159: Chapter 159 The Competition between Good and Evil (13)

The Righteous and Demonic Grand Competition: Offense and Defense Switched!

Even Righteous Path Cultivators whose strength was inferior to the Demonic Path Cultivators could withstand the Demonic Path Cultivators under the protection of piles of defensive Magical Artifacts, effectively grinding them to death!

From the beginning of the Righteous and Demonic Grand Competition, few Righteous Path Cultivators survived, to the point where few Demonic Path Cultivators left the stage alive. Even those who luckily survived were severely injured, making it difficult to fight in the next round.

Ancestor Qian Hun and the others never even considered learning the sneaky tactics of the Righteous Path side.

They didn't care how many of their Disciples died; as long as they had enough Souls, they could open the Soul Stone Secret Realm.

The Righteous Path had always guarded against actions by the Demonic Path Cultivators, only to realize in the end that they had judged a gentleman with a villain's heart.

"Young Master Xuan Ming! It's Young Master Xuan Ming! Young Master Xuan Ming is finally coming out! Young Master Xuan Ming will definitely take fierce revenge for us!"

The Demonic Path Cultivators, who had been dispirited for a long time, were suddenly invigorated.

The reason was simple: this had reached the final round of the preliminary selection for the Righteous and Demonic Grand Competition.

The highly anticipated Loose Cultivator of the Demonic Path, Xuan Ming, was finally making his grand appearance.

The Demonic Path Cultivators uniformly cast their gazes toward the selection pool for the Righteous Path side.

"Tiger Roar Sect Early Golden Core Stage Zhao Gang, Yun Shang Sect Middle Stage Li Yueqin, Dan City Late Foundation Establishment Stage Xiao Tian. This is ridiculous, there's actually a Foundation Establishment Cultivator. If Young Master Xuan Ming draws him, wouldn't it be like using a butcher's knife to kill a chicken?"

"Wait, which faction does that Foundation Establishment Cultivator belong to?"

"Dan City. What about it?"

"Dan City? That's the Dan City where Young Miss Yin Moon, who was killed by the Dan City Foundation Establishment Cultivator Su Xin, was from? And that's the Dan City where the Dan City Golden Core Cultivator Chen Xuanfeng, who once swept across five stages with a single sword on the fighting stage, is from?"

"Hiss~"

Although the Demonic Path Cultivators tried hard to convince themselves that a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator could not possibly defeat Young Master Xuan Ming unless it involved conspiracy or trickery, yet...

"I hope Young Master Xuan Ming absolutely does not draw Xiao Tian."

"The Cultivators from Dan City are too bizarre."

"A Foundation Establishment Cultivator fighting would offer no sense of accomplishment. I hope Young Master Xuan Ming draws someone else, lest the Righteous Path says our Young Master Xuan Ming is bullying the weak!"

...

The Demonic Path Cultivators kept their prayers to themselves, unknown to anyone on the Righteous Path side.

However, when Xuan Ming's opponent was drawn and it turned out to be Li Yueqin from the Yun Shang Sect, the Righteous Path Cultivators, having just let out a sigh of relief filled with excitement, heard the Demonic Path Cultivators cheering.

"That's great! It's a Yun Shang Sect Cultivator!"

"Hahaha, Young Master Xuan Ming truly has luck on his side!"

"Young Master Xuan Ming is bound to win!"

The Righteous Path Cultivators, still unaware of why the Demonic Path Cultivators were so happy, looked at their cheering with cold sneers.

"These Demonic Path Cultivators think that Xuan Ming has victory in the bag? That's a direct Disciple of the Yun Shang Sect, a Middle Stage Golden Core Cultivator, and she has Magical Artifacts for protection. Whoever she faces will only die!"

"This Xuan Ming, I see he has the highest cultivation among these six—Late Golden Core Stage. Hmph, what a bunch of fools, still cheering!"

"Let them be happy for now. When someone dies on the stage, they will know how to cry."

The joys and sorrows of the Righteous Path and the Demonic Path were clearly not shared.

Cultivators from the two paths, separated by a generation gap, each had their own expectations.

On the top floor of the Duobao Tower, Chen Xuanfeng patted Xiao Tian's shoulder with a meaningful look.

"Go, Tian'er!"

Xiao Tian revealed a hearty smile, slapping his chest twice with a 'bang bang' sound.

"I definitely won't disappoint Brother Xuan Feng!"

With that said, lightning flashed beneath Xiao Tian's feet, instantly scorching the floor black.

