7 The Banquet (2)

Once the Sect Master of the Mystic Heaven's sect branch arrived everyone had a good meal, it was called a banquet afterall. Some of the smaller families had never had such exquisite food and wine before and was trying their best not to stuff their faces with food. Otherwise how embarassing would that be!

Though the food was quite an important aspect of this banquet, all the participants were looking forward to the spars that were about to come up. For some this could be a moment that changed their lives! Although only people under twenty would be allowed to become disciples of the Mystic Heaven's sect, the older ones might still get some benefits from another sect or gain some spiritual pills to help aid their cultivation.

For Murong Xue Meng, it meant not only more cultivation resources to help her breakthrough faster but also as a layer of protection against her step-mother and half sisters!

For this competition she had to get in the top 3!

Very soon the Sect Master announced the start of the competition! All the participants were awarded a wooden token from an elder. Each token had a number imprinted on it and all of the participants could challenge another person with a token. When the elder came to the Murong Family he gave out two tokens, one for Murong Qing Yue and one for Murong Qing Yang. He obviously didn't think that Murong Xue Meng came to participate, afterall, not only was she an illegitimate daughter but also only 10 years old. How strong could a 10 year old possibly be?

Murong Xue Meng, "Excuse me, uhm, elder could I also get a token please?"

"Hmm? Are you sure? This is a competition you know? You could get injured."

"Yes, I know what I am getting into!"

"If you know that's good, here's a token."

"Thank you"

If Murong Xue meng didn't draw attention to herself before she certainly has now. A 10 year old participating in a competition where the average age was around 15 -17 years old. Even her older half sisters were on the lower end of the age spectrum let alone her. It just seemed more a like a massive joke that the Murong family was letting her participate.

Murong Xue Meng stared at her wooden token, on it was the number "394". This is the token that people participating in the banquet would get, it determined who you would be up against. If there were 1000 people participating it would be token holder 1 against token holder 999, 2 against 998 and so on. Soon Murong Xue Meng heard her number.

"Number 394"

"Number 736"

Once Murong Xue Meng got up onto the platform she saw that her opponent was a very buff looking man. He looked like he could crush her with just a finger of his.

"First test your bone age." the elder who was hovering near the platform said.

"Number 394 is..... 10 years old!"

The drew many gasps from the crowd, what was a 10 year old doing here? Wasn't that just asking for a beating? Did the Murong Family go insane or something?

"Number 736 is... 20 years old!"

There was a 10 year age gap between the participants on this platform, the biggest there had ever been in Mystic Heaven's sect's Banquet history.

"Next is cultivation level!"

"Number 394 is peak first layer harmonisation realm!"

"What! Peak harmonisation realm at 10 years old! At her age I was still playing with mud!"

"It's almost comparable to Young master Nangong!"

"What do you mean? Young master Nangong was already 3rd layer harmonisation realm at 10 years old, how could they be compared!"

"True true."

Murong Xue Meng shook her head, if they knew that instead of peak first layer harmonisation realm she was instead peak fifth layer they might spit out blood and faint.

"Number 736 is 3rd layer harmonisation realm!"

"You may start!" The elder announced.

"I'm sorry miss, but I won't be going easy just because you're a kid! If you get injured don't blame this older brother!"

"You won't be able to injure me."

The buff man obviously didn't believe her and punched straight towards her. Even though he was rather large, his movements weren't very slow, many people wouldn't be able to dodge this move of his. With his large body and higher cultivation realm many people throught that Murong Xue Meng was already screwed.

Who knew when his punch was just about to touch her it suddenly stopped and one could only feel the wind that it left behind.

Upon a closer look at the two, they could see that this 10 year old girl had condensed a blade of yuan qi against his neck!

She then released her blade from his neck and saluted him. She then quickly left the stage with the bearing of a master.

Only then did the elder quickly announce the winner.

"Number 394 is the winner!"

Many sects were discussing this young girl who had beaten someone ten years older than her with a higher cultivation, in only one move!

Even the Sect Master of the Mystic Heaven's sect was a bit interested. However, that interest was only superficial, afterall it only happened once and could be counted as a fluke.

However, everyone's expression soon started to change. For Murong Xue Meng's last 5 matches, she only used one move! The condensed yuan qi blade!

Her half sisters' expressions grew increasingly ugly with each match that Murong Xue Meng won. Even her step-mother, who was a 'hollywood award winning actress' couldn't help but let out a slightly ugly expression as well.

Nangong Xue Yan looked at her with an intrigued expression, his older brother who was 20 this year was supposed to marry Murong Qing Yue and he himself was betrothed to Murong Qing Yang. But this Murong Xue Meng was far more interesting to him than those two.

As she kept on winning the matches one by one with only one move, her half sisters' expressions went from ugly to pure hatred. They had long since lost their matches, Murong Qing Yue was eliminated in her 6th match and Murong Qing Yang was eliminated in her 7th match. But this little trash and shame of their Murong Family actually made it to the 11th match without a single defeat! What cheats did this b*tch use?

Without any obstruction whatsoever, Murong Xue Meng entered the top 10 by only using one move. One could enter the Mystic Heaven's sect as long as they are in the top 50, however, the last 40 will be outer disciples, the top 10 will become inner disciples. Murong Qing Yang and Murong Qing Yue barely managed to get into the top 50, but this meant that they were still qualified as outer discples.

However, to Murong Xue Meng, don't even say the top ten, even second place isn't good enough for her, she had to get first place. Only then could she get some backing from the Mystic Heaven's sect and hopefully be able to improve quickly under the pressure of competition and through resources.

Soon her number was called out again.

"Number 394"

"Number 201"