244: Stubborn girl and Sleeping Beauty! [Seeking follow-up reading]

As Qi Lei's words fell, the mountaintop immediately erupted into a clamor once more.

Many Disciples flipped their palms, and a jade slip appeared in each, after which countless figures shot out, descending onto the hundred platforms atop the mountain.

Lin Fan was no exception; he glanced at the match number written on his jade slip, and with a flash of his figure, under the gaze of many eyes, landed on a spacious platform.

Just as Lin Fan's figure landed on the platform, a sudden clamor arose from the surroundings.

Lin Fan's brows twitched, and he saw a graceful figure, carrying a verdant guzheng, float over and land in front of him.

Evidently, his opponent for the first round was none other than Ying Huanhuan.

Gazing at her smiling, charming face, Lin Fan couldn't help but wonder if this girl had somehow tampered with the jade slips.

On the spacious platform, the young girl gazed at Lin Fan with a smile, her slender, soft figure creating captivating curves beneath her clothes.

Bathed in sunlight, the already beautiful girl appeared even more dazzling.

At that instant, the gazes directed at this area became much more fervent.

“I didn't expect my first opponent to be you,” Lin Fan withdrew his thoughts, shaking his head with a smile.

“Why can't it be me? I'm also a contestant! Are you saying you won't let me participate in the Hall Examination?” Ying Huanhuan, holding her guzheng, tilted her head slightly, looking at Lin Fan and smiling like a cunning little fox.

“From your expression, you're quite happy to meet me in the first round? What? Do you think you can defeat me?” Lin Fan asked Ying Huanhuan with a smile.

Ying Huanhuan's delicate brows furrowed, then her dark eyes darted around, and she said, “It seems a bit difficult to defeat you. How about you just let me win?”

“You're overthinking it. Make your move,” Lin Fan shook his head slightly and stepped forward, saying.

“Why are you so fierce?” Ying Huanhuan's small face wore a wronged expression as she spoke in a delicate voice.

Immediately, many gazes from the surroundings turned hostile, shooting towards Lin Fan.

Lin Fan rolled his eyes at Ying Huanhuan, “How am I being fierce to you? If you don't make a move, I won't be polite.”

With that, Lin Fan's primal Qi immediately surged out from within him, and the powerful aura around him pressed towards Ying Huanhuan.

“Hmph! You really think this girl is afraid of you?”

Seeing Lin Fan about to make a move, Ying Huanhuan let out a soft hmph, then the playful expression on her pretty face slightly receded, and she said in a delicate voice, “I've long been annoyed by you, you arrogant fellow. Today, watch how this girl deals with you.”

As her voice fell, Ying Huanhuan waved her jade hand, directly floating into a cross-legged position in mid-air, placing the verdant guzheng on her lap. Then, her perfect jade hands landed on the guzheng.

And as Ying Huanhuan's jade hands plucked the strings, the expression on her face also became more solemn. In her large eyes, light gathered, finally staring at Lin Fan in front of her with a hint of sharpness.

As Ying Huanhuan's jade hands plucked the strings, a light, melodious sound immediately filled the air, and several verdant light arcs shot out, fiercely striking towards Lin Fan.

Bang! Bang!

Facing the incoming verdant light arcs, Lin Fan extended his palm and clenched it suddenly, easily crushing them!

Seeing her attack so easily defused by Lin Fan, Ying Huanhuan's brows furrowed slightly, and she bit her lip with her pearly teeth, a stubborn curve rising at the corner of her mouth.

Immediately, her jade hand pressed hard on the strings. Then, crimson blood seeped out from her palm, and in a blink of an eye, countless blood threads spread across the verdant guzheng.

Buzz!

A vast fluctuation suddenly swept out from within Ying Huanhuan at this moment, and a heaven-shattering red light erupted from her body, finally transforming into a giant Bodhi tree behind her.

The crowd around the arena was instantly astonished at this sight.

