Past life sage: This life a dual cultivator

"Li Yan, hear carefully. I am not here to fight with you rather I am here to give you a warning", Shi Xuejing spoke when she and Li Yan got into a close range fighting.

"What?", Li Yan looked at Shi Xuejing with disbelief in her eyes. But there was nothing except sincerity in the eyes of Shi Xuejing as she looked towards Li Yan.

"Listen carefully. I can't fight you for long as their might be danger to my life as well. Quickly wrap up your battle and escape from the rock platform. Otherwise, there might be some grave danger to your life", Shi Xuejing spoke.

She launched another slash at Li Yan after finishing up her words. Li Yan defended her attacks with a confused look on her face.

Shi Xuejing wanted to speak few more things but her expression changed after she noticed something. "Li Yan, quickly escape", she spoke before escaping into the crowd of cultivators.

Li Yan felt more confused and observed her surrounding to see if anything was wrong. She couldn't discover anything but Zhan Chen's expression changed who was keeping an eye on the ongoing battle.

"Dodge", he could only say a word before a small axe came flying from Li Yan 's back. Li Yan felt an instant danger and hurriedly turned her body towards the left. The axe flew past her arm leaving a small wound on her shoulder.

Before she could think what was happening, a knife flew towards her from her left. It came from such a close range that Li Yan couldn't do anything about it. The knife plunged into her chest and before she could react, another axe came flying from her back.

"Bastard", Zhan Chen stood up abruptly from his place as a chilling aura leaked out from his body. The Lu clan cultivators shivered in fear as if they were facing a prehistoric beast.

He used Cloud chasing steps and vanished from his place. He stopped only after Lu Tai Cang chased after him and held him by his shoulder.

"Zhan Chen, don't be reckless. It is the Longyang city. Give me a moment. I will bring that girl for you", Lu Tai Cang spoke and released Zhan Chen.

Zhan Chen still wanted to go but he calmed down after seeing Lu Tai Cang flying towards the battle field. "It is an assasination attempt on her. Who dare do such a thing?", Zhan Chen thought to himself.

He could have easily observed everything with his soul consciousness but he didn't do so because the presence of several emperors in the vicinity.

Lu Tai Cang only spoke few lines to the judge and the judge took Li Yan out of the ring. The battle continued after a short pause but everyone 's attention was on Lu Tai Cang 's group.

"Elder, what is happening here?", the eldest of the Chi sisters asked one of her Spirit palace elders.

"First miss, it is the Lu clan sixth elder. He intervened to save a girl from his side", the elder beside Chi Zhiqing replied to her.

"What is elder He is doing? He could have easily stopped the elder of the Lu clan", Chi Zhiqing knitted her eyebrows. For her, Lu clan didn't matter. What matter was the fact that the competetion got intervened in mid way!

"First miss, please let the matter rest. I don't know what Lu clan elder spoke to elder He but we shouldn't do something right away", the elder spoke to Chi Zhiqing in a pleading tone. He was aware of the hot headedness of his first miss. So, he tried to downplay the matter as much as possible.

"Well, there is no need to do anything right now but our Spirit palace must get a explanation from the Lu clan", Chi Zhiqing declared.

She turned to look at the old man who had come out with her from the Spirit palace. "Grand uncle Wuhan, what do you think we should do?", she asked the old man who was standing on the hill like a stone statue.

He was the emperor realm expert who had come along with both of the sisters to protect them in the Grand sect competition. There was a distant look on his face when he heard the words of Chi Zhiqing.

"Girl, don't stir commotion about this issue. It is not his fault either. I will talk with him after today's competetion is over", the old man replied to Chi Zhiqing.

Chi Zhiqing nodded her head but a confused expression appeared on her face. "Grand uncle will personally visit the Lu clan elder? What is happening here?", she thought to herself.

She didn't know that Lu Tai Cang had averted a crisis for the Spirit palace. If Zhan Chen was not stopped at that moment, then he would have killed few competetors right away before taking Li Yan and that would have caused huge commotion among the crowd present.

The emperor beside Chi Zhiqing could understand as much. So, he decided to take the matter into his hand.

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The day's battle stopped when evening arrived. There were still half of the culivators left who were yet to participate in the first round of the competetion.

"Tomorrow will be the final day for the first round of the competetion. After that we will move to the final round which will go on for the last five days", one the five judges declared.

The cultivators started to left one by one after the judge declared the end of the day. Chi Zhiqing and Chi Suying left with the emperor realm expert after the battle of the opening day concluded.

The emperor realm expert accompanied the Chi sisters to the Spirit palace and then flew back towards the city after saying good bye to both of them.

His speed was amazing and it took him only few moments before he reached the Rosewood inn. Zhan Chen raised his head after noticing the emperor 's presence in the sky above Rosewood inn.

A surprised look appeared on the face of the emperor after he saw Zhan Chen raising his head. Zhan Chen was quick enough to pretend like nothing happened but it still left a doubt in Emperor 's mind.

"It most be a coincidence", he thought to himself after observing Zhan Chen for a while. He released his soul aura slightly so that the Lu clan Tribulation realm expert could notice his presence.

A startled look appeared on Lu Tai Cang 's face after he noticed the soul aura of an emperor. He immediately left his room and flew towards the sky above the Rosewood inn.

"Greetings senior, please accept the regards of this old man from the Lu clan", he spoke to the emperor and bowed his head slightly to show respect.

"No need of such formalities. I just need you to clear some doubts in my head", the emperor from the Spirit palace looked towards Lu Tai Cang amiably.

"Senior, are you here to ask about today's incident?", Lu Tai Cang asked the emperor.

"Yes but I don't need an explanation. What I need instead is some information about the young man down there", the emperor replied.