A couple of days ago, Kwangsoo emptied Nie Li's ring. He then put in a sacred family token in it. He also made a replica of the nightmare demon pot and put in some inscriptions like what he put on his compound walls except much weaker. It is a third of heavenly sacred border energy. Whoever hold it while cultivating will have access to the energies. He put it in a cheap storage ring and make it fall inches away from Shen Hong while he is doing his daily inspection of the treasury. Since the robbery, Shen Hong has been checking the treasury everyday. When the ring fell, he noticed it right away. He never owned a cheap@ss storage ring in his whole life. So he thought it belonged to the culprit. Bit when he inspected the black pot, he had a smile on his face. The energies in it can help him break through. Although it will take time, but he needed to do a close door cultivation for at least a year. But all his mind now is to take care of revenge so he will have a clear head when cultivating. If there is too many negative thoughts while breaking through, it can break a person's cultivation and kill him or worst yet cripple the cultivator's meridians for life. So he has to settle matters within his family before he can move on.
So back in the tournament, while Kwangsoo was scheming his plan to spice the competition up. Nie Li's fight with Sheng Fei was about to start.
"I'll make you lose miserably, don't expect me to let you off easily!" Shen Fei said to Nie Li while showing his angry grin at him.
Nie Li was smiling and responded. "Thank you for your kind words, young master Shen Fei. When I get back, I'll be sure to tell Ning'er about this!".
"Hraaahhh!" Shen Fei rushed towards Nie Li without even merging with his demon spirit. And when when he was near Nie Li, Nie Li merged with his demon spirit at record speed.
(Boom!)
With Nie Li's both arms, He smacked Shen Fei to the ground Momentarily knocking Shen Fei down.
The stadium became quiet from the Shock. There was then an uproar, a lot of people bet on Shen Fei to win and was angry that they loss almost all their life savings.
"Fμck This! This Nie Li is way too shameless. He just summoned his demon spirit didn't he?! And young master Shen Fei didn't summon his?!" (Audience member #1)
"Despicable!" (Audience member #2)
"These people from the heavenly marks family is so shameless!" (Audience member #3)
"You guys! Shut the fμck up losers!" (Happy audience member #4)
"Hmph! All fair in love and war. It's young master Shen Fei's fault for being an idiot!" (Nie En)
"What kind of demon spiritualist does not use his demon spirit. And instead, uses his fist." (Nie Hai)
"That's right! You guys don't even respect the opponent! Not even using a demon spirit in a fight, and yet you blame Nie Li of being shameless!" (Happy audience member #5)
While the 2 group or audience was bickering back and forth. The audience in the front row notice something peculiar about Nie Li.
"Wait!... What am I seeing... a panda... a fanged panda?!.. (Pffft!) Hahaha, there's someone that actually uses that demon spirit!" (Audience member #6)
"He's not even ashamed of showing off the fanged panda! Young master Shen Fei! Get up and beat him up!" (Audience member # 7)
"Fanged Panda?" (Yang Xin)
She then look at Nie Hai.
"Patriarch Nie Hai. With your kind of financial resources, how could you buy Nie Li this kind of demon spirit?" (Yang Xin)
Nie Hai was just loss for words and just shakes his head.
"This idiot son of mine is making an embarrassment of me! A weak fanged panda got his @ss handed to him. He better get up and win this or I'll have him punished later!" (Shen Hong)
"(Pffffft!) Hahaha! A fanged panda! Hahaha! This Nie Li is interesting!" (Chen Zhenlong)
"Why is Nie Li using one of the weakest demon spirit around. Is he really that poor. I thought he is an alchemy master?" (Chen Lian Jian)
"That's no ordinary fanged panda. That demon spirit has a god growth rank. It's quite powerful." (Kwangsoo)
"Huh?!" (Zhenlong/ Lian Jian)
The father and son duo was shocked at the revelation of Kwangsoo and then focus their attention solely on Nie Li.
