Chapter 52
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"Juniors from Five-Flavor Flame Sect (and the others...) greets the Southern Imperial Kingdom's State Teacher, Master Teacher Zhou Yun!" everyone within the stage kneeled in one knee as they greeted the person standing beside his eldest brother, Zhang Wu Yuan's side. From his appearance of golden lining robe with some flower design printed on its surface, this person is easily recognized because, in the whole Southern Imperial Kingdom's territory, he's the only one to possess the skill to make such a fabric.
Not only that, the state teacher also obtained a favor from making the fabrics to be exported to the remaining three kingdoms, and was the only three Master Teacher in the whole Ping An Continent to receive the Union Kingdom protection, a gift that indicates that if any of the kingdoms wish to bring harm to this Master Teacher, the other three will combine their forces to destroy that intention, be it by force, wealth, or assassination.
"Rise, everybody." his tone is smooth, and his manner is as humble as to how Zhang Wu Ji behaves.
Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji's two elder brothers went to his side before the eldest gave him a slap. This turned the situation awkward to the others, but between the three of them, Zhang Wu Yuan is the first to speaks.
"In father's letter, you burnt the Herbalist Hall, and destroys the stalls belonged to the townspeople, what is that kind of attitude that you're carrying in you! Do you know what kind of disgrace you're making to ruin the family's name?" Zhang Wu Yuan speaks with the tone as their eldest brother, but this does not mean Zhang Wu Chou escaped from his reprimanding.
"You too! Do you think that by secluding the news related to you using your position to pressure the other villagers and townspeople in this county able to hide from me? I see you like the Top disciple in this sect, so I left you with a mere grace that you're worth for it, but if I heard anything about the two of you ruining the family's name, don't blame me to get rid of all your tooth in a punch!" Zhang Wu Yuan warned his second brother next.
As the eldest of the three, Zhang Wu Yuan has been studying under his master for over seven years, right before his younger brother reaches their sixth and eighth years old. Although their relationship wasn't that good, to begin with, his mind is more developed and paying much attention in small matters.
"You. What is with the little act of flying into the sect's ground with so many Flying Swords?" he turned his attention back to Zhang Wu Ji again, having not finished with his lecture.
"We ten disciples and our master mother wish to make a grand entrance, thus we entered through the sky with..." he explained, but got another slap once more. The others were slightly offended with how Zhang Wu Yuan handle the matter, but under the situation they were in front of the Master Teacher, none of them dare to voice their mind out.
"This is an act of challenge. What will your master say is the fruitless action of yours end up getting the aggression from the Black City Armored Forces, or the Blood Art Sect? Are you getting tired to only be bothered by the Jie's Clan and the Merchants, and wanted to get more opponents to destroy your sect?" he said.
"Don't think that I got no idea what you're doing in the Seven Star Sect, and how you conducted yourself. But remember my word. One more time you behave like a monkey, I am going to lock you up inside the Imperial Prison."
"As for the issue with the Upper South Merchant Corporation and the Jie's Clan, my teacher already has their solution," he said as he turned and walked towards their Master Mother.
"Headmistress Beiping Ruolan, this junior is here under the instruction of his teacher, Zhao Yun to present you with this Lotus Lord Rejuvenating Pill. This will be sufficient enough to recover the vitality of the Sect Headmaster into his prime once again." unexpected to the headmistress herself, the youth took out a 6th Tier healing medicine that at least a thousand times more potent than her own collection as a gift for the unwell sect headmaster that he had not met before.
As a polite gesture to the youth and his master, Beiping Ruolan first returned the youth's kindness with the Sword Pendant in her hand after she got the approval from Zhang Wu Ji. Then, she turns her attention toward the Master Teacher Zhao Yun and gives him a 90 degrees bow as gratitude for the State Teacher's kindness.
The youth accepted the sword pendant. Lifting his hand up until his eye level, he inserts a strand of qi into the ring to activates the secret behind and made a box appeared out of nowhere. The moment the box is opened, it reveals another nine sword pendants kept within, which gave the indication about on thing.
[Zhang Wu Ji's eldest brother is extremely rich!]
"That ring just looks like the ring my master mother give me..." Zhang Wu Ji, the densest in the whole Heavenly Square, finally remembered that he did possess a ring similar to this. He looked at his master mother as she gave him a nod, knowing what that youth wanted to ask.
After a little of the family matters, the situation turned back to lively as before, only that the other counties dare not to mess with the Seven Star Sect no longer.
With the protection of the Heavenly Sword Sect's top Master-Disciple and the State Teacher's direct disciple, who dares to mess with Zhang Wu Ji and his Seven Star Sect?
Without waiting too long, the banquet started, over fifty different dishes is presented to each seat, and it was served by over a thousand different female servant in a different figure, feature, and graciousness. The banquet took three hours to complete before the organizer of this meeting started with his words.
"I believe that everyone here knows about the topic we're going to hold this year, so I will prevent myself from speaking about it too much. I will go directly to the rewards now."
"This time, we put all the rewards into two different categories, the first prize for the best upper county fight and lower county fight, and the final reward for the overall winner. In this competition, weapons, pills, and treasures are allowed, so beware, be careful, and be cautious."
"If you understand that, lead your team into the center of the square, beginning from the Lower Counties first." the introduction was made simply because this event will only take three days to complete. And after that three days, the State Teacher will return to the Imperial Capital along with his eldest brother. Under the activation of some formation device, the middle of the Heavenly Square turned into a different scenery, where only those inside of the formation circle will notice all the differences.
Receiving their call to comes out from their seats, the five lower counties sent their ten representatives out. Zhang Wu Ji and Guan Qing Han followed the eight senior brother and sisters from behind, letting the others take the lead. But sometimes, getting too much fame is not something good depending on the situation, like now.
