Chapter 1 The Inertia of Genius

"..." Li Cheng颐 didn't look at Zhao Yuan, nor did he look at Zhao Chi, but narrowed his eyes slightly, his peripheral vision sweeping across the eldest brother standing alone not far away.

From the moment Zhao Yuan was seriously injured, he felt a trace of killing intent flash across his eldest brother's body.

But it was instantly locked down by Fuyun Zi, the elder leading the Qingmu Sword Sect, and at the same time, several experts from the Yuheng Sect also locked onto him, obviously preventing him from acting rashly.

This extreme distraction, coupled with the kid's disgusting behavior towards women, resulted in his unhindered sword strike earlier.

'Something's wrong... There seems to be a faint bloody aura on Eldest Brother...' Li Cheng颐's first sect was the Yin Yue Tian Ju Ge, under Midraan, so he was extremely sensitive to bloody auras.

That momentary leakage of aura made him absolutely certain that his eldest brother, Huo Qingkong, had been up to something.

Moreover, it wasn't just him who sensed it; the surrounding elders-level experts should have sensed it too.

That's why everyone focused their attention on Huo Qingkong.

"Damn it! How dare you ignore me!" Suddenly, Zhao Chi's voice rang out again, pulling Li Cheng颐 back from his reverie.

He looked at Zhao Chi, whose face was slightly flushed and eyes full of anger, and felt a little baffled.

"Sorry, what did you say just now?"

"..." *Peng!*

Zhao Chi clenched his fist fiercely, and true essence exploded with a crisp sound, scattering fine blue light spots.

"Very good... I hope you can keep up this act later!" He turned and walked towards the Qingmu Sword Sect's camp, taking his rest time.

"The first round is over. Losers leave the stage, and winners have thirty breaths of time to rest," the Yuheng Sect person announced loudly.

Li Cheng颐 returned to his camp, brushing past Huo Qingkong.

"You did well," Huo Qingkong said in a low voice.

"Thank you," Li Cheng颐 replied with a pure, innocent smile like a naive young man.

"Don't be careless. You're not the only one who can hide their strength," Huo Qingkong reminded again.

"Yes, I will be careful," Li Cheng颐 nodded.

Seeing the other party's undisguised earnest reminder, he finally felt that regardless of what kind of person his eldest brother might become in the future, at least for now, he was still normal, and still cared about his fellow disciples.

After giving a few instructions, Huo Qingkong went to visit Zhao Yuan, leaving the spot.

Li Cheng颐 was left with two deacons to maintain order.

On the Qingying Group side, the Suiyue Sect and Yuheng Sect were insignificant, and the second round started quickly.

Li Cheng颐's opponent was a tall, burly tiger-headed man from the Suiyue Sect. Without saying a word, the man raised his hand and let out a roar.

"I concede!"

*Boo.*

The Suiyue Sect side immediately erupted in boos, and a group of accompanying fellow disciples mocked him.

Zhao Chi also cleanly and neatly solved a Yuheng Sect woman, easily advancing.

In the end, including Li Cheng颐, there were still four people left, once again facing off in pairs.

Zhao Chi glanced at Li Cheng颐, who seemed to have started dozing off, and a surge of anger rushed straight to the top of his head.

"This kid!!"

"Seize the opportunity later," a deacon next to Fuyun Zi whispered.

"Got it!" Zhao Chi said impatiently.

Before coming here, the words of the elder re-emerged in his mind.

"In this competition, the reward is not important. What is important is to understand Huo Qingkong's foundation. Also, according to the traces, that Bai Lu killed Yue Shan with one sword, so his strength is hidden deeply. The strength he showed at that time, I'm afraid he already has three seals.

To be able to reach three seals at such a young age, he will definitely be a weakened version of Huo Qingkong in the future. So the main purpose of this competition is to cripple Bai Lu."

"It's probably not easy to do in front of so many people, right?" Zhao Chi frowned.

