Crazy Proposal & Hidden Schemer

On the fourth day of Blue Wind Ranking Tournament, the second round of group stages officially began. At the same time, the one thousand and two hundred disciple's who were eliminated in the first round went to the secondary venue in the rear mountains, ranking below the one in the top three hundred. It was just that the Ranking Wars in the secondary venue rarely paid attention to it, and in terms of quality and atmosphere, they couldn't even be compared to the disciples in the main arena.

The second round of group stages was similarly held on the thirty little sword arenas. Although the number of disciple were compressed to only three hundred, every person had to fight a full fifteen matches! At the same time, even though this round of group stages was still by "group matches", they were no longer divided into groups. Everyone's opponent was no longer restricted to a small range and could be randomly chosen from those who had entered into the second round. This ensured fairness to the greatest extent.

However, things like fairness had never been absolute. Although the second round was not split into groups, it still depended on one's opponent in each match. If someone who originally had the strength to enter the top one hundred, but had the unluckiness to say that all the opponents for the fifteen matches were all from the Four Major Sects, then they could only hug their heads and cry bitterly. They didn't even have a place for reasoning, while the other person's strength was only in the middle of the competition.

Of course, the probability of these two extremes happening was very low. Each person would have to fight fifteen matches, so it was still fair and just.

Meanwhile Hannya's attention wasn't on the tournament, instead he was observing a certain man that can 'help' him get closer to his goal, his lips curled into an evil smile.

At this moment he looked so much like a hunter that came up with a plan to lure his prey, he then glanced at Rihan.

"Hey, brat. Want to make the tournament interesting?"

Hannya's sudden question immediately caught Rihan's attention, his previously bored expression disappeared without trace.

Jasmine who was hidden in the Sky Poison Pearl's Inner Storage Space couldn't help but look at Rihan with disdain who acted like a child who found a new toy to play with.

"You have any plans Oyaji?" Rihan asked with great interest but with a slight doubt.

Back then, he was scammed by his father so he felt a bit hesitant.

"Who do you think I am? Doubting your father isn't a good practice" Hannya harummphed while looking at his son with a cheeky smile, he then whispered something to Rihan.

Rihan nodded his head as his eyes shone with battle intent, for the first time since the start of the tournament he felt more motivated.

"The first battle of Sword Communication Stage Number Seven, Blue Wind Royal Family Rihan — — Fight — — ..."

"Wait."

The spectating disciples and and elders of different sects all turned towards the sound of the voice. Even Ling Wugou turned and frowned.

Who was causing such a ruckus at a time like this? They all turned their heads and saw…that the speaker was a young man wearing a black robe along with a three-tailed wolf hanging around his shoulders like a shawl.

Everyone were stunned.

"Nura Clan's Patriarch."

"It's Nurarihyon-sama."

The tens of thousands of spectators had a confused looks in their eyes, while some shouted with excitement.

Hannya slowly stood up which immediately caught everyone's attention, they were wondering about what he's planning to do.

"For this tournament, can you let my son fight 15 opponents all at once?" Hannya's magnetic voice echoed in the entire arena.

The entire place suddenly turned silent, it's like the time froze, even some of the disciples who were currently fighting stopped and stared at Hannya with disbelief.

Aside from the fact that he want Rihan to fight 15 opponents, most of the female cultivators were even more shocked when they heard Hannya refer to Rihan as his son.

"How can Nurarihyon already have a child? This can't be true."

Some females even tried to refuse the truth.

Everyone else ignored those females and focused on Hannya's proposal as it was so surprising to them.

After watching so many matches they can already tell that Rihan is strong but fighting 15 opponents at once didn't seem so achievable, especially when his opponents were cultivators who made their way to the 2nd round.

Qin Wushang and even Fen Juechen were stunned silly after hearing Hannya's proposal as they haven't seen the strength of the clan with their own eyes.

Cang Yue was different though as she saw how Rihan fought and saved her.

The other group of people who kept their calms were the Nura Clan members with the exception of Yuanba.

Well, they just couldn't understand Hannya's reason when he made this proposal.

Some people even thought Hannya was being too arrogant after seeing his son's undefeated streak in the first round of the tournament.

Well, no one can really blame them since Hannya and the Nura Clan stopped any news about what happened in the New Moon City to spread outside.

The main reason why Hannya proposed Rihan to fight 15 opponents was to give a big impact and make the Nura Clan's name unforgettable, which would increase the success rate of the quest.

The other reason was to lure his prey, an important chess piece. Hannya understood that not everything can be resolved with strength, as a Yakuza leader, being a good schemer is necessary.

Well, these people wouldn't understand, and just like what he expected..

