Chapter 23: Lights from Heaven

 

In the Great Competition arena, an aroma that made the disciples feel the hunger of their Dantian and the emptiness of their sea of ​​consciousness began to diffuse again.

It was just the meaty aroma of saucy hooves before, but there is also a leisurely sweet smell that is not greasy this time.

This sweet fragrance was light and barely noticeable, but with the wisps of gold thread fluttering on the ring, the sweetness gradually became stronger.

“This smell…
wait, is it came from that plate of golden lumps in their hands?”

“Have you noticed that the smell of meat came out after the competition started? It seems that it was when the female cultivator threw her magic weapon.”

“!?”

“Is…
this the smell of Zhiqiong Peak's magic weapon?!”

Suddenly, an onlooker said something casually, which caused everyone to take a deep breath.

Like dense spider webs, thousands of silks spread all over the ring.

Chen Ying, who was in the middle of Golden Core, also appeared impressively.

His blurred face was stuck to one, two…
several gold threads, and slowly revealed a face that was actually looking very simple and honest.

He originally laughed grimly, but at this time, with his overly honest and peaceful facial features, it turned out to be very strange.

Chen Ying lowered his head.

“Senior Brother! You're exposed!” a Wuying Peak's Junior Sister reminded in a panic.

But it was too late.
Her figure also appeared behind the five people from Zhiqiong Peak when she said it.

“Oops!”

“What is this!”

The other three people from Wuying Peak appeared.
They panicked and wanted to help their teammates.

“Senior brother, I'll cover you.
Run away!”

But in an instant, a five-colored light flashed.
Chen Ying and the rest were all bound!

Yan Yan pursed his lips and swept his sword.

Yu Dong hit them with his Qiankun ruler.3

Hang Wan'er raised her double hairpin.

The five members of Wuying Peak flew out of the ring.

The audience was silent.

The Judgment Elder unlocked the defensive formation.
His expression was a bit complicated when he said, “Zhiqiong Peak, victory.”

As soon as his voice stopped, the Golden Core, Chen Ying, broke free from the Five Immortal Ropes and jumped onto the ring with an ugly face.
“Elder, I am not convinced!”

“They are in the early days of their foundation building, and they could only rely on magic weapons to control me for a few breaths.
If they encountered my Wuying Peak in the secret realm, they would not be able to stand against us! The rules of the arena should not be like this! Zhiqiong Peak's strength is low, but relying on this tricky method to win by luck.
How would this leave any face to Nanxun Academy!”

As soon as he said that, the other challengers in the ring also nodded in grief.

However, with a flick of his sleeve, the ruling elder swung Chen Ying off the ring.
“Idiot!”

Chen Ying's complexion changed dramatically.
He hurriedly stood up so that he didn't fall.

“You were trapped without being able to move your spiritual power.
You are lucky that today you were only swung off the ring.”

The Judgment Elder raised his eyelids and folded his hands inside his sleeves.

“If you were in the secret realm, you would be dead.”

There are countless monsters in the secret realm.
Once they can't move, they will become the target of violent monsters.
They would die without a corpse left.

“No more nonsense.
Otherwise, I'll throw you to the secret realm now!” The Judgment Elder snorted.

Chen Ying trembled.
He was unable to move in front of a Nascent Soul's coercion.

The five from Zhiqong Peak looked at each other.
Finally, Yu Dong, who was good at social skills, stepped forward and thanked the ruling elder.

But as soon as he moved forward, he was glared at by the elder.

The Judgment Elder glared and waved his sleeves.
A burst of a Nascent Soul aura burst out and then flicked away the several sticky filaments that Yu Dong brought forward as he walked.
He flicked his sleeves in disgust to return his appearance to the neat red robe of the Precept Hall.

“Don't get close to this old man!”

Yu Dong was taken aback.

The audience was also sluggish.

“This golden thing is actually effective against a Nascent Soul?”

