novelraw Chapter 120 : Xiao Bai Takes Human Form
Chapter 120 : Xiao Bai Takes Human Form
For a moment, everyone looked uncertainly at the little loli who suddenly appeared.
She looked no more than seven or eight years old, with a soft, round face and large, round eyes with non-human vertical pupils. She had cat ears on her head and a tail behind her, making her entire being incredibly huggable and pettable.
But putting aside how cute she was.
The shocking part was—
Did she just eat all nine Soul-Breaking Needles??
Is that something meant for people to eat??!
Evidently, the cat-eared little loli's answer was yes.
Not only did she eat them, but she crunched them one by one.
After eating, she even clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction, "Pah, tastes awful!"
In an instant, the Xuanyuan family group felt like dying.
"...Xiao Bai?"
Chu Sang was also somewhat uncertain. Hearing her mistress call, the cat-eared little loli turned her head with a "whoosh!", those cute and beautiful vertical pupils widening slightly. With an "awoo", she pounced into Chu Sang's arms, nuzzling her, "Mistwess~ You're not hurt!"
Chu Sang thought that while she was fine, the psychological damage to the Xuanyuan family members might be quite severe.
But her Xiao Bai was truly amazing, living up to its name as a devouring beast, able to swallow anything.
"You've taken human form."
Spirit beasts at the Nascent Soul stage actually already possess the ability to take human form. However, Xiao Bai might have been forcibly accelerated due to drinking Third Senior Brother's blood earlier. Although its strength had reached the Nascent Soul stage, its realm was unstable, so it couldn't take human form for a long time.
This successful transformation should be due to swallowing more than a dozen Golden Core stage spirit beast cores a few days ago, falling into a deep sleep, digesting for several days, and finally accumulating enough energy to transform.
Xiao Bai was indeed as cute as she had imagined.
A soft, cuddly cat-eared little loli.
"You... you bunch of despicable and shameless people, spit out my Xuanyuan family's heirloom!"
Xuanyuan Cheng was so angry his heart nearly stopped. They even dared to swallow his Xuanyuan family's heirloom. If he didn't flay these people alive, he wouldn't be named Li!
With only a few days left in the secret realm, fighting with these people would be a waste of time. Chu Sang didn't want to waste time on them, so she directly had Xiao Bai open its domain and teleport them away.
Remembering that Big Senior Sister, who was left behind, was face-blind and had a poor sense of direction, she had Xiao Bai teleport them over to successfully reunite with Big Senior Sister.
Tang Yanling sighed, "Little Junior Sister leads the way, and in just one day, we've offended two factions."
Tantai Ming, "To be precise, it's three."
There was also the Phantom Sound Sect earlier, who probably wanted to kill them by now.
They should put on human skin masks.
Otherwise, given Little Junior Sister's ability to attract hostility, he feared they might be mobbed once they left the secret realm.
So Chu Sang put on a human skin mask. As for whose appearance to mimic, she randomly picked a lucky one!
That group from the Xuanyuan family just now would do.
After all, their reputation for snatching tokens along the way was already bad enough, so it wouldn't matter if it got a bit worse.
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Meanwhile, Xuanyuan Cheng and his group, having just experienced the pain of losing their treasure, wanted to continue searching for tokens. However, they suddenly sensed something was amiss—For some reason, many cultivators in the secret realm suddenly started shouting to beat and kill them.
Although he admitted he was despicable and shameless, he hadn't gone so far as to steal people's qiankun bags and strip off their pants, right? What kind of pervert would do such a thing?!
"It wasn't me!"
"Are you all blind? I didn't strip your pants, I've never even seen you before?!"
No matter how Xuanyuan Cheng raged and protested his innocence, those cultivators had fixated on his face. For the last few days, these disciples of the Xuanyuan family spent their time fleeing for their lives. They had no time to search for tokens and had to be wary of their pants being stripped off. Their rankings, which had been at the forefront, plummeted in an instant.
Half a month later, the elimination round ended as scheduled.
The top hundred disciples on the leaderboard were considered to have passed and were teleported to the white formation on the left after exiting the realm.
The thousands of eliminated disciples were teleported to the black formation on the right, dejected and disheartened, forced to withdraw ingloriously, only able to wait for the next competition in ten years.
Although the number of sword cultivators was relatively large, they were among the first to come out.
The tool refiners and pill refiners took much longer due to the time required for refinement.
After waiting another three to five days, their competitions finally concluded one after another.
Su Chen'an was the first to come out from the tool refiner track. He stretched, his stiff bones cracking loudly. Looking up, he saw several senior and junior brothers and sisters waiting outside not far away.
He smiled and walked over, "Have you finished your competitions?"
