Immortal Only Accepts Female Disciples-869. Surpassing Limits

For these duels, there was no absolute time limit. Especially when the two participants did not directly trade blows or attack each other, there would be no obvious winner. It was up to the judges. These duels were never truly objective competitions from the beginning.

The duel between Long Yifei and Xuanyin Shujun continued. Xuanyin Shujun chased while Long Yifei ran. Nothing changed.

The judges didn’t want to declare a winner yet as the two sacred daughters were in an obvious stalemate. They felt that there was no way Long Yifei could hold on forever. Even if she had the greatest stamina in the world for a Spirit Initiate Realm cultivator, even if her innate talent for dancing was better, they didn’t want her to win.

A few people in the crowd started laughing at Long Yifei’s actions, calling her everything from a frightened mouse to a coward. Others were already bored. The stony-faced acolyte of Xuanyin Shujun remained silent and immovable. His sacred daughter reflected his manner, stubbornly chasing after her foe.

Long Yifei felt helpless in this situation. These immortals, from the acolytes to the abbotesses, they were all so stubborn. She wanted to give up on this farce but she knew her master wouldn’t agree. For his sake, she would keep fighting with all her strength. Even if it was a stalemate, she had to find a way to win.

Ice and snow continued to swirl around her body. She continued to run and dodged, covering the entire arena within several breaths. By now, she had memorized every stone tile, every piece of debris, and every grain of dust around her. She was completely aware of her surroundings; temperature, pressure, spiritual energies, and auras. The way her opponent breathed, which way she looked, when she was about to attack and where.

Long Yifei let out an icy breath, covering a quarter of the arena in frost. Xuanyin Shujun once again ran into the obstructions and could only helplessly punch and kick a snowy afterimage. Long Yifei made her escape once more, reaching the other side of the arena in the blink of an eye.

The two women once again stared at each other.

After catching her breath, Xuanyin Shujun charged at Long Yifei once more.

A hundred rounds, two hundred rounds, both of them eventually stopped counting.

Long Yifei felt her mood becoming calmer as the duel wore on. Her thoughts, instead of dulling due to exhaustion, became clear as ice. She was in the middle of a swirling maelstrom of snow and frost. She held supreme control. Nothing could touch her within.

This was no longer solely the Cascading Ice Steps or the combination of various lower stages of Winter’s Snow Dance. It also wasn’t any of the standard dances she had learned from the Order. This was something different, something new but also familiar.

Her mind drifted to the higher stages of Winter’s Snow Dance, those she could not cultivate because they required dual cultivation. The eighth stage, Polar Vortex, created a miniature domain around the cultivator, a swirling storm of ice and snow that gave them full control of the battle.

Wasn’t this Polar Vortex?

Chen Wentian came to the same conclusion at the same time. He was pleasantly surprised. He didn’t know why or how Long Yifei was able to surpass the limitations of an immortal ice art. The eighth, ninth, and tenth stages of Winter’s Snow Dance required one to lose their virginity and dual cultivate with a man.

Long Yifei satisfied none of those conditions. Yet, she was doing it before his eyes. This was definitely Polar Vortex.

The pace of the duel suddenly changed. Long Yifei’s aura rose sharply. Although it was still not enough to match Xuanyin Shujun and the Lesser Realm of Spiritual Growth, it was not too far off.

“What is that ice art?”

“Is she still at the tenth level of Spirit Initiate?” 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

The audience was drawn back to the duel. They were all experienced cultivators, they could sense that things were different now.

Long Yifei, unaware of anything else, remained in her heightened state. To her, there was the duel, her opponent, and herself. She felt strong. With her master supplying an endless river of spiritual energy, she felt like she could do anything.

The temperature within the arena dropped precipitously. Now, instead of half the area being covered by ice and snow, the whole place was frozen. Even Xuanyin Shujun was starting to suffer. The creeping frost had covered her feet and lower legs. She could not get rid of it. Her spiritual energy was being suppressed. It was simply too cold.

Chen Wentian let out a small chuckle as he watched this, “Ninth stage? Ice Age?”

He wasn’t completely sure. He had never seen these upper stages in person. The only person who could use them was Immortal Frost Diamond Murong Aiyin in her crazed state. And the moves she used were the incomplete version which she called the Eternal Winter Sutra.

This was probably his first time seeing the true form of the Ice Age.

Every step that Long Yifei took; jagged paths of ice spread out in all directions. Every time she waved her hands, a trail of ice was left in the air. And everything around her was turned to ice, including her opponent.

Xuanyin Shujun had stopped. Her feet were stuck to the ground. She could no longer move her legs. She felt so cold. Her muscles were stiff. Her bones creaked. Her blood was freezing in her veins.

She tried repelling this attack with her spiritual energy. It worked but only slightly. She could repel the ice from completely freezing her body but she could no longer move.

On the other side, Long Yifei’s aura only increased. As the temperature continued to drop, her spiritual might rose even more. Was the ninth stage her limit? Was there any limit for someone with the potential of a divine daughter, who had a heavenly and mysterious physique?

Kacha!

All the ice surrounding her figure suddenly shattered. Spiritual energy billowed out like a snowstorm. The entire arena was covered in an instant. Even Xuanyin Shujun was buried in an instant.

This power, spiritual intent…

“She broke through!” Someone shouted.

“What?”

“Impossible!”

Chen Wentian laughed, “She actually broke through in the middle of battle?”

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