Chapter 31 - Profound Assessing Stone

Next day, tournament starts with Strength Assessment, where everyone strength will be revealed...

Basically, people want to talk about something, so we will going to show off our cultivations, thus giving people reason to talk about something.

We gathered at a massive stadium... It's the biggest one I have ever seen, inside this stadium, there are smaller arenas prepared where preliminaries are going to be held, but for now we focus on the main arena, where a massive stone is prepared...

Soon enough once everyone has gathered, a Sky Profound expert landed in the main arena next to Strength Assessment stone.

He introduced himself as main Host by name Ling Wugou.

He gave a quick speech and same time... surprise! surprise! an Elder from Heavenly Mighty Sword Region! which 'graciously' gave some waste items for winning the whole thing!, But after that short introduction, host announced some 'demon' sealing event happening after the tournament...

Once he was done speaking he started calling Sect names and their three members to the main stage to show off...

Many of them were utterly unknown to me...

But soon a I noticed a pattern in their age, most of them were age twenty or age nineteen.

It's a good and bad thing, at least one of them should be promising disciple brought here, around age sixteen as he could experience this tourney, and by next tourney he will have experience as well as cultivation to actually have a chance of winning this... just like this Ling Yun...

Right... back to my observations...

All these Sect's cultivations were in lower to Mid-levels of Spirit Profound.

But soon enough...

"Xiao Sect's Xiao Kuanglei, Xiao Zhen, Xiao Nan."

And so it has begun...

Let's see how 'Good' are these top 'Geniuses' of this country, I didn't even bother to check their strength, didn't wanted to 'spoiler' myself...

Xiao Kuanglei, 20 years old, Nine of Spirit Profound.

Xiao Zhen, 20 years old, Nine of Spirit Profound.

Xiao Nan, 18 years old, Six of Spirit Profound.

Everyone in the stadium was in utter shock, except for my little group.

"That's pathetic...this young master could wipe the floor will all of them!" Fen Juechen next to me sneered, reminding me of certain blond ferret from HP universe.

I could feel certain anger in him directed at Xiao Sect, it seems my little scheme in New Moon City was a success.

Very soon after Xiao Sect, it was time for Heavens Burning clan, Fen Juechen next to me narrowed his eyes and waited for them to come down.

It didn't take long, as all three of them touched the Profound ȧssessing stone at the same time.

Fen Jin, 20 years old, Nine of Spirit Profound

Fen Yuange, 19 years old, Seven of Spirit Profound.

"It seems my elder brother was slacking..." Fen Juechen said with bȧrėly hidden excitement to go out there and wipe the floor with him.

After Burning Heaven Clan there were another bunch of mid-level ones, until...

"Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace's Shui Wushuang, Wu Xuexin, Xia Qingyue."

The whole Stadium just turned quiet like a graveyard and waited for three girls to walk to the main Stadium...

Then... Ying'er started laughing as if she found something very fortunate...

'Woman what's wrong with you!?' I asked with little bit concern.

'Master...that veiled girl! no matter what! You have to get her!' I raised my eyebrow and focused my senses on her...

Her Profound energy...is...unique, Is it one of those unique body nonsense Wuxia world's sometimes has?

'I need more explanation Ying'er! no doubt she is beautiful under that veil, but I won't be spending time pulling her from a shell, and turning her into a girl from a doll If I don't have full information on her!' I said with an annoyed tone.

'Oh, master... I am sure it would be worth it! her body holds what is called 'Nine Profound Exquisite Body!' if you can take her vital yin you will acquire it! the benefits it will give you are heavenly!!! from easier understanding of Profound Arts! When I mean easier! I mean almost at cheating level! and the other part of this is you will have a small world inside your dantian which will generate Profound energy non-stop!' Ying'er said with extreme greed and obsession which is literally rolling from her...

'I see...very interesting... We shall see...' I said to her as I continued observing them with more interest...

Shui Wushuang, 20 years old, Nine of Spirit Profound.

Wu Xuexin, 20 years old, Nine of Spirit Profound

Xia Qingyue, 17 years old, Seven of Spirit Profound.

Not bad... the girl obviously talented, if I properly train her she can be a force to be reckoned with.

Few more moments later, it was host turn...

"Heavenly Sword Villa! Ling Yun, Ling Feiyu, Ling Jie."

Well, time to see if he can entertain me in this tournament...

Hearing that I started smirking.

"So he may... entertain you, dear, seeing that is at least at close adequate level to actually allow you to flex your sword arm..." Cang Yue said with bored expression her both hands we're holding her chin and her elbows were on her knees, as she stared at the main arena.

While the whole stadium was a completely different mood, compared to our bored one, people were talking gasping, a complete 180-degree change to ours.

Few moments later other two Heavenly Sword Villa disciples put their hand on Profound ȧssessing stone.

Ling Feiyu, 19 years old Nine of Spirit Profound.

Ling Jie, 16 years old Six of Spirit Profound.

Interesting that Jie kid is not bad, and his affinity to Sword Intent is quite good, I can sense it from here.

