3 days later. morning.
Levi sat cross-legged on his bed, cultivating as a breeze blew the thin curtain.
After his encounter with the two heaven and earth stage experts, he realized that raising his cultivation state was as important as absorbing strong bloodlines.
He was up cultivating since outside was dark, until now. in this time, he discovered something.
If he tried to cultivate like a normal person, it wouldn't work at all.
Circulating the qi and drawing in more was slightly faster than cultivating normally, from what he was told a few days ago.
And, he could convert the leftover energy from absorbing a bloodline, into qi, which was the fastest out of the 3.
Although he used both the second and third method, he was still far from a breakthrough.
The third method was also not something that he could do continuously, since he would have to absorb blood to do it.
He opened his eyes, which were glowing lightly and got off the bed.
"5 year tournament..." He mumbled.
" Hehehe." Levi laughed, it was a low and cold laugh.
After bathing, he put on his clothes and left the hall.
He walked outside and saw a group of people waiting.
Levi looked around and saw some familiar faces.
Noah, Ava and 3 of the disciples that went to the tomb. the 3 disciples were inner disciples while noah and ava were outer disciples.
There were 2 boys and 1 girl, making it a total of 2 girls and 4 boys including him.
Levi didn't say anything to them as he walked up to the sect master.
" Master." He greeted the sect master.
There was also an elder beside the sect master, but although levi didn't greet him, he didn't say anything.
He found Levi quite interesting, although a bit rude.
Levi's eyes soon rested on a certain thing, the sect master's roc!
That damn bird almost killed him, so he would not forget.
Levi's golden eyes frosted over as he walked towards the roc.
While walking, he grew out his fingernails and slashed out.
Blades of wind shot out in the direction of the roc, who was startled and barely managed to dodge.
" My dear disciple, what are you doing?" The sect master had a helpless expression on his face.
Levi said nothing as he walked up to the now slightly trembling roc.
" If you try that again, i will slow roast you over an open fire after absorbing your blood. Do you understand?" Levi's voice was frosty as he threatened the roc.
The only thing that everyone else saw, was Levi getting onto the roc's back after whispering something to it.
The sect master sighed because he knew that his disciple probably threatened his poor roc.
The sect master, elder and the rest of the disciples got onto the roc.
They shot into the sky a second later.
Levi was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, cultivating.
Everyone else, including Ava and Noah were sitting a distance away from him.
" little levi..." Ava spoke, as she reached out, before retracting her hand.
She remembered what he said, and the look in his eyes, and so, couldn't bring herself to call out to him.
The 3 disciples from the tomb also saw how ruthless levi was and thought it better to stay away.
After hearing about the events of that night and seeing levi's eyes for himself, Noah also decided to stay away.
He wasn't afraid, but since Ava was the person who brought Levi along, if she stayed away from him, he would also stay away.
After flying for a while, they arrived in front of a large, barren flatland.
" We have arrived." The sect master said.
Levi slowly opened his eyes and looked around, seeing nothing on the land, his expression darkened.
Looking around, a few miles away was a sea of trees surrounding the barren land.
The sect master saw the change in levi's expression and began explaining.
" This five year coliseum was built over the ruins of something else. After building it, when the people came back, the coliseum was gone. for some reason, it reappeared after 5 years. The tournament is held once every five years because that is when the coliseum would appear again." He explained.
Levi said nothing as he listened.
" hmm?"
Suddenly there was the sound of flapping which caused him to look at the sky.
Not only him, but everyone else turned to look.
In the sky was a large griffin, only a little smaller than the roc.
On it's back were two middle-aged men and 5 disciples wearing sun robes.
" Sun sect..." Levi mumbled.
He wouldn't forget the debt that he owed them.
The sun sect's people also saw them.
They looked at the demonic god sect with disdain, as if looking at something inferior.
Not long after the sun sect's arrival, a silver wyvern appeared.
On it's back was a middle aged man and woman, with 5 disciples wearing blackish silver robes.
Levi didn't know who they were.
" The silver sword sect. They are not a devil sect or a righteous sect. The people in that sect only focus on researching the sword." The sect master gave a brief explanation.
Sou!
In the sky was a man in white robes, flying with 5 disciples behind him.
The disciples weren't at a stage where they could fly, which meant it was the man who was carrying them.
The sun sect master's face darkened slightly.
" he got stronger..." He mumbled.
Levi looked at the people who arrived.
" The cloud sect. The people in that sect are dangerous. Not because of their strenght or cultivation, but because of the skills they cultivate. Those skills somehow cause them to loose their emotions, one by one. the only thing left afterwards is that empty smile." The sect master explained warily.
" The coliseum will appear soon." The sect master said.
After a while, the ground started to tremble slightly.
Then, brick after brick started to appear, as if a blanket used to hide something was slowly being removed.
After it had fully reappeared, you could tell that it was built over an older building, because the bricks at the bottom were darker and a little different.
They were much larger, and on those older bricks were strange runes, Levi looked at them and tried to remember them.
" Look at that fool! Just staring at it! What a country bumpkin!" One of the sun sect's disciples sneered.
Levi didn't look in his direction and just kept looking at the runes.
After a while, he started to walk towards the large gate that appeared.
He caught up to the demonic god sect after a while.
The sun sect disciple that just spoke was trembling with anger.
" humph! we'll see how long you will be able to ignore us!" He humphed.
The coliseum was rather big, with only this amount of people it looked abandoned.
Levi walked through the rows of stone seats before sitting in on of them.
He closed his eyes and rested his chin on his hand.
He only came to watch, he would only fight if he felt like it.
' sun sect...' He opened his eyes slightly, as he looked across the coliseum, a light smile on his face as he looked at the people from the sun sect.
He could always deal with the sun sect another time.
The 5 year tournament had a few rules, first, only two elders from a sect could be present, it could be the sect master and 1 elder or 2 elders.
Second, only 5 disciples will participate in the tournament. So, as long as at least one person from the demonic god sect didn't fight, he could fight in their place.
The first rule was so that no sect could pressure another, the second was so that the numbers would be even.
Pressure meaning, for instance, if one sect's disciple's were constantly wining, while another sect's disciples were constantly loosing.
If the loosing sect had 3 elders while the winning sect only had 2, the loosing sect could threaten the winning sect.
And even if the winning sect's elders didn't budge from their position, the disciples, who would most likely be children might be swayed, even without them realising.
All of a sudden, a figure appeared.
He wore a long black robe that dragged on the ground, his long black hair tied behind his back with a black ribbon.
He stood on the fighting platform and looked around.
" Every 5 years he appears to manage the tournament, so that the different sects wouldn't cheat. And every 5 years he still looks the same." The sect master said with a strange expression.
He was wary of this person, because he did not know why an expert would waste their time on juniors.
Judging by the fact that the man looked the same every year, he could estimate that the man was at least stronger than him, although he didn't know by how much.
But he also knew that there were some eccentric masters, so he kept his suspicions in check.
" This time, instead of fighting physically, it will be different..." The man spoke.
His voice sounded strange, it didn't sound like he was male or female.
Levi looked at the man but couldn't find anything off about him, so he just closed his eyes again.