In the private room, after watching the battle between Zhou Yuncong and Lin Tong, Eloza, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stood up and looked at Xu Yunsheng.
His gaze wasn't as sharp and fiery as before, but it was still as arrogant as before.
"I've heard a saying before, but I never took it to heart, but now I feel that it makes some sense," Eloza said calmly, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and we have to take it one step at a time."
"No matter what level Zhou Yuncong is at, I have to fight you first. If you're stronger than Zhou Yuncong, then there's no need to talk about anything else. If Zhou Yuncong is stronger than you, then I have to surpass you first before I can challenge him."
Xu Yunsheng stood up and looked at Eloza with a complicated expression. He didn't respond to Eloza's words and simply nodded his head, "Let's go." After saying that, he walked out of the quiet room and headed for the arena.
Eloza frowned slightly and followed him out of the quiet room.
When Xu Yunsheng and Eloza entered the arena and Xu Yunsheng began to designate the environment of the arena, the Xuanmen Tianzong cultivators in the Spreading Law Hall all became spirited.
In the past, the two of them had fought many times. Not only did the disciples of the Qian Tian Hall pay attention, but the disciples of the other caves would also come to watch.
Inside the All-Heavens Hall, Lin Feng sat on the main seat and leisurely smiled.
The outcome of this battle was already within his expectations, and there was no suspense.
Xu Yunsheng would definitely lose.
As the saying goes, as long as you have the heart to lose, as long as your opponent isn't a pig, you'll get what you want.
However, Lin Feng believed that the process would be a very exciting battle between a dragon and a tiger, and the final result would be the same as the previous battles between the two of them. The difference between victory and defeat would only be a hair's breadth.
Reality proved Lin Feng's expectations. The process of the battle was even more intense and bloody than the previous battles between the two of them.
In the end, Ying Roza paid a heavy price to defeat Xu Yunsheng by a single move, successfully advancing to the next round.
Because Xu Yunsheng's fatal attack had been neutralized by the Spreading Law Hall's magical power restriction, the two of them eventually came out of the arena. On the other hand, Eirozha's injuries were even more serious. It was so serious that if the sect didn't treat him, let alone participate in the next round of the competition, he might even die from his injuries after a period of time.
The actual outcome of this tragic battle was almost equal to both sides suffering heavy losses and perishing together.
The group of young cultivators in the Great Law Hall were mesmerized. Even a few Yuanying ancestors repeatedly nodded their heads as they watched the battle between the two Foundation Establishment disciples.
The battle between Xu Yunsheng and Ying Roza had not only displayed their outstanding magic power, it had also been a battle of wills and temperaments.
When the young cultivators of the major forces saw this battle, they all asked themselves, what would the result be if they were on the other side?
Most of them shook their heads in their hearts.
Some of the cultivators who had participated in the spell assembly but were eliminated were originally unconvinced, such as Fan Xuefeng, Shi Jingyun, Shi Shaoqian, Kang Hai, and the others. They felt that the first and second stages of the test were too coincidental.
But now that they saw the battle between Xu Yunsheng and Ying Roza, they had to admit that even if they entered the top eight, they would still be defeated if they met either one of them.
While the disciples of Xuanmen Tianzong exclaimed in admiration, they all secretly felt that it was a pity, "What a pity, it would be great if Senior Brother Xu and Senior Brother Ying Roza didn't meet each other. Both of them had the strength to enter the top four, but now Senior Brother Xu can only regretfully stop in the top eight."
Xu Yunsheng himself was very calm.
In the All Heaven Great Hall, Lin Feng looked at Zhu Yi and smiled. Zhu Yi nodded, stood up and said, "I'll go down to take a look at my disciple, I'll be taking my leave for a while. Seniors, please forgive me." With that, his figure disappeared from the hall.
As Ying Roza's master, it was only right for Zhu Yi to show some concern for him. It was just like how Wang Lin had gone to investigate when Li Xingfei had been heavily injured.
At this moment, Ying Roza was unconscious and was sent out by Shi Tianhao. Xu Yunsheng, who had been sent out by the Great Law Hall's magic power restriction, was waiting outside.
Shi Tianhao glanced at him and said with a smile, "Send him to a separate quiet room, second senior brother will come and treat your injuries."
"Yes, Little Martial Uncle." Xu Yunsheng nodded, used his magic power to wrap up Ying Roza, turned around, and left.
Although he was defeated, stopped in the top eight, and even lost to his old enemy, Xu Yunsheng's mental state was much better, as if he had removed the shackles that had been shackling him for a long time.
He came to the quiet room and saw a purple-clothed scholar sitting inside, calmly looking at him.
Zhu Yi took Ying Roza and first treated his injuries, not in a hurry to speak to Xu Yunsheng. Xu Yunsheng also stood there calmly, silently waiting.
For a moment, Xu Yunsheng's thoughts drifted, and his life's experiences flashed through his mind.
On the surface, his identity was that of a Great Qin official's family, and he didn't seem to have any relationship with the Great Zhou Dynasty, and there was even hatred between them.
But in reality, his position in the Xu family was very awkward. To be precise, Xu Yunsheng's surname wasn't Xu, and he didn't even know what his surname was.
Many years ago, during a conflict between the Great Zhou and the Great Qin, his mother was kidnapped by the Great Zhou people, and after ten months of pregnancy, she gave birth to him and his twin sister. To his mother, the siblings were a disgrace.