The other three sects were placing all their attention at the Seven Star Sect's team, while the Herb Valley Sect is ignoring the whole Battle Royale fight. Their ten participants went somewhere far to escape from the heated situation, leaving the team from Upper South Merchant Corporation, Jie's Clan and Mystic engineer Establishment targeting the Seven Star Sect.
With a firework is launched on the sky and exploded, the three teams consisting of thirty cultivators charged at the Seven Star Sect, forcing the lone team to defend themselves at the beginning of the battle! But inside Zhang Wu Ji's mind, it wasn't the stress of being attacked by three teams falling on him, but the hatred of the two factions is bothering his mind.
"Retreats!" he shouted an charged at the incoming attack without any reservation.
"Junior brother! Half of them are all 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter!" the eldest and second charge together with their juniors to reduce the possibility of their junior is taken out at the beginning of the battle. Grateful for his two senior brother's assistance, Zhang Wu Ji whispers a few words to them.
"Whoever hits by my attack will start to bleed, by that time, let us strikes their weakest in the team first."
He raised his Longfeng Jade Ruler high above his head before Zhang Wu Ji activated the third skill in the Seven Star Sword Art.
"Triple Star Wave!" the attack strikes like a tsunami, bearing the faint looking waves of Qi towards their opponent's location. As some of them weren't that brave to fight against the attack directly, some escaped, and some deflect the attack. The only unfortunate is only ten of them were deflecting, thus only this few is suffering a few cuts on their body due to the side effect [Open Wound] from his Martial Art Manual.
With twenty targets is in the middle of the air, the three of them did not hesitate to launch their Twin Star Piercer at their targets. Through aiming for the weaker foes, they took out six people in their first exchange, and retreats before the situation prevent them from doing so. Zhang Wu Ji passes Inner Qi Replenishing Pills he concocted from the ingredient harvested by his attendant to the two, and replenish some of their Inner Qi before the situation turns worst.
But unexpected by them, the remaining 24 opponents did not chase them but fought against each another. The Jie's Clan and Upper South Merchant Corporation groups their people together to give the Mystic Engineering Establishment a sneak attack, taking out five more members, leaving only one successfully escaped. With nine members remaining in both team, the eighteen people charge forward at the spot the people from Seven Star Sect stands and attacked them.
Before they managed to get twenty meters far, three disciples from the Herb Valley Sect made their appearance at the eighteen and taken a pill in front of everyone. The pill they took named [Fur King Berserker Pill], a medicinal pill made from extracting the blood essence from the Golden Fur King and combined with Havoc Flower and Illusion Grass to concoct. Upon consumption, the user will have their eyes turn red due to some side effect, and their attitude will become more aggressive.
Given the increase of their physical strength and defenses by one fold, their attack will become deadlier. Under the unexpected situation, the three took the opportunity to ravage their enemies rank but soon defeated before they can take out their seventh targets. Because the two sides still possess six members each, they did not turn against each another but continue further.
The escaped member of the Mystic Engineer Establishment soon reaches the spot where the people from Seven Star Sect stand. He went on further, with both hand opened wide to indicates he have no intention to fight them. Looking at this stance, Han Gen went out to speak, and understand that instead of fighting the people from Seven Star Sect, he only wanted to take out few more members from the alliance of two sects before he lost in this Battle Royale.
But the situation did not allow them to do so, as three more opponents from the Herb Valley Sect made their appearance by having two members fighting the Seven Star Sect, and another member fighting one on one against the disciple from Mystic Engineer Establishment. From his unrefined technique, Zhang Wu Ji can easily deduce that this remaining member of the sect is very inexperienced in battle.
He successfully evades the attack, but the negligence in his steps made him received an attack worst than the initial strike. Then, placed in a situation he will soon lose, the disciple from the Mystic Engineer Establishment took a miniature weapon out from his pouch and activates it with a strand of Fighter Qi.
When that weapon is activated, it turned into a barrel of cannon that was already activated with an ammunition within the weapon.
"Wait..." Zhang Wu Ji looked at the secretive technology hidden behind in their hand.
"That is a cannon, right? He activates them like how the Flying Sword does, this means that their establishment is major in the Celestial Designing! This means that as long I obtained the required blueprint and technique, creating such a modernized weapon is not difficult!" Zhang Wu Ji's expectation towards this Celestial Designer Profession becomes better, as he then returns to help in fighting the two opponents from the Herb Valley Sect.
Soon, the alliance of two sect reaches their location and looking at the battle between three sides. One from Mystic Engineer Establishment against one from the Herb Valley Sect, and ten of the Seven Star Sect against two from the Herb Valley Sect. Their mind suddenly came with an intention to take advantage of the situation leads them to wait, but it ends up becoming their worst decision when the four remaining members from the Herb Valley Sect came out and attack them from behind.
"Damn, we're caught in their sneak attack!" the members in the alliance complained.
"Damn, how come this guy is so difficult to defeat!" the remaining member from the Mystic Engineer Establishment complained.
"Damn, their teamwork made them so difficult to handle!" few of his fellow senior brother complained when they still failed to defeat any of them.
The three side battle allowed Zhang Wu Ji to understand the real meaning of Battle Royale.
He paid too little attention to his own fight, but more towards inspecting the other. When their situation ends up to become slightly worst, Zhang Wu Ji rushes at the opponent before he landed a Collapsing Fist on the target. That attack took the berserk disciple by surprised as he vomited, but the situation did not give him a second to react before a Jade Ruler chops on his nape, leaving him unconscious.
