Chapter 247: Yu Nianzhen’s Plan
The first game ended quickly and the second began right after.
Like the first, the participants united to eliminate the Death Flower Ascension Front before fighting each other.
Watching this, the enemy also learned their lesson.
They left the participant area and melted into the spectators before leaving the Ice Palace sect.
Because of that, there were no members of the Death Flower Ascension Front during the third and later games.
However, the tension in the Ice Palace sect increased with each passing moment.
The reason for this was because there were still many members of the Death Flower Ascension Front among the spectators.
’It won’t be long before war breaks out.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and turned to look at Jiang Yue.
Fortunately, there weren’t any core formation realm and nascent soul realm Death Flower Ascension Front members in the Sea Cloud sect delegation.
For now, Yu Nianzhen wasn’t worried about Jiang Yue’s safety but he didn’t know how long the situation would last.
"The tenth game is about to begin." Lin Qian shouted and dragged Yu Nianzhen from his rumination.
When he heard the call, Jiang Yue smiled at Yu Nianzhen and gave him a thumbs up.
Yu Nianzhen nodded and then jumped onto the stage.
Because the members of the Death Flower Ascension Front had left, there were seventy-eight people on the stage.
This meant that twenty-two out of one hundred people were compromised.
"Can you believe it? Who would think that twenty-two people in our group were in the Front?" A voice said and sighed.
Yu Nianzhen turned to see a fat and short man.
He wore a golden robe, white boots, and had a golden fan in his hand.
However, the most noticeable of his features were his eyes.
Although they were small, they shone like black gems. They made the person look honest and cheerful.
"It’s hard to believe." Yu Nianzhen nodded and said.
Using the tenth round as a sample, about two hundred participants who qualified for the second round were members of the Death Flower Ascension Front.
This number was worrying and showed how much damage the Death Flower Ascension Front had caused to the Cangxing world.
"You are fellow Daoist Yu Nianzhen, ancestor Yang’s disciple." The man stated.
Yu Nianzhen nodded but didn’t say anything more.
Instead, he waited for the person to reveal the reason why he had approached him.
"My name is Lou Ping. I am from the puppet region." The man introduced himself.
Yu Nianzhen looked at him and suddenly remembered the puppet master he fought in the Thousand Herbs Garden.
That person had an eccentric style and his lips twitched when Yu Nianzhen thought about it.
"Did I say something funny?"
"No, I just remembered something funny. Anyway, it’s nice to meet fellow Daoist Lou."
"You don’t know but your master saved my life." Lou Ping said and his voice was filled with reverence for Yang Xu.
"In fact, I wanted to represent ancestor Yang but no one would let me." He sighed and looked very sad.
If he could, he really didn’t want to stand on the opposite side of ancestor Yang.
Unfortunately, he was one of the top-ranked origin-tempering realm masters of the puppet sect.
As such, he couldn’t avoid the responsibility and was forced to represent one of the elders in his sect.
"The game is about to begin." Yu Nianzhen said and took a step away from Lou Ping.
Although he didn’t feel any malice from the person, Yu Nianzhen didn’t know him well.
He didn’t know if Lou Ping was good at pretending and was deliberately lying to him.
In that case, he could only stay away to avoid falling into a trap.
"Good luck fellow Daoist Yu."
"You too."
After that, the bell rang and the game officially started.
Since he had a good impression of Lou Ping, Yu Nianzhen did not find him to fight.
Instead, he turned to the other side, ready to attack an opponent.
"Just my luck. Even if I can’t beat anyone else, can’t I beat a first-level trash." A voice said.
The voice belonged to a burly man who held a huge hammer in his right hand.
"Boy, are you prepared to die?" The person asked and casually played with his hammer.
"If you stand there and call me grandpa, I will give you a quick death."
’Brain damage.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and didn’t want to deal with the man.
He released his sword and swung without hesitation.
The man was at the seventh level of the origin tempering realm and quickly reacted to the attack.
