In a very wide hall, the crowds could be heard cheering and calling the names of famous fighters while some argued on who was going to be the top five winners will be today.
Meanwhile, some people among the crowd had numbered pocket badges meaning that they were going to participate in today's competition.
At that moment, Liam walked in and climbed up to the platform made for fighters like himself, the platform was just a little bit taller than the ones the spectators stood on, thus making it easy for the fighters to identify themselves and pick who they want to fight with.
At that moment, a very beautiful young lady of about Eighteen walked into the middle of the hall where there was a raised platform.
She climbed through the stairs and stared at the crowd with a beautiful smile before bringing out an ancient microphone from her spatial ring and immediately started to welcome the spectators and the fighters.
After the welcoming speech; "As you all know, the first person to come out and challenge will be chosen using our method of paper picking."
As she said that, a youngs girl holding a basket filled of folded papers walked in and climbed the platform with a smile on her face as well.
Everyone wanted to be the one to pick the card, but it was unfortunate that they didn't have the money to bid for that position.
The auction of who was going to do that has already completed two hours prior to now and that person that won payed a huge sum of fifty gold and ten sliver coins.
Such amount was able to feed a family of six for at seven years and there will still be silver coins remaining.
'Such wealth!' Liam could only sigh, such wealth, he was really envious of it, he watched as a young man with long green hair walked out graciously wifi a fan on his hand.
"It's the last young master of the Wealthy Tai family."
"No wonder he paid such amount for such a thing and didn't even have a bit of remorse, that's wealth for you."
"Oh young master Hester Tai Yang is the one!"
Hester raised his shoulder up and proceeded to the platform, his body had an aura that was visible to the eyes of those above human realm in both cultivations.
A human lord, Liam eyes looked at the young man strangely.
However, Hester placed his hands in the basket and brought out a folded paper but he did not open it himself.
One of the young men behind him took the paper and opened it, on it there was a number — 30.
"Fighter 30, please grace this stage with your presence and display your martial arts." The Young lady said cheerfully.
The middle-aged man closed to Yao Wang with numerous tattoos leaped from where he was and superhero landed on the stage.
The distance from the platform to the stage was more than 12 feets but he covered it up with just one jump.
The crowd went WOW but soon silence themselves and waited eagerly for the first person to be called out to fight.
The muscular fighter 30 gazed around the platform where the fighters stood and he pointed his hands at fighter 13, a young man dressed poorly and a sword on his back.
He was at most seventeen years old but his cultivation was the same his opponent, Level 3, radiant heart realm and both of them were pure martial artist with no essence cultivation knowledge.
"I accept your challenge, number 30." The young man declared after he climbed the stage and unsheathed his sword from his back and pointed it at his opponent who took a battle stance with no weapon on him.
"Come on, let's fight." 30 grinned and charged at the 13.
13 swinged his long sword but thirty used his hands to grabbed the top of the sword, 13 seeing this dragged the sword and regained control over his weapon before slashing at his opponent fiercely.
30 was agile but his body mass was shopping him from moving as fast he could have and thus his agility decreased while the sword user was as thin and was able to fly through the air at that faster rate than him.
He tried to defend himself against the incoming sword attack without moving.
Tearing~
Sound of something tearing could be heard, 30 was shocked when he saw that he was defending against nothing, he looked up only to see that his opponent has just used a talisman that turned into a sword forged out of dense flame essence.
13 waved the sword forged with dense flame essence and a flamy sword arch was sent into the air at the direction of 30 and sent him flying across the field and landing outside the platform which means that the sword user, fighter 13 has automatically became the winner of the first round.
The crowd cheered loudly but the young dude was expressionless as he walked over the fighter 30 to extort him of something.
"Give me your strength technique." He demanded.
"Um, I can't give you that.... I'll pay the fine of twenty gold coin." 30 then brought it out and gave it to the one who defeated him.
The young man climbed unto the platform and challenge his next opponent, it didn't take long before he won and challenge the next.
Before one knew it, the thin dude has defeated five opponents but he has in injuries on his hand even even his finger was burnt when he faced a fire attribute essence cultivator.
But then, he was getting too good with himself and coldly called out his next opponent with ice element.
The dude has long silvery hair and held a short sword, he was a cultivator of the the two division with higher essence cultivation than martial arts cultivation.
13 summoned out his sword once more and attacked without thinking too much about anything.
'Freeze! his opponent stressed his hands out and the ground began to freeze as it got the young sword user.
The sword user had no way to protect himself and was trapped with the sword.
"Ice sweep" The ice user said in a low tone and cold ice energy flee from his hands and collided with the body of the sword user and sent him flying out of the platform.
"Wow, just one move!"
The ice user came from a wealthy family where everyone had a bloodline that matches with the ice element but he was curious about other elements so he asked the sword user for a talisman.
The sword user was poor, he didn't want to let go of the coins he have got with him and decided to really give out the talisman to his opponent.
Liam saw all this, when the ice user was on the platform again, Liam raised his hands signifying that he was challenging the ice user.
Both of them charged at each other, Liam waved his sword in the air but the ice user dodge it and sent his own short sword to parry.
But Liam was stronger and faster, he threw the sword and used so much essence on his leg and moved speedily to the back of his opponent and placed his sword on his neck.
"I surrender. what do you want."
Liam did not speak and instead he pointed at the talisman, the ice user did but want to give it out and decided to give Liam twenty gold coins for that.
Liam retrieved it and pointed at his next opponent.
His cultivation was hidden which made no one to pay too much attention on him, but Liam was too good and he defeated them with just two moves.
After defeating five opponents, his challengers rose up.
One fighter numbered 23 challenged him, he was holding an golden halberd and was tall and huge with muscular physique.
Liam accepted the challenge.
His opponent although using a halberd was still an essence cultivator meaning he could use magic attacks.
So Liam didn't waste his time and decided to use one of the divine flames, the golden flame that was hundred percent fiercer than normal flame.
Liam conjured numerous flame balls and made them to attack his opponent who tried using his halberd as a shield but the power behind the flame ball was so much that it pushed him out of the platform.
"Such flames, is it one of the divine flames?"
"Divine flames, someone actually have divine flames in this era"
The crowd went WOW once again, however the fight did not stop until Liam have defeated and extorted all his opponents and he shamelessly challenged those he have already defeated.
"Such shameless method of gaining wealth." The crowd detest him for that.
Nevertheless, Hester took interest in Liam and challenged him, offering 200 gold coins as the price he was going to pay if he gets defeated.
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