After ascending the stone pillar, Liu Xiangxiu calmed down.
He was all too familiar with this feeling.
Before coming here, he had already practiced it many times. Coupled with his true name, Tian Qi, he already saw the End Realm Kui Yuan as his prey.
And after ascending the stone pillar, the sense of urgency he felt when dealing with Yan Li disappeared. It was like a tiger returning to the forest, a lion king returning to its tribe, and an eagle returning to the sky. When everything in front of him was prey, the original prey wasn't so important anymore.
And in his eyes, the only one who could truly be considered a threat was Yu Qiuyu.
It was said that back then, the Mountain Sea True Monarch had accepted him as a disciple because of his rare true name.
He reckoned that as a third-class Celestial being, coupled with the fact that he was already Tian Qi, there was absolutely no possibility of him losing to Yu Qiuyu. But with the philosophy of knowing oneself and knowing the enemy, he still decided to investigate first.
He released the Celestial Crow. Although the examinees were scattered widely, the Celestial Crow's special ability was enough to see all of them.
However, he didn't find Yu Qiuyu's position. Instead, he inadvertently saw Yan Li.
He saw Yan Li, not just through ordinary means, but through the Celestial Crow's Heavenly Eye. This look almost made him laugh. Those crows that filled the sky were as weak as the feathers that had fallen from his true name, and could only caw randomly within 50 steps of his territory.
Then he saw the actions of Wang Yan and Xia Wanli. The two's true names could be said to be extremely humiliating, wantonly tormenting Yan Li in his territory, causing this unaffiliated examinee to suffer a crushing defeat. Seeing this made him very happy.
He originally didn't care about Yan Li anymore, and had also decided not to bother with him anymore. It was enough to let Wang Yan and Xia Wanli deal with him. But suddenly, for some unknown reason, he used the Celestial Crow's special ability to carefully investigate Yan Li.
This investigation immediately made him break out in a cold sweat.
The Heaven Eye was filled with towering killing intent.
On the surface, Yan Li was just sitting there, but in his Heaven Eye, he could see the deathly gray color around him. Every speck of it, every inch of it, and even the dust in the air were roaring violently. He sat there calmly like a primordial ferocious beast that was quietly hibernating, hiding his claws and fangs as he coldly watched his prey strut around in his territory, waiting for the prey to enter his hunting range before revealing his fangs and delivering a fatal blow.
This observation scared him so much that he broke out in a cold sweat.
However, he was not impatient. Instead, he continued to observe and think.
His greatest strength was his calmness. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been willing to be mocked for going back on the bet rather than running around naked and making a mistake that could very well lead to him being expelled from the sect.
He was very clear that without his identity as a disciple of the Five Elements Court, he was nothing. He might even be reduced to a miserable unaffiliated person.
That's right. In his eyes, unaffiliated cultivators were pitiful creatures who couldn't be pitied but stubbornly clung to the Jambu Realm.
This person clearly had a powerful true name. Why did he hide it in front of those two?
With such doubts, he first thought of Yan Li's purpose.
He clearly knew that it was impossible for him to enter the first ranking, but he still came. This meant that he had not given up hope.
Cultivation Discourse was ranked 10th. If he wanted to enter the first ranking, it was not even enough to get the Prime Judge in this round, unless....
His heart skipped a beat and his gaze fell on Wang and Xia. "What if they die?"
This thought instantly made him feel like he was sitting on pins and needles.
If the two people ranked ahead of Yan Li died, then his Cultivation Discourse score would naturally be moved up by two places. If he got the Prime Judge in this round, his chances of entering the first ranking would increase infinitely.
Thinking of this, Liu Xiangxiu could not help but be shocked by Yan Li's meticulous thinking. If such a person was allowed to join the Confucian Orthodoxy, Liu Xiangxiu would definitely be the one to suffer in the future.
Thinking back to the finger observation at the Heart Speaking Lake, this person had been in control of the situation from the beginning to the end, walking ahead of him step by step, causing him to lose the bet, and he still couldn't figure out how he lost.
When he thought up to here, he couldn't help but be even more determined to eliminate Chen Xi.
"Heaven's Eye!" With a low roar, the Celestial Crow soared into the sky.
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"Liu Xiangxiu, he's my prey! Don't interfere!" Wang Yan's face changed.
Yan Li happened to know this monster called Celestial Crow.
He had read about it in the Illustrated Book of True Names. It was an incredible monster.
Throughout history, every cultivator who had awakened this monster had obtained extraordinary achievements.
There was no possibility of repetition of the true names of those above the third level of the Heavenly Realm.
Because each of them had a name, it was impossible for them to appear on a second person. For example, Ji Wuyi's Vermillion Bird was one of the four sacred beasts, and it represented planet Vermillion Bird.
This Celestial Crow was one of the best of the third level of the Heavenly Realm, and it had a terrifying ability, which was to point the Great Dao directly to the root. Its Heaven's Eye contained the path of the Great Dao, and it could illuminate the true knowledge of the Great Dao. Nothing could hide from its Heaven's Eye.
If he was illuminated by its Heaven's Eye, what Yan Li was hiding would be exposed.
He couldn't expose himself at this time.
Moreover, judging from its aura, this black light had already surpassed the scope of the true name and entered the realm of the present world.
In other words, the other party wanted to kill him here.
In other words, the other party's true name had already been enlightened, and it could already affect the realm of the present world. Moreover, Confucian orthodoxy definitely had a way to use the true name, unlike the unaffiliated people, who could only develop the true name to the level of a consummate skill. The most typical examples were Yan Chaoyang and Shen Liuyun.
However, Liu Xiangxiu was different. With this attack, Yan Li immediately felt the threat of death.
He didn't expect things to turn out so suddenly. A cold light flashed in his eyes, and just as he was about to come up with a plan, something else happened, causing him to stop.
He only felt a rising momentum behind his head, and then he heard Huang Shaoyu's loud exclamation, "Qiuyu!"
With a rumbling sound, mountains rose from the void in all directions, piercing through the clouds. The mountains stood tall, creating an indescribable pressure on each other. The black light emitted by the Celestial Crow was crushed into powder by this pressure.
"Yu Qiuyu!" Liu Xiangxiu was furious. "I advise you to get out of my way right now!"
"Hmph!" Yu Qiuyu's cold snort echoed among the mountains, like an invisible sword shuttling back and forth.
"A Thousand Feet Tall Wall, Strong Without Desires!" Huang Shaoyu shook his head in amazement. "Every time I see it, I find it unbelievable."
As soon as Yan Li heard this, he understood that this was Yu Qiuyu's true name: A Thousand Feet Tall Wall, Strong Without Desires.
He had already seen the true name of the peach blossom, so the true name of the mountain was naturally not strange.
The strange thing was, why did Liu Xiangxiu suddenly seem to have gone crazy?
The next moment, he knew the answer.
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