SHAH*
Slide* Crack*
The Elder tightened his eyes, feeling a strong bestial qi coming towards the city gates.
Min Song, too, looked over, his eyelid twitching. He felt a bad omen coming towards him just how it did in the tournament.
Wu~
His feeling was confirmed when the person he wanted to see the least dashed out of the forest.
'Impossible. How is she alive? …These two idiots.'
His face palled more when he saw the hunter behind his nemesis. A train-big snake hissed after her. The distance had shortened after Luo Si decided to dismiss the ice casting.
It was not because she wanted to hide it. She could guess that guard had already told Min Song about her picking the ice cultivation book only for Ice vein owners. No, the reason was that she had to save energy to reach the village.
Elder Hu was about to take action, seeing the young martial artist hunted by a 2nd grade killer beast.
The chief needed to think of something and jumped in front of the city gates, blocking Hong Lou Si's path, when a lightning-fast plan formed in his mind.
"Young miss, jump above me. I will handle the beast." He yelled, but his mind screamed something different.
'Come you rant. Jump into your demise.'
The opposite saw and heard Min Song taking action. Hong Luo Si was very surprised by the others heroic looking move, but smelled a foul odor. 'This man. Does he think I'm stupid?'
She did as commanded, though. When she was only 50 meters away from her to be savior, Luo Si bend down her knees, and stretched back up again with all her might.
'Good. GOOD! Jump you little infidel.' The chief barely held his laugh. Breaking his promise, he bent his knees and jumped as well.
"Hah! …uh?" He had punched an inflamed fist to send the girl right back at the snake.
His fist didn't feel like hitting anything though. Looking forward, left, right and up he couldn't find his target anywhere. What his eyes met though, was only the snake's head. 'Fuck.'
In panic he punched out a second time.
Bang!
This time his fist connected, but he was sent flying backwards. Before he met the wall, the last thing he saw was Luo Si, spinning in the air above him. Gracefully ascending the wall. Like a reverse playback of a diver.
Kaboom*
Impregnated into the wall, Min Song puked up a mouthful of blood.
Tap*
Right at this moment, the reverse diver landed on the wall, bowing down to the invisible praising audience. 'Thank you, I have made a fool of myself. The next performance will be coming up soon.'
Turning around she saw the snakes head swung up in agony, while the broken nose was set aflame.
"Just hold still." Elder Hu took action and send out a purple sword slice, cutting of the head cleanly and ending the whole fiasco.
Luo Si jumped down from the wall after the situation calmed down.
Previously she had indeed put up an act of attending to jump. She had already guessed that Chief Song was up to no good and redirected her explosive posture by somewhat falling backwards. Slipping on the surface it resulted in a sliding limbo underneath the latter's feet.
When her body made a 180°-degree backflip, she pushed herself with her hands up to the wall, behind the others back.
After her height passed that of the 'hero,' he was sent flying at the wall right below her. Carrying the pained faced of an elderly in disbelieve with him.
…
The branch sect Elder came up to Luo Si, being slightly astonished by the latter's performance. Min Song on the other hand fell out of the wall, barely catching himself.
With an aggrieved expression he looked at the trickster. 'This is not happening. I was fooled not once, but twice by the same vermin!' Cough* He coughed another mouthful of blood in anger.
"And who might you be?" The scout inspected Luo Si up closer.
"Just a resentful soul of the Min village. Winner of the 49th Martial Junior competition. And 4th stage Martial Artist." She replied with her hands cupped.
"Oh! A resentful soul at the 4th stage." He shook her hand and confirmed her saying. "Indeed, a first one. But wasn't the competition won by the village elder's son?"
The players and fighters were flabbergasted when the old man confirmed what Luo Si was saying.
4th stage. A martial artist. How long has it been?
'Only a week has passed by since she broke through to the 3rd stage and you want to tell us that it only took you a fucking week to improve by another level. Why don't you just ascend the heavens?!'
Min Jihad lowly dodged the Elders eyes and attended his father.
The wounded retaliated. "Hu Qing, don't listen to the nonsense that wretch spouts."
Hong Luo Si didn't counter, seeing that her opposite could read the situation. Only a mordant "my hero~" left her lips.
Making the receiver cough up again in anger.
"Since there is a kind of tension between the two of you. How about I take her with me? "Hu Qing offered.
Min Song nearly popped a vein. That was exactly what he wanted to prevent. It was not him who spoke up first thou.
"But Master, she did not even participate in the assessment. And is therefore not qualified to come with us." Jun Din coldly said. Only geniuses like himself with extraordinary talent were taken without any test. And he did not think that Luo Si qualified.
'Yes, my boy. You might not be my son, but a genius I would surely dot on.' The chief had hope.
"Eh?" His hopes were destroyed again though by the branch sect's Elder questionable look. "I think a young martial artist at the 4th stage, who can escape from a 2nd grade killer beast, is more than qualified to enter the '3rd Morning Ray.' I've decided. You can have this lower death's body as compensation.
"I believe the remunition should be enough to help you regain your strength a little."
Luo Si was about to collect her fair share when she stopped her actions at the Elders words. Balling her fists she could only retreat and let go off her lofty vengeance.
Jun Din could only nod gnashing his teeth. Min Song sank down. All his plans, fail in misery.
"Good. Now, let's break up." The Elder announced and turned to Luo Si. "Since you must be pretty exhausted from escaping with your life, why don't you take rest in the carriage?"
She accepted the invite and entered the sedan, while Jun Din's face was turning red from anger and being giggled on by Zhen Xinyue. Not even he was dotted on this much at the beginning. 'Just you wait. I will pay you back this humiliation.'