No One Dared to Challenge (Fourth Update! Please Subscribe!)

After all, they had heard about Pei Ling winning the Outer Sect Grand Competition, but back then, this junior brother hadn't even reached Foundation Establishment. How much time had passed? He was already a True Inheritor?

Jin Sutai, in particular, looked dazed.

Just a few days ago, for the sake of her younger cousin, Jin Sumian, she had been planning to challenge Pei Ling to a life-and-death duel. Yet in the blink of an eye, this Pulse Master—considered the least experienced and weakest in cultivation among the Inner Sect's Thirteen Meridians—had already formed a golden core and passed the sect's True Inheritor trial. He had become a True Inheritor?

For a time, Jin Sutai's feelings were impossibly complicated.

On top of that, she was deeply worried. A few days ago, Pei Ling forcibly took Sumian back to the Jiansang lineage, and there's been no news since. Every time I send her a message, Sumian says she's doing fine and tells me not to disturb her... But...

But who knew whether, now that he had officially become a True Inheritor, Pei Ling would stop hiding his preferences?

She took her seat, her heart full of apprehension.

By now, nearly everyone who was supposed to attend had arrived.

For some reason, though, Zhou Miaoli still hadn't appeared.

A short while later, a chill swept in from the doorway.

A dozen or so Specter maidservants entered at a measured pace, surrounding a woman dressed in black as night, her beauty beyond compare.

The Saintess, Li Lieyue, had arrived!

Li Lieyue had restrained her aura, but the powerful presence still faintly radiating from her was enough to silence the murmuring in the hall.

Although she had long been absorbed in cultivation and rarely appeared in public, so most disciples weren't familiar with her, her