Everyone started to head over to the transportation array. Ah Chun and Zhi Rou followed along while holding hands. The two got along really well. This was probably due to their closeness in age, they were the youngest out of the whole group of disciples. It was actually really surprising that Zhi Rou was unaffected by the killing intent that was unconsciously emitted from Ah Chun's body. Though Ah Chun herself had no idea she was even emitting such killing intent and with how Zhi Rou was acting all bashfully with Ah Chun she probably will not know any time soon.
After passing through the array all the disciples were brought to a huge open area that was set in a deep gorge called Devil's Gorge. It was positioned between Destiny Peak and the second peak Dragon Fist Peak in the Heavenly Sword Sect. In the middle of this Devil's Gorge was a large platform that looked to be chiseled out of the surrounding rock. It was made this way in order to easily repair it after any fights that were held within it. There was an array embedded into the platform to resist the impacts of attacks and also, to keep spectators safe there was another array outside the arena that would form a wall of Spiritual Qi to block out attacks.
When all the one hundred disciples that were going to be taking the third admissions test arrived at the arena, Shi Quan jumped up on to the stage and faced them raising his hand to single everyone to quiet down. "In three days time, I will expect every one of you here for the third round of admissions. The last test will consist of one on one battles and you will each fight until you lose. The test will last four days. Once you lose that is it for you. You can either stay and watch the fights or ask an elder to help settle into one of the outer sect disciple courtyards so you can begin your cultivation. " Shi Quan paused for a minute and gestured to one of the elders to start an array. The array screen lit up showing a number and next to the number was the names of two disciples. "As you can see here the number and names next to each other represents the order of the fights. Our first fight will be Ah Chun versus Zhi Rou." Shi Quan snuck a peek at Mei Liling who just nodded at him. He then continued to announce the battles.
Ah Chun looked at the names on the board and frowned. She did not want to have to fight her newfound friend. This was the first friend she had made that was close to her in age. But now she was forced to fight her. Ah Chun looked over at Zhi Rou who also had a frown on her face. Feeling Ah Chun's gaze Zhi Rou locked her eyes with Ah Chun's, her eyes became red as she was about to start crying.
"I do not want to fight Little ChunChun!" Zhi Rou tear's started to roll down her face.
Even though the two girls had just met Zhi Rou really liked Ah Chun ever since she saw her. As someone who had to grow up in a prestigious cultivating family, she was expected to do nothing but cultivate since she was young. This was especially true when her parents found out she had mystic spiritual roots. She was confined within the family and received all kinds of cultivation resources but she was not allowed to do anything but cultivate.
After breaking through to the first stage of Qi Condensation at the age of eleven she was told that she would be taking the admissions test for the Heavenly Sword Sect. She was left alone to fend for herself as soon as the test started and had been alone all the way until she met Ah Chun. The only reason she got so many medallions was because she had fished in troubled waters and stole medallions that the people were fighting over right from under their noses.
After the test, she had seen Ah Chun staring at her from afar. Zhi Rou was stunned to see such a young girl who was even younger than her. When their eyes met for the first time she got lost in those big round deep dark eyes that Ah Chun had. Her heart had sped up and she could feel her face starting to heat up. Not understanding what was happening she had to quickly run off the stage to hide her embarrassment. Then when Ah Chun had stood next to her, Zhi Rou was doing everything she could to keep calm.
She could feel the killing intent that was coming off of Ah Chun and it almost made her scared of her at first. But when Ah Chun turned and smiled at her. Zhi Rou felt as if her heart was going to burst. So she ignored the killing intent and tried to muster up her courage to talk to Ah Chun to only be interrupted by the Sect Master. Ah Chun had seen all of this and held her hand to comfort her. They started talking and quickly became friends. But now, they were going to be forced to fight each other! Zhi Rou did not like this one bit! Thinking about it hard she made her decision.