Chapter 82 80, The end?
Hearing Lin Qingque's words, Xu Yuan couldn't help but sigh.
He had accounted for everything, yet he had not foreseen this outcome.
However, it didn't matter.
At least he knew now that the Heart Realm was indeed Tian Liuli's weakness, and that was enough.
"It's okay, Junior Sister, I don't blame you."
"True, you can't blame me, the main reason is that woman's screams in the Illusory Realm were just too fiery."
Lin Qingque said through gritted teeth, her eyes dodging slightly.
"..."
Xu Yuan fell into a slight silence.
If Lin Qingque felt that way, then Tian Liuli… perhaps she indeed wasn't as simple as she seemed on the surface.
"No matter what, I still won in the end. Mr. Xu, you... have no moves left, right?"
Tian Liuli looked at them coldly.
"Damn it."
Lin Qingque clenched her teeth, indignantly said, "If, if it weren't for you being so fiery, I would surely have succeeded already."
In response to her words, Tian Liuli coldly chuckled without a hint of expression, "Only the weak need to find so many excuses."
"Enough, I'm tired too. It's time for this play to end..."
Just as she was slowly raising her hand, ready to put an end to it all, Xu Yuan suddenly began to laugh.
"Do you really think... this is the end?"
"What do you mean?"
Tian Liuli's brows furrowed tightly.
She sensed that the three of them had very little Spiritual Power left inside their bodies; they shouldn't possibly have any new moves.
"Miss Liuli, could it be you've forgotten... where we are."
Xu Yuan said with a smile that wasn't quite a smile.
At the same time, the Heart's Illusionary Realm was also being gradually lifted under his control.
"What do you mean?"
Tian Liuli's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly.
The next moment, she thought of something, her eyes widened in shock, and her figure flickered, ready to strike first.
But, it was already too late.
As the Heart's Illusionary Realm dissolved, the scene of the outer world also became gradually clear.
Simultaneously, a girl with purple clothes and white hair appeared in everyone's view.
It was the Nascent Soul cultivator from Sword Sect whom Xu Yuan had asked Liu Ruoxue to inform in advance.
"Even if you are the next Palace Master of Qiushui Shengong, this is still too presumptuous."
The girl with purple clothes and white hair couldn't help but reveal a hint of anger on her pretty face.
Although she was just a Primordial Spirit Sword Spirit, her combat power was not weaker than an average Nascent Soul cultivator at Great Perfection; did she dare to disregard herself so?
Without any visible movement, a hazy purple Qi Sword Intent blocked Tian Liuli in an urgent moment.
"Nascent Soul Great Perfection?"
Tian Liuli's face showed a look of unwillingness.
Nascent Soul cultivators at Great Perfection were not something she could challenge at the moment.
Don't be fooled by her previous triumph against three, having killed three early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators. That was because those three were Loose Cultivators, not disciples from a proper Sect.
Besides, there were also many other reasons such as her Physical Refinement Skills, which together had led to her achievements.
However, in front of a cultivator with a Nascent Soul at the peak of Great Perfection, these were indeed not enough to impress.
To challenge her, unless her realm was to increase by a major boundary, and all her cultivation techniques and secret treasures were upgraded once again, only then might there be a possibility.
"Had you calculated all of this long ago?"
Tian Liuli's gaze fell on Xu Yuan as she pondered the likelihood of exposing his true identity at this moment.
Xu Yuan smiled: "I do not understand what the fairy implies?"
He had not anticipated everything; he simply felt that, as the protagonist within this game, defeating her would not be an easy task, and so he had thought ahead about his retreat.
Tian Liuli lowered her eyelids and ultimately abandoned the thought.
She was not certain if the Nascent Soul cultivator before her could detect the changes in Xu Yuan, as even she herself was only able to sense them because she had taken measures against him in advance.
"Girl from Qiushui Shengong, I do not understand what you are trying to do here, but... this is Sword Sect's territory, and you are taking things too lightly by disregarding me like this, right?"
"Senior, please forgive me, I was merely excited by the sight of the elite disciples of the Sword Sect and acted impulsively."
Tian Liuli spoke with an air of nonchalance.
Her arrogant attitude was not only due to Qiushui Shengong's high regard for her but also her own strength.
She was confident that even in front of such a Nascent Soul cultivator at the peak of Great Perfection, she had the capability to escape with her life.
"Acting on impulse."
The purple-clad white-haired girl, being a Primordial Spirit Sword Spirit, was incredibly proud; yet, she never expected to meet someone even more conceited than she was.
She was about to teach the girl a lesson.
But at that moment, an extremely faint and light qi locked onto her from the shadows.
"Half-Step Primordial Spirit?!"
The purple-clad white-haired girl clenched her fists, never having imagined that Qiushui Shengong took her so seriously as to assign a great cultivator who was just half a step away from advancing into the Primordial Spirit realm to follow her every step.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
"Martial Uncle, there has indeed been a misunderstanding between us and Miss Liuli,"
Seeing her expression, Xu Yuan seemed to understand something, and he bowed slightly toward the purple-clad white-haired girl as he spoke.
"Since it's a misunderstanding, let's leave it at that,"
After a moment of silence, the purple-clad white-haired girl said, "The contest is over, you may leave now, right?"
"What a coincidence, after our contest, I feel a kindred spirit with the two esteemed disciples of the Sword Sect and wish to visit the Sword Sect residence. May I ask if you mind, senior?"
Tian Liuli, as if oblivious to when to back down, stared intently at Xu Yuan.
"You?!"
The purple-clad white-haired girl sighed; the current situation was against her, and she couldn't well object.
She then looked towards Lin Qingque, her brows knit tightly as she said, "You're from the Heavenly Dao Sect, right?"
If she remembered correctly, the Heavenly Dao Sect had been isolated by the other six sects because of a certain issue not too long ago, only Qiushui Shengong remained their staunch ally. But in the blink of an eye, for the sake of a Sword Sect disciple, the two sects had come into conflict again?
Something was off, definitely off.
"Indeed."
Lin Qingque, who had just been beating the ground and weeping, was now obediently clinging to Xu Yuan's arm, saying demurely, "Sister, Fang Yuan and I are good friends, I also want to enter the Sword Sect residence, may I?"
"..."
The purple-clad white-haired girl pressed her forehead as if pained and, after giving Xu Yuan a deep look, said, "Well then, you may all come in."
With that, she waved her hand to dismiss the sphere of light frozen by Liuli Heaven and turned to enter the shop.
Hearing this, the crowd followed inside. It was only after lifting the curtain behind the counter that, accompanied by a spatial shift, Xu Yuan finally saw the Sword Sect's station.
At first glance, Sword Sect's whereabouts didn't seem as luxurious as imagined, being just a small courtyard, but the complexity of the formations set up inside was something Xu Yuan rarely encountered. By his estimations, just maintaining these formations would likely cost tens of thousands of spirit stones a year.
The silvery moon shone quietly, its light spread across the scene.
After leading them inside, the purple-clad white-haired girl seemed to lose interest in conversing with them and disappeared, leaving the space to them.
At that moment, the three of them took their seats around Xu Yuan, each staring at him intently without looking away.