They walked into a waiting room. Cross sat down at a table and filled a plate with cakes and filled his cup with wine. Long Chen, Qin Feng, and Bai Xiaole sat at the table, while the girls sat together at a nearby table.
Cross ate the cakes and drank the wine, seemingly in his own thoughts. There were beautiful maid with wood Qi everywhere offering to relax their meridians. Cross and Long Chen refused and the rest got the treatment.
Lu Mingxuan teased "If it's to comfortable will you respond?" Cross replied "I'll make your whole body relax with a single pump, do you believe it?" Lu Mingxuan was once again thwarted by Cross' dirty mouth and didn't reply, only blushing in response.
Long Chen chuckled and said nothing.
A while later
An old man appeared and announced the rules, saying that they were fighting in batches now and that their moves were visible to everyone. Nobody from Cross and Long Chen's group was called up, except for Qin Feng, who was sent to the 573rd arena.
Everybody looked at the 573rd arena and Bai Shishi said "Oh! It's the second strongest from the Jiuhua Sect!" Long Chen said "Strong?" Bai Shishi nodded and answered "But he hasn't awakened his blood." Long Chen said "Oh."
Qin Feng appeared in the arena and with 3 chops the enemy's head flew into the air. Qin Feng came back and said nothing, sitting back down as if he had just done a trivial thing. Long Chen then disappeared and Luo Bing's cousin, Luo Xue said nervously "It's the Blood Killing Hall! Long Chen my suffer a loss here."
Cross snorted and said "You're underestimating Long Chen. He hasn't even been serious the entire time." Qin Feng added "The Blood Clown Circus is worthless in front of the boss." Sure enough, Long Chen made the killer look like a clown and taught everyone how to beat them easily before slapping him to death and coming back.
The spectators showed up and to Cross' surprise and part anger, his family came along as well. He sighed and his token flashed. He disappeared into the arena and looked at the light curtain in front of him, on the other side there was a man with triangle eyes and a face full of craters and scars, he was really ugly.
The man seethed "You white face! I'll kill you today!" Cross sighed and said "You came out of your cave like this? Aren't you afraid of disgusting people to death?" The man became angrier than before and the light curtain disappeared.
The man shot forward and slashed out with a sword shouting "DIE!" Cross looked at him and caught the sword saying "You're weak and ugly, how are you going to find a wife in the future? Aiya! I forgot! You don't have to worry about it after all."
He crushed the sword in his hands and flicked the man in the forehead, the man stopped moving and slowly turned to dust. Cross was ejected from the arena and reappeared in the room, going back to eating and drinking.
The second round passed and the third came, there were only 2500 people now. Cross and Long Chen got some random people and finished easily. Qin Feng went up and broke his sword on some ugly guys neck before admitting defeat.
Then it was Bai Shishi's turn, she scared off the opponent with a single move but didn't kill him. She came back and everybody, except Cross congratulated her. The rest went through their fights some won some lost, but they weren't Cross so they really didn't matter.
Another round passed and Long Chen beat a Chu fellow, Cross was next against a Chu Zhen named fellow. Cross muttered "I wonder if they can save him..." Long Chen said "Maybe, if they're fast enough." Cross shook his head and said "I'm not a bad guy like you. You drag the fight out for so long and make me wait here longer instead of blasting them to death. Wait here, 10 breaths I'll be back."
Long Chen had a wry smile and Cross disappeared.
He reappeared in the arena and said "Oi.. can you take down the curtain faster? I'm in a hurry." Chu Zhen on the other side sneered "In a hurry to die?" Cross shook his head and said "I forgot to go piss before, I still need to go." everybody's faces turned black.
Long Chen chuckled and Qin Feng said "I see why he's Boss' brother. I bet Lady bosses would be happy to see you like this, boss." Long Chen smiled.
Chu Zhen was infuriated and Cross added "If you could admit defeat that would be great." Chu Zhen sneered and said "Not until you die." Cross sighed and said "Looks like I'll have to send you on your way then. Amitabha, if I don't enter Hell who will?"
Long Chen spat out his tea and burst out laughing.
The light curtain disappeared and Cross moved like lightning. A heavy pressure descended on the entire arena, even the spectators outside could feel it and they shivered.
Cross threw a heavy punch and the air distorted around his fist, Chu Zhen smelled the threat of death and froze. Cross' punch hit him right in the chest, a barrier shattered, the golden armor under Chu Zhen's clothes shattered and his body went flying, leaving only a floating head.
Chu Zhen's body smashed through the barrier flying into the void as his head fell to the ground.
The spectators were completely silent in shock. Cross said with a sigh "In your next life, hope your surname isn't Chu." before he disappeared from the arena.
