"Yes," Qi Yu cupped his fists, and he and Li Yu walked to the center.
The other disciples made way.
Everyone stood to the side.
Qi Yu looked at Li Yu and was the first to charge. As Li Yu raised his hand to block her side kick, Qi Yu suddenly used the force to spin and struck Li Yu's face with a palm.
Li Yu dodged Qi Yu's palm, his hands pushing and patting with great gentleness.
Qi Yu immediately retreated several steps.
The back-and-forth movements of the two attracted many disciples to watch.
Qi Yu knew that Li Yu was going easy on her, so she wasn't angered by his circling tactics. Instead, she seriously met his moves with her own familiar techniques.
As she retreated, she knelt on one knee and slammed the ground.
The ground trembled slightly, and ice spread out. Huge ice pillars broke through the earth and shot straight towards Li Yu.
Li Yu dodged the ice pillars and raised his hand, emitting a beam of light that melted them one by one.
The water that melted from the ice pillars seemed to come alive, winding on the ground before gathering together and rolling towards Qi Yu.
"What is this move?" the disciples of the Bei Yuan Sect whispered among themselves. "Is Master a water element user?"
"I only know that Senior Brother is a water element user."
Qi Yu initially thought Li Yu had water element talent and didn't take the move seriously. However, upon hearing the nearby disciples say that Li Yu, who wasn't a water element user, could control water, her expression changed drastically, and she retreated several steps in succession.
But the water orbs attacked fiercely and quickly, and when they broke, they only multiplied.
Qi Yu instinctively wanted to activate her Mirror Realm to absorb them.
However, Li Yu stopped her.
Seeing Li Yu call a halt, Qi Yu also stopped. Li Yu walked over and asked Qi Yu, "Do you know what your problem is?"
Qi Yu bowed, "Is it... relying too much on the Mirror Realm?"
She herself had noticed her habit of relying on this move.
"Yes, you rely on this move too much. I know it's a unique ability of the Yan Zhen Mirror, which other mirror-type innate spiritual artifacts don't have. But the Mirror Realm is your mustard seed space, related to your true form and Dharma body." As Li Yu said this, he suddenly turned and summoned the water orbs with his hand.
Qi Yu followed his gesture and saw the water orbs growing larger and larger, eventually becoming almost as tall as the mountain gate.
Li Yu snapped his fingers.
This giant water orb actually split into several, and they began to replicate.
"See, if you directly absorbed it with the Mirror Realm without knowing your opponent's next move, you could have been seriously injured because of it," Li Yu tapped Qi Yu's forehead with his finger.
Qi Yu nodded.
Li Yu then looked at the others around. "Everyone else has seen it too. I am not a water element heavenly spiritual root, yet I can control water. You think this is impossible, but I have done it. Does anyone see the reason why?"
Some disciples shook their heads, while others cast their gaze on Qi Yu.
Because only Qi Yu had been fighting Li Yu at close range just now.
Li Yu also looked at Qi Yu. "Did you feel anything unusual just now?"
To be honest, while fighting Li Yu, Qi Yu's attention was entirely focused on each of Li Yu's moves.
She hadn't really noticed the other details around them.
The other disciples also scratched their heads, none of them having noticed the subtle details.
Li Yu held his palm upwards, and the dust on the ground swirled upwards.
Qi Yu suddenly realized, "Master, you are manipulating the earth element, which is why you made those water beads obey you?"
"Manipulating the system is one aspect, and the other is the replication array that I know," Li Yu said with his hands behind his back. "So, it's not that just because you have a water spirit root, you are only proficient in water element spells. In this regard, you must learn to use them flexibly."
"Moreover, many sects nowadays only teach disciples the spells required for their own spiritual roots and do not teach seemingly simple common spells. In my opinion, this is wrong."
"Only by knowing enough and understanding broadly can you figure out what to do when you are in trouble, instead of just waiting for others to save you."
"Disciples accept your teachings, thank you, Master," Qi Yu bowed her head.
Everyone echoed in agreement.
Li Yu returned to his nonchalant demeanor, letting down his silver hair that had been tied up. "Alright, that's all for today's lesson. I have a task for you."
Qi Yu looked up, and the others also pricked up their ears, staring intently at Li Yu.
Li Yu took off a jade ring from his hand and tossed it lightly into the air.
The jade ring spun in the air. As it was about to fall to the ground, it suddenly enlarged, enveloping the entire training ground.
Everyone was startled and retreated.
After everyone had cleared out, Li Yu snapped his fingers at the jade ring.
The training ground, instantly covered by the jade ring, turned into a bottomless, dark pit.
Inside the pit were shallow green swamps.
"From now until tomorrow morning, form groups of two and come up with a way to escape this swamp pit."
