91 Aftermath of the battle. (1/2)

Five minutes after telling Yuan Yijun that the rules were against her, Li Yang finally finished with her. Her entire body was caked in blood and vomit, her consciousness lost half a minute ago. Li Yang held her by her throat, lifting her feet up from the ground and looking at her with a calm gaze, some of her blood having splashed onto his face.

The bones in his arms and chest were mostly completely shattered, but Li Yang didn't even pay them any attention, using his law of lightning to control himself like a puppet. Since Yuan Yijun had lost consciousness, Li Yang didn't bother with her anymore, dismissively tossing her body at the medical personnel which were still treating Yuan Ruogang.

One of the top five outer disciples and one of the most beautiful girls in the sect, and he had viciously beaten her and then tossed her away like a sack of potatoes. How could an act like this not draw quite a few gazes, some of anger and some of admiration?

Of course, those in the audience who had some actual strength looked at Li Yang with completely different gazes, ones filled with solemness. For speed and evading he had his law of lightning and for power and sheer destructive force he had his law of fire, he was almost perfectly well rounded. The only solace they could find was that he had yet to use his law of ice to come up with a strong defensive technique, so he was somewhat lacking in that regard. But what if he came up with a defensive technique, perfectly using all of his laws? Just what sort of monster would he become then?

Li Yang swept the audience with a quick glance, but he couldn't be bothered with their gazes. He didn't crave their respect or adoration, so he didn't care what they thought about his actions and methods. In this vast universe, there were only seven people whose respect and adoration he sought, and out of those seven, four might already be long gone.

These seven were, of course, Fang Ying, Zhao Feng, Dai Shu, Bai Yawen, Ye Ning, and the last two were the twin sister Fang Xiulan and Fang Yazhu, which Li Yang had found out were still alive the last time he returned to the Cloud Wilderness. There were others in the universe Li Yang respected, but none that he actually wanted to respect or like him.

After sweeping the audience with a glance, Li Yang turned towards the steps that led out of the arena and started heading towards them. He had to return to his abode so that he could focus on healing his wounds, only when he was fully healed could he return to focusing on cultivation. But as he was starting to make his way up the stairs, a deep green pill the size of a human's eye suddenly flew over, stopping in front of him as a light laugh sounded out from his side.

”You should take that one, it'll make healing those broken bones quite a bit easier. Otherwise, who knows if you'll be able to return to your peak state in time.”

Li Yang stretched out his hand and let the pill drop into his palm, rolling it around slightly. He could feel that not only did the pill contain a very concentrated medicinal energy, but it was also filled with a vast and mighty Qi, it was clearly not a pill that just anyone could get their hands on.

He turned his head sideways, his gaze landing on the yellow-robe and cyan-haired Yuan Luoyang, the girl who brought him into the Yuan clan. There were a few other people walking behind Yuan Luoyang, with most of them having reached the Immortal Rebirth realm, meaning that they were also inner disciples.

Li Yang didn't reject the medicine, mainly because he didn't have the contribution points to buy any of his own, and certainly not enough to buy a pill as useful as this one. He cupped his hands, ignoring the creaking of his bones as he gave a polite greeting.

”Thank you, Senior Sister Luoyang. Since you are offering it, I won't do something rude like rejecting it.”

Back when Li Yang first saw Yuan Luoyang during the contest to earn a spot for the grand competition, which was only a little over a year away now, he had thought that her cultivation was around the Immortal Rebirth realm, likely the early stage. But now that she was no longer hiding her cultivation, he could see that she had already reached the early stage of the Primordial Rune realm, the cultivation realm which was only a single realm beneath the one Li Yang had reached in his previous life, the Celestial Immortal realm.

Of course, whether or not she would ever be able to reach that realm was uncertain. Just increasing one's cultivation by a single stage within the Primordial Immortal realm was difficult, to the point where people could spend thousands or even millions of years stuck in each of the stages. And that was just the Primordial Immortal realm, the Celestial Immortal realm was even more difficult.

Seeing Li Yang accept the pill so easily, Yuan Luoyang gave a satisfied nod of her head, patting him on the shoulder as she walked past him, giving him a quick reminder.

”Good, you should use that pill to quickly heal your wounds. The test to become an inner disciple will take place in about four months, and as was the agreement when you entered the clan, you are allowed to take part in it. I was the one who brought you into the clan and vouched for your abilities, so don't disappoint me.”