"Why, you don't dare to agree?"
Xu Chunniang looked at the middle-aged Confucian scholar with a calm expression, but a hint of sharpness flashed in her eyes.
The middle-aged scholar stiffened his neck and said unwillingly, "Let's compete! Am I afraid of you? Let all the monks present be witnesses, so that the loser won't deny his debt!"
When Qi Yunluo saw this scene, there was worry in his eyes.
"The other party is from the White Tiger Li family and has been a third-level formation master for many years. Compared to him, Fellow Daoist Xu is too careless!"
Although he had been traveling with Xu Chunniang for some time, he already knew that the other party had extraordinary skills in the art of formation.
But in any competition, there will be winners and losers.
If he lost, not only would he miss out on the inheritance, but he would also lose a top-grade spirit stone.
Even if they win, it would be tantamount to rubbing the Li family's face on the ground.
The formation master who came from one of the ten great families actually lost to an unknown independent cultivator.
It is ultimately unwise to offend the Li family.
Bai Lu shook her head slightly. "You and I both know this, so how could Fellow Daoist Xu not understand it? But in many cases, blindly tolerating will only make the other party more rampant."
Qi Yunluo deeply agreed with this. He had an average status in the clan and had been severely suppressed for a period of time in his early years when he had not yet formed his elixir.
He tolerated it silently during those days, but the other party became more arrogant.
In the end, he found an opportunity to retaliate, which made those people quiet down for a long time.
Qi Yunluo took out the life plate, held the life beads in his hand, recited the spell silently, and then threw the life beads into the plate.
He planned to tell Daoist Xu's fortune.
Bai Lu glanced at him and shook her head, "This divination is difficult to come true."
Qi Yunluo ignored it and stared at the constantly rolling life beads.
However, the fact was just as Bai Lu said, the life bead soon lost the support of the black and white energies and fell onto the life plate.
He stared at Bai Lu with wide eyes, "Your ability to predict the future is too strong, isn't it?"
"It's just a slight reaction according to the law of cause and effect. It's not like foresight."
Bai Lu shook her head, her tone indifferent.
"The art of divination is born out of luck and achieved with energy. Your luck is insufficient, so isn't it natural that you will fail? Unless you add Qilin's true energy, you may have a chance to succeed."
Upon hearing this, Qi Yunluo quickly put away the horoscope and horoscope beads.
"Qilin Qi is too difficult to cultivate. I have worked so hard for so long and only got a little bit. How can it withstand such consumption?"
Bai Lu curled her lips slightly, she knew it would be like this.
Qi Yunluo sighed in his heart, "The talents of your Bai family are too strong. In your opinion, can Fellow Daoist Xu win?"
Bai Lu said without hesitation, "She can."
“Is this what you sensed?”
"No."
Bai Lu smiled slightly and looked towards the stone gate with a hint of meaning.
"Friend Xu is a steady person. Since she dares to take out the best spirit stones as a bet, she must be sure of it."
"So you were just guessing."
Qi Yunluo was speechless. He turned his head to look at her with a serious look on his face.
"Then why on earth did you choose to go with a casual cultivator like Fellow Daoist Xu instead of going to the Ao Family and Feng Family?"
"It's okay to tell you."
Bai Lu chuckled, her black and white eyes looked uniquely pure, "Intuition."
"Just a hunch?"
Qi Yunluo couldn't believe it and felt that Bai Lu was being too reckless.
"My Bai family always acts based on intuition. In addition, from my perception, Fellow Daoist Xu's aura is pure, unlike the mixed and chaotic aura of other cultivators."
Bai Lu finished speaking and started walking towards the stone gate. "The rules of the competition have been set. Let's go and take a look."
Qi Yunluo came back to his senses, quickly collected his thoughts and followed Bai Lu.
Anyway, he didn't know whether Brother Xu's aura was pure or not, but as for Bai Lu, he was determined to follow closely.
Seeing the two people coming, Xu Chunniang nodded slightly at them.
Qi Yunluo was originally a little uneasy, as his divination had not yet come true and he was always unsure.
But when he saw Xu Chunniang so calm and composed, his heart suddenly calmed down.
On the other side, the middle-aged Confucian scholar was gathering his strength, looking confident of victory.
A female cultivator who was slightly taller than an ordinary person and carrying a heavy sword on her back stood beside him, her heroic brows slightly furrowed. She was Li Luofei, the young master of the White Tiger Clan.
She had always been respectful and courteous to her conceited third uncle, but his behavior this time was indeed a bit impulsive.
With Uncle San's reputation and qualifications, it was only natural that he won.
But if she loses, it will be the Li family's reputation that will be lost.
Li Luofei said in a dissatisfied tone, "Uncle San, your behavior this time is a bit presumptuous."
There were a total of four formation masters from the clan this time, and my third uncle was the only level three formation master among them.
If he loses, there will be no more skilled formation masters in the clan.
A trace of guilt flashed across the middle-aged scholar's eyes, but was quickly filled with confidence.
"The other party has only learned the formation for a few days, yet he dares to be so arrogant? I know what I am doing, so you don't have to worry too much."
Li Luofei frowned secretly. Even if his uncle won the competition this time, if he continued to let his uncle do what he wanted, it might lead to disaster in the future.
The sea cultivation world is vast and boundless. Although the Three Immortal Islands and the Ten Ancestral Families are outstanding, no one knows how many hermits and masters are hidden in such a vast world of cultivation.
If you accidentally hit a wall and lose your life, that's a small matter, but if you implicate the entire family, then you deserve to be put to death.
Li Luofei thought to himself and his tone became a little tougher.
"Uncle San, I know the whole story. It was you who started it. How about you give in and cancel the bet?"
"What? You want me to give in?"
A trace of shame and anger flashed across the face of the middle-aged scholar, and he stared at Li Luofei unexpectedly, "You are the young master of the White Tiger Clan, but you are so ungrateful?"
If he really gave in, it would be a joke! He wouldn't have to go out again.
"It's not that I'm being disloyal, I just hope that Third Uncle can put the overall situation first..."
"I won the bet just by chance, it won't affect the overall situation at all! How can a junior like you interfere in my work?"
The middle-aged scholar closed his eyes in displeasure. "No need to say more. If I really affect the clan's plans, I will go back and accept the punishment."
Seeing his uncle being so stubborn, Li Luofei was very angry.
She admitted that her third uncle was a master of formations, but there is an old saying that there are always people better than you.
Even she, the young master of the White Tiger Clan, believed that she had taken advantage of her family and bloodline to be able to practice smoothly all the way to the present, and did not dare to call herself a peerless genius.
However, many members of the clan, including my third uncle, do not have this awareness and think they are rare geniuses in the world.
Once they lost the support of family resources, how could they have achieved what they have today
Li Luofei took a deep breath to calm himself. The strength of dominating an entire continent made the tribesmen arrogant and lost their humility.
Perhaps only when a real crisis comes will they wake up.
I'm afraid by that time it will be too late.
Li Luofei had mixed feelings. On the one hand, she hoped that her third uncle would win so as not to affect subsequent trials.
But on the other hand, she secretly hoped that her third uncle would fall and learn a lesson.