“My God.
That means that even if Chen Ying's disappearing steps have reached a Nascent Soul stage, he will still be restrained by the spiritual treasure of Zhiqiong Peak?”

“So what is this? Chen Ying said it is a magic weapon.
I don't think so.”

“Is it available in the exchange office? I haven't heard of it in the market before.”

Everyone looked at the five people from Zhiqiong Peak inquiringly.

But Yu Dong's heart was just as confused as theirs.

He looked down at the golden thread spreading out from the dishes, and his mood went up and down.

'A magic weapon.'

'This dish is actually a magic weapon, not an elixir or a dish!'

Just before he entered the ring, he saw a layer of light on the dish, but he couldn't believe it at the time.

But now, under the gaze of the ruling elder, he tentatively reached out and picked up the sweet-smelling golden lump on his dish.
He released some spiritual power, and wherever his mind went, the hundred golden threads from all corners of the ring dexterously retracted back to the dish!

The spreading sweet smell gradually disappeared.

Obviously, this magic weapon can be used again.

Yu Dong: …

'It's really a magic weapon!'

He was born with metal and fire spiritual roots.
His cultivation talent was average, but these dual spiritual roots are suitable for refining.

When Zhiqiong Peak was still prosperous, he also studied hard for a few years.
Only later, when his Master, Taoist Mu, disappeared, there was a shortage of spiritual stones at the peak.
He found that the refining skill was low, and he could not protect himself, so he simply gave up.

However, his knowledge of magic weapons is still there.

At this moment, Yu Dong remembered what he had learned many years ago.
He only felt that his sea of ​​​​knowledge was turned over.
He felt dizzy, and the image of Su Yu taking out a wok and waving a vegetable spatula was in his mind.

 

He almost had a splitting headache.

'What is she?'

'Is she a refiner?'

'She used a common metal spatula to refine a second-grade spiritual weapon!?'

That's right.
This spiritual weapon isn't a grade-one or a gradeless tool.

Although it has no attack effect, it can expose hidden cultivators.
It is also effective on a Nascent Soul cultivator, which is very useful in certain scenarios.

If they meet a suitable buyer, it is estimated that they can sell it for 30,000 spirit stones.

Yu Dong's eyes were full of panic.
He looked at Su Yu, sitting at the top of the ring, and saw that she was still leisurely and comfortably drinking tea.

'She concocts alchemy and refines spiritual weapons?'

'How can she still make a weapon! Why use a spatula?'

He has too many questions.

However, he looked at Su Yu, but the other disciples around the ring looked at him.

“It actually gave off the brilliant light of a magical treasure.
By the way, I remember that there was a core disciple in Zhiqiong Peak who learned to refine.”

“Ah, it is the person standing on the ring.
The blue-robed Yu Dong, who uses the Qiankun ruler! But I haven't heard him refining anything before…”

“That must be for the peak's own use.
This is the secret of Zhiqiong Peak.
How can they tell us?!”

“Any peak that has a refiner will guard them like a treasure in the family! Brothers and sisters, do you have the contact information of Yu Dong's jade slip?”

“Yes, I will also ask for a jade slip contact.
I wonder if he will sell magic weapons after this third-rank peak competition?”

Yu Dong, who knew nothing: “???”

“What are you doing, Fifth Brother.” Hang Wan'er got off the ring and looked at Yu Dong, who was still in a daze.

Yu Dong looked at her complexly: “…Do you all know that she can refine weapons?”

Hang Wan'er: “I know.”

Yan Yan nodded.

Apprentice Sixteenth and Eighteenth looked at each other.
“Fifth Senior Brother, we didn't know.
We only learned about it today, and we were very surprised.”

Yu Dong: …

So, was he removed from the core disciples of Zhiqiong Peak? He ranked fifth, but his news was as close as Sixteenth and Eighteenth who entered the school more than ten years later than him?

“Fourth Brother also knows, and Third Brother also knows?” Yu Dong asked while feeling tangled.

