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Chapitre 49: Third round of the gold test

When Bai Yun opened his eyes, he found himself in the hall once again. He looked around for a moment to see how many people had survived. To his shock, only one other person from the attacking team other than Bai Yun and Zhang Zi was there in the hall. And from the defending team, only nine people were left.

A cold sweat broke out on Bai Yun's back when he saw the numbers. The fact that seventy people had died meant that it would only have been a few more minutes before the rest of them also died. It was only now that he realized how close to failing they had come. Ba Yun finally understood how no one had passed the test until now.

Every single member of the defending team was panting. They were covered in blood and sweat. They were still in shock at their sudden teleportation. Forget Bai Yun, even Zhang Zi looked much better. Song Hui ignored where she was and just laid down on the floor. Even now they were unable to comprehend what had happened and was standing there stunned.

"Congratulations." A voice was heard. As they turned to look, the entire organizer group had appeared in front of them. They were staring at the group in surprise. "You are the first group to have passed Insect World. Well done."

For a moment silence reigned the hall. Then the entire room broke out in cheers. None of them could believe that they had actually won. A couple of them broke into tears. Song Hui had already fallen asleep by now. The only people who were composed were Bai Yun, Zhang Zi, and Gong Ming.

"Good job." Gong Ming said while staring at Bai Yun.

"It's okay. We just got lucky. You guys look like you have been through hell." Bai Yun replied.

"Great. We are going to go down in history." Zhang Zi said while grinning.

The organizers waited silently as the group calmed down. Then they asked them to be silent while they explained the procedures from now on would be.

"Since you guys have passed War after we put Insect World as the scenario, we have not done any preparations for the third round at all. Honestly, we did not expect you to pass at all." The lady continued. Everyone who heard this chuckled. That was a very reasonable assumption.

"Well anyway since you have passed, we will be conducting the third round tomorrow morning. There will be many prominent people who will be interested in your examinations. After all, you are the first to pass Insect World." She continued. "Due to the momentous achievement, all of you here will be getting a reward. But the rewards will be based on your ranking in the tournament. Both the number as well as the quality of the reward will be higher than usual."

The group cheered when they heard this announcement.

"Excuse me," Gog Ming interrupted. "How exactly did we win? Based on what I know of Insect World I was expecting a sure loss."

The organizer lady smiled when she heard this. "It was due to sheer luck. Usually, it takes a long time for people to reach the guardian caves due to the labyrinth. Most of the people who are in the attacking teams are never able to make it to the guardian cave before the white flag is destroyed. There are a lot of cases where the attacking team has people who are strong enough to defeat the boss, but they could not reach him in time. But both Long Tian and Zhang Zi walked almost directly to the guardian caves and ended up facing enemies they were strong against. Thus a miracle occurred." Once the organizers explained what had happened, everyone understood.

After asking them to return to their accommodation, and to assemble here tomorrow morning, the organizers left them alone.

Once they left, Bai Yun went to talk to Zhang ZI. He approached him with an innocent smile. Just as Zhang Zi started to speak, Bai Yun's hands moved like lightning, and then grabbed hold of Zhang Zi's collar and lifted him up. Zhang Zi was shocked into silence by his movement.

"What kind of moron are you? Why would you use a spear with that kind of ability?" Bai Yun asked while shaking him.

This was a reasonable question by Bai Yun. An innate ability was different from a battle skill. It was an ability of the body, and, other than a few exceptions, it was extremely difficult to use them away from one's body or use it through a weapon. Bai Yun estimated that the shockwaves Zhang Zi created were not even half as powerful as the ones he could create with his bare hands.

Zhang Zi laughed as he heard this. "Why should I care about all of that. I use a spear because I like to. Who cares about things like optimal use of strength and so on."

Bai Yun sighed when he heard this answer. When he was learning under the God of Swords, he would be disciplined very physically every time he made a mistake, usually with a beating. Later on, once he started to fight in the Grand War, he started to teach other people how to fight properly as a stress release. No, wait he did that to strengthen the army. Either way, his body automatically reacted when he saw Zhang Zi using his power so stupidly.

