The fourth Prince Zi Longxie stood on the stage with his white clothes stained with blood whilst a tornado of sword qi and sword intent bellowed above him forming a vortex. As the wind gently blows against him swaying his sleeve and hair.
Lightening could be seen streaking and wiggling across his entire body. He stood there looking pristine like a sword thunder God. The vortex above him indicates he is a true Xantian Martial force realm cultivator indeed.
There was shock, disbelief, and dismay, some were disheartened and lost all their drive and motivation to continue cultivating. The whole auditorium was silent, every other fight that began sometime earlier came to a halt.
"What does this mean? He is only fourteen years right?" One man asked as he stared at the fighting stage in disbelief and dismay written all over his face. How could this be?
"Since when did the Xantian Martial realm that takes a cultivator with normal aptitude from twenty-five to thirty years to reach? Even the geniuses of geniuses can reach that level after insane and incessant arduous cultivation at least the age of 17 to 18 years of age.
"How could a fourteen-year-old achieve this?" looking at the depth and quality of his sword intent and sword qi he should have broken through some weeks back. Which means he broke through to the Xantian Martial force realm at the age of thirteen since he turned fourteen only two days prior." A hidden expert who is well-informed is deduced with shock.
A legend has been born right in front of the millions of spectators in the Arena witnessing the final of the tournament. "what has just happened? Shouldn't the fourth Prince be on the ground now crippled or even dead?". One spectator asked whilst staring at the stage with a shocked-filled countenance.
The Supervisor's pavilion and the elders were all on their feet as the shock they had received was equally overwhelming. They thought they had seen it all; they are all monstrous existences, who have lived a few thousands of years. But even they were still shocked.
"I can't believe a prodigy like him still existed in this barren domain", one Elder said aloud and this brought all of the others back from their shocked States. They sat back down in their respective places forgetting totally about all the assorted fruits, sweets wine and other delicacies they were enjoying some moments ago.
Elder Mu Yu from the Fire Spirit Sword Sect declared, "This fourth highness deserves to be groomed by my Fire Spirit Sword Sect. Only my sect can mould such a talent to be top-notch".
Elder Li snorted angrily and replied," Which Fire dog shit sect. Only your handicapped sect can groom such a talent? !!! Do you I tend to look down on my Dragon Spirit sect?"
And so an argument was sparked and quickly became engulfing flames of bickering, insult and almost exchange of blows. Even Elder Mai joined in the ruckus and was about to use her horse tail whisker to lash out at another Elder when the mysterious Elder from the Heavens Sword Holy Land interrupted them in fury and anger.
"SILENCCEEEEE!!, how can respected elders such as you throw your face away like this?" He turned to look at the others with disdain and scorn. " All of you must think my Heaven Sword Holy Land has become impotent dogs"..... Before he could continue all the elders from the various Sects jumped to their feet and began to apologise profusely.
He raised his hand and cut them short," If that's not the case as you are saying, then who gave you the right to choose a disciple first before my Heaven sword?!"
Elder Mai walked forward bowed slightly and apologised, "My sincere apologies to Elder, on my behalf and my colleagues here." She paused as the others cupped their fist and bowed towards the mysterious Elder in apology.
This calmed the tension in the atmosphere and Elder Mai continued," We were overly excited earlier and overstepped our boundaries. Please we do not have the intention of disrespecting or disregarding your Heaven's Sword Holy Land."
They are all elders but the Holy Land is the hegemony of all the Sects in the Black Dragon Continent. The most powerful sect that leads all other Sects on the continent. Offending them could mean sect destruction. Therefore all the sect representatives had to cower and apologise.
"a bit interesting to see even you Elder Mai whose sect accepts only female cultivators also joined the fray of era recruiting this young,wn?" The mysterious Elder said as he waved his hand indicating he had let the issue go and turned back to the fighting stage.
The mysterious Elder smiled and thought to himself, "AAprodigy who is you get Xantian Martial force realm cultivator can only belong to my Heaven's Sword Holy Land. A group of toads yearning for Swan meat."
In the Royal Pavilion: the atmosphere was indeed a heavy one. The Crowned Prince who was leisurely sprawled in his seat enjoying the best wine at the event and enjoying the special gift his wife had gotten him, froze in place and left his jaw slightly agape and the wine he was turning in his mouth to savour the rich taste at this point began to trickle down his lips unto his robe as shock and dismay left his, in blank from the outcome of the fight.
After some time he instinctively shut his mouth and re-adjusted himself. He turned to look at the wife's face to ensure that he wasn't hallucinating, only to find the otherwise beautiful face of the Princess drained of all colour as she stared back at him with wide-opened eyes in shock. She looked like a perfectly crafted porcelain doll.
" How could this be?! he screamed internally and looked towards the stage to see the swirling tornado of sword qi and sword intent above his brother as he stood on the stage. "What the fuck is going on, no no no, this was not supposed to go this way. Those bunch of trash" He turned to look at the Elders from the country he had hired to do his dirty job.
" How could this be, how can he do that? I mean this is not right huh?!" One Elder turned to his co-conspirator. The Elder one only shook his head in disbelief as he thought to himself, "This time we have hit a brick wall. We are finished. Sinners of our country, oh what am I going to do should I run or stay?".
Back at the Royal pavilion, The Elder who led the Royal academy who had been displeased all this while from what was going on but could not talk due to the presence of the Crowned Prince who had ignored him throughout breathed a sigh of relief silently, He could feel the pressure coming from the Crowned Prince even it didn't affect him he had to manifest his yun qi to protect the other Elders and student.
"hhaha this fourth Prince did not let the academy down. This time the Emperor would be awarding us handsomely. A prodigy last seen a hundred thousand years ago had once appeared in the Royal family. " He thought to himself and sat back in his chair.
It was then that it dawned on the crown Prince, "Wait a moment, the pressure he felt from the life-and-death battle earlier might have awakeneded his hidden potential. No, they can't be" He concluded and took a sip of his wine, he tried to enjoy it but it felt flat on his tongue.
The spectators had awoken from their shock and an uproar was the result. They shouted and hailed the fourth Prince so loud that the whole I Land shook.
On the stage, Jui Ge and Lu Mu, couldn't help but feel humiliated and this turned into anger which they intended to unleash on the fourth Prince. No matter what they must defeat him no matter what.
They recalled their fifteen flying swords back to them as they prepared to launch their final attack. The fourth Prince also summoned his flying swords as they both towards each other at top speed