Chapter 454
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“What’s wrong?” Wang Xueqi asked anxiously.
“I… have condensed my Yuanfu!” Qing Shiyu said with delight. “The first Yuanfu has taken shape within me!”
As she spoke, she clenched her fists, and a torrent of spiritual energy surged out from within her. An ominous aura spread around her, and faintly, a spiritual vortex appeared behind her back.
A Yuanfu!
Wang Xueqi, Xiao Yuan, and Qing Chengtian were all agape.
Qing Shiyu, who had appeared severely injured and unconscious just moments ago, now jumped down from the stone mill and exclaimed joyfully, “Ye Wushuang, what’s going on?”
“The spiritual energy of the Nine-Petaled Lingqing Lotus has been entirely absorbed by you, and reaching the Yuanfu realm is only natural,” Ye Wushuang explained.
“Nine-Petaled Lingqing Lotus?” Qing Shiyu immediately said, “Did those old guys at the academy really spare no expense this time? They actually used the Nine-Petaled Lingqing Lotus as a reward?”
Hearing this, Ye Wushuang was also taken aback.
Indeed!
The Nine-Petaled Lingqing Lotus was an extremely precious item. For the academy to reward it to a disciple at the Condensation Pulse realm was incredibly generous.
After all, even those at the Heavenly Gang realm treasured it as a rare gem.
The fact that Qing Shiyu had recovered so quickly and broken through to the Yuanfu realm was a testament to its value.
“There is indeed something odd about this…” Ye Wushuang stood by the stone mill, his brow furrowing in thought.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
At that moment, a sound of breaking air came from the valley entrance, and two figures arrived together.
The two landed within the valley and, upon seeing that the seal around the stone mill had been broken and the Nine-Petaled Lingqing Lotus had lost its spiritual essence, their faces immediately darkened.
“You little brats, did you do this?” one of them, dressed in black robes and wearing a black veil, asked coldly.
“The Nine-Petaled Lingqing Lotus is extremely valuable. We’ve been waiting for it to mature, and you little brats dared to get here first!” the other one shouted in fury.
Seeing this, Ye Wushuang and the others sensed something was amiss.
Qing Shiyu whispered, “This is strange. These two… they are neither academy disciples nor adventurers from the imperial capital’s mercenary groups!”
Academy disciples had no need to hide their identities, and all the disciples who entered the trial area this time were at the Condensation Pulse realm.
Now that Qing Shiyu had reached the Yuanfu realm, she could sense a powerful pressure emanating from these two men.
They must be at the Yuanfu realm, and not just the early stage!
Moreover, if they were mercenaries or adventurers from within the empire, they wouldn’t be so secretive.
Those people were reckless and loved to make a show of their actions.
“Your fault,” one of them reproached the other. “I told you long ago that with Qingyun Academy’s assessment approaching, we should have harvested it earlier, but you didn’t listen.”
“How was I supposed to know that they would happen to designate this area?” the other one grumbled. “And the Nine-Petaled Lingqing Lotus wasn’t mature just a few days ago…”
“What do we do now?”
“What else? Kill them!”
The two men were clearly furious and glared at Ye Wushuang and the others with murderous intent.
One of them sneered, “Kill the three men and… we’ll take our frustrations out on the women.”
“Deal!”
Whoosh, whoosh…
In an instant, the two men, one in front and one behind, coordinated their attack and lunged forward.
Qing Shiyu stepped forward with her sword, but Ye Wushuang was faster, charging directly at the two men…
“Merely at the Condensation Pulse realm!”
Boom…
A deep, thunderous sound echoed. As Ye Wushuang unleashed his sword strike, the sword energy erupted, but it felt like he had collided with a massive stone wall, and his body was violently thrown back.
“Huh?”
One of the men was surprised. “This kid is at the eighth stage of the Condensation Pulse realm? Something’s not right…”
Qing Shiyu quickly moved to Ye Wushuang’s side and scolded, “Why did you charge in alone? I’m at the Yuanfu realm now too.”
Ye Wushuang took a breath, looked at Qing Shiyu, and then said, “Both of these men are at the third stage of the Yuanfu realm!”
The third stage of the Yuanfu realm!
Upon hearing this, Qing Shiyu’s face turned pale.
