Chapter 73 – Unwilling (2/2)

The fall wind was a little cold. The lights of the Seventh of July were only in the ordinary families, but not in the royal palace making it even colder.

The old man wore his clothes tighter and said, “If the event ends without a fight, Qiu Shan Jun will definitely feel unwilling later when he finds out. Since Tang Thirty Six could not participate in the first two nights of the Ivy Festival, he has been feeling unwilling. Also since the southerners didn’t participate in the first two nights of the Ivy Festival, why don’t you guys just fight? Since it is already so late, please make it fast.”

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The door was opened and the lights from the Night Pearls emitted in the darkness. The square in front of the palace became very bright.

Outside of the royal palace, the the streets in the capital were still crowded. Far away there were people igniting the Eternal Fires. In the southwest corner, there were fireworks burning.

There were hundreds of people who stood on the staircase in front of the palace. They were all looking at the two groups divided into the east and west of the square. They all had feelings. Some were indifferent, some felt worried, some felt happy, but none of them were nervous.

In the Ivy Festival in the recent years, the competitions between schools in the capital hadn’t stopped. There were always some dramatic events occurring. In the Ivy Festival this year, the first night was forced to end early because Luo Luo destoryed Tian Hai Ya Er. There wasn’t anything exciting that happened on the second night. The third night, everyone thought the main scene would the proposal from the Southern Ambassadors, but an exciting event had happened. Now, they were finally facing the real fight.

But unfortunately before the fight even began, the result was already known. Because the results were known, none could get nervous.

Gou Han Shi wouldn’t fight himself. His xiuxing stage was already much higher than others in his age. Like Qiu Shan Jun, he was no longer in the Honor Roll of Green Cloud but in the Honor Roll of Midas. If he fought Luo Luo or Tang Thirty Six, the match would be unfair.

Previously he suggested to have a literacy competition with Chen Chang Sheng because of the inequity in regards of strength. Since in the literacy competition people only need to speak, there would be victory and loss but no wounds and death.

In the competition between the Tradition Academy and the Li Mountain Sword sect, the Tradition Academy was allowed to choose both how and who to compete. The Li Mountain Sword Sect seemed to act generous, but actually there’s no difference. The disciples from the Li Mountain Sword sect who came to the capital, were all among the Seven Rulings. It’s difficult for the Tradition Academy to win anyone of them.

“Originally I was going to challenge the fourth ruling…….this kid know about this.”

Tang Thirty Six pointed at Chen Chang Sheng and said to Luo Luo, “But since tonight is a fight between schools, then I can’t just do whatever I want. The fourth ruling is the strongest, obviously I will let you take over. I want to try to defeat the kid named Qi Jian.”

Luo Luo said, “I am fine with it.”

Chen Chang Sheng thought a bit and said, “If we do this, the chance to win is small.”

Tang Thirty Six looked at him and said sarcastically, “I wanted to use the ancient horse race method. Let our weakest fight their strongest……but the problem is you are way too weak. We can’t even let you get on the field. Obviously we can only try to win two fights continuously, so you don’t have to get out and lose face.”

Luo Luo actually felt very confident about Chen Chang Sheng even though she didn’t even know where her confidence came from.

At the moment, the people from the Li Mountain Sword sect walked out.

The one who walked in the front was a young man. He was not even fully grown yet but actually looked even smaller than Luo Luo.

He’s Qi Jian, ranked last, and also was the weakest among the Seven Rulings.

Qi Jian was Li Mountain Sword sect master’s close-door disciple(last disciple he would take). He was very young, but had ranked in the top ten on the Honor Roll of Green Cloud, until on one meeting two years ago. He barely lost to Zhuang Huan Yu, so he was dropped to eleventh, but no one dared to look down on him.

Because he’s really small.

His rope appeared very loose, blowing up by wind, Hoo Hoo, looked somewhat cute.

Tang Thirty Six saw this scene, sighed and said, “How can I even hit him?”

Chen Chang Sheng sighed and said, “Sounds like you can actually beat him.”

Tang Thirty Six felt very angry, stared at him.

Tang Thirty Six laughed, didn’t speak.

Tang Thirty Six suddenly remained silent for a while, then said, “If we can fortunately win two fights, this kid doesn’t have to get on. If I lose, then Luo Luo you should just surrender, so we lose two fights continuously, then this kid no longer needs to fight.”

Chen Chang Sheng noticed his word “fortunately.”

Although he’s fearless, but it doesn’t mean he was blinded by his own enthusiasm.

Tang Thirty Six knew the opponent was strong.

Luo Luo didn’t understand, why if he lost, she had to surrender too?

Was it really more important for master to not go up than the loss of the Tradition Academy?

“Yes, the Tradition Academy only got a few sparrows like us, is it really shameful to lose to the Li Mountain Sword sect? Fine, it’s certainly shameful, but that doesn’t matter, as long as you don’t go up…..If you don’t go up, then they can’t get back the reputation they lost today.”

Tang Thirty Six looked at the calm person standing in the opposite at the square, said, “Let them feel unwilling!”

After saying this, he held on to the handle of his sword, walked towards the opposite side.