He appeared in the room and ran to the bathroom to relive himself. He really wasn't lying. He entered the bathroom and went to piss. A young man with messy brown hair, slightly pale skin, a black t-shirt, shorts, and slippers was right next to him.
Cross looked over and said "Hey... Do I know you?" The young man looked over, he was pretty handsome with brown eyes and perfect eyebrows. He was shorter than Cross by a few inches, the young man shook his head and said "I don't think so. Who are you?"
Cross said "Cross." the young man said "I know a Cross... Anyway, I'm... You can call me Monkey. Nice to meet you." Cross smiled and said "You too." Monkey finished up and walked out of the bathroom saying "Good luck!" Cross nodded and went back to the waiting room before going back to the Residence with the rest.
The next day
Cross and the rest arrived back at the arena, Long Chen saw a fat man and Cross was flirting with Lu Mingxuan and Luo Ning when he felt something. He turned his head and stared at the fat man, who suddenly head his head and groaned in pain.
Cross' eyes turned and the fat man collapsed as his face started turning purple, Cross took his eyes away and looked at the rest. They all looked at Cross and subconsciously shivered, feeling like a primordial beast was watching them.
He looked at a woman with a Guqin and another woman with a hot body, they were pretty much the only girls. He turned his attention away from them and went back to flirting with Lu Mingxuan and Luo Ning.
He didn't get anyone special and easily won. Jiang Wuji went up against a woman and humiliated her until she self exploded, Cross frowned and looked at Jiang Wuji before saying "Pray you don't meet me, gigolo." Jiang Wuji's face turned ugly and Cross said nothing more.
The next day
The 256 opened up with the hot woman. She was very beautiful, but she exposed so much skin it was kind of a bait? She crushed a man with a single fist, not using any enchanting powers. She collected the big man's giant gourd and Cross said "Dress up like this and not use any enchanting powers... What's the use? Is she just an attention whore?"
The woman glared at Cross, who looked at her and shrugged "Well? Are you? Otherwise, you're dressing up like this for what? I don't have clothes on my body either but I'm not a woman. Aiya, at least but on a t-shirt, what if your tits pop out?"
Lu Mingxuan burst out laughing and the woman trembled in anger as she said "You're looking for death!" Cross looked to the sky and said "I am. I look for death everywhere but nobody has string enough teeth to bite my life off, so I sent them to hell for a quick sharpening. Unfortunately, they never come back."
He looked at the woman in pity as he said "What a shame, a beautiful girl is tainted by the Heavens. Come, this daddy will cleanse you personally. The flames of the Underworld are good at purifying." Luo Ning said "I thought you would rope her in."
Cross laughed and said "This woman? Are you joking? I'll marry her and the same day, I'll have to wear a green hat. Is it worth it?" Lu Mingxuan fell over laughing and the woman clenched her fists, glaring at Cross as if he killed her parents.
He looked at her and said "Am I wrong? One compliment, a glass of wine, and I'll become a cuckold. Unfortunately, I don't like sharing women with every man I see. At most, you come warm my bed for a night, I'll pay you and we'll go our separate ways."
The spectators started laughing and the woman's eyes trued red in rage, Cross looked at Long Chen and said "What did I say wrong? Is she not a prostitute?" Long Chen spat out his tea and chuckled, Cross looked around as if he really thought she was a prostitute, making people laugh even more.
The woman said hatefully "Hope that I don't catch you." before walking away, Cross shouted at her back "En. I will! After all, if you come for me after your shift wouldn't I have to deal with the mess?" the woman tripped and stomped away.
Lu Mingxuan was coughing with red eyes from laughing so hard, Luo Ning was right next to her, laughing so hard she was crying.
The round passed without many events
The days passed and after the 128 were chosen, the group was back at the arena.
Cross looked at his token and grinned maliciously as he disappeared. He reappeared in the arena in front of Jiang Wuji, who was glaring at him hatefully. Cross just smiled and the light curtain disappeared, Cross blasted from his position and appeared behind Jiang Wuji, grabbing both his arms and stomping on his back, slamming him into the ground.
Cross sat on his back and threw the jade token away as he said "So little gigolo, were going to play a game today." everyone felt a chill down their spines and Cross added "Count down from 1000 by 7. Let me give you an example..." he ripped off a finger and said "993. Now, from the top!"
Jiang Wuji pissed himself and Cross ripped a finger off saying "Aiya! You have to play, Mr. Wuji! Or it will be far worse!" the spectators were silent and Cross broke his finger bones one by one with a loud crack each time, hearing only Jiang Wuji's whimpers.
Cross shouted angrily "I SAID COUNT!" as he ripped off another finger, Jiang Wuji screamed "993!" Cross grinned maliciously as he said "Good boy, let's continue..." before ripping off another finger with a chuckle as Jiang Wuji whimpered "986..."
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