This battle was the shortest battle that Xuan Wu had experienced in the entire tournament. Normally, he would adopt a strategy where he would hide in his turtle shell and wait for all the attacks of the opponents to strike the shell.
After some time, his opponents would become exhausted. Xuan Wu would use this chance to counterattack. While this seemed despicable on paper, it was one of the more practical strategies.
Naturally, Xuan Wu must first be adept in his defense art. Otherwise, his opponents' attacks would get past the shield and strike him, ending the match.
While Yin Xiu's attack was powerful, it was not enough to break the shield of a Defence specialist in the Spirit Warrior realm. Moreover, after she drew her sword, Yin Xiu did not have any techniques to perform.
If any of her opponents were able to dodge Yin Xiu's first attack, they would have won since she didn't have a second attack planned!
Anyway, Yin Xiu was placed 2nd while Xuan Wu placed first. Yin Xiu wasn't disheartened by the result. She was even surprised that she had come this far. Suddenly a thought struck her mind.
What about the disciple of Elder Zhang? Wasn't she supposed to battle him. When was that supposed to happen?
Yin Xiu was expecting a big and burly person who would tower over her to be the opponent from the 34th mountain. She did not know that her opponent was someone she had already defeated - just someone from the 6-7 people she had defeated with one move. She didn't know that the wager was already finished.
Yin Xiu looked towards her master to see if he was satisfied with her results. She looked to the Elder's area and saw that Chen Jiang's face had a small smile on it.
Yin Xiu felt relieved and followed Deacon Jin.
Since the tournament had finished, the rewards had to be awarded. Yin Xiu was excited since she would be getting a pill that would let her cross to the Spirit Warrior realm along with a Low-Grade Artifact that was worth hundreds of Spirit Stones.
Spirit Stones were the currency used by cultivators. In the mundane world, each Spirit Stone went for 10 Taels of Silver.
The 4th to 16th ranked disciples were given a Qi increasing pill that was of minor importance to Yin Xiu. This was because she had received ten such pills when she received her monthly stipend from the sect when she entered the Sect.
She waited for the third place to get her reward and finally received her reward. The spirit artifact she received was a thin long sword.
She took her long sword and pill and jumped off the ring and went to her master.
"Master! I got to the second place!"
Chen Jiang smiled.
"Yes, I am very proud of you. You can go back to the mountain by yourself and relax for today."
Yin Xiu was about to go but remembered what struck her mind earlier.
"But master, don't I have to fight the disciple of Elder Zhang?"
Chen Jiang laughed and the nearby Zhang Bo"s face darkened.
"Don't worry about that. You have already defeated that person."
Yin Xiu's face turned bright.
"Really master? Then I don't have to battle anymore today? Thank you, master. I will take my leave."
Yin Xiu skipped away from the scene while Chen Jiang still had a smile on his face. Zhang Bo wanted to wipe the smile of Chen Jiang's face but didn't know how. Suddenly, he thought of a way.
His bosom buddy, Du Han, was someone who had went through thick and thin alongside Zhang Bo. He was also the only person other than Zhang Bo who knew about Zhang Bo's.... preference. This went on to say how close they were.
Du Han was incidentally also an elder at the Immortal Sword Sect. He was the elder of the 21st Sword Mountain. He also had a disciple who was a genius. This disciple was only 14 years old but already at the peak of the Spirit Warrior Realm.
Since his disciple couldn't defeat Yin Xiu, he could opt for another method. This method wasn't to make Du Han's disciple defeat Yin Xiu. Not at all.
Du Han's disciple was also quite handsome. So Zhang Bo wanted Du Han to make his disciple make Yin Xiu fall for him. After all, girls always felt attracted towards stronger brothers. Right?