Seeing that the first match was about to begin, Abel opened his eyes focusing on the match in front of him.
"From what I can tell, they are both at the 5th level of refinement of the body, so in the end it will depend on their experience in combat and martial techniques."
Abel paid close attention to this confrontation, after all, this would be the first time that he would see two cultivators in combat.
Soon, both children were facing each other while the servant was the referee, soon, with a wave of his hand, the fight began.
Both children quickly got closer and began to exchange blows with each other, but perhaps because they were both at the same cultivation level, they could not force the other, so, noticing this, they quickly parted.
Suddenly, one of them began to glow with a yellow light, his arm began to enlarge, and turn a yellow color, before launching himself towards his opponent again.
Seeing that technique, Abel quickly identified it as the one Yun used that day in front of the pharmacy, although there were clearly differences, since it took Yun some time to perform the technique, unlike the child in the sand who quickly executed it.
The other boy in the arena, seeing that his opponent used a martial technique, quickly panicked and barely dodged the attack.
This made the combat become one-sided, with the martial technique executed, the boy only dedicated himself to passively dodge, until at one point he could not do more and received the attack of his opponent's fist, sending him flying from the sand and rendering him unconscious.
Seeing this, the servant announced the boy's victory as another group of servants approached the defeated boy and carried him away on a stretcher.
Abel observed all this from the beginning, analyzing what happened in combat.
"Everything went south when the boy panicked, most likely he could also exercise some martial technique, but he did not manage to react in time, in the end, the other boy took the advantage, ending with his victory."
Abel knew that all the children who had come this far not only had good talent, but also had a great capacity for understanding, not to mention that all the children in the village were given martial techniques once they reached the 4th level of refinement.
As Abel reflected and took note of the combat he observed, the next children to face off had already been selected, who quickly climbed into the arena.
The fight did not last long, because one of them was at the 8th level of body refinement while the other had barely reached the sixth level of body refinement, so there were no surprises in the result.
Soon, it was Drake and Lyan's turns, but they both didn't even need to fight, their opponents easily relented and they gave up with no further problems.
Seeing this, Abel sighed, if he defeated his opponent, he would most likely be paired with one of the two, so he would have to decide whether to go with everything and show most of his strength or surrender to one. of the two.
"The most likely thing is that I will be paired with Lyan, although I don't want to sound biased, after all, the most reasonable thing would be for the village head to arrange for me to face Lyan so that later in the final Drake will face Lyan in a great fight."
This thought was not entirely wrong, after all, the village chief already knew that Abel had only cultivated for a few weeks and that he arrived as a mortal, so his power and cultivation level must not be high, it is more, you may think that you won't even be able to defeat the first opponent, leaving the way clear for the final showdown.
"Now then what should I do? I could just lose to Lyan or Drake, anyway, I'm sure my performance should be enough to be admitted to the Burning Blood sect."
Abel thought about this for a moment and looked from him to the place where the 3 envoys were, analyzing them one by one.
"I may be wrong, but generally the robe color used in a sect has some relation to the sect, and more if they are sent that represent it, so, assuming this is true, the lord in purple and with the sword on the back should be from the Lightning Sword Sect, the other one should be from the Azure Cloud Sect, while, by default, that lady must be from the Burning Blood Sect."
Just at the moment that Abel directed his gaze towards the lady, this also returned it, for a moment, Abel felt that a prehistoric beast was watching him, only the gaze of the lady exerted great pressure on him, but this lasted only a moment before Abel regained his composure and stared at the woman.
"If not for I overcame the aura of the blue fire and thunder lion, she may have looked away at that moment, I wonder if she did it on purpose."
Abel observed her for a moment more before going up to the sand, his opponent was already there and he saw him go up with disdain, to Abel's bad luck, his opponent was one of the children who looked at him with malice a few moments ago.
Seeing this, Abel thought it would be better to decline and avoid more trouble, and he was about to say it when the lady's gaze reappeared in his mind, so he stopped his words.
"If he really gave me that look on purpose, then he must have noticed that my strength is more than what I appear, thanks to the fact that I reached the 2nd level of the concealment technique, it should not be possible for someone below martial master to notice something strange. in my strength, unless..."
When his mind reached that conclusion, he suddenly remembered the feeling he gave her the first time he met her.
"Damn, her cultivation was sealed, although she appears to be at the level of a martial soldier, her cultivation is actually deeper than that, so she must have noticed that my strength is more than what it appears, hence her final look."
Abel, somewhat paranoid, could not help but clench his teeth to come to that conclusion, if what he thought was true, then he would have to go all out and defeat his opponent.
But Abel had no more time to think, the servant was about to wave his hand at the beginning of the fight, while his opponent only looked at him mockingly, before saying:
"Sorry brat, but I recommend that you give up, the other day I already reached the ninth level of body refinement, so even though I can't feel your cultivation level, I'm sure you're not stronger than me, so , if you don't want a beating, you better take my advice and give up, this is not a scenario for an immature child like you."
The moment his opponent finished saying this, the servant started the fight, but he did not wait even a minute and quickly lunged towards him, obviously the aforementioned recommendation of surrender that he gave him was not real.
Seeing this, Abel hesitated a bit, actually, he never liked to highlight, even in his previous life, he avoided highlighting as much as possible, so, faced with this situation, where he had the opportunity to avoid causing himself more problems, doubts did not take long to appear.
Thus, as Abel watched his opponent slowly approach, he made his decision.
"What am I afraid of ?, even if I stand out and crush everyone here, nothing will happen, and I would even have my entry into the sect assured, so why hesitate? I will enjoy every challenge that comes, after all, in this world, I have everything I need to face whatever it is."
Once Abel reached that conclusion, his mind cleared, all his doubts were swept away and he turned his gaze to his opponent, who was already quite close to him.
"Well, since you have no mercy on me, a five-year-old boy you just met, then I will not hold back on you, besides, this competition has already taken a long time, I already want to go and learn in the burning fire sect."
With this thought in mind, Abel used the movement technique he had just learned in the second trial and quickly appeared behind his opponent.
The boy apparently did not realize that the Abel in front of him was nothing more than an afterimage and his fist struck him, only to notice that he did not hit anything and his blow went through Abel, leaving him dumbfounded.
Noticing this, Abel wasted no more time and struck with a palm attack.
The boy in front of him did not expect Abel, who was supposed to be in front of him, to attack him from behind, so, unprepared and with the powerful physical body that Abel had, he flew out of the sand, crashing to the ground. and bouncing even a couple of times, being knocked unconscious.
At that moment, the crowd that was cheering the boy, fell silent, even the village chief and the 2 envoys were speechless at this scene, although they expected the fight to end quickly, they did not expect the result to be this.
The only one who did not seem surprised was the lady of the blazing fire sect, who, although the veil of her behind her face hid it, had lost some of her coldness as she watched Abel with interest.
"As I thought, this boy is more than meets the eye, and if I am not mistaken, he has an interest in joining my sect of blazing fire, ufufufu, it seems that my sect has just won over a top genius."
On the other hand, the somewhat stunned servant woke up from his confusion and announced Abel as the winner, immediately, afterwards the crowd began to cheer, shouting Abel's name.
At the same time, both Drake and Lyan had solemn expressions on their faces, although they knew that part of the rapid loss of that child was due to his carelessness, they were also not foolish to assume that Abel only relied on that, not to mention that they also noticed that the movement technique he used was the one they had just learned.
Thus, amid everyone's gazes and cheers, Abel officially began his journey on the Azur continent.