"Junior brother!" the guy that fighting with the member of Mystic Engineer Establishment shouted as he noticed his brother is defeated, but that gap allows the surviving member to activates another barrel of the cannon, and blast his opponent far from where they stand. The damage from the ammunition is unexpectedly heavy, and it took the Herb Valley Sect member down without compromising.
With two more members down, the Herb Valley Sect is left with five-person in their team, with the Mystic Engineer Establishment still have one person left. The Jie's Clan left with four-person as they lost two more members to the sneak attack. As for the Upper South Merchant Corporation, they still have six members remaining, Meanwhile, the Seven Star Sect still have all ten people in their team.
"Herb Valley, let's have a truce for now, or you want the Seven Star Sect to grab all the rewards in this lower counties fight... If you consider... Uurgh!" one of the members from the Upper South Merchant Corporation tried to convince their opponent to shift their attention at their mutual enemy, but before he finishes his words. A steel ball strikes his waist and brings him out from the battle.
"Friends from the Seven Star Sect, I am out of the Steel Launcher. My name is Yong Lie, the top disciple of the Mystic Engineer Establishment. If we managed to remain standing after the battle, let's have a drink on my tab!" he cupped his hand together as he finishes his speech. Then, he turned to opponents with another miniature tool, which become a spear after he activated it.
Zhang Wu Ji looked at the remaining enemy they're fighting against, and when he noticed the weakness on the enemy, Zhang Wu Ji shouted;
Twin Star Piercer!
The eight of them launched the same attack on their target, and it was impossible to defend against sixteen similar strikes. At the end of this exchange, this disciple should be the one with the worst injury throughout their battle.
With only four members left in both Herb Valley Sect and Jie's Clan, their momentum is disturbed. Added with the people from the Upper South Merchant Corporation, they have a total of sixteen members in their team, compared to the Seven Star Sect and Mystic Engineer Establishment where they only got 11 members in their team.
Zhang Wu Ji looked at his opponents. After he confirmed that none of them are trusting against each another too much, he decided to have some fun in his own way. the two side continues to stares at each another, but none of them noticed that one of the opponents went missing from the Seven Star Sect.
Even the spectators failed to notice the single person is missing out of sudden, except for three individuals.
Zhang Wu Yuan, Zhang Wu Chou, and Beiping Ruolan.
This was because the attention of this three is focused on the black horse in the Battle Royale.
Without leaving a single hint that he was gone from the group, Zhang Wu Ji sneaks to the side of his opponent using the Orchid Assassination Art. Only when he selected the most strategic spot Zhang Wu Ji revealed his position by speaking out loudly.
Before he did, Zhang Wu Ji activated the 4th Star in the Seven Star Burst Manual to increase his Strength, Speed, and Spirit.
"It is unfortunate to see so many people are going to be defeated in a simple attack," he said. The sentence alerted the sixteen opponents, but it did not give them enough time to a response before the attack came into their spine, chest, belly, jaw, and waist.
"Collapsing Fist Spree!" Zhang Wu Ji punches everywhere he could, and battered all of them until they willingly surrendered. The sudden changes of a situation shocked the spectators and fellow disciples alike, and at the same time, Zhang Wu Chou's expression turns sour.
"If that kid ends up fighting against me, how many time I can receive the attack? even with my strength, I will still be defeated without a chance to counterattack!" Zhang Wu Chou speaks in his mind as he looks for the method to defeat this suddenly vanished in sight technique.
With the remaining participant, Yong Lie gives up on his fight, the Seven Star Sect's ten disciples end up as the champion of the Lower Counties Battle Royale, as all the guest are escorted back to their respective Living Quarters to have a good rest.
Soon, the sky turns dark, with stars coming up in the darkness. a group of uninvited visitors pay a visit to the Seven Star Sect's building and requested to be given the chances to meet with the ten disciples from the sect.
This person was Yong Lie and his fellow disciples along with their two grand elders of the Mystic Engineer Establishment.
Once again, Zhang Wu Ji failed to get free time to inspect his Onyx Ring.
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"Juniors from Five-Flavor Flame Sect (and the others...) greets the Southern Imperial Kingdom's State Teacher, Master Teacher Zhou Yun!" everyone within the stage kneeled in one knee as they greeted the person standing beside his eldest brother, Zhang Wu Yuan's side. From his appearance of golden lining robe with some flower design printed on its surface, this person is easily recognized because, in the whole Southern Imperial Kingdom's territory, he's the only one to possess the skill to make such a fabric.
Not only that, the state teacher also obtained a favor from making the fabrics to be exported to the remaining three kingdoms, and was the only three Master Teacher in the whole Ping An Continent to receive the Union Kingdom protection, a gift that indicates that if any of the kingdoms wish to bring harm to this Master Teacher, the other three will combine their forces to destroy that intention, be it by force, wealth, or assassination.
"Rise, everybody." his tone is smooth, and his manner is as humble as to how Zhang Wu Ji behaves.
Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji's two elder brothers went to his side before the eldest gave him a slap. This turned the situation awkward to the others, but between the three of them, Zhang Wu Yuan is the first to speaks.
"In father's letter, you burnt the Herbalist Hall, and destroys the stalls belonged to the townspeople, what is that kind of attitude that you're carrying in you! Do you know what kind of disgrace you're making to ruin the family's name?" Zhang Wu Yuan speaks with the tone as their eldest brother, but this does not mean Zhang Wu Chou escaped from his reprimanding.
"You too! Do you think that by secluding the news related to you using your position to pressure the other villagers and townspeople in this county able to hide from me? I see you like the Top disciple in this sect, so I left you with a mere grace that you're worth for it, but if I heard anything about the two of you ruining the family's name, don't blame me to get rid of all your tooth in a punch!" Zhang Wu Yuan warned his second brother next.
