Xia Jingyi logged off after saying their goodbyes.
Yuan and ixiu also logged off shortly after.
The following morning, Yuan and the others continued to study their techniques by the lake, and they would continue to do this for almost an entire week.
The second person to finish learning her new technique was ixiu.
On the third day, she started trying out the movent technique, dancing around the place with stiff movents at first, eventually getting better.
"Xiao Hua, can I borrow so of your ti? I don’t want to bother him since he’s studying." ixiu approached Xiao Hua on the fourth day.
Xiao Hua nodded and followed ixiu to a spacious area by the lake.
"I would like to test out my movent technique. Can you try hitting with sothing?" ixiu asked Xiao Hua a mont later.
Xiao Hua nodded and retrieved a sword from her storage ring.
ixiu imdiately beca nervous.
Seeing Xiao Hua wielding a sword that was as long as her body was a weird experience.
"D-Do you have anything else?"
Xiao Hua shook her head, and then she said, "Don’t worry, Xiao Hua won’t hit you."
"Okay..." ixiu decided to trust Xiao Hua, and she took a long and deep breath to calm down.
"Are you ready?" Xiao Hua asked a mont later.
"Yes." ixiu nodded with a focused look on her face.
Xiao Hua then kicked her feet, closing their distance instantly.
Once she was close enough, Xiao Hua swung the sword at ixiu.
Whoosh!
The blade narrowly missed ixiu.
However, Xiao Hua didn’t stop and continued to strike at her.
Of course, Xiao Hua adjusted her speed to ixiu’s level. If she moved any quicker, ixiu wouldn’t be able to dodge it at all.
"Ah!"
ixiu accidentally tripped a few minutes into their training, but there was a sword flying at her neck.
ixiu subconsciously closed her eyes and prepared for the worst.
However, nothing happened even a mont later.
ixiu slowly opened her eyes, and to her surprise, the blade stopped a few inches away from her neck.
"Are you okay?" Xiao Hua asked her in a calm voice.
"Yes. Let’s continue." ixiu said after getting up.
Xiao Hua nodded.
They continued to practice shortly after, and ixiu’s movents grew quicker and smoother as ti progressed.
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