"Junior Sister, what’s wrong?"
A hint of hidden admiration and passion flitted through Xue Gong’s eyes, his curiosity prompting him to speak up. His voice finally snapped Mo Qing back to reality.
"Nothing... Nothing!"
Mo Qing appeared sowhat flustered, which Xue Gong found even more peculiar. Ever since he had known this Junior Sister, she had always been as calm and poised as an age-old glacier. What was happening today?
"What... What was I thinking about?"
As curiosity filled Xue Gong’s mind, Mo Qing inwardly cursed, her cheeks slowly losing their flush, replaced by a subtle, murderous intent.
"If I see that shaless boy again, I must... I must..." Mo Qing wanted to make a convincing decision for herself, but in the end, she simply couldn’t.
Was she truly ready to strike him down imdiately upon seeing him to protect her own innocence? Perhaps, at that ti on Yurong Mountain, that was what Mo Qing thought. To soone as shaless as Yun Xiao, she would never show rcy.
But after so ti to cool down, Mo Qing suddenly found her emotions puzzling. If Yun Xiao were to stand before her again, could she really kill him without a second thought? She really wasn’t sure.
Xue Gong, oblivious to Mo Qing’s inner turmoil, decided not to dwell on it any longer without further insights, choosing instead to bring up sothing he knew Mo Qing liked to hear.
"Junior Sister, back when you joined the Outer Sect of the Jade Pot Sect, you were the only one to participate in the Outer Sect Tournant and advance to the Inner Sect. I believe this is an unprecedented feat with no one else following in your footsteps, right?"
Admiration shone on Xue Gong’s face, whether heartfelt or feigned. This event had always been a hot topic frequently discussed throughout the entire Jade Pot Sect, even becoming legendary.
Even Xue Gong himself only managed to secure first place in that year’s Outer Sect Tournant after two years, and was taken in as a Direct Disciple by the Great Elder, Lu Zhan. Comparatively speaking, he was sowhat inferior.
However, since Mo Qing’s strength had already surpassed his own, Xue Gong couldn’t find it in himself to feel gloomy any longer. Besides, his growing affections for this Junior Sister ant that all jealousy was now gone.
"Don’t underestimate everyone else; maybe this ti soone will surpass !"
As Mo Qing thought this, an oddly dressed figure mysteriously appeared in her mind, and as she turned her gaze towards the entrance of the Arena Hall, she saw a group of five people walking in. The young man leading the group perfectly matched the figure in her mind.
"It’s him!"
Mo Qing’s beautiful eyes narrowed as she saw him. Even with her usual composure, she couldn’t help but feel unsettled, her slight tremor catching Xue Gong’s attention.
"Who is that boy?"
Following Mo Qing’s gaze, Xue Gong imdiately saw the roughly dressed young man who had entered the hall. For so reason, seeing this young man stirred a sense of jealousy in him.
That young man’s cultivation couldn’t possibly compare to an Inner Sect genius like Xue Gong, but because Mo Qing, whom he cherished, couldn’t take her eyes off the young man as soon as he entered, jealousy was the pri reason.
Even Xue Gong himself never managed to hold Mo Qing’s gaze for more than a few monts; What right did this ridian Gathering Realm Late Stage Outer Disciple have to catch Mo Qing’s attention like that?
Not every genius of the dical Pulse is broad-minded, take Xue Gong for example. Perhaps his outward deanor really embodies a healer’s kindness, but when it cos to his own interests, he might very well turn hostile instantly.
The ones who entered from the door of the Arena Hall were indeed Yun Xiao and Tan Yun’s group. Originally, the team was led by Tan Yun, but after these days’ experiences, Yun Xiao had truly beco the spiritual leader of this small team, both in strength and wisdom.
"Hmm?"
Just as he entered the Arena Hall, Yun Xiao already noticed several peculiar gazes coming from various directions, filled with malice, curiosity, and an unexplainable complexity.
Yun Xiao’s eyes swept across the crowd, spotting Zhao Ningshu and Cao Luo, and saw Xuan Zhi and the Guan brothers with grim expressions. However, he didn’t really care about these individuals.
With his current Late Stage ridian Gathering Realm cultivation, Zhao Ningshu, Cao Luo, or even Xuan Zhi could no longer pose a real challenge to him; perhaps he wouldn’t even need to use the Power of the Ancestor Vein to deal with these guys.
The real cause of Yun Xiao’s alarm was the attention from several individuals in the southeast and northeast corners, because his powerful Power of Soul had already perceived that these few people might well surpass even Feng Hang and Shen Xiao, who are the top two in the Mortal List.
The first sense of danger Yun Xiao felt ca from the southeast corner of the Arena Hall; when he turned his head, he saw two familiar faces.
"Bi Luo, Yin Huan?"
