[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star":3,"chapter-after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-83":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","After Fifteen Years of Secret Cultivation, I Start as a Top-Grade Ultimate Peak!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2282191,4464,"Chapter 83: Not a Single Flame Stirs","after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-83",83,"\u003Cp>What’s going on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Li Yuanling stared at the candle before her, glancing left and right, her face filled with growing astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t understand why the candle, which had clearly been about to go out, had suddenly reignited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before she could ponder further, the next palm strike arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuanling had no choice but to urgently channel her true qi to shield the candle again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this time, the old man’s palm strike was noticeably stronger than before, effortlessly scattering the true qi she had released.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the fierce palm strike hurtling toward the candle, Li Yuanling simply let go of her hands and chose to give up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For her, lasting twenty-five breaths was already lucky; failing this time was expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the next instant, she suddenly widened her eyes and froze in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze locked onto the candle before her, her face filled with disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… this…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuanling pointed at the candle—what had she just seen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been certain the fierce palm strike would extinguish the candle, yet the strike had passed right through the flame without changing a thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The candle on the table continued to burn steadily, its flame not even trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuanling hurried closer to the candle, scrutinizing it intensely, yet her suspicion only deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She even tried blowing gently on the flame with her lips—only to find the flame shuddered violently, on the verge of going out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Startled, she immediately released true qi to stabilize it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Li Muxian across from her spoke with a teasing tone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister, if you didn’t want the candle to stay lit, you could’ve said so earlier.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Li Yuanling looked up at him and blurted out:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who said I didn’t want—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she suddenly realized, her eyes snapping wide as she stared at Li Muxian:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Was that you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, the next palm strike arrived, as expected, scattering Li Yuanling’s true qi before passing over the candle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the result was the same as before—the candle remained untouched, its flame burning brightly as ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, even if Li Yuanling had been slow-witted, she now guessed Li Muxian was behind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stared at him, stunned and puzzled:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How did you do that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Muxian spread his hands and raised an eyebrow:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How did I do what? Isn’t it just using your hands?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he glanced at Li Yuanling and chuckled:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My dear sister, if you’re weak, practice more!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuanling: …\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the black-robed old man seated on the wheel also noticed the anomaly in Li Muxian’s boat, his brow tightening further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why is my palm strike growing stronger, yet the candle won’t budge?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered clearly that his earlier strike had nearly extinguished their candle, but the two stronger strikes after that had failed to affect it at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Three more strikes—I don’t believe you can withstand them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black-robed old man narrowed his eyes, his true qi surging as he raised his palm and struck the candle from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth strikes produced the same result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man’s palm wind swept over the candle on Li Muxian’s boat as if passing through air—the flame remained utterly undisturbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Li Muxian and Li Yuanling sat calmly across from each other, staring blankly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuanling, who had previously shielded the candle with her hands, now sat with her arms crossed, doing nothing at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the old man’s eyes flashed with determination, his competitive spirit ignited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, to gradually increase difficulty, each of his palm strikes was precisely calibrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, he decided to secretly amplify the force of his thirtieth strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had worked in Floating Boat City for years, yet he had never encountered anything so bizarre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for some reason, the candle on that boat made him feel inexplicably powerless—truly absurd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man rapidly struck the air, three roaring palm strikes hurtling forth, sharp winds slicing through the air toward the remaining three boats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s going on? Why is this final strike so strong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The martial arts giant cried out, urgently calling on the sword-wielding middle-aged man for help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man’s expression shifted uncertainly—he aided the giant while keeping his peripheral vision fixed on Li Muxian’s boat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had originally believed the pair wouldn’t survive the next strike, yet to his shock, their candle had not only endured four strikes but appeared effortless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puff!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the remaining three boats had its candle extinguished by the old man’s final strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The martial arts giant’s boat, with both his and the middle-aged man’s combined efforts, barely stabilized the violently flickering flame and barely held on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Li Muxian’s boat, the powerful palm wind roared over the candle—yet the flame on the table remained utterly still, burning calmly as if nothing had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you have such a miraculous skill, why didn’t you say so earlier?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuanling’s dark eyes fixed intently on Li Muxian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before Li Muxian could answer, her eyes curved into crescents as she beamed, exclaiming joyfully:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If this trick holds, we might break Floating Boat City’s record today.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Li Yuanling was so delighted she had completely forgotten Li Muxian’s earlier mockery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Muxian glanced at her and said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the iron wheel halted abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a series of fixed mechanisms unlocked, chains shot out of their grooves, and began rapidly writhing again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thirty boats slowly descended deeper into the cliff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man, who had been seated on the wheel, stood up, his expression grim as he stared at Li Muxian’s boat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Clearly, today’s Floating Boat City has attracted a master. This must be reported.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, his figure vanished from the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, among the descending boats, the sword-wielding middle-aged man kept glancing sideways at Li Muxian’s boat, his eyes filled with shock and deep wariness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing else—next, in the second trial, they would be rivals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",999,"2026-06-20T01:43:38.503Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c222542b3fc06501dcab78b96aed0a573208d299e32e2b9938cefc21dea54f72","after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-84","after-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-chapter-82",259,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-fifteen-years-of-secret-cultivation-i-star-cover.jpg"]