"Hua Li ranked 5th, Huo Mingliang ranked 4th, Yu Qingsu ranked 3rd, Liu Yan ranked 2nd, Hei Fengjue ranked 1st" Zhou Feng announced the final rankings of the top 5 rankers after the last rank securing battle.
Zhou He smiled at all the other elders on the outside, but on the inside he was feeling very depressed. Out of the 5 top rankers, the first 2 had been taken by the rebelling factions. On top of this, Hei Fengjue was much more powerful than the last time Zhou He had witnessed his battle prowess. This meant that his growing speed was indeed very fast compared to the other disciples.
"This concludes this year's installment of the annual Zhou sect Youth ceremony" Zhou Feng waved his hand and begun to bring the platform down from the sky before an annoyed voice spoke.
"How rude! Have you forgot about my right to challenge the other ranks?" Zhou Xinqiu pouted while staring at Zhou Feng who was in the sky.
Zhou Feng smiled. In reality, of course he had not forgotten her right to challenge. He just wanted to create a way for her to get out of this predicament if she decided to. "Haha, alright alright everyone sit back down. This little girl still wants to show her might." He teased her directly while also having a little bit of pride in his heart. After all, if you didn't have courage, you wouldn't get very far.
"As I am currently ranked 11th, I should challenge the expert who is ranked 10th. However.." Zhou Xinqiu glanced at the Lightning Devouring Faction who's elders were still annoyed and disappointed before continuing, "Since Senior brother Lan Du bit off a bit more than he could chew.. I shall challenge the 9th rank"
The elder of the Lightning Devouring faction now had an extremely gross facial expression before he blurted out, "Clearly young miss hasn't learned anything from him!" Evidently the elder was implying that Zhou Xinqiu was too weak to challenge those in the top 10.
Zhou Xinqiu once again turned her face to stare right into the elder's eyes before she ordered "On second thought, I will challenge the 9th and 8th rank to come exchange pointers with me together!"
The elder suddenly began loudly laughing like he was insane before yelling, "ARROGANT!"
Zhou Xinqiu smiled towards Yu Ling and Yu qingsu before walking onto the platform where everyone's gaze met. Was she really being arrogant?
In the next moment, the 8th and 9th rankers appeared on the battlefield. Zhou Feng started to have a headache from this girl's huge ambition. sometimes too much ambition would also lead to bad things. "Since Xinqiu has gave this unique challenge, although it is a 2 vs 1 battle, if she loses she will lose the chance to challenge further." This made the elder of the lightning devouring faction loosen a little. In his eyes Zhou Xinqiu was too weak to take on two people of the 8th level of the body tempering stage. Zhou Feng once again waved his hand and prepared the arena for the battle. "Begin."
On the arena the 8th and 9th rankers had a mixture of expressions. If they were to go 1 on 1 with Zhou Xinqiu, they knew that they would lose. However, in a 2 v 1 battle they thought that there was a high chance of winning.
The two of them activated and strengthened their defenses. One had a slight metallic luster on his skin while the other had a thin but efficient layer of qi surrounding him.
"Metal Rhino Fist!"
"Swift palm art!"
All of a sudden, what looked like a metallic rhino and giant palm began rushing towards Zhou Xinqiu. At this time she stood up and opened her eyes. However, to everyones surprise she didn't display any technique, she only walked forward before raising her palm.
"6 Soul imprints" she whispered.
the other attacks advanced quickly and as soon as they got a foot away from her body she closed her fist.
"Merge"
6 palm sized soul imprints effortlessly merged into one imprint the size of a head. When the attacks met, a shockwave surged and a shocking situation was shown. The Metallic Rhino and giant palm had completely disappeared. What remained... was the merged soul imprint and behind it, was Zhou Xinqiu.
"My turn to attack"
When the smoke dissipated, the two rankers could be seen with horrified faces. If she was able to completely block their combined attack, how would they fare against her attack.
"Nine Sword Dance Art - Seventh Form...Annihilation Sword Lotus!" seven forms of her body spread out and dashed towards the two rankers. The two young men began frantically displaying techniques to fight the sword forms but to no avail. After the first attack, the seven forms returned to Zhou Xinqiu's palm and created a lotus. This lotus was the true attack of the seventh form, the first attack was merely a distraction.
The two young men's robes had become extremely messy with slashes being found everywhere on them. Pieces of cloth and blood were spread on the floor and their faces were now covered in dread. They were so miserable after only half of the attack! what would happen if Zhou Xinqiu released the lotus on them?
"I Admit defeat!" The 9th ranker hurriedly yelled out seeing movement from the lotus. He quickly ran off the arena and stared at the 8th ranker almost screaming with his eyes to get off.
Zhou Xinqiu raised her head and looked into the eyes of the 8th ranker and took one step forward which leaked a little of the sword aura from the lotus. The 8th ranker sensed this aura and could no longer endure.
"I also admit defeat"
The blue robed elder from the lightning devouring faction's face was so angry that his face was practically turning red from embarrassment and rage.
"Zhou Xinqiu ranked 8th"