I'll Give You Three Moves

"Junior Sister, you're still young, and your cultivation isn't very high. Be good and go back to Azure Cloud Peak to cultivate. Perhaps in eight or ten years, you'll be able to defeat me."

Yang Ren, a disciple of Finger Moon Peak, stepped onto the arena. His opponent was Azure Cloud Peak's youngest disciple—Lian, who was only ten years old.

Defeating an opponent like her would not make him famous throughout Mount Shu. Instead, it would be a rather unfair victory.

"Hmph, don't look down on me!"

Lian planted her hands on her hips, thoroughly unconvinced.

Yang Ren said helplessly, "All right, all right. I'll give you three moves."

"Really? Then take this punch."

Lian's eyes darted around, and she waved her little fist.

"Come on."

Yang Ren paid her no mind.

How high could a ten-year-old slip of a girl's cultivation be?

Never mind giving her three moves. What if he gave her thirty?

Since Lu Changsheng of Azure Cloud Peak and Zhao Wuyan of Finger Moon Peak were both Mount Shu elders at the Dao Palace Realm, the duel between their disciples drew the attention of many Mount Shu elders.

"Junior Brother Lu, you're being reckless."

Zhao Wuyan, the elder of Finger Moon Peak, also felt that this sparring match was rather unfair.

"Is that so?"

Lu Changsheng still looked perfectly calm and composed.

Zhao Wuyan of Finger Moon Peak was a fifth-layer Dao Palace Realm elder who had made a name for himself long ago. His disciple was a genius who had reached the first layer of the Golden Core Realm after eight years of cultivation. It was no surprise that he would give a little girl three moves.

"Disciple, you may use the cultivation of the first layer of the Golden Core Realm."

Lu Changsheng sent Lian a voice transmission.

Before the Disciple Conference, Lu Changsheng had told his two disciples that using the strength of the seventh or eighth layer of the Qi Condensation Realm would be enough. But since her opponent was a Mount Shu disciple at the Golden Core Realm, surely it wasn't excessive for his disciple to use cultivation at the same level?

"Understood, Master!"

Lian had originally been restricted by an entire major realm. Now that Lu Changsheng had allowed her to loosen that restriction somewhat, she grew even more excited.

"Hah!"

Lian gave a soft shout and lunged forward. The next moment, she was already in front of Yang Ren, her little fist smashing out with Gang Qi in a blow that could shatter stone and shake the heavens!

Yang Ren felt the wind from her fist and immediately realized something was wrong, but it was already too late.

The next moment, Lian's little fist slammed into Yang Ren's chest.

Boom!

That punch contained the strength of a hundred elephants!

Yang Ren felt as though he had been struck by tens of thousands of wild elephants. Before he could even circulate the Spiritual Qi in his body, Lian sent him flying with one punch!

Bang!

Hundreds of meters away, Yang Ren fell like a kite with its string cut.

Pfft!

Yang Ren spat out a great mouthful of blood, barely clinging to life.

A deathly silence fell over everyone present, Mount Shu disciples and elders alike.

A genius disciple at the Golden Core Realm had been seriously injured by a single punch from a little girl of about ten?!

The world had gone mad!

Elder Zhao of Finger Moon Peak swept his sleeve and appeared beside his disciple Yang Ren in an instant. He fed him a healing pill, then used his Divine Sense to examine the injuries throughout his body. Only after finding that his life was not in danger did he breathe a sigh of relief.

But nearly all of Yang Ren's ribs were broken. Zhao Wuyan would need to use his cultivation to treat his injuries, and it would probably take quite some time for him to recover. Even Zhao Wuyan, at the fifth layer of the Dao Palace Realm, was shocked.

One punch. With just one punch, his genius disciple had been beaten into this state by a slip of a girl of unknown origin.

Zhao Wuyan did not blame his disciple. Instead, he was astonished by how monstrous the girl was. "Junior Brother Lu, it isn't that I, Zhao Wuyan, taught my disciple poorly. It's that this disciple of yours is truly monstrous."

"Yes, yes."

