Ye Xiao raised his sword up to his chest and stroked it with his other hand. Then he infused it with his spirit energy. Suddenly the sword started to shine with silver light. But since Ye Xiao didn't know any sword type martial arts skill, he randomly slashed at Wu Cang with his sword.
Wu Can also smashed his axe on the shoulder of Ye Xiao but Ye Xiao's attack came out at the same time.
"Bang!"
Both of t*heir attack once again collided with each other and a loud sound rang out in the air.
"Thud!"
At the same time, with a thud sound, the axe of Wu Cang fell down on the surface of the arena. But what was surprising was that Wu Cang was still holding the axe's handle.
When the crowd saw it, their mouth was opened wide in surprise. The handle of the axe was cut down by the sword of Ye Xiao very swiftly. So much that there was not even the slightest bit of rough surface on the handle.
"Mountain Collapsing Fist."
Exactly at the time when the axe of Wu Cang fell down on the arena after being cut by Ye Xiao's sword, Ye Xiao prepared his next attack. And when everyone including Wu Cang was still looking at the axe, Ye Xiao attacked with his Mountain Collapsing Fist.
"Bang!"
"Boom!"
Ye Xiao's fist attack landed on the chest of Wu Cang and Wu Cang was sent flying by this attack. He directly flew off the arena and fell down on the ground. Dirt and dust started to fly slowly in the air near Wu Cang.
"Ye Xiao wins this fight." A voice sounded. It was announce maid by that man who was hosting this round of the competition.
"Thup! Thup! Thup!"
All the people started clapping. Ye Xiao also bowed in every direction and then walked down from the arena.
Next the competition continued.
All the young geniuses fought with their opponents and those who should win, won the fight.
Lin Hao, Lu Li and other geniuses also won their fight beautifully. Mainly Lin Hao, his opponent directly admitted defeat before even going on the arena to fight.
"Now that the top fifty is decided, all fifty participants will again fight to decide the top twenty five."
Fight continued. Everyone once again fought with their opponents.
Ye Xiao also fought with a young martial artist. That young man's strength was stronger than his previous opponent. He was at the Eighth Stage of the Qi Condensation Realm. After fighting for a while, Ye Xiao lastly won the fight. Even in this fight, he didn't choose to attack with his High Grade Profound Rank martial arts skill 'Sacred Finger Art'. He was saving it for himself as a trump card which he wanted to only use when he was in a dire situation.
Xu Qing also won his fight and same as him, Lin Hao, Lu Li, Feng Lin and other geniuses, all won their fights.
Soon the top twenty five was decided.
After that, that man once again flew on the arena and then waved his hand in the air. A round glass which was made up of brass appeared in his hand. The glass was filled with many sticks of the same size. Then he said, "All the twenty-five participants will choose a stick from this glass. There is exactly twenty five sticks here. But one of the stick's bottom is coloured with red. One of you, who will choose this stick can directly advance. He need not to fight."
"All other participants has to fight again and this fight will decide top thirteen. But we only need top ten here. So all of you have to fight with other twelve participants and according to your win matches, you all will be ranked. Those who will be ranked eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth will be automatically eliminated. This way only the top ten will be left and the first ranked among them will be our champion."
When he said this, everyone became silent.
Ye Xiao also took a long breath.
"Now everyone, please come on the arena and choose one stick from the glass."
All the twenty-five participants walked on the arena and started to choose a stick carefully. All of them wanted to choose the stick whose bottom was coloured with red.
After everyone done choosing, they looked at the stick in their hands and after seeing that they were not the lucky one, they started looking at the other's stick.
"Now I announce that Lin Hao will directly advance to top thirteen. Remaining twenty-four participants have to fight with a opponent to decide the twelve winner." They all were still looking at the sticks in other participant's hands when a voice sounded. All of them turned around and looked at Lin Hao. He really has that lucky stick in his hand. All of them sighed and shook their heads and then walked down of the arena.
That man who was hosting the competition once again waved his hands and several tokens again flew out and landed on the hands of twenty-four participants.
All of them again looked at the token and saw their was a number written on it.
Ye Xiao also looked and saw that his token's number was 10.
"Now, the holder of token number one and token number two, please come up on the arena to fight."
Once again fight started. Those who won the fight, came down from the arena happily while the loser came down with a sad face.
"The holder of token number.... Please come up on the arena."
"The holder of..."
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"The holder of token number nine and token number ten, please come up one the arena to fight."
It was again Ye Xiao's turn to fight. He started walking and then ascended on the arena. This time his opponent was a sweet looking young girl who was also at the Eighth Stage of the Qi Condensation Realm.
"Hello, I am Ye Xiao." Ye Xiao cupped his hand and introduced himself with a smile.
That girl looked at Ye Xiao and then she also cupped her hand and replied, "Hello, I'm Lin Ling."
"Lin... Ling." Ye Xiao repeated this name and looked at the Lin Hao who was sitting with his eyes closed.
Is there any relationship between Lin Ling and Lin Hao.
Both has the surname Lin. Maybe they are both from the same family.
"What are you doing? If you are not fighting then please admit defeat." Lin Ling saw that Ye Xiao was looking at Lin Hao and her. She felt annoyed by it.
"Oh! sorry. I was just thinking that maybe you and Lin Hao are from the same family." Ye Xiao laughed lightly in embarrassment and said.
"He is my cousin." Lin Ling said in a very low voice. It was so low that it looked like she was muttering in herself. Ye Xiao was also not able to hear what she said. He wanted to ask but at this moment, an intense aura of a martial artist at the Eighth Stage of the Qi Condensation Realm exploded out from Lin Ling's body.
"Freeze."
Lin Ling shouted lightly. An icy aura exploded and the entire arena was immediately covered with a thick layer of ice. Ye Xiao's leg was also covered in that thick layer of ice.
"An ice elemental body." Ye Xiao looked at her with surprise.
If it was before, he might be afraid of this attack of Lin Ling but now, he has the Beast Fire. Why would he be afraid of an ice type attack.
He raised his hand and a violet coloured fire appeared in his palm. He turned his hand and a wisp of that fire fell down on his leg. Immediately all the ice in the radius of two meter from his leg started to melt, turning into water and then immediately vaporized because of the heat which was emitting out from that wisp of Beast Fire.
"A Fire Soul. Grandmaster Wang, I never thought that you will even give him a rare Fire Soul." Sect leader of the Blue Cloud Sect said. He was very surprised and it could be seen in his tone in which he said this sentence to Grandmaster Wang.
"I didn't gave him any Fire Soul and it is not the true Fire Soul. It is a Beast Fire which he got by his own strength. From where, don't ask me because the answer of this question is something even I don't know." Grandmaster Wang said with a smile.
When all the sect leaders and the king as well as the Formation Master Wu heard this, they all become very shocked and looked at Ye Xiao and started to size him up.
"Now I understand. So that's why you took him as your disciple." Sect of the White Snow Sect nodded her head in understanding and said.