This was Mu Yanxi’s plan from the beginning: be defeated by Ruo Xuan, then challenge Liu Jing. If she wasn’t knocked off the ranking board, she couldn’t challenge anyone else on it.
As long as she won this match, no one would be able to challenge her again.
From the start, Mu Yanxi had wanted to seek justice for Ruo Xuan. She wanted to take revenge on Liu Jing, the girl who had acted so ruthlessly toward Ruo Xuan, someone who had once taken care of Mu Yanxi.
Currently, the spots for the 100 disciples in the elite class were mostly locked in. However, Liu Jing’s previous actions had been far too dark and cruel.
Both the original elite class disciples she challenged and Ruo Xuan, who had challenged her, had been severely injured.
Consequently, no one had dared to challenge her for a long time, which left Mu Yanxi with one final opportunity.
Liu Jing was extremely surprised by Mu Yanxi’s challenge. She looked at Mu Yanxi intently and muttered to herself, “Is she Shangguan Yun’s study partner?”
This was problematic for Liu Jing. Her previous victories relied entirely on her ruthlessness and vicious strikes, which intimidated the other disciples. But with Mu Yanxi, she hesitated to act the same way.
After all, if she touched Mu Yanxi, she had to consider the attitude of the grade chief, Shangguan Yun. If it were merely a competition for a spot in the elite class, it was legitimate competition allowed by the Sect, and no one could complain.
However, if she severely injured Shangguan Yun’s study partner, it would be a direct insult to her face. Shangguan Yun would certainly not let the matter rest.
At that moment, Ruo Xuan finally understood what Mu Yanxi was trying to do.
She quickly ran over and sent a voice transmission to Mu Yanxi, ‘Be extremely careful of the immortal remains in her hands and feet! She might also have other dirty tricks!’
‘Don’t worry, just watch me vent your frustrations for you,’ Mu Yanxi replied via transmission. She walked into the water screen and looked at Liu Jing, the target of her challenge.
“Mu Yanxi, don’t think I won’t dare touch you just because you became Shangguan Yun’s double cultivation partner,” Liu Jing said, still putting on a fierce front despite her internal trepidation.
“It doesn’t matter. I don’t need you to show any mercy. Come at me with everything you’ve got,” Mu Yanxi said. She drew the Undying Blade and waited for Liu Jing to make the first move.
“Don’t look down on me!” Liu Jing grabbed a metal syringe and jabbed it directly into her shoulder.
The compressed liquid medicine was immediately injected into her body. Veins bulged across her muscles, and her blood vessels began to swell.
Liu Jing hadn’t originally planned on using this nine elephant potion. A single dose cost several thousand spirit stones.
However, considering this was the final battle to enter the elite class, and the fact that she couldn’t easily use her ruthless methods against Mu Yanxi, she decisively played this trump card.
Mu Yanxi watched as Liu Jing’s muscles expanded and her physical strength and aura surged rapidly.
She had originally only been at Level 14 of the Qi Refining stage, but after the injection, she broke through three levels in succession, reaching Level 17. This was one level higher than Mu Yanxi’s current cultivation.
“Forcing a breakthrough like that must have significant side effects, right? Are you truly willing to disregard everything just to enter the elite class?” Mu Yanxi asked.
The elixirs from her past life that could force a breakthrough in cultivation always had increasingly severe side effects.
“It’s worth it!” Liu Jing said manically. It seemed her sanity was also being slightly affected. She stomped hard, causing the ground to emit a loud boom, and charged straight at Mu Yanxi.
Mu Yanxi raised the Undying Blade and swung at Liu Jing. A dark-green blade light appeared out of thin air, slashing down toward the charging Liu Jing.
Unexpectedly, it was as if Liu Jing had sensed the attack in advance. Like a wild beast, she twisted her body forcefully, narrowly dodging the abrupt blade light, and continued her charge toward Mu Yanxi.
