“In that case, Junior Sister, please step into the Immortal Sect quickly. The Elders must be looking forward to your arrival.”
The giant wolf brothers shook their heads at Li Xunxian, urging her to hurry into the Immortal Sect ahead of them. They did not believe her wait would be meaningful, as the young man at Qi Refining Layer 3 before them stood no chance of passing their trial.
“It is fine. I do not think it will take very long,” Li Xunxian replied, indicating that she would stay and watch for a while, as it likely wouldn’t waste much time.
“True, that is also a point.”
The giant wolf brothers paused for a moment and then chuckled.
‘I see. This Junior Sister also doesn’t think this Qi Refining Layer 3 fellow can pass. She’s likely just staying for some personal reason and finds it awkward to leave directly.’
If that was the case, they would give her some face.
“The fact that you reached this point at Qi Refining Layer 3 is already quite impressive,” one giant wolf said, baring its teeth at Xiao Nanchu, who had been waiting for a while.
“Don’t worry. Although you cannot pass the trial of us two brothers, having reached the 19,000th step already grants you entry into the Inner Sect. Although you won’t have many chances to see Junior Sister in the future, it is still far better compared to most others.”
“Right. Can we start now?”
To be honest, Xiao Nanchu was getting a bit anxious. This plot segment was dragging on for too long. He had always disliked watching cutscenes in games. He skipped what he could, and for the unskippable ones, he usually used double speed. He would simply quit any game that didn’t even offer a double-speed option.
If this game weren’t so unique and didn’t require manual clicks to progress, he really wouldn’t want to play anymore. Seeing that the two giant wolves finally acknowledged him, he figured the battle should start soon.
“Fine, let’s begin.” The giant wolf brothers did not want to waste any more time either.
Li Xunxian’s talent and her performance in the previous battle had already caught the attention of an Elder. That Elder had just sent word for them to urge Li Xunxian to enter the Immortal Sect quickly so he could take her as a disciple. However, this Junior Sister insisted on waiting for this minor cultivator.
Thus, they would have to finish off this poor Qi Refining Layer 3 cultivator as quickly as possible.
Xiao Nanchu took a step forward, stepping onto the 20,000th Step. Immediately, the two giant wolf brothers lunged toward him like a gust of crimson wind.
They were incredibly fast and powerful! An ordinary Qi Refining Layer 3 cultivator would have surely been crushed into powder by such an attack. Of course, the two giant wolves held back, ensuring they wouldn’t take the young man’s life.
As expected, the poor cultivator failed to react to their attack at all and was struck squarely by their assault. However, to the brothers’ surprise, the man they hit only stumbled back a few steps and didn’t appear heavily injured as they had anticipated.
In reality, from Xiao Nanchu’s perspective, he truly hadn’t seen the attacks of the two giant wolves clearly. Before he could react, two bright red numbers appeared before his eyes.
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At the same time, the information for the two giant wolves appeared.
[Chiyu Wolf (Projection)]
Level 13 (Qi Refining Layer 6)
HP: 1,200
Description: One of the mounts of a certain Elder of the Immortal Sect.
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[Chiyan Wolf (Projection)]
Level 13 (Qi Refining Layer 6)
HP: 1,200
Description: One of the mounts of a certain Elder of the Immortal Sect.
Xiao Nanchu couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
He had been watching while Li Xunxian fought earlier. At that time, the level of these two giant wolves seemed to be Level 12, right? Why was it Level 13 when it came to his turn?
‘Rigged! This is a total setup!’
However, there was nowhere to file a complaint, and the two giant wolves continued to lunge at him relentlessly.
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Xiao Nanchu found the current scene somewhat familiar. It seemed he had experienced something similar not long ago with Luo Taozhi at the village entrance. Back then, he had been toyed with in a similar fashion.
Although he didn’t have a shield in his hands now, his defense was much higher, and the attack power of these projections wasn’t that great. Furthermore, Xiao Nanchu didn’t find these two giant wolves harder to fight than Luo Taozhi.
While Luo Taozhi certainly couldn’t match these two wolves in terms of speed back then, her technique and movements had completely outclassed them. Although the two wolves were fast and he could only see red afterimages, those afterimages moved in straight, direct paths.
As long as Xiao Nanchu swung toward the predicted path of the wolves, he would eventually hit them after a few attempts. The giant wolves were massive; it was impossible for them to dodge his predictions every single time.
Just like now, the Chiyan Wolf, who had slightly slower reactions between the two, was accidentally struck by Xiao Nanchu’s sword.
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Because it was a projection, Xiao Nanchu’s damage was almost perfectly manifested.
Struck by this sword strike, the Chiyan Wolf felt as though it hadn’t just been cut by a blade. Instead, it felt as if it had been violently slammed by a high-speed, flying cauldron that had exploded after a failed attempt by those Alchemy Cultivators!
An incomparable, searing pain radiated from its internal organs. It could clearly feel that this projection had almost lost its ability to fight. Although it could still move, both its power and speed were far inferior to before. It even sensed, in an almost metaphysical way, that if it were hit just one more time, this projection would instantly vanish.
The Chiyu Wolf nearby turned an internal glance of confusion toward the stalled Chiyan Wolf.
‘Even if this Qi Refining Layer 3 cultivator has a strong physical body and can pass the trial, the Elders will be unhappy if they see such an obvious slowing of speed, won’t they?’
But soon, it understood why.
The Chiyu Wolf, which was also struck by a sword, was even unluckier. It was hit in the abdomen.
-1,740!
Critical Hit!
Its projection vanished from the spot instantly.
Only the heavily injured Chiyan Wolf remained. With its speed reduced, it was quickly hit by Xiao Nanchu again, and the projection turned into motes of light, vanishing on the spot.
Seeing the two projections disappear, Xiao Nanchu successfully took a step forward and arrived in front of Li Xunxian.
Li Xunxian wasn’t surprised at all. After all, she had seen this scene before. That was why she had been so determined to wait for him. Although she didn’t know how he did it, he simply could! She had stayed behind precisely because she was curious.
“Let’s go,” Li Xunxian said, nodding to Xiao Nanchu and signaling for them to step into the Immortal Sect together.
“Oh? Weren’t you ignoring me earlier?”
Xiao Nanchu couldn’t help but tease her, although he didn’t expect this NPC to give him an answer.
“Ignoring you?” Li Xunxian blinked, then remembered how she had been sulking earlier.
She wondered when she, the dignified Sixth Princess of the Longyuan Empire, had ever been so childish.
After coughing twice, Li Xunxian explained in a somewhat stiff tone.
“I wasn’t. I was just… just conserving my energy!”
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