The Saintess Has A Showdown 297-298

Chapter 297: Legendary Cub

Within the trial secret realm, the Endless Cloud Sea…

The layered dreams shattered under a mysterious, oppressive force.

As the swirling vortex of the Deep Sea receded, the blue-haired girl, a small fox in her arms, stood before the Eye of the Clouds, teardrops shimmering in her eyes.

The misty eye blinked, as if dazed, its gaze meeting the girl’s, the illusion fading.

The distorted space around Gong Lianyue stabilized, a clear path, leading to the next trial, appearing.

Gong Lianyue, the Sorrowful Saintess, had cleared the Eye of the Clouds!

“What was that Deep Sea illusion…?”

Meanwhile, the woman from the Ice Congealing Realm knelt on the ground, panting, her face pale, her eyes wide with shock.

That hadn’t been a sudden shift in the Eye of the Clouds’ dream, but a deliberate act, an outside force shattering the illusion.

An ordinary illusion couldn’t achieve such an effect. This was a spirit technique, infused with the aura of a legendary being!

Which Spirit Master had done this?

The Ice Congealing Realm woman’s mind reeled.

She had only seen the Spirit Masters from the Endless Swamp and the Flowing Water Sect. Neither of those realms possessed a Spirit Master capable of such a feat. And the Endless Saintess, despite the rumors, wasn’t that kind of Lord Attendant.

Could there be another Lord Attendant participating in this trial, besides those from the Ice Congealing Realm and the Yin Lake Palace…?

While the Spirit Masters were trapped in the Eye of the Clouds trial area, a series of screams, a mixture of terror, excitement, shock, and confusion, echoed from the Sword of the Clouds trial area.

The Sword of the Clouds tested a Spirit Master’s burst potential, their ability to unleash a maximum amount of spirit energy in an instant.

Within the trial area, a wall of dense mist trapped seventy or eighty Spirit Masters.

Breaking through this wall wasn’t simply a matter of depleting its spirit energy, but of exceeding a certain threshold with each attack. Otherwise, the attack would be nullified.

This rule was similar to the Waning Moon talent of the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer’s lineage. Attacks below a certain threshold were negated, allowing it to effortlessly carve a path through weaker opponents, but this talent became useless against stronger foes.

The Sword of the Clouds trial followed a similar principle. If the wall’s defense was 100, then the Spirit Master’s attack had to be at least 101.

Although offensive spirit techniques could easily achieve this, they also had to consider their overall spirit energy consumption…

Summoning spirit beasts was allowed, but they couldn’t attack. Doing so resulted in immediate disqualification.

However, at this moment, all the Spirit Masters within the Sword of the Clouds trial area stopped, their gazes fixed on a small creature sitting at the center of the mist-shrouded arena.

A small, purple panther, covered in cloud-like patterns, its tail twitching, sat there, its eyes scanning the surrounding Spirit Masters with a look of amusement.

After a few seconds of stunned silence, a wave of excited screams, like fans greeting a celebrity, erupted.

A legendary young spirit beast had appeared in the Sword of the Clouds trial!!!

Many were seeing a legendary being for the first time, their excitement uncontrollable.

The Spirit Masters from the Ice Congealing Realm and the Yin Lake Palace, however, exchanged grim looks, their hearts pounding with anxiety. They had already tested their limits and knew that unless their… preferences aligned, they had no chance of forming a contract with a legendary being.

And if they couldn’t, these other Spirit Masters certainly couldn’t.

Their priority now was to inform their Saintesses…

Whoever arrived first, the Saintess of the Ice Congealing Realm or the Saintess of the Yin Lake Palace, would win!

The Sea Shadow Purple Smoke, a legendary young spirit beast.

“I say, why don’t we try contracting with it one by one, in order?” a Spirit Master suggested.

“But how should we decide the order…?”

“Let’s draw lots. Fairest way,” another suggested.

