Chapter 705 - 365: Xu Caihe the Noob
Chapter 705: Chapter 365: Xu Caihe the Noob
The next day.
West Imperial City.
Celestial Tao Fighting Arena.
This is the largest dueling arena in West Imperial City, directly overseen by the Imperial Palace, capable of accommodating over two thousand cultivators for Magical Combat simultaneously, as well as tens of thousands of spectators.
At this moment, the Celestial Tao Fighting Arena is already a sea of people, with numerous cultivators and citizens pouring into the arena from West Imperial City.
The Immortal Ascension Ceremony is held every twenty years and is a grand event across the Hongzhou Continent.
Though these Loose Cultivators and mortals do not have the chance to participate in the combat, witnessing this grand scene in person makes the journey worthwhile.
a.m.
The Western Emperor Wu Zheng and Empress Lin Yuan enter, accompanied by the cheers and kneeling of countless citizens, hand in hand, they ascend to the highest tier seating.
Subsequently, Wu Zheng announces the commencement of the Immortal Ascension Ceremony.
After a grand performance of song and dance, the first round of Magical Combat officially begins.
Over a thousand cultivators are participating in the Immortal Ascension Ceremony, all young powerhouses from across Hongzhou Continent, with the weakest cultivation still at the Golden Core Mid-period.
At this moment, hundreds of Magical Combats are taking place simultaneously in the Celestial Tao Fighting Arena.
Each match is a duel of strong opponents, full of excitement and splendor.
Celestial Tao West District.
Jiaxin Battle Platform.
Xu Caihe nervously looks at the brutal-looking, shirtless male cultivator opposite her.
This guy’s muscles are hard, emitting a frightening dark glow, and his open mouth looks like a blood basin, laughing eerily at Xu Caihe:
"Didn’t expect to encounter the weakest disciple from Zhenyang Sect in the first match, hehe, chicken fairy, don’t blame me for being ruthless!"
Xu Caihe’s opponent is a Loose Cultivator from the Northern Wilderness Barbaric Poison Race. The cultivators of the Barbaric Poison Race are mostly Body and Poison Dual Cultivators, with extremely strong body defenses and attacks using various Poison Techniques.
Among Loose Cultivators, the Barbaric Poison Race’s cultivators are considered quite tricky.
Even disciples from Major Sects are unwilling to encounter people from the Barbaric Poison Race.
Yet Xu Caihe ended up encountering them.
This Barbaric Poison man was quite happy; he had inquired in advance, learning that out of the ten disciples from the Zhenyang Sect this time, nine were Nascent Soul Great Cultivators, giving him no hope of winning against any of them.
Only this Xu Caihe, supposedly won the sect’s internal competition relying solely on luck.
Her cultivation was only at Golden Core Seventh-Layer.
While he was already at the Golden Core Eighth Layer, the one with the highest cultivation among the young people in the clan, combined with the advantage of Body and Poison Dual Cultivation, facing such a little girl relying only on luck, wasn’t it going to be easy?
"You, you stay away!"
Xu Caihe saw the opponent approaching her with a sinister smile, she was about to cry.
Why am I so unlucky?
Why can’t I meet a weaker opponent?
Oh right, there are no weaklings in the Immortal Ascension Ceremony, only me relying on luck like a chicken.
"Go Caihe, smash that trash’s egg!"
At this moment, a loud voice cheered from the stands, Zhou Ling’Er was cheering for Xu Caihe with an excited face.
"Haha, I’m trash?"
The Barbaric Poison man seemed to be enraged, his muscles slowly bulging, and green smoke was emerging from his hands.
Xu Caihe was so scared that she kept retreating: "Ah, sorry, sorry, I don’t know the person in the stands, I didn’t scold you!"
"Caihe, we will always be good sisters, I will always cheer for you, beat that muscle monster to death!"
Zhou Ling’Er on the stands shouted again, waving her hand enthusiastically toward Xu Caihe.
"..." Xu Caihe’s face was pale.
"You dare to mock me?!"
The Barbaric Poison man roared in anger, raising both hands, and the green poisonous smoke spread out, quickly enveloping the Battle Platform.