As the eldest of the three, Zhang Wu Yuan has been studying under his master for over seven years, right before his younger brother reaches their sixth and eighth years old. Although their relationship wasn't that good, to begin with, his mind is more developed and paying much attention in small matters.
"You. What is with the little act of flying into the sect's ground with so many Flying Swords?" he turned his attention back to Zhang Wu Ji again, having not finished with his lecture.
"We ten disciples and our master mother wish to make a grand entrance, thus we entered through the sky with..." he explained, but got another slap once more. The others were slightly offended with how Zhang Wu Yuan handle the matter, but under the situation they were in front of the Master Teacher, none of them dare to voice their mind out.
"This is an act of challenge. What will your master say is the fruitless action of yours end up getting the aggression from the Black City Armored Forces, or the Blood Art Sect? Are you getting tired to only be bothered by the Jie's Clan and the Merchants, and wanted to get more opponents to destroy your sect?" he said.
"Don't think that I got no idea what you're doing in the Seven Star Sect, and how you conducted yourself. But remember my word. One more time you behave like a monkey, I am going to lock you up inside the Imperial Prison."
"As for the issue with the Upper South Merchant Corporation and the Jie's Clan, my teacher already has their solution," he said as he turned and walked towards their Master Mother.
"Headmistress Beiping Ruolan, this junior is here under the instruction of his teacher, Zhao Yun to present you with this Lotus Lord Rejuvenating Pill. This will be sufficient enough to recover the vitality of the Sect Headmaster into his prime once again." unexpected to the headmistress herself, the youth took out a 6th Tier healing medicine that at least a thousand times more potent than her own collection as a gift for the unwell sect headmaster that he had not met before.
As a polite gesture to the youth and his master, Beiping Ruolan first returned the youth's kindness with the Sword Pendant in her hand after she got the approval from Zhang Wu Ji. Then, she turns her attention toward the Master Teacher Zhao Yun and gives him a 90 degrees bow as gratitude for the State Teacher's kindness.
The youth accepted the sword pendant. Lifting his hand up until his eye level, he inserts a strand of qi into the ring to activates the secret behind and made a box appeared out of nowhere. The moment the box is opened, it reveals another nine sword pendants kept within, which gave the indication about on thing.
[Zhang Wu Ji's eldest brother is extremely rich!]
"That ring just looks like the ring my master mother give me..." Zhang Wu Ji, the densest in the whole Heavenly Square, finally remembered that he did possess a ring similar to this. He looked at his master mother as she gave him a nod, knowing what that youth wanted to ask.
After a little of the family matters, the situation turned back to lively as before, only that the other counties dare not to mess with the Seven Star Sect no longer.
With the protection of the Heavenly Sword Sect's top Master-Disciple and the State Teacher's direct disciple, who dares to mess with Zhang Wu Ji and his Seven Star Sect?
Without waiting too long, the banquet started, over fifty different dishes is presented to each seat, and it was served by over a thousand different female servant in a different figure, feature, and graciousness. The banquet took three hours to complete before the organizer of this meeting started with his words.
"I believe that everyone here knows about the topic we're going to hold this year, so I will prevent myself from speaking about it too much. I will go directly to the rewards now."
"This time, we put all the rewards into two different categories, the first prize for the best upper county fight and lower county fight, and the final reward for the overall winner. In this competition, weapons, pills, and treasures are allowed, so beware, be careful, and be cautious."
"If you understand that, lead your team into the center of the square, beginning from the Lower Counties first." the introduction was made simply because this event will only take three days to complete. And after that three days, the State Teacher will return to the Imperial Capital along with his eldest brother. Under the activation of some formation device, the middle of the Heavenly Square turned into a different scenery, where only those inside of the formation circle will notice all the differences.
Receiving their call to comes out from their seats, the five lower counties sent their ten representatives out. Zhang Wu Ji and Guan Qing Han followed the eight senior brother and sisters from behind, letting the others take the lead. But sometimes, getting too much fame is not something good depending on the situation, like now.
The other three sects were placing all their attention at the Seven Star Sect's team, while the Herb Valley Sect is ignoring the whole Battle Royale fight. Their ten participants went somewhere far to escape from the heated situation, leaving the team from Upper South Merchant Corporation, Jie's Clan and Mystic engineer Establishment targeting the Seven Star Sect.
With a firework is launched on the sky and exploded, the three teams consisting of thirty cultivators charged at the Seven Star Sect, forcing the lone team to defend themselves at the beginning of the battle! But inside Zhang Wu Ji's mind, it wasn't the stress of being attacked by three teams falling on him, but the hatred of the two factions is bothering his mind.
"Retreats!" he shouted an charged at the incoming attack without any reservation.
"Junior brother! Half of them are all 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter!" the eldest and second charge together with their juniors to reduce the possibility of their junior is taken out at the beginning of the battle. Grateful for his two senior brother's assistance, Zhang Wu Ji whispers a few words to them.
"Whoever hits by my attack will start to bleed, by that time, let us strikes their weakest in the team first."
He raised his Longfeng Jade Ruler high above his head before Zhang Wu Ji activated the third skill in the Seven Star Sword Art.
"Triple Star Wave!" the attack strikes like a tsunami, bearing the faint looking waves of Qi towards their opponent's location. As some of them weren't that brave to fight against the attack directly, some escaped, and some deflect the attack. The only unfortunate is only ten of them were deflecting, thus only this few is suffering a few cuts on their body due to the side effect [Open Wound] from his Martial Art Manual.
With twenty targets is in the middle of the air, the three of them did not hesitate to launch their Twin Star Piercer at their targets. Through aiming for the weaker foes, they took out six people in their first exchange, and retreats before the situation prevent them from doing so. Zhang Wu Ji passes Inner Qi Replenishing Pills he concocted from the ingredient harvested by his attendant to the two, and replenish some of their Inner Qi before the situation turns worst.
