Chapter 50 Matched Against Bai Zhiqui
The judge put a box in front of us.
"All of you will pick one of the lots, and whoever has the same symbol will fight each other. The stick with the symbol of a tiger will fight first, while the one with the symbol of a dragon will fight second." the judge said.
All of us nodded. I glanced at the woman from the Cai family. She was pretty relaxed. She was going to be another powerful opponent, and I had to be careful of her.
"Bai Zhiqui, come up first to pick your lot." the judge said.
She gracefully hovered to the ring and took a stick. I could see that it had the symbol of a tiger on it. She showed it to the judge, who nodded.
"Cai Lien. Please come up to pick your lot." the judge said.
The young woman with a veil, clearly Cai Lien, jumped onto the stage and took one of the sticks.
"Interesting. I thought that I would be facing you today, but it looks like my luck has not run out just yet." Cai Lien smiled as she showed everyone the lot that she picked. The dragon symbol was apparent through it.
"Damn it. I am either going to face Bai Zhiqui, or Cai Lien now. I have no idea how the battle will go." I realized.
"Liu Feng. Come up to pick your lot." the judge said.
I jumped onto the stage and took a stick. My hand hesitated for a second. This was important. I had to win this martial gathering. This was an important mission, and I just couldn\'t afford to push fate by losing a mission.
I turned the stick to look at the symbol on it.
"A tiger?" I murmured.
"You got the tiger. Liu Feng will be facing Bai Zhiqui on the first round, while Cai Lien will be facing Du Xiangling. Liu Feng and Bai Zhiqui, on the stage please." the judge said.
He snapped his fingers, and the box in front of him disappeared. So did the stick that I was holding. It was mysterious. This was what true power entailed.
I could smell the subtle scent of Bai Zhiqui as she flew above me to stand opposite to me in the huge ring. I looked at her with apprehension. The question marks next to her cultivation meant that she was so much more powerful than me. I had a very little chance to win this round.
"Young master Liu Feng. I am truly grateful for the huge favor that you have given me. In turn, I shall return this debt." she nodded at me and looked at the judge.
"I give up." she said with a soft and gentle voice.
"What?!!!" the whole crowd went into an uproar.
"The fairy of the Bai family gave up? What is happening? I thought that the Bai family was not in good relations with the Liu Family. Why is she helping this Liu Feng of all people? The idiot young master? What is going on?" people started talking to each other.
"Bai Zhiqui loses. Liu Feng shall proceed to the finals. Cai Lien and Du Xiangling. Your battle will commence after ten minutes. " the judge said as he turned to look at the balcony of the city lord.
The city lord smiled at the judge and nodded. With that, the judge nodded back and he looked at Bai Zhiqui.
"We were looking forward to seeing you fight, but it looks like your master has already talked to the city lord. Your condition is accounted for. Liu Feng and Bai Zhiqui, you may leave the ring for now." the judge said.
"Thank you for taking this into consideration. I hope that you can relay my gratitude to the city lord as well." Bai Zhiqui said as she left the ring. I had nothing else to do here, so I also left.
Ping!
"Congratulations host. Host has defeated a level 38 master. Because the host has defeated an opponent who is more than 30 levels higher than you, Host has received 5000 exp." the system said.
Ping!
"Host has levelled up to level 9"
"Level 9? Awesome! Now I have a few more stat points that I can assign." I was over joyed.
"System Homepage."
Username - Gray Holton
Cultivation name - Liu Feng
Title - Young Master of the Liu Family
Level - 8
Strength - 55
Stamina - 32
Agility - 55
Cultivation - Foundation Establishment - 1st layer
Luck - 20
Skills - Heaven Devouring (Medium Proficiency)
Blue Dragon Spear (Medium Proficiency)
Iron Body (Medium Proficiency)
Alchemy(Basic Proficiency - Foundation Establishment level)
Mind Eye(Active)
Skill points - 5
Stat Points - 5
"Put everything in agility. I have a few trump cards to increase my speed, but nothing to increase my agility. I need to get faster. I have no time to learn a new skill so I can only put all the stat points in agility for now." I said.
"5 stat points in agility confirmed. Agility stat increased to 60." the system said.
Almost immediately, I felt my whole body become a little lighter. I felt faster.
"This should help me a bit." I nodded as I looked at the ring. I needed to look at this fight. Cai Lien was in the fifth layer of the Foundation Establishment stage. Whatever was going to follow, it would be a blood bath. Du Xiangling was going to get eliminated in mere moments.
I glanced at Cai Lien, who was talking to an elder of her own clan. She kept glancing at the Bai family\'s area, probably talking about Bai Zhiqui. Bai Zhiqui herself was not present here. She disappeared somewhere.
I had a few minutes, and took a quick glance of the surroundings. I needed to look for Old Tian. There was a mystery surrounding him that I had to uncover. But he was also nowhere to be seen.
"Why do all the powerful people have to be so goddamn mysterious. Damn my luck." I cursed.
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