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Rudra was looking at the fight uninterested, as the other elders had gotten involved, they started selecting competitors in the top 10 into their sect, and unlike Nobu, these competitors were more tamed.

Having gotten no opportunity to claim more disciples Rudra became uninterested but he still enjoyed the fight put on by the competitors.

BANG!

"Chen wins, he will advance to the finals to face Jessie." the referee announced with an amplified voice.

Rudra looked at Chen who had beaten another one of his opponents and had entered the final of the competition. Rudra turned his eye to his competitor the princess, daughter of Prince Antonio she had made it to the finals too.

The sun was going down as the last bit of the competition was about to finish, Rudra looked at the red-dyed sky, and the trees swaying in the breeze, feeling relaxed.

After the rest time was over both the finalists made it to the stage, the princess of the town Jessie dressed in black clothing and the orange-robed Chen who had been defeated all his opponents within 5 moves.

The crowd cheered, but Rudra could certainly see more people supporting the girl, Rudra guessed the bias was predisposed as her father was the ruler of this whole area and would remain to be so, even if he didn't become the emperor.

Begin! the referee shouted as both Jessie and Chen rushed towards each other raining punches and kicks soon only blurry afterimages of their attacks could be seen from the looks of it it could be said that they were evenly matched but the elders could clearly see through the speed and determine that Chen was at a clear advantage as Jessie was being pushed after every punch and was forced to defend against the flurry of attacks coming at her.

Shin couldn't keep his curiosity in as he asked,

"Uncle, who do you think would win?"

"Of course the girl would win," Rudra commented nonchalantly.

The elders who were fixated on the match turned to look at Rudra as he was a fool spouting nonsense.

"Elder, you must be joking every one of us can clearly tell that Chen is determined to win."

"Oh! Which fool thinks so?" Rudra said with contempt in his voice causing all elders to straighten up as they started to stare at him.

"Elder, obviously you can't distinguish the gap in cultivation between the two contestants because of your low cultivation base." one of the elders wearing a brown robe said mockingly.

"Ah! It's definitely some blind retard that can't tell the difference between skills of the contestants." Rudra continued to rile up the elders.

"How can you say so, Elder?" another elder chimed in.

"What! Are you questioning my intellect?" Rudra retorted annoyed.

"No....no... How could we do that, that would be rude, right elders!" the brown-robed elder said contemptuously.

"Oh! You are so sure that the boy would win wanna play a bet?" Rudra said mockingly.

"Surely there is no need for that." an old man in a grey robe said trying to calm the situation down.

"Ho, We can bet, I am not afraid to play," the elder who had mocked Rudra before continued.

The other elders also showed their wish to silence this stain of an elder and humiliate him wiping the arrogance of his face. The elders were pretty annoyed from the start at the fact that they had to share their seat with a foundation realm brat as if they were equal.

"What do you wish to place as a bet, Elder?" the brown-robed man said mockingly hoping to leave Rudra embarrassed at the fact that he would be unable to produce any item that could even catch the eye of the elders present here.

"Ho! you guys want to play."

"Ok, If the boy wins I will give these 48 spiritual stones to you all" Rudra said as he produced a sack and took out a single spiritual spirit stone to show to the elders present on the semicircular table.

The elders looked at each other before they too started to place 48 spiritual stones as the bet.

"Elder if you win all of this spiritual stone would be given to you." the brown-robed elder said pointing at the pile of spiritual stone accumulated in the middle of the table.

Rudra looked around seeing almost all the elders had taken part in the bet except for Iclyn, the grey-robed elder from the sect which Shin belonged to and the mysterious veiled woman who has not spoken a word till now.

"Do you wanna increase the stakes of the bet?" Rudra asked provokingly, causing all the elders to pause and appreciate his overconfidence.

"How about if I add a Spiritual flying ship in the bet?" Rudra said causing all the Elders to whisper amongst themselves, after all, spiritual flying ships were a very expensive spiritual tool.

"Oh! It seems you guys don't dare, then how about you guys bet over the disciples that you have selected till now." Rudra said pointing at the 8 or so disciples standing behind some elders surprised at the sudden turn of events.