Chapter 599: The Rules of the Great Compet.i.tion of Xue Yu

The Da Shu Clan was one of the biggest clans in Mi Cheng, they controlled one part of the city.

At a lakeside just after that force left the palace, an old man with a bamboo hat was leaning against the trunk of a tree, angling for fish. 

Even though he was fis.h.i.+ng, his eyes were closed. He looked carefree and content. If anyone had been there, they would have found out that that old man wasn’t releasing any Qi. He was in perfect fusion with the earth and the sky. 

“Splas.h.!.+” The old man raised his rod and a fish immediately landed into his bamboo basket… But surprisingly, that rod didn’t have a hook, it was perfectly straight. 

“It’s not easy to fish with that.” spoke another old man. He then opened his eyes and smiled. He slowly turned around and saw the other old man looking extremely upset. The one with the bamboo hat asked him, “Mister An, what’s wrong?” 

Mister An was shaking with anger. The old man frowned, he had known Mister An for decades, so it was simple to claim that he knew him completely. Even in terrible circ.u.mstances, Mister An never lost his temper like this.

“Mister An, what happened?” repeated the old man. Mister An lowered his head, he was shaking when he said, “She…. She was kidnapped. Her soul pearl was broken…” 

“Boom boom boom!” A terrifying Qi suddenly invaded the atmosphere. The tree behind the old man suddenly broke into pieces and then turned into powder. The water of the lake started boiling and a strong wind started blowing carrying along drops of water from the lake. 

Her soul pearl was broken… That was the same as being dead…

Mister An was lowering his head more and more, as if it was going to fall down onto the ground. The Qi pressure of a cultivator of the Tian Qi layer was terrifying… Even he who had broken through to the eighth Xuan Qi layer felt like he was suffocating… 

That terrible pressure lasted for a while but then gradually started becoming weaker and weaker again. However, the old man’s face was still filled with murder. 

“Who did it?”

“It is said that she was riding her horse and then someone attacked her. So she came back to find some high-ranking officials to help her. However, he still managed to cripple her cultivation.” said Mister An in a serious and solemn way. The old man’s eyes were twinkling with ice-cold lights as he said, “Send Tian Qi to capture him, don’t kill him though.” 

“Roger.” said Mister An as solemnly as before. He then immediately started walking backwards, only after being far enough from the old man, he dared turn around. 

The old man’s eyes were filled with murder. Surprisingly, someone had dared attack the precious daughter of the Da Shu Clan. That young woman would never have believed such a thing would happen, no member of the Clan could have believed such a thing. They had never thought such a thing was possible.

Lin Feng obviously didn’t know what was happening at the Da Shu Clan. In fact, he didn’t even know what a soul pearl was… Otherwise, Yun Fei Yang probably wouldn’t have killed her. 

Yun Fei Yang and Lin Feng hadn’t thought that if the girl died, the soul pearl would immediately break and all the members of the Da Shu Clan would know about it. They would definitely come and slaughter them now. 

But the Da Shu Clan still needed to find Lin Feng. Actually, Jian Chen just now ran into Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang.

He jumped towards them, smiled and said, “Lin Feng, Yun Fei Yang, I finally found you.” 

Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang were surprised when they heard him. Why was he looking for them?

Jian Chen didn’t know that Lin Feng was the real Lin Feng, so he wasn’t supposed to know anything about him.

“What do you want from us?” asked Yun Fei Yang. 

“People from Dragon Mountain have come to discuss the Great Compet.i.tion of Xue Yu, so you must attend the meeting too.” said Jian Chen. Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang nodded, since it dealt with the compet.i.tion they would to attend.

Jian Chen brought Lin Feng and the two others to a vast s.p.a.ce, everybody from Dragon Mountain was there. 

Some other geniuses were as well.

“We found Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang but we didn’t find Duan Wu Dao…” said Jian Chen. 

Lin Feng, Yun Fei Yang and Xiao Ya found a free spot to sit down. 

“Jian Chen, explain the rules of the Great Compet.i.tion of Xue Yu to everybody. They need to see things more clearly.” said Jun Mo Xi to Jian Chen. Jian Chen nodded and looked at everybody. 

“Lin Feng, Yun Fei Yang, a moment ago, we already explained the rules to everybody but maybe you don’t know them yourselves. The Great Compet.i.tion of Xue Yu implies a few things which you really need to understand. Geniuses from the thirteen countries of Xue Yu can partic.i.p.ate at the compet.i.tion, which means your opponents are from four different empires and the nine countries under their jurisdiction. But on a more personal scale, the compet.i.tion is a wonderful experience for each individual. During each round, there will be wonderful opportunities. If the geniuses greatly benefit from it, their respective countries will also benefit from those great things, there is no doubt about that.”

