A Small Organization
"Boss Yang lost?"
The disciples who were under Yang Kai have yet to regain consciousness as they could never have anticipated Yang Kai losing the match to becoming one of the top 100.
"No! There is a second chance through the loser's bracket!"
"Yes, yes, we must believe in Boss Yang."
...
"Too hot-headed! I need to warn him about this!"
Huo Ye, the Elder of Flame Hall who had supported Yang Kai gnashed his teeth to hold his anger.
"Not bad, Le Sheng has an exceptional talent!" Hei Yan, the Elder of Dark Hall nodded his head as he loudly said, intending to anger Huo Ye.
"Hmph! Just a first loss is nothing!" Huo Ye said unhappily.
At the seats.
"Deserve him lose!" Yang Wei exclaimed in happiness.
"Hmph! He is too arrogant in the family. Seeing him losing makes me happy!" Yang Zhao laughed in a low tone.
Both of them were Yang Kai's cousins. The Family gave much importance to Yang Kai making them jealous.
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The next match was between two average-looking youths who were the 3rd-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
They were both Earth Path Cultivators, and the fighting took quite a long time, around 4 minutes before the fight was decided.
Normally, in fighting in such a realm, three minutes were enough to determine the victor.
...
In the bat of the eye, dozens of matches have concluded. It was clear to the eyes of the spectators that the famous disciples were more competent than those unnamed disciples.
"The 50th match, we have Meng Hou and Hong Kai."
With Wei Yin's signal, the youth with long hair proceeded to the stage with worthy-looking Meng Hou right behind.
Hong Kai sneered with confidence, "You are very unfortunate to face me."
Being Yang Kai's subordinate for a long time, he presumed that except for the famous geniuses who possessed earth-grade combat techniques, no others could rival him. After all, he was a 4th-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator at the age of 13 years old, making him proud.
"Hmph! I'm not sure if you are ignorant or stupid. Where on earth are you in during this time?" Meng Hou mocked with an ice-cold gaze. After all, his name has been the hot topic during these six months, someone dared to look down on him, how could he bear this humiliation?
"Who is this? Isn't he too egoistic and ignorant? He dares to look down on Meng Hou."
"He is Hong Kai, Yang Kai's good dog."
"So he is a person of Yang Kai's group. No wonder he is acting too arrogant."
"If he loses in this match, I won't be surprised."
Hong Kai's statement made Yang Kai's group the topic of ridicule. In the specific seats, one could see all the people from Yang Kai's group with awful facial expressions.
In the middle of the seating area, a sturdy youth snorted, "These people will know how good Hong Kai is soon enough."
On the side, Feng Jiang, the most trusted subordinate of Le Sheng ironically spoke, "Shi Xiao, I thought that you were capable, but it seems you are not different from your Boss Yang. Meng Hou is not a simple character. Even amidst my Le's group, none has the guarantee to win against him except for me. So don't even mention your Yang's group."
"My Yang's group and your Le's group aren't in the same loop." A sturdy youth, Shi Xiao, stubbornly replied.
After hearing Shi Xiao's rebuttal, Chen Mo nodded his head. He had seen this kind of situation numerous times, but this time, he was satisfied. One must be loyal, every organization needed loyalty, and a person like Shi Xiao was that kind of person. He was trying to protect the reputation of Yang's group despite Yang Kai wasn't here, which meant that he was loyal to Yang Kai, and loved protecting his people.
Forming a group was like forming a small organization, every action of a group told the personality of the people.
Yang Kai was an arrogant, confident, and courageous person, as a result, numerous arrogant, confident, and courageous people gathered in his group.
Le Sheng was a cunning, confident, and selfish person. His group was the gathering of this kind of people.
The sect used this method to observe their disciples and planned for them already.
A person like Le Sheng will likely respond to the dirty jobs of a sect.
A person like Yang Kai will likely respond to the vanguard of a sect.
Chen Mo who was from the Central Hall thought it was fair, the sect's action was the same as he thought.
He cared more about the attitude of the disciples than the result of this competition. In this aspect, no matter what Yang's group rebutted with Le's group, Chen Mo didn't care.
As he thought of it, the results of the fight ended quickly.
Five strikes, in just five strikes, Hong Kai got crushed by Meng Hou.
Hong Kai had a look of disbelief, "How is this possible? How could you be proficient in an earth-grade technique to this point in just six months?"
"What a pity! Did he think Meng Hou was a normal disciple who needed a year or two to be proficient in an earth-grade technique?"
"This is the result of being too arrogant!"
It started with just a minor jeering, but jeerings were contagious, and soon the rest followed.
[Was he already proficient in an earth-grade technique to this point?]