Shen Fei woke up and realised his mistake. Anger build up and while trying to stand up, he was slowly building up strength and was slowly merging with his demon spirit the scarlet flame tiger.
"I...will... kill you! Aaaaahhh!" (Shen Fei)
In the audience hall..
"Patriarch, this is...." (Nie En)
"We should just surrender on this fight. Who would have thought Shen Fei would have this kind of demon spirit. It's a gold ranked scarlet flame tiger." (Nie Hai)
"Raaaaahhh! Wooooooo!" (Shen Fei)
"This aura is too amazing! Shen Fei is sure to win!" (Audience member #1)
"Alright! Young master Shen Fei defeat him!" (Audience member #2)
"Why did Nie Li choose the fanged panda? If this go on ... huh?" (Nie Hai)
"Aaaaaahh!" (Shen Fei)
While Shen Fei was still in the process of transforming, Nie Li in his panda form appeared behind Shen Fei and karate choped him on the back knocking Shen Fei out cold.
The audience was all silent. They just couldn't believe what just happened. Then another uproar from the audience erupted.
"What! What was that!" (Audience member #1)
"Hey Heavenly marks family! Is this how you guys fight in a match!" (Audience #2)
"Our young master was about to finish merging and yet you guys decided to sneak attack?" (Audience member #2)
"Hmph! We didn't violate any of the tournament's rules, your in no position to accuse us!" (Nie Hai)
"It's your young master Shen Fei being an idiot!" (Happy audience member #5)
"That stupid idiot son... We'll surrender the first match, please stop the fight!" (Shen Hong)
He can see that it was fruitless. His son stand no chance at all. And he can't act while some of the major families that is equal in his strength is among the audience , also the alchemy association director Yang Xin is next to him. He just want to save further embarrassment from his son.
His son woke up once again and heard his father said to surrender. It filled his mind with anger at Nie Li. He started to merge to his demon spirit again. But unlike what happened in the original story. It was Shen Hong who went down to the stadium and knocked his son back to the ground.
"You worthless son! When I say we surrendered, you obey!" (Shen Hong)
Shen Hong then threw Shen Fei to a servant of his and told them to bring him home and heal him. He will be punished later.
Then both Nie Li and Shen Hong went back to their seats for the intermissions and the second round of betting.
"That was actually a good strategy, I never thought of knocking an opponent while merging. They are most vulnerable at that state!" (Zhenlong)
"Yup! It's a learning experience. I better work on merging faster with my demon spirit faster like Nie Li." (Chen Lian Jian)
Shen Hong was contemplating on his loss of 50 million demon coins when the receptionist came in and whispered to him of the losses.
"What?! We lost 55 million in the betting polls?!" (Shen Hong)
"Yes Patriarch. Some of the major families bet. millions of demon coins on Nie Li. I think they where betting for the underdogs for fun. But the ratio was 10 to 1. Which we have to pay 10 million for every million they bet." (receptionist)
"(Dammit,) we can't suffer anymore loss... Put a limit of 100 thousand and change Nie Li's chances to 3 to 1. I'm not taking any chanced after watching his match. That guy is smarter that I thought." (Shen Hong)
The receptionist nodded and reopened the betting polls for the next match. Then Nie Hai approached Shen Hong.
"Master Shen Hong, please forgive Nie Li in attacking young Shen Fei too hard. Since his bout is over, Nie Xiao Feng will go on the next match." (Nie Hai)
"This is the bet between Nie Li and the sacred family. I didn't invite the heavenly marks family to join the competition, I invited Nie Li to join the competition. Do only Nie Li can fight." (Shen Hong)
"This wouldn't be that well right? I just fought a hard fight. And my soul force was use u..." (Nie Li)
(Ting! ting! tingiling!)
Kwangsoo made the empty Nie Li ring appear to fall out of Shen Hong's pocket.