“Yes.” Hang Wan'er's face showed reverence when she remembered it.
She patted her waist beamingly, “Second Senior Sister made the Five Immortals Rope!”

Yan Yan nodded.
He raised the dragon scale sword in his hand and said concisely, “This too.”

A Third Grade Five Immortal Rope.

A Third Grade Dragon Scale Sword.

Yu Dong almost fell out of the ring.

He used to study for several years and could only refine a first-grade magic weapon.

There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are not willing to give up.

But fortunately, he gave up halfway.
Otherwise, will he still has a face as a refiner today?

 

“So, Fifth Senior Brother, you should be a little more motivated.
Second Senior Sister has been in the room all day and never went to artifact refining classes.” Hang Wan'er frowned.

Yan Yan nodded expressionlessly, “You also have built the foundation.”

Yu Dong: “…”

“Second Senior Sister, how do you make it with a wok?”

When Yu Dong returned to his seat, he happened to hear this question from a younger junior sister.

He pricked up his ears.

Su Yu's beautiful voice is powerful and steady when she answered, “It is just a fire art.
So it is ever-changing, which is inseparable from its origin.”

Yu Dong: …

Everyone: …

“Sister Su…
is very extraordinary.” Qian Qingqiu had a complicated face.
He looked at Su Yu, his ally, very seriously.
“Alchemy and weapon refining.
It's no wonder that junior sister's cultivation level was stagnant.
With such a weird talent, the way of heaven will naturally restrict your cultivation.”

She can refine third-grade magic weapons and second-grade spiritual pills only at Qi Refining level.
When she is in Foundation Building or Golden Core stages, won't she climb to the sky and pull up her fellow disciples?

How can heaven tolerate it?

Qian Qingqiu sighed, “Junior sister is going against the sky, so be careful.”

Yu Dong was shocked.

Wei Zhao and the other disciples also came to a sudden realization.
They looked at Su Yu in shock, with worry on their faces.

'The way of heaven won't let her cultivate?'

Su Yu closed her eyes calmly.
“Don't worry.
It's not a big deal.”

Just like pickled cabbage, a dish that does not need any complicated skills.
No precious ingredients, just experience.
As long as she focuses on the heat, it can be mastered with practice.1

The difficulty lies in the size of the fire and the duration of the fire.

She has been cooking for many years.
As long as she concentrates, nothing is difficult.

“It's just some candied strings.
Heaven can't control such a trivial matter.” Su Yu was not panicking at all.

She hasn't even made a big dish yet.

“Candied strings?” Everyone was stunned.

Yu Dong's eyes lit up.
“Is this the name of the magic weapon?”

Su Yu had a strange expression and hummed with certainty.

She does not change its name and does not change its surname.

Even if the look changed and become a magic weapon.

…

“The sixth challenge will start in the late afternoon.
Those who are absent will be regarded as abstaining.”

The Judgment Elder tossed his sleeves and left in a blink of an eye.

“Zhiqiong Peak won all challenges so far.”

Everyone was amazed, and the challengers who had not yet entered the stage looked solemn.

They thought Zhiqiong Peak was a soft persimmon, but now their mouth was full of toothache.

“They have too many magic weapons…
Shall we challenge other peaks?”

“Can it be changed? Here, we also want to challenge other peaks!”

 

Some peaks started to regret.

Chen Shuxin walked down from the tenth floor of the tower, and his face turned black.

“It seems that Xiao Muge has left some treasures.” Xu Meng said while carrying his sword, “Their golden threads restrained Wuying Peak.”

Chen Shuxin closed his eyes.
“Brother Xu, it seems that it is up to your Yunwu Peak in the end.”

Xu Meng smiled.
“Don't worry.”

“Xu Meng, you won't have a chance to fight Zhiqiong Peak.
Xiao Muge knocked my Tiegang Peak down from the third rank, and today is the time to pay it back! Three days ago, my master got a Third-Rank Killing Array.
Watch me!”