Unfortunately, he was standing within Yu Nianzhen’s sword domain and his movements were sluggish.
His body was heavy and he couldn’t move in time to avoid the attack.
A moment later, the sword attack hit the hammer and the hammer broke apart.
Some pieces flew around but the bulk flew backwards, attacking the man.
At the same time, the remaining sword attack fell on the person and he flew back with injuries all over his body.
"What I hate most are those who sneak attack when others are unprepared." An indignant voice admonished and a man walked toward Yu Nianzhen.
The man had a righteous air and his eyes were full of contempt for Yu Nianzhen.
"You are a disgrace to swordsmen everywhere."
Yu Nianzhen frowned when he heard that.
He didn’t care that he was considered a disgrace but he disliked this kind of self-righteous person.
If he was truly a righteous person, he wouldn’t participate in the competition.
After all, Bing Lan’s rightful fiancée was Yang Xu.
A righteous person couldn’t stand the injustice of what the Ice Palace had done.
However, the person in front of him had ignored an obvious injustice but came to accuse him of being unrighteous.
In Yu Nianzhen’s eyes, the person was no more than a hypocrite.
Thinking of that, Yu Nianzhen didn’t bother with him and prepared to attack.
"Bastard, didn’t you hear what I said?"
"So what? If you care about it so much, defeat me and uphold your warped righteousness."
After saying that, Yu Nianzhen took a deep breath and the world around him quietened.
His opponent released a sword and without waiting for Yu Nianzhen to make a move, he swung the sword.
"Have a taste of my cloud-ripping sword art." The man shouted.
Across the man, Yu Nianzhen saw a blue sword light rushing toward him.
More than that, he saw the illusion of a cloud being ripped apart by the blue sword light.
’His achievements of the cloud-ripping sword art are quite high.’ Yu Nianzhen appreciated and took a moment to observe the attack.
’Unfortunately, the attack has too many flaws.’ He thought.
When in the Black Wind Abyss, Yu Nianzhen trained to identify flaws in attacks.
At his current level, he could not only identify the flaws but also attack the weak points to dissolve the attacks.
Combined with his budding sword domain, it was not an exaggeration to say that Yu Nianzhen could defeat most cultivators in the origin tempering realm with one sword.
In fact, this was his goal.
He wanted to defeat everyone with one sword and earn a big face for his master.
At this time, he identified the flaws in his opponent’s sword attack and decided the best way to counter it.
A moment later, a slight coercion slowed the blue light and a silver sword light flew from Yu Nianzhen’s sword.
Soon after, the silver sword light hit a weak point in the opponent’s attack and the blue sword light dissipated.
However, Yu Nianzhen’s sword light did not dissipate.
It continued toward the opponent and landed on his chest.
In the blink of an eye, the opponent was defeated and his bloody body fell outside the martial platform.
"I didn’t expect fellow Daoist Yu to be so strong." Lou Ping praised.
Although he had a smile on his face, he was a little shaken.
Yu Nianzhen was only at the first level of the origin tempering realm.
However, he defeated two higher-level opponents within a few moments.
This was not something that could be accomplished with just luck or a sneak attack.
It proved that Yu Nianzhen was more powerful than anyone expected.
If someone underestimated him, they wouldn’t know how they died.
"Fellow Daoist Lou is also very strong." Yu Nianzhen said.
Even when fighting, he used his divine sense to observe the area around him.
On one hand, he wanted to avoid sneak attacks and on the other, he wanted to observe his opponents.
As he was doing this, he happened to see Lou Ping fighting an opponent.
Lou Ping only released one puppet but he completely dominated his opponent.
The opponent was defeated within a few moves and Lou Ping didn’t look strained after the match.
"I was lucky."
Yu Nianzhen didn’t think so and he didn’t continue the conversation.
Instead, he looked around and saw that more than half the contestants had already been defeated.
He was just about to choose another opponent when he felt a chill at the back of his neck.