Nie Li was shocked and quickly picked it up and shocked that his inscription has been broken. He quickly inspected inside and only found a sacred family token. His mind was full of anger and looked at Shen Hong with looks that can kill.
"Where did you find this?!" (Nie Li)
"I have no idea what you mean boy! Do not accuse me of anything." (Shen Hong)
"Okay~ let me rephrase my question then. Did you find a black pot with a lot of spiritual energy?" (Nie Li)
Shen Hong then was filled with killing intent. He now pieced the puzzle together. The culprit was none other than Nie Li. But he cannot act recklessly. Some of the stolen goods can implicate the sacred family so he settled his emotions.
"So it was yours. Well finder's keepers. It's mine now." (Shen Hong)
"Grrrr! Fine then! I will bet 100 million on the next match for the black spiritual pot that you have!" (Nie Li)
"Hah! 100 million is nothing compared to the pot's value! Besides, that 100 million you have is mine from the beginning you thief!" (Shen Hong)
"Fine then, I will bet everything on my ring then. There are iver 100 high grade pills and over 500 million in demon coins in my ring for that pot!" (Nie Li)
"I see you know the value of the pot. But no deal, I will not back out. It is now a part of sacred family treasure. Bet something else!" (Shen Hong)
Shen Hong was smiling seeing Nie Li desperately trying to get the pot back. To Shen Hong, the value of the pot is not that substantial. He could have settled for 300 million at what he feels the value of the pot. But the look of desperation on Nie Li's face is priceless. It increases it's value in his mind. He now thinks there are other secret to the pot that he hasn't discover yet to make Nie Li so desperate to posses it. He will not bargain it for any price.
Nie Li was full of anger and released his killing intent that suffocated some of the audience including the patriarch of the heavenly marks family.
"Nie Li! Calm down! This is a public place! You cannot act on your whims accordingly in the competition." (Nie Hai)
"Grrrr. Fine then! 100 million on the next match! I need to relieve all this pent up anger!" (Nie Li)
"Haha! Fine you bastard! I will get all my money back slowly. That desperation in your face is quite satisfying" (Shen Hong)
"I will get back my nightmare demon pot from you someday! Mark my words! I will get back on what is mine even if it cost me my life!" (Nie Li)
At the other side of the audience, Kwangsoo was watching the drama unfold.
"I wish I brang some popcorn. This is the closest I have on seeing a TV drama... Huh? isn't that Ye Ziyun in the audience?" (Kwangsoo)
"Oh I don't know your Teebee dama is but yeah that's cousin Ziyun. Let's call her out." (Chen Lian Jian)
Ziyun's mother and Chian Jian's mother were cousins, so that make them 2nd generation cousin. Chen Lian Jian waved towards Ziyun.
"Hey Ziyun! We have an open seat here. It's more comfortable than those seat." (Chen Lian Jian)
Ziyun saw them and made her way to the seat. She sat down in between Lian Jian and Kwangsoo.
"Oh thank god you found me! Those guys around me keep asking me questions on what type of guy I like and such. I really have to bring my servants and guards along next time." (Ye Ziyun)
"Why didn't you bring them along then?" (Kwangsoo)
"Hehe, well I came to support Nie Li today. Since he is good to me in a way. I sneaked out of the manor. Besides, I like seeing the competition. My father used to bring me here before he became the patriarch. Afterwards, he was just too busy." (Ye Ziyun)
"Well don't worry! We'll escort you home later. And next time, let us know. We'll take you here. Were all family anyway." (Chen Lian Jian)
"Thank You." (Ye Ziyun)
While they were conversing, Nie Li notices Ziyun since he heard someone called her name. He was surprised when she sat next to Kwangsoo in which is that he was in the bad mood already, now he is in jealousy mode. It will make it hard to concentrate on the next match. That also include the lack of sleep he hasn't got trying to look for his ring.
The announcer called out the Nie Li's next match. It is against a 5 star demon spiritualist form the sacred family named Shen Ning.