Chapter 25 The Real Competition Finally...she can finally have a real fight with the powerful opponent she has been waiting for! Perhaps it is true that talents are born to be used. Her poor aptitude is one thing, but even if no one praises her, Zhou Ling herself knows in her heart that her understanding of Taoism is much higher than that of people of the same level as her. After more than ten days of hard study and practice, the time has finally come to show the results. How can she not be excited? Lin Sheng felt a little strange. He was clearly scolding her and asked her to go on stage in a very bad tone, but the little girl was not scared at all. Instead, she smiled with her eyebrows curved like a child seeing candy, and almost whooshed up from below. "Uncle Master, which senior sister is going to compete with me?" Zhou Ling stood there for a while, and even straightened his bangs that had been messed up just now. However, when he saw that his master was not calling anyone up, he couldn't help but ask. Lin Sheng really had to hold back and not hit the kid on the forehead. His face turned red with anger and he pointed at his direct disciple Hua Yue who happened to be looking for him for something. "Yue'er, go and compete with her in Taoism." "Yes, Master!" Hua Yue responded loudly. She had been here for a while and watched the whole process of how the Master educated Junior Sister Zhou. But this Junior Sister Zhou... seemed a little dazed. Couldn't she tell that the Master was angry? This little girl looks likable. If she was sensible, she would admit her mistake and accept the punishment, instead of acting like a rebel, which would make the master even angrier. He would not ask her to compete with him and embarrass her in public.
She sighed in her heart, pinched her hands with magic, and countless phantom petals gathered at her feet. She tapped her toes lightly, and the hem of her gauze skirt lifted slightly. She took light and graceful steps, stepping on the stairs made of petals one step at a time. Then she leaped up, and the petal stairs she stepped on turned into countless flower rain and light. When she flew to the competition stage, a huge dreamy petal backdrop formed behind her. Wow! Zhou Ling's eyes opened wide, she was truly shocked. This is the image of the pure fairy she had imagined in her mind! "Junior Sister Zhou, you are still young, you go first." Huayue felt that she should be a graceful person, so she offered to give in. But as soon as she said this, the faces of everyone in the audience changed slightly. Such familiar words! The last person who said such words in front of Junior Sister Zhou Ling seemed to be tied up tightly and thrown off the stage the next second. But now that Junior Sister Zhou Ling is facing a different opponent, the result should also be different, right? Everyone's faces quickly changed to an expression of watching a good show. They sat on the futon, their necks slightly tilted forward, their eyes fixed, and their expressions focused. "Thank you, Senior Sister Hua." Her current opponent is a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage whose cultivation is a whole level higher than hers. Even though she was allowed to go first, she still did not dare to relax. As she pinched the magic formula in her hand and moved her mind, the stone bricks on the competition stage suddenly sank! Countless soils swallowed up the stone slabs like a flood and surged up. Hua Yue was shocked. She didn't expect that she had underestimated the strength of this junior sister. But once she gave in, she gave in. When she came to her senses and wanted to get away, she found that her ankles were swallowed by the mud and she could not move. What a powerful earth trapping technique! Not only Hua Yue on the stage was shocked, but everyone in the audience also widened their eyes. What kind of battle between masters is this? Can earth-based Taoism be used in this way? The flower spirit on the stage had no time to be overly amazed. Just as she was about to use the wood-turning-soil method to help herself out of trouble, she saw that before she could perform her wood-based magic, vines began to sprout from the soil beneath her feet. Fighting against someone whose cultivation was so much higher than hers, seizing the initiative was the key to her victory. So Zhou Ling took the initiative! While summoning the wood vines, she consumed the nutrients provided by the earth spirit power, further expanding the power of the summoned wood vines, without wasting any spirit power. If people who are familiar with her can see that this is Zhou Ling's usual method. When her cultivation is still weak, she uses all the power around her and leverages the power to her advantage. She can always use this method to the fullest. If you have the strength, you can easily win against her. But if you want to be safe, stopping her in time is the best solution. Unfortunately, Hua Yue was not familiar with Zhou Ling, and she trusted too much in her foundation-building skills to ensure victory.
With a pinch of fire seal, blazing flames burst out from her hands and suddenly hit the vines that were trying to tie her up. Seeing her like this, Zhou Ling narrowed her eyes and the corners of her mouth unconsciously rose. Fell into a trap. The magic gesture in her hand changed, and the vines she summoned shrank instantly. The evaporated water scattered like a snowball. The moment it scattered, it gathered all the moisture it could absorb from the surrounding air, and instantly formed a square water wall that enveloped Hua Yue. Huayue finally realized that she had underestimated the enemy, but it seemed too late to change strategy now. She pinched the magic formula in her hand again, and the flames rose higher, consuming a large amount of her spiritual power. At the same time, the water wall that Zhou Ling used to trap her also made a sizzling sound, as if it would collapse at any time. But the next second, Huayue watched helplessly as the clear blue water wall in front of her was mixed with countless sticky mud! Wow, you play so colorfully! Hua Yue gritted her teeth and was about to break out of the ground, but she saw that the mud wall, which was originally a mixture of water and soil, instantly solidified into ice at a speed she could not prepare for, and became frozen soil! When the flame in her hand went out, Huayue wanted to use the Sharp Metal Technique to break the frozen soil to get out of trouble. But Zhou Ling outside seemed not to want to give her any chance to react. The spell in her hand changed again and again. Her own spiritual power seemed to have achieved perfect integration with the five elements of spiritual energy in the air. As soon as the spell came out and her mind moved, the magic that trapped Senior Sister Huayue changed almost instantly. And every time there was a change, it seemed as if Zhou Ling had grasped Hua Yue's thoughts, predicted what she wanted to do at every step, and changed her tactics in time. For example, just before she wanted to break through the frozen soil, it melted into mud again, and Huayue fell all over her head. Huayue, who had been trying her best to maintain her fairy image, almost vomited! This is mud, it's mud! How can it cover her whole body? She subconsciously formed a water spell and rushed it towards herself, but fell into the trap again. Most of the water she summoned was intercepted by Zhou Ling, who used the water to turn it into an ice wall and pushed Hua Yue, who was covered in mud, off the competition stage. However, just as she was about to fall to the ground, countless vines emerged from the ground and weaved into a net, catching her steadily, so she was not injured. As she fell onto the web woven by vines, countless pieces of mud on her body floated up, gathered in the air like a stream of water, and then sank into the ground in an instant, disappearing without a trace. The small competition ended here. The whole place was silent. (End of this chapter)
