558 The Smog Has Finally Dispersed, Worth Celebrating (1/2)

Since the third day of the tournament, the atmosphere finally cooled down. The shrewd fight scenes were no longer there, and the casualty rate had plummeted. It was actually better than when the two sides go all out, and it perfectly showed the spirit of competition, which won the appreciation from the audience. As for Moonless, she still had the same indifferent expression, but it was no longer dark anymore.

However, Wang Lu knew that the calmer Moonless was, the less time he had left for him.

As the organizer of the tournament, so far, everything had been according to his plan. This included the bloody and violent scene of the previous two days, along with the initial anger of Moonless. However, the situation had begun to get out of hand lately.

Wang Lu's purpose of holding the tournament was straightforward: Using Moonless' harem members to increase his own experience, and then wait for the chance to escape—these harem members, though inexperienced in actual combat, not to mention after quarreling with the other harem members for years, they had abandoned their brain, most of them still had the same origin: Monks of Temple of Heaven. Thus, their basic skills were quite solid, and their magical treasures were endless. Such an opponent, even if they were not a strong enemy, they also could not be said as trash.

However, there had to be a suitable excuse to use other people's harem to increase one's own experience. No matter how heartless Moonless was with her own harem, she would never allow her concubines to be slaughtered by others. Therefore, Wang Lu designed a life and death tournament. At the same time, in order to guide the mood of Moonless, he had specifically designed the scene of the first two days. On the surface, he designed the game to draw lots to decide the opponent, however, through secret operation, he paired those who had enmity with each other, especially for the first several matches where they had absolutely irreconcilable hate toward each other. Then, as the player of the first match, he crushed his opponent into mud by a very fierce means, which directly brought the bloody atmosphere into a fever pitch. Then, relying on inertia, the players after him would also fiercely kill each other.

This kind of inferior slaughter scene was deliberately caused by Wang Lu. And because this was out of Moonless' expectation, she was deeply dissatisfied with it. And in Moonless' dissatisfaction, the two battles of Wang Lu and Liu Li stood out from the rest and decisively won her interest.

Wang Lu's original intention was to let Moonless' interest drive her to watch, and as long as Moonless was interested in the battles of Wang Lu and Liu Li, they could safely kill their opponents in the tournament, until the all the harem concubines were killed. By that time, Wang Lu and Liu Li, who had enough experience, could also prepare to withdraw.

But now, they had to do this last step in advance. The performances of Wang Lu and Liu Li did arouse the interest of Moonless. However, the interest of Moonless had clearly exceeded his expectation. In particular, when he saw the greed in Moonless' eyes toward the immortal sword Skybreaker becoming more and more obvious… Wang Lu realized that he seemed to have underestimated the greed of Moonless in her capacity as a vassal lord.

He thought that with the previous sword strike, which was the result of the attack combination between him and Liu Li, he could virtualize a background great enough that would let Moonless refrain herself from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases. However, unexpectedly, this vassal lord of the Palace of Heaven was already on the edge of losing her mind through material greed.

At the same time, as she was a political figure, Moonless was also still a cultivator. A powerful cultivator in Heavenly Earth. Although she was not a sword cultivator in the strictest sense, Skybreaker still had an unsurpassed attraction to any cultivator.

Wang Lu believed that her greed had become more uncontrollable when she witnessed Liu Li defeat Chi Qiongying with the power of Skybreaker.

That being the case, Wang Lu had to speed up the process. On the one hand, modifying the matches in the tournament, so that the appreciation of the tournament go straight up, to distract the attention of Moonless. On the other hand...

”Well played.”

Wang Lu cupped his hand toward the kneeling woman in front of him, and then stepped down from the arena.

With primal chaos heaven splitting sword qi as his main attack and Non-Phase Sword Defense as his main defense, Wang Lu used one hundred and thirteen moves to defeat a low-level Yuanying Stage concubine. In order to win, the other party even burned a lot of innate vitality.

Since the opening of the tournament, this was the most exciting fight. Jindan Stage Wang Lu fought against a Yuanying Stage opponent. Although the process was 'more scared than hurt', it was not at all relaxed. Therefore, the harvest was also unprecedentedly rich. Wang Lu clearly felt that his primordial spirit became more concise, Jade Mansion more stable, and golden core shone more brightly… This fight was even better than training in seclusion for a month. However, the problem was that, according to this momentum, Wang Lu's next opponent would be the head concubine Xiao Yun.

Of course, this was also the result of his secret operation. Otherwise, Concubine Xiao Yun should've encountered Liu Li in the next round.

Concubine Xiao Yun, of course, had already guessed that there was Wang Lu's behind-the-scene-operation. However, she didn't care. In her opinion, whether it was Wang Lu or Liu Li, it was all the same. The two were the people of the same group and of the same breed. And regardless who her opponent would be, she had enough confidence to win.

Concubine Xiao Yun was different from the other harem members. She was the ”official” consort of Moonless, the undisputed head of the harem, noble-born, and strength stronger than her peers. If Moonless was of the same stage as her, Moonless probably would not be her opponent. It was also by her tacit consent that allowed Moonless to open her harem wide. If that was not the case, regardless of how overbearing Moonless was, the harem would not have been able to open.

Concubine Xiao Yun had already seen through the real strength of Wang Lu and Liu Li. If they were on the same stage, she was far from being their opponent. However, she was now a middle-level Yuanying Stage, with more than one hundred years of cultivation life, as well as numerous magical treasures… Even this training field of Moon Capital, when it was constructed, she also participated in it.

With conditions all in her favor, even if Wang Lu was strong, so what?

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”In view of this, please allow me to go outside to purchase some props and pieces of equipment for the fight preparation.”

In the inner hall of Moon Capital, Wang Lu petitioned for going out from Moonless.

Moonless was reclining on her throne, while the red light from her left skeleton pupil carefully scrutinized Wang Lu. She then sneered and said, ”Bad reason. Do you think I will give you the chance to escape?”

Wang Lu avoided the doubt of Moonless and instead insisted on his own opinion, ”Although the stocks are abundant in Moonless Capital, the props that I need are not here.”

Moonless sneered, ”Make a list of what you need, and I'll buy them for you. There are no things that I can't buy in the Palace of Heaven.”

Wang Lu said, ”The authority of Moonless Harmonious Heaven is unquestionable in the Palace of Heaven, I deeply understand this. But the Palace of Heaven is not only your Palace of Heaven. As the head concubine, Concubine Xiao Yun's authority is second only to you. I'm worried that if I reveal my list, it would not be long before my list falls into her hand, thus my cards would be exposed to Concubine in advance, which is extremely disadvantageous to me.”

”Oh, clever and eloquent.” Moonless continued to sneer, ”Then try to overcome that disadvantageous conditions in the fight. You are a sword cultivator, when there are challenges ahead, overcome all difficulties with your willpower.”