Chapter 423 - Rank 50 (1/2)

The elder looked at Alex with a bit of a surprise.

”Disciple, did you say 50?” he asked.

”Yes, Elder,” Alex said and handed the elder his badge preemptively. The elder took the badge and looked at it.

'2144? What's going on?' the elder wondered. He was having the same problem as the elder from the disciple hall. However, since fights required cultivation base and not a robe's color, the elder didn't say anything as he could clearly see Alex's cultivation base.

”Alright, go to stage 12,” the Elder said. Alex took his badge and walked away.

Even though it was early in the morning, since this was the last day of the week with unlimited fights, people were pretty excited and were already here to fight.

Alex went to the stage that was numbered 12 and waited. He watched the fights that took place on the stages with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

He was trying to predict what happened in the fight based on the usage of the elements and the fighters' cultivation base, but in the end, there were simply too many variables for him to keep track of.

The fight ended, and Alex's number was called, but the fighter wasn't here yet. So, Alex had to wait for another fight to end.

That fight ended, and his number was called again, but his opponent didn't come. Alex had to wait for nearly 1 hour with his number being called all the time.

Alex wasn't really worried about his opponent showing up or not, as not showing up for 1 hour simply forfeited the battle in the favor of the one that did show up.

However, Alex was worried that he would have to wait until the end of the day before he got his own house when the elders kicked the disciples that didn't leave.

Fortunately, his opponent did show up in time.

”Number 50 and Number 2144,” the referee elder called out.

Alex raised his hand and walked up onto the stage. From the other side of the stage, a brown-haired girl with a frowning face walked up onto the stage.

When Alex laid eyes on her, he was genuinely surprised. 'Meridian Tempering 3rd Realm? What?' he thought. He had mistakenly assumed that the core disciples ranking also consisted of inner sect disciples in his mind. Not many people could possibly have such a high cultivation base in the Hong Wu sect, so he assumed the same for the Tiger sect too.

'Well, should I show my strength a little or try to stay a little lowkey?' he wondered for a bit, but then soon realized that it wouldn't be lowkey if he beat the girl with a lower cultivation base than her.

He slowly increased his cultivation base aura such that it matched the same as the girl's. The referee asked the two of them to move to the opposite ends of the stage, and as he did, he heard the girl say something under her breath.

”God damn NPCs and their rules. I should just leave this shitty sect and go elsewhere soon,” the girl said.

'NPC? A player?' Alex thought curiously. Wen Cheng talked about the Trevor guy, but he also said there were quite a few players that decided to stay behind.

'She must be one of those players. Her name is probably randomly generated too, so most people here don't realize it,' Alex thought.

He brought out a common sword for this fight and waited for the girl to bring out something. However, she did nothing. Instead, she just rolled up her sleeves and got into a boxing stance.

'Is she gonna fight me… barehanded?' Alex couldn't help but get a fond sense of curiosity when he saw that.

”FIGHT!” the elder shouted.

The girl dashed forward. She prepared a punch that suddenly came alight as if it was burning with fire.

'Physical and Elemental?' Alex thought and attacked her with his sword. The sword hit the right hand of the girl stopping her in her place. However, the left hand of hers attacked without stopping and flew towards Alex.

Alex dodged to the right and hit her overextended hands with the common sword. Since he hadn't used any Qi at all, most of the strength that hit her came from his body, and that wasn't strong enough to put a cut on her.

But it was surely enough to hurt her. ”Ow!” the girl cried out and jumped back.

Alex looked at her and thought, 'she isn't used to fighting very much, is she?' Even though he himself was a beginner to fighting styles, he had just enough training to know what one should and should not do during a fight.

When fighting against a person with a sword, the woman should have been keeping in mind the reach a sword had compared to her hands.

With that in mind, she should have only gone in on an attack like that when Alex's sword was not so freely sticking right next to her left hand.

The girl looked at the red on the skin of her left arm and got angry. Alex didn't smile or make any signs of provocation and just waited for her to attack again.

As expected, the girl jumped at him again. She punched him with her right arm again. Alex could guess where this was going but decided to indulge in this.

He hit her hands with his sword once again, however, this time, instead of hitting the sword, she decided to catch it in her grasp. Taking the opportunity, she threw her left punch once again.