"Who was that woman?" Zi Yun asked Tang Yan after Fire Phoenix left.
Tang Yan knew Zi Yun also wanted to ask about Fire Phoenix's strength, so he explained gently, "She's from the Lan Family of the Northern Spirit Realm. Her cultivation has already reached Xiantian Third Grade. None of you can contend with her as you are now."
"Tang Yan, did I cause you trouble?" Zi Yun asked quietly.
"I have faith in you. Not only are we going to win this wager, but over the next year, I'm going to raise every one of you to a level she won't dare look down on!"
Tang Yan's few words sent a surge through everyone's hearts. A refusal to admit defeat spread among them.
Three days passed, during which Fire Phoenix, a Xiantian expert, secretly observed this group from Reach the Summit.
Originally, she had looked down on these people from a tiny frontier kingdom from the bottom of her heart, but she soon realized her thinking had been far too narrow.
For three days, every one of them had possessed a sharper aura than the day before!
At that moment, a sliver of doubt crept into the confidence of Fire Phoenix, who had originally considered victory certain.
"Brother Yan, I have an idea!" Du Shu pushed open the door and entered Tang Yan's courtyard.
Du Shu had never expected the Northern Spirit Realm to be so vast. While still in the Fragrance-Hearing Kingdom, he had constantly studied information about it, but only after arriving did he discover that much of the kingdom's records about the Northern Spirit Realm were wrong. Even the correct information was very one-sided.
It took Du Shu three full days to truly get a grasp of the Northern Spirit Realm.
Tang Yan raised an