Don't Look at Me!

Another hand raised to the sky, it belonged to the handsome elder. With his approval, Fang Ye Na has earned two votes. One more would guarantee her entry into Cloud Moon Palace.

Hope, alas, was not happening. No other elders raised their hands, even the elder who fought her in the ring stayed in silence.

"It looks like you don't have enough approvals... I'm sorry, but you can try again next year." said Elder Zhou without feeling any pity at all.

Fang Ye Na was in dismay. She didn't know what went wrong.

It was not her fault, it was a conspiracy made by the elders. Elder Zhou said that he will raise his hand, but told the other elders not to follow him. For the sake of not offending Feng Ao Xiu, Elder Zhou was able to do anything.

Anger quickly rises inside of Fang Ye Na. She opened her mouth to start a complaint, but before words came out, a loud thud echoed from the judging table.

The sound came from the handsome elder who slam his hand onto the table.

"What the hell is this?! Are you all blind?!" He shouted at the top of his lungs.

His gaze viciously stabbed into the eight elders who didn't give their approvals. He spoke with a lower voice, but still sharp, "Is her skill not enough? Is her cultivation level not enough? What other candidates can dodge like her?!"

Elder Zhou suddenly panicked, he felt helpless in front of him. He eyed the elder next to him, and said in a small voice, enough so that the handsome elder could not hear him.

"What is this?! He does not know about Feng Zhi Yan?"

"Don't look at me! I thought that he was supposed to inform him."

"Why are looking at? Don't look at me! I told him to do it!"

"Don't look at me! He's the one who supposed to do it!"

As the elders bickered and blamed each other, the handsome elder once again slammed his hand on the table, "Are you all deaf?!"

Elder Zhou became more helpless as he said, "Ahhh... Please calm down, Elder Ning."

[Elder Ning!!]

The others were just confused as to why this young elder could hold his head high against the other elders who were older and more experienced than him. It turns out he has the surname Ning.

However, Sect Master Ning Huan does not have any son. Who is he, then?

Then, someone proclaimed that he heard the Sect Master has a nephew. The gossip grew among the watchers that Elder Ning was indeed Sect Master's nephew.

After Feng Ao Xiu knew that the handsome man was actually the Sect Master's nephew, only then he realises where he had seen his face before. [No wonder he looks familiar. His face really looks like Ning Ruo...]

Meanwhile, the elder was too busy calming down the handsome Elder Ning. One elder quickly made up an excuse and said, "She couldn't even launch a single attack. There's no way she would have passed with just dodging."

However, Elder Ning quickly scolded him, "Do you think I didn't notice that all of you intentionally replaced her opponent with an elder?! Even if she couldn't attack, she was not hit either! Even her level is more than enough to guarantee her position! Do you think I'm stupid?!"

"Elder Ning, you're overthinking it. Nobody said you're stupid." Elder Zhou quickly come to the rescue of his friend. "Since Elder Ning is so adamant about it... How about this? We can discuss this later. After hearing our explanation, and if you still insist, then we will do as you wish and accept her."

"..." Elder Ning didn't say anything, but kept staring dagger at him.

"Elder Ning, please understand. We still have plenty of candidates to be evaluated on." said Elder Zhou, trying his best to look pitiful, "If we stop for a single person, we won't have time for the others..."

Elder Ning sat down and sighed, "All right then..."

Elder Zhou's face brightened, and the other elders could finally breathe in relief. Displeasing someone with the surname Ning was really tough, as all their jobs and life were on the line.

In the end, it was concluded that her evaluation will be pending until later tonight,

Fang Ye Na returned to Feng Ao Xiu only to be interrupted by Jing Wu Chu.

"You... You're an Iron Earth Realm... You said you were Dream Mortal Realm!" Jing Wu Chu pointed at her in disbelief.

"I may have told you that. But I didn't think you'd really believe me. It seemed I think too highly of you..." said Fang Ye Na. "Unlike Young Master Feng, you're too stupid. Even without me telling him, he already knew my true power..."

"Khhh... You... You..." Once again, Jing Wu Chu was left speechless by Fang Ye Na's words.

