On the distant stone pir, Qinghe rose to his feet, then sped his hands. “I lost. I whole-heartedly acknowledge my defeat.”


    Ji Ning rose as well, also sping his hands, and then he swept the entire pce with his gaze, looking towards each of his fellow disciples. In a clear voice, he said, “Are there any other fellow disciples who wish to exchange pointers with me?”


    His voice echoed within the entire pce.


    “s.” Qinghe shook his head, then leapt three hundred meters andnded next to the white-haired elder. He took out two jade bottles, then ced them in front of the elder. This was the wager he had lost. Turning his head, he left.


    For a period of time, the Dao Debate Pce was silent. Nobody took up the challenge.


    “Even junior apprentice-brother Qinghe lost.”


    “The Dao Debates are apetition of one’sprehension of the Dao, as well as one’s skills. It doesn’t have much to do with one’s elemental ki. Even many of the Wanxiang Adepts amongst us are only on par with junior apprentice-brother Qinghe.”


    “I imagine that only those who haveprehended multiple Dao Domains are capable of defeating junior apprentice-brother Ji Ning.”


    Of course there were people who could defeat Ning! In addition, there were quite a few. For example, those three reincarnated Immortals who were at the Wanxiang Adept level. Anyone who hadprehended aplete Dao Path could effortless crush Ning. There were also a pile of disciples who hadprehended multiple Dao Domains. But which one of them would stand out?


    “Which of my senior fellow disciples wishes to provide me with some guidance?” Ning stood there atop the stone pir, speaking in a clear voice. “If no one elsees, then I shall retire.”


    In this moment, Ning felt filled with a heroic aura. How joyous. He faced a group of supreme geniuses, and he, a newly recruited disciple, was challenging them. This really was a wonderful feeling.


    “Since my other fellow disciples aren’t going to participate, then I’ll embarrass myself by volunteering.” A clear, cold voice rang out and a white-robed, white-haired youth strode forward. With a single step, he transformed into a streak of light which entered the side room. Soon, he returned with a golem by his side.


    “That’s senior apprentice-brother Bloodshadow!”


    “Senior apprentice-brother Bloodshadow is skilled as a Fiendgod Body Refiner and at closebat; he isn’t skilled in a golem-based Dao Debate!”


    “I heard that senior apprentice-brother Bloodshadow is already a two-wed Raindragon Guard. In a real battle, he probably isn’t one whit inferior to an ordinary Primal Daoist. But senior apprentice-brother Bloodshadow’s power primarily stems from his various divine abilities, his Bloodforged weapons, as well as his Fiendgod Body Refining Technique, the [Indestructible Bloodshadow Body]! In terms of controlling golems, though, he’s a bit weaker.”


    As the white-robed, white-haired youth appeared, a buzz of conversation swept the entire pce. Ning’s ears twitched. He couldn’t help but feel secretly surprised. What a tremendous background this senior apprentice-brother Bloodshadow had. The Rites of Bloodforging...although the likes of the Ji n had never heard of it, the ck-White College had. Only, one needed five hundred ck-white pellets to trade for the technique.


    “And he’s actually a two-wed Raindragon Guard as well!” Ning was privately shocked. After entering the Raindragon Guard, one would be an ordinary one-wed Raindragon Guard, and the ck-White College would reward you with a thousand ck-white pellets. If you became a two-wed Raindragon Guard, you would be rewarded with five thousand ck-white pellets. Upon bing a three-wed Raindragon Guard, the reward would be increased to fifteen thousand ck-white pellets...


    However, it was very difficult to be a two-wed Raindragon Guard. Generally speaking, only someone at the Primal Daoist level of power could be one. Only a very few, exceptionally monstrous Wanxiang Adepts were able to reach that level. As for that so-called ‘genius’ of Snowdragon Mountain, Xue Hongyi, byparison, he was far inferior to this senior apprentice-brother Bloodshadow.


    “Swoosh!” The white-haired, white-robed Bloodshadow’s body flickered, and he appeared on the opposite stone pir. “Junior apprentice-brother Ji Ning.” Bloodshadow stared towards Ning. “I’m more used to engaging in closebat. I’m not that skilled in controlling magic treasures to attack. However, I’m still a bit stronger than junior apprentice-brother Qinghe. You must be careful.”


