A Child's Play
--- Chapter 50 ---
Hayate yawned while looking at Yun Che's fight. He plainly wasn't even entertained by his display of power, not even a bit.
"It's boring." He commented while seeing Yun Che pointing his greatsword at him.
"I'll defeat you next." Yun Che declared confidently, leaving Cang Yue on the side speechless.
Cang Yue knew very well that Yun Che was still chasing after her. Still, his ambition is too delusional to be true because she has a fiance already.
"Sure, buddy," Hayate responded lazily. "Don't disappoint me with your little fire."
Yun Che sneered inside and walked out off the stage, causing Ling Wuguo to frown at them. The Dark Horse has animosity with Hayate.
"How weird." Ling Wugou whispered to himself.
He shook his head slightly and proceeded to start another match. Another duo of contestants stepped onto the battle stage and began to fight against each other.
Hayate closed his eyes and meditated to absorb the recovery pill in his abdomen. He entered a calm state where everything flowed slowly in his mind.
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After a few minutes of deep meditation, Cang Yue gently tapped his thigh and said, "Hayate, Qingyue is fighting."
Hayate opened his eyes and saw Xia Qingyue entering the stage with a young woman from an unknown sect.
"3rd round, sixth match." Ling Wuguo stared at Xia Qingyue and her opponent.
"Fight!"
Xia Qingyue didn't waste a single movement and moved forward with an opened palm. Her snowy robe fluttered gently, sending a chill to the entire stage.
BOOM!
A powerful cold blast escaped Xia Qingyue's palm, sending her opponent out of the bound. It's an instant victory with no resistance from the other side.
The tournament site became quiet, and Hayate clapped his hand naturally.
Hayate stared at Xia Qingyue and opened his lips, "Good fight."
"I know." Xia Qingyue smiled behind her veil and stepped out off the stage.
The other couldn't grasp how Xia Qingyue was blasting her opponent like a ragdoll. Her cultivation realm is clearly at the Peak Spirit Profound Realm, but this is beyond that.
Her previous fights were nothing compared to the top 32 they currently compete in. Not to mention there aren't many middle-stage Spirit Profound Realms that fought her.
At the Heavenly Sword Villa's watching tower, Ling Kun grinned when looking at Xia Qingyue. "Hehe, It's the Nine Profound Exquisite Body." He mumbled while rubbing his hands.
"How lucky of me to find a girl with a precious physique like her in a place like this." He sent a bird carrier to a place on another part of the Profound Sky Continent.
Ling Kun narrowed his eyes slightly because he felt a presence near him.
"Who's there?" He released a powerful sword intent.
Bam!
A portion of the wall quickly was ruined into pieces, revealing nothing but air. Ling Kun used his profound sense to scan the surroundings and couldn't find a single presence.
"Is it just my feeling?" He crossed his arms in confusion.
A blindfolded man was hanging below the watching tower's platform. He's one of the Ghosts secretly assigned to observe Ling Kun under Hong Guan's order.
He moved his gaze to the bird carrier and released his hand off the platform, disappearing into thin air.
A few hundred meters away, the Ghost caught the bird carrier and checked the content carefully.
A frown appeared on Ghost's face because Ling Kun was selling Xia Qingyue's physique information to Ye Xinghan, the young master of Sun Moon Divine Hall.
Sun Moon Divine Hall is one of the Four Great Sacred Grounds in the Profound Sky Continent. However, Their overall strength and number of experts are weaker than the others.
As for Ye Xinghan, he's the son of Sun Moon Divine Hall's master. He is a perverted womanizer who loves beautiful women.
Not only that, but he also constantly kidnapped women to be training incubators, increasing his heretic Dual Cultivation profound art.
"I have to tell, mistress." He said while putting the massage back to the original placement and sending the bird carrier back.
The Ghost disappeared from the mountain range and moved in the shadow. He arrived at the teahouse and changed his outfit into a male servant.
He approached Hong Guan calmly like a servant and whispered a few words into her ears, causing her green eyes to widen in surprise.
"I see." Hong Guan nodded while dismissing him away.
Xuanyuan Yufeng isn't paying attention to Hong Guan and the servant because she was smelling the vials in her hand. A pure ecstasy clearly was described on her blushed face.
Hong Guan grasped Xuanyuan Yufeng's hand and said, "Yufeng, you can help me, right?"
"I'll give you more of that vial later."
"Sure~." Xuanyuan Yufeng responded like a drunk person.
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Hayate also received the same news through Little Ghost on his side. His expression turned grim with extreme coldness in his golden eyes.
'Looks like we have to start our plan sooner.' He thought while checking the watching tower.
'Ling Kun, huh.'
Cang Yue shivered because she was sitting beside Hayate. His cold glare caught her off guard. "What happened?" She asked naturally.
Hayate shook his head and answered, "It's nothing."
"Xun'er informed me that someone is trying to steal something from me."
"I'll deal with him later."
"It's time for me to fight." He added while walking down from his seat.
Ling Wuguo watched Hayate enter the stage. He couldn't grasp what was wrong with this young man, but his presence was different than before.
As for Hayate's enemy, it was one of Heavenly Sword Villa's participants. A young man in a polite white robe and a sword resting on his back.
"Ling Ming." The young man greeted while cupping his hand.
Hayate entered his stance and returned, "Hayate."
They stared at each other for a few seconds, and Ling Wuguo started the match.
"Third Round, 16th match."
"Started!"
Hayate's figure disappeared and left a faint afterimage on the field.
Ling Ming drew his sword and moved it horizontally, creating a full moon energy slash.
Swoosh!
The air vibrated sharply, but Ling Ming didn't touch anything for some reason.
'Above me!' He thought while looking at Hayate in the air.
Ling Ming was about to counter by slashing his sword, but Hayate sent his kick down first.
"Sky Fissure: Flamingo." Hayate bent his left leg and executed an ax kick.
Everyone in the arena saw a manifestation of a beautiful flamingo stomping onto the ground.
An aggressive yet powerful shockwave followed with a boom and swept over the arena with the storm.
"WTF-!!"
SWOOSH!
BOOM!
The audience has to protect themselves from the shockwave by raising their arms. It's just too strong of an attack, to the point of a few people flying from their seats.
Even Ling Wuguo couldn't believe his old eyes. Hayate's attack is beyond Spirit Profound Realm's strength.
He only showed his martial arts mastery so far without any usage of profound arts, but this is just something else.
The shockwave didn't stop there and reached the watching tower, shaking the building a little.
Hayate landed perfectly on the stage and moved his gaze to Ling Wuguo. "This is not even a competition." He commented indifferently.
"This is child's play."