"Oh.
"Elder Qiu, there's still a competition the day after tomorrow. I'm going back to my room first," Leng Ruoxue said after they chatted for a while.
"Ruoxue, rest early!" Elder Qiu said thoughtfully.
"Big Brother." Leng Ruoxue came straight to Leng Ruohan's room after exiting Elder Qiu's room.
"Xue'er, why aren't you asleep yet?" Leng Ruohan asked.
"Big Brother isn't sleeping either. Big Brother, this is for you." Leng Ruoxue took out the armor she had refined in the competition and handed it to Leng Ruohan. When she refined it, she had custom-made it for her brother.
"For me?" Leng Ruohan was obviously surprised.
"Who do you think I refined it for if not you, Big Brother?" Leng Ruoxue said mischievously.
"I thought it was for Ye Chen!" Leng Ruohan said.
"Big Brother, I custom-made this for you. It's only suitable for Big Brother! Just recognize it as yours," Leng Ruoxue explained and handed the casual-style armor to Leng Ruohan.
"Xue'er, thanks." Leng Ruohan gently embraced his sister.
"Big Brother, don't be so polite with Xue'er. Otherwise, I will be angry!" Leng Ruoxue deliberately scowled.
"Okay, I won't be saying thank you to Xue'er anymore," Leng Ruohan said lovingly.
"That's right! Big Brother, I'm going back to my room to sleep. Rest early," Leng Ruoxue said.
"Okay."
"Why are you here?" Leng Ruoxue returned to her room and saw Ye Chen in it.
"Xue'er, you're being biased! I want one too!" Ye Chen complained aggrievedly, his pitch-black eyes glittering.
Leng Ruoxue was at a loss for words. What is Freak doing? Is he going to cry?
"What do you want?" Leng Ruoxue pretended to be confused.
"Battle armor! I want one too," Ye Chen said with jealousy. Although Leng Ruohan was Xue'er's elder brother, it didn't mean that he wouldn't be jealous.
"I'll refine one for you when I have time," Leng Ruoxue said helplessly.
"That's more like it." Ye Chen smiled lightly when he saw that he achieved his goal.
"I remember saying that you're not allowed to smile," Leng Ruoxue suddenly said. No woman could resist the heaven-shaking smile of Freak, except her, of course.
"There are no outsiders here," Ye Chen said nonchalantly. How resistant can this little thing be? Can't she be lovestruck?
After Ye Chen left her room, she flashed directly into the Heaven and Earth Bracelet. Little Fengfeng, Blaze, and the three little white tigers pounced onto her. She looked helplessly at the few little things struggling to climb onto her body. Then she bent down and directly picked up the fluffy little fellows.
"Big Sister, Fengfeng missed you so much," the little silver wolf, who had already grown up quite a bit, said tenderly.
"Big Sister, Blaze missed you too," Blaze said, unwilling to be outdone.
"And us, Big Sister." The three little white tigers didn't want to be ignored either.
"I know. Big Sister missed you too. You weren't naughty, were you?" Leng Ruoxue asked. She had spent a lot less time in the Heaven and Earth Bracelet since the start of the competition.
"Big Sister." Qing Jue appeared in front of Leng Ruoxue.
"Okay, play by yourselves. Big Sister is going to cultivate." She had been cultivating the second level of the Heaven Defying Art, but there were no signs of a breakthrough yet.
Leng Ruoxue walked into the purple bamboo hut and went to see Baby first. He was sleeping as usual. Then she entered the cultivation room and quietly cultivated.
…
When Leng Ruoxue emerged from the Heaven and Earth Bracelet, it was already night the next day. Fortunately, she had told Freak in advance that she wanted to cultivate, or they would have died of anxiety!
After coming out, Leng Ruoxue went directly to the reception room arranged for the Heavenly Phoenix Academy by the Elegance Lagoon Pavilion. Everyone happened to be here.
"Xue'er." Leng Qingtian was the first to see his granddaughter.
"Grandpa, what are you talking about?" Leng Ruoxue asked curiously.
"Elder Qiu is arranging tomorrow's tactics for them," Leng Qingtian said.
"Isn't it the individual competition tomorrow?" Leng Ruoxue said. Strength in the individual competition was the most important, and secondly, it depended on performance on the spot.
"Yes, Ruoxue. I'm telling them about the accidents that might happen," Elder Qiu said.
"Accidents referring to dark horses?" Leng Ruoxue guessed.
"How do you know?" Elder Qiu asked in surprise.
"What other accidents can there be? Poisoned by others before the match?" Leng Ruoxue teased.
Elder Qiu stared at Leng Ruoxue in disbelief. "How do you know?" This girl is amazing.
"Really?" Leng Ruoxue was a little surprised. But on second thought, she understood. The individual competition was much more important to these students than the group competition. After all, in addition to their ranking and honor, more importantly, the individual competitions determined their future and their status in their families. So it was not strange that they would take it so seriously.
"It happened before. But later on, the major academies became more vigilant to prevent similar things from happening again," Elder Qiu explained.
"Oh, right. Lass, you still don't know the rules of the individual competition, right?" Elder Qiu said again.
"Yes." Leng Ruoxue nodded.
"The individual competition will begin tomorrow and will last for twelve days. There will be a total of three hundred students participating in it. The first two days are the preliminaries. There will be two rounds each day. The students will each fight against each other, and the winner will advance. After the two days of preliminaries, nineteen students will advance to the semifinals. However, on the second day of the preliminaries, there will be a lucky student who will advance directly to the semifinals on the third day. The finals will use a round-robin system with five matches per day for a period of nine days. Of course, there will be breaks arranged during the competition. However, this is roughly the process," Elder Qiu explained.
"Xue'er, the individual competition each time is rather tragic, so you must be on high alert," Leng Ruohan reminded.
"Don't worry, Big Brother," Leng Ruoxue promised.
"Everyone should be clear now! Go back to your rooms and rest early!" Elder Qiu urged.
…
On the morning of the first day of the preliminaries, Leng Ruoxue and the others arrived early at the competition venue of the Lunar Shadow Academy. They drew numbers again and then sat in their seats to wait for their turn…