Almost at the same time, Fei Wang and Guan Yi had a change of expression. Meng Hou was able to use an earth-grade technique to overwhelm Hong Kai in just five moves, making them have great pressure.
In the Elder seating area, many of them had a slight surprise expression, Meng Hou just got an earth-grade combat technique last six months, but to think that he could already use it to overwhelm a Cultivator in the same realm, showed that he fully grasp this technique.
Both Meng Hou and Hong Kai were the 4th-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators. Normally, it would become an intense fight and take quite some time. However, with the domination of an earth-grade technique, Hong Kai's techniques were barely affected.
Initially, he thought that Meng Hou was not fully grasped an earth-grade technique, if it were the case, he was confident to use his techniques to interrupt him and let him suffer a backlash. Once Meng Hou failed in the first activating, Hong Kai was confident to prevent him next activation.
The difference between the same realm Cultivators was combat techniques.
There were four grades of techniques in the entire Five Elements Sect, they were mortal, earth, heaven, and epic.
The highest-grade combat technique in the Five Elements Sect was the epic-grade technique, which was possessed by only the Sect Master and Great Elders.
An earth-grade combat technique was not easy to obtain, unlike an earth-grade cultivation technique that every disciple would get upon reaching a Foundation Establishment Realm.
To obtain an earth-grade combat technique, one needs to make a great contribution to a sect.
Hong Kai didn't have that qualification yet.
As for Meng Hou, he once contributed all the inheritance of an expert to a sect, obtaining earth-grade techniques was natural.
However, the harder thing than obtaining an earth-grade technique was to grasp it.
Not only does it take a long time to comprehend but the process of activating was also more complicated.
One needs to endure numerous suffering from the backlash to grasp it fully.
A single misstep leads to destruction. If one wasn't proficient enough, one would easily fail to activate in real combat.
If one wasn't proficient enough, one would easily get disrupted by the opponent and suffer a backlash.
However, Hong Kai didn't expect Meng Hou to be this proficient, to the point of activating it without letting him have a chance to disturb.
All the members of Yang's group had ugly expressions.
"Damn it! This Meng Hou has already reached this point!"
"Earlier he was still the same as me, but to think that he left me such far!"
"He is already on par with our vice Boss."
"He is going to catch up with our Boss!"
"Don't praise him too much, our Boss is proficient in two earth-grade techniques, this Meng Hou is only proficient in one earth-grade technique, he is still far from our Boss." Shi Xiao had an unpleasant expression, but he still tried to encourage his group.
Feng Jiang looked at Shi Xiao, "Now you see? This Meng Hou's performance is better than I expected, none of us is unsure to be his match."
"Feng Jiang, shut your mouth." Shi Xiao glared at Feng Jiang.
Feng Jiang showed an innocent face as he looked away.
Hong Kai arrived at the seat and felt like he lost his soul.
Shi Xiao cursed the loser, but said, "Adjust your feelings, when it's time, I will shut everyone up."
"Brother Hong, adjust your feelings."
"Brother Hong, our vice Boss will wash this humiliation for you."
"Brother Hong, you still have a second chance."
All the members of Yang's group encouraged Hong Kai one by one.
On Shi Xiao's mind, he was pondering, [This Meng Hou has developed to this point, what about Fei Wang?]
As a vice leader of Yang's group, Shi Xiao was like the wisdom of the group, he managed the big and small matters of a group.
Among 10,000 outer disciples, only 100 disciples were being the 5th-stage Foundation Establishment Realm, and not all of them built a group. Currently, there were ten most outstanding groups, Yang's group was one of them, Yang's group was in the top 9, and Le's group was in the top 10.
The rest group was not close to reaching their high, only two groups of the 4th-stage Foundation Establishment Realm had potential. They were Meng's group and Fei's group.
Thinking to this point, Shi Xiao's turned serious.
Feng Jiang was the same.
Time did not stop when Shi Xiao was pondering, the competition continued.
Because of Hong Kai's loss, the morale of the members of Yang's group fell sharply. Causing other members to underperform and lose to someone who in actual fact wasn't as good as them. This chain of events worsened the reputation of Yang's group in an endless vicious cycle.
Finally, it was Shi Xiao's turn. His opponent was a genius from Chu's group. Even though he is not as famous as Meng Hou, and was not a vice Boss of Chu's group, he could still hold his own.
After dozens of exchanges, Shi Xiao defeated his opponent without fooling around.
When the battle ended, Shi Xiao swept his glare at Le's group.
All the groups had conflicts, but Yang's group and Le's group were enemies.
In the next few rounds, notable contestants had their turn.
"The last match of the day, we have Yu Xuan and Lin Tong."