    “I await your instructions, senior apprentice-brother,” Ning said solemnly.


    This was no joke. A freak capable of bing a two-wed Raindragon Guard, even one who was primarily a Fiendgod Body Refiner, definitely wouldn’t be weak when controlling magic treasures. Fortunately, he would be doing so through the golems...and so his divine body and divine abilities would be of no use. Otherwise, there would be no need topete at all. Ning would simply admit defeat.


    “Begin!” The white-haired elder called out in a high voice. Rumble...the grand sealing barrier once more covered the entire arena.


    Ning sat down in the lotus position. Bloodshadow did the same. “Junior apprentice-brother, be careful!” Bloodshadow called out in a cold voice. Instantly, the strange flying swords on the back of the Nineswords Golem began to fly out. Nine of the queer flying swords flew through the air, beginning to emit a dense, bloody light. The flying swords were all connected by the bloody light, and they quickly formed into an enormous...


    Something. It had enormous cicada wings, a head with three horns, a mouth that was as long and sharp as a de, and a savage, shing gaze. In fact, the killing auraing from this creature was even more terrifying than that of the Direwolf which Bloodeater dask had summoned.


    “Mosquito?” Ning, staring the beast that had appeared, couldn’t help but feel astonished. This was a titanic mosquito.


    Swoosh! That sinister-looking, baleful giant mosquito of blood suddenly charged forward, howling through the air, its de-mouth formed from one of the flying swords. The power and invisible pressure from this creature caused Ning’s heart to clench.


    “[Neo-Tripartite Lotus Sword]!” Ning didn’t hesitate at all, immediately executing his most powerful sword art. Instantly, three flying swords flew out from the back of his Thousandswords Golem. They soon formed an enormous, blooming lotus flower of sword light which stabbed directly towards that baleful, heaven-defying mosquito of blood.


    “Bang!” The two attacks were both as fast as lightning, and they instantly crisscrossed in the sky. The blooming lotus flower’s sword-light trembled, beginning to grow unstable.


    “It’s going to copse.”


    “Although senior apprentice-brother Bloodshadow is not skilled in using flying swords, it isn’t too hard for him to suppress a young, newly recruited disciple.”


    “He’s won.”


    Quite a few fellow apprentices nodded musingly to themselves. As for Northson, he clenched his fists nervously as he watched, his heart filled with worry. It was as though he himself wanted to personally charge up. “You must win. You must win.”


    “Not good.” As soon as he began fighting, Ning began to sense how terrifying the prative power of the blood mosquito’s de-mouth was. “Bang!” The blood mosquito moved as fast as a shadow, quickly smashing yet again against the lotus flower. Instantly, the blooming lotus flower crumbled, and the three flying swords were scattered to one side.


    However, Ning had expected this long ago. He had already prepared six more flying swords, which shot out from the back of the Thousandswords Golem.


    “Go, go, go.” A savage look was in Ning’s eyes. Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Every three flying swords formed a blooming lotus of sword-light, and even the three original scattered swords once more reformed into a giant lotus of sword-light. All of a sudden, the air was filled with three enormous shes of sword light, each of which bloomed into giant loti. They flew out in a straight row, simultaneously striking towards the blood mosquito. Meanwhile, Ning’s eyes were filled with savagery as he controlled them in attacking.


    “What!”


    “He’s actually able to simultaneously unleash three of those [Tripartite Lotus Swords]?”


    “How can this be?”


    The spectating disciples were all speechless. Using top-tier sword arts was tremendously taxing on one’s mental faculties. For something like the [Tripartite Lotus Sword]...most would be able to unleash just a single one at most. To unleash three at the same time was rather ridiculous.


    .....


    At the corner of the Dao Debate Pce. Immortal Diancai nodded gently.


    “He simultaneously executed multiple sword arts.” The nearby short elder shook his head repeatedly. “There’s only two possibilities. The first is that his currentprehension of the Dao is far beyond the level of this sword art, and so it is simplicity itself for him to use it; only then can one simultaneously use multiple sword arts. The second is that his soul is iparably powerful, and so he can easily withstand the pressure this sword art creates, allowing him to use it multiple times simultaneously.”