But unexpected by them, the remaining 24 opponents did not chase them but fought against each another. The Jie's Clan and Upper South Merchant Corporation groups their people together to give the Mystic Engineering Establishment a sneak attack, taking out five more members, leaving only one successfully escaped. With nine members remaining in both team, the eighteen people charge forward at the spot the people from Seven Star Sect stands and attacked them.
Before they managed to get twenty meters far, three disciples from the Herb Valley Sect made their appearance at the eighteen and taken a pill in front of everyone. The pill they took named [Fur King Berserker Pill], a medicinal pill made from extracting the blood essence from the Golden Fur King and combined with Havoc Flower and Illusion Grass to concoct. Upon consumption, the user will have their eyes turn red due to some side effect, and their attitude will become more aggressive.
Given the increase of their physical strength and defenses by one fold, their attack will become deadlier. Under the unexpected situation, the three took the opportunity to ravage their enemies rank but soon defeated before they can take out their seventh targets. Because the two sides still possess six members each, they did not turn against each another but continue further.
The escaped member of the Mystic Engineer Establishment soon reaches the spot where the people from Seven Star Sect stand. He went on further, with both hand opened wide to indicates he have no intention to fight them. Looking at this stance, Han Gen went out to speak, and understand that instead of fighting the people from Seven Star Sect, he only wanted to take out few more members from the alliance of two sects before he lost in this Battle Royale.
But the situation did not allow them to do so, as three more opponents from the Herb Valley Sect made their appearance by having two members fighting the Seven Star Sect, and another member fighting one on one against the disciple from Mystic Engineer Establishment. From his unrefined technique, Zhang Wu Ji can easily deduce that this remaining member of the sect is very inexperienced in battle.
He successfully evades the attack, but the negligence in his steps made him received an attack worst than the initial strike. Then, placed in a situation he will soon lose, the disciple from the Mystic Engineer Establishment took a miniature weapon out from his pouch and activates it with a strand of Fighter Qi.
When that weapon is activated, it turned into a barrel of cannon that was already activated with an ammunition within the weapon.
"Wait..." Zhang Wu Ji looked at the secretive technology hidden behind in their hand.
"That is a cannon, right? He activates them like how the Flying Sword does, this means that their establishment is major in the Celestial Designing! This means that as long I obtained the required blueprint and technique, creating such a modernized weapon is not difficult!" Zhang Wu Ji's expectation towards this Celestial Designer Profession becomes better, as he then returns to help in fighting the two opponents from the Herb Valley Sect.
Soon, the alliance of two sect reaches their location and looking at the battle between three sides. One from Mystic Engineer Establishment against one from the Herb Valley Sect, and ten of the Seven Star Sect against two from the Herb Valley Sect. Their mind suddenly came with an intention to take advantage of the situation leads them to wait, but it ends up becoming their worst decision when the four remaining members from the Herb Valley Sect came out and attack them from behind.
"Damn, we're caught in their sneak attack!" the members in the alliance complained.
"Damn, how come this guy is so difficult to defeat!" the remaining member from the Mystic Engineer Establishment complained.
"Damn, their teamwork made them so difficult to handle!" few of his fellow senior brother complained when they still failed to defeat any of them.
The three side battle allowed Zhang Wu Ji to understand the real meaning of Battle Royale.
He paid too little attention to his own fight, but more towards inspecting the other. When their situation ends up to become slightly worst, Zhang Wu Ji rushes at the opponent before he landed a Collapsing Fist on the target. That attack took the berserk disciple by surprised as he vomited, but the situation did not give him a second to react before a Jade Ruler chops on his nape, leaving him unconscious.
"Junior brother!" the guy that fighting with the member of Mystic Engineer Establishment shouted as he noticed his brother is defeated, but that gap allows the surviving member to activates another barrel of the cannon, and blast his opponent far from where they stand. The damage from the ammunition is unexpectedly heavy, and it took the Herb Valley Sect member down without compromising.
With two more members down, the Herb Valley Sect is left with five-person in their team, with the Mystic Engineer Establishment still have one person left. The Jie's Clan left with four-person as they lost two more members to the sneak attack. As for the Upper South Merchant Corporation, they still have six members remaining, Meanwhile, the Seven Star Sect still have all ten people in their team.
"Herb Valley, let's have a truce for now, or you want the Seven Star Sect to grab all the rewards in this lower counties fight... If you consider... Uurgh!" one of the members from the Upper South Merchant Corporation tried to convince their opponent to shift their attention at their mutual enemy, but before he finishes his words. A steel ball strikes his waist and brings him out from the battle.
"Friends from the Seven Star Sect, I am out of the Steel Launcher. My name is Yong Lie, the top disciple of the Mystic Engineer Establishment. If we managed to remain standing after the battle, let's have a drink on my tab!" he cupped his hand together as he finishes his speech. Then, he turned to opponents with another miniature tool, which become a spear after he activated it.
Zhang Wu Ji looked at the remaining enemy they're fighting against, and when he noticed the weakness on the enemy, Zhang Wu Ji shouted;
Twin Star Piercer!
The eight of them launched the same attack on their target, and it was impossible to defend against sixteen similar strikes. At the end of this exchange, this disciple should be the one with the worst injury throughout their battle.
With only four members left in both Herb Valley Sect and Jie's Clan, their momentum is disturbed. Added with the people from the Upper South Merchant Corporation, they have a total of sixteen members in their team, compared to the Seven Star Sect and Mystic Engineer Establishment where they only got 11 members in their team.