Bai Yun understood that Zhang Zi was not going to change from the moment he heard his response. He had run into such people many times. He knew Zhang Zi was not going to change.

"Now you know how much of a moron he is." Gong Ming, who had approached them by now, said.

Bai Yun simply sighed while he let go of Zhang Zi.

"Huh, I thought you were going to push further. All the other morons who wanted me to drop the spear kept on going at it for a long time before they accepted that I was not going to change." Zhang Zi was surprised.

"I just said all of that because I thought that it was a shame to waste your power. I am not going to force you to change. It would only be detrimental to your cultivation." Bai Yun said.

"Maybe. But if I had done so, we would have lost."

He was right. The reason they won was because Zhang Zi was able to distract the mantis long enough for Bai Yun to destroy the flag. If Zhang Zi had used his hands to channel the shockwave ability, it would have taken him much longer to be defeated. Considering the situation of the defensive team, they would have been defeated by then. It was funny, how doing the wrong thing led to their victory.

"And how exactly did you guys pull it off?" Gong Ming asked.

"We got lucky. Zhang Zi ket the boss distracted while I shot the flag." Bai Yun replied.

Gong Ming nodded his head, seemingly happy with the answer. He had stopped pretending in front of Bai Yun and started to show his true colors. He then left without taking a second look.

After this Bai Yun and Zhang Zi also left the hall and returned to their accommodations. There were still a few people who were still celebrating their unexpected success.

Once Bai Yun retreated to his quarters, he took out the three tempered honey.

Since he had enough of it, he split the honey into two. Bai Yun then spend the first half of the honey to complete the mysterious pattern in his remaining leg. Now he as at the four pattern stage, and had completed the mysterious patterns in his four limbs.

But once he was done, Bi Yun found himself in a dilemma. He only had enough tempered honey to create one more mysterious pattern. And he was not sure which of the five remaining patterns to apply next.

Undying Body first created nine mysterious patterns, before tying them all together with the tenth one. The nine initial ones were the on the four limbs, the two shoulders, the abdomen, the back, and the head. There was no order in which these had to be completed. But the amount of strength one would get was disproportional to the number of resources one needed to create one.

In skin sewing, as it was more focused on defense, a body cultivator would typically be weaker than a qi cultivator. But the Undying Body was even worse. Since it focused on a strong foundation, a peak skin sewing body cultivator of Undying would be defeated by a peak qi condensing cultivator.

And due to the nature of the Undying Body, one would gain an explosive increase in strength upon reaching the tenth pattern, and the first nine would be rather weak. Bai Yun was certain that the strength he would gain upon completing two more mysterious patterns would not even be half of what he could get upon reaching the fourth stage of qi condensation.

After some deliberation, Bai Yun decided to apply the right shoulder pattern as the fifth mysterious pattern. This would allow him to apply a slightly stronger strength in the right arm.

Once he was done with this, it was already time for the third round to start. He quickly made his way to the hall where the rest of them were waiting.

The moment he entered, Song Hui ran up to him. "I heard you destroyed the flag. Great jo big brother." She said excitedly.

"You did a good job defending too." Bai Yun smiled and praised the strange little girl.

"Of course. I am very strong. If it wasn't for me, they would have all died in an instant." Song Hui replied arrogantly. But Bai Yun had to accept that this was indeed true.

Suddenly the organizers appeared without warning, as they usually do.

"Since you are all here, it is time for us to begin the final round of the gold test." The boss said.

With that, the teleportation light covered them once again.


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Chapitre 50: Start of the tournament

Bai Yun stared at the new room they were in. It was a large square room. In the center, a large circular ring was drawn. This was probably where the battles were going to take place. On top of the walls of the room, they could see small windows that led to rooms from which people could view their battles.

The moment they arrived there, Bai Yun's god sense sensed a few perceptions sweeping over him. He realized that there were quite a good number of people here to watch the matches. The fact that they passed the Insect World must have increased the attention placed on them.

Bai Yun frowned when he felt their presences washing over him. He realized that they were all in the soul step.

