Who Let Him Cultivate?!

“Mid-stage Golden Core… this realm sure brings back memories,” said Luo Hongxia with a smile. In her youth, she was also unmatched among geniuses of her level who dared not even fight her.

Now, with the experience from the Unification Stage, she returned to the mid-stage Golden Core realm. Who could be her match!

“Begin!”

Luo Hongxia threw out a seed and cast the “Tree-Planting Sutra.” The seed sprouted, growing into a tall laurel tree that swayed vibrantly with life!

This laurel tree could provide her with a continuous source of power.

“Suspend the bright moon!”

Luo Hongxia raised her hand, and a bright moon hung high in the sky. The moonlight spilled onto the earth, turning into spears of light that shot towards Fairy Eternity.

Each spear of light was incredibly powerful. An ordinary mid-stage Golden Core cultivator would be severely injured and lose their combat capability if hit even once.

Fairy Eternity nimbly dodged the attacks, her movements light and graceful like a cat. With a slight shake of her body, she easily evaded the moonlight attacks.

She had developed this “Qilin Step” inspired by the nimble movements of the Qilin Immortal during their previous battle. She admired how his agile moves allowed him to narrowly evade attacks, something that greatly outshone Ying Tian’s abilities.

Seeing that she couldn’t hit Fairy Eternity, Luo Hongxia formed hand seals and changed her tactics. The spears of light rained down like a downpour, endless and unceasing.

Against the inevitable attack, Fairy Eternity stomped her foot, and the earth beneath her rippled like a wave. Layer upon layer, it turned into a tsunami of dirt that roared towards Luo Hongxia, threatening to engulf her before the light spears could reach.

She pointed her finger lightly at the ground, and the earth instantly became incredibly solid and unmoving, blocking the rain of light spears.

“Point Ground Into Steel?!” cried out Luo Hongxia in surprise; she hadn’t anticipated Lu Yang using this technique.

She sneered, “So what if you can use the ancient magic skill.”

“Moon Fall onto Earth!” The moon above rumbled as it fell, crashing towards Fairy Eternity and collided with the unyielding earth, stirring up layers of dust!

When the dust settled and cleared, Luo Hongxia searched for Lu Yang’s figure but found nothing.

“No, he’s underground!” With her extensive battle experience, Luo Hongxia was all too familiar with this move from her younger days when Qiu Jin’an would often use it to ambush her. Practice makes perfect, and she could react in the shortest possible time.

What Fairy Eternity is using is a legitimate Earth Escape Technique, which isn’t much different from Lu Yang’s “Shrinking-the-Earth” method.

Luo Hongxia abruptly leapt into the air, hence having a chance to dodge, no matter from which direction Lu Yang would launch a surprise attack.

“Hang the bright moon.”

A full moon hung in the sky once again. As long as Lu Yang dared to show his head, he would be attacked by the moonlight again!

Bang.

Fairy Eternity drilled out from the ground, not intending to attack Luo Hongxia, but rather the laurel tree she had planted at the start of the battle.

The magic power needed for Luo Hongxia’s attacks couldn’t be maintained by someone at the mid-stage of the Golden Core, even Lu Yang was just barely capable. So, the answer was obvious. The laurel tree was providing Luo Hongxia with a continuous supply of power.

This was in fact a battle technique commonly used by the Laurel Fairy Palace. Only students at the Nascent Soul stage could master it skillfully. Lan Ting wasn’t able to use it. Relying on her abundant experience, Luo Hongxia managed to display it at the Golden Core stage.

Luo Hongxia was initially taken aback. She hadn’t expected the opponent to have such a strong consciousness, and to pinpoint her weakness so quickly. But she soon calmed down.

The laurel tree had no offensive power. It had only two characteristics: one was providing spiritual essence to the caster, and the other was its absolutely formidable defense power!

Even with Lu Yang mastering several strong offensive magic skills, it was simply impossible to break the defense of the laurel tree in a short time!

“It’s quite tough.” Fairy Eternity casually punched the laurel tree. The tree just shook a bit, without shedding even a leaf.

“Looks like I’ll have to use some means… Hundred Grass Withering Fist!”

In order to practice the fairy’s boxing technique, she had learned thousands of herb boxing techniques. Out of these herb boxing techniques, she realized a side technique specifically countering herbal creatures. Once used, all plants would wither, no grass could grow, thus it was called Hundred Grass Withering Fist.

The laurel tree took a punch, its leaves turned yellow, and the branches withered. In the blink of an eye, it was dead!

Puff—

Luo Hongxia suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, her face turned deathly pale. It was the backlash from the laurel tree.

She did not expect her opponent’s punch to kill the laurel tree instantly. What kind of fist technique was this!?

So what? Even without the laurel tree, was she going to lose to a junior?

Luo Hongxia swooped down from the high air. Fairy Eternity uprooted the laurel tree and swung it at Luo Hongxia, leaving her dazed.

…

In the palace, a group of influential figures from the Righteous Path were gathered around the treasure box, chattering away.

“Who do you think will win?”

Those outside couldn’t see what was happening inside the treasure box, so they could only guess.

“I’d bet on Hongxia. She’s experienced in battle and not like those at the Unification stage who had to start over after disbanding cultivation. Lu Yang is just a youngster, how can he fight?” Yang Ding guessed, stroking his chin.

“I think so too.” Emperor Xia agreed.

“Lu Yang also has a chance to win.” Qiu Jin’an didn’t dare to be too absolute with his words. After all, Lu Yang was the little junior brother trained by Yun Zhi. One couldn’t be sure what kind of magic skill he would show.

“Look, the treasure box is glowing! We’re about to see who the victor is!”

Boom—

Luo Hongxia flew out of the treasure box in a backward posture, seeing stars, her mouth full of leaves.