16 Chapter 16

Upon arrival, the group was greeted by Heavenly Sword Villa and shown their residence. They all went into their respective rooms to take some rest after the journey.

Fen Juecheng conspired to pay a visit to Cang Yue's room, but was thwarted by Ling Jie before he could do so. The day went by relatively peacefully.

The next day, all the participants and audience arrived at the arena, where Ling Kun of Mighty Heavenly Sword Region was revealed to be the guest of honor. The rewards were also declared – first place would get a Sky Profound armor, second place would get a fluid that could temporarily open all profound entrances and third place would get a pellet that could refine the bone marrow.

Yun Che was not interested in any of them. With his cultivation speed the Sky Profound armor would lose its value too fast, he had already opened all his profound entrances and his bone marrow had already reached the peak.

He was interested in the additional rewards – the top ten sects would get the opportunity to explore Heaven Basin Secret Realm and would get to see the 'Demon Sealing Ritual' of Ling Kun.

The Profound Strength Assessment began and the various participants went up to register. Nothing came as a surprise and soon it was the turn of Blue Wind Profound Palace. The second ranked individual went up first and registered 1st level Spirit Profound realm. Although it was considered genius level in Blue Wind Imperial city, it was not much compared to the true geniuses here.

The people from the four major sects looked at Blue Wind Profound Palace disdainfully, as if saying this was to be expected.

Fen Juechen went up and recorded his profound strength next at 2nd level Spirit Profound realm. He looked towards Fen Juebi and found him smirking arrogantly. This meant Fen Juebi had a higher cultivation!

Finally, Yun Che went up to register. The audience didn't expect much, they were under the impression that Fen Juechen was the strongest in Blue Wind Profound Palace.

Imagine their shock when Yun Che turned out to have 10th level Spirit Profound realm! This was higher than Ling Yun's level in the previous tournament that he won. And in this tournament, it was already the highest level shown until now.

The various elders and sect masters, Ling Kun included, took note of this new genius and remembered him. After all, he was only 17 years old.

Yun Che glanced at Qingyue who was watching with a shocked expression. She was expecting Yun Che to repair his profound veins and take part in this tournament like he had promised, but didn't expect him to have reached almost the same level as her within a single year.

Chu Yueli beside her was also looking dumbfounded. She had not been happy with her disciple's marriage and that too to a cripple. She definitely wasn't expecting him to suddenly show up with heaven defying talent.

At that moment she thought of a theory. Qingyue had met some divine doctor who had opened all her profound entrances. Assuming Yun Che also got his profound veins repaired at around the same time, could it have been the work of the same divine doctor? She turned to look at Qingyue to see if she knew about this, but Qingyue was looking shocked too.

The disciples of the four major sects finally went up to record their profound strength. Fen Juebi indeed turned out to have a higher level than Fen Juechen, Ling Jie shocked everyone with his talent being at 6th level Spirit Profound realm at 16 years of age, Qingyue had suppressed her cultivation to peak Spirit Profound realm and Ling Yun had the highest cultivation at 3rd level Earth Profound realm.

No one dared to say that Ling Yun was more talented than Yun Che or Xia Qingyue. Because they were only 17 years old, while Ling Yun was already 20.

The round robin matches soon began and practically everyone just gave up on facing Yun Che, Qingyue and Ling Yun. Yun Che and Qingyue did face a few opponents who were courageous enough to challenge them, but defeated them all with ease.

Qingyue's Nine Profound Exquisite Body was recognised by two people – Jasmine and Ling Kun. Jasmine relayed this to Yun Che, "Your wife has a divine physique – Nine Profound Exquisite Body. She is the brother of the person with Tyrannical Emperors Divine Veins, right? This cannot be a coincidence. They must have an extraordinary parent." Yun Che had already planned to let Qingyue and Jasmine personally meet in the short future.

Yun Che, Xia Qingyue, Ling Yun, Ling Jie, Fen Juebi and Fen Juechen all made it to the elimination rounds consisting of the top 32 participants. Fen Juechen just barely made it through being at the 32nd place.

Cang Yue and the elder from Blue Wind Profound Palace were extremely pleased since not just one but two of their disciples had made it to the top 100.

The first match was between Fen Juechen and Fen Juebi. Fen Juechen tried his best and fought hard, but ultimately lost against the higher level opponent. He was sent back, frustrated and enraged at not being able to take his revenge even after going through so much hardship.

Soon the round of 16 started and Fen Juebi faced a difficult opponent this time: Ling Jie. There was little he could do faced with Ling Jie's Sky Profound sword and extraordinary sword skills. When on the verge of losing, he used a forbidden art and burnt his blood essence much to the shock and horror of the Burning Heaven Clan elders, but even that failed against Ling Jie.

The reason he went through so much trouble was because his elder brother Fen Juecheng had told him to severely injure Ling Jie in some manner, since they were pursuing the same girl.

Not willing to give up and remembering his elder brother's instructions, Fen Juebi attacked him one last time from behind, with a deliberately lethal move. Cang Yue shot to her feet at this and screamed, "Careful!" She was worried about the safety of someone of whom she had a good impression.

At this moment, Fen Juechen ran out from where he was and not only intercepted Fen Juebi, but also drove his own sword through his heart. Weakened from burning his blood essence and tired from the battle, Fen Juebi was unable to defend against the attack and was mortally wounded.

He turned to see Fen Juechen, who was looking at him with a satisfied expression, and finally died.

The audience was in an uproar but it was finally decided that Fen Juebi had severely broken the rules by trying to kill the young master of the Heavenly Sword Villa and Fen Juechen had done them a service by saving the young master. Also, Fen Juechen himself was the son of the Burning Heaven Clan patriarch, so it was treated as an internal matter.

Heavenly Sword Villa stated they would compensate Fen Juechen in some manner.

But all this was not important to Yun Che – he had easily won all his matches until now, with only a few punches and kicks, and won the quarter finals with the same ease.

In the semi finals, he faced Ling Jie, and decided to show some of his techniques in this battle. The other semi final was between Ling Yun and Qingyue.

Yun Che had already achieved his main goal of achieving top 10 here, but he had a secondary objective – he wanted to show off in front of Qingyue and progress their relationship a bit more, so he decided to win this round.