In a place like the Yellow city, the most powerful people, the movers and shakers, would be in the dao step. The people in the qi step were either youngsters or rabble. Most of the administrative tasks were handled by soul step cultivators. And even if there were dao step cultivators who were alarmed by the fact they cleared insect world, they would at most send soul step cultivators to watch over the battles. After all, no matter what, they were still in the qi condensation realm.

Bai Yun knew that there was no way anyone in the qi step to notice that he was wearing a disguise. At the same time, people in the dao step would be able to see his true face in an instant once they took a closer look. But for people in the soul step they would only be able to tell that there was something wrong with him, and maybe conclude that he had hidden his identity by using a disguising technique. And that too, only when they looked closer with their perception. Of course, if they had an innate ability that could see through the disguise, then it would be useless.

Bai Yun initially thought that no dao step cultivator would come to this test as it was only a routine event. He did not expect to run into so many messy situations, like having three celebrities in the roster, as well as passing an unpassable test. But now the situation had spiraled out of control. But he would be fine as long as a dao step cultivator did not show up. After all, it was not illegal to use a disguise in the hunter union. While not many, there were still some who did so. The Hunter Union was confident that no one could cheat their system and take multiple cards per person. So they allowed this.

Bai Yun collected himself. It seems as if no one had found out about his true identity. He turned his attention back to the organizer, who was now standing in the middle of the stadium.

"Hello and welcome to the third round of the gold test." She said. No matter what happened, the people of the hunter union maintained their professionalism. "I would like to inform you that many people are watching the tournament and that you might be able to get good recommendations to join major powers."

Most of the people here were excited at the prospect. In the qi condensation stage, the strength of an average person and a person from a major power did not vary too much. Once their strength increased, the difference in strength would also widen. It was the reason why a lot of people who came to take the gold test, not for the gold card, but for opportunities and experience. Though there were also those who would wait to attempt this to gain battle experience.

"The test will be a simple knockout type tournament. Since there are twelve people in the tournament, the first round will have eight people fighting each other. Four lucky people will have a free pass to the second round. We have drawn up a chart for the tournament. Please take a look. The order of the fights, as well as the people who will be fighting, has already been drawn up by a random draw."

A second later a giant screen appeared on the wall opposite them. The tournament matchups were projected there. Bai Yun saw that both he and Gong Ming had gained the free pass in the first round.

The first battle in the first round was between Song Hui and another participant. The rounds seemed to have been arranged in such a way that the four of them who were considered as the strongest would not meet up before the semifinals.

Soon they called upon the first set of fighters in the tournament. As Song Hui and the other person entered the stage, the rest of them retreated to the viewing area.

"I will explain the rules of the match. The matches happen in the ring. No pills or external resources can be used once the match begins. The match will be considered as over only when either one of the participants has been knocked unconscious, declared defeat or has been knocked out of the ring. If both participants are knocked out of the ring at the same time, then the match will resume until a winner is decided. In the case of a draw, we will choose a winner. Also, please note that we will not intervene if one of the participants is in danger but does not admit defeat. But the judges will intervene if one of the participants shows intend to concede but is not able to declare defeat. Finally, even though deaths are unavoidable, willfully killing your opponent is prohibited in the match."

Once the rules of the match were introduced, the organizer moved to the edge of the ring. Song Hui and her opponent moved to the opposite sides of the ring. Song Hui had her whip out and was visibly excited at the prospect of the fight. Her opponent on the hand was visibly gulping. He was a member of the defensive group and had seen her fight first hand.

"Begin" The organizer declared once the two of them took their stance.

The fight ended without any surprise. Song Hui immediately attacked her opponent with her whip, while he tried to close the distance to her. But by the time he reached halfway to her, she broke through his defenses and landed a strike on his arm. From then on the fight ended in less than thirty seconds by which Song Hui's opponent admitted his defeat.

Bai Yun shook his head while watching this. Even though she was not at all proficient in her whip technique, Song Hui's whip technique itself was quite powerful. It would be rather difficult for someone who does not know how to fight against a whip user to handle her.