Xu Caihe couldn’t see her surroundings, quickly took out a Breath Holding Pill and swallowed it, temporarily shutting off her breath so she wouldn’t inhale the poisonous smoke.
However, this pill could only last for half a stick of incense time, after which Xu Caihe would still be at the mercy of others.
Moreover, the Barbaric Poison man was already hidden in the poisonous smoke and could strike at any time.
The opponent’s Body Cultivation Technique was obviously not weak, once he got close, Xu Caihe probably wouldn’t last even ten breaths.
"Wuwuwu, don’t hit me!"
Last night, Xu Caihe was forced by Qiu Zhihe to track people from the Celestial Fall Sect and Red Cloud Mountain all night, then had to rush to the Fighting Arena.
Now she faced such a formidable Barbaric Poison man, she felt she was really unlucky.
Feeling utterly sorrowful, she instinctively wielded her sword in a frenzy of stabs, attacking randomly in a manner like when she trained at Hidden Moon Cliff with Junior Sister Ruo and others.
Puff!
Suddenly, the sword tip seemed to hit something, Xu Caihe opened her eyes in surprise.
She saw the Barbaric Poison man standing in front of her, skewered in the navel by her sword, his face turned gray instantly, and he looked incredulously at Xu Caihe:
"How did you know the location of my vital point?"
Xu Caihe gasped, pulling out her long sword and stabbing the now bleeding navel again and again, exclaiming pitifully while stabbing:
"It’s not my fault, I didn’t know how this could happen, I didn’t mean to, ahhh!"
Puff puff puff!
With Xu Caihe’s wretched cries, there were already more than ten bloody holes on the Barbaric Poison man’s belly.
He looked incredulously at the tearful Xu Caihe, then collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Xu Caihe stared blankly at the bloodied ground, hearing the judge’s voice in her ears:
"West District, Jiaxin number third match, Zhenyang Sect’s Xu Caihe versus Northern Wilderness Barbaric Poison Race’s Saling, Xu Caihe wins!"
Xu Caihe gasped, only then realizing.
"I won?"
She walked down the Battle Platform in a daze, and Zhou Ling’Er was already running over:
"Caihe you’re amazing! How did you know that Barbaric Poison’s vital point? Wow, you stabbed so many times, even more ruthless than Junior Sister Ruo!"
Xu Caihe looked bewildered: "I didn’t know his vital point, I was just stabbing randomly, he just bumped into it."
As another voice echoed from another Battle Platform:
"West District, Yimao number second match, Zhenyang Sect’s Ruo Mei versus Xunyang Sect’s Yu Long, Ruo Mei wins."
With the announcement, a cultivator covered in dozens of bloody holes was carried down from the Yimao Battle Platform, bleeding and twitching, a wretched sight.
"..."
Xu Caihe and Zhou Ling’Er stared blankly at Qiu Zhihe, who was walking down from the Battle Platform.
"Caihe, I was wrong, no one is more ruthless than Junior Sister Ruo."
Soon, Qin Gengyun, Liu Su, Fang Xue, Wei Wan, Mo Xiaolan, and others all smoothly defeated their opponents.
The group gathered to speak, when Zhou Ling’Er came running over, panting:
"South District, Nanding number, Si...Ming Chou is up against Feiyun Sect’s Zheng Mulin!"
Everyone’s expressions became serious, and Fang Xue’s face showed rare killing intent.
Back then, Si Minglan traveled miles to deliver Yin Qiaoqin’s relics to the Feiyun Sect, handing them to Yin Qiaoqin’s partner Zheng Mulin, only to be ambushed by him in league with Si Mingcheng and captured.
This Zheng Mulin, while known as infatuated, is actually a hypocritical and vicious person.
This person was almost a nemesis to Si Minglan.
Qin Gengyun frowned, "Wasn’t Ming Chou’s first-round opponent a Loose Cultivator?"
Zhou Ling’Er said, "Neither Ming Chou nor Zheng Mulin’s first-round opponents showed up today, so they met early."
Fang Xue was somewhat worried: "Will Third Senior Sister be recognized?"
"Let’s go have a look!