As I was on the first seat in the last round of competition, my fight with Dai Bao is going to be the first fight of the day for our sect.

‘I mean it was supposed to be an easy win for me who has the first seat but who would have thought that Jin Fen, that shit head fuck this whole thing up…’ I now know why in the novels others hate the MCs, they have a tendency to fuck with your plans.

‘Well, no matter. I had to have a fight like this sooner or later anyway…’ in the end, it wasn’t much different for me so I didn’t dwell on it too much.

…

After a short rest, we were ready to start the first elimination round of the fights. My fight with Dai Bao was the first fight and because of its importance, many spectators were looking at our fighting stage.

They might have never seen these two youngsters but they know of their standings so they know this fight had a big significance for the future of one of the holy lands, the heavenly sword sect.

Each side who wins the fight gains a huge prestige in the eyes of ‘common’ cultivators and because of that his future road to be the next patriarch would be much smoother and the who would fail to win would have a harder time in the future.

Because this is a public event, the news would travel far and wide and within a month all of the peoples of the holy divine continent would know of this fight and its result. People might not have the guts to trash a figure like Li Huang or Dai Bao to their face but when they are not in front of them they would talk easily. And like that their reputation would plummet so it would be hard to get a high position as patriarch of one of the holy lands…

If you look at it from these angles you would see that this is not just a simple ‘spar’ of two disciples from the same sect, no matter how much grand elder Wan wants to portrait it so.

Of course, Li Huang knows about it too but as he has his priorities straight, he cares more about appearing ‘dashing’ to a specific someone.

This just goes to show what would happen if you listen to your dick once in a while…

Li Huang got to the stage in the midst of all the stares from the crowd, who wanted to see the number one genius of the heavenly sword sect for the first time. As this was the first time that Li Huang was appearing in public, this was a good chance for them to see him, who knows, they might be able to brag about it later.

Many others were also looking at his face. Males were mostly were engraving his face in their memories as to not offend him in the future, who knows what would be the outcome if they were to offend a ‘young master’. His face was memorized like many other faces by the crowd in the ‘try not to offend’ folder.

This problem wouldn’t be a problem if they could stop themselves from trash talking to anyone that they see, but unfortunately they didn’t think about it this way…

Most of the females were ‘charmed’ by his face and started fangirling about him. Well, the level of praise was still low as they didn’t know how strong he truly is, so they didn’t go all out. In a world that might makes right, you have to be strong first and foremost.

On the other side of the stage, Dai Bao was standing with a complicated expression on his face, he didn’t want to fight Li Huang this soon but it seems he has no choice now that things went this way. He knows that he was played in his fight with that brat, Jun Fen, but he couldn’t do anything about it now. He had to win this fight for his future.

He knows that losing this fight would mean that he would be in a hard situation to get the patriarch position. There was nothing to consider at this time, he just has to win.

Li Huang who was looking at Dai Bao, showed a stumped expression. He didn’t understand why Dai Bao was looking at him like he was pep-talking himself.

Nevertheless, Li Huang carried out his plan to start the fight.

“Junior brother Dai Bao, it seems that we have to fight early in the competition.” Li Huang told him with a smile that didn’t reach his eyes.

“Yes, senior brother Li. Please forgive me in advance.” Dai Bao answered in the same style. The way he said it was as if he knows that he is going to win so he is asking for forgiveness.

Li Huang who was on auto-response mode didn’t think about it much and answered him.

“You are forgiven.” He beamed a smile at Dai Bao.

Even the youngest amongst the audience know full well that Dai Bao’s remark was sarcastic, so they didn’t expect Li Huang to shamelessly accept his apology.

Dai Bao was also shocked but he couldn’t change the past, could he? So he had no other option but to stiffly nod to Li Huang.

“…Thank you senior brother Li.” Dai Bao answered.

“No problem, let us fight now…” Li Huang who was thinking about the fight didn’t know of Dai Bao’s struggles and continued smiling to be more friendly toward a fellow disciple.

Well, his efforts only backfired and Dai Bao was getting more and more enraged inside.

Without wasting any more time Dai Bao attacked Li Huang head-on.

Thrusting his sword toward Li Huang’s shoulder, Dai Bao intended to use this opening to his advantage and hit Li Huang in his first move and as fast as possible.

To Li Huang who was trained (read abused) by Li Long for a week recently, this level of speed and technique is nothing and if he wanted he could have fought Dai Bao with his eye closed and by only relying on his senses.

But he didn’t do it the easy way. Why? Well, he wanted to show off so finishing it fast would be counterproductive.

Without using his sword he moved his shoulder out of the hitting zone of Dai Bao’s sword and calmly waited for his opponent’s next move.

Dai Bao didn’t expect to fail this miserably when he had clearly an upper hand from his point of view.

For a moment he thought that Li Huang might have used some item to move fast and cheated but he quickly throw that thought away. Even if Li Huang wanted to cheat, with grand elder Wan present he couldn’t be successful in doing so.

Thinking that this must be a fluke he fixed his stance and got ready to continue his attacks against Li Huang.

Li Huang who was seemingly wide open beckoned Dai Bao to attack.

As both sides fought each other, they both progressively got more serious. At this point, this fight was the sole fight that was being watched by the spectators. The level of swordsmanship was high enough for many in the crowd to widen their horizons.

Almost everyone sat cross-legged in preparation for a breakthrough in their way of the sword. As all of the crowd were from the same generation of Li Huang and Dai Bao, this was very beneficial for them and they wouldn’t lose this chance for a final push before their competition.

You might think that Li Huang was playing around but shockingly, he wasn’t. He was using this fight to train more as according to him ‘you can’t say what would happen in the eternal wail trials’.

The reason behind his wide-open stance was the method of his training. This method of training was named [Drunken Sword Master].

When you are training with this technique you would see illusions of your opponent attacking you simultaneously. In a situation like that, an open stance is the best option because having so many openings would only make it harder for your opponent to find the real one(s).

Meanwhile having so many illusions attacking you make it harder for you to make mistake and you have to not only defend against the real opponent but also defend against the fake ones.

This way Li Huang fought with Dai Bao for 20 more minutes until he was sure that this fight wouldn’t give him any more benefits and decided to finish it.

“Junior brother, it was a good fight.” Li Huang said to Dai Bao while dodging his sword attacks.

Dai Bao on other hand was out of breath after this much attack and his arms were sore.

‘Is he still human?’ was what Dai Bao thought to himself.

But soon he knows that if he let Li Huang attack him he would lose more face than he already has so he opted to surrender.

“I surrender.” He said and it was only at that moment that he saw Li Huang’s sword in front of his chest, ready to slash at his ribs.

It was only at that moment that he knows it was the best choice to surrender here.

Opposite him, Li Huang only shrugged and sheathed his sword.

‘Now that is what I call a good showoff and a good training.’ I thought.