Shen was mulling over what he wanted to cultivate for the next few days and decided to enhance his comprehension since his understanding of lightning can still effect his cultivation even with the "Gift" he had received. He was walking towards the lecture hall when he noticed some of the other guys that became disciples at the same time as him grouping around something so Shen decided to go check what was going on when he heard something.
"You should just come with us to help out with some tasks since you aren't with that muscle head right now" said one disciple in a way that made Ren feel disgusted "Who are you calling a Muscle Head you short f**k" said Shen in a loud voice to make sure they were aware of his presence "Oh so you are around here well that doesn't really change much since she will go with us regardless" "She can go with whoever she wants what I want is to challenge you to a fight afterwards if she so chooses she can go with your group while they take your unconscious body to the medicine Pavilion" Shen spoke in a cocky tone as if he never put this fellow disciple into his eyes "I accept Your challenge and just so you know your going to be the one that's going to get carried to the Medicine pavilion you useless body cultivator" The disciple spoke in a way that made one believe that he may have had some kind of a reason to feel so cocky yet that reason was not known and Shen didn't care anyway all shen wanted was to have a fight with someone to test out his strength and decided to use this opportunity as an excuse to do so.
Shen walked along while the other disciple continued to speak of how he was guaranteed to win against a body cultivator who knew nothing but sheer strength. From this living stream of information hidden behind the guise of taunts Shen learned that this disciple walked the path of speed and as such he believed that Shen couldn't even touch his clothes. As such Shen decided how he would fight this battle and couldn't help but feel slightly thankful that his opponent was a loud mouthed idiot with a baseless sense of pride. Shen entered his side of the arena and was facing off against his opponent when a voice was heard by all disciples of the 4 clans.
"Disciples of the 4 clans a tournament will be held soon amongst all the clans as such each clan will be allowed 200 disciples collectively from all of their ranks of cultivation and yes all levels of cultivation that will be listed meaning disciples that have the 3rd to the 10th level of the ascending realm must be included and no less than 20 from each realm are to be chosen for this tournament, of course the battles are selected at random as to not provide a chance at one persons fights being all against those of a lower realm and cheating into a win streak. Only by fortune and ones own strength can one hope to get a higher place in the tournament and getting a higher place means better rewards for your efforts and strength which can allow for you to cultivate not only faster but also to a higher level than others thus surpassing your own imagination and making your dreams of the higher realms reasonable ideas, however for now you should attempt to hone your battle skills to push yourself to an all new limit of battle strength as to reap the most benefit from this tournament and to achieve something great in what should be your first tournament as cultivators" Shen heard this then nodded his head in understanding before turning back to his opponent and smiling "well now we've an even better reason to fight" his opponent only snickered before using a technique that covered his legs in lightning before the energy converged and shaped itself into boots that increased his speed to a level that made it so that even if Shen were to Sprint after him the loud mouthed disciple would have been able to out run him easily.
Shen stood his ground and took a defensive position with his axe and was preparing to use his axe on this irritating disciple who says everything but his own name. His opponent dashed to the right so quickly that Shen only knew he was over there because of the streak of lightning that had trailed in his path so Shen tried to follow with his eyes at first until he accepted that even that would be impossible so he concentrated on the shifting of the energy in the air around him and trying to notice any major shift. He ducked as his opponents sword swung over his head and he swung his axe blindly from his side but he missed so decided to change his current style and decided to go on the offensive with his axe raised at the ready as he moved towards his enemy and used his first technique to slice away at the position of his opponent who decided to try to show off by narrowly dodging the swing and looking into the crowd as a bit of fanfare but doing so created an opening for Shen.
Shen released the axe as it embedded itself into the ground grabbed the speedy loud mouthed idiot that he had challenged by the elbow he then pulled him in whilst tightening his grip and popping the elbow out of place using only his dominating physical strength he hit the disciple hard in the gut before he could even let out a scream of pain he only gasped for air as he felt his ribs shatter and his arm pulled out of place he was on the edge of his consciousness as he felt his head being grabbed from behind and then he was slammed into the ground and felt as though this fight was completely unfair.