“Agreed!!”

Although anxious, they knew a legendary spirit beast wouldn’t be so easily subdued.

The Spirit Masters from the Ice Congealing Realm and the Yin Lake Palace, however, ignoring the legendary cub, unleashed their full power, attempting to break through the mist wall.

Such naive optimism. Those who, like themselves, had given up on the dream of contracting with a legendary being, were the truly hopeless ones, like ordinary students past their eighteenth birthday, still waiting for their superpowers to manifest.

The first round of drawing lots concluded, and the winner, a girl from an unknown, smaller realm, her face beaming with excitement, approached the small purple panther, while the other Spirit Masters looked on with envy and disappointment.

The girl took a deep breath, then stammered,

“D-Do… do… do you… want something to eat?”

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Next!

The Sea Shadow Purple Smoke hadn’t even looked at her.

Forget a legendary being, even a Saint-rank wouldn’t contract with her.

Seeing the panther casually scratch its head, the girl’s face fell, her hopes crushed.

The other Spirit Masters waiting in line, although relieved, also felt a sense of dread. Trying to contract with a legendary being through conventional methods… was hopeless.

The next Spirit Master, stepping forward, removed all her clothes, eliciting a chorus of boos and jeers.

The result, of course, was the same.

Suddenly, the purple panther turned and ran, not out of the Sword of the Clouds trial area, but towards a blue-haired girl who had just entered.

The Sea Shadow Purple Smoke, its eyes fixed on the small, pink fox at the blue-haired girl’s feet, sniffed the air, its expression a mix of excitement and… something else.

Seeing the panther approach, the little fox, yelping in fear, hid behind the blue-haired girl.

“Chirp, chirp…”

Ignoring the warning, the Sea Shadow Purple Smoke circled, trying to reach the little fox.

The two small creatures ran around the blue-haired girl’s feet, then, in a sudden move, the panther pounced, capturing the little fox.

Facing the purple panther, the terrified little fox lashed out, slapping it across the face.

Slap!

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Chapter 298: A God Resides Within Her…!!

Slap!

With a crisp sound, the little fox slapped the purple panther across the face, its head twisting at an unnatural angle, as if suffering from a severe crick in its neck.

This bizarre scene stunned everyone present, including the Sea Shadow Purple Smoke, which froze, its movements ceasing.

One second, three seconds, ten seconds, thirty seconds passed in silence, the scene frozen like a paused video.

Finally, some of the Spirit Masters began to react, cautiously retreating.

Although just a young spirit beast at the Illumination Stage, the Sea Shadow Purple Smoke was still a legendary being. If it became enraged, the entire Sword of the Clouds trial area would be destroyed.

However, instead of exploding in anger, the Sea Shadow Purple Smoke’s expression softened, its mouth turning downwards in a frown.

Tears welled up in its eyes, the little panther’s face a picture of grievance, a pitiful sight.

It was crying…

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A few seconds later, the Sea Shadow Purple Smoke, ignoring the little fox, suddenly ran away, sobbing uncontrollably, its tears flowing like a river.

It charged headfirst into the mist wall of the Sword of the Clouds trial, shattering it with a single headbutt, then effortlessly passed through.

A deafening boom echoed.

As the Sea Shadow Purple Smoke vanished, the gaping hole in the mist wall quickly closed. The other Spirit Masters stared in disbelief.

This mist barrier, which they had struggled to even scratch, had been casually broken by an Illumination Stage legendary cub.

The difference between them… was simply absurd…

With the Sea Shadow Purple Smoke gone, the little fox, its heart still pounding, climbed back into Gong Lianyue’s collar, burrowing into the soft warmth of her cleavage, refusing to come out.

Meanwhile, many of the Spirit Masters glared at the blue-haired girl, a mixture of anger and resentment in their eyes.

Look what this woman’s spirit beast had done! It had slapped a legendary being and scared it away! How many Spirit Masters’ dreams had been shattered, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity lost?!

