The lake outside House Luolan was a willing canvas of sun and sky, a rippled rendition of azure-blue and pale yellow.

BOOM!

Terrific blasts of resonant power ricocheted off each other, generating large waves across the lake that splattered back down noisily as they sprayed the surrounding banks.

Two people were fighting on the surface, trading blows back and forth.

Li Luo and Jiang Qing'e.

They were having a sparring match.

However, Jiang Qing'e had restricted her own resonant power to the First Changing Tier. Even so, there was an obvious difference between the two. Li Luo was being pushed back at will. No matter what resonance art he applied, he was easily repelled by Jiang Qing'e.

In this sparring match, Li Luo once...