Chapter 775 - Opening of the compet.i.tion
This small episode attracted quite a few surprised gazes.
Seeing Hu Xuan, Hu Qin and Tang Huan laughing together, while Hu Yan"s face darkened and became sullen, those fellows who had the same idea as him, besides feeling curious, wisely gave up on the previous thought, in case they end up like him.
Along the way, Tiger Clan cultivators that were advancing in the same direction continuously joined them. Unknowingly, the group had grown larger and larger.
After entering the dried up Dragon Ascending River, they followed the river. Around dusk, they arrived at their destination.
The middle section of the small mountain range in the middle of the river had almost been leveled. A bonfire was set ablaze, illuminating the entire area. Large areas of tents were revealed under the bright red light of the fire. Outside the tent, silhouettes could be seen.
The sounds of talking and laughing rose and fell, and with the addition of the Tiger Clan, it became even more lively.
The majority of the cultivators here were from the Four Great Clans, with the Tiger Clan and the Eagle Clan occupying the majority of them. After all, the two clans were the closest, and the two great clans, Dragon and Snake, each came with hundreds of people.
Time pa.s.sed bit by bit. Unknowingly, an entire night had pa.s.sed.
The next day, at the break of dawn, a large area had just been cleared out and a hubbub had already spread to the sky.
Even though she is only twenty-three years old, her cultivation is already at the peak Rank Five True Spirit. Amongst the cultivators of the four clans, there is absolutely no one who is her match. First, it must be our Dragon Clan. "
"Brat, don"t forget, in this compet.i.tion of Four Clans, the age of the partic.i.p.ating cultivators will not exceed twenty-five, and not twenty-three."
"So what? No one is a match for her."
"..."
"Look, look, is that the Snake Clan"s number one beauty? "You really are like a demon. Look at her body, tsk tsk, it makes your father"s heart burn with anger."
"Not only is she the number one beauty in Snake Clan, she is also the strongest expert among the ten partic.i.p.ants that will fight in Snake Clan this time!"
"..."
"Eagle Clan is going crazy, five out of ten are at the Rank Five True Spirit cultivation level."
"Five? The more people there are, the more useless it is. If Hu Xuan from our Tiger Clan were to come out, we would be able to defeat all of their five Rank Five True Spirit s. "
"..."
Tens of thousands of Four Great Clans cultivators and a few foreign cultivators formed a circle around the area. They were talking and laughing loudly, arguing intensely, and guessing at the results of the compet.i.tion … All sorts of notes converged into a huge sound wave, reverberating in the sky.
The young men and women who were preparing to represent the Four Great Clans had all arrived at the center of the arena.
Forty people had gathered into four groups, forming a clear and distinct path. Almost every single one of them became the target of comments from the surrounding cultivators. Hearing the voices from all around them, everyone kept quiet, but their eyes kept moving back and forth, secretly observing their opponents.
Tang Huan was no exception.
Not long after they arrived last night, Clan Guardian Commander called everyone together and pa.s.sed the collected information about the partic.i.p.ants from Dragon Clan, Eagle Clan and Snake Clan to everyone. Then, he arranged the corresponding countermeasures according to the condition of the partic.i.p.ants from each clan.
In just a moment, Tang Huan had already matched the information that Hu Xiao provided with the three clan"s cultivators.
Amongst the ten people from Dragon Clan, four of them were Rank Five True Spirit Cultivators and six were Rank Four True Spirit Cultivators. There were five Cultivators from Eagle Clan and five others who were also Rank Four True Spirit Cultivators.
As for the Tiger Clan, there were four Rank Five True Spirit Cultivators, five Rank Four True Spirit Cultivators and one Tang Huan, this Rank Three True Spirit Cultivator.
On the surface, it seemed that the Eagle Clan was the strongest, followed by the Dragon Clan and the Snake Clan, and then the Tiger Clan.
However, whether it was the Eagle Clan s, or the Dragon Clan s, none of them would think so. The Tiger Clan similarly did not feel that their side"s strength was at the bottom.
In fact, that was indeed the case. After all, even though their cultivations were on par with one another, their battle power was still inferior. Some cultivators of the Rank Five True Spirit might lose to the cultivators of the Peak Rank Four True Spirit, while some of the cultivators of the Rank Five True Spirit could fight against two opponents of the same cultivation level.
Furthermore, weapons, cultivation techniques, and other factors would affect the results of the compet.i.tion. The outcome of this Four Great Clans spar was highly uncertain.
"Aha, I"m not seeing things, right? The Tiger Clan has a Rank Three True Spirit guy?"
Suddenly, a strange sound broke the silence in the small s.p.a.ce, and the one who spoke was a lanky Eagle Clan man. His face was also thin and long, with a pale complexion and an eye-catching aquiline nose. At this moment, his face was filled with exaggerated surprise, but his pair of small eyes didn"t contain the slightest bit of surprise. Anyone could tell that he was feigning surprise.
"It really is the Rank Three True Spirit."
Almost at the same time the lanky man finished speaking, someone else started to chime in with a tone of disbelief. The one who spoke was also a man from Eagle Clan, dressed in a yellow robe, his body was st.u.r.dy, his voice was like a broken gong and was filled with ridicule, "If he was even sent out as a Rank Three True Spirit cultivator, does it mean that the Tiger Clan has no one else? I really never thought that the young generation of Tiger Clan would not have fallen to such a stage, that even cultivators from the six Rank Four True Spirit s could not find them, and in the end, actually managed to find someone from the Rank Three True Spirit to make up for the amount. "
"Brother Yang, you"re wrong. Maybe the Tiger Clan is doing this to numb us."
A playful voice followed, "It might even be an expert of the Rank Six True Spirit, using some special method to conceal his true cultivation and camouflage himself to look like a Rank Three True Spirit. If I didn"t guess wrongly, maybe he is the real trump card of Tiger Clan. After the compet.i.tion begins, we have to be extra careful. If we are unlucky and run into him, we"ll be in trouble. "
"Aiya, I"m so scared..."
A Eagle Clan girl patted her chest and cried out with a face filled with fear. Seemingly the instant the Eagle Clan woman"s voice fell, the rest of the Eagle Clan Cultivators s couldn"t help but burst out in laughter. The nearby Dragon Clan cultivators and Snake Clan Cultivators s also couldn"t help but laugh.
Before the compet.i.tion, any clan could become an opponent.
The young cultivators of Eagle Clan and Tiger Clan clashed before the compet.i.tion, and the people of Dragon Clan and Snake Clan were overjoyed to see that. As a result, Dragon Clan and his men started to jeer at them from the side. They could not wait for the two clans to start a fight, they only wanted to see the chaos in the world.