Second Round

When the duel ended, aside from Wen Wanxi, the other three became much warmer toward Li Xunting, and at the same time, their curiosity about her grew.

From what they knew of Wen Wanxi, if Wen Wanxi truly did not know where the Li Family Li Xunting came from was, then she truly did not know.

They did not know much about Li Xunting either.

So other thoughts arose in their hearts.

Could Li Xunting have lied? Perhaps she did not come from some Li Family...

They had no way to verify such thoughts, nor would they ask them aloud.

In the idle chatter that followed, they began mentioning Li Xunting more often. Li Xunting remained the same as before: she would speak, but not much, usually giving very brief replies, and her tone was still that icy.

After the first duel ended, what Li Xunting thought about most was what kind of Nascent Soul Late Stage or Peak Nascent Soul opponent Snow Moon Sect would arrange for her next.

On the seventeenth day, the third match was Yue Zhijian's duel.

His strength was still fairly good, but after a bitter fight to the end against a Nascent Soul Late Stage steward of Snow Moon Sect, he still lost and had no chance at a second duel.

Then came the nineteenth day.

The first five battles that day were all duels between Peak Nascent Soul cultivators, while the latter five marked the start of the second round. The cultivators who could step onto the duel platform were all people who had defeated a Snow Moon Sect Nascent Soul steward.

Excluding Peak Nascent Soul, Nascent Soul Late Stage was the realm where participants had the lowest win rate against Snow Moon Sect stewards. But when Peak Nascent Soul was singled out,