Chapter 47: The fight is fixed

I didn't know what to say. The crowd who were watching in anticipation were stupefied.

Who wouldn't be? They thought that this fight would be a very interesting one as both sides had a beef with each other, but what they saw was one of them forfeiting without any hesitation before the fight even begin.

Even the referee was shocked and it took him some moments to collect himself and announce the winner of this fight.

"The winner of this fight is Peng Chun." The referee announced.

Peng Chun left the stage while cursing about not being able to show him his place and other sentences like that.

The crowd really didn't give a shit about showing face at this point and didn't make any sound that could even remotely be considered cheering. There was dead silence in the crowd because of this last fight.

'Why come all this way to surrender?'

'Is this the might of the young generation of the heavenly sword sect?'

'Was he threatened so that he surrender in this fight?'

'They do this openly as if people have no eyes…'

Murmurs like these were spoken all around the crowd and this made some of the elders to frown at this development. The actions of a disciple in a big gathering like this could easily affect the whole sect's image in the minds of other practitioners and in turn, affect the whole continent's residents.

In a society that word of mouth is a very important factor, even a seemingly small matter like this could start a domino effect. This would drop the sect's image by a level as the crowd now thinks that the sect turned a blind eye to someone forcing a disciple to forfeit from a position that could be very beneficial to him.

No one put much importance on Jin Fen's last words. Yes, he said big words but everyone thought that he is saying this as a last jab to his opponent before he forfeits…

Only I know that this little shit is doing this to go where Lai Xinyue is. He could at least play as he was losing but no, he had to do it in the worst way possible and just leave as if he owns the place.

His fight was finished in a way that easily gave the crowd the impression of the 'wronged genius who fought a young master'.

When you do shit like that, you can't expect that the sect doesn't react to your blunder. But the funny thing is that I don't think that Jin Fen has the slightest idea of what storm he created.

Now even I wish that he can be in the final 5 of tomorrow's battle royale so that the suspicion on sect would be reduced and this won't affect the overall image of the sect that much.

I couldn't stay here any longer and now that the fights were over, I didn't have to.

"Let's get some rest." I said to Hu Anjing. Well, tomorrow will be more exciting hopefully.

"Hopefully tomorrow would be more exciting…" Hu Anjing said all of a sudden.

I stopped in my tracks for a moment.

'Did she just… I hope she didn't jinx it.' I thought.

Shaking my head, I started walking. I can't let these superstitions affect my mental state. Yeah, let's not think about it.

We got back to our temporary rooms on the competition site and separated.

I needed a rest badly after thinking about all these things today. From the [Eternal wail trial] itself to Lai Xinyue and Jin Fen, a lot happened today and I need time to process all these things.

The night passed peacefully and it was the second day of the competition.

Today we were going to have two sets of fights. The first one is the battle royale one where the 50 losing parties would fight each other until they get to the final 5 participants. Those five would get a chance to fight for the thrones on the final day which is tomorrow.

After they have finished this fight and the final five were selected, the 55 winners would fight for the 10 thrones. The order of fighting is the same as the fights we had last round.

If you ask me, this is the best possible configuration because the order shows a relative power for most of the participants.

The new rule in these fights is that even if you are on a throne, you can still fight for the three special thrones. This would create pressure on anyone who is occupying those seats and would make the fight more competitive.

The main thing on my mind at this point is the rules and the setting of the battle royale that they have in store for us.

I didn't have to dwell on it for long before grand elder Wan went on the stage and explained to us and the crowd.

The location for this fight is not here and there is some distance between us, but to make the travel easier there are already teleport formations ready to be used. using these, we can get there fast without wasting time.

Outside of the competition ground, there are 50 portals that will be sending disciples to a predefined location inside of the competition ground.

You can think of it as a semi-random spawn in a game.

On the site, the 50 participants would each draw a lot and that would decide on which portal they will be going through. This way at least at the start they can't team up on others and they have to explore to find each other.

After they entered the fighting zone, it is free for all. You can scheme, team up, or go solo. Everything is up to you and you can decide how you want to proceed.

The main rule is that you can't kill each other and doing permanent damage to a fellow disciple results in disqualification and also you would get a punishment that the sect's punishment hall deems necessary.

The moment that the final 5 are selected, all the fighting should be stopped. If anyone continues fighting after the end of the competition, according to the situation the involved parties would be punished.

After that, we went to the fighting ground that was selected for this battle royale. Even the audience came there to watch the fight. As I said before, these peoples are the disciples of the smaller powers and they are mainly sword practitioners so these fights would be useful to them so they have no qualms against coming here.

"Now, each of you can draw a lot." Grand elder Wan gestured to the participating disciples.

Jin Fen as everybody expected was sneaking glances at Lai Xinyue. On the other hand, Dai Bao was also glancing at someone, that someone being Jin Fen himself. Lai Xinyue herself was calm and collected and seemingly was ready for this fight.

After a few more moments, they know which portal is theirs and walked through it.

'Fuck you Jin Fen, you have to win this.' I prayed for his victory.