"First match, Blue Wind Profound Palace: Cang Yue vs. Xiao Sect: Xiao Kuanglei. Begin!"
The voice fell.
Everyone looked down at the arena with excited expressions.
Obviously, no one believed in Xiao Kuanglei's victory; all of them were aware that he would lose.
The power gap was too big!
One was at the Spirit Profound Realm level nine, while the other was at Earth Profound Realm level three! It wasn't a gap that could be filled with talent alone! And Xiao Kuanglei was fully aware of it too.
As the disciple of one of the four major sects, he couldn't just withdraw right away. Even if it was an impossible fight, he had no choice but to fight it.
"Princess Cang Yue, please be careful."
Putting up an act of fearlessness, Xiao Kuanglei raised the spear in his hands.
He took a deep breath and leaned down a little… and he vanished!
The ground where he stood had cracks on it!
The surrounding world blurred, and a tunnel vision was created within Xiao Kuanglei's sight.
With the tip of his spear pointed towards Cang Yue's chest, he flew in a straight line, ready to pierce her chest in one go!
If it were a fair fight, he would spend time poking his opponent and trying to see their cards first, but that wasn't the case here.
Poking and trying to find her real strength was a stupid endeavor as she could defeat him with a single blow.
As such, Xiao Kuanglei hit everything in a single strike!
Hoping that even if it didn't defeat her, it would provide some difficulty for her, so it could save him some face.
But his attack was meant to fail.
Xiao Kuanglei had his full attention on Cang Yue, checking her every move. So the moment he saw her eyes sharpening and her whole aura taking a sudden change, he knew she was about to make her move.
What he didn't expect was that her attack would be invisible!
Before he could understand what happened, he felt his whole body stinging with pain. His mind kept sending signals of pain to him, causing his steps to stagger.
With the accumulated momentum, his body bounced on the ground and flew past Cang Yue in a straight line backward; leaving behind a long trail of blood!
All the voices stopped.
Everyone looked towards Xiao Kuanglei and found his whole body riddled with uncountable sword slashes.
It confused them.
They didn't even see her draw a sword, so when did she hurt him!
Of course, only some were able to see what happened.
One of them was Ling Kun.
"What a beautiful sword intent," he commented, sounding surprised. "She is only nineteen this year, yet she has already awakened her sword intent. Her talent in swords is great. If nurtured enough, she can easily become untouchable in her level."
The Villa Master's eyes widened.
To think Ling Kun would give such a high evaluation for Cang Yue, he couldn't help but look at her once again, deep in thought.
"Yun'er, be careful of her. It seems that you have found a worthy opponent for yourself."
"Is that what father thinks?" Ling Yun replied. He looked at Cang Yue before a soft smile formed over his face. "Elder Kun said if nurtured well, doesn't that mean Elder Kun still thinks that she is lacking somehow?"
"As expected of my nephew," Ling Kun smiled. "That's right. Even though her sword intent is strong, it isn't perfect. Though whoever taught her did a good job of teaching her so far."
"That means there are openings to take advantage of. Father, don't worry. I'll be the winner."
Villa Master remained silent and only nodded.
"Kuanglei!"
Ignoring the shout of Xiao Sect Master, Cang Yue gracefully walked back.
Reaching beside Yun Che, a big smile formed over her face.
"Brother Yun, how was it? I looked cool, right?"
Seeing the smirk on her face and the smug look, it almost made Yun Che hug her and rub his cheeks with hers.
Who made her look so adorable and cute?
But he controlled himself since they were in public.
Instead, he gently held her hand and pulled her closer to him, just enough where their chests almost collided with each other.
Raising her hand, he gently kissed the back of it and smiled.
"Well, so cool that I fell in love once again."
"Hehehe…"
With a big smile on her face and redness covering her cheeks, she kept on silly laughing.
CRACK
"... Elder Sister, what happened?" Yueli stared at her sister with a weird gaze.
Her eyes moved towards the now broken armrest wondering what made her so annoyed.
But instead, she answered with silence.
This made her sigh.
Four months ago, the moment her sister had returned with a breakthrough into the Emperor Realm, Yueli realized that her sister had been acting weird.
Others may not have noticed it, but as someone overly close to her sister, Yueli was quite the perspective of her mood and behavior. So the moment she saw Yuechan after she returned from her little trip four months ago, Yueli could tell that something was amiss.