Zhang Wu Ji looked at his opponents. After he confirmed that none of them are trusting against each another too much, he decided to have some fun in his own way. the two side continues to stares at each another, but none of them noticed that one of the opponents went missing from the Seven Star Sect.
Even the spectators failed to notice the single person is missing out of sudden, except for three individuals.
Zhang Wu Yuan, Zhang Wu Chou, and Beiping Ruolan.
This was because the attention of this three is focused on the black horse in the Battle Royale.
Without leaving a single hint that he was gone from the group, Zhang Wu Ji sneaks to the side of his opponent using the Orchid Assassination Art. Only when he selected the most strategic spot Zhang Wu Ji revealed his position by speaking out loudly.
Before he did, Zhang Wu Ji activated the 4th Star in the Seven Star Burst Manual to increase his Strength, Speed, and Spirit.
"It is unfortunate to see so many people are going to be defeated in a simple attack," he said. The sentence alerted the sixteen opponents, but it did not give them enough time to a response before the attack came into their spine, chest, belly, jaw, and waist.
"Collapsing Fist Spree!" Zhang Wu Ji punches everywhere he could, and battered all of them until they willingly surrendered. The sudden changes of a situation shocked the spectators and fellow disciples alike, and at the same time, Zhang Wu Chou's expression turns sour.
"If that kid ends up fighting against me, how many time I can receive the attack? even with my strength, I will still be defeated without a chance to counterattack!" Zhang Wu Chou speaks in his mind as he looks for the method to defeat this suddenly vanished in sight technique.
With the remaining participant, Yong Lie gives up on his fight, the Seven Star Sect's ten disciples end up as the champion of the Lower Counties Battle Royale, as all the guest are escorted back to their respective Living Quarters to have a good rest.
Soon, the sky turns dark, with stars coming up in the darkness. a group of uninvited visitors pay a visit to the Seven Star Sect's building and requested to be given the chances to meet with the ten disciples from the sect.
This person was Yong Lie and his fellow disciples along with their two grand elders of the Mystic Engineer Establishment.
Once again, Zhang Wu Ji failed to get free time to inspect his Onyx Ring.
"Juniors from Five-Flavor Flame Sect and the others... greets the Southern Imperial Kingdom's State Teacher, Master Teacher Zhou Yun!" everyone within the stage kneeled in one knee as they greeted the person standing beside his eldest brother, Zhang Wu Yuan's side. From his appearance of golden lining robe with some flower design printed on its surface, this person is easily recognized because, in the whole Southern Imperial Kingdom's territory, he's the only one to possess the skill to make such a fabric.Not only that, the state teacher also obtained a favor from making the fabrics to be exported to the remaining three kingdoms, and was the only three Master Teacher in the whole Ping An Continent to receive the Union Kingdom protection, a gift that indicates that if any of the kingdoms wish to bring harm to this Master Teacher, the other three will combine their forces to destroy that intention, be it by force, wealth, or assassination."Rise, everybody." his tone is smooth, and his manner is as humble as to how Zhang Wu Ji behaves.Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji's two elder brothers went to his side before the eldest gave him a slap. This turned the situation awkward to the others, but between the three of them, Zhang Wu Yuan is the first to speaks."In father's letter, you burnt the Herbalist Hall, and destroys the stalls belonged to the townspeople, what is that kind of attitude that you're carrying in you! Do you know what kind of disgrace you're making to ruin the family's name?" Zhang Wu Yuan speaks with the tone as their eldest brother, but this does not mean Zhang Wu Chou escaped from his reprimanding."You too! Do you think that by secluding the news related to you using your position to pressure the other villagers and townspeople in this county able to hide from me? I see you like the Top disciple in this sect, so I left you with a mere grace that you're worth for it, but if I heard anything about the two of you ruining the family's name, don't blame me to get rid of all your tooth in a punch!" Zhang Wu Yuan warned his second brother next.As the eldest of the three, Zhang Wu Yuan has been studying under his master for over seven years, right before his younger brother reaches their sixth and eighth years old. Although their relationship wasn't that good, to begin with, his mind is more developed and paying much attention in small matters."You. What is with the little act of flying into the sect's ground with so many Flying Swords?" he turned his attention back to Zhang Wu Ji again, having not finished with his lecture."We ten disciples and our master mother wish to make a grand entrance, thus we entered through the sky with..." he explained, but got another slap once more. The others were slightly offended with how Zhang Wu Yuan handle the matter, but under the situation they were in front of the Master Teacher, none of them dare to voice their mind out."This is an act of challenge. What will your master say is the fruitless action of yours end up getting the aggression from the Black City Armored Forces, or the Blood Art Sect? Are you getting tired to only be bothered by the Jie's Clan and the Merchants, and wanted to get more opponents to destroy your sect?" he said."Don't think that I got no idea what you're doing in the Seven Star Sect, and how you conducted yourself. But remember my word. One more time you behave like a monkey, I am going to lock you up inside the Imperial Prison.""As for the issue with the Upper South Merchant Corporation and the Jie's Clan, my teacher already has their solution," he said as he turned and walked towards their Master Mother."Headmistress Beiping Ruolan, this junior is here under the instruction of his teacher, Zhao Yun to present you with this Lotus Lord Rejuvenating Pill. This will be sufficient enough to recover the vitality of the Sect Headmaster into his prime once again." unexpected to the headmistress herself, the youth took out a 6th Tier healing medicine that at least a thousand times more potent than her own collection as a gift for the unwell sect headmaster that he had not met before.As a polite gesture to the youth and his master, Beiping Ruolan first returned the youth's kindness with the Sword Pendant in her hand after she got the approval from Zhang Wu Ji. Then, she turns her attention toward the Master Teacher Zhao Yun and gives him a 90 degrees bow as gratitude for the State Teacher's kindness.The youth accepted the sword pendant. Lifting his hand up until his eye level, he inserts a