And right after, Heavenly Sword Villa was our turn...

~~~~~~Chu Yuechan~~~~~~

"Blue Wind Imperial Family's! Jian Feng, Cang Yue, Fen Juechen!"

Hearing his name Chu Yuechan snapped out from another daydream and looked at the main arena, she saw him alongside the Princess and another kid walking towards the ȧssessing stone, her eyes narrowed at him.

"He has grown much stronger than last time I saw him..." Hearing Chu Yuechan speak, all Frozen Palace Fairies turned towards her direction.

"His aura is much thicker... he is hiding his real cultivation, my guess is, he wants to have some entertainment..." Her sister Chu Yueli, who came alongside, to make sure Chu Yuechan doesn't do anything rash, was shocked hearing her elder sister ȧssessment of him.

"Entertainment? he things the ranking tournament is some sort of amusement place?"

Chu Yueli couldn't wrap her head around this man her sister is so obsessed about.

"Yueli...he will win this whole thing, without even showing his full powers... remember he beat me, before I even realised that I was beaten!" Chu Yueli internally gulped down, and she started to pray her lucky stars that none of their disciple will engage any of these three early...

Chu Yuechan leaned closer as she finally was able to see his face, her heartbeat started to go faster, as she saw changes in him, his eyes turned whiter, turning into a steel-like shade, his hair was still same short wild black, but

with streaks of silver, the crimson shade was still there.

'He's definitely is much stronger, his presence has increased several times..'

Jian Feng, 16 Years old, Forth of Earth Profound.

Chu Yuechan smirked seeing this...

The rest of Stadium?

Every single person literally got off their chairs, there was no shouting, no conversation, simply stare at him.

The most affected by this we're obviously the hosts...

That Fool Ling Yuefeng and his eldest son stared at Jian Feng as if he was some alien...

While Jian Feng stared only at Ling Yun, his lips moved, as he said something to Ling Yun, who slightly narrowed his eyes, Chu Yuechan saw the Eldest Ling Yuefeng, son clench his sword in his hand.

'Why of course he is the only who can actually cause some sort challenge to him...'

But the chaos didn't end as Chu Yuechan saw the rest of the group put their hand on the ȧssessment stone.

Cang Yue, 18 years old, Third Of Earth Profound.

Fen Juechen, 17 years old, Tenth of Spirit Profound.

Everyone gasped seeing this, like a tidal wave.

"This is going to be a difficult battle..." Chu Yueli said to her sister.

"Just try your best girls..."Chu Yuechan said to three disciples, who could only nod, except for Qingyue who stared at Jian Feng...

Chu Yuechan has seen that gaze before, more like experienced before.

'She is very interested in him...she was extremely effected when Yueli revealed my Heavenly Spiritual God's Veins...' The Frozen beauty looked at the younger girl with interest, she wonders what she will do?

'Since when I care about such things?'

Shaking her head for a moment she looked back at main arena she saw the blue dressed group walking out from the arena completely dominating this little event...

~~~~~~Jian Feng~~~~~~

" I guess we won this little event..." I said with an amused smirk, as I saw how everyone look at us with respect, shock, awe, envy, jealousy, and that Burning Heaven fool was radiating hatred of course, while the other brother of the fool we're starting at Fen Juechen with actual fear.

Oh I can wait until my little minion will wipe the floor.

I wonder if there is any betting going around here?

After our group, there was a few more, and then the ȧssessment we're over.

Then the group stages started, a very primitive formation was used to show who is in which group.

Once my group walked over to see who we will have to fight.

After a quick check, all of us were in a literally different group and very far away from each other.

'This will suit me very well...' I said to Ying'er.

'I hope you won't going to show-off early...' Ying'er asked with a bored tone.

'show-off? to who? to that fool from Sacred Grounds?, Yue'er already said to me, about that elder from Heavenly Mighty Sword Region, He stinks worse than hundred-year-old dirty cloth, He is not leaving this Villa before I checked his head, and I am very interested to find out about this 'demon', I just know there is some story behind this...' She hummed hearing that.

'Indeed, this realm is interesting for a mortal one, I would like to see this 'demon', as well, as demonkind, should be extinct just like True Gods.' The Blond spoke to me, as I was walking to the first battle.

The ref called my name as I went up to a much smaller arena.

"I surrender!" I looked at the source of the voice, I saw my would-be opponent surrendering, before the battle even started, I could only sight, and went down, I crossed my hands and waited for next call.

I needed to wait for over half an hour as other idiots were having somewhat equal fight, I watched their fight for a moment, but the way they were fighting was utterly... well... spamming techniques?, there is no casual exchanges instead they trying to win by overpowering another one with techniques, No proper planing...

After watching this...battle... I observed other arenas, as expected of my Princess and my minion! they utterly dominated their battles by forcing their opponents to surrender before their battle even started!!! basically same as me...

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After checking out my teammates, I scanned other Arenas, and guess what? The situation was same, This part of the tournament was nothing more but weeding out process...

Why they can't just make us automatically pass this stage?

Sighting for the fifth time today, I hear my name was called again, and I went up to Arena.

My eyes went wide for a second, as my opponent actually had balls to stay!

"Battle start!"

The white-dressed dude who looks older then me pulled out his sword...After doing a quick probe his weapon was a Spirit Profound.

I suppose it's okay for a Spirit Profound Cultivator.

"Well... the first three strikes are free..." I motioned to the dude, who was still shaking, since there is a whole Great realm difference between us.

But after hearing what I said he instantly changed.

"Humph! It will be your downfall!" My mood instantly dropped...

My 'Young Master' senses are tingling...

Time to put someone down...

He started to charge directly at me...

I raised my eyebrow 'WTF... he is doing...'

Then he jumped and released his attack... a sword intent-based one...

I lifted my hand and waited for the attack...

Once his attack hit my hand, The white dude's facial expression was as if he won the lottery, but that changed very next second when he saw my hand, there was no scratch on it.

He landed on the ground and stared at me, with utter horror.

"At least try... " I shake my hand as if taking off some stuff from it.

"That technique was utterly atrocious, was it created to show off? or to actually hurt someone?." I asked him curiously.

The dude dropped his sword and passed out.

I looked at the ref, who was staring at me as if I did something insane.

Don't they stop sword techniques with hands in this place?

What a weird bunch...