Story 6 - Slapping Faces and Entering Sects (26)
I grabbed the rod. It was still scalding, but nowhere near hot enough to hurt my toughened skin. After I pulled it out of the floor, I happily ran toward Zhao XiuYing.
I guessed that I’d frightened the shit out of her because she bolted in the opposite direction.
Yes! Fear ! I am your reckoning. Muahahahaha!
Since I had her on the run, I sent another slash of sword Qi at her back. It hit, but her protective talisman absorbed all the damage.
That forced her to realize that running away would not work for long.
I moved fast, using my body cultivation to its fullest. Once again, I closed in on her. She barely fixed her ntality in ti to block my blade with her fan. Then she tried to throw off her with an Icy Wind technique.
I dodged and slashed down at her Achilles tendon. Most of my strike was absorbed by her talisman, but that was when it broke! My blade dug into her skin and pierced her heel.
She scread and fell to the floor.
Wanting to end this quickly, I placed my sword against her neck.
“You get one chance to surrender.”
For a second, she looked so pitiable that any normal person would want to comfort her... but what Xianxia ever had normal people cultivating? I certainly wasn’t one of them.
It seed like the whole stadium, for a brief mont, held their breath as they waited for the show to end.
Icy Tsundere Fairy very calmly took out a talisman that had been hidden in her sleeve. “Never!”
Fire erupted from the paper. Power at the peak of Nascent Soul emanated from the flas!
Motherfucker!
Of course, thank fuck, I had that little gourd pendant. It grew in size just before my protective barrier burned to ashes. The jade cork popped out, and the bottle started sucking in the attack’s energy as if it had a tiny black hole inside of it.
Unfortunately, the spell was too powerful. Fractures spread across its once exquisite surface. They glowed a suspicious, angry red.
For a second, I was terrified that my pendant wouldn’t be able to suck in all the fire… but the cracks grew dark. Then the gourd crumbled to dust.
I stared at the remains and almost coughed up blood.
Fuck! My plans! I was going to use that pendant to survive my goddamn tribulation.
Now I had to wait until I found or purchased another quality protective item.
I glared at Zhao XiuYing, who shrank back. Then horror filled her face as she realized what she’d just done. Silent tears started to fall from her eyes.
Ugh. This was why you didn’t give children access to fucking military-grade talismans.
Fuck. While I wasn’t an expert at making them, I had so experience using them. Especially during warti.
The item she just pulled out was sothing only an Immortal Bone Creation realm Master could create. And the materials used in it were so expensive that it could take all the way up to the Nascent Soul stage from the first layer of Qi Condensation.
Who the fuck would waste one of those fuckers on ?
The referee walked over, his brow covered in sweat. Yeah, this guy would have been fucked, too. And the elders inside the box were all too far away to get here in ti to stop it. I an — if they were prepared for it — sure, they could have reached . But nobody was expecting a goddamn child to pull out a fucking military-grade talisman!
Fuck demonic cultivators!
“Winner, Fairy Lin!”
The crowd cheered. The pleasant sound almost wiped my anger away.
With the biggest grin on my face, I waved back. It was nice to be appreciated.
***
It took a while to clean up the arena floor. They even had a four arts cultivator decorate it with paintings of flowers hanging in mid-air. They even turned part of the field into a painted bamboo forest.
Then they brought out each of the recovered kids who had taken part in the finals... aside from Icy Tsundere Fairy, who was being detained for questioning.
Young Master Zhang appeared much better than the last ti I saw him, but his face was still pale. His bodyguard stood next to him, hovering like a mother hen.
McTraitorFace looked like she was going to be sick, but kept it together.
Wang Chunyu, the most forgettable guy here, held his head up high.
Several sect elders floated down from their box. One, I recognized as the only Spear Grandmaster of Majestic Sword Peak, Unwavering Thunderous Strike, flanked by two Sword Grandmasters I was not familiar with.
Then Elder Fifth Flower Drop from Mystical Bamboo Peak and Elder Drinking Crescent from Divination Peak dropped to the ground. The woman carried her fan coquettishly and avoided looking at Crescent’s face… which was covered by an ancient and massive talisman of protection.
Yeah, he was a bit of an eccentric, but what could soone expect from a diviner that powerful?
Elder Five Palms of Body Peak jumped down, causing the newly repaired floor to break under his feet.
Fuckin’ show off.
Grandmaster Unwavering Thunderous Strike stared at the only spear wielder of the group.
“Young Zhang QiangQiang! I was not planning on taking a disciple in this life, but what I saw from you changed my mind. Are you willing to accept this Spear Grandmaster as your Master?”
The pre-teen practically shook as he said, “Y-yes!”
Unwavering smiled with satisfaction and made a co here motion.
Young Master Zhang strode over to stand behind his new master. They would perform the actual acceptance ceremony later in private. It was nice to see this brat find a good master.
The man we all secretly called the Spear Saint never took a disciple in my previous life. Zhang QiangQiang must have had an impressive fight with Zhao XiuYing to force him to change his mind.
I still can’t believe I missed it!
One of the Sword Grandmasters stepped up to my fellow cannon fodder.
“Disciple Hu Bolin!” The Tiger Brother stiffened. “Are you willing to take as your master?”
“Yes!” The preteen bead as he ran to grab his spot behind the sword grandmaster.
Elder Fifth Flower Drop gestured to McTraitorFace with her fan. “Little Fairy Liu ChuHua. Are you willing to accept this Peak Elder as your master?”
She hesitated for a second, glanced at , then turned and bowed to the elder. “Yes!”
At least this was a different master than the one she had in her past life.
I knew a bit about Fifth Flower Drop. She wasn’t a terrible master. Her disciples had all beco strong and elegant won.
Elder Drinking Crescent stepped forward. His deep hoarse voice emanated from beneath the talisman. “Young Wang Chunyu. I have perford a divination. Out of all the disciples I’ve seen in this trial, you are the one with the most fate with my cultivation technique. Are you willing to beco my disciple and join on Divination Peak?”
“Yes!” Then he excitedly marched to his new position.
Next, that show off, Elder Five Palms laughed boisterously. “Young Zhang WeiWei!” The bodyguard’s eyes grew wide. I guess he didn’t predict that a body cultivator of all people would call his na. And I couldn’t bla him, since even I thought he was here to pick a fight with one of the Sword Grandmasters again. “Are you willing to worship as your master?”
“No.”
“Then get over—No?!” Elder Five Palms blinked at the kid, then scowled. “Maybe you don’t realize who I am.”
“I want to train on Majestic Sword Peak with my young master.”
“You understand that the Zhang Clan has no hold on you anymore.”
“Even so.”
Damn. That preteen had so guts.
“Zhang WeiWei!” QiangQiang said. “Do you think Elder Five Palms can teach you what you need to know to beco powerful?”
He gradually nodded.
“Then go with him.”
The bodyguard turned to Elder Five Palms and bowed. “Then I will accept you as my master.”
“This brat! You’re lucky I’m impressed with your loyalty. Now get over here!”
Since they had finished accepting their disciples, the Elders stepped aside. Usually, they’d run off to start introducing their new disciples to their peaks, but they probably all knew that sothing interesting was about to happen. Elder Five Palms even took out a bag of lon seeds and grinned like he was about to watch a good show.
Finally, it was our ti to take the spotlight.
The Sect Leader and Fairy Verdant Bamboo both drifted down to .
I admit it gave a bit of joy to see her face flushed red with fury.
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