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"Afraid? You, a mere Li Yuanji, are not worthy of my fear. Even if you were to break through to the Golden Core realm, you will still be no match for me! "

Fang Ling's thoughts raced. He was not the least bit afraid of Li Yuanji's parting words.

At this moment, he had broken through to the third level of the Sky Opening Stage. His cultivation technique could not be restricted, but he was in a period of rapid growth. If he, Li Yuanji, could reach the Aurous Core stage in three months, Fang Ling could naturally break through. When that time came, he would definitely be able to give her a pleasant surprise.

"You shouldn't have promised him. With the sublimation of the Aurous Core stage, Li Yuanji's strength will definitely increase by at least ten times. When that happens, even if your strength has improved, you will still not be a match for your opponent. "

Xiao Ya walked over and stared at Fang Ling with sparkling eyes. Anger could be seen in his eyes.

"Hehe ?" Aren't you eager for me to die? That suits you too. " Fang Ling looked at Xiao Ya and smiled.

"You don't know what it means to court death, so of course I wouldn't care. However, you are the first genius that I have recruited. If you were to die in a short period of time, my reputation would be greatly tarnished." So I advise you not to ascend the life and death arena at all. "

Xiao Ya said as she frowned when she saw Fang Ling's expression, which appeared as though he deserved a beating.

"Hehe ?" In three months time, anything can happen. By then, who knows, maybe I'll still win? " Fang Ling did not care about his smile as he stepped onto the stairs and headed towards the Nine Peaks of the inner sect.

Anger flashed in Xiao Ya's eyes as she stomped her feet and chased after Xiao Yan. After Li Yuanji's defeat, Zhang Yunshen and a few others were already afraid of Fang Ling taking action, so they quietly left. Fang Ling did not care about them at all. They were only at the Dao Embryo Stage, so he did not put them in his heart.

Fang Ling climbed up the steps, walking past the outer sect disciples under a peculiar gaze.

Because the news of Fang Ling defeating Li Yuanji had spread like wildfire.

Even the group of inner disciples, who were standing below the inner sect peak with cold smiles on their faces, were originally sneering. They wanted to teach Fang Ling a lesson, defeat him, and lose their core qualification to him. At this moment, his expression slightly changed as well and became extremely serious.

Even if Li Yuanji was ranked amongst the core disciples, he was still defeated by Fang Ling. This caught many of the inner disciples who were prepared to make trouble for Fang Ling off guard, but they were unwilling to give up just like that.

They couldn't help but look at each other. Suddenly, one of their eyes lit up and said, "Everyone, do you remember that there is a shortcut within the Alliance to become a core disciple?"

Everyone was stunned at first, but soon someone asked hesitantly: "Are you talking about the Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda?"

"That's right!" The eyes of the inner sect cultivator who spoke first flashed, and he said: "The Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda, level nine, Lingxiao. If you pass level nine, you will automatically become a core disciple! This was one of the rules of the Alliance. However, it had been 50 years since someone had broken through to the ninth level and become the core. Since Fang Ling can defeat the core disciple Li Yuanji, I'm afraid we are not his match. If we let him enter this Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda, even if he fails, he will lose his core qualification. At that time, we will still have a reward! "

"Is that possible?"

One of them frowned, "That Fang Ling is not an idiot, why would he listen to us and challenge the Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda?"

"Hehe ?" Senior Brother, rest assured. All the geniuses will have the conviction to not lose to others. As long as we bring up this Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda, then Fang Ling will consider himself a genius and request to pass the trial himself. "

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"The Nine Peaks of the inner court have arrived. There will also be inner court disciples making things difficult for you here. However, it is not difficult for you."

Xiao Ya glanced at the inner court disciple standing below the mountain as she spoke to Fang Ling in a faint voice.

When Fang Ling heard this, he did not say anything and walked to the front of the crowd of inner disciples. He looked at the group of Fa Li inner disciples and said, "You want to stop me too?"

