Seeing the affectionate appearance of Ling Xiao and Lan Yu’er, Hei Suo simply felt like everything was dark.
Even he, an inner disciple, was like this, not to mention those outer disciples.
They gritted their teeth. If they could, they would die to change positions with Ling Xiao.
“Senior Sister, I’m going.”
Ling Xiao turned and said.
“Go; be careful.”
Lan Yu’er wanted to express her concern, but she still spoke coldly. Perhaps, she was long used to this disguise, so she truly couldn’t change back in a short time.
Ling Xiao walked towards the square’s challenge stage.
This challenge stage was a treasure that even a Transcendent Realm martial artist couldn’t easily destroy.
Among the outer disciples, the strongest one was just a Half Great Master. No one had reached Transcendent Realm. Therefore, this stage was absolutely sturdy enough.
Standing on the challenge stage, Ling Xiao looked around. Yang Cheng and Li Anle had not arrived yet, but Zhao Zhi, Xu Ying, Zhao Ci and others of the outer sect had all come.
In fact, everyone wanted to challenge the quasi-inner disciples.
In addition to an increase in monthly allowance, they would have more time to cultivate, and wouldn’t need to do hard physical labor. They just needed to be responsible for managing others.
Moreover, the higher one’s ranking, the greater the power and status. One didn’t even need to do management tasks at a certain level. One would simply cultivate daily while receiving much more generous rewards than other outer disciples.
By the way, the top ten outer disciples had their own cave dwellings. Not only could they live comfortably there, but that place also had rich spiritual qi, making their cultivation twice as effective with half the effort.
Soon, Yang Cheng and Li Anle arrived.
Even Elder White came.
Elder White would would be present when the challenge concerned the top ten outer disciples. This could be regarded as the sect putting importance on such challenges.
“Ling Xiao, come down first. Today, Yang Cheng has accepted two challenges. Let him fight the other person before you fight Li Anle.”
Elder White shouted from below the challenge stage.
Ling Xiao glanced at Yang Cheng, roughly understanding Yang Cheng’s thoughts.
Since he dared to take two challenges, wouldn’t Yang Cheng, who was the tenth best disciple in the outer sect, dare to accept two?
“Let’s start now. Liu Qiang, ranked fifteenth in the outer sect, versus Yang Cheng, ranked tenth!”
This was a battle between quasi-inner disciples.
One ranked fifteenth.
One ranked tenth.
Both were Half Great Masters and very powerful.
Originally, Li Qiang had challenged Jin Ming, ranked third, but the result was a complete defeat.
He had learned his lesson and chosen Yang Cheng, who was the last among the top ten.
Under normal circumstances, Yang Cheng was the weakest among the top ten. As long as he defeated Yang Cheng, he would get a personal cave dwelling and have abundant resources.
The top-thirty counted as one grade.
The top-ten was another.
Before entering the top-thirty, all wanted to enter it.
Meanwhile, those within the top-thirty hoped to enter the top-ten.
Seeing Liu Qiang, Yang Cheng smiled slightly and said: “Since you can’t defeat Jin Ming, you challenged me. Do you truly treat me as a soft persimmon?”
“Wind Rain Sword Technique!”
After speaking, Yang Cheng launched an attack. Thickly dotted wind and rain-like sword lights enveloped Liu Qiang.
That attack was continuous and terrifying.
Liu Qiang held his saber and gave it his all, repeatedly waving his saber to block Yang Cheng’s attack.
Their auras collided, and the aftereffects spread all around, covering the audience below the stage.
Many outer disciples felt the shockwaves and felt extremely uncomfortable, as if someone wanted to forcibly extract their true essence.
“Such terrifying power: it actually doesn’t belong to the Transcendent Realm.”
“This is a Half Great Master. Although they have yet to step into the Transcendent Realm, the might of their martial techniques is not inferior to the might of Rank One Transcendent Realm martial artists!”
“Yes, they are obviously much stronger than Peak Rank Nine Martial Vein martial artists!”
Whether it was new outer disciples or old outer disciples who planned to directly challenge the top-thirty, they were all shocked by this scene.
They hadn’t seen a battle between Half Great Masters before. Now, they knew that they couldn’t defeat them.
Moonlight Sect was more than 100,000 years old. Although there were martial artists who could defeat Half Great Masters with a cultivation base of Peak Rank Nine Martial Vein, that was rare.
As for those at Late Rank Nine Martial Vein, it was basically impossible for them to defeat a Half Great Master. This had become a truth of Moonlight Sect.
Thus, when they heard that Ling Xiao actually wanted to challenge Li Anle and Yang Cheng with a cultivation base of Peak Rank Eight Martial Vein, they had laughed at him, feeling that he didn’t know the height of heaven.
Even Hall Master Old Yang and Lan Yu’er didn’t believe in him.
On the challenge stage, although both Liu Qiang and Yang Cheng were Half Great Masters, there was still a big gap between them.
Combining martial techniques, true essence, combat skills, and other factors, Yang Cheng was too powerful.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom…
His seemingly weak sword move suddenly exploded with astonishing power.
The pitiful Liu Qiang desperately defended himself, but his true essence shield was like tofu. It was pierced easily, and his ending was tragic.
He was injured in many places, and small bloody holes bled continuously.
Ling Xiao frowned.
The Wind Rain Sword Technique used by Yang Cheng was just an entry gold-grade martial art, but it had already reached the perfection realm. His move was almost perfect.
In contrast, Liu Qiang was much worse.
This Yang Cheng had the capital to be arrogant.
After only a few moves, Liu Qiang hadn’t had a chance to fight back. He was already wounded and in sore straits.
Fortunately, he was wise. He directly admitted defeat to avoid making a further fool of himself.
“Too strong, is this Yang Cheng’s strength? No wonder he can rank within the top ten!”
“Yes, Liu Qiang is already scary enough. Allegedly, he defeated Li Anle in three moves. But now, he was defeated by Yang Cheng in ten or so moves. Moreover, he was completely crushed.”
“Can Ling Xiao even survive one move?”
“Heh heh, l can’t imagine it!”
All sorts of remarks came one after another. After seeing Yang Cheng’s strength, people who had already been not optimistic about Ling Xiao’s chances were even less.
Zhao Zhi also frowned. According to his calculations, if he challenged Liu Qiang, he might not even survive one move, but such a powerful Liu Qiang had actually lost so badly.
He couldn’t help taking a deep breath, feeling a little grateful. Fortunately, he hadn’t rashly initiated a challenge. Otherwise, he, a prince, would have been defeated so badly and truly have lost his face.
“Compared to Yang Cheng, Ming Tian is nothing at all.”
This was Xu Ying’s judgment.
Ming Tian’s potential might be better than Yang Cheng’s, but when Ming Tian left White Cloud Province to enter Moonlight Sect, he was already far behind Yang Cheng.
Even Liu Qiang was much stronger than the Ming Tian of before.
