78: Chapter 78 A Little Bit of Daily Life (Part Two)

"Sister Yan..." Ying Linglong suddenly burst into tears with a wail.

"Hey, hey... Little Sister Linglong, why are you suddenly crying?"

This sudden turn of events left Xing Yaoyan feeling somewhat at a loss.

"Sister Yan... your words feel ominous... it sounds just like a last will and testament before going to one's death..."

"Haha... how could that be..."

Xing Yaoyan gently stroked the black fur ball in her arms that was sobbing intermittently.

Going to one's death, huh... It really does sound quite like it...

Ever since Xing Yaoyan learned the specific details of the "Blood Refining" from Ying Feng, she immediately felt the difficulty of this trial concerning her Saintess assessment.

This was truly a life-or-death trial; if she survived, she would be the Saintess of the Demon Race and could utilize the platform and resources of the Kingdom of Myriad Demons to recuperate and improve her strength; failure meant becoming a pile of bones, food in the mouths of other Star Beasts...

But... I will absolutely not fail this time!

Thinking of this, the aura around the White Wolf Girl suddenly changed.

Ying Linglong stopped crying.

She felt Xing Yaoyan's confidence, the last time she felt it was when she single-handedly wiped out one hundred Prodigies of the Yao Race.

She knew this was Sister Yan comforting her through action.

"Okay, Sister Yan, I understand... I wish you a smooth assessment."

"Thank you."

After the small interlude, Xing Yaoyan soon brought Ying Linglong to the secret base where she had been Cultivating for the past few days—a bamboo forest on the edge of the Imperial City.

Not only was the scenery here good, but the "rustling" sound of the swaying bamboo could also effectively block out external noise, allowing her to better calm her mind.

"Yan... Sister Yan, is this where you practice your Cultivation Technique?"

"That's right."

"How do you practice like this? Shouldn't you go to a specialized Dao comprehension room to grasp the contents of the Cultivation Technique, then find someone for actual combat to integrate the theoretical content through battle?"

Ying Linglong felt her worldview had been impacted.

"It's fine, practicing like this on my own is quite good."

As she spoke, Xing Yaoyan found a flat spot and sat down cross-legged, took out the memory crystal she had bought at the library a few days ago, closed her eyes, and began to comprehend it.

When she was learning "Hidden Edge" before, she discovered that if she circulated the Star Swallowing Art while comprehending the Cultivation Technique, not only would her speed of comprehension greatly increase, but she could also automatically generate a small figure in her spirit sea to spar with her.

Today, what she wanted to learn was the "Claw Blade" that almost all demons in the Yao Race knew; to put it simply, it was turning the Demonic Power attached to one's hands into claw blades to strike out, greatly enhancing the aggressiveness of close-quarters combat.

...Outside.

Ying Linglong lay beside Xing Yaoyan, bored, twirling a blade of grass with her fingers.

She didn't know how Sister Yan could sit in this environment for an hour; she couldn't sit still at all, so she simply gave up the idea of Cultivating her own Family's Cultivation Technique.

Suddenly, she felt some movement beside her.

"Hmm?"

She turned her head and saw the White Wolf Girl's right hand suddenly emit golden light.

The next moment, she waved her hand forward casually with her eyes closed. A golden claw mark instantly appeared on a giant rock not far away, accompanied by a deafening sound.

The hurricane stirred up by the attack blew the White Wolf Girl's white hair backward, revealing her forehead with a faint golden mark.

"How about that? I told you this way of practicing works."

Xing Yaoyan opened her eyes and smiled at the dumbfounded Cat-eared loli beside her.

"Sister Yan... don't tell me this is your first time practicing it."

"It is the first time, I just learned it."

"Ah..."

Ying Linglong covered her chest with her hand, putting on an exaggerated expression as if she were dying.

"Wait! If you have the ability, Sister Yan, fight me using only 'Claw Strike'; I don't believe you can master it after practicing for just one hour."