Lin Feng’s eyes were twinkling, that wasn’t the first time that he heard of the personal benefits so now he believed it. The Great Compet.i.tion of Xue Yu would have many wonderful things to offer. 

“Concerning the rules of the Great Compet.i.tion of Xue Yu, there are three rounds, the first round will allow us all to fight as we wish. n.o.body knows how the round ends, and n.o.body knows the rules of the first round either. But we have understood from previous compet.i.tions that only after a myriad of people have died, the round can end. The only thing you have to do is kill, kill, kill. At the same time, you have to protect yourself and not die (Editor"s Note: OBVIOUSLY).” 

Lin Feng was astonished, what a cruel rule… The first round was a free-for-all fight… Everybody had to kill in order not to be killed, and only then would they move on to the second round.

“We hope that during the first round our people can work together and won’t kill each other… Instead, it would be better for you to kill others from different Countries… That way, we will have more chances to move on to the next round. In the same way, people from the other empires might work together to kill you.” explained Jian Chen, everybody was calmly listening to him. All in all, individuals themselves were not what mattered the most, the empire was the most important thing. 

“The second round of the Great Compet.i.tion of Xue Yu is about getting ranked. Ten years ago, everybody was brought to a cave and the first to enter the cave were ranked first, those who entered after the others were eliminated. Because they don’t want the strongest cultivators to fight first, the battles became imbalanced. Those ranked first fight against the weaker opponents and vice-versa, those who are weak fight against stronger opponents.” 

“Of course, if you want to be amongst the top cultivators of the compet.i.tion, you will have to fight against most of everyone. 

Lin Feng understood all those rules. Those who weren’t successful or unlucky might face extremely strong cultivators early on. In order to avoid fighting the strongest ones until the end you had to win early on. And then, in the end, you might finish as a hero.

“Lin Feng, Yun Fei Yang, you probably understand the rules now?” asked Jian Chen. Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang nodded, Jian Chen had explained everything very clearly, Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang weren’t stupid.
“Since you understood the rules, I wish all of you success. You have to remember that every battle will be dangerous. Apart from the many dangers and perils, there will also be a myriad of chances and opportunities. You will have the chance to improved all along the evolution of the compet.i.tion. You will understand what I am saying better during the compet.i.tion.” added Jun Mo Xi. Apart from being a partic.i.p.ant, Jun Mo Xi was also a member of the Imperial Family of the Dragon Mountain Empire. He, of course, wanted his empire to win. He hoped that they would finish first!

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Chapter 600: Delation

“Does anyone still have questions?” asked Jun Mo Xi. 

Everybody remained silent except for a middle-aged man on the side of Tian Feng. He said, “I have a suggestion.” 

Everybody looked at him. It was the patriarch of the Wan Xiang Sect and he was looking at Jun Mo Xi, “Your Highness, since the first round is a free-for-all death battle the number of people who are going to die will be determined in advance, right? If that specific number of people die then we will proceed to the second round. Some of our people will inevitably die… Why shouldn’t we choose some of them that we could sacrifice?” 

When the crowd heard him, they were astonished, choose some people to sacrifice? He was extremely cruel! 

“You think that anyone is willing to die for the rest?” said Jun Mo Xi. One could understand, from his tone of speech, that he found that idea extremely stupid. Who would be willing to sacrifice themselves?

Those people had come from Dragon Mountain to become dazzling cultivators. If Jun Mo Xi sent them to their deaths, wouldn’t that make him a bad person?

“Why would you give them the choice? Some people are always acting recklessly even though they are weak, those people should surely die. Anyways, there will be two more rounds after the first one so they will become useless sooner or later. We should give the authentically strong cultivators more chances to evolve, they should be favored.” explained the man. He was talking slowly as he continued, “Therefore, I suggest that, amongst those thirty-six people we choose twenty people that we want to keep or agree on another number, and eliminate the rest. Then, when our geniuses come across some of our weaker cultivators, we just destroy them like the rest. Then, we’ll be sure that our strongest cultivators will make it to the next round. 

“Otherwise, those weaker cultivators will just hide between the strongest cultivators each time they run into a stronger cultivator during the first round. They would continue to be useless like that during the following rounds, it would be better to get rid of them as soon as possible.” The patriarch of the Wan Xiang Sect was referring to those whose cultivation level was low, for example Lin Feng. 

Those at whom he was referring to were all pulling a long face. That person was suggesting to abandon and kill them. 

