So it’s really like that? Beating you, Xinuo Miss, feels like chasing a shadow across moonlit water—flat-out impossible for me.
After hearing Xinuo’s words, Qianji Sister shook her head with a dry smile, then brightened a little. But there’s one thing I should thank you for, Xinuo Miss.
What is it?
It’s nothing fancy—my magic tier is about to break into the Sacred Realm.
You breaking through—what’s that got to do with me?
By myself, reaching the Sacred Realm would take at least a week, like climbing a mountain in fog. But after our bout just now, I can break through anytime, anywhere.
In truth, going from SSS-tier Grand Magus to Sacred Realm Mage isn’t that hard. One: your mana must press against the SSS limit, like a river straining its banks. Two: your understanding and control must hit that same limit, like a blade honed mirror-bright. Three: your use of law must at least fuse with your magic, like ink soaked deep into paper.
Qianji Sister had already met those three; all she needed was time, like tea steeping to full fragrance.
Especially law usage—the fight showed she not only wields law, but does it more deftly than most Sacred Realm mages, like a dancer who knows the wind’s step.
So she lacked only deeper comprehension and insight.
Through her bout with Xinuo, with her talent, there’s no doubt her understanding has reached Sacred Realm grade. Plus her mana dwarfs a typical Sacred Realm mage several times over—she didn’t earn “all-element mage” for nothing.
Hence “anytime, anywhere.”
Oh? Then, Yumigawa Senki, hurry up and break through. If you’re this strong at SSS, I can’t wait to see the storm you’ll become after.
Learning Qianji Sister would reach the Sacred Realm, Xinuo was more than a little interested, like hearing a rare song begin.
Alright. I hope I can make you smile, Xinuo Miss.
Qianji Sister smiled, then—
Breakthrough—Sacred Realm Mage!
The air shuddered.
At that instant, fierce pressure and shining energy surged from her like a tidal wind through pines. The laws of every element in heaven and earth poured into her core.
As those laws fused with the mana in Qianji Sister’s body, I felt her power climb like wildfire racing up a ridge.
Within ten seconds, her magic tier cracked into mid Sacred Realm. Yet her law absorption didn’t slow; it quickened, like rapids after rain.
One minute later…
When Qianji Sister reached the Holy Peak, she finally stopped drawing in law. The pressure spilling off her said it all—compared to minutes ago, she was sky and abyss apart.
Not bad. Breaking a whole tier in one go—this kind of talent, it’s my first time seeing it, Xinuo praised without stinginess, her voice a warm breeze over tea.
Heh. I hit the SSS peak years ago, but never aimed for the Sacred Realm. I just kept accumulating like snow in a shaded courtyard, until now. So in a way, this outcome isn’t chance—it’s inevitability.
As if she’d foreseen it, Qianji Sister met Xinuo’s gaze with full confidence and challenged again.
This time, I will land at least one hit on you, Xinuo Miss!
Nice eyes. I’m looking forward to it.
Xinuo sounded happy from the heart, like sunlight through cloud.
…
Yumigawa Senki is a monster. She went straight from SSS peak to Holy Peak. I’ve never seen that—it’s blown my mind, Elyar muttered beside me, as if struck by a bell.
Yeah, Qianji Sister is truly exceptional, but—
Watching Xinuo laugh with that genuine brightness, my heart tangled like reeds in current. I murmured where no one could hear, When can I make Xiao Nuo show that expression too?
Hm? Boss, what did you say?
Nothing.
Brother, you’re acting weird.
Hill and my little sister tilted their heads, puzzled eyes like sparrows listening.
Uh, really nothing… Qianji Sister and Xiao Nuo are about to start! Let’s watch.
Oooh.
Mm, fine.
My sister still looked at me with confused eyes, but soon shifted her gaze to Qianji Sister and Xinuo, like flowers turning toward the sun.
…
Though I haven’t used many other elements, judging by what space and time did just now, the rest probably won’t help, Qianji Sister said, then seemed to recall something. No—earlier I was only at the SSS peak, with too little law in my spells. Now it’s different. I’ve reached the Holy Peak.
In that case, let’s try again.
She raised her slender sword, noble and beautiful blood-red eyes locking onto Xinuo, all attention focused like a hawk on prey.
Space Sword: Lockdown!
The space around Xinuo sealed like invisible walls rising, hemming in her movement.
Space Sword: Fracture!
Next, space around Xinuo splintered like a smashed mirror, crack by crack. From those fissures spilled a fierce aura of annihilation—the attack would bite while it broke.
Oh? This time the space-law is several times thicker than before, Xinuo noted, eyes calm as still water.
But even at this level, it won’t work on me.
Rewind.
Xinuo barely moved. She just traced an arcing line of light with her blade, a curve like the moon over a lake.
The cracks stopped, then flowed backward in time, healing fast like frost retreating at dawn.
Xinuo Miss, could you please not crush me like that? The confidence I had at Holy Peak just evaporated, Qianji Sister said with a wry smile, cool beauty shading into awkwardness.
If you don’t want that, bring out something stronger.
Fine. I still can’t fully control this power, but I’ll go all in.
At Xinuo’s words, Qianji Sister drew a long breath, steadying her heart like a diver before the plunge.
Awaken! Source of Life—Sacred Sword: Grelisfen!
Oh my, oh my, you’re finally drawing out the Sacred Life Sword’s power.
Xinuo narrowed her silver eyes that seemed to see through the world, watching Qianji Sister’s blade with real interest.
The slender sword in Qianji Sister’s hand erupted in vivid azure light, brimming with endless vitality like spring surging up from the earth. As that light poured outward, within a thousand li around us, tender grass and lush forests—
All burst into frenzied growth, their life force burning and blooming like a storm of green.
In moments, the whole sky and land were dyed a living blue-green. Trees in the woods shot up into towering giants hundreds of meters tall—even those once dead and gray.
Flowers and grasses alike turned into something near divine medicine. The vitality within them was so rich that a single breath of scent could grant an ordinary person a lifetime without illness or pain.
Let alone what would happen if you ate them or refined them into elixirs—the effects would defy the heavens.
Mm. The Sacred Life Sword in your hand should be the one that Grelisfen forged, using the trunk of the Life Tree and Life Divine Iron, Xinuo said, feeling the air heavy with life, her gaze calm on the blade radiating that fierce life-light.
(Life Tree: the mythic tree that birthed all beings at the dawn of the world, personally planted by the Goddess of Life—Grelisfen. Life Divine Iron: an ore saturated with vast life-law; it’s said a fist-sized piece holds as much life-law as a Life High God’s divine spark.)