Mu Yanxi slashed three times in a row, but Liu Jing dodged every strike. It was as if she possessed a beast-like intuition; she predicted the attacks of the Undying Blade with perfect accuracy.
When the Undying Blade released its light, the wielder did indeed have to make corresponding movements.
As long as one watched the movements, they could predict where the blade light would appear. This was why Wei Ling had previously used a sea of fire to obscure her own actions.
However, even if Mu Yanxi was a bit straightforward in her first use of the Undying Blade, Liu Jing should also be seeing the blade for the first time.
When Wei Ling and Mu Yanxi fought earlier, the entire Arena had been covered by a sea of fire. Even as a spectator, Liu Jing couldn’t have seen the blade light.
At most, she could have seen the post-battle demonstration showing that hacked limbs didn’t count as being severed. How could she dodge it on her first encounter? Did she truly have such combat intuition?
Liu Jing had already charged through the blade light to reach Mu Yanxi. She thrust her fingers like a blade with her left hand. After Mu Yanxi dodged, Liu Jing sent a flying kick toward her abdomen.
This time, Mu Yanxi was forced to cross her arms to block the kick.
She felt as though she hadn’t been hit by a foot, but rather heavily struck by a rod forged from divine iron. Not only did her body throb with pain, and she was sent flying backward.
Liu Jing’s sensation was the opposite. She felt as though she hadn’t kicked a human body, but rather some slippery, soft creature.
Not only had she failed to cause actual damage, but her force had also been redirected.
Mu Yanxi was kicked to the edge of the Arena, hitting the water wall and bouncing back. She wasn’t injured. She looked up at Liu Jing and asked, “Are your hands and feet all immortal remains?”
Liu Jing didn’t answer. Instead, she looked at Mu Yanxi in confusion and asked, “What body tempering technique is this? To think you could be so soft.”
Neither side intended to answer their opponent’s questions, and both remained silent. Mu Yanxi took up her stance again, and Liu Jing charged forward at an extremely high speed, moving in a Z-shaped pattern.
Mu Yanxi flicked her left finger, and five fireballs condensed and flew out from her fingers. This was the Fireball Technique, a basic low-level spell.
She had known it in her past life, and in this world, it was also a basic spell that could be learned and used freely without restriction.
This time, Liu Jing dodged while swinging her hands, slashing through all the fireballs. Her hands were indeed immortal remains.
Liu Jing charged straight in front of Mu Yanxi, repeatedly thrusting her fingers like hand-blades.
Under the analysis of the immortal brain, Liu Jing’s attack trajectory was highlighted 1 second in advance. For a cultivator, 1 second was enough time to do many things.
Mu Yanxi raised the Undying Blade, parrying the incoming hand-blades to the sides. She even managed to extend a spirit snake manifestation formed from mana to strike back.
Liu Jing also seemed to possess a sense of foresight. Her hands struck out continuously, accurately dispersing the spirit snake manifestation with a single blow each time it formed.
Liu Jing’s hand-blade attacks seemed to be derived from a blade technique, only using her immortal remains prosthetic hands instead of long blades.
Her prosthetic hands were also wrapped in mana, making her style very close to that of a martial cultivator.
Mu Yanxi, on the other hand, had never studied blade techniques.
Her movements with the Undying Blade were quite unrefined, but the predictions of the immortal brain were incredibly accurate. Even Liu Jing’s feints and transitions were predicted clearly.
Mu Yanxi also discovered that the Undying Blade could not cut through Liu Jing’s hand-blades. It made sense; her limbs had already been modified into immortal remains.
An immortal remains prosthetic was equivalent to a divine artifact. If the Undying Blade, which was also a divine artifact, could easily cut through other divine artifacts, it would be far too powerful.
It seemed that it had been able to cut through the plasma earlier only because the plasma was a form of pure energy.
At this point, Liu Jing, unable to land a decisive blow, began to feel anxious. The nine elephant potion had a time limit.
Gritting her teeth, she suddenly extended her arm, and a folding knife popped out, slashing toward Mu Yanxi’s abdomen.