“Why the h.e.l.l would you abandon us? Why wouldn’t we kill all of the Tian Feng people instead?” said someone coldly. Who would feel at ease if someone suggested they should die?

“If you refuse, let’s fight against them and then we’ll see who wins.” added that man proudly.

“I heard that some people from Tian Feng went to Xue Yue and never came back, that they were all killed by the prince. Those people had gone there proudly and arrogantly but had ended up dead. How ridiculous.” said Lin Feng indifferently while raising his head, he had a devilish smile on his face as if he was pouring salt on an open wound. 

“How audacious, you little piece of s.h.i.+t. Who authorized you to talk?” said that middle-aged man coldly to Lin Feng. 

“I’m done talking actually. After what happened last time in Xue Yue you came here and brought a ma.s.sive amount of strong cultivators along with you. In the end, you are still scared that Tian Feng"s cultivators might still be too weak and get killed again, right?” said Lin Feng sounding neither presumptuous nor humble, he was just calm. However, those from Tian Feng were all fixedly staring at him. 

“That person should die in the first round. If you see him, kill him without mercy.” said the Imperial Tutor indifferently, as if he had no emotion. 

“Indeed, kill him during the first round immediately if you see him.” added the patriarch of the Wan Xiang Sect while nodding. Lin Feng had to die.

The seven envoys from Tian Feng nodded. That man despised Tian Feng, he had to die.

Lin Feng ignored what the others said, he still had a magnificent smile on his face. He already hated people from Tian Feng, if he had the occasion, he would kill all of them. 

“That’s enough!!” said Jun Mo Xi. “I made you come here to tell you not to fight against each other and to support each other. That’s all! No need to talk about that stupid suggestion anymore because even if you are very strong, you might not necessarily live longer than the others!” 

“I’m done talking, everybody can disperse now.” said Jun Mo Xi while waving, he was obviously upset. 

“Let’s go.” said the people from Tian Feng while standing up, they were all moving quite slowly. 

However, a terribly oppressive force suddenly invaded the atmosphere. All around them, there were ferocious, wild beasts. And on their backs there were monstrously strong cultivators looking down upon them, they were looking for someone. 

“Huh?” The crowd was surprised. There were ferocious, wild beasts everywhere. And the cultivators on their backs were monstrously strong as well. What had happened in all of a sudden? 

The wind was blowing violently. A few ferocious, wild beasts arrived next to the crowd. Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang glanced at each other, what was happening? 

Those people surely had to do with the woman they had killed… But how come they had so many strong cultivators?

Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang lowered their heads, remaining silent and immobile.

“Have you seen these people?” asked the silhouettes in the sky. Suddenly, three portraits appeared in the sky, there were two young men and a young girl. 

Even though the portraits weren"t great, the crowd could still recognize them. Those were the ones who had arrived at the end of the meeting, Yun Fei Yang, Lin Feng and that little girl. 

“I’ve never seen those people.” said Tang You You while shaking her head. 

She wasn’t happy to see those people come and make demands of them, she didn’t feel like telling them anything. 

“Oh.” said that person while nodding, and then his ferocious wild beast rose back up in the air. 

“Wait wait!!!!!” said someone at that moment laughing coldly. 

“What?” said the one on the beast, turning his head around. He saw a middle-aged man on the ground. 

The middle-aged man smiled, nodded, and said, “I’ve seen those three people.” 

In a flash, the crowd frowned. Of course they had all seen those three people, they were with them. They were still in the middle of the crowd…. 

Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang were suddenly very anxious, ice-cold lights were twinkling in their eyes. It seemed like the patriarch of the Wan Xiang Sect was a delator… 

“Come out yourself or I will make you come out.” threatened the patriarch of the Wan Xiang Sect indifferently. In a flash, the people of the Da Shu Sect were surprised and glanced at the crowd under their feet. Come out? It meant that those three people were there, in the middle of that crowd? 

“You’re a great guy.” said Lin Feng. Immediately after, Yun Fei Yang and Lin Feng raised their head. Since they couldn’t hide, they had to face these people. 

When they saw Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang, heartbeats accelerated. Whistling sounds started spreading in the atmosphere and the ferocious, wild beasts started moving around chaotically. When the group off to the horizon saw the scene, they also moved towards them. 

“It seems like Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang have offended some very important people.” thought the crowd. Such a sphere of influence couldn’t be unimportant, surprisingly they had been looking for them all around. 

A monstrous force emerged in the air. Lin Feng just looked at the people of the Da Shu Clan and said, “So you don’t care about the safety of that girl?” Lin Feng was trying to dissuade them.

