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Chapter 49 Sect Grand Competition (24)

In the following days, Luo Zai Shui had a few days of leisure. The competition between medicine cultivators and weapon cultivators went smoothly. Nie Xu Shuang naturally took first place in medicine cultivation. As for weapon cultivators, it was said that the two Sun brothers tied for first place.

Next up is the third competition, a team competition. All participating disciples will be sent to the same secret realm to hunt monsters. Each person will have a waist token, and breaking someone else's waist token will eliminate them. In the end, the winner will be determined by the quality and grade of the monsters hunted by each sect and family.

Originally, this grand competition was scheduled to begin after a fifteen-day rest period following the second competition. However, due to the intervention of the sect leaders and elders of various sects, as well as the heads of aristocratic families, the third grand competition was postponed to a month later.

The sect leader of Xianyun Peak and Xie Jing didn't tell them what they were doing. They just left early and returned late every day, and everyone looked rather grim.

Xie Jing wasn't really keen on having her participate in the third competition, but Luo Zai Shui showed him all sorts of life-saving talismans, various killing formations, teleportation arrays, and newly researched sword techniques that she had been tinkering with in her spare time these past few days. Xie Jing was so overwhelmed by all this that he had no choice but to agree.

Shi Ming didn't want her to go either, but his opinion didn't matter anymore. As soon as he opened his mouth, Luo Zai Shui would fall asleep and bury herself under the covers, acting as if she wouldn't listen to anything he said. Shi Ming couldn't do anything about it.

On the night before her departure, another uninvited guest barged into her room.

Luo Zai Shui watched as Li Yue lay on the table, eating her pastries with the now-cold tea.

"Oh dear, it's really not easy for me to come all this way to see you." Because she drank it too quickly, Li Yue choked on her tea, "Cough cough cough..."

Luo Zai Shui patted her on the back: "If you want to see me, just come find me. Why is it so hard to see me?"

Li Yue chuckled awkwardly, "I'm just feeling guilty when I see your junior brothers and sisters, after all, I typed out their endings word by word."

"Is there something you need from me?"

Luo Zai Shui immediately brought the conversation back to the main topic.

"Can't I come to see you if there's nothing wrong?" Li Yue said with dissatisfaction. "You're really bold. I was terrified watching you break the formation from below... Hey, I'm getting off topic. I came to see you to tell you something about this competition."

Luo Zai Shui raised an eyebrow, looked at her, and gestured for her to continue.

"I suggest you don't go. I've suddenly realized the plot is getting a bit out of control. I've noticed these past few days that the male and female leads' first meeting has happened earlier than expected. They were supposed to meet in the third competition, but they met in the first one..."

Luo Zai Shui poured himself a glass of iced tea, took a sip to clear his head: "You're wrong, we already encountered them when we were exorcising the evil spirits."

"No, how did the romance develop like this?" Li Yue was shocked. "Hey, forget about the romance for now, let's talk about the plot. I found out that in your second competition, you and Chu Yeli were supposed to be tied for first place, but you added another round at the last minute to decide who would win. But now, with you two like this, it seems like you can't compete anymore..."

Luo Zai Shui put down her teacup: "You mean, the Spirit Suppressing Array wasn't originally supposed to appear in the Grand Competition?"

"I have no idea what a Spirit Suppressing Array is. According to the original plot, you two should have broken the last array on the mountain at the same time. Now the plot has slipped out of my control, so you'd better not participate in the final competition."

Luo looked at her silently in the water.

Li Yue was the first to give in: "Fine, but you really have to go?"

Luo Zai Shui stared at the teacup in her hand and hummed in agreement: "Now that I know what will happen next, I will feel guilty if I can't do anything or just sit idly by."

At that moment, Li Yue inexplicably felt that Luo Zai Shui's image overlapped with that of the person in her book. She shook her head; this assimilation was truly terrifying.

"Then what can you do if you go?"

Luo Zai Shui gave a mysterious smile: "Well, that's a secret for now."

"Tsk." Li Yue didn't say that she didn't really want to know, she was just a little curious, yes, just a little.

"Oh, right." Li Yue suddenly remembered something and reminded him, "You must be careful after you enter the secret realm. Besides the demons, you also need to be careful of the Wen family. The plot has already broken down. The Wen family was not originally going to participate in the third competition, but I heard that Wen Lian is also going to bring people to participate. Although his strength is not that great, his behavior is disgusting enough. You have to be careful."

"it is good."

……

Before entering the secret realm, the sect leaders, elders, and patriarchs of various sects and families had already gathered together, and even the Penglai Pavilion, which had been living in seclusion for many years, sent people to watch.

"That's from Penglai Pavilion?"

Luo Zai Shui was somewhat uncertain, as it had been ten years since she last met the people from Penglai Pavilion: "They are most proficient in divination, so it's strange that they only allowed their disciples to participate in the third round of the competition this year."

Shi Ming said calmly, "I heard that Penglai Pavilion only recruited two personal disciples this year. They don't look at talent when accepting disciples, but only at fate. I'm afraid they foresaw something bad beforehand, so they only participated in the third round, which is not difficult."

"Tsk." Chu Yeli rolled her eyes. "They're quite shrewd."

Luo Zai Shui looked at him: "You're injured like this, why are you still participating?"

"You came too?" Chu Yeli was very dissatisfied with Luo Zaishui's look. "It was just a minor injury, it's already healed."

“Okay.” Luo Zai Shui turned to Su Wu Si and said, “When we encounter him on the field later, we’ll eliminate him first and let him rest.”

"Hey, hey, hey." Chu Yeli crossed his arms to express his dissatisfaction, "You're not much better than me. Be careful, you might be the first one eliminated when you get on stage."

"Alright, alright." Xie Jing appeared out of nowhere. "Let's pause your trash talk and listen to what I have to say."

Chu Yeli still had to give Xie Jing face, since he had admired Xie Jing the most back then. He originally wanted to become Xie Jing's disciple, but Linghai Sect snatched away his position as Xie Jing's personal disciple. If he really became Xie Jing's disciple, Chu Yeli would have to call Luo Zaishui "senior sister".

"I've come to relay a message from your masters." Xie Jing looked around and saw that most of the direct disciples of the five major sects were present. He then clapped his hands and gathered everyone together.

"What brings you here at this time, Uncle Xie?"

Nie Xushuang stepped forward, frowning slightly as she asked, her intuition telling her that the upcoming competition would be anything but simple.

"It's nothing, your master just told you to be careful."

Xie Jing suddenly lowered his voice, pointed at the Wen family, and then at the Penglai disciples not far away: "If anything goes wrong, just run, understand? Don't waste time with those cunning people, get it?"

The disciples nodded, indicating that they understood.

"Alright, that's all I wanted to say. Take care on your journey."

Under Xie Jing's watchful gaze, all the disciples stepped into the magic array that led them into the secret realm.

Before leaving, Luo Zai Shui glanced at Xie Jing, who was waving to them. A sense of unease flickered in her heart, as if something big was about to happen.

Just as they were leaving, Xie Jing, with a gloomy face, returned to the sect leader's side.