Chapter 223: Intense Arena Battles (1/2)

Chapter 223: Intense Arena Battles

Liu Suifeng smiled at Liu Ruyue and then nodded at Xiao Chen. After that, he quietly looked at the black rock in front of him.

After Liu Suifeng consumed the Flowing Light Flower Xiao Chen gave him, his Martial Techniques and Cultivation Techniques had improved rapidly for the past three days. His cultivation realm was now firmly stabilized at peak Superior Grade Martial Grand Master.

As long as he did not make any mistakes with the execution, there should not be any problems.

“Break!” Liu Suifeng shouted. He drew the small saber hanging at his waist. There was a bright glow on the saber as he hacked at the resilient black rock violently.

“Zi Zi!”

The blade cut into the rock and slid down continuously. Liu Suifeng had already succeeded halfway. However, the expression on his face did not relax.

There were many inner disciples before him who had their sabers stuck in the middle after they saber cut into the rock, resulting in their failure.

The image of w.a.n.g Rong’s mocking expression appeared in Liu Suifeng’s mind. He increased the amount of force being placed on the saber significantly. With a ‘shua’ sound, the rock was broken into halves quickly and violently.

“Qingyun Peak, Liu Suifeng… pa.s.s!”

Liu Suifeng wiped the sweat off his forehead and walked over to Xiao Chen. They b.u.mped fists firmly as he said joyfully, “I succeeded!”

“Congratulations!” Xiao Chen said sincerely.

Liu Suifeng withdrew his smile, “It is not time for congratulations yet. There are two more stages, we have to continue to work hard!”

“Don’t be too happy yet. Even though you cleared the foundational stage, I will chase you two off during the arena battles,” Zhang Lie said as he suddenly walked over and confronted Xiao Chen.

“Especially you. As long as I am in the Heavenly Saber Pavilion, you can forget about becoming a core disciple.”

Zhang Lie could be said to be flushed with success in the Heavenly Saber Pavilion; his future was unlimited. The only thing he could not put down was the fact he had entered Tianyue Peak by means of pulling strings.

He had to completely defeat Xiao Chen in order to prove his own worth. Only then could he put down the thorn in his heart.

Xiao Chen initially did not have any impression of Zhang Lie. Only when he heard the people beside him mentioning his status did he recall the matter of the Zhang Clan’s attempted a.s.sa.s.sination in Evil Wind Valley.

Repay kindness with kindness, repay evil with evil; this had always been Xiao Chen’s principle when dealing with people. However the Zhang Clan treated him, he would repay it sooner or later. However, he had been busy training in Qingyun Peak and had not had the time to deal with this.

Since Zhang Lie delivered himself to Xiao Chen, there was no reason for him to let him off. He said indifferently, “I should be the one saying that to you.”

“We will see!” Zhang Lie snorted coldly and left.

After a while, the first stage of the core disciple exam finally ended. The chief examiner did a headcount; out of the initial three hundred inner disciples, only a hundred were left.

The first stage of the exam had eliminated two-thirds of the partic.i.p.ant. Everyone felt it was horrifying.

After the chief examiner counted them, he led everyone to another side of the drill grounds. They stopped before a patch of land about 800 meters wide.

There was a thick black cloth covering the surface of it. They could not see what was underneath the black cloth.

“Hua!”

The two deputy examiner went forward and pulled aside the dark cloth. A square formation filled with spears sticking out of the ground was revealed to everyone.

The sharp spear tips were flickering in the sunlight. When everyone looked at them, they felt their scalps go numb.

A portion of the two-meter spears were buried in the ground. The twenty-centimeter long rhombus-shaped spear heads were giving off a cold gleam under the intense sun, showing that they were incredibly sharp.

The distance between the spears was wide, a distance of about 1.5 meters. Several tens of thousands of spears formed a rectangular formation, with a length of a thousand meters and breadth of four hundred meters.

The chief examiner looked at the people who pa.s.sed the first stage and said, “The second stage will test your Movement Techniques. Just stay on top of this spear formation for an hour and you will pa.s.s.”

Immediately after he spoke, the expressions of more than a hundred people changed. There were some who rejoiced and some who were anxious. The ones who focused on their Movement Techniques or had high ranked Movement Techniques had relatively joyful expressions.

Those inner disciples who placed their efforts in other areas had unsightly expressions. For them to be able to enter the inner sect of the Heavenly Saber Pavilion, their Movement Techniques naturally could not be weak.

However, they had not spent large amounts of time on their Movement Techniques. It would be difficult if they wanted to stay on top of the formation for an hour; these people were already starting to feel nervous.

Stay up there for an hour? I’m afraid it will not be that simple, Xiao Chen thought to himself as he looked at the huge formation. If it was simply staying on it for an hour, the size of this spear formation would not be so large.

Furthermore, although it would be difficult to stay on it for an hour, without any external interference most of the people present should be able to clear this stage.

“Pu! Pu! Pu!”

Footsteps could be heard. There were several Jade Maiden Peak female elders dressed in white walking over quickly. They split into groups of three, each group going to the four corners of the spear formation.

After the chief examiner saw this group of people, he said, “After you land on the ground, you have failed. Aside from this, there are no rules. Your time starts now!”

“Sou! Sou! Sou!”