76 Fire

"Why won't we dare." the brown-robed elder was clearly the type to get riled up, as he shouted the other elders followed like sheep betting their disciples to be transferred over to him.

Rudra was dying from laughter inside he had already used Omniscient Eye to observe both the finalists how can he not know that Jessie was superior to Chen.

He had decided to capitalize on these idiots who have despised him inside their hearts and acted all righteous to his face fearing his backing of the Spirit Ocean Sect.

"Then the bet is set, If I win I will win all these spiritual stones and the disciples bet." Rudra declared as he sat on his seat haughtily.

Shin and Yang who had just watch the whole thing unfold, were as dumbfounded as anyone in the whole field.

"Uncle surely you didn't need to.."

"Hush! Shin, you don't kill the golden chicken before it lays the egg" Rudra quickly shut up the clamoring followers.

Rudra looked at the field where the fight had intensified, Chen was clearly overpowering Jessie.

This increased the confidence of the Elders who took sidelong glances at Rudra ask if wanting to see his distressed face but were disappointed to see him smiling cheekily.

Some of them even thought that Rudra surely was a dumbnut being happy at his candidate for bet being pushed back.

Half an hour passed and the fight still kept on going but it seemed like both the contestants were finally serious as they started using their hidden moves.

"Heavy Palm"

Chen's palm attack stuck Jessie at her chest causing her to be stunned for a second.

Chen not wasting the opportunity used another attack within an instant,

"Wind burst" the punch connected to the abdomen of Jessie almost throwing her out of the ground.

All the elders smiled more readily after each passing second as Chen recently attack Jessie throwing combos one after another.

"What is the girl waiting for?" Rudra said as he activated the Omniscient Eye technique looking at the girl, who slowly became naked, he quickly peered deeply making him see inside her body into her Qi but her naked body kept returning into his mind.

"Peh!, distracting thoughts, not now, I have money to win" Rudra scolded himself as he gave it one more shot looking intently at the Qi surrounding Jessie.

"Fire Qi" Rudra muttered as he guessed it had something to do with the royal line of Golden Sun Empire.

"Sonic Punch!"

Chen fired a punch that produced a booming noise and distorted the air around it as it approached the pretty face of Jessie,

BOOM!

But unlike the expected outcome everyone was prepared for the punch did not land on the face of Jessie but was stopped in its track by the girl who was clamping down on the fist.

"Flame Punch" a high pitched voice sounded.

BAM!

An explosion sounded as a fist-size gaping hole was burned of the orange robe of Chen who defended against the burning fists coming straight at his face.

After a while, all the hair on his head had changed to an afro with the burning smell of hair wafting in the air. The robes around his body were filled with gaping holes and numerous burn marks appeared on his body as he tried to retaliate but failed to even land a hit.

Rudra nodded his head the outcome of this match had already been decided, he looked around to see the black faces of all the elders who had bet. Rudra grinned in delight.

All the elders had a face that appeared as if they had eaten shit, in indignation they roared inside their hearts cursing at Chen for being such a loser. The match came to an end soon after the exhausted Chen passed out in the ring.

"Chen has been knocked out, Jessie is victorious!" the referee announced causing the spectators to cheer in joy while the elders cried in their heart for all their loss of the bet.

Rudra stood and strolled towards the pile of spiritual stone lying in the middle and pocketed them into his spiritual ring much to the dismay of the other elders.

"Now, all of you come behind me," Rudra said pointing at the disciples still standing behind their elders.

"Respected Elder, you surely don't intend to.." one of the disciples said in dismay.

"What are you going to make your elders look like lying imbeciles for not reneging on the bet," Rudra said angrily shutting the youth that had wanted to speak up.

Hearing his insult none of the elders said anything they all kept quiet trying to save face speaking now would only result in more loss of face.

"Ahem!" the grey-robed elder who had not taken part in the bet tried to once again diffuse the situation by changing the topic.

"Now, we shall ask the winner to choose the sect of their choice."

These words caused all the elders to turn their attention towards the winner of the event Jessie, and also the loser Chen many of the elders wanted him despite him causing their loss, as they believed him to be a rare talent.

"Speak, young princess, which sect do you wish to join?" the grey-robed old man said warmly.

Everyone stared at the young girl awaiting her response.