Chapter 201

Chapter 201: Is the Carefree Saintess Such a Wild One?

The Yuanwu Bell tolled, and the Immortal Gate opened.

The once-every-sixty-years Jiazi Grand Competition finally kicked off.

This was a golden opportunity for countless sects in the Northern Region to change their destiny.

Any martial cultivator under the age of sixty could participate.

However, the top ten super sects of the Northern Region could only send a maximum of eleven representatives each.

This regulation wasn’t set by the Immortal Path will within the Yuanwu Immortal Domain, but by the top ten sects themselves.

After all, the Jiazi Competition not only determined victory or defeat but could also mean life or death.

Years ago, a horrific incident during one such competition led to widespread devastation.

All the young disciples from the top ten sects eagerly participated, including outer disciples and even errand boys, as long as they were under sixty years of age.

Then, blood flowed like rivers as they fought fiercely for the coveted top spot, unwilling to back down.

Once the competition began, even the Martial Saints had no authority to halt it.

The sect leaders could only watch helplessly as their young disciples were slain or injured.

After that catastrophic event, even the first sect, the Fuyiao Sword Sect, suffered severe losses, with countless young inheritors killed.

The other nine sects fared even worse.

The most unfortunate was the Shifang Qimen.

At that time, they had just overtaken the Qingyun Sect to become the tenth sect in the Northern Region.

In that competition, all their young disciples perished, leading to a complete generational gap.

For the Shifang Qimen, it was as if the sky had fallen.

It’s no easy feat to cultivate a rising star.

After losing their younger generation, the Shifang Qimen suffered greatly and took hundreds of years to recover.

With so many young disciples dying, the entire Northern Region’s cultivation world fell into a hundred-year slump.

Thus, from then on, the top ten sects reached a consensus that each could only send eleven disciples to the Jiazi Competition.

This was to prevent a repeat of that tragic incident.

As for other sects, they could send as many as they liked.

In the eyes of the top ten sects, those other sects posed little threat.

No matter how many young disciples they sent, they would merely serve as cannon fodder.

However, Xiao Yang didn’t expect the Supreme Dao Sect to be so domineering that they’d start clearing the path on the road to ascension.

A disciple from the Supreme Dao Sect actually tried to break through the Carefree Palace’s formation alone, forcing them to come down from the mountain.

The sixty-year Jiazi Competition wasn’t something the Carefree Palace could just walk away from!

Hua Mengli stepped forward.

“Carefree Saintess, don’t humiliate yourself! You don’t want to cause a scene!”

The Supreme Dao disciple looked at Hua Mengli with a condescending grin.

“You…”

Hua Mengli was genuinely infuriated.

Earlier, she had been ambushed by a masked person and had to engage in close combat.

Who would’ve thought that she would be caught up in rumors of being knocked up the next day thanks to that scoundrel, Tian Xiaoguang?

Damn that Tian Xiaoguang.

This guy had pursued her relentlessly, but after she taught him a lesson, he vanished!

Now he had joined the Heguan Sect.

That guy, unsatisfied with his rejection, spread rumors to tarnish her name.

What a despicable act.

If she ever ran into that scummy Tian Xiaoguang again, she’d definitely castrate him.

Xiao Yang, watching the scene unfold, felt speechless.

In this life and the last, he was still a virgin.

He was just an innocent bystander here.

“Kill!”

Hua Mengli stopped wasting words and directly charged at the Supreme Dao disciple.

“Haha, let me, Feng Bufan, test the techniques of the Carefree Palace today!”

The disciple from the Supreme Dao Sect laughed and unleashed his sword.

A brilliant and fierce sword light surged from him, aiming straight at the attacking Hua Mengli.

Chilly sword qi spread out, making the air feel like it was being sliced apart.

“Turning Heaven Hand!”

Hua Mengli immediately used the Carefree Palace’s secret move.

With her delicate hand flipped up, a torrent of palm force surged like a mighty wave, sending the incoming flying sword crashing aside.

Her hand then flipped downwards.

“Boom!”

The palm force instantly transformed into a massive hand, pressing down towards Feng Bufan, the Supreme Dao disciple.

With a single flip of her hand, she broke Feng Bufan’s flying sword.

Xiao Yang was taken aback by this scene. Hua Mengli had actually been hiding her strength during her earlier fight with the masked guy?

This move was truly impressive.

Feng Bufan’s expression changed.

“Supreme Divine Fist!”

Feng Bufan didn’t dare be careless; he struck out a punch toward the crashing hand.

“Boom!”

With a thunderous bang, the two forces collided instantly.

Raging energy erupted outward, shocking everyone nearby.

By now, several onlookers had climbed up from the foot of the mountain.

They were all astonished by this scene.

No one expected that the Carefree Palace and the Supreme Dao Sect would clash before even entering the Yuanwu Immortal Domain.

Feng Bufan stood firm, while Hua Mengli was pushed back a few steps.

In the next moment, sword light flashed.

Feng Bufan’s flying sword was like a bolt of cold lightning, piercing straight toward Hua Mengli.

“What…?”

Hua Mengli was genuinely shocked.

She couldn’t believe how fast the opponent’s sword was.

As she tried to dodge, it was already too late.

Just as the sword was about to pierce her left shoulder, a hand suddenly reached out from the side and caught the incoming flying sword.

“…”

Everyone was stunned by this sight.

Someone actually caught a flying sword!

That was a flying sword, after all!

The sword’s gleam was capable of piercing stone and gold, cutting iron like mud.

This person dared to grab a flying sword with their bare hand!

Did they cultivate the Tianxing Hand from the Fuyiao Sword Sect?

The Tianxing Hand was known as the nemesis of flying swords.

Li Xingyao had once used it to crush Qin Fei’s flying sword to pieces at Qingyang Mountain.

Could this guy be a disciple of the Fuyiao Sword Sect?

“Xiao Yang…”

Hua Mengli couldn’t believe the one who saved her was Xiao Yang.

The Sect Holy Son of the Qingyang Sword Sect.

She had no real connection with Xiao Yang!

In fact, she knew Xiao Yang.

At Nine Heavens City, she had disguised herself as a boy, going by the name Hua Xiaofeng.

Though they had met before, in that situation, Xiao Yang should not have recognized her identity.

Thus, Hua Mengli was quite surprised that Xiao Yang would come to her rescue.

“Kid, trying to be a hero and save the beauty?”

Feng Bufan secretly tried to pull back the flying sword that Xiao Yang had caught.

The Supreme Sword Formula of the Supreme Dao Sect was also a top-tier technique in the Northern Region.

However, Feng Bufan’s flying sword writhed in Xiao Yang’s grip like a spirit snake, unable to escape.

Xiao Yang chuckled and exerted his strength with his right hand.

“Crack!”

The terrifying sword light shattered on the spot.

A flying sword was crushed like that.

“No way…”