"Hehe ?" Fellow Daoist Fang, you're joking. "You defeated Li Yuanji earlier. We admit that we are no match for him, but we just want to admire the talent and grace of Fellow Taoist Fang." One of them cupped his hands and smiled.

"Oh, in that case, move aside." Fang Ling said when he heard this. He then walked forward.

If you have such a cultivation base at such a young age, then you must have a very strong Dao heart. We have a trial by fire in the Inner Sect, and can test out your potential. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Fang would be interested in going there?

One of them stopped Fang Ling and said with a smile. However, Fang Ling was keenly aware of the malicious intent in the other party's eyes.

He smiled meaningfully at the crowd and said, "If my guess is correct, you all want me to challenge the Soaring Cloud Treasure Pagoda, right? If it succeeds, you won't lose anything. But if I fail, I'm afraid I'll lose my core qualification, right? "

"Hehe ?" Fellow Daoist Fang, you're joking. How could we have such thoughts? " The cultivator blocking Fang Ling's path let out an awkward smile as his thoughts were exposed, a trace of disappointment flashing across his eyes. A hint of disappointment flashed across the eyes of the others as well.

However, Fang Ling's following words made everyone turn their disappointment into joy. At the same time, there was a hint of a sneer on their faces.

"However, when I heard about this Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda, I was also a bit curious. "Since you've invited me, I hope that you can take a look and see exactly what's so miraculous about that nine-floor pagoda." As Fang Ling spoke, he glanced at Xiao Ya beside him. Looking at Xiao Ya's increasingly resentful gaze, he felt even more amused in his heart. For some reason, ever since he saw Xiao Ya, Fang Ling could not help but tease her. Perhaps it was because of her originally beautiful appearance, but she appeared indifferent and cold. To be honest, Fang Ling did not like cold and lifeless beauties. What he liked more was hot and gentle girls like Qin Yuyan.

"Hehe ?" Fellow Daoist Fang, please allow us to witness your success in passing the trial! The inner sect disciple and the person behind him looked at each other. The corner of their mouths curled up into a sneer as they extended a hand towards Fang Ling to invite him.

The Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda was a shortcut for inner disciples to become core disciples. As long as he passed the ninth layer, he would automatically be promoted to a core disciple. Even if he was an old man in his sixties, he would still be groomed by the Alliance.

However, in the last fifty years, no one had succeeded. Therefore, when they heard that the youth called Fang Ling had just arrived at the center of the alliance and was about to challenge the Soaring Cloud Treasure Pagoda, the inner disciples of the alliance were all startled. All of the disciples that were in closed-door seclusion had appeared and were rushing towards the Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda. Even some of the most outstanding inner disciples who were preparing to break through to the late stage of the Dao Embryo Stage, came to the Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda to see what kind of person Fang Ling was!

Before this, the Alliance would not spend too much effort on some of the disciples with low aptitude. Only when they broke through to the late stage of the Dao Embryo Stage and had a slight chance of reaching the Aurous Core Stage, would the Alliance increase its efforts in nurturing them. In addition, to become a core disciple, other than having outstanding talent, the only other way was to go to the Soaring Cloud Treasure Pagoda!

After all, the majority of cultivators with ordinary talent were the inner sect disciples who wished to become core disciples through the Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda and obtain more cultivation resources. However, things went against their wishes. No one succeeded within fifty years. This made most people give up on such impractical thoughts.

But today, a cultivator with the qualifications to become a core disciple actually had nothing to do and wanted to challenge the Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda. This made many of the inner sect cultivators curious as to whether they could successfully challenge someone as a core disciple. If the challenge was unsuccessful, someone would have to question whether the Lingxiao Pagoda was fair or not!

As the large amount of inner disciples gathered at the Lingxiao Treasure Pagoda, the upper echelons of the Southwest Region Alliance were also alarmed.