The Real Competition Begins

At daybreak, a ray of sunlight broke the darkness as it shined down onto the entire Five Elements Sect. The outer court of the Five Elements Sect was like a pot of boiling water, slowly getting roused.

To the west of the outer court was a large-sized Competition Hall for official fights. Normally it was used for tournaments, and today, it is exclusively for a four-month competition.

Housing ten thousand spectators were not a problem, the arena was already crawling with people.

"Sister Wang! What brings you here today? I have never seen you interested in such a small competition." A beautiful woman with fair skin, red eyes, and light red hair. Wearing a ruby outfit with her ruby sword hanging on her waist, she slightly widened her eyes upon noticing Wang Yuan Ji, smiling surprisingly as she paced quickly toward Wang Yuan Ji's location.

Wang Yuan Ji was a beautiful woman, dressed in a snowy white gown with her honey brown hair, standing there slim and graceful as a fairy. She replied unhurriedly, "Sister Ling Mei, you don't need to hold that face, I am here to watch that Genius of Ear's match."

"As expected of an Elder from Information Hall, you didn't miss such a good opportunity." Ling Mei nodded in understanding.

"It can't be helped, as the duty of Information Hall, the first battle of her will become a great history in the future." Wang Yuan Ji just smiled at Ling Mei.

"Such a good seed, our sect meets a great fortune this time." Upon mentioning the Genius of Era, Ling Mei was emotional.

"Everyone has one's fortune. Although she is a Genius of Ear, she just started cultivating last year, and her fighting experience is almost zero. It is unknown if she can perform well in this battle." Wang Yuan Ji began to analyze.

"Just standing by your side, I can always learn useful things without wasting much thought. Sister Wang, you deserved your reputation as Wisdom of information Hall."

"Ai, Sister Ling! That's just what people calling. Let's go to the seats!"

With that, both of them walked to their seats.

The arena was shaped like a Colosseum. With the stage at the center, surrounded by the spectators. In between the stage and the audience was a flat contour where the contestants waited in their groups.

The seats of Elders were the highest in the arena. Once Ling Mei and Wang Yuan Ji arrived, there were already other Elders from various Halls, sitting in their respective seats. With a middle-aged man sitting in the middle area, he was Chen Mo, an Elder from Central Hall. Ling Mei and Wang Yuan Ji had to greet him. After greeting, Ling Mei and Wang Yuan Ji sat in their respective seat.

In the area, all the disciples were already gathered here.

The lowest seat area was sitting the disciples that going to compete.

The rest of the seats were sitting by all outer disciples with the cultivation base being the 5th-stage Foundation Establishment Realm and below.

However, even if everyone was ready now, the competition has not started yet.

The crucial person has not arrived yet, no one dared to start the fight.

A moment later.

"Greeting to Elder Wei Yin."

Chen Mo led the all elders to pay respect to a middle-aged man.

"Greeting to Elder Wei Yin."

The disciples followed suit.

Wei Yin waved his hand, "There is no need to be overly courteous, sit down and enjoy the matches!"

As Wei Yin walked passed them, he arrived at the special seat, which was not far away from the stage.

In between the stage and the audience was a flat contour where the contestants waited in their groups.

"Alright. Everyone, I will be your referee today. The rules are the same as yesterday. As for the generous rewards:"

"101st to 1000th place - two earth-grade primeval essence stones."

"51st to 100th place - ten earth-grade primeval essence stones.

"21st to 49th place - fifty earth-grade primeval essence stones."

"11th to 20th place - fifty earth-grade primeval essence stones, one day in a Secret Realm."

"4th to 10th place - 100 earth-grade primeval essence stones, three days in a Secret Realm."

"3rd place - 100 earth-grade primeval essence stones, a week in a Secret Realm."

"2nd place - 100 earth-grade primeval essence stones, two weeks in a Secret Realm."

"1st place - 500 earth-grade primeval essence stones, a month in a Secret Realm."

Hearing the rewards, Yu Xuan was quite shocked. His salary was only 140 mortal-grade primeval essences. But thinking about the reward of the top 10 made him feel envious. If he got that amount, he wouldn't have to worry about the cultivation resources for a long time. It was such an alluring reward that even a low-level cultivator like him moved after hearing it. However, he knew that he didn't have that capability yet.

"Such generous rewards. I've decided, I'm going to be in the top 50 in the next competition!"

"Hmph! Being able to reach the top 1000 is lucky enough for you!"

"No, I refuse to believe it! That is the past me! The future me will be in the top 50!"

There were tons of envious people among the spectators.

"And without further ado, I'll introduce the participants for the first match today — Yang Kai and Le Sheng"

After Wei Yin introduced the two parties, Yang Kai and Le Sheng stepped onto the stage, causing the spectators to explode with excitement.

The moment Yang Kai and Le Sheng stepped onto the stage, they stared at each other with a fierce gaze, and their aura was emitting a profound feeling that seemed as though they were ready to fight at any second.

Yang Kai was emitting a flame aura, indicating he was a Fire Path Cultivator.

Yang Kai sneered with confidence, "You will be stomped on my feet today."

"Keke, I'm not sure if you are ignorant or stupid. You would always say these stupid words every time, but you always didn't keep your word, and I am always fine every time. " Le Sheng mocked with an ice-cold gaze.

Le Sheng emitted a dark pressure, indicating he was a Dark Path Cultivator.

"As expected of the eternal enemies, they have fought for a year in every aspect since they joined the sect. They both progress at an extreme speed, and both of them reached the 5th-stage Foundation Establishment Realm in just a year. Despite not being special geniuses." The participants looked at them with narrow eyes, feeling as though they have been growing too powerful too quickly.

If they continue to grow at this rate, both of them may join the inner court in the next coming inner disciple test.

