“Lin Zhaokai Zhenren, what do you think?” Wen Xiangjie asked with a smile.
Zhenren.
And it was ‘Zhenren’ said by Wen Xiangjie.
The irony was palpable.
Lin Zhaokai couldn't help but look up at Wen Xiangjie, wanting to retort with sarcasm, but the first thing he saw was the undisguised killing intent in the eyes of the Spirit Beast Peak Lord standing beside Wen Xiangjie.
The pressure from a Mahayana Realm expert forced Lin Zhaokai to lower his head again in humiliation.
The Cultivation World has always respected strength.
Wen Xiangjie was a Leaving Aperture Stage True Monarch; he was merely a Nascent Soul Stage True Man, so he was indeed not worthy of being compared to Wen Xiangjie.
“Yes, I… I am not worthy… of being compared to Wen Zhenjun,” Lin Zhaokai said, gritting his teeth, word by word.
“Hmm, from now on, that title of ‘Peerless Dual Prodigies’ should no longer be circulated,” the Spirit Beast Peak Lord said lightly.
The Wu Ding Sect Master and Lin Zhaokai watched helplessly as the Spirit Beast Peak Lord took Wen Xiangjie away, their faces filled with frustration, but in the end, they dared not say anything more.
Before the Sect Grand Competition, the title of ‘Peerless Dual Prodigies’ had been widely circulated in the Cultivation World, but before the Sect Grand Competition officially began, it was as if a gag order had been placed, and no one ever mentioned it again.
After a brief rest for the various sect prodigies, the Sect Grand Competition officially began.
The entire Jade Dragon Island was used for the Sect Grand Competition, and all the sect prodigies could start battling at the same time.
After the Sect Grand Competition officially began, a jade token would automatically appear in the hands of all participating prodigies, with their participant number and the location of their next battle.
The first round of competition adopted a point system.
Each prodigy would participate in the same number of matches, and then, based on their scores, the top 100 would be selected from highest to lowest to enter the second round of competition.
Wen Xiangjie looked at the jade token in her hand, on which her participant number appeared—
No. 1.
The competition venue for the first match was Arena No. 66, closest to her resting area. After eating snacks, Wen Xiangjie, with the Elf Queen sitting on her left shoulder and the Little Phoenix standing on her right shoulder, leisurely walked over.
After spending so much time with the Elf Queen, the Little Phoenix had already recognized the Elf Queen as her little companion, so she could accept sharing Wen Xiangjie’s shoulders with the Elf Queen.
Upon arriving at Arena No. 66, Wen Xiangjie’s opponent was already standing in the arena.
A Foundation Establishment Stage Complete disciple from a small sect was currently craning his neck, searching for who his opponent was.
Wen Xiangjie lightly leaped up and stood opposite him.
The small sect disciple’s stretched neck almost twisted.
Among all the disciples participating in the Sect Grand Competition, who didn’t recognize Wen Xiangjie’s and Lin Zhaokai’s faces?
Wen Xiangjie was even privately referred to by the contestants as the pre-determined first place.
Of course, this pre-determination contained no derogatory meaning; it was purely a fact.
Disagree?
A Leaving Aperture Stage mighty expert, go try and challenge her?
If you say ‘I surrender’ even a little too slowly, you can tell your sect to prepare your seventh-day memorial rites.
“I surrender!”
Clearly, this small sect disciple had a very strong will to survive.
So strong that he had already shouted 'I surrender' before the match even began.
Each competition venue was equipped with an array disc that could automatically determine the winner and loser of a match.
Seeing that the small sect disciple had already surrendered, a red light lit up on the small sect disciple’s half of the arena, and then the small sect disciple was forcibly thrown out of the competition arena.
A green light lit up under Wen Xiangjie’s feet, and at the same time, a message appeared on Wen Xiangjie’s jade token indicating her points + 1.
Wen Xiangjie was not at all surprised by her opponent’s direct surrender.
She gracefully flew down again with Lingling and Phoenix Feather, returning to her resting area to await the start of the next round of competition.
Lin Zhaokai also received the same treatment as Wen Xiangjie.
However, unlike Wen Xiangjie, who would turn and leave as soon as her opponent surrendered, as if staying on the arena for an extra second meant overtime for her, Lin Zhaokai’s methods were extremely bloody and cruel.
If he encountered disciples from small sects with few resources and low cultivation, Lin Zhaokai would disdain to kill them and would directly let them go.
But if he encountered sect disciples with considerable wealth, Lin Zhaokai would take out an item, obtained from who knows where, that could silence the opponent, preventing them from saying the words 'I surrender'.
Then he would cruelly kill the opponent and seize their storage item as a war trophy.
Such acts of public murder and treasure snatching in the Sect Grand Competition made most sects view Lin Zhaokai extremely poorly.
Those sects whose prodigies were cruelly killed by Lin Zhaokai even united to denounce him.
However, the rules of the Sect Grand Competition indeed included a rule allowing the killing of opponents, so Lin Zhaokai’s actions did not violate the rules.
Coupled with the Wuding Sect Leader’s strong support and protection of Lin Zhaokai, those sects temporarily had no way to deal with him.
However, such situations had occurred in previous Sect Grand Competitions, and for this, the Sect Grand Competition also had a special rule.
If, during the Sect Grand Competition, Cultivators have personal grievances, regardless of whether both parties are participants in this Sect Grand Competition, they can participate in a Life-and-Death Arena with mutual consent.
In a Life-and-Death Arena, surrender is not allowed; the battle can only end when one party dies.
What surprised everyone was that Lin Zhaokai actually agreed to a Life-and-Death Arena invitation from a Cultivator at the early Leaving Aperture Stage.
The younger brother of that early Leaving Aperture Stage Cultivator was one of the contestants who had died tragically at Lin Zhaokai’s hands.
To avenge his younger brother, that early Leaving Aperture Stage Cultivator furiously issued a Life-and-Death Arena invitation to Lin Zhaokai.
What he didn’t expect was that before he even had a chance to mock Lin Zhaokai with words and force him into the Life-and-Death Arena, Lin Zhaokai readily agreed.
The news of Lin Zhaokai and that early Leaving Aperture Stage Cultivator going to the Life-and-Death Arena quickly spread throughout Jade Dragon Island.
That day, except for the Cultivators who had to participate in their own matches, all other Cultivators gathered near Lin Zhaokai and the early Leaving Aperture Stage Cultivator’s arena to watch.
All Cultivators did not understand why Lin Zhaokai chose to accept this Life-and-Death Arena.
What was the difference between this and directly seeking death?
The cultivation gap between the Nascent Soul Stage and the Leaving Aperture Stage was insurmountable; even if Lin Zhaokai was at the Nascent Soul Stage Complete, he couldn’t possibly defeat an early Leaving Aperture Stage cultivator!
But what all Cultivators did not expect was that Lin Zhaokai actually won this battle.
Although Lin Zhaokai won tragically, both of his arms were crushed by his opponent, and his Dantian suffered severe damage.
But in the end, it was that early Leaving Aperture Stage Cultivator who fell!
Lin Zhaokai was the first to kill a Leaving Aperture Stage Cultivator with a Nascent Soul Stage cultivation!
Lin Zhaokai, covered in blood, struggled to open his eyes and looked at Wen Xiangjie, who was leisurely carrying a chair, holding an ice-cold little drink, and watching the excitement.