Once his mother escaped, the siblings were abandoned, and the two children depended on each other. Later, they became disciples of someone, and they were chosen by the Great Zhou Dynasty's spy agency.
It just so happened that after his mother returned to the Xu family, she did not have any children, and her husband, the Xu family leader, also had no children. Under the pressure of the family elders, he sent people to the Great Zhou Dynasty to search for the siblings, lying that she had been pregnant before she was kidnapped.
Just like that, Xu Yunsheng returned to the Xu family. At the beginning, he did not reveal his cultivation talent. In reality, he was just a chess piece that the Great Zhou Dynasty's spy agency had set up in the Great Qin Dynasty.
The Xu family had their suspicions, so although Xu Yunsheng was the legitimate son of the family leader, he was actually treading on thin ice.
After he revealed his cultivation talent, he was sent by the Great Zhou Dynasty to go to the Sand State City to become a disciple of Xuanmen Tianzong.
Thinking about that, an extremely complicated expression appeared on Xu Yunsheng's face. To him, the following days were the happiest, most relaxed, and carefree time of his life.
A relaxed atmosphere, friendly fellow sect members, a brilliant master, a powerful sect, everything was so perfect.
But the more it was like this, the more fear grew in the depths of Xu Yunsheng's heart. It was as if there was a voice constantly telling him, "All of this does not belong to you!"
The fear became stronger and stronger, as if an extremely heavy shackle was placed on his body, making him feel suffocated.
This intense fear made Xu Yunsheng not dare to imagine what would await him if his identity was exposed one day.
Xu Yunsheng was not afraid of death.
But his master Zhu Yi's disappointed sigh, the disdainful and surprised gazes of his fellow sect members, being expelled from Xuanmen Tianzong, leaving the environment that made him feel like a perfect home, all of this made Xu Yunsheng unable to breathe.
When the sect opened for the second time, the appearance of the Heart Reflecting Staircase caused Xu Yunsheng's fear to soar to the peak. Although disciples like them who opened the sect for the first time did not need to walk the Heart Reflecting Staircase to take the test, Xu Yunsheng did not doubt that Patriarch Lin Feng had the ability to see through him.
Afterwards, in order to avoid having a guilty conscience, he, Liu Xiafeng, Li Xingfei, and the others went through the test of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires in the Purple Qi Pagoda. Xu Yunsheng was even more anxious. He faintly felt that he had been exposed.
But Lin Feng, Zhu Yi, and the others did not say anything. Afterwards, their attitude towards him did not change at all. Their cultivation, their daily interactions, their arrangements to go out for training, everything was the same as usual. They treated him the same as they treated Ying Roza and the others.
This made Xu Yunsheng slightly surprised, but he also constantly numbed himself, "Perhaps, I haven't been exposed …"
In fact, he knew better than anyone that the truth might be completely opposite, but he was still willing to be like an ostrich burying its head in the desert, deceiving himself.
Just so that he could live a few more days like this.
And also for his sister, his only family, the only person he truly cared about before he entered Xuanmen Tianzong.
Other than his mother, even the Xu family did not know of his sister's existence. When his mother asked about his sister, Xu Yunsheng's answer was that she was already dead.
Only Xu Yunsheng himself knew that his sister had always been in the Great Zhou Empire's control.
"If I explain everything to the sect, the sect should have the ability to help me save my sister. But will the sect do this? For a spy with ulterior motives like me? " All kinds of worries, fears, and contradictions kept fermenting in Xu Yunsheng's heart, causing this usually smart and calm young man to completely lose his composure. He muddled along, muddling along.
Sometimes, he even hypnotized himself, "I … I am Xuanmen Tianzong's disciple, Xu Yunsheng! Not a disciple of the Great Qin Empire's Xu family, not a spy of the Great Zhou Empire, not … not that bastard who doesn't even know who his father is! "
Under Xu Yunsheng's modest appearance, there was arrogance, and in the depths of this arrogance, there was extreme inferiority.
This forced him to do his best and be number one no matter what situation he was in.
He hoped that he could throw away all the burdens of the past and wholeheartedly become the most outstanding disciple of the sect. But every time he thought about his sister who was still in the hands of the Great Zhou Empire, his beautiful dream would instantly turn into a nightmare, and then he would wake up from the nightmare.
As a result, while breaking out in cold sweat, Xu Yunsheng felt even more conflicted. He felt as if his brain had turned into paste, and as he worried about personal gains and losses, he also became stupid.
For the past three years, Xu Yunsheng had been tormented between a beautiful dream and a nightmare.
Until the Kunlun Mountain Dharma Assembly this time, when the Great Zhou Empire urged him more and more urgently, and he was getting closer and closer to the position of first seat disciple, Xu Yunsheng's mind gradually became clear, and he finally made up his mind.
"Do you have anything you want to say to your master?" Zhu Yi's words brought Xu Yunsheng back to his senses. He saw that Zhu Yi had already finished treating Ymroza. Ymroza's injuries had stabilized, and he had fallen into a deep sleep to recuperate.
Zhu Yi turned around and looked calmly at Xu Yunsheng. His eyes were calm, as if everything was under his control.
In the past few years, if Xu Yunsheng had faced Zhu Yi's gaze, he might have been even more terrified and on the verge of a mental breakdown.
But now, Xu Yunsheng, who had already made up his mind, was extremely calm. Slowly, he knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Yi.
"This disciple has sinned, and I hereby report this to my master."
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