Xiao Tian stepped on the lightning and soared into the sky.

He passed through the fighting stage as if piercing through a fragile bubble.

Xiao Tian looked down at the fighting stage below and rapidly descended.

"Boom!"

A fierce gale swept out in all directions, forcing the other eleven people on the stage back half a step by the surging aftershock.

Instantly, everyone cast wary glances toward Xiao Tian.

Xiao Tian stretched his hands and ankles, showing everyone a brilliant smile, baring his large, white teeth that reflected a dazzling light under the sun.

"It's finally my turn.", Xiao Tian's tone conveyed long-awaited anticipation and eagerness to fight.

The Demonic Path Cultivator drawn against Xiao Tian was a Disciple of the Thousand Souls Sect.

He cultivated Resentful Souls, and Lightning Cultivators were considered his natural nemesis.

Facing Xiao Tian's might at this moment, the Resentful Souls sealed within his body wailed incessantly, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

This appearance was seen by others with disdain in their hearts.

Especially Ancestor Qian Hun, who had to face the mocking looks from Ancestor Bai Chong and Ancestor Shi Kui, wishing he could just slap that Disciple to death.

He was a discarded piece anyway!

Ancestor Qian Hun simply closed his eyes to rest, completely ignoring the visible and hidden gazes.

Xiao Tian stood on his own stage, looking at the weak appearance of the Thousand Souls Sect Disciple, finding it hard to describe.

"Why don't you attack! Where are your Resentful Souls? Release them and let me see what you've got.", Xiao Tian felt his tone was very easygoing and generous.

But his opponent was like a cat seeing a mouse, continuously trembling and retreating, already backing up to the edge of the stage, near the barrier secretly erected by the Market Guards.

Xiao Tian had no habit of bullying the weak; in such a situation, he could not bring himself to strike.

"Why isn't he attacking? This is a life-and-death stage, what is he waiting for?"

"Regardless of why this Demonic Path Cultivator is retreating, take advantage of his weakness! He should strike decisively now!"

"Didn't we hear that when he was at the Qi Refining Stage, he defied the law to defeat a Golden Core Cultivator like Su Xin? Why is it that now, as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, he doesn't even dare to attack a Golden Core Cultivator? Sure enough, fame under the sun is often empty! Those rumors shouldn't be reliable!"

"He doesn't even know how to seize such a perfect opportunity, he deserves to die!"

"Exactly, others are fighting so hard and haven't retreated, but he doesn't even dare to make a move!"

"What a pity. If the direct Disciple of the Yun Shang Sect had drawn this Demonic Path Cultivator, she probably would have already won and wouldn't have to struggle against Xuan Ming."

...

On the top floor of the Duobao Tower, Su Xin had already spread his Divine Sense before Xiao Tian even attacked. As expected, he heard some unpleasant discussions.

His already gloomy expression became even more sullen.

Chen Xuanfeng noticed the source of the Yin Qi spreading out, sent his Divine Sense to investigate slightly, understood, and chuckled: "Why bother getting angry with those people? Just watch, Brother Tian will slap their faces until they swell."

Su Xin nodded without speaking, his gaze fixed tightly on the fighting stage.

Xiao Tian ignored whether his opponent was deliberately showing weakness or was genuinely timid and afraid to fight. His gaze had already moved away from him and shifted toward the other five stages.

His stage was in the center, and he could see the stages on both his left and right at a glance.

On the other five stages, the Demonic Path Cultivators on four of them were at a disadvantage, while only one stage was evenly matched.

The female Cultivator seemed to specialize in movement techniques; her graceful figure drifted unpredictably like a phantom, making her hard to grasp.

Her attacks rarely involved spells; they were almost all offensive Talismans.

It was as if money was no object; she casually threw out handfuls of attack Talismans.

Her opponent was a male Cultivator dressed entirely in white, who did not look like a Demonic Path Cultivator.

His movement technique was surprisingly no less inferior to his opponent who specialized in it. Every time, he managed to evade the Talisman attacks calmly and closed the distance, lightly brushing past his opponent in rather ambiguous positions.

Of course, the female Cultivator's movement technique was also not weak; she could always use her movement technique to escape just before the moment of counter-attack.

The two exchanged blows back and forth, resembling a perfectly matched dance that was dazzling yet pleasing to the eye.

These two were none other than the direct Disciple of the Yun Shang Sect, Li Yueqin, and... the Loose Cultivator highly praised by the Demonic Path Cultivators, Xuan Ming!