strand of qi into the ring to activates the secret behind and made a box appeared out of nowhere. The moment the box is opened, it reveals another nine sword pendants kept within, which gave the indication about on thing.Zhang Wu Ji's eldest brother is extremely rich!"That ring just looks like the ring my master mother give me..." Zhang Wu Ji, the densest in the whole Heavenly Square, finally remembered that he did possess a ring similar to this. He looked at his master mother as she gave him a nod, knowing what that youth wanted to ask.After a little of the family matters, the situation turned back to lively as before, only that the other counties dare not to mess with the Seven Star Sect no longer.With the protection of the Heavenly Sword Sect's top Master-Disciple and the State Teacher's direct disciple, who dares to mess with Zhang Wu Ji and his Seven Star Sect?Without waiting too long, the banquet started, over fifty different dishes is presented to each seat, and it was served by over a thousand different female servant in a different figure, feature, and graciousness. The banquet took three hours to complete before the organizer of this meeting started with his words."I believe that everyone here knows about the topic we're going to hold this year, so I will prevent myself from speaking about it too much. I will go directly to the rewards now.""This time, we put all the rewards into two different categories, the first prize for the best upper county fight and lower county fight, and the final reward for the overall winner. In this competition, weapons, pills, and treasures are allowed, so beware, be careful, and be cautious.""If you understand that, lead your team into the center of the square, beginning from the Lower Counties first." the introduction was made simply because this event will only take three days to complete. And after that three days, the State Teacher will return to the Imperial Capital along with his eldest brother. Under the activation of some formation device, the middle of the Heavenly Square turned into a different scenery, where only those inside of the formation circle will notice all the differences.Receiving their call to comes out from their seats, the five lower counties sent their ten representatives out. Zhang Wu Ji and Guan Qing Han followed the eight senior brother and sisters from behind, letting the others take the lead. But sometimes, getting too much fame is not something good depending on the situation, like now.The other three sects were placing all their attention at the Seven Star Sect's team, while the Herb Valley Sect is ignoring the whole Battle Royale fight. Their ten participants went somewhere far to escape from the heated situation, leaving the team from Upper South Merchant Corporation, Jie's Clan and Mystic engineer Establishment targeting the Seven Star Sect.With a firework is launched on the sky and exploded, the three teams consisting of thirty cultivators charged at the Seven Star Sect, forcing the lone team to defend themselves at the beginning of the battle! But inside Zhang Wu Ji's mind, it wasn't the stress of being attacked by three teams falling on him, but the hatred of the two factions is bothering his mind."Retreats!" he shouted an charged at the incoming attack without any reservation."Junior brother! Half of them are all 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter!" the eldest and second charge together with their juniors to reduce the possibility of their junior is taken out at the beginning of the battle. Grateful for his two senior brother's assistance, Zhang Wu Ji whispers a few words to them."Whoever hits by my attack will start to bleed, by that time, let us strikes their weakest in the team first."He raised his Longfeng Jade Ruler high above his head before Zhang Wu Ji activated the third skill in the Seven Star Sword Art."Triple Star Wave!" the attack strikes like a tsunami, bearing the faint looking waves of Qi towards their opponent's location. As some of them weren't that brave to fight against the attack directly, some escaped, and some deflect the attack. The only unfortunate is only ten of them were deflecting, thus only this few is suffering a few cuts on their body due to the side effect Open Wound from his Martial Art Manual.With twenty targets is in the middle of the air, the three of them did not hesitate to launch their Twin Star Piercer at their targets. Through aiming for the weaker foes, they took out six people in their first exchange, and retreats before the situation prevent them from doing so. Zhang Wu Ji passes Inner Qi Replenishing Pills he concocted from the ingredient harvested by his attendant to the two, and replenish some of their Inner Qi before the situation turns worst.But unexpected by them, the remaining 24 opponents did not chase them but fought against each another. The Jie's Clan and Upper South Merchant Corporation groups their people together to give the Mystic Engineering Establishment a sneak attack, taking out five more members, leaving only one successfully escaped. With nine members remaining in both team, the eighteen people charge forward at the spot the people from Seven Star Sect stands and attacked them.Before they managed to get twenty meters far, three disciples from the Herb Valley Sect made their appearance at the eighteen and taken a pill in front of everyone. The pill they took named Fur King Berserker Pill, a medicinal pill made from extracting the blood essence from the Golden Fur King and combined with Havoc Flower and Illusion Grass to concoct. Upon consumption, the user will have their eyes turn red due to some side effect, and their attitude will become more aggressive.Given the increase of their physical strength and defenses by one fold, their attack will become deadlier. Under the unexpected situation, the three took the opportunity to ravage their enemies rank but soon defeated before they can take out their seventh targets. Because the two sides still possess six members each, they did not turn against each another but continue further.The escaped member of the Mystic Engineer Establishment soon reaches the spot where the people from Seven Star Sect stand. He went on further, with both hand opened wide to indicates he have no intention to fight them. Looking at this stance, Han Gen went out to speak, and understand that instead of fighting the people from Seven Star Sect, he only wanted to take out few more members from the alliance of two sects before he lost in this Battle Royale.But the situation did not allow them to do so, as three more opponents from the Herb Valley Sect made their appearance by having two members fighting the Seven Star Sect, and another member fighting one on one against the disciple from Mystic Engineer Establishment. From his unrefined technique, Zhang Wu Ji can easily deduce that this remaining member of the sect is very inexperienced in battle.He successfully evades