Wen Jingshu no longer relied solely on sword techniques to counter him. With a wave of her hand, dozens of talismans shimmering with various colors materialized around her.
Combining her combat experience as a talisman cultivator with her swordsmanship, Wen Jingshu's unorthodox style was far too much for Fu Sinian, a personal disciple raised in a greenhouse, to handle.
Catching him off guard, Wen Jingshu wounded Fu Sinian's arm. In his shock, Fu Sinian barked, “Wen Jingshu, you sneak-attacked me!”
A cold snort from Wen Jingshu was his only reply.
Someone trying to kill you wouldn't care whether it was a sneak attack or poison.
These personal disciples, who had never fought for their lives at the bottom, would never understand this.
Wen Jingshu had mastered the Thunder Brake Sword Art to perfection. The lightning elements of her heavenly lightning spiritual root could even resonate with the lightning in the heavens and earth.
Coupled with the fact that Wen Jingshu had already formed her Sword Heart, dark clouds suddenly gathered above them, with flashes of lightning and rolls of thunder faintly visible.
“My god, what kind of monster is Senior Sister Wen! I've never seen a lightning spiritual root cultivator summon heavenly thunder and lightning just by fighting!”
“Terrifying! This is simply too terrifying! Even Daoist Lord Beili didn't have this kind of ability back then, did he? If anyone dares to tell me Senior Sister Wen doesn't rank among the top geniuses of the Qingyun Sect, I'll fight them! I want her at the very top of the list!”
“How old is Senior Sister Wen? Nine? Or ten? What was I even doing when I was ten? I can't take this! Why is the gap between people so massive!”
“Where is a recording stone? Who has a recording stone? Hurry up and record this duel of the century!”
Wen Jingshu had no idea what the onlookers were thinking. Swinging her sword with her right hand and forming hand seals with her left, she commanded eight Thunder-Attracting Talismans to fly out, launching an indiscriminate attack toward Fu Sinian.
The Thunder-Attracting Talismans she used this time were high-grade second-rank ones she had drawn while popping pills. They were perfect for bombarding an early Golden Core Stage cultivator.
Cultivators walked against the heavens, and what they feared most was the heavenly tribulation. Wen Jingshu's perfect, top-grade heavenly lightning spiritual root possessed a power that was infinitely comparable to a heavenly tribulation, so the Thunder-Attracting Talismans she drew were naturally top-tier as well.
Fu Sinian immediately raised his hand to channel the subterranean wood spiritual energy. Layers of green wood barriers instantly enveloped his body as he attempted to withstand this onslaught of talismans.
However, he still underestimated the power of the high-grade second-rank Thunder-Attracting Talismans. Eight silver-purple bolts of lightning struck his barrier with pinpoint accuracy, and the green wood barrier shattered with a loud bang after lasting barely half a breath.
The violent lightning spiritual energy surged through the gaps of the broken barrier, forcing him to retreat repeatedly. With stumbling steps, he actually fell into a disadvantage!
A wood spiritual root feared its counter, the lightning spiritual root, the most. Furthermore, Fu Sinian had only recently broken through to the Golden Core Stage and had not even had time to consolidate his cultivation before rushing over to demand justice for Yun Xiange upon hearing that she had been injured by Wen Jingshu.
Unwilling to accept defeat, Fu Sinian flicked his wrist. A crisp, green sword light wrapped in rich wood spiritual energy burst forth. The unique vitality of the wood spiritual root filled the surroundings, stubbornly resisting Wen Jingshu's earth-shattering lightning element in the same space.
The Xianguan Sword Art and Thunder Brake Sword Art that Wen Jingshu cultivated were both movement-oriented sword styles. Her steps were light as she stepped through exquisite sword steps to dodge sideways. By relying solely on dodging, she did not let Fu Sinian harm her in the slightest!
With a Gale Talisman boosting her, Wen Jingshu's speed increased even further, leaving a trail of overlapping afterimages that Fu Sinian found hard to lock onto. Following that, Wen Jingshu accurately threw a Spirit-Stagnating Talisman around the young man, silently suppressing the circulation of his wood spiritual energy.
Buffing herself constantly while stacking debuffs on her opponent—the frustratingly annoying nature of a talisman cultivator was perfectly displayed at this moment.