When they heard Lin Feng, they smiled coldly and said, “You dared kill Miss Da Shu of the Da Shu Clan, you will regret it your entire life.” said someone. Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang were caught off guard. They knew that she was dead…? 

“The Da Shu Clan…..” Jun Mo Xi was stunned. Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang had offended the Da Shu Clan and had dared kill Miss Da Shu…… 

Lin Feng had thought that he could hide the truth from their people. Unfortunately, Lin Feng didn’t know that cultivators of the Tian Qi layer could make people’s souls transform into soul pearls…… And the soul and the pearl were then linked. If the pearl broke, then it meant that the person was dead…. All the cultivators of the Tian Qi layer make the souls pearls of the most important people in their clans. That way they could track everybody. 

The Da Shu Clan had some cultivators of the Tian Qi layer and they had found out that Miss Da Shu had been killed by Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang. 

Offending the Da Shu Clan was in the top ten list of things not to do in Mi Cheng… 
Besides, they weren’t immediately attacking. They were encircling Lin Feng first and would probably wait for the strongest cultivators of the clan to come and handle them as they wished.

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Chapter 601: Happily Fighting Together!

Those from Tian Feng who were about to leave a moment before stopped, they were gloating over Lin Feng and his friends’ misfortune. They wanted to see them get crushed.

“You perfectly knew that they were here and you lied to us! Prepare to suffer from our flames of fury!” shouted one of them to Tang You You furiously. The Da Shu Clan was one of the four spheres of influence of Mi Cheng, they were obviously extremely aggressive.

Lin Feng glanced at Tang You You in a strange way, a moment before, she had protected him and now she was in trouble with him… 

Tang You You nodded at him, Lin Feng immediately understood what she meant. He then glanced at Yun Fei Yang. 

Those people were only vanguards, they had just been looking for Lin Feng so they could encircled him. Then they would signal for their stronger cultivators. If Lin Feng waited for those strong cultivators to arrive, he would be in trouble.

“Strength… Always strength…” thought Lin Feng. He was hoping that the effect of the potions he had drunk would quickly fade! He wanted to have his pure Qi back. The situation would be a lot better if he had all of his pure Qi at that moment. 

Lin Feng’s sleeve shook and his gourd appeared. He then raised his head and downed a gourd of Hot Unit.

“Gloogloogloo…..” Hot Unit kept flowing into his stomach. Lin Feng had downed it one gulp! His face instantly turned red.

The crowd was surprised, that guy was drinking Hot Unit as if he had been drinking tonic. 

He then threw the gourd away in his storage and started burping, that alcohol was delicious. Immediately after, he raised his head and looked at those who were circling above him, “I killed that girl because she wanted to kill me, now you want to kill me so I won"t be merciful.” In a flash, he opened his mouth widely and abruptly started spitting out some fireb.a.l.l.s which dashed to the skies. 

“Boom boom boom!” Terrifying fireb.a.l.l.s started invading the atmosphere. Those people in the sky were caught off guard. The ferocious wild beasts’ silhouettes kept fluttering but those fireb.a.l.l.s were extremely fast and not easy to dodge. Some beasts were bound to be hit.

“Roaaarrrrr!” a fireball reached one of the beasts which roared violently. In a flash, its entire body was surrounded by flames. 

The strong cultivator on the beast then jumped in the air and stood there. The beast was roaring furiously as it was burnt to death. 

“What a terrifying fire.” thought that person while staring at his beast turning into ashes… He was shaking. If he had been too slow, he would have died as well! 

That fire was extraordinary. 

“Die.” shouted Lin Feng furiously. He then jumped off the ground and made the strength of the Herukas rotate five hundred times in his fist. He then immediately threw himself at another person with his fist leading.

That person groaned loudly and jumped off the beast he was riding. He was about to welcome Lin Feng with his spear. 

“Kacha!!!” The spear broke into pieces, without resistance, when it collided with the strength of the Herukas. Lin Feng’s fist didn"t stop moving forwards, a loud cras.h.i.+ng sound spread in the air. When Lin Feng’s fist crashed onto that person’s body he immediately died. 

While Lin Feng and Yun Fei Yang were fighting. He was condensing some pure Qi and flying through the air. He was going very slowly but it seemed like he was borrowing the strength of the earth and the sky for each step he made. His steps definitely contained a monstrous force. 

Apart from them, Tang You You was also fighting. She was moving swiftly through the air, just like a b.u.t.terfly. Her fist was dancing in the sky, she looked neither slow nor fast, just agile. One of the victim"s she punched had their blood vessels visibly destroyed. He immediately died.

