CHAPTER 37: SU RUYUE IS TRYING TOO HARD

"Girl, aren’t you trying too hard? Why don’t you just...admit defeat?"

Wu Lanyin looked at Su Ruyue in front, disheveled with blood flowing from her mouth, and asked awkwardly.

She thought this fight would be very easy to win as her opponent was in the same realm as her.

After all, as a body cultivator, unless someone was a genius, she could easily win over an opponent in a similar realm just by the advantage of her tough body.

In fact, she was even sure to win over Eight Qi Condensation cultivators if she used her secret technique.

And when the fight started, just like she thought, Su Ruyue was no match for her. Even her hardest attack couldn’t penetrate her aura, let alone injure her.

It was a sure win.

Only, surprisingly, even after injuring this much and showing clear supremacy, Su Ruyue showed no sign of submission. She just...went even crazier, attacking her with all she got, aiming at her weak spot.

To be honest, Wu Lanyin felt a little annoyed.

"No, let’s try again."

Unfortunately for her, Su Ruyue didn’t listen to her and once again used her movement technique, getting closer and closer.

Although she was disheveled, with wounds all over her body and blood spilling from her mouth, her rapt attention didn’t waver even for a second during the entire match.

She seemed hellbent on winning this fight.

"Bang!"

"Ugk..."

Unfortunately, this wasn’t some shonen manga where sheer willpower could magically make you stronger.

Wu Lanyin had had enough of Su Ruyue.

She’d shown restraint, giving her a chance to admit defeat. But since Su Ruyue refused, Lanyin dodged the shimmering sword, caught her by the shoulder, and threw her out of the ring without mercy.

She couldn’t afford to waste any more energy on this match as there were still others ahead.

[Fifth Arena, Wu Lanyin vs Su Ruyue, Wu Lanyin wins.]

As soon as Lanyin threw her opponent out of the ring, Qui Ronghai immediately announced the result, causing the crowd to cheer her up in frenzy.

"Cough...cough..."

Meanwhile, Su Ruyue felt a little embarrassed to be thrown like that, so she pushed herself up from the ground, coughing up a bit of blood.

"Are you alright?"

Just as she was getting dizzy, having a little hard time balancing her footing, she felt a warm hand circling around her waist and a soft voice asking about her well-being.

The person was none other than Mo Zhiran, who was looking at her with a weird look.

He just couldn’t understand why she had to try this hard when she knew she was no match.

"Yeah, don’t worry. It’s just minor injuries. I was just too unlucky to have her as my first opponent. Sigh... I got someone in the same realm as me, but she had to be a body cultivator."

Ruyue nodded to Zhiran before blaming her luck. She seemed a little down that Wu Lanyin defeated her in the match.

"Take this!"

Zhiran could tell that the injury she suffered wasn’t as light as she claimed.

Her Qi and blood were already in disorder because she had forced her Qi too far. How could such an injury be considered light?

At least this injury was enough to affect her upcoming fight, unless she took some healing pills. But healing pills were expensive, and Zhiran didn’t have enough time to complete the outer sect mission to earn the merit points.

Otherwise, he would have given her just that, instead of the Qi Recovery Pill in the bottle in his hand.

"No need. I have my own. Just...let me take a rest."

Su Ruyue didn’t accept his bottle of pills, though. Rather, she awkwardly removed his hands from her willow waist without saying anything before sitting on the open ground.

Then, she took out a similar bottle from her storage, pouring out a few Qi Recovery Pills and stuffing them into her mouth, closing her eyes right after.

She was quite fast throughout the entire process, not allowing Zhiran to react.

But still, his quick eyes managed to see something on the pills she took.

’She has Rejuvenation Pills with her? And that too Middle grade ones?’

Zhiran had been a Gold Core cultivator, after all, and had seen the world.

Although Ruyue was fast and the pill was hidden among a bunch of low-grade Qi Recovery Pills, he immediately spotted a Middle-Grade Rejuvenation Pill.

A Middle-Grade Rejuvenation Pill costs 200 merit points to redeem in the outer sect, and the usual outer sect mission only gives 20 points. Just to get one pill, you’d need to complete ten missions.

It was incredibly costly. But its effect was immediate, though, as could be seen from Ruyue recovering rapidly already.

If someone had such a pill, that person could risk more and fight better.

’No wonder she wasn’t afraid of getting injured and tried her best against Wu Lanyin.’

Zhiran thought, realizing something.

’But...why the heck is this girl hiding them from me?’

He asked internally, finding it quite odd.

’Did she think I would snatch her pills?’

Zhiran was speechless, then shook his head. He knew Ruyue wasn’t like that.

’Wait a minute... did she disappear earlier to get that pill from the Affairs Hall?’

Just as he was clueless, suddenly, Zhiran remembered how Ruyue had gone to the Affairs Hall, almost missing her match.

When he asked why, she dodged the question while blushing.

Now that he thought about it, she might have gone to redeem those Rejuvenation Pills with her merit points.

It was just... he still couldn’t understand why she would do that, not to mention hiding from him to this extent.

[Second Arena, Mo Tianyu vs Liang Feng!]

Just when he was confused, a sudden loud shout from Elder Qui Ronghai woke him up from his stupor. It seemed it was finally the turn of his enemy, Mo Tianyu.

And his opponent seemed to be just as strong as him.

’Liang Feng...?’

’That sword genius who died early in the Blood Mist Valley?’