"We finished our competitions long ago, successfully fighting our way out of tens of thousands. Little Junior Sister was the most intense, obtaining nearly 50 tokens in total, ranking in the top 20!" Tantai Ming said proudly.
"Fifth Senior Brother, how did it go on your side?" Chu Sang also asked with a smile.
"So-so, barely managed, just first place," Su Chen'an said very modestly.
He was the first to finish refining in this round. To save trouble, he directly refined a high-grade spirit tool, crushing the second place so badly they couldn't even lift their heads.
Su Chen'an had successfully refined his first weapon just after turning ten years old. At that age, disciples from other tool refining families were probably still learning how to identify refining materials.
It can only be said that these sect disciples who had just started out were still quite different from him, an old hand who had been refining tools for more than ten years.
This was completely like dynamite fishing in a pond.
Not long after, the elimination round on the pill refiner side also concluded.
Chu Sang also spotted Mu Chihuai at a glance and waved to him, "Sixth Senior Brother, how did it go on your side? We all passed, you know."
The young man walked over, a smile on his brow, "A small matter, not much of a challenge."
To be honest, there were indeed several disciples with good talent in pill refining this year, a few direct disciples from the Pill Transformation Sect.
Mu Chihuai appeared to be a lazy young master from a prestigious family, but he was actually a steady type who sought victory through stability. In the first round of eliminations, he didn't show off his edge, but rather held back his strength, only refining a cauldron of good quality high-grade pills, mixing in with an upper-middle ranking before coming out.
After nearly half a month, the elimination rounds for all tracks of the sect competition officially ended, and all of them had passed.
They were given half a month to rest and adjust before the individual competitions would be held.
Immortal Chanyu was also not stingy with her praise, "You did well, all of you actually advanced."
She had thought these slacker disciples would be eliminated in the first round.
She clapped her hands, "Since that's the case, to reward you, why don't you all enter another secret realm together during this half month!"
Chu Sang, who had been planning to go back and sleep for half a month, said, "...You might as well take my life."
"I'm just joking. You all rest well during this half month and stabilize your realms. Don't make any mistakes in the competition arena."
In a sense, the real competition was about to begin.
Selecting a hundred disciples from nearly ten thousand excellent disciples, to put it bluntly, these hundred victorious disciples were truly the cream of the crop of this generation in the cultivation world, with strength only stronger, not weaker, than theirs.
Immortal Chanyu didn't really expect these little disciples to fight their way through and snatch those few spots, but throwing them into the competition for some experience was also a good thing.
Especially for Chu Sang and Tantai Ming, these two little ones who were fearless like newborn calves, usually just recklessly fighting and killing.
Letting them see what real geniuses were like would also help temper their sharp edges.
That's what Immortal Chanyu thought.
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Half a month later, the individual competitions officially began.
Compared to last time, there were fewer cultivators in the arena, but the overall strength had increased significantly.
Those who had advanced to the second round were basically all at the late Golden Core stage or peak Golden Core stage, and there were even several at the Nascent Soul stage.
The rules for the individual competitions were—
Among the hundred disciples, each person would participate in 50 matches, with opponents randomly drawn.
Chu Sang's luck was quite good, drawing a late Golden Core stage blade cultivator for her first match, on the tenth arena.
To put it immodestly, she could fight across realms, and at the same realm, she could easily dominate.
The blade cultivator opposite her saw a soft and delicate young girl come on stage, his eyes full of disdain. However, in the next second, before this burly man could even finish his opening words, he was kicked off the stage by the young girl with one foot.
One-hit kill.
The girl who looked weak and delicate, barely reaching his chest, was actually such a formidable body cultivator??
Chu Sang didn't care about the spectators' surprise. She casually drew another lot, as the next match hadn't started yet, and went to watch the matches of her other senior brothers and sisters.
On Big Senior Sister's side, she also sent her opponent off to rest within three moves.
The opponents for the other two senior sisters were not too troublesome either.
The battle situation on Tantai Ming's side was a bit more interesting. He was up against another sword cultivator who was also at the peak of the Golden Core stage, but the opponent had entered the Golden Core stage earlier, with a more stable realm. The sword wind in his hand was thick and smooth, a worthy opponent.
The two exchanged hundreds of moves back and forth, unable to determine a winner.
When the opponent's sword slashed over, Tantai Ming released his force, shortening the distance between them. Just as the sword cultivator was delighted and about to press his advantage, he dodged the attack, found an opportunity, and with one sword stroke, sent the person off the stage.
"Lingqing Sect, Tantai Ming, victory!"
"Little Junior Sister, did you see that? I just sent him off the stage with one sword stroke, wasn't that pose cool?" Tantai Ming, completely disregarding his image, nimbly flipped off the stage and came over grinning.
Chu Sang gave him a thumbs up, "Cool."
