"Good afternoon, everyone!" the host greeted the audience as he looked around at them when he returned to the stage after the lunch break. "Our one hundred participants have finished choosing and we have completed the final lists for the solo, double and group battles for this stage!" he said.
The audience cheered and clapped.
"For the solo battle, there will be thirty participants!" the host continued. "For the double battle, there will be forty participants, comprising of twenty pairs! And for the group battles, there will be also thirty participants comprising of four three-mber groups, two four-mber groups, and two five-mber groups!" he explained. "From the thirty participants in the solo battles, only fifteen will win! From the twenty pairs in the double battle, only ten pairs, which consist of twenty participants, will win! And from the thirty participants in the group battle, only fifteen participants will win!" he said.
"OOOH!!" the audience cheered, feeling more fired up than the participants who will be battling against each other.
"Participants of the solo battle, please remain." The host turned to the participants. "Participants of the double battle, please get off the stage be ready at any ti this week. And for the participants of the group battle, please also get off the stage and wait until next week for your turn." He told them. "Now, for the participants of the solo battle, please stand in the middle of the stage." He said.
The participants of the double and group battles left after bidding good luck to their fellow disciples and friends.
"The participants of the solo battle are as follows – " the host spoke as he introduced the participants one by one. " – Xi He of the Shanliangde Sect!" he said and stopped in front of Xi He who is at the beginning of the line. "Participant Xi He, do you have sothing to say or do you have soone whom you wanted to fight against with?" he asked.
"Wu Tie!" Xi He answered and glared at Wu Tie who stood at the other end of the line.
Wu Tie snorted in response and rolled his eyes, clearly not taking seriously of Xi He's provocation. This made the audience roar in excitent since there is a strong sll of gunpowder in the air! The host chuckled at this as he moved on to the next participant.
anwhile, Fei Yinzi and Ling Yun coincidentally stood next to each other. "Hello." Fei Yinzi greeted.
Ling Yun was about to greet back when he rembered the last ti both of them t. It was when Fei Yinzi punched him while Cheng Sheng was unconscious. "… hello." He greeted back with a strained smile.
Fei Yinzi was puzzled by his reaction and was about to speak when soone tapped his shoulder. "Li-ge! Yan-ge!" he exclaid when he saw Tang Li and Li Yan behind him.
"Er Zi." Tang Li smiled while Li Yan waved. "Pray that you won't face us!" Li Yan teased.
"… I won't." Fei Yinzi wryly smiled. He doesn't want to face his friends this early yet in the competition. "Pray that both of you won't face each other." He told them with his eyes curved in mirth.
Tang Li and Li Yan laughed, as expected.
"… your nickna is 'Er Zi'?" soone spoke.
Fei Yinzi turned and saw Qi Lan. "Qi-ge!" he nodded as a greeting.
Qi Lan nodded back. "So, your nickna…" he spoke.
Fei Yinzi's lip twitched. "… there is a long explanation behind it, and it's related to my master…" he helplessly smiled. "If Qi-ge wants, you can also call 'Er Zi'." He told him.
Qi Lan nodded.
"Hello! Can I be your friend, too?" soone said.
Fei Yinzi looked at the person beside Qi Lan. "… you are?" he asked.
The person is a rogue cultivator like Qi Lan. "Jin Yu." He answered. "I registered as a mage, and was in the canyon arena. You must not have heard." He smiled.
"… heard about what?" Tang Li curiously asked.
"I offended the three sisters of the Tuanhui Sect." Jin Yu laughed.
Tang Li, Li Yan, Fei Yinzi and Ling Yun. "…" well, you've got quite so enemies… they thought, thinking about the fierce female disciples of the Tuanhui Sect.
"… please be careful not to et them on the road." Fei Yinzi sincerely told Jin Yu.
"Thank you for your advice!" Jin Yu grinned.
He Shun, anwhile, was situated on the other side and saw that Fei Yinzi and the others were chatting. He felt stifled because he only got Wu Tie, this arrogant bastard, on his end, along with so rogue cultivators. Aside from Wu Tie who is a disciple, he recognized soone, and it is a rogue cultivator.