She felt... her sister's aura wasn't as cold as it should be.
"Junior Sister Qingyue, are you alright? You are unconsciously releasing your ice profound energy. Other people will be annoyed."
Speechless, Yueli looked towards her disciple and saw her coldly staring nowhere in particular.
Yet, her body was releasing intense cold, making her face twitch.
She wondered what was happening with her elder sister and disciple. Both of them were acting way too weird!
'Wait!'
As if guided by divine inspiration, Yueli somehow connected unseen dots in her mind and her head jerked towards Yun Che.
Seeing him kissing the back of Cang Yue's hand and patting her head, she had an epiphany.
'Is it him? But then, why is the Elder Sister annoyed?'
She could understand the reason why Qingyue was annoyed; he was her husband, even if in name, it would definitely make her angry if he flirted with other women in front of her... at least that was the conclusion Yueli came up with her non-existent relationship knowledge.
The only problem was, she couldn't understand the reason for her elder sister's annoyance!
"... Qingyue, your husband is quite a playboy. You are in front of him and he is flirting with another woman. Doesn't he come to meet you every night, why don't you teach him a lesson?"
"..." Yueli and other Asgard disciples had an "o" expression as all of them looked towards Yuechan speechlessly.
Did she...just criticize another man? And why could they feel annoyance in her voice at the fact that Yun Che was flirting with other women? — all of them had the same thought process looking at Yuechan.
Obviously, Yuechan also caught them staring at her amazed, causing her brows to frown.
"Right now, her relationship with her husband is not public, once it is, his reputation would also affect our reputation."
"Oh…"
Everyone nodded positively.
Yes, it made sense now.
It seems that Yuechan was worried about Asgard! — all of them nodded in understanding.
"...Qingyue doesn't understand what senior master means. Qingyue may be married to him, but we don't have a relationship like that of husband and wife. Since, due to Asgard's ruling, Qingyue cannot attend her duty as his wife, Qingyue has allowed him to have as many wives as he wants."
After a small silence, she continued.
"If the senior master wants, then Qingyue can attend to him as his wife. But that would obviously make the Asgard Mistress angry."
"Che!" Yuechan clicked her tongue, as if annoyed beyond belief, making everyone from the Asgard remain silent so as to not aggravate her further.
It couldn't be helped.
When she met Yun Che at the front of Heavenly Villa on the first day, her heart was in chaos.
Not only was she not ready to face him right now, she still hadn't settled her own feelings!
So meeting him, it made her nervous and flustered.
Obviously, such feelings were not shown outside at all.
Remembering his talk during the dragon god trial when he said that they can meet during the tournament secretly made her heart beat faster than usual, especially when Yun Che appeared in their residence last week.
She had thought he had come to meet her, but who would have thought he only met with his wife and vanished!
Waited.
She waited the whole week in hope that he would also come to meet her yet he never did.
This made her mood fall to the bottom and made her annoyed beyond belief.
As someone who had never been in a relationship with a man, Yuechan had no idea how to react to the feelings she was currently feeling, which resulted in an increase of her frustration.
She didn't know how she felt or why she felt that.
The only thing she knew was that her heart yearned for Yun Che's warmth.
As such thoughts appeared in her mind, her icy expression suddenly took on a reddish hue.
Despite her stoic expression, people could easily see her blushing cheeks, making them speechless.
"Elder sister...Are you ill? Do you want me to call a doctor for you?"
Yuechan suddenly frowned in annoyance.
"Shut up. Who is ill? I'm perfectly fine. Instead of this useless talk, focus on the fight instead."
"..."
Not understanding her sister's behavior, Yueli could only stare back at the stage with Qingyue and others.
The next match was between Ling Jie from Heavenly Sword Villa and Mu Xiyongi from Heavenly Spear Thunderfire Fortress.
From people's perspective, compared to Cang Yue's match, this was indeed an exciting match to see.
Unlike the instant defeat which Xiao Kuanglei met, the match between Ling Jie and Mu Xiyongi lasted for quite a long time.
Ling Jie was weaker than Mu Xiyongi, if one based on their profound strength, which made the fight last for quite some time.
Yet, in the end, the winner was Ling Jie.
Even though he was the weaker one between the two, his talent and purity of profound energy was many times stronger than Mu Xiyongi which led to his victory!
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