“Don’t look!!!”

At this moment, a young woman from the Yin Lake Palace, also glaring at the blue-haired girl, heard a sharp warning.

Beside her, a more experienced senior sister, her back pressed against the wall as if trying to merge with it, trembled, cold sweat dripping down her body, soaking her clothes.

“Shhh, don’t look at her!”

As the younger woman stared at her in confusion, the senior sister whispered, her voice trembling.

She could sense it, that oppressive aura of despair, that cold indifference that seemed to disregard all life, emanating from the blue-haired girl, an undeniable, instinctive power.

Although she hadn’t seen the girl’s face, she dared not, could not, turn around.

She couldn’t attract its attention. She had to leave this place, quietly, unnoticed!!!

At the same time, not just the Yin Lake Palace Spirit Master, but a woman from the Ice Congealing Realm also felt it.

Her face was pale, her body drenched in sweat.

What was this, this terrifying, oppressive aura? Who was this woman?

The Ice Condensing Saintess of the Ice Congealing Realm was renowned throughout the Heavy Rain Realm’s hundred subsidiary realms for her mastery of aura control. But even she, having spent years alongside her friend and companion, had never encountered such a terrifying presence.

Her body trembled uncontrollably, her scalp tingling.

Within her… resided a god…!!

“The Sea Shadow Purple Smoke… so this is what Shui Huangyou called a ‘random passerby’…”

Facing the hostile gazes, the blue-haired, teardrop-eyed girl calmly entered the central area of the Sword of the Clouds trial.

Since the Saintess selection, the journey to the Wind Realm, the Reclaiming War, and especially after the Water-Moon War, Gong Lianyue had changed. There was an invisible barrier around her, a distance that made it difficult for others to approach, even the Six Concubines instinctively avoiding her gaze.

And as Gong Lianyue entered the trial area, the two frightened Spirit Masters from the Yin Lake Palace and the Ice Congealing Realm finally understood.

They had been presumptuous. Even if they summoned their Saint-rank spirit beasts and danced naked before her, this blue-haired girl wouldn’t even glance at them, let alone look at them with hostility.

Well, actually, if they danced naked, Gong Lianyue might look…

Gong Lianyue walked over to the misty wall and touched it.

As her hand sank into the mist, she felt a strange resistance, thick and heavy like quicksand, a swirling, pulling sensation.

The Sword of the Clouds tested the limits of one’s burst potential, also representing a new form of spirit energy manipulation.

This was… spiral-shaped spirit energy!

At this moment, not only was the surrounding mist slowly rotating, but each individual particle of spirit energy within was also spinning in the opposite direction, creating a strange resistance that neutralized spirit energy attacks.

If a Spirit Master could mimic this method, they could increase their overall spirit energy output by about 7.5%, which could be applied to the Lost Scroll!

Gong Lianyue had heard of special spirit energy forms, but a mere 7.5% increase wasn’t worth the effort. It was better to focus on her spirit beasts’ condition during battle.

Unless it was a ten percent increase or more, it wasn’t worth the time and effort.

Although unimpressed, she was still curious.

“I should ask the Lunar Demon Hall about other, more powerful spirit energy manipulation methods during the next October meeting.”

“Perhaps they have something more… useful…~~~”

As she spoke, a powerful surge of water spirit energy erupted from her body.

Boom!!!

The next second, a torrent of blue spirit energy, like a waterfall, crashed against the mist wall, its force gradually dissipating the mist.

The earth-shaking roar drew the attention of all the other Spirit Masters, their faces filled with disbelief.

What was she thinking, unleashing her full power now? There were still other trials. Wasn’t she afraid of depleting her spirit energy?

However, ten minutes passed, and the blue-haired girl, enveloped in a swirling vortex of water, remained motionless, as if asleep, her spirit energy showing no signs of depletion, the endless torrent continuing unabated.