This rogue cultivator was also in the sa arena, the canyon arena, with him and the Shanliangde Sect. They know that Xi He and Wu Tie are fighting in a large-scale so they avoided their area. If he recalled, this rogue cultivator's na is 'Ho Ting'.
He shook his head. Although he liked to make friends, but winning is more important to him! He can't lose!
…
"Ah." Cheng Sheng, who should also felt fired up when the solo battle finally began, yawned.
Everyone around him. "…" the fighting has begun yet you feel sleepy?! They thought with their faces covered in dark lines.
It's as if Cheng Sheng has read their thoughts. "Ai. Look. I want to make my disciple feel fired up even more by bringing xiao Bao with to act as my 'new' disciple because I am worried he will lose!" he spoke. "But look! That ungrateful brat didn't even have any reaction. As expected, he doesn't care for his master even if I would have a new disciple! Bah! He deserves to lose!" he frowned as he squeezed xiao Bao's plump cheeks to vent his anger.
Everyone. "…" Er Zi who cried in front of everyone because you had been ignoring him DOESN'T care about you?! They thought as their faces darkened. Their hands suddenly itched to beat Cheng Sheng.
Cheng Sheng, this scum, dared to throw the bla to his poor disciple! He is the one who deserves a beating, this oblivious scum!
"Ai. This fight is really boring." Cheng Sheng spoke as he watched Tang Li fought against another disciple.
Although they felt that Cheng Sheng deserves a beating, but what he said is right. The first battle is boring for them because they can see the disparity between Tang Li's strength and his opponent's strength.
As expected, Tang Li won. The Huakai Sect cheered, especially Tang Teng. "Congratulations!" the others told Tang Zhe, Tang Yun, Guo Cheng and Shan Lu.
"Thank you." The four of them answered with a big smile on their faces.
"Like your sect, our sect only has one participant for the solo stage." Cheng Sheng spoke. "Now that your participant was done and won, you should have nothing to look forward to in the remaining fourteen matches, right?" Cheng Sheng asked.
"… yes." The Huakai Sect elders answered, don't know what Cheng Sheng is getting at.
But, definitely, it couldn't be good.
As expected, they saw the scum smiled. "Co. I have sothing to tell you. But, it should only be through a whisper!" he told them.
Tang Zhe, Tang Yun, Guo Cheng and Shan Lu. "…" this is definitely sothing bad… they thought.
Shan Lu who have suffered the most under Cheng Sheng's hands subconsciously shivered and hid behind Guo Cheng who snorted. "You… you three go find out what he wanted to say. You can tell it to later." He told the other three. "Through a whisper." He added when he rembered what Cheng Sheng just said.
The others curiously looked at Cheng Sheng who just laughed but then went to the side with Tang Zhe, Tang Yun and Guo Cheng following behind him.
"… what could it be?" they curiously asked.
"Judging from master Cheng's scum personality and his devious deeds, he definitely wants to pit soone." Xiao Bao spoke before he paused as if he recalled sothing. "That unlucky soone is definitely going to suffer." He added.
Everyone. "…" so direct! They thought, though they couldn't help but agree.
As expected, they saw Tang Zhe's, Tang Yun's and Guo Cheng's complicated expressions, but it made their curiosity increase. What is Cheng Sheng up to now?
Cheng Sheng clapped. "Now, since you were done watching your participant's battle and got nothing remaining to do today, then please be on your way!" he told them as he waved his hands, shooing the poor Huakai Sect elders.
The other couldn't help but feel pity towards Tang Zhe, Tang Yun, Guo Cheng and Shan Lu, recalling the days when they were all still fellow disciples and these four are the unlucky ones who always got the short end of the stick. And most of their misfortunes are from Cheng Sheng's hands!
"Hm? What are you looking at for?" Cheng Sheng asked as he innocently blinked his eyes, as if oblivious from the others' suspicious gazes casting at him.
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