Ying Linglong quickly jumped to the side and assumed a stance, her hands radiating intense Demonic Power fluctuations.

Without waiting for Xing Yaoyan to speak, she attacked directly, as if anxious to save face for herself.

Xing Yaoyan shook her head helplessly.

Then, she saw her slightly sidestep to dodge a black claw blade attack, and counterattack with a golden claw blade in one fluid motion.

But after all, Ying Linglong had been practicing this move for a long time and knew it very well.

She saw her neither dodging nor avoiding, using her hand to deflect the powerful golden claw blade to the side, then turning in the air, her right hand re-attaching black Demonic Power.

Coming again... No, that's not right!

Xing Yaoyan was surprised to find that the black claw blade did not fly over directly, but instead remained attached to Ying Linglong's hand.

This is a feint!

But the black afterimage produced when this feint swept across obscured her vision to a certain extent. The next moment, the real claw blade attacked under the cover of this layer; this was Ying Linglong kicking over.

"As expected of my good little sister, this move is played brilliantly. It's just a pity... I can do it too~"

Xing Yaoyan quickly bent her waist to dodge the attack, then followed up with a backflip posture, two golden claw blades trailing with the swing of her legs, slashing at Ying Linglong from bottom to top.

But it wasn't over yet; the moment she landed, she pushed off with both legs, her hands each carrying one of these two golden claw blades, quickly attacking the Cat-eared loli whose attention was still on the two claw blades just released from her legs.

"Clang! Clang!"

Ying Linglong, having dealt with the two preceding claw blades, was now wide open and couldn't deal with Xing Yaoyan who had already closed in.

"Ugh..."

She closed her eyes subconsciously, but the stinging sensation did not come.

She tentatively opened her eyes and saw a jade-like hand hovering steadily in front of her forehead.

Then she saw the hand quickly change its gesture and flick her forehead lightly.

"Ouch..."

"How about it, do you admit defeat?"

The jade-like hand moved away, revealing Xing Yaoyan's pretty face with a smug smile.

"Admit... admit defeat..."

Seeing her still looking like she hadn't recovered.

Xing Yaoyan smiled helplessly.

It seems this sparring session was quite a blow to this little girl, but there was no help for it; who told her talent to be so monstrous.

After the sparring ended, Ying Linglong this time also started to learn from her to quietly Cultivate through meditation, although the effect was not ideal.

During this time, she had also secretly tried to probe about their Cat Demon Clan's ancestral Cultivation Technique, but was politely refused by Ying Linglong...

...Days passed by uneventfully like this for a long time.

"Sigh..."

Under the twilight, the White Wolf Girl suddenly sighed.

"Meow! Sister Yan, don't be like this, this is the cornerstone of our Family's survival, I really cannot tell you!"

Ying Linglong explained hurriedly, somewhat triggered.

"Pfft!"

Looking at her cute appearance, Xing Yaoyan laughed out loud.

Of course, she wasn't sighing because of something from a month ago.

Tomorrow is the founding ceremony of the Kingdom of Myriad Demons, her true identity will be made public by Tushan Qing at that time, and that cruel "Blood Refining" will also arrive with it.

In these almost two months, she had almost learned all the most basic Cultivation Techniques of the Yao Race.

Now she had the confidence that even if she didn't use the golden light of the Star Swallowing Art, she could still suppress all the Prodigies of the Yao Race.

But... there were too many uncertain factors in the Land of Destruction.

Although she was confident in easily killing two-mark or even three-mark Star Beasts, who could guarantee she wouldn't encounter five-mark or even higher-tier Star Beasts? Moreover, there were also various unpredictable exploration teams in the Land of Destruction...

"Sister Yan, good luck on the assessment tomorrow!"

Ying Linglong's words pulled Xing Yaoyan back to reality.

Xing Yaoyan looked at her earnest eyes, and a soft spot in her heart was instantly touched.

After a long silence, a heartfelt smile replaced the gloom that had originally been on the White Wolf Girl's pretty face.

"Mm, I will."