The First Summoner - Chapter 101

Before Shen Yan left the waiting area, Jiang Xianyue smiled at her. “Yanyan, I know you can do it!”

Zhuge Youlin raised an eyebrow. “Shen… Yanyan, I know you can beat them and claim the final victory. Do you remember what we said in the underground passage?”

“What did you say?” Jiang Xianyue turned to him.

Zhuge Youlin gave a light snort. “I’m not telling you.”

Jiang Xianyue was still smiling, but murderous intent flashed through her eyes for an instant before she hid it again. Still smiling, she said, “If you won’t tell me, I’ll ask Yanyan.”

She turned to Shen Yan. “Yanyan, tell me after your combat test, all right?”

“Don’t tell her!” Zhuge Youlin said to Shen Yan. “It’s a secret that belongs to the three of us!”

Jiang Xianyue’s smile deepened.

“Fine. I won’t ask about it.”

Zhuge Youlin had the distinct feeling that she was angry, but she was still smiling like that. What a hypocrite.

“Are you angry?”

Jiang Xianyue smiled. “No.”

“I can tell you are.”

She continued smiling. “My emotions have nothing to do with you.”

Sensing the tension between them, Shen Yan cut their conversation short. “I’m going to take the combat test.”

“Good luck, Yanyan!” Jiang Xianyue raised a tiny fist. The more one looked at her, the cuter she seemed. With her slightly plump cheeks and smiling eyes, she radiated an indescribable air of innocent, guileless sweetness.

Shen Yan nodded with a smile. “All right.”

Zhuge Weiran called out, “Second Miss Shen, be careful!”

Zhuge Youlin bared his teeth in a grin. “Make sure you take them all down!”

Shen Yan nodded, then left the waiting area.

As soon as she was gone, the smile vanished from Jiang Xianyue’s face. The longer she looked at Zhuge Youlin, the more unpleasant she found him.

Zhuge Youlin bent slightly and stared intently at her. At last, he voiced the question troubling him. “What exactly did this young master do to upset you? Why do you keep targeting me?”

Jiang Xianyue glanced at him, unwilling to respond.

She simply felt that she had known Yanyan first. Yet this wretch had gone through so much with Yanyan, and that made her deeply unhappy.

Zhuge Youlin was becoming an eyesore.

When she ignored him, he tried again. “If this young master unknowingly did something wrong, then I’m apologizing now. Will that do?”

Jiang Xianyue turned to him. “You don’t need to apologize. You haven’t done anything wrong.”

Zhuge Youlin was baffled. “Then why are you angry?”

She smiled faintly. “Because there’s something wrong with my heart.”

“A sickness of the heart?” Zhuge Youlin eyed her suspiciously, then said with complete seriousness, “That’s quite difficult to cure.”

“Mm-hmm.”

Standing nearby, Zhuge Weiran listened helplessly to their conversation. Unable to join in, he sighed inwardly.

At that moment—

More than four hundred youths had already gathered in the martial field.

Shen Yan stood among them, keeping a certain distance from everyone else.

She keenly noticed that many people were watching her.

The most obvious was the fat youth Li Buman, who seemed to have recognized her.

Li Buman was at the fifth stage of the Mystic-rank realm, two minor stages above her.

“Just you wait!” When Li Buman saw her looking, he thrust his lower lip out and drew a finger across his throat.

Shen Yan indifferently looked away. As her gaze moved elsewhere, it happened to meet that of Yu Changying, daughter of the Western Region City lord.

Yu Changying smiled at her.

It was gentle as a spring breeze brushing one’s face.

The referee soon announced, “The third round of the combat test—begin!”

The moment he finished speaking, dozens of people charged at Shen Yan.

Her aptitude was simply too terrifying. They wanted to find out exactly how strong she was!

Li Buman summoned an iron hammer and rushed at her. “Shen Yan, this young master hasn’t settled our score from last time! Take my hammer!”

Shen Yan raised a hand and summoned the Spirit Phoenix Divine Sword.

The longsword shifted in her grip, and the phantom of a phoenix appeared with it. Faced with so many youths attacking at once, she had no choice but to meet them head-on.

She flicked the sword upward, releasing a wave of bitter cold!

“Gale Stream!”

Boom!

With an explosive roar, the blade transformed into a raging gale and swept toward the youths in an instant. They gathered their power to resist, but it still forced them back one or two steps.

Their expressions changed. When they looked again, Shen Yan had vanished.

Where had she gone?

The next instant—

A sword gale swept in, carrying sword intent as vast as mist. It shattered their defensive shields in an instant and sent every one of them tumbling to the ground with a thunderous blast!

Even Li Buman was knocked over.

Holding the Spirit Phoenix Divine Sword in one hand, Shen Yan walked unhurriedly toward them.

The sight of her approaching made Li Buman furious. His expression turned extremely ugly as he blurted out his suspicion. “Demoness, did you cheat? Is someone secretly helping you?”

The spectators were speechless.

Did Li Buman have no brain?

It was obvious at a glance that Shen Yan could fight above her level. Li Buman, meanwhile, was an alchemist whose martial foundation was inherently weaker than that of other cultivators at the same stage.

Shen Yan decided to deal with him first.

Her silence, coupled with the strange looks everyone cast his way, left Li Buman humiliated and furious. He immediately snatched up his iron hammer and charged at her!

Shen Yan’s gaze sharpened, and her figure flashed.

Sword light moved with her.

In a single instant, she appeared behind Li Buman. Fresh blood now stained her blade.

Clang!

The iron hammer dropped from Li Buman’s hand.

He looked down. A long, deep gash had been carved across his chest. Agonizing pain struck, blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and his head spun. He crashed heavily to the ground.

Sprawled there, tormented by the sword wound, he could not even crawl to his feet. He had never suffered such a serious injury before. The pain made him burst into tears.

“Boo-hoo…”

As a genius alchemist, he was showered with praise both at home and outside it. He was hardly ever injured at all.

In the stands, the Li family members watched Li Buman with aching hearts, their gazes toward Shen Yan filled with killing intent.

Outrageous!

Shen Yan truly did not know what was good for her!

She had dared injure someone from the Alchemist Li Clan! They were alchemists. With a single word from them, Shen Yan could forget about ever obtaining precious pills!

The Li family seethed with anger.

Most of the youths on the field were still fighting. Only a small group had turned their attention to Shen Yan, watching her with unreadable expressions.

Shen Yan had been born into a clan of Summoners. Should she not be a Summoner herself?

Yet from what they had seen, she seemed more like a swordswoman.

Yu Changying, Wen Yuchu, Zhu Hezhou, and Xiao Zechuan had not moved. All four were watching Shen Yan.