Chapter 232: Arena Battles, Ranking Battles (1/2)

Chapter 232: Arena Battles, Ranking Battles

The arena for the compet.i.tion was in the center of the drill grounds. There was basically nothing exciting; most people who had Xiao Chen as their opponent chose to give up. Out of fifteen fights, Xiao Chen obtained a victory by default for thirteen of them.

Only Mu Heng and Zhang Lie chose to continue fighting. Unfortunately, they were unable to do anything to Xiao Chen when working together three days ago. In single combat, Xiao Chen only had to use 60 percent of his strength, and he was able to end the fight within fifty moves.

In the fifteen fights, Xiao Chen achieved a complete victory. There was no doubt who was number one. As for second place, it had to be decided between Mu Heng and Zhang Lie.

Their strength was about the same; after fighting for a long time, they had not determined a victor. In the end, Mu Heng relied on the advantages of his physical body and won a battle of attrition, defeating Zhang Lie and obtaining the second place.

All the fights ended around noon; the core disciples for this year were finally chosen. Liu Suifeng narrowly obtained the ten place; his wish was finally granted.

“Go and rest first. After the ranking battles of the core disciples are completed, you will have one final battle with the last ten core disciples,” the chief examiner reminded everyone.

Originally, Xiao Chen was thinking of leaving immediately after receiving the reward. When he heard the chief examiner’s words, he stopped. This was not too bad, either; it would be good to see how strong the ten top core disciples on the Wind Cloud List were.

The chief examiner arranged for seats in the spectator stands for Xiao Chen and the other newly appointed core disciples, separating them from the inner disciples.

After that, five hundred core disciples came out. The mood of the crowd now completely ignited. It was similar to the atmosphere of the Ranking War at the end of the year.

However, in truth, if looked at from another angle, these sudden fights could be seen as the end-of-year Ranking War. The top hundred core disciples were basically the top hundred disciples in the Heavenly Saber Pavilion.

The only difference from this and the end-of-year Ranking War was a significant reduction of people taking part. The quality of the compet.i.tors was high. Thus, it was of a pretty intense level.

“Ye Chen, I feel that, with your strength, if you took part in this core disciple ranking battle, you would be able to place within the top ten,” Mu Heng, who was beside, suddenly commented.

Zhang Lie was somewhat dissatisfied; he said, “You must be joking. The cultivation of the top ten are at least at the peak of Inferior Grade Martial Saint.”

“Martial Grand Master to Martial Saint is the first big hurdle of all cultivators. Even if one was just a thread’s width away, the difference in strength is like heaven and earth. They are able to exteriorize their Essence to attack. Furthermore, their attacking force is multiple times stronger.”

There was indeed a huge different between a Martial Grand Master and Martial Saint; Zhang Lie was not wrong. If a peak Superior Grade Martial Master defeated an Inferior Grade Martial Grand Master, or even a Medial Grade Martial Grand Master, it would not be too surprising.

However, if a peak Superior Grade Martial Grand Master wanted to defeat a recently advanced Inferior Grade Martial Saint, it would be very difficult. Although there were precedents in the Tianwu Continent, these were geniuses seen only once in a hundred years.

If not, they had an innate bloodline with an inherited Martial Spirit or their Cultivation Technique was significantly stronger than their opponent’s. Only then could they achieve such a result.

With Xiao Chen’s strength, Zhang Lie was of the opinion he could still defeat an ordinary Inferior Grade Martial Saint. However, the weakest of the top ten core disciples was at least a peak Inferior Grade Martial Saint. Furthermore, they all had experienced hundreds of fights before they managed to make their way to the top ten.

They were simply a cla.s.s higher than the common Martial Saints below the mountains. Simply their Cultivation Technique was much stronger than an ordinary Martial Saint.

Xiao Chen was indifferent to their discussions. There was no point in talking about it. The only way to convince someone was to actually fight. There would eventually be a fight to prove this.

Mu heng looked at Zhang Lie and said, “Don’t feel unconvinced. Three days ago, when we were working together, we were only able to make Ye Chen use 60 percent of his strength. If he fought without holding back, he would be comparable to a Medial Grade Martial Saint.”

Only sixty percent of his strength? Zhang Lie was in disbelief. Combined with Mu Heng, they were already comparable to an ordinary Medial Grade Martial Saint.

If Xiao Chen was able to fight them using only sixty percent of his strength, did that mean an ordinary Medial Grade Martial Saint would not be his match?

That is impossible! Ye Chen is only a peak Superior Grade Martial Grade Master. How could he even compete on equal grounds? Zhang Lie shook his head, deciding not to pursue this question any further.

There were ten arenas in the drill grounds. The rules of the compet.i.tion were the same as earlier: to acc.u.mulate points. The top ninety core disciples would be decided from the number of points.

The strength of the core disciples could not be underestimated; most of them had a set of trump cards of their own. Furthermore, as someone who used a saber as well, Xiao Chen did not find it boring to watch match after match. He could consider this as expanding his horizons as well.

However, even though it was fantastic, there were no highlights. Watching endlessly under the hot sun bored people somewhat.

“The Jade Maiden Peak’s Yun Kexin is coming out. She is within the top ten on the Wind Cloud List. Her Heavenly Melody Saber Technique cannot be defended. I wonder who her opponent is?”

“She is going against the ranked eighteenth Yan Feng. He is ruthless, but he should not be a match for Yun Kexin.”

“After watching for so long, someone from the top ten finally comes out. I was starting to feel bored.”

“Same for me as well. If it were not for these top ten rankers, I would not have come today.”