A Demon's Path Chapter 46

Everyone was questioning Shen Nanfeng's unreasonable decision. If they all acted like that, who would participate in the first rounds next year? However, they wisely kept their mouths shut. Judging from Luo Shang's sour look and Shen Nanfeng's poker face, they best not butt in.

The Sunny Spring Sect and Sand Mound Sect found their seats in the grandstand. When they were properly seated, a well-built youngster with flinty eyes stepped forward from behind Wang Batian.

Ling Xiao cursed him under his breath as the youngster swaggered up together with Ling Xiao and the others to draw lots from Shen Mingfang. You bastard. You're really asking for a beating. You're late, yet you're still so flamboyant. You better pray we don't get matched up together!

The youngster seemed to have felt the murderous aura emanating from Ling Xiao and shot him a sidelong glance. But Ling Xiao had already tossed him to the back of his mind, his attention now fully focused on Shen Mingfang's impressive figure. Tsk tsk. She's on par with Mistress.

When his Mistress came to mind, Ling Xiao unexpectedly felt uncomfortable. After a moment, he came to his senses and realised there was already a ballot card in his hands. He raised his head in a daze and his eyes met Shen Mingfang's. His heart wildly throbbed when he saw the spurious look in her eyes.

"What is it? Do you have something on your mind?" Shen Mingfang asked with a small smile on her face.

Ling Xiao was overwhelmed seeing how a powerhouse of the Clear Sky Continent was so amiable and approachable. He nodded and replied, "Yes. I'm sorry, my mind was wandering about."

"It's fine. Take your seat," said Shen Mingfang.

Only then did Ling Xiao realise he'd been standing in front of Shen Mingfang for quite some time, hoarding the position for others to draw lots. This is really embarrassing. Ling Xiao quickly took his leave and thought to himself, Cheng Yu will definitely think I'm-

"Pervert! Lecher!" Cheng Yu cursed out at the rear end of the ground. He even dares to make a move on this kind of woman. This guy is hopeless!

Cheng Yu was really the only one with such thoughts. Everyone else present was only madly jealous of this moment Ling Xiao shared with Shen Mingfang. What lucky few ever got an eyeful of Shen Mingfang up close? He really is a man amongst men!

Shen Nanfeng squinted his eyes and glanced at this boy who stood out from the masses. He thought Ling Xiao looked a little familiar, but couldn't recall where he'd seen him before. Naturally, it didn't occur to him that Ling Xiao was the boy he'd tossed into Cheng Qiantai's care as though he was a bag of dirt only a few months ago.

"That boy is Ling Xiao, the one rumoured to be one of the newcomers with the greatest potential? When did the Northern Jade Sect have such a disciple?" Shen Nanfeng had heard a few rumours these past few days and Ling Xiao's name was one of them.

Elder Yue was in charge of collecting information in the Sunken Wind Valley. When he heard Shen Nanfeng ask this question, he felt a little awkward as he answered, "That… Valley master, he's the youngster you and the other Sect Masters placed in Cheng Qiantai's care when you were in Northern Jade City last time." Elder Yue worded it politely, addressing the matter to be a collective decision rather than one the Valley Master made alone.

Shen Nanfeng recalled the matter from months ago and laughed. "Cheng Qiantai is amazing too. He can actually train his disciple up to be so outstanding. It's a pity he was adamant in not giving Li Yuanhuan to the Sunken Wind Valley five years ago. I wonder whether this boy will be sensible."

Shen Nanfeng had originally cast Ling Xiao aside like trash, yet now he wished for him to enter the Sunken Wind Valley. This was something Ling Xiao would never see coming.

Meanwhile, Ling Xiao directed his full attention on his next opponent stated on the ballot card. Luckily, he was matched up with an easy opponent. Then again, the only bad draw was Li Yuanchong, everything else was a favourable draw in his books.

Qian Hai's opponent was an acquaintance of theirs. It was Wang Daotian of the Sunny Spring Sect, Wang Batian's younger brother. He was the well-built youngster representing the late comers.

Coincidentally, Cheng Yu's opponent in the second round of the solo eliminations was a girl too. Ling Xiao glanced at her out of curiosity and noticed she was looking at Cheng Yu. He caught a malicious glint in the girl's eyes as though Cheng Yu owed her 100,000 gems. Ling Xiao sighed. There's no helping it, Senior Sister. Who asked you to look so much prettier than her?

On the other hand, Wang Daotian and Qian Hai immediately glared at one another when they met. Wang Daotian evilly laughed and said, "Be careful, Elder Brother Xiao Hai, I wouldn't want to hurt your beautiful face."

"Wang Daotian, you should be worried about your own wellbeing!" Qian Hai furiously rebuked.