Xu Meng, who was carrying a sword, shrank his eyes and looked at the person vigilantly.

Three-Rank Killing Formation.
If you are not careful, even a Golden Core may fall in the early stage.

Chen Shuxin laughed lightly.

—

Outside the tower.

“I didn't make it, and I don't sell it!”

Yu Dong collapsed and rejected more than ten disciples in shame and anger.
He was almost losing it.

“Hey, won't you sell it after the big competition?”

“That's right.
Also, why do your spiritual weapons have a special fragrance? The rest of the spiritual weapons don't have any.
Are you sure you really didn't make them?”

“I know it's still a big competition.
Why don't you tell me the identity of the refiner? Hey, I'll ask again when Zhiqiong Peak keeps your third-rank peak qualification.”

The disciples who came to inquire about the magic weapon all shook their heads and left with a sigh.

Yu Dong has always had a good temper, but at this time, he wished he could hide back in Zhiqiong Peak.

He looked at Su Yu faintly and saw her walking with her hands behind her back.
With a calm expression, she stepped on Hang Wan'er's flying red silk ribbon in the air.

Su Yu noticed his gaze and turned her head.
“Fifth Junior Brother, move faster.”

Yu Dong: “…”

Su Yu stood behind Hang Wan'er and rose into the air.

She bowed her head and watched the scenery of the Nanxun Mountains comfortably, but suddenly she felt the Dantian in her stomach tighten.

The five elements cauldron in her body was about to move again, causing her Dantian to be numb and hot.
Even her meridians seemed to be immersed in warm water.

'This deja vu—'

Su Yu took a sharp breath and reached out to cover her lower abdomen.

Yu Dong had been looking at her and was the first to notice something was wrong.
He immediately looked tense.
“You…
what's the matter?”

After refining alchemy, the alchemist's soul could collapse, and the spiritual energy will be exhausted.

He hurriedly took out the rest of the tonic pills and elixirs in his spatial storage bag, as well as five or six lifelike spring plum elixirs she refined.
He caught up with Yan Yan and was just about to stuff everything in her hand.
However, she couldn't reach out.
Su Yu was holding her belly, and sweat was dripping from her forehead.

Yu Dong's face changed.

'Is this the price of refining a spiritual weapon higher than her level!'

 

'She went against the sky and was backlashed.
She is in a Qi Refining period.
She can't bear the consequences of refining a second-grade treasure!'

“Sixth Senior Brother, please stop and feed Second Senior Sister some medicine!”

The jade bottles in his hand were shaking in a panic.

The master who rescued him is gone.
The senior brother who taught him is gone.
The stern third senior brother's Golden Core is broken…
Now she, his second senior sister, is going to have an accident?

'Why?'

He was full of grief and anger.

But just as he was about to ask the sky in anger, he saw Su Yu gently shake her head.
A few crystal beads of sweat rolled down her bright forehead.

“It's nothing, just…
I seem to be breaking through.”

The sad and angry Yu Dong: …

The worried Zhiqiong Peak's disciples: …

'Second Senior Sister is about to have a breakthrough.'

'How can this be?'

Even if Wei Zhao and Yan Yan had experienced it once, they were also surprised at this time.

“Two months ago, she broke through two levels in a row.” Yan Yan's always indifferent expression was somewhat deformed.

'What?'

'In a row?'

Yu Dong was shocked, and Hang Wan'er couldn't believe it.

Several of Zhiqiong Peak's core disciples surrounded the entrance of the Su Yu courtyard, and the rest of the Qi Refining disciples were driven to practice.

“Could Second Senior Sister make a mistake? Maybe she just has abdominal pain?” Hang Wan'er thought about the strongest possibility.

Yu Dong: “…”

Seventh Junior Sister's thinking is also very strange.

Yu Dong immediately took out a jade slip.
“I'll ask Yingying to find Senior Brother Qian now.
A peak of the Golden Core stage can help protect the Dharma.”

