Dark Qi

Everyone who heard De Fan's announcement was shocked as they didn't expect De Fan to get on the stage because regardless of how well he performed during this duel, the Monk's can't give their blessings due to De Fan's magic element being Dark and also being a necromancer.

The monks are known for their righteous and benevolent behaviour, due to the Dark element being used by most evil doers in this continent, the monks have opted to never give a blessing to any element that has a massive history for sins committed.

However, upon hearing the person De Fan wanted to challenge, they couldn't help but understand why he initiated the challenge, it was none other than to teach Yama a lesson because nearly everyone heard when Yama shouted at De Fan.

Naturally, the pampered young master of the De Clan would not let this slide, so it was understandable for everyone that he chose this to initiate the challenge.

Yama, on the other hand, couldn't believe what he heard. Yama had noticed that De Fan was sending killing intent towards him when he entered the hall, so he thought sooner or later De Fan will search for him, but he didn't expect him to challenge him right now.

'Looks like he couldn't wait anymore.'

Ying Yue, Nian Zhen and the others on the table were surprised too except for Chang Chao. Chang Chao raised his lips to a smile as if everything was going as planned.

Nian Zhen who saw Chang Chao's expression couldn't help but think that Chang Chao used De Fan to initiate the challenge with Yama.

Nian Zhen knows that De Fan has a crush on Ying Yue, so after he saw how Ying Yue behaved with Yama it was easily guessable that she has feelings for him, this gave Chang Chao an even better chance of using De Fan to settle his grieve.

"De Fan! Are you out of your mind?! Why are you challenging Yama?. He hasn't even started training his magic element yet, and your cultivation is even higher than his!" Ying Yue shouted at De Fan, she naturally understood De Fan's thoughts, but regardless she will never want Yama to face De Fan.

Ying Yue firmly knows De Fan's character. He is very ruthless because of his dark magic element, a lot of innocent people has already suffered due to him, this made her loathe him to bits, even though she knows that De Fan's fancies her she will never want to be with him.

"So what if my cultivation is higher than his?. Have you forgotten, he is the one who tamed the demon beast Naga, to do that you have to have a cultivation base of at tenth stage elementary realm or higher.

I am currently in the tenth stage of the elementary realm too, so it shouldn't be a problem right" De Fan replied.

"What, so he is the one who tamed that demon beast?"

"He is only on the fifth stage of the elementary realm. How can he tame such a beast?"

"What?! This is bull! I am at the seventh stage, and even I will fear to go near that beast!"

Some students when they heard De Fan mention that Yama is the one who tamed Naga immediately went into discussions. They didn't expect the one to tame the beast was Yama. However some of the students and teachers didn't want to believe this at all, they firmly believed he had used other means to get this done.

"Duelling with someone else and taming a beast is different! He is specialised in taming beasts! What does this have to do with duelling with you?" Ying Yue shouted back at De Fan.

"Ying Yue why are you getting involved in this? The person I am challenging is not you but Yama." De Fan didn't feel like giving up at all until he taught Yama a lesson.

"This got nothing to do with you." Ying Yue replied.

"Yama stop hiding behind a girls back! Come and fight me if you have the guts" De Fan wasn't willing to argue with Ying Yue anymore, so he turned right to Yama to ask him straight.

Everytime De Fan was arguing with Ying Yue. He was getting furious because of how Ying Yue was willing to stand for Yama, and this shows him that Ying Yue has deep feelings for Yama.

"You..." Ying Yue was just going to reply back but then she heard Yama speak.

"De Fan it seems you want to battle me very much, so be it! I will give you a duel. I hope you don't disappoint me." Naturally, Yama wouldn't want a girl speaking for him, as much as he didn't want to get into action but this was an excellent time to test out his fighting prowess.

Yama wanted to know exactly how powerful he was and to what extent of a cultivation level can he deal with because dealing with a demon beast was nothing but a piece of cake to him due to him being the Lord of Hell naturally any demons will be at his mercy.

"You do seem to have some backbone! You got one thing wrong though, I won't disappoint you, but you will be the one who will disappoint me. Come up on the stage and face me!" De Fan sneered, he couldn't wait to give a nice beating to Yama.

"I hope you don't run away in fright" Yama replied calmly while he got up on stage.

"Hmph! Save those words for you!" De Fan was getting furious by his words.

"Alright, remember this is a duel only, I do not like to see a life and death duel" the elder immediately intervened telling them not to take this too far.

"Do not worry elder. I'll be as lenient as possible" De Fan replied to the elder. It was as if he knew that victory was already his and Yama was going to be beaten up.

"Good. You can start the duel now!" The elder said.

"I will give you the first move, don't disappoint me." Yama said to De Fan while looking confident.

"Arrogant I see, Just because you tamed Naga don't think you can beat me. I will make you shudder in fear using my dark element."

As De Fan finished saying he quickly opened his magic element, the whole duel area was covered in a dark aura, and no one can see what was going on, it was as if Yama and De Fan was sucked into a black hole.

"Is the Dark Qi.....! It can't be this powerful too!" one of the elders said out loud.

"Why is he using this!? This can make a person lose his senses, it is the same as being on the edge of death!" the elder frowned, he can tell that De Fan had no signs of showing mercy to Yama.

"One of the famous dark magician has done something similar against his opponent and the person became disabled, lost his mind and soon committed suicide. This is a ruthless move. We have to stop this at any cost!" a teacher commented.

"It's too late.... We can only hope that the boy has a very strong dao heart."

"Teacher....." Ying Yue was worried after hearing the discussions amongst the teachers and elders. She couldn't help but look to her teacher.

Ying Yue's teacher couldn't do anything but shake his head and sigh, as it's too late to do anything now.

"Ying'er we can only hope that Yama has a strong dao heart, the dark qi has covered the whole duel ground quickly."

Fu Li, Nian Zhen was anxious too, they felt regretful that they didn't stop Yama.

"Haha Yama! How do you like my Dark Qi, if you can't get through this then you will be in real trouble, I wonder if you can recognise any of your mates in a few minutes." De Fan was laughing happily.

De Fan was confident that he had successfully managed to give Yama a massive blow since he couldn't hear or sense Yama. Knowing that victory is within his grasp, De Fan started to withdraw his Dark Qi, but just then he suddenly heard someone laughing.

"Hahaha!"

"Hahaha"

The laugh echoed across the hall.

"It's too bad, it looks like he has lost his mind! He has been affected!"

"He has just joined the academy and already he's fallen"

"It's a pity, he would have had a great future, if he didn't provoke unnecessary trouble"

Everyone firmly believed that Yama has now lost his mind after the crazy laugh which was echoing through the hall.

Ying Yue felt like crying, she wanted to rush up to the duel area immediately but was stopped by her teacher.

Nian Zhen & Fu Li was feeling grieved, they didn't expect this to happen at all, but everyone suddenly went silent when they heard the next words from Yama.

"Is this what you call Dark Qi? This is nothing but a mere toy!"

De Fan instantly went pale when he heard Yama. This was his top move, and he used it immediately on Yama so that he can suffer but after hearing Yama right now, he knew that Yama was unaffected by the Dark Qi.

Just when De Fan was in a loss on what to do next, he heard Yama say.

"Allow me to show you what true Darkness is"