Feeling his spiritual energy being suppressed, Fu Sinian gritted his teeth and swallowed a bottle of pills, trying his absolute best to hide the fact that his mental state was on the verge of collapsing.
Was his junior sister really only at the Qi Refining Stage?
No wonder Yun Xiange couldn't get the upper hand against her; Wen Jingshu was incredibly bizarre!
Seeing that Wen Jingshu was not at a disadvantage, Xu Haoguang stopped worrying and instead began to appreciate the little girl's moves.
Fu Sinian, his eyes bloodshot with rage, took out a secret treasure containing a single sword qi strike of the Nascent Soul Stage and hurled it at Wen Jingshu. As a super second-generation cultivator, Wen Jingshu was not afraid at all. She directly threw out a defensive formation plate, reflecting the sword qi back.
However, the sword qi did not hit Fu Sinian; it was blocked by Beili.
Wen Jingshu was not one to be easily placated. With a cold snort, she also pulled out a secret treasure containing a Nascent Soul Stage sword qi and sent it flying straight toward Fu Sinian.
Struck by the sword qi, Fu Sinian was sent flying onto a stone wall a hundred meters away. With a miserable shriek, he completely blacked out.
Beili stepped forward quickly. Looking at his disciple, who was now covered in blood, he turned to Wen Jingshu with disapproval. “You...”
Beili had only uttered a single word when he saw Wen Jingshu's youthful face filled with cold indifference, a stark contrast to her previous smiling demeanor toward him.
Xu Haoguang cultivated the Dao of Justice and despised moral kidnapping the most. She warned Beili, “Beili, watch your words.”
Even if Wen Jingshu had no backer, Xu Haoguang would not allow malicious slander, defamation, and oppression of disciples within her sect.
In Xu Haoguang's eyes, Fu Sinian had initiated the attack first, relying on his cultivation level and status as a senior brother, and Wen Jingshu had simply fought back and defeated him.
Since his skills were inferior and he ended up heavily injured, he only had himself to blame.
Of course, if Fu Sinian had actually been on the verge of injuring Wen Jingshu, Xu Haoguang would have stepped in to stop it beforehand.
If one had to find a reason, it was simply that the instigator was the contemptible one. Fu Sinian finding trouble for no reason was just pathetic.
What was the point of him jumping around here over the grudge between Wen Jingshu and Yun Xiange?
If they were going to call on their backers whenever they couldn't win a fight, the backers of all the disciples in the entire Qingyun Sect combined wouldn't be as big as Wen Jingshu's alone!
Beili fed Fu Sinian a pill. With complex thoughts swirling in his mind, he finally sighed and said, “Let's return to Hidden Star Peak first...”
Weng Jingshu acted uprightly and had a clear conscience, so there was naturally no reason for her to be afraid of returning to Hidden Star Peak.
Before leaving, Xu Haoguang sent her a voice transmission: “If you ever need anything, feel free to find me at any time.”
Ultimately, this was Hidden Star Peak's internal affair, so as an outsider, she could not easily interfere.
She believed that Wen Jingshu could handle this well on her own.
Having witnessed everything with his own eyes, Zhou Fantong looked at Wen Jingshu with a complex yet amazed gaze and said, “Do not fear, Master is here.”
In the face of their protection, the tension in Wen Jingshu's brow eased slightly. After responding to them, she took the lead and flew back to Hidden Star Peak on her sword.
Bai Han took in the entire process. Looking at Wen Jingshu's departing figure, he clenched his fists tightly.
This battle was indeed spectacular. Wen Jingshu's fame had probably long overshadowed his own spotlight from fighting the beast tide in the secret realm.
How laughable that just yesterday, he thought he had finally intercepted Wen Jingshu's opportunity, only to find that she was still the one in the spotlight.
At this moment, Bai Han began to feel lost.
In his previous life, he couldn't catch up to Wen Jingshu and thought it was just bad luck. In this life, relying on his memories of his past life, he snatched treasures and seized opportunities everywhere, not even letting go of those that originally belonged to Wen Jingshu. Yet, he was still firmly suppressed by her.
Was this really destiny...
At this moment, Bai Han's Dao Heart suddenly wavered.
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