“What is that?” There was a light in the sky, which Hang Wan'er had never seen before.

The jade slip in Yu Dong's hand fell to the ground.

He looked at the sky and took a step back.
His eyes were full of shock.
“This…
is the precious light from heaven that can only happen in the birth of high-grade third-rank spiritual treasures.”

The colorful light that falls from the sky means that the grade exceeds the level of the original spiritual material.

At least third grade, almost equal to the fourth grade.

Hang Wan'er took a deep breath.
“So senior sister is not suffering from abdominal pain but is refining a magic weapon?”

Yu Dong: “…”

Su Yu was in her room.
Her whole body was full of spiritual energy as if she was soaked in hot water.
The meridians in her body swelled and began to hurt, and the iron cauldron in her Dantian vibrated continuously.

With a slight tremor, a spiritual aura overflowed from her fingers.

A mass of five colors of spiritual fire burned through her body.

The temperature was so high that even her entire room seemed to melt.

'Uncontrollable.'

'The fire is too hot.'

 

Su Yu took out the iron wok from her storage bag and added three layers of solidification array.

'If this fire is used for frying clam meat, it should be soft and tender, not too chewy.'

'Best for stir fry!'1

…

The five-element cauldron in Su Yu's Dantian swelled instantly, seemingly breaking through a layer of confinement.

A bright light flashed in front of her eyes, and she saw the vision of a second-rank demon clam slowly opening its two hard clam shells under the river bank.
Its carapace with circular patterns was glowing like metal.

She closed her eyes and slid a spoonful of the fragrant clam meat in the iron pot into the jade plate.

But once she finished the stir fry, the heat of the Five Elements Spiritual Fire has not faded away.
She can only scoop another spoonful of the second-grade demon clam into her iron wok…

Continuous stir fry means constant spiritual power consumption.

Finally, the strangeness of her Dantian subsided slowly.

Su Yu did not forget to put away the dishes, wash the iron pot, and put them in her storage bag for sealing before sitting down cross-legged again.

The four juniors outside the small courtyard raised their heads and looked toward the sky above the courtyard.

Three rays of light.

Three rays of light.

Three more…

!

“Fifth Senior Brother, did you miss a lesson in weapon refining? Do you even remember your teacher's teaching?” Hang Wan'er clenched her fingers and counted to six.

Yu Dong's eyebrows and feet twitched, and he was speechless for a while.

Even for someone at the peak of Foundation Building, it is difficult to refine six treasures at once.
Not to mention that when a cultivator is breaking through, they should hold on to their thoughts and concentrate their mind.
How can she refine magic weapons at this time?

However, with a squeak, Su Yu, in a yellow dress, pushed out the door.
Her eyes were like stars.

She stood with her hands behind her back.
Her skin glowed as if she had been washed by a spiritual spring.

There is no need to probe.
It is a sign of promotion.

The first time Yu Dong saw it, he was even more stunned.

Hang Wan'er was both surprised and delighted, “Qi refining…
Ninth level!”

Wei Zhao and Yan Yan were all shocked.

'Second Senior Sister broke through another two levels in a row!'

'How did she do it?'

'Didn't Qian Qingqiu say that she is going against the sky and difficult to cultivate?'

“I have recently used the stoves too many times,” Su Yu sighed.
Her Dantian couldn't hold the expansion of her Five Elements Pot anymore, so she could only reach a breakthrough.
“God can't control this fire.”

The four: …

Yu Dong said with difficulty, “Just now, I saw the light from heaven six times.”

Halfway through, he could already smell a scorching fragrance wafting from Su Yu's room.
It was slightly spicy.

“Light?” Su Yu raised her eyebrows, thinking for a moment before she remembered, “You mean the fire-“

She quickly looked into her storage bag with a strange expression.

 

The temperature of her spirit fire was too high just now.
She relied on stir-frying six-pot of clams to cool down.

But at this time, there were no demon clams lying in her space.
Only six pearl-colored, fist-sized objects looked like gongs.