Ming Lou exclaimed, "Pairs of two, are there any restrictions, Master?"
"The restriction is that you must be in pairs of two, but only one person can use spiritual power," Li Yu said unhurriedly. "So, you must think carefully when choosing your partner. If you have the ability to escape this swamp pit by jumping, I naturally have no objections. But if your jumping ability is not particularly good, and you happen to choose a partner who can't help, then you won't be able to get out."
"Don't scare them," Yu Zhen walked over, took a pearl earring from her ear, and threw it into the swamp pit.
The pearl earring gradually enlarged, eventually resembling a white jade stone in the center of the swamp pit.
This made the difficulty drop from SSS to SS.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and their complaints immediately turned into "Our Mistress is so kind."
Yu Zhen smiled.
Li Yu quickly pulled Yu Zhen away, complaining as they walked, "Hey, why did you help them? It was so fun watching them struggle to come up with a solution. If you hadn't helped them, they would have fallen into the swamp tomorrow and gotten covered in mud."
Yu Zhen said something, and even reached out to tug Li Yu's ear.
Qi Yu watched them walk away with her arms crossed, about to study the swamp pit further. She turned and found herself surrounded by several senior brothers, junior brothers, senior sisters, and junior sisters.
"Little Yu Yu," Qi Nian leaned in. "Your second elder sister is an alchemist, with wood and light elements. If we are together, either of us can use spiritual power to get through, don't you think?"
"Second Elder Sister, as long as one person uses spiritual power, whether it's wood or ice, we can build a ladder to climb up. It's such a waste for you and Little Junior Brother to be together like this. Why don't you give one to me?"
Ming Lou looked obediently:
"My gold element heavenly spiritual root is actually quite useful, and I'm strong and agile. Second Elder Sister, Qi Yu Junior Brother, one of you two could team up with me. I can carry that person through."
Yue Zhiyin looked at Qi Yu. "Qi Yu Junior Brother, you can also team up with me. Whether you revert to your original form and let me carry you, or we climb up together, we can complement each other. I can even carry you, or walk behind you. What do you think?"
"Qi Yu Junior Brother, team up with me."
"Second Elder Sister..."
Due to the influence of their innate spiritual roots, among the direct disciples, Qi Nian, who had wood as one of her two heavenly spiritual roots, and Qi Yu, who had ice as one of hers, received the most team invitations.
Next was Yue Zhiyin, who had wind as one of his heavenly spiritual roots.
After all, with the power of analysis, a strong gust of wind could probably get them up.
And the least popular... among the dual heavenly spiritual roots, was Sui You, who had fire and gold.
Because fire was too hot, not only would it cause injury, but it couldn't be used as an advantage.
Also, Sui You's spiritual power was too hot. If they entered the swamp pit with him, they would definitely be suffocated by the hot and boiling swamp gas.
Because of this, Sui You's expression was cold for the rest of the time, his face perpetually gloomy.
All the disciples of the Bei Yuan Sect kept their distance, not even daring to look at Sui You.
They were afraid of being tied up and roasted by him.
Qi Yu looked at the solitary Sui You in the distance with some concern and turned to Ming Lou, suggesting, "Why don't you two team up?"
Ming Lou was horrified and quickly shook his head. "No, no, no. I'd rather be alone in the swamp pit than team up with him."
Qi Yu said helplessly, "Actually, I don't mind, but Sui You's spiritual power is too hot. If I build an ice ladder with my ice element, it will melt the moment he steps on it."
"My wood element won't work either," Qi Nian said more helplessly from the side. "We've cooperated before, and once, the things I created with my wood element immediately caught fire the moment he touched them! I think he can only team up with Senior Brother."
Yue Zhiyin twitched his lips.
To be honest.
He liked fighting Sui You, but he didn't like teaming up with Sui You.
Because it was really too hot.
Once, as a deep-sea dragon, he even burned a patch of his dragon scales because he teamed up with Sui You.
And this was something he couldn't talk about.
Sui You heard their discussion behind him, and his resentment deepened, as if he were radiating black resentment.
Seeing this, Yue Zhiyin quietly walked over. "Sui You, why don't we team up?"
Sui You glanced at him, then looked at Qi Yu.
His gaze was pitiful and wronged.
Qi Yu spread her hands helplessly. "It really won't work. I'm ice element. The moment you step on it, my ice will melt. We can't team up. If it were another task, it would be fine."
Sui You withdrew his gaze, looked at Yue Zhiyin again, and finally sighed, looking very reluctant.
"Fine, I'll team up with you."
Yue Zhiyin twitched his lips.
What?
With that tone, you little brat, you're making it sound like I'm forcing you?