After Ji Yuan had returned to the battle room, he eagerly inspected his victory spoils; he had plenty of debts to clear and he was eager to find more high grade spirit stones to repay his debts.
But to his disappointment, he found nothing.
He began to curse loudly, “He is actually a pauper! Then why did he wear so beautiful for?!”
But soon began to calm down as he growled softly. “Most of the cultivators will have lost a round or two by the time they have reached the mid-levels or so.”
He estimated that only around 20% of the cultivators would be able to keep their possessions and less than 5% of the 10,000 cultivators would be able to retain their possessions at the end of the trial.
With a soft sigh, he stared at his five wings totem and 19 slaughter points now.
He had five more battles to go before he could overcome this trial.
If he could win all his battles then he would need 10 days more and not 20 days, finishing earlier than the time that was given.
However he preferred to take it easy because he did not want to meet the more difficult opponents plus he had to wait for his beloved maidens to slowly catch up too.
Naturally Ji Yuan did not want to fight them so he had to allow his other opponents to obtain the wings first so he was purposely going slow.
However his masterful plan had a flaw now; his debts would be increasing at each passing day!
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Two days later Ji Yuan was back to the battle arena again.
This time round his opponent was a Great Saint from the Barren Celestial Fraternity. He was none other than Tang Yumen from the Air Faction.
Now Tang Yumen was also a top cultivator from the Air Faction and he had been undefeated so far.
Among all the opposing factions, Tang Yumen from the Air Faction, Lin Antian from the Earth Faction and Chu Ren from the Water Faction were all highly dangerous opponents that Ji Yuan was wary of.
Even though Ji Yuan had defeated Chu Ren through his stunning display of profound power but he knew that he had only won because he had caught an unwary Chu Ren with another profound attack when he was least suspecting it.
Now Tang Yumen had also divine harmonized with his divine sword and he was also a master of poisons and secret projectiles.
Yu Jingjing had actually lost very badly after her encounter with Tang Yumen.
And it made Ji Yuan’s blood boiled when he recalled how despicable Tang Yumen had been and he was even trying to rip off Yu Jingjing’s clothing off her.
Although Yu Jingjing was not his girl but she was now his best friend in this trial so naturally Ji Yuan was unhappy to see Tang Yumen.
Xiang Li was asking Ji Yuan, “Big Brother, why are you so upset? I can see your emotions through your soul sea. You look as if he had green you?”
Ji Yuan frowned, “Even though he did not green me but it is still the same as greening me.”
Xiang Li: ???
“Haha. You won’t understand.” Ji Yuan laughed. “Only I can touch Maiden Yu Jingjing, you know.”
Xiang Li giggled. “So he had already green you by touching Maiden Yu.”
Ji Yuan: …
Tang Yumen was smiling as he faced Ji Yuan. “Since we are both expert cultivators, there is no point of fighting to the last man standing. Why don’t we have a draw instead?”
Ji Yuan raised his head and touched his beardless chin, “What if I were to say no?”
Tang Yumen appeared to be surprised but he was soon smiling, “Ji Yuan, you will soon regret your insolence!”
Ji Yuan hummed coldly as he immediately displayed his saintly divine sword causing a minuscule shockwave in the vicinity.
Many of the fighters had already stopped fighting and they were saying to each other, “Why don’t we observe their fights first.”
Ji Yuan vs. Tang Yumen!
This was the fight between two of the strongest cultivators in their cohort!
Tang Yumen was the first to make his move as he raised his heaven-step divine sword.
Ji Yuan grinned as he raised his saintly divine sword to meet his opponent.
But all of a sudden Ji Yuan was startled when Tang Yumen had suddenly blinked on top of him with him!
This Tang Yumen was not only a speed cultivator but he seemed to be capable of using a blink profound art that could allow him to vanish and blink instantaneously!
For him to use his special profound art on Ji Yuan, it only means that he considered him as a threat.
There was a thunderous impact as Ji Yuan raised his sword above him to meet Tang Yumen’s onslaughter.
But all of a sudden when both their divine swords had clashed, Tang Yumen’s heaven-step divine sword had transformed into an immortal-step divine sword!
In that instant Ji Yuan was flattened onto the ground as he rolled out of harm’s way in the next instant.
Tang Yumen was grinning as he threw dozens of secret projectiles from his sleeves and each of the needles could cause a mini implosion that could kill any golden supremacies!
Everyone was gasping with startled shock at the martial display that was from Tang Yumen as the vicinity over Ji Yuan had exploded into a burst of mushroom debris and thick smog was formed as dozens of secret projectiles exploded simultaneously.
“You’re surely dead by now.” Tang Yumen was grinning.
It was because the speed of his secret projectiles exceeded the reflexes of many of the cultivators here and was extremely difficult to block and moreover Ji Yuan was not a power cultivator. Therefore the explosion would have severely wounded him.
But all of a sudden he appeared to be quite startled when he saw that Ji Yuan had stepped out of the smog with an ugly look but he was nevertheless unharmed.
“What the…” Tang Yumen was startled as he threw another dozen secret projectiles at Ji Yuan.