"Zhou Xinqiu...Ranked third" Zhou Feng's face contorted into an extremely angry and depressed expression. Being ranked third in her group meant that she would be ranked 11-15 overall, meaning she wouldn't be able to enter the bronze qi circulation pool or get any techniques from the Zhou Sect library.
Yu Qingsu ran up towards Zhou Xinqiu's still body on the ground and picked her up while she fed her a medicinal pill that she had saved for herself. Afterwards, she carried her to the competitors' spectating area.
"Huh? she can't be here anymore, she's been eliminated!" Liu Yan stood up and pointed in Yu Qingsu and Zhou Xinqiu's direction.
Yu Qingsu's eyes started glowing and she yelled at the top of her lungs, " ICE MANIFESTO - TOTAL CRYSTALLIZATION!" Her body shined like a statue of pure blue ice and a beam of light blue light ripped out from her stomach and slammed into Liu Yan. He summoned a Qi spear and blocked the beam which froze the spear completely and his left arm. "She still has the right to challenge" Her hair draped down her back and her dress fluttered in the tense breeze revealing her long legs which gave off a feeling that she could freeze anything as long as she just took a step. She then sat down after speaking and focused on treating Zhou Xinqiu while the last battle was won by Hua Li, the young mistress of the flower sect faction.
At the current moment, the top five rankings were to be secured by Liu Yan, Yu Qingsu, Huo Mingling, Hei Fengjue, and Hua Li. After an hour passed by, Zhou Xinqiu finally woke up in time for the ranking determination rounds.
"Qingsu.. what happened" Zhou Xinqiu was so confused and she really had no memory of what had happened.
"You were very strong and almost defeated the both of them." Yu Qingsu smiled and helped her sit up.
"Almost?..."
"Yes, Hei Fengjue used an artifact to summon an array and defeated you. Your family tried but the elders ruled that you had also used an external method to create that crazy attack of yours so they made Hei Fengjue's actions void."
"Void!? I almost spent all my life force on holding that attack! If they can make this void, if I call an ancestor to come fight for me, as long as they use another external array its fine!? Both used external methods to fight! IS IT VOID THEN!?!?!?" Zhou Xinqiu looked at Hei Fengjue who smiled back at her and she began to cry a tear of hatred.
"Xinqiu, ranking this high is very good too. Please don't be so upset, we will all reach Qi Circulation at some point right?" Yu Qingsu patted her back and tried to comfort her.
"I am allowed a chance to challenge others above the second boundary(6-10) if I rank 11th right?"
"yes"
"-and If I can defeat the 6th rank person then I can challenge above the first boundary(1-5) correct?" Zhou Xinqiu suddenly had a burst of determination leaking from her eyes. "In that case, I will not settle for 11th"
"Correct" Yu Qingsu grinned and held her hand. "Xinqiu, beat up those bastards for me"
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"Next are the Ranking Determination rounds, there will be 3 in total. One for the first boundary (Rank 1-5), one for the second boundary (Rank 6-10), and one for the third boundary (Rank 11-15)." Zhou Feng stared at Zhou Xinqiu who didn't seem to be upset anymore and so he also felt a little bit better and continued the ceremony. "The battle for the third boundary will be first. Please head to the battle stage if you were ranked third in your group."
Zhou Xinqiu's aura jumped bounds and she appeared at the center of the stage and the other 4 cultivators did as well.
"Begin!"
Mu Shan sat on a rock before opening his eyes and yelling out into the sky and immediately lifting massive chunks of rock into the air. A light orb exploded in one cultivator's hand and a burst of lightning roared and climbed onto his spear before being thrusted into the air. A flame in another cultivator's palm crackled before it was split into two parts, one in each hand, before the two flames connected into nunchucks of fire. Another man wore a cloud robe and spit out a few words before jumping onto a piece of cloud and zooming towards the one woman, Zhou Xinqiu. The massive chunks, lightning covered spear, nunchucks of fire, and Cloud man all roared towards her direction. It looked like they wanted to team up against the biggest threat in the battle.
Zhou Xinqiu leaped into the air and threw out a couple of dark red colored palms and released 6 illusions of herself which contained a sharp sword aura.
"Nine Sword Dance Art - 6th stance: lotus of the blade" An extremely beautiful lotus was nested spinning in her palm. "Soul Imprint dome" The two palms expanded into a dome above her and blocked each of the attacks before dissipating. The horror on the other cultivators eyes was extreme when they realized all of their combined attacks couldn't do anything to her.
She glanced at the other men before smiling and releasing the lotus into the air which turned into a beam of light and expanded until it enveloped the entire battlefield and slashed each of the men as they tried their best to resist. Unfortunately for them, they couldn't last long and all of them fell to the ground groaning while Zhou Xinqiu levitated over the field with her legs crossed in the middle of all the chaos like an overlord with her subjects kneeling down to her from below.
"Has the battle ended?" She looked towards Zhou feng who had a grin on his face.
"Yes, the battle has ended with Zhou xinqiu dominating and taking 11th place, everyone else will be ranked based on their abilities during the round and previous rounds." Zhou Feng glanced at Zhou Xinqiu's face which looked as calm as an ocean however if it was even touched by a hair it would explode into a roaring wave causing a tsunami.
She pointed her finger towards Hei Fengjue and the others in the seats and with a stern voice she spoke, "I will not settle for mediocracy"