Chapter 4 Challenge

In the hut, Lu Ping remembered the power of "Landslide" when he tried it out in the wild. He couldn't help but smile, and soon that smile changed to a wry one. The power of "Landslide" seal was great, but once he urged it, the spiritual strength stored in his Bloodline would reduce by almost a half. What an interesting weapon.

The Grand Competition was only three months away, and he would spend the three months mainly on cultivating. The cultivation of magic methods shouldn't be left behind, either. After all, the Grand Competition was not just about cultivation.

Fortunately, he still had a lot of spiritual stones and elixirs, which was barely enough for this month's cultivation. This was something that had never happened before.

In a blink of an eye, two months passed, and Lu Ping's cultivation did not improve as slowly as he imagined. On the contrary, he reached the middle stage of the seventh level of Blood Refining.

In Lu Ping's view, this was mainly because he also made a breakthrough in making Magic Figures after he made the breakthrough in cultivation. Therefore, he got enough resources for cultivation. Perhaps the fact that he had always attached importance to the role of the foundation was also one of the reasons. It was good to have a good accumulation.

At the time, Lu Ping still stuck to his previous habit of making Magic Figures every three days, but he had been able to maintain a success rate of making 80 pieces of them in a month. About half of them were medium-grade Magic Figures, and fifteen of them were high-grade Magic Figures. He saved seven top-grade Magic Figures in the past two months, which were all made into Blood Magic Figures.

As usual, Lu Ping went to the market at the end of the month to sell the Magic Figures. Every time he got about one hundred spiritual stones, he became more generous in using spiritual stones. Every day, he would use one blood purifying elixir and one spiritual stone for cultivation. He could only take one blood purifying elixir a day, otherwise, its poison residue would affect his later cultivation. If it weren't for that, Lu Ping would have taken two blood purifying elixirs a day.

In the past two months, all the disciples in True Spirit Academy had been cultivating hard to prepare for the final assessment and Grand Competition.

The seventh team also stepped up their cultivating in such a tense atmosphere.

The depressing atmosphere forced everyone in the seventh team to take out all their accumulation and potential in the past five years. One by one, they succeeded in breaking through cultivation levels.

The minimum requirement for the third level disciples was to reach the sixth level of Blood Refining. Originally, there were 27 disciples above the sixth level of Blood Refining in the seventh team. In the past two months, four more disciples reached the sixth level. And two of the disciples at the sixth level reached the seventh level, which made Immortal Senior Liu quite excited. These were all his achievements. The more disciples reached the seventh level, the more rewards he would get from the sect.

The two people who reached the seventh level were the eleventh and twelfth disciples, Li Cheng and Zhang Zicheng.

Since Li Cheng was surpassed by Lu Ping two months ago, he had been dissatisfied. After he reached the seventh level, he gave his word that he would challenge Lu Ping. However, Lu Ping just treated it as a joke. He didn't think his cultivation of magic methods and magic steel would lose to anyone at the seventh level of Blood Refining, not to mention that his cultivation almost reached the late stage of the seventh level.

The magic steel was a common weapon used by the cultivators at the Blood Refining stage to fight others and defend themselves. This kind of thing was nothing but rubbish for True Spirit Sect. Every outer disciple had one. When Lu Ping reached the seventh level of Qi Refining, he got a high-grade magic steel, Thoroughly Tempered Sword.

On this day, Lu Ping and the others of the seventh team came to Morning Sun Peak to prepare for morning cultivation. Yesterday, Lu Ping just sold dozens of Magic Figures in the market, and had prepared supplies for one month’s cultivation. Imagining that he was very likely to reach the late stage of seventh level, he was in a good mood.

After they practiced "Blood Bone Dissolving Fist", Immortal Senior Liu arrived on the Xianyang Peak's platform of the seventh team with two deputies who were at the ninth level of Blood Refining.

"Immortal Senior, I want to challenge the tenth disciple Lu Ping. Please give me your permission!"

Immortal Senior Liu frowned and looked at the speaker. It was Li Cheng, the eleventh disciple.

"Although we encourage all disciples to strive for the top, the second level disciple Promotion Grand Competition is coming up. If you two are injured and cannot participate in the competition, wouldn't it be a pity? But if you insist on challenging him, I won't stop you. After all, challenging the strong is one of our sect rules."

Li Cheng failed to tell what Immortal Senior Liu really meant. He still insisted, "I want to challenge him, and I believe the person who will be injured will never be me."

Immortal Senior Liu was a little unhappy. No matter who was injured, the strength of the seventh team in the Grand Competition would be affected. By that time, the cultivation resources he could get would also be affected.

But the rules of True Spirit Sect cannot be violated, and Immortal Senior Liu couldn't stop Li Cheng. He could only say, "Okay, you two be careful."

Immortal Senior Liu's two deputies set the competition venue. Immortal Senior Liu was the referee. In the venue, Li Cheng glared at Lu Ping, saying, "Don't think you're great because you've reached the seventh level early than me. Today I'll let you know that I'm a month late just because I was doing the accumulation. Give my position back to me!"

Lu Ping chuckled, but did not speak. He held his top-grade Thoroughly Tempered Sword and posed to attack, explaining everything with his actions.

Li Cheng also held a high-grade magic steel, Thoroughly Tempered Spear. He performed a set of "Hundred Battles Spear Techniques" copied from Cangjing Pavilion to attack Lu Ping.

Li Cheng made the breakthrough a month ago. He was smart. Knowing that he had to consolidate his cultivation and cultivate magic methods and magic steel after making the breakthrough, he endured his urge to challenge Lu Ping for a month before he really did it.

Lu Ping defended with the swordsmanship that was transmuted from "Blood Bone Dissolving Fist".

"Blood Bone Dissolving Fist" was a kind of basic kung fu that could be cultivated with both fists and swords. Lu Ping had not learned other magic steel kung fu, but only cultivated fist and sword skills together. Although it was weak than other kung fu, it was solid. It could motivate the power of the True Spirit Bloodline and purify the Bloodline though the effect was negligible.

Li Cheng's spear moves were deterrent. The other disciples who were watching cheered loudly.

On the contrary, Lu Ping's sword moves were mild. He was defending Li Cheng's attack with them. Although he was in a defensive position, he was calm.

The other disciples had practiced Blood Bone Dissolving Sword for several years and had been tired of it. Only a few disciples in the first row looked at Lu Ping's moves thoughtfully.

A few disciples who were at the eighth and ninth levels of Blood Refining and Immortal Senior Liu's two deputies gathered to discuss the fight.

"Li Cheng's accumulation is richer. Although he reached the seventh level later than Lu Ping, Lu Ping is not his match."

"I think Lu Ping might turn the tables. His defensive moves are flawless, and he doesn't look anxious. Obviously, he has other moves."

"Are you kidding? All he is performing is Blood Bone Dissolving Sword. What are the other moves we don't know?"

"It's not necessarily true. His sword skills are quite solid. Even if it's us, we can't perform it perfectly like he does."

"It's only basic kung fu. It is useless no matter how perfect he performs it."

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The others were chattering. Immortal Senior Liu looked at the competition in the field silently. However, he was quite surprised. He was a master at the Blood Dissolving stage and could naturally see what ordinary people couldn’t.

"In his moves, there is the embryonic form of 'Shu'. I guess the winner is already clear."