"You're really quite the chatterbox!"

  The wolf spirits, each the size of a calf, were ing and attacked from the side simultaneously.

  A te-stage first-level demo could already use spells. The three wolf spirits spat out several wind bdes and then pounced.

  "Beast, you're quite treacherous."

  Lin Hao pulled out a Golden Shield Talismaing a light shield in front of himself.

  Jiang Mingfei excimed in surprise, "Didn't you say you didn't have a? How e you still have a top-grade talisman?"

  "Fool, do you believe everything I say?"

  Jiang Mingfei's face turned red with anger as he shouted, "Tear him apart, rip him to shreds for me!"

  The three wolf spirits' eyes turned blood red, being even more ferocious, their fur bristling and cws sharp as knives.

  Boom, boom, boom!

  After withstanding the wolf spirits' wind bde attack, the golden light shield shattered. The three wolves seized the opportunity, poung like lightning.

  "Heh, just in time."

  Lin Hao's lips curled slightly, and ten Fme Bdes gathered before him.

  "My goodness, how did he do that?" someone excimed.

  "I also practice fire teiques, and at the ninth level of Qi Refining, I only gather three Fme Bdes."

  On the high ptform, Feng gyue, the master of Great Bamboo Peak, had a hint of surprise in her beautiful eyes. This little fellow had actually dehe fire spiritual energy in his body into liquid form, taking a uh.

  Murong Qinxue licked her entig red lips, murmuring, "Iing... iing."

  "Impossible!" Jiang Mingfei's eyes widened as he shouted madly, "It's fake, it must be fake. How your spiritual energy be so abundant?"

  His response was the wailing of the three wolf spirits.

  The ten Fme Bdes sshed together, causing the wolf spirits' soul images to flicker.

  Lin Hao really didn't want to tinue fighting with the oppo, so he flew into the air with his sword, his expression indifferent.

  "Sparks!"

  Suddenly, tless sparks appeared, like stars, bzing towards Jiang Mingfei.

  Boom, crackle!

  The fmes collided with the enemy, making explosive sounds.

  Jiang Mingfei's hair and beard were scorched by the fmes, emitting a burnt smell as he fell to the ground in a sorry state, with no spiritual energy left in his body.

  Seeing Lin Hao gather six more Fme Bdes, a trace of fear fshed in his eyes. He couldn't uand why, even though he hadn't seen Lin Hao take any pills, he had such abundant spiritual energy.

  Am I going to lose? No, I 't lose!

  His face twisted as he transmitted a message to the protagonist, "Lin Hao, you better lose to me, or I'll make sure you 't take a step in the sect."

  Lin Hao pletely ignored Jiang Mingfei's threat, lightly anding, "Go!"

  Boom!

  The fire bdes trailed fmes, slig through the weeds like a swift wind.

  "Boy, how dare you!"

  An elder's voice roared like thunder.

  Lin Hao's Fme Bdes were crushed by a giant hand of spiritual energy, turning into tless earth-yellow light spots.

  "You little brat, this is a tour, and you dare to go for the kill!"

  The elder, like an enraged lion, raised his hand, ung thousands of earth-yellow spikes at Lin Hao like a barrage of arrows.

  "Ssh!"

  A gentle voice, like a whisper from a secluded valley, echoed as the sky donned a crimson hue. Blood-like clouds densed into a giant fming sword!

  Boom!

  The sword sshed through the spikes.

  "Master Feng, what is this?" the elder asked with some dissatisfa.

  "You want to kill a disciple of my Great Bamboo Peak?"

  The elder's eyebrows shot up in anger as he said hatefully, "It was this brat who wao kill my grandson, so I..."

  Bang!

  With a wave of her delicate hand, Feng gyue sent the elder flying hundreds of feet away.

  She looked down at the crowd, speaking calmly, "Even if my Great Bamboo Peak's disciple makes a mistake, only I punish them."

  "e with me."

  Before Lin Hao could respond, he felt his body being pulled by a force, disappearing into the sky in the blink of an eye.

  At the peak of Great Bamboo Peak.

  Feng gyue sat on a lotus ptform carved from cold jade, her fiery red dress uo cover her fair, jade-like feet.

  Her phoenix eyes seemed to see through everything, making Lin Hao feel as if he were sitting on pins and needles.

  "Peak Master..."

  "When did you reach Foundatioablishment?"

  Lin Hao felt like a naked baby in front of the woman, with s to hide.

  He replied seriously, "Disciple reached Foundatioablishment just yesterday."

  "A breakthrough in the midst of battle?" Feng gyue raised her elegant eyebrows and tinued, "Why didn't you directly reveal your Foundatioablishment strength to defeat your oppo?"

  "Disciple just reached Foundatioablishment and thought I could defeat a Qi Refining cultivator without using my full strength."

  "You pn to reveal you're at Foundatioablishment during the finals, don't you?"

  Uh... this woman's insight is sharp, Lin Hao thought to himself, answering holy, "Yes, Peak Master."

  "The path of cultivation requires decisiveness and crity of mind, not always seeking stability."

  If I were as invincible as you, I'd be as bold as anyone, but the key is, I'm just a newly established Foundatioablishment cultivatoing all out would be c death.

  "The Peak Master's lesson is well taken. Disciple will remember it."

  "Fet it, I'm not good at teag disciples." Feng gyue's jade feet were together, her toes as tender as tofu, pyfully moving.

  "You wouldn't listen anyway."

  She tapped her ste bag, and two streams of light appeared before her.

  "Here is an offealisman, equivalent to a full-strength strike of a Foundatioablishment cultivator at the Great Perfe stage."

  "This bottle tains pills for rec spiritual energy, ten times more effective than Spirit Recovery Pills."

  "Thank you, Peak Master!"

  Lin Hao was overjoyed and expressed his gratitude.

  "Go, prepare well, and strive for the championship tomorrow."

  "Yes."

  Lin Hao took his leave upon hearing this.

  After the top six advao the top three, there would be a rest day to allow disciples to be in peak dition for the match.

  Lin Hao returo his cave dwelling, first meditating to restore his spiritual energy.

  Then he prepared to refialismans. He took out the talisman given by the Peak Master from his ste bag, which tained a sealed sword energy, equivalent to a full-strength strike of a Foundatioablishment cultivator at the Great Perfe stage.

  He decided to keep this talisman as a trump card, sidering the backgrounds of his uping oppos, who might have some hidden teiques.

  Unfortunately, with his current talisman crafting skills, he couldn't refine sed-level top-grade talismans, and even low-grade ones were a challenge.

  Spreading out the talisman paper, he picked up his brush and began drawing, fog ily, ultimately creating three Palm Thualismans.

  He wasn't very satisfied with this result, so he took out a pile of materials for first-level talismans.

  In truth, first-level talismans were almost useless for Foundatioablishment cultivators, but he believed that with enough quantity, miracles could happen at critical moments.