Fighting Spirit

"Ru Dian of the Dragon Elephant Palace greets you, fellow Daoist."

Ru Dian, who looked like a young girl, pressed her palms together in greeting. She was of average height and slenderly built, barefoot in a pair of multi-loop hemp shoes without socks, her dainty toes faintly visible.

Ru Dian's skin was like ivory—fair, but not snow-white, with a warm and natural luster that made her whole person seem exceptionally sunny. Especially those pair of crescent-shaped eyes, which seemed always to carry a trace of laughter, making her utterly adorable.

When Gao Xian saw Ru Dian's curved, bright eyes, he could not help thinking of Zhou Yuling. When Yuling smiled, her eyes curved like crescent moons as well. The difference was that Yuling's eyes always carried a touch of coquettish charm, while Ru Dian's were purer.

Zhi Cheng also had the air of a young girl, but she carried a bit of simple-mindedness about her. Though Ru Dian was lively, hers was the purity of one washed clean of worldly dust. It appeared similar to Zhi Cheng's innocence of worldly affairs, but at its root, it was entirely different.

Most importantly, Ru Dian's body-refining cultivation was extraordinarily, extraordinarily powerful. Within that seemingly delicate, slender body lay some unknown and terrifying force.

Gao Xian had encountered quite a few experts on his journey, but this was the first time he had seen such a superb body-refining art. It was no weaker than his own—perhaps even stronger.

This left him rather astonished. His Five Qi Wheel had the enhancement of the Wind and Moon Mirror and was incomparably compatible with his Yin-Yang Five Elements Primordial Unity Canon.

At this realm, he had thought that among Nascent Soul cultivators, he could crush every body-refining cultivator. Yet the moment he arrived at the Daluo