Young Spirits, the Student Surpasses the Master

On the tenth day of classes at the Hongmeng Grand Lecture Hall, the special training camp in the windbreak forest of the Northern Territory welcomed an unprecedented rookie challenge tournament. Personally proposed by Shen Hao, this tournament was meant to test the young cultivators' results in combining two inheritances, while also selecting fresh talent for the Hongmeng Guardian Alliance.

A massive arena had been erected in the open grounds of the training camp. Cultivators from every race filled the seats around it. Shen Hao and Zi Xuan stood on a raised platform beside the arena, their eyes fixed on the young cultivators below.

The first match pitted Qing Mu, a youth of the Wood Spirit Race, against Shi Xin, a young woman of the Rock Spirit Race.

Qing Mu wore a long green robe, with faint Vitality Power swirling around him. He gripped a wooden staff made from Thousand-Year Spirit Wood, its surface covered in Starlight Runes. This was the result of his fusion of the Life Array Formation and Starlight Runes, allowing him to transform Vitality Power into Starlight Wood Blades of boundless might.

Shi Xin wore golden armor that gleamed with the radiance of metal and stone. In her hand was a longsword forged from metal and stone from Black Stone Mountain in the Western Regions, its blade inscribed with the runes of the Metal-Stone Treasure Refining Art. This was the result of her fusion of the Metal-Stone Treasure Refining Art and Starlight Power, allowing her to turn Metal and Stone Power into incomparably sharp Starlight Sword Light.

"Begin!" At the Referee's command, Qing Mu struck first. With a light sweep of his wooden staff, he sent a green Starlight Wood Blade shooting toward Shi Xin. Rich Vitality Power filled the blade, and wherever it passed, the grass