Kai vs Heng

"Let the first match begin!"

Peng Su shouted while flying up above an arena like structure. Similar to him, the eight other grand elders also are up above the arena, thus surrounding it.

In response to his words, two youths immediately went to the arena and started fighting.

...

"What's happening here?"

Huang Fu mumbled while looking at the sight before him.

A huge arena which suddenly appeared that didn't exist when he got out of the city and the numerous strong cultivators where even saint realm experts are a common sight.

"She's still there?" He looked around and noticed that the armored woman from before is still there.

Huang Fu circulated the qi around him and realized the immense difference in quality and quantity of the qi compared to before the armored fell down.

They must be here because of the sudden rise in density of the spiritual qi. Huang Fu thought. So this tournament must be related to that. And since I wear the same clothes of one group, they must've thought that I'm one of them. Huang Fu bitterly smiled.

He shook his head and took out some materials out of his spatial ring and started carving puppets, ignoring the people fighting.

...

"It's your head disciple Kai who's next."

Dishi said to Peng Su who's beside him while pointing at the youth standing on the arena. opposite to the youth is a girl wearing red robes holding a sword as thin as a cicada.

After both of them are on the tournament, Peng Su said, "Kai versus Heng! Begin!"

"I won't go easy on you just because you're a woman."

Kai said while charging towards her with his spear. Heng just snorted and slashed her sword towards him which he easily blocked it with a wave of his spear.

"Senior brother Kai is winning!"

"He's stronger than her!"

"Although both of them are at the peak of saint realm, senior brother Kai's attacks are fiercer!"

The disciples from Peng Su's empire murmured to each other while watching the battle between Kai and the girl.

Meanwhile, the disciples from the bleeding skull worriedly watched Heng while occasionally glancing at their grand elder.

"Grand Elder! Senior sister is losing!"

"Hang in there senior sister!"

Up above, Peng Su smirked as he said to Dishi, "My disciple hasn't been slacking at all and I even gave him a cultivation skill that can only be normally given to elders. There's no way he'll lose." He laughed.

Dishi only shook his head at the tricks of Peng Su and turned away from the arena. While looking around, he accidentally glanced at the grand elder of bleeding skull and noticed the corner of his mouth slightly raised up.

"Why is he smiling? His disciple is losing."

With a bad foreboding in his heart, he turned around to look at the arena below and saw that Kai is about to defeat Heng. "Must've been my imagination." He said to himself.

"Give up now Heng! You'll just receive severe injuries if you don't"

Kai said with a smirk while bombarding her with attacks. Heng only stayed silent while being slowly pushed back. Not too long after, she found the opportunity to temporarily escape. With a swing of her sword, she parried his spear and jumped away a distance away from him.

Kai didn't chase after her and only watched her as she's catching her breath.

"Still not giving up?..."

Heng ignored his provocations and looked at their grand elder that's up above the air. Only when she saw him nod did she look away.

In a relaxed manner, she walked towards Kai in a slow manner. Kai furrowed his brows at this sight but shook his head afterwards.

'Even if she has a other means, I still have a huge advantage because of the cultivation skill that grand elder gave me!'

With this thoughts in mind, Kai charged at Heng with his spear.

But just as he was charging, he noticed something strange about the sword of Heng. Heng suddenly raised her sword and slashed towards him despite still not being in reach.

'What's that light...'

Amidst his thoughts, a ray sword light was released from Heng's sword coming towards him with unbelievable speed.

"Kah!"

Without having the chance to think further, Kai was thrown away from the arena and spurted out a mouthful of blood.

Up above, the grand elders have their eyes wide opened as they all exclaimed.

"Sword Intent!"