Chapter 743

Furthermore, one truly never sees this little one practicing.

Even Lumine sets aside time every day for closed-door cultivation.

Paimon either plays with Lumine or with Klee and the others.

Heaven knows...

how this little one, while just playing around, ended up becoming the number one in the Refining Qi into Spirit realm.

After being defeated by Paimon, Furina looked as if her worldview had collapsed, and she even began to doubt the meaning of life.

In fact, strictly speaking, it could not even be called a defeat.

It was a mockery.

As the battle began, Paimon utilized various exquisite basic incantations to fight Furina to a standstill.

It was only when Furina got serious that despair descended.

Paimon activated the Star Body, and the stars of the heavens were projected across the entire arena; in a flash, Paimon seemed to become the master of the celestial sea.

She nonchalantly manipulated countless starlight projections to bombard Furina.

Even when Furina brought out the power of the Kingly Path of Conferred Gods, she could barely resist.

Attempting to attack Paimon was even more absurd.

Not to mention whether she could even find an opening to counterattack amidst Paimon's fierce onslaught.

Just the fact that Paimon could transform her body into the void and dissolve into the power of the stars made her impossible to lock onto.

What's more, this creature could draw the stars into her body; a single punch in close combat was even more brutal than Beidou's punch of the Primordial Divine Elephant.

Basically, one touch meant death.

With a cultivation base at the peak of Refining Essence into Qi, she forced the barrier—which could withstand battles between experts of the Refining Qi into Spirit realm—to ripple.

A tiny body erupted with shocking power.

In the end, Furina was accidentally struck and knocked directly out of the arena; clearly, that was a punch possessing the power to kill her instantly.

But even so, Paimon had not used her full strength.

Everyone remembered that this little one had learned Jiang Yan's Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Incantation; besides that, heaven knows what other Eight Great Divine Incantations she had learned.

It wasn't until Lumine saw that Furina was somewhat unwilling that she laughingly had Himeko, who was at the early stage of Refining Qi into Spirit, stage an exhibition match with Paimon.

Only then did everyone realize how outrageous Paimon was.

She activated the Star Body at the start, and thousands of stars transformed into her power.

Sitting in the void, surrounded by stars, she quietly chanted the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Incantation, immediately sealing Himeko within the space.

She then cast the Golden Light Divine Incantation, flailing her short legs and arms, which left even Himeko terrified.

A low-grade spiritual artifact resisted Paimon's punch, only to be cracked and temporarily rendered useless.

As the fight progressed, Paimon even spread her hands and unleashed the Seventy-Two Transformations.

Moving Mountains, Borrowing Wind, Covering the Sun, Pot Heaven, Divine Speed...

With this set of five great spells, Himeko was stunned on the spot.

She wanted to fight, but Paimon was using Divine Speed and couldn't be caught.

That speed, even to Ganyu, was just a blur.

She wanted to use a large-scale lock-on, but Paimon's Pot Heaven directly diverted her attack back at her.

Once Moving Mountains and Borrowing Wind were unleashed, the towering divine mountain and the bone-cutting evil wind struck, shattering three of Himeko's high-grade magic treasures.

Finally, when Covering the Sun was unleashed...

Honestly, Paimon's Covering the Sun wasn't even fully released.

Halfway through, the entire arena had already plunged into absolute darkness.

When the darkness dissipated, Paimon was already sitting on the ground, panting and wilted.

Himeko looked at Paimon with lingering fear.

If it weren't for the fact that Paimon's strength couldn't fully sustain Covering the Sun at the final moment, Himeko felt she would have been defeated too.

The so-called Covering the Sun...

was not covering the sun at all!

That creature had directly created a sun in the arena; strictly speaking, it was a solar core condensed to the extreme.

It had absorbed all the light and heat; if she had truly let it erupt,

Himeko could not guarantee she would still be able to beat Paimon.

But even so, everyone could see it.

Paimon, this little one, was not like others who had a pile of treasures; she might have many, but she didn't use them.

She herself was the definition of outrageous.

Roughly estimated, Paimon possessed at least six or seven immortal arts.

This made many demon clan leaders green with envy.

In their prime, they had never even seen an immortal art, yet after Shushan was rebuilt, a disciple at the peak of Refining Essence into Qi had so many.

Even for a divine body, this was too outrageous.

Paimon's title as the number one in Refining Essence into Qi was now firmly established; of course, it likely wouldn't last long.

Paimon was also about to break through.

By then, this ranking list would have to change, and who knows how many people would be pushed down.

However, perhaps the list would change even before Paimon broke through.

Durandal and Kiana, who also possessed divine bodies, clearly had results that were not yet appropriate.

Once they mastered their own abilities, it was estimated that only Ganyu could rely on the treasures given by Jiang Yan to put up a fight.

And after that...

I fear Xiao's ranking would also have to be pushed back.

The power of a divine body was, for the first time, intuitively displayed before everyone.

543. The Disciple-Acceptance Ceremony Arrives, Tens of Millions Gather at Shushan

The Seven-Vein Martial Arts Tournament and the Ranking Competition were just a carnival for the people of Shushan.

Relatively speaking, the myriad spirits of Shushan and the people from the Honkai world were more concerned about the subsequent Disciple-Acceptance Ceremony.

This time, the number of participants was far greater than the last time when people came from Teyvat.

From the Honkai world alone, over ten million Valkyries and those with sufficient aptitude had come.

On the side of the myriad clans of Shushan, a full forty million had gathered here.

As for Teyvat, since they had just finished a Mountain-Opening Ceremony, Jiang Yan naturally would not start another one.

It was merely a matter of letting those in Shushan Village who had been waiting for a period of time, along with Nahida and others introduced by Tighnari and his group from Sumeru, come over.

With this, over fifty million people had gathered in Shushan Village.

And this was still while the seven nations of Teyvat were preparing their personnel; otherwise, if their people came in now to establish territory in the seven nations within the Shushan world,

the number would be even higher.

It was thanks to the world's evolution that Shushan Village had also expanded significantly; the area of Shushan Village alone was no smaller than a province in the Honkai world.

As for housing...

Relying solely on the people of Shushan Village, it naturally could not have been built in a short time.

But the myriad spirits of Shushan took the initiative to contribute their labor.

With a massive number of clans gathering to help, they easily built enough territory for everyone to live in.

Besides that, even some simple trading markets and the like had been established.

Shushan Village...

Strictly speaking, this should have become Shushan City.

The future Shushan City would become the true core area of the Shushan world.

If Jiang Yan's planning continued, within the next hundred years, the Shushan world would be like a true cultivation world.

Numerous cities would stand tall, with cultivators, martial artists, and mortals living within them.

Possessing a complete ecological system of the cultivation world.

These great clans among the demon race once also possessed massive numbers of cities, which was an important channel for them to obtain spirit stones.

In these cities, mortals made up the vast majority, and there were also quite a few martial artists.

As for cultivators, perhaps there were only a few, forming families or becoming the managers of the cities.