Yi Ling won her second battle easily against the ten people even though Tian Xuan had only told them to fight a five to one battle. After Wu Xian saw Yi Ling won so easily in the first round, he was confident that Yi Ling can do more than that so he told Li Yiyuan to make an exception for Yi Ling and add more people.
The outer students do feel indignant when they were treated like stepping stones for the inner student to show off but when they realized that as they fight, they also received wisdom to their cultivation, they were exhilarated. The more they get beaten by the inner student, the clearer the wisdom they received.
Thus, the outer students developed masochism within them.
The outer students found it hard to block the sword art they deployed but they weren't disheartened because there were times when the outer students found a chance to land a blow on the inner student.
Wu Yunfeng, Yi Ling, and Wu Linyi are the inner students of the sect and unofficially the student of Master Elder Wu Xian. The three of them learned different sword technique but the strength of the technique is sub-par to a sword master technique.
Yi Ling is even greater at handling her sword as she lived her life and death entirely depend on herself and a sword in her hand. She relied on her instinct more than the sword in her hand since the sword to her is merely a tool to kill.
The sword is not even a real sword. It was just a sword that she carved from a heavy stone and use it to kill people. Whether she uses a real sword or not, does not bother her even a bit.
If she was to change sword in the middle of a fight, she wouldn't flinch even a bit and adapted to the situation quickly.
Compare to the Wu cousins including Wu Xian, Yi Ling is more skillful in using a sword and understood sword technique quicker.
Despite that, she never boasts or be humble about it and continuously learns as well as diligently practice the sword techniques. This created a quiet competitive spirit between the Wu Cousins and her.
"Group 7th, Wu Yunfeng, take your stance." Wu Sheng announced as he looked with proud feeling in his heart at his grandson.
Li Yiyuan and Wu Xian are sitting side by side judging the scores for the students. They are also thinking about the training schedules to improve the student's flexibility and skill to adapt to any kind of situation.
Li Yiyuan as the temporary teacher for the outer students has imparted several movement techniques and the small part of Thousand Yielding Fist technique to the students. Tian Xuan has also personally taught them the basic of how to manipulate the spiritual energy around them to create the fire or whatever element the cultivator possessed.
Shao Xinyue possessed the earth element. It is the easiest element to control and she had learned few techniques back when she was in the Shao Clan so she was feeling pretty confident to win the fight against Wu Yunfeng because the boy is not allowed to use his real sword and has to use wooden or roughly carved stone sword in the competitive battle.
"Take your stance." Wu Sheng repeated one last time and looked at both sides. He smiled and announced out loud.
"Begin!"
Shao Xuyin leaped forward and jumped above Wu Yunfeng. She kicked him in the mid-air and gathered every spiritual energy she has to her leg to make it faster.
Wu Yunfeng swayed his body to the right and left to dodge the kick. Then, he took out his wooden sword and pushed Shao Xuyin's leg to the upward making the girl lose her balance.
"One Tak, Gale Storm!" He ignored Shao Xuyin and rushed toward the group of boys that are rushing toward him. The winds cut the clothes of the boys and Wu Yunfeng quickly deploy another attack to finish them off.
"Two Tak, Wind Cannon!"
"Kuak!!" The boys screamed as they were beaten thoroughly by the sudden burst of wind and explode like a cannon toward them as they were pushed to the wall of the hall.
Shao Xinyue widened her eyes when she saw her target disappeared in a flash. She looked at the direction where the figure disappeared to and realized that Wu Yunfeng disappeared one more time. She panicked and searched around her but the figure of the person she was looking for cannot be seen.
"You are brave and strong, but, I will have you behave for now." A gentle voice rang beside Shao Xuyin ear the next thing she heard was Wind Cannon and simultaneously, she was blown to the wall by the sudden burst of wind.
"Ah!" She grunted as she falls to the floor.
Although Wu Yunfeng holds back his real power as he was afraid of severely injuring his fellow sect disciples, it is still painful nevertheless to be hit by a cannon.
Shao Xuyin holds her chest where she was hit and gritted her teeth as she stood up. She was about to gather spiritual energy to toughen her body but it was unfortunate as right after she stood up, Wu Yunfeng arrived in front of her and deployed another Wind Cannon.
"Sorry, junior sister." Wu Yunfeng spoke when he deployed the wind cannon to the girl.
Shao Xuyin was frustrated but the pain from her back and stomach have welled up to her brain. She fell unconscious but was caught by Yi Ling then she was brought over to the resting place to recover.
The only one that was spared was the girl that invited Shao Xuyin to the group.
However, she was not spared for too long. Just like how Shao Xuyin fell unconscious, the girl also fell unconscious because she was pushed to the wall by the sudden burst of wind.
"Wu Yunfeng won the fifth round." Wu Sheng announced joyfully in clear and loud voice.
"Senior brother Wu Yunfeng is ruthless. Even junior sister Mingming was not spared." Chiyun said as she looked at the resting place and toward Wu Yunfeng.
Wu Linyi laughed when she heard that. "Wu Yunfeng is not a gentleman despite his face, demeanor, and voice. He is a dense person and his brain is as hard as the rock. He doesn't know why he should be treating the girl differently from the boy and he is the worst at reading the atmosphere."
"Little cousin, I can hear you." Wu Yunfeng scratched the back of his head awkwardly.
It was a competitive battle and since he saw Yi Ling can ruthlessly beat the boys, why can't he be ruthless too? But seemingly to how the other response, he realized that he is done something wrong.