Wen Qingxuan, the Fiancée

After leaving the Mission Hall, Futu Yun returned directly to his dormitory.

He sensed that Luo Li was already there, but he had not expected someone else to be present as well.

Golden battle armor outlined a slender, graceful figure, revealing a stretch of snowy-white, elegant neck, as poised as a swan.

Beneath the golden battle skirt, her straight, long jade-like legs were so dazzling that one could not look away.

"Wen Qingxuan?" Luo Li was also taken aback. They had known each other back on the Spirit Road.

The Spirit Road spanned a vast territory, yet few people had made it to the end.

Among them, Futu Yun had become the Spirit Crown Holder, while both she and Wen Qingxuan had earned "King"-class titles.

Luo Li had never been cold by nature; she simply preferred peace and quiet.

Among all the girls her age she had met over the years, Wen Qingxuan was already among the most outstanding.

And when girls as exceptional as they were met, things often headed toward one of two extremes:

Either they became hostile toward one another, or they admired each other, much like the mutual appreciation between men.

Luo Li looked toward Wen Qingxuan, who happened to turn her head as well.

Two pairs of breathtakingly beautiful eyes, possessing utterly different temperaments, met directly.

As their gazes crossed, something burning seemed to surge from the depths of Wen Qingxuan's eyes.

Luo Li paused slightly, an odd feeling rising in her heart, and unconsciously looked away.

A sweet smile rested on Wen Qingxuan's lovely face as she looked at Futu Yun beside her. "It has been a long time since we parted on the Spirit Road."

Even by Futu Yun's standards, he could not help quietly praising her in his heart.

In terms of sheer beauty and refinement, Wen Qingxuan was not inferior to Luo Li in the slightest; their temperaments were simply completely different.

Luo Li was as tranquil as a secluded lotus in a mountain valley. Looking at her slowly soothed the troubles in one's heart.

But Wen Qingxuan before him radiated nobility and pride from head to toe.

Like a phoenix soaring above the clouds, she possessed almost none of the fragility common to ordinary girls.

That close-fitting golden battle armor accentuated her tall, graceful figure, instead giving her the unique bearing of a female war goddess.

Yet the instant Wen Qingxuan's gentle words fell, a terrifying surge of spiritual energy erupted from within her.

With a clench of her jade-like hand, an incomparably magnificent golden spear appeared in her palm, its tip pointing straight at Futu Yun.

The spear was exceptionally gorgeous, as though it had been condensed from golden feathers.

A spread-winged phoenix was engraved on its tip, its wings forming an incomparably sharp arc.

Faintly, a clear phoenix cry seemed to ring out.

The sweet smile remained on Wen Qingxuan's stunning face.

Only, her phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, curving into a dangerous arc.

Futu Yun quickly judged that, though she also used a spear, this woman was even stronger than Shen Cangsheng.

She had likely already reached the Heavenly Reaching Realm.

Even in Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, someone at the Heavenly Reaching Realm was qualified to be rated at elder level.

On some weaker continents, such strength was enough to dominate an entire region and earn the title of Little Sovereign.

"Wen Qingxuan!" Seeing Wen Qingxuan attack, Luo Li finally spoke in anger.

The Luo God Sword hummed and trembled as fierce sword intent instantly swept outward.

"Don't mind her." Futu Yun raised a hand and placed it on the hilt of Luo Li's Luo God Sword, suppressing that sword intent.

"Let go." The instant Futu Yun touched Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan immediately stepped forward to stop him.

But just as she was about to touch Futu Yun, her entire body was flung away, and her head slammed heavily into the ground.

Futu Yun had been able to block Demon Dragon's Dragon Scale Sword through technique alone.

That was because his fighting skill had long since reached the grandmaster level.

In this world, hardly anyone cared about such techniques.

People placed greater importance on the depth of one's spiritual energy and one's control over it, instead overlooking pure skill of this kind.

"You?" Wen Qingxuan grabbed Futu Yun's wrist.

