"What's going on?"
At the same time, Li Yuanling stared at the candle before her, looking left and right constantly, her face showing waves of shock and doubt.
She didn't know why the candle that had clearly been about to go out suddenly started burning again.
However, before she had time to think more about it, the next palm wind followed closely.
Li Yuanling could only hastily circulate her true qi and protect the candle before her once more.
However, this time the palm wind struck by the old man was clearly stronger than before, once again easily scattering the true qi released by Li Yuanling.
Seeing that fierce palm wind blowing toward the candle at extreme speed, Li Yuanling simply let go with both hands and directly chose to give up.
For her, being able to withstand twenty-five breaths was already fortunate. Not making it through this time was actually within expectations.
However, in the next instant, she suddenly widened her eyes, her entire person frozen in shock.
Her gaze stared tightly at the candle before her, her face showing an expression of disbelief.
"This... this..."
Li Yuanling pointed at the candle. What had she just seen?
Originally she thought that fierce palm wind would certainly extinguish the candle. However, unexpectedly, the fierce palm wind blew past the burning candle without changing anything at all.
The candle on the table continued to burn quietly. The flame didn't even flicker or sway in the slightest.
Li Yuanling hurriedly leaned close to the candle, observing it closely and constantly. The suspicious expression on her face grew even thicker.
She even tried opening her small mouth and gently blowing on the candle. As a result, she discovered the candle flame swayed violently, actually showing signs of flickering out.
Seeing this, she was so frightened that she immediately released true qi to protect the candle, finally stabilizing it.
At this moment, Li Musheng sitting across from her spoke with a teasing tone, "Sworn sister, if you don't want this candle to stay lit, you can say so earlier."
Hearing this, Li Yuanling raised her head to look at him and said subconsciously, "Who said I don't want..."
Just as she was speaking, she suddenly reacted. Immediately, she stared at Li Musheng with a shocked and suspicious expression, saying, "You did something just now?"
Just at this moment, the next palm wind arrived leisurely. After unsurprisingly scattering the true qi released from Li Yuanling's hand, it blew past the candle once more.
However, the result was still the same as before. The candle was completely unaffected and continued burning, its flame remaining bright.
Seeing this scene, no matter how slow Li Yuanling's reaction, she also guessed this was probably Li Musheng's doing.
For a moment, she was both surprised and puzzled, staring at Li Musheng constantly as she said, "How did you do this?"
Hearing this, Li Musheng spread his hands and raised his eyebrows, saying, "Do what? Isn't this something anyone with hands can do?"
Then he glanced at Li Yuanling, chuckled, and said, "My sworn sister, if you're bad at it, just practice more!"
Li Yuanling: ...
At the same time, the black-clothed old man seated on the wheel also noticed the abnormality of the wooden boat where Li Musheng and the other sat. His brows furrowed even tighter.
Why is it that my palm winds are getting stronger and stronger, yet I can't blow out their candle?
He still remembered that earlier he had nearly extinguished the candle on their boat. However, the next two even stronger palms unexpectedly could no longer affect that candle in the slightest.
"Three more palms remain. I don't believe you can withstand them."
The black-clothed old man's eyes narrowed slightly. true qi surged around his body as his palm rose in the air and struck toward the candle on the wooden boat from a distance.
However, the next two palms at the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth breaths were the same as before.
The old man's palm winds blew past the candle on the wooden boat where Li Musheng and the other sat as if blowing past air. The candle was completely fine.
Even Li Musheng and the other on the wooden boat sat calmly facing each other, their eyes staring at each other.
Li Yuanling, who had previously been using her hands to protect the candle, now sat with her hands on her hips, simply doing nothing at all.
Seeing this scene, a sharp gleam flashed through the old man's eyes. His competitive spirit was immediately aroused.
Logically speaking, in order to appropriately and gradually increase the difficulty, each palm he struck had limited force.
But this time, he decided to secretly increase the force of the palm wind on the thirtieth breath.
He had been working at this Floating Boat City for some years, but this was the first time he had encountered such a strange situation.
Moreover, for some unknown reason, the candle burning on that wooden boat actually made him subconsciously feel a sense of powerlessness, which was truly quite bizarre.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The old man rapidly struck his palms through the air. Three whistling palm winds broke through the air, carrying sharp wind sounds as they struck toward the remaining three wooden boats.
"What's happening? Why is this last palm wind so strong?"
The martial world man cried out in alarm and hurriedly called for the sword-wearing middle-aged man to help.
At this time, the middle-aged man's expression was uncertain. While helping, he watched the wooden boat where Li Musheng and the other sat from the corner of his eye.
Earlier, he had originally thought they absolutely couldn't withstand the next palm wind. But what greatly surprised him was that their candle not only withstood four palm winds, but seemed to do so effortlessly.
Poof!
Among the remaining three wooden boats, the candle on one of them was extinguished by the old man's final palm wind.
The wooden boat where the martial world man was located, under the combined efforts of him and the middle-aged man, barely managed to keep the violently swaying candle stable and finally made it through.
As for the wooden boat where Li Musheng and the other sat, the powerful palm wind whistled past the candle, but the candle on the table showed no ripples. It continued burning quietly without moving an inch, as if nothing had happened at all.
"You have such miraculous methods, why didn't you say so earlier?"
Li Yuanling's pair of pitch-black eyes stared straight at Li Musheng.
However, before Li Musheng could answer, her eyes curved into crescents as she smiled, exclaiming excitedly, "If this method can persist, we might even break the record of this Floating Boat City this time."
At this moment, Li Yuanling was so happy that she had even thrown Li Musheng's previous mockery of her to the back of her mind.
Li Musheng glanced at her and didn't want to say anything.
At the same time, the iron-frame wheel suddenly stopped.
Then, the fixed mechanisms opened one by one. Iron chains were ejected from the grooves and began moving rapidly again.
The thirty wooden boats began slowly continuing to descend toward the depths of the earth cliff.
The old man who had been seated on the wheel stood up, looking with an ugly expression toward the wooden boat where Li Musheng and the other sat.
"It seems that an expert has come to Floating Boat City today. This matter must be reported."
Then the old man's figure quickly disappeared from where he stood.
At the same time, among the descending wooden boats, the sword-wearing middle-aged man constantly observed Li Musheng and the other on the nearby boat from the corner of his eye, his eyes showing both shock and wariness.
For no other reason than in the next second challenge, they would be competitors.