Chapter 85: Tournament-1!
Ashen stayed calm, waiting for the match to begin.
“I surrender!” His opponent announced with a terrified expression on his face, raising his hand.
“Huh?” Everyone expressed their surprise at his surrender.
The match hadn’t even begun so why would he surrender without a fight?
Curious about the reason, everyone looked at Chen Lu, and having the same curiosity, Chen Lu asked: “Why are you forfeiting the match before it even began?”
“Because of him!” The Thunder Peak sect disciple yelled, pointing at Ashen.
“Huh? What do you mean?” Chen Lu questioned with a puzzled gaze, while Ashen maintained his calm expression.
Hearing his question, the disciple revealed an incredulous expression on his face as he replied: “Is it not obvious? Didn’t you hear about his preliminary match? He broke all the teeth of two of his sect mates and burned a female disciple’s face ruthlessly. Even now they are unrecognizable!”
He pointed at the three disciples sitting among the crowd. Their faces didn’t look human.
As everyone’s gaze followed his finger, the three disciples felt humiliated as they hid their faces. The female disciple even began to cry. Previously, Everyone would look at her with praise for her beauty and talent, however, now all the gazes were of pity and disgust. She abhorred these gazes.
At this moment, Ashen’s opponent’s voice once again reached everyone’s ears: “They are his fellow sect brothers and sisters. If he is that ruthless with them, I can’t imagine what he’ll do with me. I even suspect that he isn’t here to win the tournament, he only wants to fulfill his violent desires!”
Chen Lu nodded in understanding before asking for confirmation: “Are you sure you want to surrender without fighting? It wouldn’t be good for your reputation, this can even become a stigma. I suggest that you surrender after the match begins that would at least save your honor, how about it?”
Hearing his suggestion, the Thunder Peak disciple bowed in respect before rejecting his suggestion: “No, I want to surrender right now! I believe that he can stop me from surrendering and if he injures me heavily, I don’t have the qi stones to buy medicines needed to heal. I don’t want to take any risk, please just announce him as the winner.”
He knew that he wouldn’t be able to beat Ashen. Ashen defeated multiple nascent soul realm cultivators yesterday without even breaking a sweat. He would just be making a clown out of himself if he went ahead to fight Ashen.
“Alright,” Chen Lu nodded before announcing: “Winner, Phoenix Feather Sect’s Wang Ashen!”
Ashen, hearing the announcement, turned around and went back to his seat.
“Hahaha, This tournament is full of surprises. I didn’t think that a peak nascent soul realm cultivator would surrender in front of a newly advanced Nascent soul cultivator like Ashen. Feng Xue, you must be delighted to see this, right?” Chen Lao asked.
Feng Xue didn’t know how to respond. She was happy to see that Ashen won, but, how his opponent called him ruthless, that didn’t sit right with her. She decided that she would talk to Ashen about this after the tournament.
She smiled at Chen Lao with a nod: “Haha, yes!”
Her response was just this… as she began to look at the next pair of participants.
It was Mo Chen and a disciple from Eternal Blossom Pavilion. He wore a pink sect uniform.
Mo Chen was a core disciple at peak nascent soul realm and had easily won his preliminaries with the disciples of Phoenix Feather Sect sucking up to him.
Their match wasn’t something surprising as Mo Chen swept a clean victory with various skills learnt from his family and the sect.
The disciple from the Eternal Blossom Sect couldn’t hope to win against him.
“Hahaha, Feng Xue, You’ve got some great disciples this time. But in the next round, Ashen and this disciple will fight and you will surely lose one of them” Chen Lao taunted playfully.
This was the worst scenario for any sect. Two disciples from the same sect, fighting each other to eliminate one another. In the end, it would be their own sect that would suffer.
Feng Xue also understood this as she calmly muttered: “What can we do about it? It’s fate!”
And soon, the next match began. It was between a protagonist from the Celestial Harmony sect wearing a yellow sect uniform and a disciple from the Crimson Sky Sect.
Ashen also got the notification about him.
[Ding, Host, That is one of the protagonists that was detected, Protagonist Lu Xian!]
Hearing this, Ashen paid closer attention to him. He had short messy crimson-red hair with a lean muscular physique.
Soon, the match began. At first, it appeared that they were similar in power as they exchanged several attacks with each other before Lu Xian suddenly appeared in front of his opponent and attacked with a palm skill aimed at the middle of his opponent’s chest.
Before his palm connected, one could see a small green lotus appearing in the middle of his palm which exploded on coming in contact with the opponent’s chest.
The opponent, as a response, was sent flying out of the arena before coughing out blood. It appeared that he had sustained internal injuries.
“Winner, Celestial Harmony Sect’s Lu Xian”
Similarly, all the other matches of the tournament ended and Ashen remembered the names and faces of the protagonists.
The 32 winners consisted of Bi Shiyue, Mo Chen, Ashen, Bai Leng, Lu Xian, Mo Fan, Han Yujin, and others.
Ashen noticed that each sect had two Protagonists in it except the Crimson Sky Sect. It only had Bai Leng.
Ashen found it strange and decided to see his luck.
“System, show me Bai Leng’s Luck Points!”
[Ding! Host, Protagonist Bai Leng has 450000 luck points right now!]
“What?” Ashen’s eyes widened in surprise as he began remembering just how much effort it took to deplete Mo Fan’s 300000 Luck Points.
“Sigh… ” Ashen sighed and asked: “What about the other protagonists?”
[Ding!
Lu Xian: 120000
Han Yujin: 140000
… : 100000
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All the others were around 100000 luck points. Ashen nodded and understood why was Bai Leng the only protagonist in Crimson Sky Sect.
With his amount of luck points, no protagonist would be able to compete with him.
As Ashen was thinking about this, the next round began and Bai Leng once again appeared on the ring.
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(A/N – Thanks for reading. ^..^)
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