"Of course, it's not easy, but you don't need to do it yourself. Just use this at the last moment." Fuyun Zi took out an exquisite sky-blue dart from his sleeve.

"This thing only needs to be pressed and released, and it will fly out automatically, hit the target, and then self-destruct. Its power is comparable to my full blow. Be careful when using it." A cruel sneer appeared on Fuyun Zi's face.

"Also, don't worry about the Yuheng Sect interfering. The Yuheng Sect has already formed an alliance with this sect and will announce it after this competition."

Recalling this, Zhao Chi couldn't help but gently squeeze the dart magic weapon in the hidden pocket of his sleeve and looked at Fuyun Zi.

"Rest well." Fuyun Zi glanced at him lightly without saying much.

"Yes."

Although he was the first in the Qingying Group, the so-called Qingying were only those with future potential, and they could not be compared with the experts in the Big Group who had already transformed some of their potential into strength.

In fact, in terms of age, Huo Qingkong was still barely hanging on the tail of the Big Group.

There were many in the Big Group who had been tempered and exploded from ordinary disciples, forcibly squeezing out direct disciples and entering the elite.

Their strength was genuine.

After a short rest.

The four stood up and prepared for the next round.

Bai He was still there, and then there were Li Cheng颐, Zhao Chi, and a cold masked girl from the Yuheng Sect, Shangguan Zi.

"The penultimate round begins. Please everyone come on stage," the Yuheng Sect person shouted loudly.

Li Cheng颐 looked at the others and was the first to walk onto the stage.

'Killing intent +3.'

'Killing intent +3.'

'Killing intent +2.'

Streams of malice poured out from the other two sect members.

Li Cheng颐 instantly locked onto Zhao Chi, his brow furrowed slightly.

He believed that the strength he had just shown had exceeded the limits of ordinary Qingying disciples. Generally, Qingying disciples were at the single-seal level at most. A double-seal was simply a miracle, the pinnacle.

His sword strike, those who saw it, shouldn't be confident that they could easily deal with him.

It was much easier to defeat a person than to kill them.

This Zhao Chi, after seeing some of his strength, was still confident that he could kill him? And he could even feel killing intent??

"Ready... Begin!" The Yuheng Sect female disciple waved her arm, and new red light membranes reappeared, dividing the four into two large open spaces.

At this moment, there were only four people standing on the entire field. The large-scale control of the field had become the exclusive competition ground for the four.

Li Cheng颐's opponent, unfortunately, was Zhao Chi from the Qingmu Sword Sect.

"Senior Brother, be careful!" Bai He hurriedly reminded him, but was separated and unable to approach.

"Senior Brother Bai Lu is number one!!" Qiu Chen shouted from the sidelines, supporting the barely standing Zhao Yuan.

"Second! Eldest Brother is number one!!" Zhao Yuan couldn't help but retort.

"Senior Brother Bai Lu is just young!" Qiu Chen retorted. "When he grows up, he will definitely be fiercer than Eldest Brother!"

"Hehe, what do you know? Eldest Brother was already the best among the four sects at this age. Did you see Ding Zou over there? He had already lost to him three times at that time. So weak." Zhao Yuan knew Huo Qingkong like the back of her hand.

The Honglin Sword, Ding Zou, who had been leaning lazily and dozing off, twitched his face.

"These young girls nowadays really have tiger-wolf words in their mouths."

"Senior Brother, you will definitely win this time." A gentle woman beside him gently put a blue cloak on him.

"That's for sure." Ding Zou smiled, "But some guys in the sect are getting uglier and uglier now. It's really a shame to be with them."

"Senior Brother is Senior Brother, they are them, Yin'er can tell the difference," the woman smiled.

"It's good to have you here, otherwise, I might have joined another sect one day, like that guy from the Wumian Sword Sect." Ding Zou lazily raised his head and took a deep breath.

"Don't talk nonsense." Fuyun Zi snorted coldly in the distance, looking over.