"Elder Zhao took a Qi Condensation Realm disciple and taught him to reach the Golden Core Realm in eight years. That's already remarkable. It's simply that Elder Lu's disciple has far too monstrous a talent. At such a young age, she injured a Golden Core Realm disciple with one punch. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Talent like that is simply unparalleled under heaven."

"Congratulations, Elder Lu, on having such a fine disciple."

The other Mount Shu elders chimed in.

That way, they gave Elder Zhao face while also praising Elder Lu's disciple.

"Is this the little girl from the Wilderness Tribe whom the Demon Race was hunting?"

"She must have other secrets."

"No wonder you Mount Shu people are sheltering her. Her future achievements will be limitless."

The elders of the other five great orthodox sects spoke with Li Changye through secret voice transmissions.

"This girl's physique is exceptionally suited to the martial Dao. Our Martial Dao Alliance possesses numerous body-tempering methods, so she should join us. The master of our Martial Dao Alliance would be delighted to take her as a disciple!"

Elder Ye of the Martial Dao Alliance was thrilled to see Lian, who possessed the Martial King Divine Physique.

The Martial Dao Alliance proved the Dao through martial arts and tempered their bodies, making it unquestionably the best fit for an overbearing special physique like the Martial King Divine Physique.

"This girl has already entered Mount Shu and is our disciple. Your Martial Dao Alliance can forget about it. Unless one day your alliance master can defeat our Mount Shu sect master."

Li Changye stood up for his own and refused to yield an inch.

Elder Ye had heard of the formidable reputation of Mount Shu's sect master, Taiyuan True Person, and could not help shivering.

The master of the Martial Dao Alliance possessed an extremely domineering special physique and could blow apart a mountain with one punch, but he had still lost to Mount Shu's Taiyuan True Person at a previous Six Paths Assembly.

Every generation of Mount Shu's sect masters produced outstanding figures, and talents emerged one after another. That was why Mount Shu stood first among Xia Province's Six Great Orthodox Sects.

Lian had entered Mount Shu and become its disciple. Poaching her from Mount Shu would be far too difficult.

Although this girl has a special physique and cultivates a thousand miles a day, when I saw her three years ago, she was only at the fifth layer of the Qi Condensation Realm. In just three years, she has gained the strength of the Golden Core Realm. Her rapid cultivation should also have something to do with her master, Lu Changsheng.

Xia Ningxue of the Ask Immortal Pavilion pondered to herself and found the crux of the matter.

No matter how monstrous Lian was, forming a Golden Core in three years was an inconceivable speed.

As Xia Ningxue recalled, she herself was the only one who had cultivated that quickly. After all, she had reached the Dao Palace Realm at twenty...

Xia Ningxue looked at Lu Changsheng. His cultivation was strangely indistinct, making it difficult to discern.

"Master, how did Lian do? Lian didn't kill him, you know."

Lian returned to Lu Changsheng's side, hooked her arm around his, and asked him for praise.

The Mount Shu elders and disciples around them all looked at Lian as though she were a monster.

She was absolutely the most monstrous of Mount Shu's new generation of disciples!

Even Xiao Xiangdao, Eldest Senior Brother's disciple and the possessor of a Spirit Sword Body, seemed to pale somewhat in comparison to Lian.

According to Mount Shu's Record of Special Physiques Through the Ages, the Spirit Sword Body had appeared ten times over the past several hundred thousand years, while Lian's Martial King Divine Physique had been recorded only once, and that had been in Desolate Province.

"You did very well."

Lu Changsheng offered her a brief word of praise.

His youngest disciple had only used the strength of the first layer of the Golden Core Realm. Her performance had been so shocking because Yang Ren of Finger Moon Peak had underestimated her so badly that he had dared to take a punch from the Martial King Divine Physique without even defending himself.

If Lian had used the strength of the seventh layer of the Golden Core Realm, Yang Ren might well have been killed by that one punch, beyond even a Great Luo Golden Immortal's power to save.

"Who's my next opponent?"

Lian excitedly waved her little fists, looking very cute.

The Mount Shu disciples, however, panicked and hurried to check their numbers.

"It's me..."

The Mount Shu disciple with number 140, who had defeated number 139, turned pale.

His next opponent was Lian, number 137.