Xue Lin and the other four watch as Yun walks into the clearing with 12 other demons. Now, there with Yun, 14 demons fighting for the starry night lotus. They held their breath as Yun and the demons stood still.
After Starry Night Lotus starts to bloom, the forest around becomes silent even before Yun and the demons step inside the clearing.
Xue Lin hugged herself," It is so eerie, the forest around become so silent."
Old Gu is running his exercise in combat mode, ready to help Yun at any moment," It is the calm before the storm."
Gao Li," I am worried that all the demons will attack Yun first."
Xue Lin shakes her head while looking at Yun," Nah! It will not happen. They are wild demons not demons from the 'Demon Court'."
Gao Li:" The battle starts. Ohh! They are so fast I cannot even spot them. They are one place and another the next moment."
Grandmaster Ji:" When they move from one place to another under 10 meters, I can see the start, middle, and end position only." The other two grandmasters of the same strength as him also agree.
Old Gu," I can see only two middle positions more instead of one."
Xue Lin," I can spot their movement with my spiritual sense. But it will not do anything good If I cannot react."
Old Gu says, " The Black horned deer is attacking. If Yun does not move, he will get hit." The group sighs in relief when Yun moves from his position. Then, they watch Yun attack the Rock Python next.
Grandmaster Wan slapped his hands on the ground," Why did Grandmaster Yun help the wind wolf? The Rock Python would have finished the Wind Wolf with the Cobra."
Grandmaster Ji snorts hearing Grandmaster Wan." Wan, I knew your eyesight was bad when you were a master warrior but becoming a grandmaster eyesight still did not improve."
Old Gu said," Wan, I do not think I can let you form your team." Ji and Wan are guards of the golden treasure house in Wutan City, with Old Gu in charge.
Wan indignant," What did I say wrong? With the Wind Wolf dead, Yun had to face one less opponent."
The third newly promoted Grandmaster, Gao Jun, said," Wan can't you see the python and the cobra are on the same team?"
Wan looks at the group as idiots," Snakes are cold-blooded, they do not team with their same species. How can a Cobra and Pythom team up." "Woah!" Seeing the fire coming out from Yun against the rock shot by the python.
Ji looks amazed as he sees Yun using the fire element." Sir Gu, Grandmaster Yun is not a warrior but an immortal cultivator. How can he use the immortal attack method?"
Old Gu," We Grandmaster warriors also can use the elemental attack method."
Ji," Sir Gu, you must know what I want to say." He knows about Elemental skills for Grandmasters. After returning to Wutan City, He can also select an elemental skill to learn. He also saw the Grandmaster using elemental skills.
However, Grandmaster Yun's use of fire elementals is different. Yun's fire attack can reach more than one meter and the grandmasters using elemental skills attack only one foot of their body or weapon in their hand.
Old Gu," Yun understood a second-order divine rune." Gao Jun is from an immortal family, so he already knows how Yun can attack with fire elements like an immortal cultivator.
But Wan like Ji are guards of Golden Treasure House. Which is also an immortal force but they belong to the mortal division and are in the lowest totem pole after servers and cleaners.
Wan eyes are glued to the fire tornado that Yun formed but part of his mind is on the conversation between Ji and Sir Gu. " Sir Gu, I thought divine rune can only be used after it is written into something."
Old Gu's heart is racing to know if the python is dead or not and spots a Rhino charging toward Yun.
Yun did not spot the rhino charging at him which made wanted to shout to remind Yun but at that moment he spotted Yun's head turn toward the charging Rhino demon.
He released the breath he did not know, he was holding as he watched Yun dodge the charging Rhino.
Old Gu speaks," If you completely understand a rune. You do not need to write to use the rune. Heaven and Earth will engrave the rune inside your spiritual space and with a thought you can use the rune."
He watched as Yun and 'Rhino Demon' fought at one moment, killed the python the next moment, and then the two started fighting to kill each other.
Xue Lin listened to the conversation and said," Understanding Divine runes will be a waste of time for you three."
Wan and Ji ask back," Why?"
Gao Ju knew the reason of Xue Lin did not want them to comprehend Divine Runes. So he explains," Because we are old. Our main priority must be reaching the peak Grandmaster realm."
Wan and Ji nod, understanding the reason. But Wan is unsatisfied because he admires Grandmaster Yun and wants to be like him:" So comprehending divine runes is useless and only helps in increasing combat effectiveness."
Xue Lin," For you three it is useless." If they comprehend Divine runes they can transform into an immortal cultivator.
But first, they have to advance the peak realm of a grandmaster to transform their body into a spirit body. With their talent, Xue Lin will be surprised they can advance to the 6th realm of grandmaster.
They watched the battle continue after Yun and the Thunder Rhino. They thought the Rhino was an ordinary Black Iron Rhino and were surprised to learn it was a middle first-order demon but showed the strength of a 7th-realm grandmaster.
