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Burning Water Association, had a long origin.

Legend has it that when East Continent was in disarray and the world was ownerless, the Water Cloud Tribe in the north seized the opportunity to invade the south. They threatened to pull out the Heaven's End City first, then rush down the south, engulfing the entire East Continent! When he was in danger, the mayor gathered countless heroes of the Northern Frontier to burn the snow, expressing his determination to fight against Shui Yun to the end!

This was the earliest Burning Water Association.

At that time, the Lord of Heaven's End City would use this alliance to gather the people, gather courage, and gather all the forces of the Northern Frontier to defend against the enemy! In the end, the Watercloud Tribe suffered a great loss. They didn't dare to invade the south again for a thousand years!

From then on, Heaven's End City had become the largest city in the Northern Frontier. From then on, whenever there was any major crisis, Burning Water Association would be called upon and the various large forces of the Northern Frontier all felt that Heaven's End City had led them to successfully defend their homes.

Over the course of time, the Heaven's End City passed through thirteen calamities in this manner, one of them with nine victories and four victories, undefeated! In other words, once Burning Water Association appeared, there would be no failure on the Heaven's End City!

But...

This time, it was different.

Even the incredibly optimistic people of the Heaven's End City could not shout out the two words "absolute victory".

Because, this time, the opponent was Great Zhou Empire!

This time, Wang Ba's East Continent, with its strong national power, was a hundred times stronger than the Shuiyun Tribe!

What was even worse was that many years ago, the Great Zhou Princess Ji Ningshuang had proposed a strategy of disintegration and disintegration, and sent her subordinates to infiltrate the northern border and manage it carefully … In the end, she had succeeded in making the Burning Water Association this time, lose the prestige of a city which had gathered from every single direction in the past!

The factions that were supposed to be in the alliance would either seal the mountain and reject the guests; or like Eagle Sect, they would not work hard just to gain a reputation; or they would be pessimists who could not see any hope of victory at all and had come to their deaths out of gratitude …

The current ruler of the city tried his best to pull up enough allies, so that this session of Burning Water Association wouldn't become too embarrassing, but …

That was it.

He could no longer raise the morale of the people, and he could no longer restore the glory of his ancestors!

Not only that, he also had to endure endless difficulties. Just from the very beginning of the Alliance, Eagle Sect brought a bunch of vassals to complain all over, saying that the etiquette was not complete and the specifications were not high enough.

It was with much difficulty that they were finally able to calm down. The process slowly walked to the crux of the matter — — swearing an oath through burning water. However, Eagle Sect and the others had once again begun to stir trouble!

According to the scriptures that they had read, the segment of swearing oaths with burning water was outdated. The one battling now was Great Zhou Empire, not the Shuiyun Tribe, there was no need to go through this process anymore! In short, he was acting shamelessly and making all sorts of excuses, unwilling to fight to the death!

This scene directly caused some of the powerhouses of the Association to grit their teeth in anger! They were not stupid, of course they could tell that the reason why the Eagle Sect was doing this was to leave some leeway, so that they could say to the Great Zhou Empire in the future: Look, we did not swear to hit you.

Such an opportunistic face, it was so disgusting that it made people nauseous!

For a moment, even Liang Ze's face was a little unsightly. After all, he had been narrating the entire situation to the city master, to Chu Xiao, and to everyone in the Heaven's End City. In the end, Eagle Sect's actions, on the other hand, were the most reckless ones!

Really … Ironic!

The corner of Liang Ze's mouth twitched twice, but his heart immediately became resolute once more!

That's right! Our sect is doing this to preserve the strength of the Northern Frontier so that we won't be caught off guard by Great Zhou Empire …

The master of the Heaven's End City glanced at Liang Ze, and seeing him not saying a word, he could not help but let out a deep sigh.

The process continued.

Everyone was shocked. No one had expected the mayor to compromise! For a moment, many people were moved. More and more people were acting as if they were the wind as they also asked for an inconvenience to take the oath! The City Lord's cold eyes swept across all of them, as though he wanted to remember them all, but when he opened his mouth, it was still a promise!

Everyone was stunned, thinking, could the mayor have given up all hope? So why not just break it?

They looked at each other in dismay. Those hot-blooded warriors, who still remembered the kindness they had shown that year, could not stand this kind of depressing atmosphere. They stood up, drank the burning snow in front of everyone, and swore to fight to the bloody end!

After they finished speaking, they even slammed their bowls down heavily as they looked towards the others while sneering incessantly.

Feeling these heated gazes, all the representatives of the factions who had not sworn anything all lowered their heads and observed in silence.

Alright! This process will end here!

Hawk-eye Old Man felt a stabbing pain in his heart and felt uncomfortable. He waved his hand and said, the alliance should enter the Heaven's Pride Martial Competition.

Good.

The City Lord nodded his head, upon seeing this, Liang Ze wanted to go and clasp his fist and explain the whole story.

He had already thought of countless moving words in his heart, what dilemma, and in the end, the sect's kindness was like a mountain, and he had no choice but to fight for them like the clouds in the sky … However, reality proved that he was overthinking things.

The mayor didn't even look at him!

Liang Ze's face turned white, the corner of his mouth twitched, he vaguely felt that he had lost something.

Seeing that, the Hawk-eye Old Man patted his shoulder, and turned to the City Lord: That's right! City Lord, that arrogant Chu Xiao, is he really not qualified to participate in the battle?

No.

The mayor coldly replied.

This old man is relieved.

Hawk-eye Old Man smiled slightly. Just as he was about to say something, his pupils suddenly shrank as his anger rose. City lord, what is the meaning of this!

Hearing that, everyone was surprised, they turned to look, only to see a young man in white robes was slowly climbing the stairs under the stage of the Alliance's Grand Ceremony, who else could it be but Chu Xiao?

This city lord said, Chu Xiao does not have the qualifications to participate in the martial competition.

The mayor looked at Hawk-eye Old Man and said indifferently.

Oh? In other words, was it because this kid was unwilling to break into the Alliance?

Hawk-eye Old Man sneered, he did have a bit of backbone! Unfortunately, this was the same as humiliating himself!

As he spoke, he glanced at Liang Ze.

Liang Ze nodded. Even though he was a little surprised that Chu Xiao was able to break through the blockade of the senior brothers and arrive at the scene, that surprise did not hinder what he was about to do!

With a thought, Liang Ze rushed in front of Chu Xiao like an arrow, and shook his head: Go back.

You don't have the qualifications to participate in this battle.

Instead of making trouble here and humiliating yourself, why don't you just go back and think about what you've done wrong!

As he said that, Liang Ze held both his hands up in front of him and displayed an arrogant attitude of a senior, teaching him a lesson, "So, your future, may still be saved!"

But...

Chu Xiao did not even bother with him.

He was showing his face but not showing it!

Liang Ze's pupils shrank, he angrily extended his right hand, about to whip it towards Chu Xiao …