the attack, but the negligence in his steps made him received an attack worst than the initial strike. Then, placed in a situation he will soon lose, the disciple from the Mystic Engineer Establishment took a miniature weapon out from his pouch and activates it with a strand of Fighter Qi.When that weapon is activated, it turned into a barrel of cannon that was already activated with an ammunition within the weapon."Wait..." Zhang Wu Ji looked at the secretive technology hidden behind in their hand."That is a cannon, right? He activates them like how the Flying Sword does, this means that their establishment is major in the Celestial Designing! This means that as long I obtained the required blueprint and technique, creating such a modernized weapon is not difficult!" Zhang Wu Ji's expectation towards this Celestial Designer Profession becomes better, as he then returns to help in fighting the two opponents from the Herb Valley Sect.Soon, the alliance of two sect reaches their location and looking at the battle between three sides. One from Mystic Engineer Establishment against one from the Herb Valley Sect, and ten of the Seven Star Sect against two from the Herb Valley Sect. Their mind suddenly came with an intention to take advantage of the situation leads them to wait, but it ends up becoming their worst decision when the four remaining members from the Herb Valley Sect came out and attack them from behind."Damn, we're caught in their sneak attack!" the members in the alliance complained."Damn, how come this guy is so difficult to defeat!" the remaining member from the Mystic Engineer Establishment complained."Damn, their teamwork made them so difficult to handle!" few of his fellow senior brother complained when they still failed to defeat any of them.The three side battle allowed Zhang Wu Ji to understand the real meaning of Battle Royale.He paid too little attention to his own fight, but more towards inspecting the other. When their situation ends up to become slightly worst, Zhang Wu Ji rushes at the opponent before he landed a Collapsing Fist on the target. That attack took the berserk disciple by surprised as he vomited, but the situation did not give him a second to react before a Jade Ruler chops on his nape, leaving him unconscious."Junior brother!" the guy that fighting with the member of Mystic Engineer Establishment shouted as he noticed his brother is defeated, but that gap allows the surviving member to activates another barrel of the cannon, and blast his opponent far from where they stand. The damage from the ammunition is unexpectedly heavy, and it took the Herb Valley Sect member down without compromising.With two more members down, the Herb Valley Sect is left with five-person in their team, with the Mystic Engineer Establishment still have one person left. The Jie's Clan left with four-person as they lost two more members to the sneak attack. As for the Upper South Merchant Corporation, they still have six members remaining, Meanwhile, the Seven Star Sect still have all ten people in their team."Herb Valley, let's have a truce for now, or you want the Seven Star Sect to grab all the rewards in this lower counties fight... If you consider... Uurgh!" one of the members from the Upper South Merchant Corporation tried to convince their opponent to shift their attention at their mutual enemy, but before he finishes his words. A steel ball strikes his waist and brings him out from the battle."Friends from the Seven Star Sect, I am out of the Steel Launcher. My name is Yong Lie, the top disciple of the Mystic Engineer Establishment. If we managed to remain standing after the battle, let's have a drink on my tab!" he cupped his hand together as he finishes his speech. Then, he turned to opponents with another miniature tool, which become a spear after he activated it.Zhang Wu Ji looked at the remaining enemy they're fighting against, and when he noticed the weakness on the enemy, Zhang Wu Ji shouted;Twin Star Piercer!The eight of them launched the same attack on their target, and it was impossible to defend against sixteen similar strikes. At the end of this exchange, this disciple should be the one with the worst injury throughout their battle.With only four members left in both Herb Valley Sect and Jie's Clan, their momentum is disturbed. Added with the people from the Upper South Merchant Corporation, they have a total of sixteen members in their team, compared to the Seven Star Sect and Mystic Engineer Establishment where they only got 11 members in their team.Zhang Wu Ji looked at his opponents. After he confirmed that none of them are trusting against each another too much, he decided to have some fun in his own way. the two side continues to stares at each another, but none of them noticed that one of the opponents went missing from the Seven Star Sect.Even the spectators failed to notice the single person is missing out of sudden, except for three individuals.Zhang Wu Yuan, Zhang Wu Chou, and Beiping Ruolan.This was because the attention of this three is focused on the black horse in the Battle Royale.Without leaving a single hint that he was gone from the group, Zhang Wu Ji sneaks to the side of his opponent using the Orchid Assassination Art. Only when he selected the most strategic spot Zhang Wu Ji revealed his position by speaking out loudly.Before he did, Zhang Wu Ji activated the 4th Star in the Seven Star Burst Manual to increase his Strength, Speed, and Spirit."It is unfortunate to see so many people are going to be defeated in a simple attack," he said. The sentence alerted the sixteen opponents, but it did not give them enough time to a response before the attack came into their spine, chest, belly, jaw, and waist."Collapsing Fist Spree!" Zhang Wu Ji punches everywhere he could, and battered all of them until they willingly surrendered. The sudden changes of a situation shocked the spectators and fellow disciples alike, and at the same time, Zhang Wu Chou's expression turns sour."If that kid ends up fighting against me, how many time I can receive the attack? even with my strength, I will still be defeated without a chance to counterattack!" Zhang Wu Chou speaks in his mind as he looks for the method to defeat this suddenly vanished in sight technique.With the remaining participant, Yong Lie gives up on his fight, the Seven Star Sect's ten disciples end up as the champion of the Lower Counties Battle Royale, as all the guest are escorted back to their respective Living Quarters to have a good rest.Soon, the sky turns dark, with stars coming up in the darkness. a group of uninvited visitors pay a visit to the Seven Star Sect's building and requested to be given the chances to meet with the ten disciples from the sect.This person was Yong Lie and his fellow disciples along with their two grand elders of the Mystic Engineer Establishment.Once again, Zhang Wu Ji failed to get free time to inspect his Onyx Ring.
