Chapter 51: One Slap Man

(A/N: okay, from what I have read in your comments so far, I can get a good grasp of what you do like and what you would like. I will check the results for a couple of days to see and read everyone's thoughts.

A solution that I think would work with my current workload is to go from daily updates to 3 chapters per week, this way I can put more thoughts in chapters and longer chapters (2.5k+), that is if you think the quality of writing is dropping. For now I will go for 1.5k+ chapters. Give me your thoughts on this.

I will finish this selection soon, hopefully, it won't be boring.)

——(POV third person)——

With a hand gesture from one of the elders who was one of the referees for today, Li Huang and others could now start their fight for the thrones. There were 50 participants today and the 5 winners of the battle royale round would compete from tomorrow.

Without any delay, Li Huang started walking and hopped on the right vice-leader's throne.

The audience didn't expect this kind of development. They thought that Li Huang as a chief disciple and the grandson of the heavenly sword sect's patriarch, Li Long, would act more arrogantly and go for the leader's throne but he didn't.

Looking at the other participants, the audience soon understood that Li Huang would show arrogance without anything to back it with if he chose the leader's throne. Although everyone knows him as a genius there is also Hu Anjing who is also a genius but with way more cultivation power in Qi and body. She is at the twelfth stage of the Meridian formation whilst Li Huang is only at the first stage of the Meridian formation realm.

If you only look at his age he is very good, but when put in this competition, choosing the main throne would be too much arrogance that can not be justified.

Even the elders were satisfied by his course of action. Having all these options and still choosing to not bite off more than one can chew is a virtue that is rare in the younger generation. This small act gave him some points in the minds of the present elders.

If only they know that Li Huang was only selfish and didn't want to be taking care of others, they wouldn't be this happy about his decision. Luckily or unluckily for them and Li Huang, they couldn't read minds so they come up with this explanation for it.

Hu Anjing on the other hand was smiling evilly. If anyone in the crowd knows Li Huang it was her and she knows he wasn't being humble or something along these lines, he just didn't want to do the bothersome work of thinking about others.

As the good niece that she was, she decided to ruin Li Huang's plan. (A/N: I change martial nephew to martial niece after it caused some misunderstandings. Shizhi (martial nephew), despite the literal translation, is used for both martial nephews and martial nieces. I tried to stick with the martial nephew, thinking the readers who read this novel after they got into the cultivation novels from some translated works would feel easier reading it, but it backfired and the new readers of the genre got confused instead. Sorry about that. Going forward I will use martial niece for Hu Anjing.)

Her grin faded as fast as it appeared on her face and almost no one saw it, almost.

Li Huang watched the grin fade from her face and nothing could scare him more than this scene.

'Fuck, she is going to shit on my plan!' Li Huang thought and tried to come up with a solution fast.

Why fast? Because Hu Anjing was already walking toward the thrones and it was apparent that she was going to choose the left vice-leader's throne.

Without much time left, Li Huang chooses the route that the hentai artists would choose to build their plots.

~'Don't, I will do anything!'~ Li Huang quickly sent a sound transmission to Hu Anjing. (A/N: ~'sound transmissions'~)

Hu Anjing stopped in her tracks, she looked at Li Huang and sent a sound transmission back.

~'Anything you say?'~ her grin was back on her face.

It was just now that Li Huang knew that he fucked up. If Hu Anjing wasn't a beautiful girl, this could have been much scarier. Luckily Huang knew that she wouldn't ask for something outrageous so he wasn't that worried to use this card.

Gulping down his saliva, he subconsciously nodded to Hu Anjing.

~'Sure.'~ he said to her.

With a broad smile on her face, Hu Anjing went and sat on the leader's throne. She was happy that she got a 'you can do anything' pass from Li Huang for almost nothing. True, she was going to sit on the vice-leader throne but it was only to play with Li Huang, otherwise, she knew her master would beat her if she did that and lost face for her master.

Soon the others choose thrones and all the 10 thrones were filled. If you are curious about the eleventh place, the selection for that would start tomorrow as it is not something that you would aim for from the start.

