After meeting the other elders of the Martial Might Sect, they brought Lin Fan’s group to another courtyard.
This one was even more luxurious than the one that they had put them back in town.
It seemed that the Martial Might Sect really didn’t lack luxuries.
But the problem was…they were being watched still.
The Martial Might Sect might call them guards, but in truth…they were just there to watch over the Love Sect.
One moment, the sect master of the Martial Might Sect was saying how they would be close friends, but the next they placed these watchers over them. Though they did say that these watchers were nothing more than guards to protect them just in case anything happened.
But everyone knew what the reality of it was.
Still, they were in the Martial Might Sect’s territory, so there wasn’t anything that they could do about this.
At the very least, the Martial Might Sect was leaving them alone.
That was when Lin Fan called out all of the disciples of the Love Sect.
Once they were all gathered, he gave a nod to the elders who suddenly put up an array around them. The disciples could feel the array appearing around them, so they revealed different expressions.
The Love Sect disciples revealed confused expressions since they recognized this as the illusion array.
The Mu Empire young geniuses had wary looks since they had no idea what was happening.
Once the array had been put in place, Lin Fan looked at them and said, “Decide who will be the leader of the group now. I wanted to leave it to you young people, but we can’t leave things like this anymore.”
All of them couldn’t help looking at Lin Fan with surprised and confused looks.
After all, before this, it seemed like he didn’t care.
But now, he was directly telling them to choose their leader.
In fact, Lin Fan had wanted to leave it to them since he thought that he could have used this relationship to his advantage. He had wanted to see if it would be taken advantage of by the Martial Might Sect when they saw this.
That was just the confidence that he had in his disciples to turn this around.
But now it wasn’t the same after meeting the Martial Might Sect’s sect master.
Elder Qian and Sect Master Duan were all clearly wily foxes. If they were given this fault, then they would take advantage of this and do something that was bad for these kids.
This time, Lin Fan wasn’t confident that these kids would be able to turn it around if that did happen.
So he had no choice but to force them to choose a leader even if it would create some bad blood between them.
After they realized that Lin Fan was being serious, the two groups turned to look at each other.
There was a moment where there was a tense feeling that lingered in the air, but it didn’t take long before a few people from each group came forward.
The ones that were leading them were Xiao Ming and Yu Huang respectively.
The ones that were behind them were just there to support them.
Once they came forward, Lin Fan raised his hand for the others to move back and soon there was a ring that was created for the two of them. It seemed that they would be allowed to do what they needed to do to settle this.
Without a single word, both Xiao Ming and Yu Huang came forward and punched at each other. Their fists clashed in the air and created a shockwave that pushed them both back.
Both of them had surprised looks as they didn’t think that they would be an even match for each other.
It was clear that both of them thought that they would be able to take care of the other side in one blow, but that wasn’t the case.
Xiao Ming and Yu Huang narrowed their eyes to look at each other before charging forward again.
It seemed that they weren’t convinced and wanted to keep going.
No one stopped them and many even looked like they were excited to see how this would end.
This was just the kind of world this was.
This was a world where violence like this was the answer to all questions.
It was the one with the bigger fist that had the greatest say.
Their fists clashed again and again, but it didn’t seem like either side was able to get any leeway on the other side. The shockwaves that came out didn’t push them back like before because they had braced themselves.
However, it didn’t seem like this was going to end at this rate.
So in the end, they stopped attacking each other and created some space between them.
Once they landed, they just looked at each other as if they were staring each other down.
It was Yu Huang who broke the silence by saying, “Shall we settle this in one move then?”
Xiao Ming gave a nod to show her agreement.
In the first place, the two of them had been holding back a bit since this wasn’t a fight to the death. They were just sparring to see who would be the one that would lead their group.
But at the same time, they were holding back since they were afraid of being found out.
They had thought that they would be able to end it without using too much power.
That was why they had been going even this entire time.
But now, it seemed like they couldn’t hold back anymore.
After they said this, both of them pulled out their weapons and faced each other. While doing so, they gathered their spiritual energy as if they were about to use one big move.
Seeing this, Lin Fan gave a nod to the elders who moved forward to create a barrier around them.
Though even without Lin Fan saying a thing, they would have already started moving forward to put up this barrier. There was no doubt that this was the climax and it would have been the most explosive climax.
So they had to be prepared to not alert the Martial Might Sect.
Once the barrier was up, it seemed like Xiao Ming and Yu Huang were prepared as well.
With a roar, both of them suddenly charged forward while swinging their weapons at each other.
The glows that surrounded their weapons created streaks of light in the air, but that wasn’t the most eye catching thing. The most eye catching thing was the different forms of energy that were appearing around them.
For Xiao Ming, it was flames.
For Yu Huang, it was lightning.
The two of them came closer and closer, bringing their weapons down on each other until they finally clashed.
When the clash came, there was a large boom…or at least there was one in the center of the barrier. The barrier blocked the sound from spreading and even stopped the explosion that came out from spreading.
In the end, all that everyone could see from outside the barrier were the flames of the explosion.
It was so strong that one didn’t even think that it was possible for people to survive inside of there.
But eventually the flames extinguished and there were two figures that were revealed in the center of the barrier.
These two figures seemed to be standing in front of each other as if they were staring each other down still, but it didn’t seem like the flames had touched them as their clothes seemed completely untouched.
After standing like that for a bit, Yu Huang suddenly fell forward and landed on one of his knees in front of Xiao Ming.
He couldn’t help giving a cough as he fell one knee in front of her.
After coughing, he looked up at her and said, “I give up.”
Xiao Ming gave a nod before looking at the others around her.
All of them looked at her before saying, “Leader.”
She gave a satisfied nod and reached out to help Yu Huang up.
Yu Huang didn’t seem to react at first when he saw this, but then he revealed a strange look as he looked at her hand.
There was a silence that lingered in the air before he reached out to take her hand.
Xiao Ming gave a satisfied smile and helped him up.
While this happened, Yu Huang had been staring at her the entire time.
The look in his eyes was very complicated and hard to see through, but his eyes never left her.
It was almost as if he was enamoured by her…
After helping him up, Xiao Ming went back to Lin Fan and cupped her hands in front of him before saying, “Master, I have been appointed as the leader.”
Lin Fan gave a satisfied nod and said, “Good. Now everyone should get some rest. There will be a lot to do tomorrow.”
Everyone nodded in agreement to this since they knew that this was true.
They were now in the enemy territory, there was no doubt that there would be a lot to do even if the tournament didn’t start for a few more days.
So with that, everyone went inside to rest up.
Though there were some elders that remained outside.
They were in enemy territory after all, so it wasn’t as if they could completely let their guards down.
These elders would be keeping guard tonight.