Feng Ao Xiu was not afar from their conversation, and he was totally surprised. [I was fooled too! I really thought she was only in Dream Mortal Realm! Does that mean she's playing fake with Deng Huan and Guo Jin even though she can easily beat them? She's really that desperate for revenge? Wait... If she's this strong... What about Chang Miao and Guan Ru Yi? Don't tell me they too...]

Feng Ao Xiu's head started to hurt on figuring out which one was the truth, so he decided to forget about it, and just run business as usual as if nothing happened.

Suddenly, Fang Ye Na approached Feng Ao Xiu and asked, "Young Master Feng, am I right? You knew my real strength from the start, but pretended not to notice, right?"

"Eeeeh...." Feng Ao Xiu inadvertently glanced at Jing Wu Chu, before he faked a smile and said in monotone, "Of course... It's just as you said."

"See, I'm right!" said Fang Ye Na while sticking out her tongue to Jing Wu Chu.

Jing Wu Chu's eyes twitched in anger. She had a lot to say to Fang Ye Na. However, she refrained from saying it out loud, and only said one thing in the end, "Whatever! As long as you don't seduce my boyfriend!"

"Your boyfriend? You mean... Elder Ning?"

"Who else I'm talking about... Wait... Why is your face so red?"

Without she realised, Fang Ye Na blushed at the thought of the handsome Elder Ning, "Ahh... What's wrong with me? Why does it feel so hot?"

"You... Don't tell me you've fallen in love just because he defended you in front of the other elders!" Jing Wu Chu could not accept this. If Fang Ye Na appeared as her rival, it will be tough to defeat her.

"No... No... There's no way I've fallen in love with him.", said Fang Ye Na. "There's nothing to him except he's kind and handsome and... Ahhh... There's no way, right?"

Feng Ao Xiu's mouth twitched. While he himself thought he was not a good match for Fang Ye Na, obviously because he's too weak. Yet, he enjoyed being in her company, and he was really happy that Fang Ye Na treated him specially. However, a no good playboy just snatched her from him. How could he not be angry or frustrated?

Meanwhile, Elder Zhou asked, "Where's number three? Why is he not in the ring yet?"

After quite a while, a senior came and informed him, "Elder, we can't find the person who hold number three. It seemed he left without informing anyone."

Elder Zhou stayed silence as he noticed that there's something wrong with this case, but he quickly dismissed it from his mind and said, "Bring me number four!"

The senior has just nodded, but before he could leave, another senior arrived and informed, "Elder, I've just been notified that number four quit and already left."

"Then, what about number five?"

"He too already left..."

Elder Zhou knew that something went wrong. But, he needed to continue with the evaluation. He kept asking for the next number over and over.

Only until it became number nine, that someone finally appear inside the ring.

After number nine finished, again it skipped to number 12, then number 15, 17, 22, 24...

Feng Ao Xiu noticed that another half of the participant went missing. If this skipping continue, then he won't have time to make a plan.

Feng Ao Xiu became panicked and scratched his head in frustration. [Sh*t!! I don't have any plan yet! This is all going so fast! Moreover, Fang Ye Na didn't even get a conclusive result, how am I going to pass?]

It was then, that Feng Ao Xiu felt something was tugging his sleeve. It turns out, it was the little girl Su Mei.

"Big Brother...", the little girl cried, showing a great concern.

"Su Mei..." Feng Ao Xiu suddenly smiled. The worry, the little girl has for him, made him realised that he was wrong.

Feng Ao Xiu didn't have to pass the test. Neither does Fang Ye Na nor Jing Wu Chu. The only important one that need to pass was the little girl Su Mei.

He was too focused on passing that he forgot the most important thing was to make Su Mei as an official disciple of the sect.

It was going to be tough on teaching the still weak Su Mei. But, unlike him who has a broken meridian, Su Mei's meridian was still functioning normally, so still has more potential than him.

Feng Ao Xiu said, "I'm sorry to make you sad... Don't worry, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to make you succeed, okay?"

"Sad?" Su Mei tilted her head, indicating she didn't know what he's talking about.

"Ehh... You're not sad?", asked Feng Ao Xiu. "Then, why you look so worried?"

Su Mei slowly pointed at Elder Ning, she said, "So handsome... Can Su Mei marry him?"

Feng Ao Xiu, "..."