They all finished their battles quite quickly. With several hours left before the second round of arena matches began, they had nothing to do, so they decided to wander around the other competition tracks.
There was no need to worry about Fifth Senior Brother; barring any accidents, he would definitely be the champion of the tool refiners.
Chu Sang was more curious about the pill refiner side, after all, that's where the female protagonist had entered.
Although Tianyan Sect mainly practiced sword cultivation, it was clearly too much to ask a delicate, universally beloved female protagonist to wield a sword and hack away at people. Naturally, Qin Xixue had switched halfway to study pill refining.
She had some talent in pill refining, and with the guidance of Grandpa Jade Tablet, she became even more formidable.
Grandpa Jade Tablet had been a renowned grand pill master across the continent in his lifetime.
Under his guidance, Qin Xixue's pill refining skills advanced by leaps and bounds.
In the original story, during this sect competition, she even successfully refined a earth-grade pill, making a name for herself across the entire cultivation world, becoming a highly sought-after genius girl in pill refining.
She even fulfilled her wish of joining the Pill Transformation Sect,
Becoming the first and only dual sect disciple of two major immortal sects in history.
Subsequently, she received the true teachings of the Pill Transformation Sect's ancestor, and also obtained the sect's guardian treasure, becoming the first person in ten thousand years to find the path of ascension through pill refining.
And Sixth Senior Brother would definitely face off against the female protagonist.
The problem was that Sixth Senior Brother could also refine earth-grade pills. If the female protagonist still followed the original plot, she might not meet the expectations of the original story.
But the Heavenly Dao would certainly not ignore this, and might even forcibly correct it. She was worried that some trouble might occur on Sixth Senior Brother's side.
Mu Chihuai's luck wasn't very good. In his first match, he drew a direct disciple of the Pill Transformation Sect. Both were at the late Nascent Soul stage in strength.
Chu Sang found a cool spot to sit down and watched the pill refining competition process with interest.
Pill refining wasn't like sword cultivation with all its fighting and killing. To outsiders, the atmosphere on the arena seemed unusually harmonious.
The two occupied opposite sides of the arena, took out their pill furnaces, and began to concentrate on refining pills. The pill refining process was extremely complex—selecting spirit plants, grinding, refining, controlling fire, condensing pills, adjusting fragrance. If any step went wrong, all the previous efforts would be wasted.
In the end, Mu Chihuai was the first to refine a high-grade pill, winning the first match.
In the following matches, he continued to win without exception, causing the spectating crowd to discuss enthusiastically,
"I saw him a few years ago. He's that legitimate young master of the Mu family, who showed extraordinary talent in pill refining from a young age, even more astonishing than his mother in her prime..."
"With such good talent, he should either cultivate with his family or join the Pill Refining Sect. Why would he think of joining an unknown small sect? It's really a pity."
The elders of the Pill Transformation Sect were extremely regretful. How did such a good seedling, unseen for a hundred years, get poached by another sect?
Chu Sang glanced at the rankings on the pill refiner side. Sixth Senior Brother had started high and gone wild, cheating his way to the top, far ahead in the lead.
The second and third places were both disciples of the Pill Transformation Sect.
The fourth place was a disciple from a pill refining family.
As for Qin Xixue, not from a pill refining background, she had also fought her way to fifth place, truly a dark horse that had emerged, attracting quite a bit of attention.
It was just Qin Xixue's turn again. She faced a disciple from a pill refining family and successfully refined the only quasi-earth-grade pill in the entire competition, surpassing Mu Chihuai and leaping to the top of the rankings.
"It's actually a quasi-earth-grade pill. This old man must be seeing things wrong. This year's pill refiners are truly full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers..."
The quality of a quasi-earth-grade pill is already very close to an earth-grade pill.
Not to mention the direct disciples of the Pill Transformation Sect in this generation, even among the sect elders, those who could refine earth-grade pills could be counted on one hand.
Unexpectedly, such a pill refining genius girl emerged in this competition, truly a pleasant surprise.
"If this old man remembers correctly, that white-robed young girl is the little disciple you accepted a few years ago. Who would have thought she would have such talent in pill refining? It's truly enviable..."
The elders of the Pill Transformation Sect looked towards Chang Yu beside them, coming forward one after another to praise, their eyes full of envy.
Chang Yu put down his teacup, a faint smile appearing on his handsome face, "My little disciple merely has some talent in the path of pill refining. Compared to the disciples of all of you, it's not worth mentioning."
"Elder Chang Yu, don't be so modest. Those direct disciples in our sect are useless, unable to refine earth-grade pills even now. They can't compare to your little disciple."
An elder of the Pill Transformation Sect suggested sourly, "Since your little disciple has such talent, why not let her join our Pill Transformation Sect and become a dual sect disciple?"