Unexpectedly, Futu Yun merely lifted his hand lightly, and she was flung into the air once more.

Just like before, she was smashed senseless.

"If you want to fight, go outside." Futu Yun smiled faintly, curious about what this woman had truly come for.

In the original story, was she not supposed to appear only during the Spiritual Academy Tournament?

Wen Qingxuan had originally been the Spirit Road champion, but now the identity of Spirit Crown Holder had gone to Futu Yun instead.

"Is that so?" Wen Qingxuan slightly raised her proud phoenix eyes.

Her rosy lips curled faintly, and a chilling arc suddenly appeared at the corner of her mouth.

With a flick of her jade-like hand, the golden battle spear became a streak of golden lightning, stabbing toward Futu Yun's chest with shocking speed.

"Ah." Futu Yun sighed and raised his arm. A strange ripple blocked the spearhead.

The next moment, it directly deflected the spear tip. He seized the shaft in passing, then exhaled again and sent Wen Qingxuan flying.

The push looked light, yet its force was earth-shattering.

The spear's butt pierced through her battle armor like a knife tip and stabbed into Wen Qingxuan's chest.

Immediately afterward, Wen Qingxuan herself was blasted straight out through the doorway.

"Now I have to fix the door too." Futu Yun had a headache.

But it was not only the door that needed fixing. So did the relationship between him and Luo Li.

Later, while Wen Qingxuan was treating her injuries, she explained why she had come: the Pagoda Ancient Clan intended to form a marriage alliance with the Wen Family.

The cause of the matter was that Qing Yanjing had destroyed Holy Spiritual Academy.

Although the Five Great Academies competed with one another, they were ultimately still a united community that watched out for each other.

Thus, the Pagoda Ancient Clan needed to give the Five Great Academies an explanation.

They had already offended quite a few Holy Spiritual Academy graduates because of the Holy Spiritual Academy incident.

If they offended all Five Great Academies as well, the trouble would be enormous.

The Pagoda Ancient Clan itself was naturally not afraid of this matter, but its plans to develop the Tianluo Continent would likely have to be put on hold.

That was why they settled on a marriage alliance.

There were no shortage of outstanding women among the Five Great Academies.

But the only one who could represent the Five Great Academies in such a marriage alliance was Wen Qingxuan of Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy.

Not only was she the foremost figure of her generation at Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy, she was also the eldest daughter of the Wen Family behind it.

The Pagoda Ancient Clan's chosen representative for the marriage alliance was Futu Yun.

Speaking of which, Futu Yun himself was partly to blame for this.

Back then, he had implemented the Favor-Granting Decree, breaking the Pagoda Ancient Clan's three main branches and numerous side branches into pieces.

Although this system made management easier and benefited centralization of power.

It had also squeezed the rest of the Pagoda Ancient Clan's younger generation out, leaving them with no standing at all.

Originally, the young masters of the Xuan Branch and Mo Branch could both have gone to form the marriage alliance, but their statuses were no longer sufficient.

Though every branch had a Heavenly Sovereign overseeing it, and their strength was no weaker than the Wen Family's.

As marriage alliance representatives, however, the weight of these people's identities was still lacking.

Therefore, the final marriage alliance representative was Futu Yun.

It was also because of this.

That Elder Liu had worn such an odd expression earlier in the Mission Hall when he learned that Futu Yun was traveling with the Su Family sisters.

Clearly, he had long known that "Ye Yun" was "Futu Yun," and he also knew that Futu Yun was going to form a marriage alliance with Wen Qingxuan.

And Wen Qingxuan had attacked Futu Yun the moment she arrived.

On one hand, it was because she admired Luo Li and wanted to steal her love.

On the other, she wanted to see for herself just how capable Futu Yun truly was.

Back on the Spirit Road, she had lost to Futu Yun, when none of them had yet cultivated.

Now she had reached the Heavenly Reaching Realm, while Futu Yun was only at the Peak Divine Soul Stage.

Naturally, she wanted to test his true strength, only to be beaten into submission instead.