Now that the thrones are filled by the first 10 participants, there will be a challenge each time that a new disciple comes to the stage so it is going to be more interesting.

…

Well, you can say it was interesting for the crowd but for Li Huang and Hu Anjing it couldn't be more boring. Why? Because no one challenged any of them even after 30 fights. No, it wasn't because of their status in the sect or anything like that, the others wanted to solidify their throne position first and then think about trying their luck with the three special thrones.

This totally made sense to both of them but that didn't mean that they wouldn't get frustrated just sitting and doing nothing.

"This sucks." Li Huang said to Hu Anjing.

"Yeah, it is starting to get boring." She nodded.

There was silence between them for a few seconds.

"Oh! I know what to do!" Hu Anjing exclaimed.

"And what is that?" Li Huang asked disinterestedly.

"I can ask you for anything, right?" Hu Anjing got closer to him and said.

Li Huang felt uneasy but nodded nonetheless.

"…where are you going with this?" he couldn't help but ask.

"I can ask you to kill me so I can get out of here!" Hu Anjing said as if she was talking about the weather.

Li Huang only looked at her with a deadpan.

"You shouldn't joke about that." He said and quickly took out some defensive treasures from his storage ring and throw them at Hu Anjing.

"If you say bullshits like that again, I would tell Yuan Jia. At that time you would really wish that you could die, am I clear?" Li Huang went in his uncle mode without knowing and reprimanded Hu Anjing.

She was startled by Li Huang's serious attitude and quickly nodded a couple of times.

"I understand junior uncle." Hu Anjing said while stashing the defensive treasures. You can't blame her, who wouldn't like free stuff?

After that Li Huang took out some snacks from his storage ring and handed half of it to Hu Anjing.

"With this, we at least can entertain ourselves…" He said.

Hu Anjing just nodded and decided to give this method a chance.

…

Almost all the participants for the day were done and only two were left to have their fights, Ye Ling and Peng Chun. The former is in the second stage of the Meridian formation and the latter is in the ninth stage of the Qi gathering.

Ye Ling didn't hesitate and fought the person on the left vice-leader position and won easily. This way she secured her position for the rest of the day as today everyone had one chance to fight for the thrones so no one can challenge her until tomorrow except Peng Chun, but he hopefully knows better to pick a fight with her…

Li Huang and Hu Anjing were chilling on their thrones and Li Huang was introducing the snacks to Hu Anjing. This was almost the end of the day so they were enjoying their time.

"These are called dried apricots, it was a little hard to find them here in the divine central continent." He was explaining about the dried fruits to Hu Anjing.

Meanwhile, Peng Chun come to the stage and was choosing someone to challenge.

"In fact, these dried fruits traveled for—" Li Huang couldn't finish his words because a loud voice caught his attention.

"I want to challenge senior brother Li." Peng Chun loudly announced.

Li Huang was stunned for a moment.

'Is he an idiot?' He thought. There is no way that a sane person would choose this fight when taking all the disadvantages into account.

"I'll be right back." Li Huang said and stood and went toward the stage to fight Peng Chun.

Hu Anjing who was just introduced to the culture of seeing sport with snacks, chewed a dried fruit while pitying Peng Chun for his stupidity to challenge Li Huang when he was immersed in explaining something.

Just as Li Huang got into the fighting stage, Peng Chun started talking.

"Please forgive me for being disrespectful, senior brother." Peng Chun said with no sincerity in his voice.

Li Huang didn't even bother to go back and forth with him.

"Everyone is tired from a long day, let's wrap this up fast." Li Huang said and waited for Peng Chun to attack.

Peng Chun could feel Li Huang ridiculing him so he didn't want to waste any more time and attack Li Huang directly.

Just as he got in front of Li Huang and was ready to attack him, Li Huang looked at him with contempt and raised his right hand in a fraction of a second, and slapped him hard.

The slap was so powerful that he was thrown outside of the fighting ring and fell to the ground between the audience who moved away as if their lives depended on it.

'Brain dead jester.' Li Huang thought.