Matter energy whirled around Lyshisha's body, as mystical matter letters shimmered in her vicinity.
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Your foe casted [Raging Electric Tiger]!
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Crackling with blinding light, an imposing white tiger bolted towards the black woman.
Colliding with the mystical wall in a deafening noise, they destroyed each other. Neither party took the upper hand in that first exchange, and Lyshisha thought it was time for her opponent to taste one of her mighty illusions.
Drawing power from her Moon Core, discreet waves of abstruse energy undulated from her eyes as she casted her attack…
Only to suffer a mental backlash, leaving her groaning in pain.
She then noticed a glistening necklace on Meihui's neck.
Sh*t!
She had an anti-illusion treasure!
How could she overlook that simple fact, given her imperial background?
Meihui chuckled. "You think you'll get me with an illusion or mental attack? Yeah, right! Roll out of here!" she cried.
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Your foe casted [Raging Electric Tiger]!
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Three white tigers rushed towards Dibano's Queen, who hastily created an even stronger letter wall to resist the assault, narrowly avoiding the lasting aftershocks.
Her meager energy supply dwindling rapidly, she had to use her trump card.
"Your Highness, I'll admit defeat if you can counter this!" Lyshisha said, her dwindling matter energy wheeling to its limits.
Her body clenched in pain as a mantle of dark energy blasted around her, then a shadow of a gigantic bird appeared behind her back, its earth-shaking cry striking fear inside the crowd.
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You lost some breath! You lost 35% Stamina.
Remaining Stamina : 100 % --> 65%
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It only took a split second for this supreme animal to manifest before its summoner, the brilliance of its gilded feathers buffeted through the evening wind.
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Your breath recovers!
Remaining Stamina: 65 --> 65.1/100% ¤Recovering 0.1% Stamina every second¤
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"Are you kidding me? Is it the legendary Impundulu?"
"Wait. If she can summon a monster using brain matter, doesn't it mean that she can open at least five gates?"
"And her summons came from the 7th hell layer! The fu*king seventh layer! How did she managed to do so with a crippled Sun Core? Even if – and that's a big if- her Moon Core reached the perfect stage at least once in the lower stages, the energy expenditure must've been huge to bring it within herself!"
"But if it's the case, wouldn't that mean… that she's a 14th-tier Grandmistress?"
The crowd gulped at this unknown person's theory.
"Wouldn't that make her like, the youngest Grandmistress in the known universe?"
"Heavens! This match could go either way, now…"
The Zhònghuà Princess's eyes narrowed.
She certainly didn't expect that much prowess from this crippled princess.
While her mind was sharp at the Leaders' Summit Conference, she'd never exuded any kind of strength.
She clearly wasn't simple, hiding herself incredibly well despite the mockeries thrown at her Royal self.
She must've reached the perfect stage at least once before becoming a Grandmistress –possibly twice- to resist that long against her.
Indeed, having an incredible Moon Core could barely compensate for a lack of a functioning Sun Core coupled with a low cultivation level…
Enough to threaten her despite her low energy supply.
Now, it looked like she'll have to be serious…
Clapping her hands filled with electric might, she pushed her palms outwards.
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Your foe casted [White Tiger's Wrath]!
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An ivory tiger matching Lyshisha's Impundulu stood before her foe, but she gave the crown princess a mocking smile. "Pun-pun, destroy this puny cat!" she said.
The tiger growled as it pounced, its mighty paw poised to tear the legendary bird apart.
But as the thunder tiger neared its foe, the sky roared as the nearby clouds quickly coalesced into a rumbling brown cloud.
The mythical ruler of eastern animal's tragic wail rattled the masses, as its exalted body was pin-cushioned by a litany of dark-brown bolts of lightning.
Cracks appeared all over its body, and in a last cry, disappeared into nothingness.
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You lost some breath! You lost 15% Stamina.
Remaining Stamina : 67.8% --> 52.8%
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Thunder defeating thunder itself.
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Your breath recovers!
Remaining Stamina: 52.8 --> 52.9/100% ¤Recovering 0.1% Stamina every second¤
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Was that even possible?
Apparently so, since the proof was before a gob smacked crowd.
"Take her down, but don't kill her, honey," Lyshisha said.
Meihui's face sank, but she crossed her arms.
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Your foe casted [Black Tortoise Shield]!
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An ebony turtle shell covered the crown princess body, its scales glowing despite the shades of twilight.
But the brown light of judgement fell upon her…
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You lost some breath! You lost 23% Stamina.
Remaining Stamina : 53.8% --> 30.8%
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…destroying her shield, injuring her enough that she spat a mouthful of blood before she fainted.
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Your breath recovers!
Remaining Stamina: 30.8 --> 30.9/100% ¤Recovering 0.1% Stamina every second¤
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"Heavens! A cripple won against our Crown Princess!"
"A 14th rank Grandmaster cripple, you mean… and how many of the four symbols does the Crown Princess master at her age?"
"Does that mean that a person with a broken core will be accepted into the Sect?"
The observers were astounded by the performance given by those two geniuses of a princess. Surely, if nothing untoward happened to them, their prospects would be boundless…
However, Lyshisha's countenance was haggard and pale, painfully recalling her summons as she found herself on all fours with a small headache, trying to catch her breath.
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Third test: 100/100. Perfect.
Results: 200/300.
Congratulations! You are admissible to the Jiu Tian Sect!
Do you wish to become an Outer-Court disciple of the Jiu Tian Sect?
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How could she refuse? That's the whole reason she's here!
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Congratulations! You became an Outer-Court Disciple!
Status Updated.
Uploading the Jiu Tian Sect Map and General Rules…
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Twilight suffused the land when Lyshisha ambled around the Outer Court, their streets alighted by the yellow of the dormitories windows or the red of the hovering lamp balls. Glancing at the stars glorified by nighttide, she had to reach the outskirts of the sect before she would find some suitable vegetation to lie down.
Acknowledging the few people she encountered during her walk, the background din of the nearby lodgings evanesced to the night breeze's whorls.
But even those whorls couldn't truly muffle a few disciples' moans fucking the brain out of themselves under the night's shroud.
And these "events" weren't isolated, since she passed by more than a few public entanglements unbothered by her stride.
She almost tripped herself when she saw a naked female disciple touching herself, her clothes pooling on the floor while her hooded eyes gazed upon a mating couple nearby.
What the hell?
Hey, cultivation was an arduous, sometimes tedious ordeal, so she gets the unwinding, but doing so brazenly within an institution that championed a strict training to rear accomplished students…
Wasn't that too liberal an attitude for them?
She shook her head and walked away.
Sauntering alongside the outer court borders, she noticed an elaborate illusion tucked around an outer court wall.
Indeed, only a mid-ranked letter grandmaster would be able to perceive it…
Is that why would such a trick exist here within the lowest rank court?
Her curiosity got the better of her, so she decided to investigate. Ensuring that no one was in her vicinity, she then proceeded to unravel a slice of it, using small but complex brain letters to see what lay beyond.
A few elder-type characters, evident due to their age and their navy blue robes, were burning alive a group of people lying on the ground around a granite altar upon which rested an ivory head-sized round stone.
The mysterious stone absorbed their energy while their faces contorted in abject misery.
Moments later, as they crumbled into dust, the stone's red glare nearly blinded the place.
Her gasp in horror tilted her mental state ever so slightly, her abilities fluctuating when suddenly one elder panned his head towards her.
Her eyes widening in panic, she shut the crack and ran away…