Boom...!
With an ear-splitting blast, a beam of golden light suddenly shot down through a crack in the clouds across the sky.
Fairy Lingyue's face immediately filled with disappointment.
"Why isn't it me again?"
As she spoke, she looked toward where the golden light was falling.
"The Azure Profound Sect?"
When she saw where the beam of golden light had landed, Fairy Lingyue's expression changed at once.
Beside her, Xu Taiping frowned deeply.
"It actually isn't Second Senior Brother?"
At that moment, the beam of golden light had landed right in the middle of the Azure Profound Sect disciples, while Dugu Qingxiao, Sect Master Zhao Qian, and the sect's other powerful cultivators stood at the outermost edge.
As Dugu Qingxiao and the others on the perimeter moved aside, the figure enveloped by the beam of golden light came into everyone's view.
Once Xu Taiping saw that figure clearly, his face filled with astonishment.
"Senior Sister Linglong?!"
Indeed, the heaven-treader chosen by the Heavenly Dao was none other than Xu Taiping's youngest senior sister, Zhao Linglong.
Zhao Linglong looked utterly at a loss.
Zhao Qian spoke with some agitation.
"Junior Martial Uncle! It absolutely cannot be Linglong! Her cultivation hasn't even reached the Void Insight Realm. Taking part in this Heaven-Treading Contest would be no different from going to her death!"
Seeing this, Xu Taiping, Lin Buyu, and Fairy Lingyue all flew down to where the Azure Profound Sect disciples stood.
Kang Cangzi and the others followed them.
Lü Daoxuan, who was already standing beside Zhao Qian, frowned at Kang Cangzi.
"Kang Cangzi, can the chosen person refuse or be replaced?"
Kang Cangzi frowned.
"There is only one way to refuse or be replaced."
Zhao Qian immediately asked:
"What way?"
Everyone turned their eyes toward Kang Cangzi.
Kang Cangzi glanced at