89 Collision

She hadn't even finished her words, when Long Chen unexpectedly grabbed onto the finger that Yu Wan had used to point at him.

"What…did you say?" He lowered his eyes as his thin lips slowly parted, curling up into a devilish smile.

Yu Wan felt the sudden contact at her fingers, and her face was frozen shock for a while, as if she had received an electric shock through her fingers.

She slowly glanced down at her white finger that was being held captive within Long Chen's hands, and then lifted her eyes back up, her long eyelashes slightly fluttering.

"You…you..." She stammered as a glint of panic flashed in her eyes, and her next instinctive reaction, was to use her Elemental Qi to blast off the intruder.

Her finger shimmered with Elemental Qi, and Long Chen abruptly felt a sense of danger radiating from his hand.

He hastily raised up his Sinking Barrier skill, while his hand had long retracted from her finger.

Even so, the blast of Elemental Qi directly impact him, and sent him flying by a few meters in the air.

And while he had gotten hit, he was inwardly cursing at how strong Yu Wan was. With a wave of his hands, he swiftly got his balance back, and landed on two feet on the ground.

"Why did you attack me for?" Long Chen cried out with a wronged expression, looking like a miserable victim, while he was still cursing at her internally.

"Why did you hold my finger for?" She finally got hold of her thoughts, and angrily retorted while slightly jumping up and down.

"Why can't I hold your finger, when you are pointing it at my face?" Long Chen aggrievedly questioned.

"You…!" Yu Wan showed a frustrated expression, but did not back down, "Who told you that you can hold a girl's finger?"

Long Chen paused for a second, then swiftly responded, "Who told you that you were a ---"

Before he could finish his argument though, Elder Su imposingly ordered, "That's enough!"

Elder Su cast a sharp glance as he shifted his eyes between Long Chen and Yu Wan, while veins were already starting to show on his forehead.

"Look at yourselves! You are the Chosens of the Sect! You are the pride of the Sect! As a Chosen, you should uphold the appropriate behaviour at all times! What are you trying to do, by having a unauthorised fight between yourselves?" He sternly berated, while his powerful aura had already been exuded out, suppressing the air about, and making his authority known.

"As a Chosen, you should at all times maintain a refined and gentle bearing, to be good to yourself, and to be good to others, and only show your bad side to your enemies! You should be akin to the Phoenixes – righteous, noble, upright, and generous! As I have always said in the past…" Elder Su took a considerably deep breath, and began to clamour nonstop while lecturing the both of them.

About a few minutes passed, before the speech of his was done, and he ended it off with giving both of them a serious warning.

As Long Chen walked back to the front, he did not forget to give Yu Wan a piercing stare, as if telling her to watch out for herself in the future.

Yu Wan turned around and responded with her own wide-eye glare.

They were engaged in this intense dead-lock for a few moments, before Feng Xin and Xiao Tian, who were speechlessly watching this scene at the side, came up forward to separate them.

"Sister Yu, to be a proper lady, you must be polished and cultured. There is no need to flare up your anger all the time." Feng Xin pulled Yu Wan to a side and sincerely told her, "Long Chen's talent is the greatest I have ever seen, and it is best for you to not incur his wrath."

"Junior Disciple Long Chen, a gentleman knows when to retreat. When you can't beat them, you have to wait till you can." Xiao Tian persuaded with a genuine smile on his face, and then he took a quick look at Yu Wan, then leaned forward while lowering his voice into a secretive whisper, "Junior Disciple Long Chen, the lady over there is definitely not a joke though. Even if I have the guts of my 18 ancestors, I won't want to provoke her."

Both Long Chen and Yu Wan turned back their head to pay attention to what Elder Su was saying, acting as though they did not care about the matter that had just occurred.

Meanwhile, a few of the Chosens began to softly mutter amongst themselves and discuss their altercation, and most of them had a glint flash through their eyes, and this glint was of astonishment.

Yu Wan's strength was put all there for all of them to know, and even if it was a casual strike of its, there was no way that someone who had just broken through to the Sky Realm would have the capability to defend against it without being injured.

And the scene which they had just saw demonstrated that Long Chen's strength was higher than what they had expected.

Elder Su had started speaking, and it was all nonsensical things that did not have much relevance to what was about to happen.

It was only after one of the bearded Elders standing beside Elder Su had nudged him in the shoulders, did he begin to talk about what he was supposed to be talking about.

"The monthly combat competition is organized to regularly assess your strength, as well as the improvements you have made."

"Out of 63, now 64 Chosens, only 44 of you are able to rank within the Top 150 of the Young Genius Roll. Our Sect has given you numerous cultivation resources, enough to almost all of you into the Young Genius Roll, but I have to say that we are disappointed to find out that some of you are unable to cherish it."

"As for these people, I hope that through this session of combat, you will be able to realize how much you have wasted, and raise your efforts to catch up to your peers in the future. And there is one thing I have to say, and it is that even if you are Chosen, if you don't meet the requirements, you will get demoted." Elder Su looked down at the Chosens with a heavy expression.

The atmosphere was a bit tense for a moment after his words had landed, as the threat of demotion and removing their distinguished statuses as Chosens, was always by far the greatest threat. And this, was also the greatest motivation.

Elder Su slowly raised his voice up, "And now, I will go through the format of how this combat competition will be conducted, for those who had forgotten, and that one newcomer."

"Within your Sect Tokens, there is a number being displayed in blue. This number corresponds to your individual ranking within the Chosens. As per usual, those within the Top 10 shall stand at the side, while the rest of the people will battle amongst themselves."

"We will be drawing slots to determine your opponent. Come up one by one." He then waved his sleeves to reveal a container of wooden slots.

After Elder Su had said this, 10 Chosens, which included Feng Xin, Xiao Tian, Yu Wan, Chen Yu Yang, and Chen Yu Tian, moved to the side of the arena, while the rest queued up in a line to collect their slots.

As Long Chen had gotten his, he looked down upon it see that the number on it was "012". He slightly creased his eyebrows, until the heard somebody around him say, "Which arena and round are you at?"

"It says 032. I am allocated to the 3rd Arena, at the 2nd Match there."

Hearing this, Long Chen released his frowned eyebrows in understanding. The first two numbers represented the arena he was assigned to, while the last number represented which round he would go up to fight.

"For those within the first round of the fight, please go up to your allocated arenas!" One of the bearded Elders stepped forward and announced.