But their confusion disappeared when the Rhino attacked with a thunder spear from its horn. The Rhino, Yun is fighting is not an ordinary Black Iron Rhino but a Thunder Rhino.
As Yun and the Thunder Rhino fight turns into a stale-ment. They observe the other battles to find along with the Rock python, two other demons lay dead, and one of them is the mother bear.
They find the other bear in rage, as the usual red energy surrounding it turns darker, fighting against a double-headed ape. Watching the fight, they feel the bear is losing.
Everyone in the group watches other battles and always glances at Yun's battle. After around 15 minutes, they find Yun's hand the fire turns into a spear pierces the rhino in its eyes, and comes out from behind its head.
Xue Lin," Before Yun's physical strength reached the seventh realm of grandmaster but not his use application of true energy and fire rule reach the same realm."
Old Gu says," I was feeling nervous. Yun will no match against the three." The three Old Gu mentions are the three demons—' Double Head Ape', ' Evil Thunder Tiger', and ' Earth Lizardon'. No Demons are a match against them.
Now Yun's strength reaches the same as them.
Gao Li," Can Yun participate in the competition after this battle."
Xue Lin," I have a third-rank pill made from Life Dew. If he is seriously injured, I will give him."
Ji," Miss."
Wan," Miss, Lord gave the pill for your use."
Old Gu," Miss, the head of the family gave you the pill for your use. If he learns you gave the pill to others, he will be angry."
Xue Lin," My father gave me the pill that it may help me. And I think I will need Yun's help in the future."
Wan," Grandmaster Yun is talented but he is a warrior like us, and the end point of us warriors is the Grandmaster realm which is only the second realm of immortal practice way."
Seeing Ji agreeing with him, He continues," And finding Spiritual Fruits that develop spirit body depends on luck." As spiritual trees that produce spiritual fruits that develop the spirit body dies after three fruit cycles.
Xue Lin," Who said without spirit body spiritual fruit, one cannot turn their into spirit body."
Ji and Wan turn their attention from the battles to Xue Lin.
Old Gu watches Yun fight the lizard, he fought at the start, speaking," Miss, there is only one successful example of Senor Ji Xuan."
Xue Lin watches as Yun turns the fire into a sword combines the sword energy with fire energy severs one of the lizard's arms from its body and next attack beheaded the lizard." Who said there is only Senior Ji Xuan succeeded."
Gao Li and Old Gu turn their attention to Xue Lin. Gao Jun also turns his attention to Xue Lin, He is a cousin of Gao Li, and Gao Li tells him the story of Senior Ji Xuan to motivate him.
He is a warrior in an immortal cultivation family and a family member born with a spirit body and less talented than him will have a chance to leave him behind.
There are no family members in the third realm of immortal cultivation but they have a chance which may be 1 in 10000 to surpass him. And he will till death struck in grandmaster realm.
If he had known the story of Senior Ji Xuan before, he would have advanced to Grandmaster many years ago not two days ago. After he heard the story from Gao Li, his motivation for practice returned. But He remains skeptical.
Now, Xue Lin is saying others are successful in transforming their body into spirit bodies.
Xue Lin," After I heard Senior Ji Xuan's story, I inquired if there were others who were able to transform their body like Senior Ji Xuan and there were."
Gao Li," Why did not we hear then? They are inspirational stories that should have been spread far and wide."
Xue Li," We live far away from the Central Region of Human Civilization." Senior Ji Xuan's sect, ' Heavenly Crane Sect' is on the edge of the Central Region from their direction.
Old Gu," We can discuss this later, there is like around half an hour for the lotus to fully bloom. There are still 8 demons alive competing with Yun."
Gao Li," Yun and the other three demons look like clearing other demons before fighting each other."
Then they hear a screech of a bird and raise their head to see a bird diving toward an injured Black Horn Deer that a moment ago, killed the wind wolf, Yun saved before.
Bird screech stops everyone fighting and as the bird halfway to attacking the black horn deer which is seriously injured and unable to move or defend. The rest attack with energy on the bird.
After the effect of the energy attack disappears, Xue Lin and others find that energy turmoil of different energies colliding disappears with it the bird.
They watch the double-headed ape walk toward the deer and pull the deer's head from its body, and a fight starts among them.
As the Lotus fully blooms, with Yun, the three demons same strength remain standing around the pond staring at the Lotus. Then they hear Yun speaking," Let us divide the lotus's petals before the lotus closes its petals again."
They watch the three demons understand what Yun is saying and nod at Yun. Yun then gets into the pond and pulls out the eight lotus petals. And Yun after handing the three demons two petals each, walked back toward them after he put the petals in his space bag.
They understood the reason the three Demons and Yun decided to divide the starry night lotus because there was not much time, to decide a winner amongst them. If they fight hard to decide the winner, they may not remain alive to enjoy the prize.
Xue Lin says," When we return to the camp, demons may attack us. So, remember to stay alert. "