Yun Xiao naturally had a very deep impression of these two, and he also knew that both harbored so sinister intentions towards him, truly making them difficult rivals to deal with.
However, Yun Xiao also believed that even if Bi Luo and Yin Huan despised him, they wouldn’t dare to strike at him in front of hundreds of Outer Disciples, so there was no need to worry for the ti being.
So after Yun Xiao’s gaze swept over Bi Luo and Yin Huan in the southeast corner, it shifted to the far northeast corner, where two distinctly different gazes were sizing him up.
"Mo Qing!"
When Yun Xiao saw that Inner Sect genius, with whom he had a sowhat ambiguous relationship, he couldn’t help but touch his nose awkwardly, a gesture that undoubtedly made Mo Qing grit her silver teeth.
As for the young man beside Mo Qing, Yun Xiao did not recognize him, but he did sense a hint of malice in that gaze, wondering if he had sohow offended this person?
Though Yun Xiao didn’t recognize Xue Gong, he understood that anyone standing with Mo Qing couldn’t possibly be a genius from the Poison Vein, nor an Outer Disciple. This ant that even after entering the dical Pulse of the Jade Pot Sect’s Inner Sect, things wouldn’t be too easy for him.
Yun Xiao of course didn’t know that he had attracted the jealousy of the second genius of the dical Pulse due to Mo Qing’s attention. At this mont, his mind was not on these Inner Sect geniuses, because up next was the main event of this Outer Sect competition.
"Ding!"
A lodious bell sound echoed within the Arena Hall, silencing all the murmurs in the hall instantly. Subsequently, everyone’s gaze turned towards a certain place in the north of the hall.
There, several figures filed out, including an elderly figure in dark green, who seed vaguely familiar to Yun Xiao.
When Yun Xiao’s gaze landed on this elderly figure, the latter seed to sense it instantly, turned his head, and t Yun Xiao’s eyes, revealing a smile full of inexplicable aning.
"Fu Du!"
When this elderly figure turned his head, Yun Xiao had no doubts anymore because the person was none other than the Second Elder of the Jade Pot Sect from the Poison Vein, who had once abducted him from the Shang Family and used him to test various poisons, almost leading to his death at the hands of the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad.
Back then in Moon Bow City at the Shang Family, Yun Xiao had given Fu Du a Pill Recipe for the Interdiate Spiritual Rank Yin Transformation Pill to suppress the Three Yin ridians of Fu Du and his disciple.
Unexpectedly, this master and disciple duo repaid kindness with enmity. Not only were they ungrateful, but they also maliciously poisoned him, so from the mont he was rescued by Ling Wan and others at Yulin Mountain, he regarded them as mortal enemies.
However, given Yun Xiao’s current cultivation at the late stage of ridian Gathering Realm, not to ntion Fu Du, a Spirit Vein Realm powerhouse, even Yin Huan was far out of his league, so this vengeance had to be buried deep in his heart for now.
"What’s going on?"
However, just as these thoughts crossed Yun Xiao’s mind, he suddenly noticed a burst of Ice Cold Qi emanating from Fu Du standing far away, and this Ice Cold Qi subtly affected the Ancestral Vein on his left arm.
"Could it be that this old man has already successfully refined the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad?"
A guess ford in Yun Xiao’s mind, and it was very close to the truth since the Ice Cold Attribute Ancestral Vein he had activated was inherently linked to the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad.
Yun Xiao’s parental lineage was not ordinary, and inadvertently turning the Blood Moon Jade into a blood-red mark in the palm of his right hand had made activating the Ancestral Vein no difficult task.
However, the second Ancestral Vein originally activated by Yun Xiao was ant to be of Water Attribute, but he was bitten by the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, afflicted with its powerful chilling poison, and barely survived.
As the saying goes, a narrow escape from death often brings great fortune; after waking up from the severe poisoning, his body naturally acquired a hint of Ice Cold Power.
When he activated his second Ancestral Vein, this hint of Ice Cold Power abruptly invaded, causing the originally Water Attribute Ancestral Vein to transform into an Ice Cold Ancestral Vein.
All of this was a series of fortunate mistakes, and Yun Xiao was quite puzzled by it, but the reason he could activate the Ice Cold Ancestral Vein was all thanks to the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad.
And now, the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, having been refined into a ridian Spirit by Fu Du, naturally would have a connection, and even over such a long distance, this connection was incredibly clear.
"It really is that youngster Yun Xiao!"
While Yun Xiao felt sothing, Fu Du, as an Interdiate Spiritual Rank ridian Refining Master and the current master of the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, sensed it even more clearly.
To hear of him from Yin Huan was one thing, but to actually see Yun Xiao in person was another, and with Fu Du himself having refined the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, he knew the Ice Cold Poison all too well, thus his interest in Yun Xiao was renewed and deepened.
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