    Either one had a high level of insight, or one had an extremely powerful soul.


    “Your disciple’s soul...is at the divine sense level?” The short elder looked towards Immortal Diancai, who nodded. “Right.”


    “As I thought,” the short elder said softly. “If he has a ‘divine soul’ at the divine sense level...I imagine he can execute two or three more sword-lights. This battle...your disciple is probably going to win.”


    .......


    The giant blood mosquito blurred, then transformed into three smaller blood mosquitoes, simultaneously defending against the three [Tripartite Lotus Swords].


    Boom! Boom! Boom! There, in midair, the three [Tripartite Lotus Swords] battled against the three smaller blood mosquitoes. Everything was a blur as they shed and battled against each other repeatedly. Each side wanted to break through the protective armor of the other’s golem, but they also wanted to block the enemy attacks...for now, they were battling to a standstill.


    “Go, go!” Ning’s eyes were bloodshot, and the veins on his forehead were protruding. Clearly, he was now going all out. Instantly, six more flying swords flew out from the back of the Thousandswords Golem. The sky was soon filled with two more [Tripartite Lotus Sword] attacks. A total of five [Tripartite Lotus Swords] were surrounding and attacking the blood mosquitoes.


    “Eh?” Seated in the distance, Bloodshadow’s face changed. He immediately willed the three blood mosquitoes to once more transform into a giant blood mosquito. The cicada-like wings of the giant blood mosquito fluttered, wrapping around that Nineswords Golem while the de-beak struck repeatedly against those [Tripartite Lotus Swords].


    The five [Neo-Tripartite Lotus Swords] attacked wildly in unison.


    “Five!”


    “Five [Tripartite Lotus Swords]?”


    The spectating disciples were all rather stunned. They knew exactly how much stress would be ced on the soul when one executed five powerful sword arts simultaneously. To an ordinary person, dividing their mind to carry out just two tasks simultaneously was already very difficult. Dividing one’s mind to execute multiple supreme sword arts...and five in total, at that!


    “Junior apprentice-brother Ji Ning’sprehension must be at a very high level, or his soul must be very strong.”


    “He cannot be underestimated.”


    “It seems as though senior apprentice-brother Bloodshadow is about to suffer from it.”


    .......


    If one remains perpetually on the defense, one will eventually lose. Under the repeated strikes of Ning’s five [Neo-Tripartite Lotus Swords], in the end, the blood mosquito wasn’t able to block an attack, and the protective armor of the golem was breached.


    “Ji Ning wins!” The white-haired elder called out in high voice. Only now did Ning finally rx.


    He had won.


    He had actually defeated a two-wed Raindragon Guard! Although this Raindragon Guard was more skilled as a Fiendgod Body Refiner and in using divine abilities, and although this was just apetition of the arts one could use based on theirprehension of the Dao...the fact that he had defeated a two-wed Raindragon Guard still filled Ning’s heart with iparable joy.


    “I lost.” Seated atop the distant stone pir, Bloodshadow rose to his feet. Shaking his head, heughed. “Junior apprentice-brother, you are already so impressive after entering our school. In the future, you will definitely not be any weaker than me.”


    “Senior apprentice-brother, you praise me too much.” Ning rose as well. “If we were in a real life-and-death battle, I probably wouldn’t have been able to withstand a single blow from you.”


    Bloodshadowughed. This junior apprentice-brother of his was incredibly talented, and yet clear-minded and modest. He hadn’t turned smug from his victory in the Dao Debate. Most likely, in the future, this youth would have astonishing aplishments. He was worth befriending.


    “Haha...” Bloodshadowughed, then with a flicker, disappeared from the arena, reappearing before the white-haired elder, who he gave two jade bottles to.


    Ning took a deep breath. He had gone all out in his earlier battle against Bloodshadow. The sword art he had used was the strongest one avable to him, and by relying on the power of his soul, he had gone all out to generate five of those [Tripartite Lotus Swords]! This was his limit. He had nothing further up his sleeve...and would probably lose the next match.


    However, if he was going to fight, he was going to fight to the bitter end.


    “Are there any other senior fellow disciples who would like to exchange pointers with me?” Ning looked about the room and spoke in a clear voice. His voice echoed in every corner of the pce.