Clearly, they had all heard of the powerful Martial Art within the Heaven Hall, second only to the Emperor Scripture, the Formless Bodhi Sound.

“Formless Bodhi Sound!”

Ying Huanhuan's pretty face was solemn. Then, her large eyes glanced at Lin Fan, and her slender jade hands suddenly strummed across the strings: “Aspect of All Beings!” The sound waves suddenly emanated, and the Bodhi tree also began to sway.

For a moment, the entire world was filled with the echoing melodious sound waves.

And amidst these echoing sound waves, the space in front of Lin Fan began to distort, like a mirror.

Immediately after, a figure identical to Lin Fan slowly emerged from the mirror.

Lin Fan raised his brows slightly, showing no politeness, and directly rushed forward, striking the shadow with a palm, causing it to explode.

Then, under Ying Huanhuan's somewhat startled gaze, Lin Fan's figure suddenly shot towards her, and his large hand slapped the guzheng on her lap.

“Slap!”

A crisp slapping sound rang out, and the sound waves from the guzheng were completely disrupted.

“You!”

Ying Huanhuan looked up, gazing at Lin Fan who had appeared before her like a ghost. Biting her lip with her pearly teeth, her mind stirred, and from the giant Bodhi tree behind her, leaves drifted down like sharp arrows, carrying an extremely fierce gust of wind, enveloping Lin Fan.

Lin Fan's mind moved slightly, and a crimson light shield emerged around his body, burning with raging flames.

Around the crimson light shield, a Vermilion Bird Divine Beast seemed to be circling and flying.

Those leaves, upon falling onto the crimson light shield, vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye!

Lin Fan slightly curved his palm, and Devouring Power surged, forcibly snatching the guzheng from Ying Huanhuan's embrace. Then, he looked at her with a smile and said, “You lost.”

“Give me back my guzheng! I didn't lose!” Ying Huanhuan stubbornly refused to admit defeat, reaching out to snatch the guzheng back.

Lin Fan smiled slightly, “Want the guzheng? Come and get it yourself.”

With that, Lin Fan's body also suddenly sat cross-legged in mid-air, actually placing the guzheng on his lap and beginning to pluck the strings.

The guzheng initially tried to resist, but Lin Fan directly used the ancestral stone's power of suppression, instantly subduing it.

As Lin Fan plucked, a gentle sound, like a celestial melody, emanated from the guzheng.

Amidst the zither music, a strange fluctuation accompanied it, as if it could subtly infiltrate the Soul, settling into the deepest part of the heart.

Some of the weaker Dao Sect disciples in the surroundings, under the influence of the zither music, felt a desire to sleep and quickly circulated their primal Qi to resist the drowsiness.

This was only the after-effect!

As the target of Lin Fan's active attack, Ying Huanhuan felt her eyelids grow heavy, and she slowly closed them involuntarily. She had originally intended to snatch the guzheng, but her body completely relaxed.

Then, Ying Huanhuan, who was flying towards Lin Fan, fell to the ground from mid-air as if she had fallen asleep.

Seeing this, Lin Fan immediately put away the guzheng, quickly went forward, and caught her in his arms in a princess carry.

At this moment, the young girl's eyes were tightly closed, and she was uncharacteristically quiet, like a sleeping beauty from a fairy tale, appearing with a few more touches of serene and gentle beauty.

Whoa!

The surrounding Dao Sect disciples, seeing this scene, immediately erupted in an uproar.

If looks could kill, Lin Fan would probably have been sliced into pieces by them by now.

At the Earth Hall Disciple's position, Qing Ye, seeing this scene, couldn't help but clench his fists, secretly vowing to teach Lin Fan a harsh lesson if he encountered him in the next round.

“Wake up!”

Lin Fan, however, ignored the gazes of the surrounding crowd, extended his finger, and gently flicked Ying Huanhuan's forehead, a clear sound that resonated deep within the Soul rang out.