Chapter 442: Battle Arenas; Permission Granted

Gracious Sword Sect had nine peaks, and seven of them were disciple peaks.

And each of these seven peaks had a Battle Arena.

There was a huge hall on the other side of the peaks. And in this hall, there were many elevated platforms where the disciples sparred among themselves.

As suggested by its name, this place was usually the go-to place for all disciples to clear their grudges.

The disciples would battle among themselves and settle their disputes.

However, this was not the main use of this place.

This place was also the hotspot for disciples to accept or give challenges to fellow disciples for better cultivation abodes.

Occasionally, there would be cases where a disciple who was considered weak but had a cultivation abode on the lower floor would get challenged by a powerful disciple from the higher floor.

This usually gave two results: the supposed weak disciples lost as expected, or there was a miracle, and the powerful disciples had their ass kicked out of the arena.

But today was a special case in the Battle Arena, and this had attracted the attention of many Inner and Outer Court disciples.

Today, instead of the supposed weak disciple, there was a friend of his, who claimed to be even weaker than the aforementioned disciple.

And now, this friend was accepting challenges from all the people.

He first defeated the direct challenger. It should be mentioned that he only took one move to defeat them all and never even took considerable breaks.

After that, he simply said it was his turn, and then he began to issue challenges.

He first defeated the disciples from his friend's floor and then even defeated many of the disciples from a higher floor.

This gave him a meteoric rise from nowhere.

The disciple was called Zheng Xiang, a disciple mainly known for being one of the dark-horses in the Inner Court Entrance Hunt.

And his supposedly weak friend was Fang Chen, the famous incompetent young master of the Fang Clan from Capital City, and also the biggest dark horse in the Inner Court Entrance Hunt.

Thud!

"Woooo!"

Cheers echoed throughout the battle arena as Zheng Xiang threw another disciple out of the platform.

"Anyone else?" 

He called out, staring at the disciples around the platform.

Suddenly his eyes landed on two disciples behind the crowd.

A smile formed on his face as he jumped down.

As the crowd made way for Zheng Xiang while congratulating him, he moved towards the two disciples.

"Haha, Brother Fang didn't expect to see you here!" He smiled as he stood in front of the two disciples.

These two were, of course, Ye Tian Yun and Hou Xing.

"What has gotten into you?" Ye Tian Yun couldn't help but ask.

"I was just keeping my side of the deal." Zheng Xiang shrugged.

"Which deal?" Ye Tian Yun asked. Just then, something dawned upon him, "Oh, that… I thought you were just kidding."

Zheng Xiang laughed, "Hehe, how could I joke around on this matter! The pills are important for my cultivation."

"What are you guys talking about?" Hou Xing asked. He couldn't make head or tail of what Ye Tian Yun and Zheng Xiang were talking about.

Zheng Xiang glanced at him and revealed the gist of the matter, "Well, I made a deal with him, and for that, I will be getting resources."

Hou Xing gave him a disdainful glance, "So you sold yourself to this guy? I know Fang Clan has a lot of resources, but what you did is pretty shameful."

Ye Tian Yun rolled his eyes at Hou Xing's words, "Have you never heard of 'gaurds'?"

Not waiting for Hou Xing's response, Ye Tian Yun turned his attention to Zheng Xiang and asked, "How many battles did you fight?"

Zheng Xiang shrugged, "I don't know. We need to check the records."

Ye Tian Yun nodded, "Let's check."

"Hm?" Zheng Xiang frowned, "Why bother with them? The fights weren't hard."

Ye Tian Yun lightly nodded, "I know, but I want to see something."

Zheng Xiang shrugged at this, "Alright, follow me to the Arena Elders."

Each Battle Arena had many platforms, and each platform had an assigned Elder who proctored the battles and spars between the disciples.

These elders also had records of all the fights that the disciples took part in.

Zheng Xiang's battles were no different.

"104 Battles. All Won."

Zheng Xiang said with a smug smile.

He, himself, was surprised that he had fought so many battles. But he didn't show it on his face.

"That's a good record," Even Ye Tian Yun couldn't help but appreciate this.

Zheng Xiang shrugged, "Well, it wasn't much."

Hou Xing, however, had a much more exaggerated reaction.

"Hundred and four battles! What the fuck are you? A mechanical puppet!?"

Zheng Xiang gave him a smug look, "It wasn't much."

Ye Tian Yun then turned towards the elder and asked, "Elder, are there any rewards for the disciples who won the challenges?"

The Elder shook his head, "No. Since the disciples can also fix these battles to leech off sect resources."

"Hm, fair enough," Ye Tian Yun nodded, and then glancing at Zheng Xiang, he asked, "You got anything else to do?"

Zheng Xiang shrugged, "Nah, I am just relaxing these days."

"Hm," Ye Tian Yun nodded, "Let's enjoy spar on other platforms then. I got one hour to spend, let's see."

"Alright."

Zheng Xiang followed him, Hou Xing not far from them.

…

About an hour later.

Ye Tian Yun returned to the Elder's Hall and talked with the Elder.

"I talked with the Peak Master." The Elder said.

Ye Tian Yun asked, "What was her response?"

The Elder replied with a smile, "She just said to be careful in the war, and don't lose your focus from cultivation."

"Hm," Ye Tian Yun nodded his head and cupped his fists, "Thank you, Elder."

"Ah, it was nothing. I already told you, the Sect will respect the Royal Edict."