The Supreme Elder didn’t chase Ling Xiao because he was more worried about Ling Feifan.
After fiddling around for a while to no effect, he flew into a rage and roared at Ling Xiao: “Vile spawn, still not coming to save him!”
“Supreme Elder, as I said before, if you agree to my two conditions, I will save him.”
Ling Xiao was not stupid. Now, this Supreme Elder hesitated to pelt a rat for fear of smashing the dishes. However, once he saved Ling Feifan, the elder might decide to take action.
“Speak!”
Supreme Elder’s complexion darkened, but he could only helplessly agree.
“The first condition is to apologize to me. I’m not some vile spawn; I’m a Ling Clan disciple recruited by the old gentleman Ling Xiaotian, the Patriarch of the Ling Clan! Moreover, I’m a genius disciple who defeated Ling Feifan, winning the first seat in the Genius Hall.”
He intentionally dragged in Ling Xiaotian with his words, wanting to use him as a shield.
Although the Supreme Elder’s status was high, he had to give Ling Xiaotian face.
After all, the Patriarch held the highest position in the clan.
“This old man was furious and said something in error. He shouldn’t have called you a vile spawn! Is this enough?”
Although this apology was not at all sincere, Ling Xiao also didn’t want to dwell on this matter. After all, the other party had already apologized.
A Supreme Elder apologizing to an ordinary disciple: this might be the first time it had happened in the Ling Clan.
“The second condition is to swear before everyone that you will not retaliate against me due to your personal grudges!”
Ling Xiao stretched out his second finger and said.
“No problem. Now, can you start saving him?”
This Supreme was furious in his heart, but he could only endure for Ling Feifan’s sake.
This promise prevented him from moving against Ling Xiao within the Ling Clan, but would Ling Xiao never leave?
Sooner or later, he settle accounts with this little bastard!
“Of course!”
Ling Xiao maintained his distance. Flicking a trace of gang qi toward Ling Feifan, the cold qi quickly disappeared, and the solid ice rapidly melted.
“Judges, you all have yet to announce the results.”
After unfreezing Ling Feifan, Lng Xiao eyed the judges’ seats.
“That’s right!”
The judges came back to their senses.
“Ling Xiao successfully challenged Ling Feifan and has temporarily taken the first seat of the Genius Hall. As for Ling Feifan, he has temporarily lost his ranking!”
First?
This was truly unexpected.
In the beginning, Ling Xiao hadn’t wanted to challenge Ling Feifan so soon.
He had wanted to beat down Ling Yun first, but he honestly couldn’t stand Ling Feifan’s aloof and arrogant demeanour.
There was also another reason. Besides treating them differently when both had come late, even the judges and those higher-ups of the Ling Clan had ridiculed him.
Therefore, he had decided to defeat Ling Feifan in advance and clear this morbid air as soon as possible.
Naturally, the most important reason was that Ling Feifan was the only person who could stimulate his potential and force him to use more than 80% of his power.
Other people truly couldn’t do that; they couldn’t even act as a training partner.
After the judge announced the results, the crowd seethed with excitement. Everyone screamed in disbelief and made all kinds of remarks.
Ling Xiao defeating Ling Feifan was a huge surprise.
No one had predicted this kind of possibility.
The dark horse Ling Xiao actually maintained his streak to the end.
From defeating Ling Yihang in the elimination rounds and becoming the Elite Hall’s number one to defeating Ling Feifan in the finals and becoming the Genius Hall’s number one, he truly had been underestimated the whole time.
Although the finals were not over yet, and other people could still challenge him, no disciple present could defeat even Ling Feifan. No one could be Ling Xiao’s opponent.
This youth had been a Rank One Martial Vein martial artist half a month ago. His abrupt rise resembled a comet’s.
Ling Xiao cupped his hands towards Uncle Ling Er and Ling Xiaotian to express his gratitude to these two people. If not for them, he might not have even been able to participate in this competition.
Afterward, he cupped his hands towards the judge seats and the audience.
He didn’t need to say much about the judges. At least, they were somewhat fair.
In the audience, although the people who had supported him numbered less than the people who had supported Ling Feifan, he still appreciated his fans. Finally,sat on the first seat in the first row with a smile.
When Ling Yun saw Ling Xiao beside him, he nearly vomited blood.
This person he had viewed as rubbish and not worth mentioning was sitting in front of him. Moreover, he had unexpectedly defeated Ling Feifan who he craved to surpass day and night.
“Ling Feifan, you trash, you actually lost to this rubbish! You don’t deserve to be my opponent!”
Ling Yun roared.
At this moment, Ling Feifan had already begun to recover. He hadn’t actually been seriously injured; he’d simply depleted all his energy.
He indifferently looked at Ling Yun and said, “Is that so? Then I will challenge you in the next round and let you know what is called talking big!”
Ling Feifan temporarily didn’t want to re-challenge Ling Xiao. He vaguely felt that Ling Xiao hadn’t displayed his full power even at the end.
That fellow was far more terrifying than he had thought. First, he had to maintain his position within the top three. Then, he could later make some extra efforts to catch up.
Although the next rounds were brilliant, honestly speaking, after watching the battle between Ling Xiao and Ling Feifan, everyone found the following matches somewhat lacking.
Ling Yixue challenged the eighth-ranked disciple and unexpectedly made a breakthrough in the midst of battle, turning the tides at a critical moment.
She then challenged and defeated the seventh-ranked disciple.
Merely, when challenging the sixth-ranked disciple, she suffered injuries and lost.
Like this, Ling Yixue had used all her chances to challenge others. As long as she could maintain her current results, seventh place was pretty good.
After all, like Ling Xiao, she was a disciple recruited from the outside. It was quite remarkable that she had reached this level even while lacking resources.
As far as talent was concerned, she might not be any inferior to Ling Feifan.
With sufficient resources, she could easily burst into the top three in the next annual competition.
Ling Yihang passed this turn. Originally, he had wanted to challenge Ling Xiao, but he temporarily changed his mind and directed his gaze towards Ling Yun.
He gave up this round to observe Ling Yun before challenging him.
In the third round, Ling Feifan truly challenged Ling Yun.
“Ling Yun, didn’t you say that I’m trash? Then, today, I will let you see who the trash is. Now, I haven’t even recovered 50% of my power but one move is more than enough to defeat you!”
When he had said this in front of Ling Xiao, that had been arrogance.
However, in front of Ling Yun, Ling Feifan was confident because he knew Ling Yun well.
Since he still dared to say this after fully understanding Ling Yun, this was confidence.
“Be careful that the wind doesn’t twist your tongue!”
Ling Yun naturally refused to surrender.
Ling Feifan didn’t waste any time. He directly took out his spear and locked his spear tip on Ling Yun as his purple flame burned again.
Although this flame was obviously inferior to before, it couldn’t be underestimated.
Crackle!
In the air, gang qi burned. That purple flame emitted a vicious aura, suffocating spectators.
Facing the trembling spear tip, Ling Yun imagined seeing dead people’s pallid faces in front of him.
Although he knew this was an illusion, the pressure it placed on him was too great.
Originally, he had found this spear just so-so, but when truly facing it, he realized how terrifying it was.