"Young man, you don't have any rights to make a proposal here! Who do you think you are?" An elder from Skyblade Clan became mad after the initial shock, for him who wasn't aware of Hannya's thoughts, felt the proposal was a big humiliation.

Some elders who were too weak and didn't notice Hannya releasing a bit of his aura when he first arrived in Heavenly Sword Villa weren't scared of him and some even belittled him deep inside their hearts.

Several elders stood up and released their aura's trying to pressure Hannya into submission.

"Oya? what do you guys intends to do by pointing your aura's towards our Supreme Commander?" Gyuuki stood up, behind him the shadow of Ushi-oni demon appeared, it's eyes shone with red hue dispelling the pressure causing the elders to take one step back.

"He's our Supreme Commander after all, he's not someone that you people can ever hope to lay your hands on." Ddraig stood beside Gyuuki and continued, "You're either foolish or extremely unlucky for standing up looking to die." While saying those his robes started to stretch and snapped as his body became large.

"Haha, what's with this guy's deal?!"

"Who the fuck does he think he is? Acting like some big shot."

"Me?" Ddraig smirked as he pointed upwards, "I'm the one who stands at the pinnacle of all races." Then turned to Hannya and added,"only beneath our Supreme Commander, that is."

"I'm the one who was bestowed the name of Lord Ddraig, the emperor of Domination." Ddraig said as he grinned.

"Whoa there young man 'the one who stands at the pinnacle of races' you say? That's pretty arrogant isn't it? Hahahaha." An elder arrive in front of Ddraig and laughed.

The latter also laughed together with him, they just looked like friends who were making fun at each other when suddenly..

'Bam!'

Ddraig smashed his head to the ground,"Mocking this Lord Ddraig is a sin you can't afford to commit."

The corner of the Nura Clan suddenly trembled, as the elder of the Skyblade Clan who was the first to oppose Hannya's decision snapped because of what Ddraig did.

He circulated his profound energy, using one of their clan's greatest technique.

"I won't hold back my strength to end your arrogance." The Skyblade mountain elder slashed towards Ddraig's body horizontally.

"Sky Blade Body Severing Slash."

Boom! Shockwaves spread outwards, some onlookers used their profound strength to defend themselves from the impact.

Dust started to cover the place where Ddraig stood.

The crowd gulp their saliva, as the dust started to disperse what they saw made them felt like they were electrified.

Ddraig only looked at the elder's blade that didn't even manage to get past his skin, he only sighed and looked at the elder with disappointed expression,"so was that really you not holding back?"

"Now it's my turn." Ddraig slowly raised new weapon; Nozarashi, everyone can feel the power surging underneath terrifying them, while the area around Ddraig started to tremble.

The elder of Skyblade Mountain trembled as he kept mumbling,"impossible... impossible.. impossible.."

A man with an average build and expressionless face was also observing the entire situation, he was a taken aback by what he saw, this short exchange made him a bit vigilant but the strong curiosity in his eyes didn't escape Hannya's observation.

This made him mysteriously smile.

Just when Ddraig was about to decapitate the elder's head, Ling Wugou who was spectating the test of strength from both parties can no longer tolerate it as he stopped it from escalating any further, "Halt! That's enough!"

Ddraig didn't bother with him and only looked at Hannya. His pride couldn't tolerate being ordered around by anyone besides the Lord he swore to follow.

"Well, that's enough." Hannya ordered Ddraig to stop, he then turned towards Ling Yuefeng,"I hope you were satisfied with what you saw?"

Earlier when those elders opposed his suggestion he didn't bother with it, however when those elders mocked and we're trying to pick a fight. The Heavenly Sword Villa who's the organizer of the tournament didn't do anything to stop it and just watched like a normal bystander.

From this, Hannya can already tell that they were trying to test the water. They might have felt his aura in a split second when he arrived but they were still a bit doubtful, so it seems.

Ling Yuefeng remained silent, just from that short exchange, he felt the terrifying powers of the Nura Clan members while Hannya power is still covered with mysteries.

Ling Yuefeng turned towards Ling Wugou and slowly nodded.

Ling Wugou seems to have something to say but stopped in the end and can only sigh and turned to face Hannya.

"Are you sure of this?"

Hannya just gave him a smile and pointed at the arena, everyone immediately saw Rihan standing there with excited expression.

They didn't notice him appear on the stage as they were too absorbed with Hannya's decision and the small exchange earlier.

Even stupid people would understand that Rihan also likes his Father's proposal.

Ling Wugou no longer have the choice so he immediately selected 15 people randomly.

While the elder who was slammed by Ddraig was carried by their clan's disciple to recuperate.

Those people who were in opposition earlier no longer said anything and remained silent in their seats.