The members of the Da Shu Clan hadn’t thought that Lin Feng would attack first. Besides, Lin Feng and his two friends were all extremely strong, especially that beautiful woman. She was moving like a b.u.t.terfly in the sky, but now at full speed. She had a monumental physical strength in her fist that was probably some insane skill. In any case, each time she punched someone, they died.

It was apocalyptic in the sky at that moment. It was a ma.s.sacre.

People on the ground were all astonished. The Great Compet.i.tion of Xue Yu hadn’t started yet and they were already fighting against monstrously strong cultivators. 

Jun Mo Xi wasn’t happy at all but he was happy to see those evil people get crushed. It would have been horrible for them to lose Lin Feng and the two others.

“Tang You You, you are the strongest between us. We must kill all these people, otherwise, when the strong cultivators arrive to support them we will be in serious trouble.” explained Yun Fei Yang to Tang You You. 

Tang You You obviously knew that, she then shouted furiously, “One Thousand Dream Clones!” 

In a flash, Tang You You’s clones appeared in the atmosphere and blotted out the sky. She was everywhere, just like in a dream. One thousand clones… Just like in a dream. 

“Boom boom boom!” Her clones kept punching everybody and horrible shrieks kept spreading everywhere in the air. The crowd on the ground could see cadavers unceasingly falling from the sky, it was a rain of corpses. They were astonished that Tang You You’s thousand dream clones skill was so incredible. It was one of the best skills of the Tang Clan. The clones all looked perfectly real, and the bodies were in fact real. They weren’t shadows or anything of that sort, they were real clones! 

“How strong….” thought Lin Feng. Tang You You was the third strongest cultivator of Dragon Mountain. When she was furious, a field could become littered with millions of corpses. Let alone the people she was killing now were extremely strong. 

“Be careful.” said Yun Fei Yang to Lin Feng. Several whistling sounds were approaching Lin Feng, but he didn’t panic. He only turned around and bombarded the atmosphere with his fist.

He wasn’t scared of fighting against those ferocious wild beasts with his strength of the Herukas.

“Boom boom boom!” 

A terrifying physical strength then attacked Lin Feng and crashed onto his body. Surprisingly, that attack made his pure Qi flow even faster through his meridians. Lin Feng didn’t find the attack painful, on the contrary, that pain was extremely pleasant! 

“Do it again!” said Lin Feng with a proud smile on his face. He then moved forwards with the wind, his fist bombarded the atmosphere once again. A ferocious, wild beast then roared violently. It was severely injured by Lin Feng’s punch. 

“Die.” The person on the beast then used his spear to attack Lin Feng which moved at full speed towards him. It contained some monstrously strong energies. Lin Feng didn’t dare resist this one with his bare fist. 

He inclined himself aside to dodge it, but his top got lacerated and his chest was suddenly exposed.

However, Lin Feng caught the spear while it was flying through the sky and firmly held onto it. He then looked at the one who had sent it and spat out another fireball. A terrifying and scorching hot fireball then immediately ignited the enemy’s body. 

“Ahhhh…….”! That fire was terrifying. His entire body was burning. He was releasing pure Qi to make the fire shrug off but it didn’t work, the pure Qi was getting burnt too. Quickly, his horrible shrieks became less and less as he burnt to death, turning into ashes.

“I wouldn’t have thought that Lin Feng had such mysterious skills. He can drink Hot Unit and then spit out  monstrous fireb.a.l.l.s?” thought some people on the ground while watching the fight. With those fireb.a.l.l.s, Lin Feng was a danger to them as well… Most of them wouldn’t be able to stop those fireb.a.l.l.s…

In the distance, whistling sounds were spreading. Lin Feng narrowed his eyes in which cold lights were twinkling. 

Lin Feng took out another gourd filled with Hot Unit and downed it in a flash. He initially had a hundred Hot Unit bottles, but a gourd could contain more than a bottle. Having one gourd left meant that he only had maybe a dozen bottles left…” 

“What a greedy boy! I still have some, drink as much as you want.” said Tang You You while looking at Lin Feng drinking all that Hot Unit. It seemed like Lin Feng loved drinking that liquor. Tang You You threw her ring at Lin Feng, he caught it and looked inside. There were as expected, many bottles of alcohol, it was filled with alcohol actually. Tang You You seemingly didn’t leave her residence without alcohol. She had too much on her. 

“I only drink Hot Unit.” explained Lin Feng while laughing. He grabbed all the bottles of Hot Unit and put them in his own ring. He then returned the ring back to Tang You You. 

“We should leave now.” said Lin Feng while throwing away the gourd he had just downed. He then moved back down to where the ground fell, grabbed Xiao Ya, and flew away. 
Tang You You and Yun Fei Yang nodded in agreement and followed him!