Su Yu coughed lightly and took it out immediately.

Six gongs with slightly different size halos.

It has a pearl-colored shell with a little scarlet light.
It seems to be the source of the spicy smell.

'Speechless.'

'It has a spiritual halo.'

'This is a third-grade spiritual weapon.'

'It's really third grade!'

'There are six of them!'

“This is what you just…”

“Well, it was made by that fire.” Su Yu considered her words and handed the six pearly, scarlet clams to the nearest Hang Wan'er, “You share them one for each person.
Let's see if it can be used in the competition in the afternoon.”

'So casual?'

Several people were about to give it a try when a flying sword hurriedly landed.

Yan Yan reached out and grabbed it, unfolding the note above it.

“It's Dong Hewei from Changying Peak.” His expression sank as he glanced at it.

'The big man in the first battle in the morning?'

Su Yu looked at him badly.
“What's the matter? Are they not convinced?”

Yan Yan shook his head.
“Dong Hewei's Changying Peak is right next to Tiegang Peak.
He reminded us to be careful later.”

“What does it means?”

“Tiegang Peak was also a third-rank peak before.
Their chief, Ji Tuo, used a double hammer and is at the Golden Core's peak.
Does he has any magic weapon that can break free from the Five Immortals Rope?”

Su Yu was surprised.

She didn't expect her Fifth Junior Brother, who was not very advanced in thinking, to have some analytical skills.

She glanced at the note that Yan Yan handed her.
“Dong Hewei said that the Tiegang Peak recently got a third-rank killing array.
He happened to see it, so he reminded us that the five of us going to the ring should be careful.
We should protect ourselves and not hurt the root of cultivation.”

'Three-Rank Killing Formation!'

Several faces changed suddenly.

Nanxun Sect also has elders to offer courses in formation.
However, learning about formation requires not only high spiritual awareness but also spiritual stones.
The instruments used to arrange formations are also valuable.
Zhiqiong Peak never has enough spirit stones, so there is not even a disciple on the peak who is studying the formation technique.

Yan Yan went to the exchange office several times, but every time he never looked at the floor selling arrays.

Because it is expensive!

Yu Dong was worried.
“A third-rank killing formation can kill an early stage of Golden Core.
A middle stage of Golden Core may also be seriously injured.
We have never learned formation techniques, so we do not know how to break the formation.
If we really face it upright, we can only give up.”

Hang Wan'er stared, “Fifth Senior Brother, you are like this again! Why are you always so pessimistic?”

Yu Dong took a deep breath.
“Even if Fourth Senior Brother wakes up, we are only in the Foundation Building at most.
We will be killed in the formation.
As long as the green hills still there, don't worry about firewood.
Seventh Junior Sister, you can't be blindly confident.
You can't win the big competition just by acting on your will.”1

Hang Wan'er was about to speak, but she was interrupted by Wei Zhao.

Wei Zhao, in the wheelchair, closed his eyes with difficulty, “Your fifth senior brother…
is right.”

Unless all the people in the formation are killed, the Three-Rank Killing Formation will continue to operate.
The five people in the ring will suffer from the ubiquitous Golden Core level attack.

The presence of the Judgment Elder can protect them from death, but he cannot guarantee that they will not be seriously injured.

He had a tough temper in the past and might try to resist it.

But now, he is suffering from the pain of broken meridians and broken golden core.
He knows how hopeless this desperate road is.
How can he bear to let his junior brothers and sisters repeat his mistakes, suffer serious injuries and affect their cultivation? This will lead to irreversible consequences.

Second Senior Sister can help them reach this stage.
It is already a blessing.

The Five Immortal Ropes can trap people but cannot trap a formation.

This is it for them.

“Second Senior Sister,” Wei Zhao looked at Su Yu painfully.
“If it is true, we will give up.”

But as soon as he finished speaking, he was dazzled by the six gong-like clam shells in Hang Wan'er's hand.