Once this fight was done with it was time for the second fight to begin. Bai Yun watched this fight quite intently as he would have to fight the winner of this fight.

The fight between the two ended very quickly. When he saw the fight Bai Yun was dumbstruck. The only way to describe the fight was by calling it idiotic. The two people on the stage simply ran up to each other when the fight began and used their ultimate techniques straight away. One of these was a palm technique while the other was a fist technique. The palm and fist collided, and the two of them stared at each other for a few seconds. Then the fist user overpowered the palm user and send him flying out of the ring and was declared as the winner.

Bai Yun was thankful that the God of Swords was not here when these two fought or he would have started a massacre.

He had thought that the people who had fought their way through War would be able to keep their cool and fight properly. He had no idea why they would fight in such a stupid manner. But after thinking it through for a moment he understood their reason for doing so. They weren't fighting to win, but to show off in front of the people who were watching them fight.

The third fight was between Zhang Zi and another person. This fight also ended with no suspense and Zhang Zi won the fight in an instant, sending the opponent flying using his shockwave spear.

In the fourth fight the person from the attacking team who had survived fought. Unlike the second fight, both people in the fight used weapons. The one from the attacking team used a sword, while the other person used a staff. Bai Yun got ready to watch a good fight. But he was soon let down. The two idiots simply rushed at each other and used their battle skills straight away. It took Bai Yun all of his willpower not to go up and strangle the two idiots when he saw that. After this the sword user somehow overpowered the other person and wounded him in the process, causing him to win in the process.

Once the first round ended the group was given half an hour to rest. During this period everyone chose to rest. But neither Bai Yun nor Zhang Zi was able to rest since Song Hui captured them and kept on chatting with them. Well, Bai Yun and Zhang Zi mostly listened. Even Bai Yun was impressed by the strange little girl's optimism and brightness.

Once the second round began, they changed the order from the first round. Thus the first fight was between Zhang Zi and one of the people who had escaped fighting in the previous round. His opponent was the only woman other than Song Hui who had made it through the second test. Bai Yun was surprised to find that she was an archer.

Once the fight began she immediately rushed away from Zhang Zi, putting distance between them. From then on she started to snipe Zhang Zi. Bai Yun was surprised to find that her techniques were very good, being both fast and accurate. She even disrupted Zhang Zi's attack and used her movement technique to maintain her distance.

Bai Yun was surprised to find such a dark horse. From the discussions of the surrounding people, Bai Yun realized that she was from a long line of archers, but her family had declined in recent years. She was so good in the second test that she was the main reason the defending group was able to defend against the flying insects. Bai Yun looked at the tournament board. Meng Qi. He read her name. She was the only person he deemed talented enough to make Bai Yun remember her name from the rubble other than the three celebrities in this test. He wasn't sure about Gong Ming, but she had a slight chance of winning against even Song Hui.

But she was up against Zhang Zi. After a while, he got irritated and then created an extra-large scale shockwave. Even though it was not enough to defeat her due to the distance she was maintaining, it did cause her to miss a step. In an instant, Zhang Zi had covered the distance between them and she admitted defeat soon after.

The next fight was between Gong Ming and the sword cultivator from before. Bai Yun was excited to see Gong Ming fight, but he was easily disappointed. He went in wielding a sword and then just used the direct method to overpower his enemy with a stronger technique and win.

The third fight was Song Hui's and she won without any suspense. After this was finally Bai Yun's tun.

He walked up to the ring and stared at his enemy. It was the fist moron from the second match.

Once the judge declared start, Bai Yun's opponent ran at him, once again using the fist technique he had used in his first fight. Bi Yun's face twitched when he saw this. He didn't move and allowed him to approach him.

Once he reached close enough, he thrust his fist forward. Bai Yun sighed when he saw this.

Bi Yun calmly took a step to the right, then used that foot as a pivot to rapidly rotate. A second later, his opponent stopped as Bai Yun's sword came to rest on his neck.

"Will you admit defeat, or should I continue." Bai Yun asked sweetly.

"I, I admit defeat."

With this, the final four was decided.


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