“Didn’t you say that you would make me pay a price for what I said?”
Ling Xiao indifferently examined Ling Ji whose hand had been broken, preventing him from fighting.
Ling Ji didn’t speak; he still didn’t understand what had happened.
Perhaps, he had hit a giant, rather than a person.
Just one move!
In fact, it couldn’t even be regarded as a move!
Ling Xiao hadn’t even used a martial art.
In a battle between martial artists, only the use of a martial art counted as a move.
Ling Xiao had won a complete victory.
The audience was also dumbfounded.
Even Ling Feifan, who had never cared much about Ling Xiao, looked at him a few more times.
Ling Xiao’s cultivation realm was higher, so his odds of winning had been 60 or 80 percent, but it would be a stalemated, miserable victory eked out over a hard battle. However, no one had expected him to win so easily. He had won without using any martial arts and a casual swing of his fist.
“This Ling Xiao is not simple. His strength is terrifying!”
“Well, we absolutely must not collide with him head-on; otherwise, we will definitely suffer a loss!”
“What annoys me most is fighting an opponent with terrifying strength. I hope he doesn’t challenge me next.”
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“Ling Xiao, through this battle, you have earned the qualifications to participate in the finals. Since you defeated Ling Ji, you can sit in his seat. People of the Medicine Hall, take Ling Ji and treat his injuries.”
Average people couldn’t tell, but the judges’ eyesights weren’t bad. They knew that Ling Ji’s arm had been broken, preventing him from further participating in the finals. This Ling Xiao had truly done what he had said he would. This was truly ruthless and decisive.
At this moment, the person whose heart was in the most chaos was Ling Shisan.
He had not expected Ling Xiao to be so ruthless. If Ling Xiao learnt that he had sent the assassins, it would be strange if Ling Xiao didn’t retaliate.
For Ling Xiao, defeating Ling Ji was just his debut.
He sneered at Ling Feifan’s seat.
You all thought that Ling Feifan is stronger and more talented than I, so you gave him privileges? After I defeat him, I wonder what kind of faces you all will wear.
In the end, he had been treated unjustly today.
Ling Feifan had been qualified to participate without going through this process.
However, he said nothing. Being a loudmouth had no meaning. He had to use results to take revenge.
Thinking this, he walked to the fifth chair in the second row and sat down.
His and Ling Feifan’s appearance had no actual effect on the finals.
Originally, the contest had consisted of 110 people, but only now had everyone been assembled.
Although the top 100 would receive generous rewards, the higher one’s ranking, the better the rewards.
The top three would obtain gang qi pills and peak martial arts.
Therefore, the competition for the top three places would be the fiercest.
Presumably, other than the unfathomable Ling Feifan, the rest would be unwilling to miss this chance to obtain peak martial arts.
Ling Xiao naturally was no exception.
Moreover, it was obvious that the higher one’s ranking, the higher one’s status in the clan and the more privileges one would receive.
Ling Feifan who was ranked first in the Genius Hall had an even higher position than most elders.
Ling Xiao didn’t value the position, but he believed that more privileges would be helpful for his future cultivation.
“Just now, Ling Xiao’s late arrival affected the finals’ schedule, so I will reiterate the rules! Everybody has five chances to challenge others. Just five times: not one more and not one less! In addition, if your challenges are successful two times in a row, you will no longer be limited by the rankings, and you can challenge anyone ranked higher than you!”
The chief judge loudly explained, “Are you all clear?”
“Yes!”
“Good, since that’s the case, continue.”
Although Ling Xiao had come late, the rules were not complicated. He understood them easily.
Lower-ranking people could challenge higher ranked people. Initially, they could only challenge people within ten ranks above them for their first two matches. If they won both in succession, this restriction would be removed.
If a challenger won, the challenger would automatically obtain the challenged’s ranking.
Then, the challenged person would then need to challenge others to regain their ranking.
Everyone could only challenge others five times. Once a challenge was issued, regardless of victory or defeat, one chance would be lost.
Therefore, in addition to testing a disciple’s combat power, this competition also tested his or her judgement.
This was a case of knowing the enemy and yourself to fight every battle without defeat.
If you rashly challenged others, you’d quickly be eliminated. Nevertheless, this was a competition within the clan, so you’d, at most, get seriously injured.
However, if you carelessly kicked an iron plate outside, that would truly get yourself killed.
In addition, disciples who had advanced from the elimination rounds would start the challenges first. However, this would not count as one of their five chances.
This was only a simple ranking battle.
After all, they had advanced via the elimination rounds, so they had to first be integrated with the ranks of Genius Hall’s one hundred disciples.
Afterward, the challenges would start from the bottom to the top.
Before Ling Xiao had come, the initial challenges from those disciples who had advanced from the eliminations had already finished, and the regular challenges had already reached the 90th rank.
You could choose to forfeit a match, but you would lose a chance to challenge another. However, you would avoid making a fool out of yourself, which was very appealing to those disciples who lacked ambition.
However, the places from 100 to 110 were regarded as comparatively intense.
These ten disciples wouldn’t waste any chance to challenge others in order to enter the Genius Hall.
Merely, Ling Xiao had come late and already missed this wonderful opportunity to challenge those above him.
From places 100 to 50, many people chose to forfeit.
Especially the one ranked 100 absolutely wouldn’t accept any challenge without complete confidence. In any case, as long as he retained his ranking, he would still be a disciple of the Genius Hall. If he were not confident in his strength, it would be better to conceal his incompetence.
Therefore, this stage passed very quickly.
From 50 onwards, the challenges became increasingly intense.
In fact, from 50 to 11, the differences between each rank were miniscule. Therefore, no one was convinced of their current ranking, and the challenges were naturally intense.
Among those disciples who had advanced to the finals via the elimination rounds, other than Ling Yihang, Ling Xiao, and Ling Yixue, only Ling Tieshou had entered the top 50 at 48th, which was not too high or too low.
The rest were after rank fifty.
After all, the disciples of the Genius Hall were disciples of the Genius Hall. Even the top ten of the Elite Hall had a hard time breaking into this elite hundred.
Only a few could do that.
Ling Yihang was sixth, Ling Xiao was 15th, and Ling Yixue was 19th.
Now, everyone eagerly anticipated these three people invading the top ten.
Overall, Genius Hall’s top 20 basically all had a cultivation of at least initial stage Rank Four Martial Vein.
Genius Hall’s top ten had basically all reached the Mid Rank Four Martial Vein realm at minimum.
Meanwhile, the Genius Hall’s top five had strength above Peak Rank Four Martial Vein.
Naturally, this was just a rough statement and only an estimate. It was relatively common for a lower but still same realm martial artist with more combat experience to defeat a martial artist of the same realm with a higher cultivation.
Genius Hall was worthy of being called the Genius Hall. The disciples were all monsters, and many had made breakthroughs in the past seven days.
Nevertheless, none were as scary as Ling Xiao.
The top 20 could be regarded as a stage where everyone strived for the top ten places.
Ling Yixue’s goal wasn’t as high as Ling Xiao’s. She only wanted to enter the top ten.
At rank 19, her turn would soon come.