Ding Zou raised his eyebrows and waved his hand towards the area.

At this moment, Zhao Chi and Li Cheng颐 were standing face to face on the field.

"Ready."

The Yuheng Sect woman's voice rang out.

Zhao Chi instantly tensed his body, bowed slightly, held the sword hilt, and locked his eyes on the opposite side.

"Peerless Sword Dao..."

Blue sword blades floated, levitated, and glowed around him.

"Begin!!" The Yuheng Sect woman's voice suddenly dropped.

A blue true essence air wall appeared around Zhao Chi.

The protection technique - 'Yu Lan' shone with white light.

The recovery technique - 'Sheng Ying' floated around in circles, with ribbon-like beams.

"Aren't you preparing? As a member of the Wumian Sword Sect, how dare you let me prepare everything. The trick of Shun Yu should be to break through the opponent's weaknesses with an instant rapid burst to win, right?"

He stared at Li Cheng颐, who was still motionless, and asked loudly.

"It's very simple..." Li Cheng颐 smiled and walked forward step by step.

"If I don't let you prepare everything."

"How can you experience"

"What is despair."

*Shua!!*

In an instant, a black shadow flashed.

Li Cheng颐 had disappeared from the spot.

'Wumian Sword Art - Ta Xu!'

It wasn't shadow flash, but simply using the terrifying explosive power of the sword art to move at super speed.

"Not good!!" Zhao Chi suddenly felt dizzy and realized that something was wrong. He raised his hand and slashed to the right.

But the sword blade only slashed through a phantom.

On the left!!

He realized he was wrong, but it was too late.

At the weak point of the sword move, a figure appeared out of thin air and raised his hand to strike with his sword.

*Chih!!!*

Layers of protection were cut open like rags, and blood splattered.

Zhao Chi only felt a sharp pain in his back.

'How is it possible!!? Just one move...'

He thought that although he couldn't beat the opponent, he could at least support dozens of moves before losing. After all, he was also a top genius who had condensed two yuan seals.

But...

The true essence wall of protection, sublimated by his Yuan seals, was like paper in the opponent's sword.

'Since that's the case...'

In a state of super-speed, the killing intent in Zhao Chi's eyes suddenly soared. He squeezed the dart in his left hand and pressed it hard.

"??!" Huo Qingkong's eyes turned cold, and his hand gently prepared to make a sword seal.

The two elders beside the Yuheng Sect Master simultaneously lit up with the flame of the Fate Flame Sword, ready to take action at any time. But strangely, the direction they were aiming at was Huo Qingkong.

The other elders of the Yuheng Sect had gathered around at some point, and the Sect Master held a red flame jade pendant, silently.

Fuyun Zi of the Qingmu Sword Sect stared at Yun Ling of the Wumian Sword Sect, and their auras flowed. Their eyes met, and killing intent surged.

On the field, the black dart in Zhao Chi's hand was ready to be launched, and Fuyun Zi's full blow was about to be launched.

At this moment, the atmosphere on the scene was extremely strange.

Everything seemed to be in slow motion. The tip of the dart in his sleeve was revealed, and countless insect-like black symbols crawled, spread, and wriggled on it.

*Shua!*

Unfortunately, everything stopped.

It wasn't that the dart couldn't be activated.

But a semi-transparent Wisdom Sword was accurately placed across Zhao Chi's neck, only a hair's breadth away from his skin.

"Do you want to continue?" Li Cheng颐 held the sword in one hand and held the Dingyuan Sword upside down in the other, his expression calm.

Fast!

Too fast!!

No one saw how he managed to accelerate instantly at the last moment and stop Zhao Chi's about-to-explode killing move.

Everyone, including the Yuheng Sect Master, only saw the Wisdom Sword flash in front of him, and in the blink of an eye, it penetrated Zhao Chi's protective true essence and landed on his neck.

The others didn't even see what happened in the last move.

(End of this chapter)