As the participants chatted with each other, they were also watching Yang Kai and Le Sheng fighting each other.

"True Yang Secret Art!" Consumed 1,000 units of primeval essence, Yang Kai shouted in a bragging tone. The fire path primeval essence gathered in one place.

With the help of sunlight, his two fists were covered with fire, increasing his combat greatly, and his two feet were covered with fire, increasing his speed faster. He charged forward Le Sheng.

At the same time, Le Sheng snorted coldly. "True Yin Secret Art!" Consumed 1,000 units of primeval essence, Le Sheng shouted secretly in his mind. His two fists and two feet were covered with dark clouds, increasing his combat and movement greatly as he charged at Yang Kai.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

If Yang Kai's punches gave a feeling of standing in the middle of the flame, then Le Sheng's punches would be cold in the middle of the flame. With the cold in the middle of the flame, Le Sheng felt less threat from the flame.

Their fists collided, the fire trying to engulf the dark cloud, at the same time, the dark cloud trying to engulf the fire. Yang Kai felt that his right arm was running cold, and Le Sheng felt no better, his right arm was running hot.

Their feet still collided with each other, Le Sheng didn't retreat, and Yang Kai couldn't advance, either. They were in this situation for a while.

"You seem to be a bit stronger!"

With a series of exchanges, Le Sheng evaluated Yang Kai's strength. Not only does he have an outstanding flame technique, but also with the help of sunlight, his punches and kicks made Le Sheng have a difficult time.

"How could this be?"

Yang Kai's brows tighten, and with the help of sunlight, his flame technique had a better quality than before, with every outstanding heat punch aimed at Le Sheng's weakness. He presumed Le Sheng to not endure for a minute.

But out of his expectation, Le Sheng seemed to be still in a good state.

"Impressive, Le Sheng's combat skills are outstanding, being able to fight in this hard situation."

"Yang Kai's technique is also impressive."

"Naturally, both of them use earth-grade techniques to fight after all."

As the crowd discussed, they also watched the fight at the same time.

However, as time passed, with the advantage of the sunlight, Yang Kai held an advantage.

"Don't be pleased yet!"

Le Sheng gave out a roar and with a change of his stance, he switched from the True Yin Secret Art to Dark Cloud Rainfall.

His primeval essence condensed to be a big lump of the dark cloud, it then transformed into countless tiny balls as they fell into Yang Kai like rain.

At the same time, Le Sheng had a pitiful state while he was escaping from Yang Kai due to his sudden change of technique. However, in the end, he managed to escape and luckily succeeded in activating his technique.

Compared to his previous state, Le Sheng was no doubt at his weakest state now, Yang Kai felt that if he could draw closer to Le Sheng, he would have an easy time dealing with him. However, just as Yang Kai arrived midway, countless tiny dark balls were falling to him and obstructing him there.

Hah! Hah! Hah!

Yang Kai used his two punches that were covered with flame to deal with them. However, Le Sheng seemed to not let Yang have an easy time, from far away, Le Sheng kept sending his primeval essence to the big lump of dark cloud.

The unstoppable tiny dark balls made Yang Kai feel cold as time passed, his speed couldn't catch up with countless tiny dark balls.

"I have no choice!"

Yang Kai stopped dealing with the tiny dark balls as he stepped back, however, the dark balls still followed him.

"Such a troublesome!"

However, he was quite far enough from them, he had enough time to activate his other technique.

"Burning Sub's Blast!"

All the flame that covered his fists and feet turned disappeared as the huge amount of flame quickly gathered in Yang Kai's left hand. It was three times hotter than his previous, this heat could melt the coming dark balls without difficulty.

"Ahhhh!" Yang Kai screamed in pain. But, he still gritted his teeth to endure it.

"What's going on? How did Yang Kai show such an expression? It is as if he is burned by the heat."

Everyone stared at Yang Kai with wondering expressions.

"What are you surprised about, it is not like we didn't face this situation. This is the backlash of using a technique due to not fully controlling it."

"So that is it. Yang Kai seems to use it for the first time in real combat!"

The exchanges on the stage roused a debate among the spectators.

Yang Kai still endured a great heat until he succeeded in activating his technique and just the tiny dark balls arrived in front of him. Without hesitation, Yang Kai sent his left punch to greet them all, the heat made them melt quickly, Yang Kai took this opportunity to charge at Le Sheng, planning to oppress him.

Le Sheng tried to obstruct Yang Kai, but it was in vain, Yang Kai's punch could melt all of his attacks.

Le Sheng was unwilling.

[If I can't obstruct him, I will just run!]

With this thought, Le Sheng canceled his technique as he fully focused on moving far way Yang Kai, not daring to clash with him directly.

As Yang Kai was about to arrive in front of Le Sheng, Le Sheng became a dark cloud as he disappeared from that spot and appeared again ten steps away.

"Hmph! Coward!" Yang Kai snorted as he followed up.

However, Le Sheng was faster as he only focused on moving, unlike Yang Kai who was both maintaining his technique and moving at the same time. Le Sheng always left Yang Kai behind.

"Damn it! Coward!"

"Stop! Coward!"

Facing such a method of Le Sheng, Yang Kai was in a bad mood as he gritted his teeth and moved faster.

"Ahhh!"

Yang Kai suddenly stopped and fell to the ground.

"What's going on?"

"Why did Yang Kai suddenly fall to the ground?"

"Le Sheng wins." Wei Yin declared.

"Holy sh1t! What is Yang Kai doing?!"

"Hmph! He can't control his mood in a fight, resulting to suffer a great backlash from his technique."

"A pity!"

At the same, Yang Kai was still lying there motionless.

"Quick! Take him to rest!" Wei Yin simply said, he was similar to this situation as if it was a norm for him.