The second round of the solo eliminations had 60 contestants all together, which meant there would only be 30 left at the end of this round.

There was nothing worth noting in Ling Xiao's next match. Even though he deliberately concealed his abilities, an ordinary orange ranked Chain Soul Master simply wasn't his opponent. With his twin seven souls, Ling Xiao considered very few his match.

More importantly, Ling Xiao ended his match as fast as he could so he had time to observe the other battles. His intuition told him unusual things would definitely unfold in this second round of the solo eliminations.

Ling Xiao noticed the white-robed Li Yuanchong as he left the field and headed back to the spectator's grandstand.

He too saw Ling Xiao at this moment.

The both of them exchanged a glance as they brushed by each other.

When Ling Xiao walked past Li Yuanchong, an icy-cold voice sounded out behind him. "I don't want this newcomers tournament to be too boring. I hope you can last 10 attacks from me when we do get to meet in battle."

Ling Xiao didn't respond as though he hadn't heard what Li Yuanchong said. He headed straight back to where the Northern Jade Sect was seated.

Li Yuanhuan quickly approached him with a worried look plastered across his face. "Junior Brother Ling, what did that guy say to you?"

Ling Xiao lightly laughed. "It's nothing. We're of the same frame of mind. It's just the way he worded it that's a little different from how I would."

Li Yuanhuan didn't pursue this matter any further seeing as Ling Xiao wasn't willing to say anything. Instead, he quickly turned his gaze over to Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu was paired with another strong opponent again this time, tiring her until she was drenched in sweat. The girl was around Cheng Yu's age, but her attacks were far more vicious than Cheng Yu's. Other than being spicily ruthless, she was also utterly shameless. Every jab was either aimed at Cheng Yu's heart and throat or for the sole purpose of cutting her face. There were even times when she intentionally stabbed toward the female parts of her body.

How could Cheng Yu have seen such a shameless manner of fighting before? She was not only embarrassed, but anxious too. Her opponent almost managed to make use of the couple of mistakes she made, constantly endangering her.

Even Ling Xiao who'd always been utterly shameless couldn't help but curse her. "She's shameless! The epitome of shamelessness!"

Many young Celestial Soul Masters were also taking note of Cheng Yu's battle. They either hollered or whistled lewdly at her. Thankfully, the soundproofing effect of the array surrounding the field was sublime. Cheng Yu didn't hear a single sound from the outside at all, if not she'd be infuriated.

Shiiiiiirrkkkk! A moment of carelessness on Cheng Yu's part gave the girl an opening to cut a gashing hole in her clothes right in front of her chest. A sexy scene almost unfurled before everyone's eyes.

The catcalling outside the field grew even louder. Many disciples started cheering at the top of their lungs, "Another slash! Another cut! Hack her clothes apart!"

Li Yuanhuan had anger written all over his face with his fists tightly clenched. If possible, he really wanted to take the field and rip that girl's clothes to shreds.

"Shameless!" Cheng Yu furiously roared out and finally used her Northern Jade Celestial Strike after facing the danger of her opponent slashing her face.

Woosh! A white sword light flew out and guided a large amount of orange soulforce from the Strength Soul to draw the word heaven in large letters in front of her.

"I knew you were going to use this move!" the girl sneered. She jumped into the air and spun multiples times before violently slashing down with her sword. An orange sword shadow more than 50 meters long flew out from the girl's sword, ruthlessly smashing down on Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu forced the word created with her soulforce forward, where it collided with her opponent's sword shadow.

An explosive rumble ensued and a burst of dust flew upwards. The sword shadow split Cheng Yu's attack in half.

After the word heaven was split apart, the power of the sword shadow didn't weaken in the slightest as it continued flying towards Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu was startled as she quickly raised her sword to block the oncoming attack. The sword shadow collided with her and sent her flying. It only stopped pushing her backwards when Cheng Yu's back knocked into the wall created by the array.

"Die!" An ominous glint flashed in the girl's eyes. In the next moment, she caught up to Cheng Yu with her sword aimed at her throat.

Defending against the sword shadow had consumed almost all of Cheng Yu's energy. She didn't have the energy to counter the girl's attack, so she could only rely on her instinctive response to block the attack with her sword.

A crisp and clear sound rang in the air. The tip of the girl's sword rammed into the blade of Cheng Yu's sword. Both of them simultaneously focused all of their energy on their weapons. If Cheng Yu slightly weakened her grip, the girl would pierce her throat!

The duo was in a deadlock for a few seconds. Li Yuanhuan was on the verge of having a nervous breakdown as he cried out, "Junior Sister, quickly concede! Concede!"

Ling Xiao stared straight at Cheng Yu as he calmly said, "Senior Brother, don't you understand Senior Sister by now? She would rather die than concede."

Chapter end