Seeing Du Huan again

Under the gate.

Assessments were going on regarding where people should be placed when the battle royale would begin.

The people holding the tournament knew to let people choose their starting positions was a terrible idea, so they were putting them in place based upon the strength of every cultivator.

Du Lan told that between every Body Activation realm cultivator there would be at around ten Body Warming realm cultivators or more buffing them out.

They would be anyway the ones who would be moving onto the next round in the majority, so there was no need to be even masking their actions.

The test itself that everyone was going through was straightforward and a thing Xiao Fan had already familiarised himself.

The trial was all about lifting heavy objects.

In front of them, there were three balls that one could try and lift.

One of them was meant to be so that Body Warming realm Second Grade cultivator could lift it.

The second weight was for a peak Body Warming realm.

And then if a person lifted the third and final stone, they would be granted one of those special spots.

They were about to walk and wait for their spot; however, Du Lan suddenly pushed him onto the side away from everyone's vision.

Xiao Fan stunned about what she was doing, questioned her.

¨Lan'er what are you doing¨ He whispered, he still knew that she wouldn't be like this without reason.

And Du Lan had the best reason to be like this.

¨She's here! My sister is just about to be tested¨ Although she also whispered, fearing that her sister would somehow find her, in her voice, there was excitement.

Du Lan hadn't seen her sister Du Huan for over a month now, and so she couldn't wait to reunite with her to talk about what had happened to them.

However, she was doing her best for the moment of reunion to be a good one, not a one she would misunderstand in the slightest.

Xiao Fan hearing her whisper that this was because of her sister understood what she was trying to say and nodded back at her.

After their brief talk, both of them jumped up to the roof with a few jumps.

When they landed on the rooftop, they also saw other people had gathered there, giving them ample cover to look at Du Huan being tested.

Amidst the crowds of mortals on the rooftop, they watched as Du Huan was now challenging the second rock.

Xiao Fan firstly noticed how her sister had become even fitter while Du Lan even after becoming a Body Activation realm cultivator hadn't lost a pound for some weird reason.

The only thing he could reason this was that Du Huan had different training and such

Plus, Du Lan's cultivation increase was also so swift that her body might have not yet caught up with it.

Also, Cao Cao be praised.

For when watching Du Lan's sister, he didn't get the same type of a feeling that he had with Qian Wei before.

He could only imagine his doom if something like that would happen.

That, however, didn't mean that Du Huan was worse than Du Lan or Qian Wei in her own right.

She might have minimalistic assets, but what she had was muscle trimmed even closer to perfection compared to their last meeting.

Meanwhile, as he looked upon her, Du Lan next to him wasn't first studying at her sister but from the corner of her eye closely observing Xiao Fan.

Du Lan still clearly remembers one thing they never talked through.

A thing that had happened during their second meeting, something about how Xiao Fan had said that Du Huan was obviously better than her in every way.

That notion might not be strong in her anymore, yet it had never gone away either, but now seeing him like this did make her happy.

At the same time below them, Du Huan was already beginning to lift the second rock which with her powers didn't stay long in the ground.

Soon she had successfully lifted the rock, showing no signs that she had been pressured during that.

The crowd surely did also praise her for it.

People in the streets below and on the housetops cheered when they saw a woman like her.

Even Du Lan next to him couldn't but clap her hands a little for her sister.

¨Are you sure about that thing you were saying before?¨ Xiao Fan spoke to her while still watching Du Huan below them, preparing to lift the third rock.

Du Lan understood that he was talking about her beating her sister in terms of cultivation ¨Now that you say that I don't think that a Body Warming realm peak should have such an easy time with that rock¨ She reflected.

Du Lan knew that Du Huan should be at the Body Warming realm peak, but shouldn't be at the Body Activation realm.

¨We will know soon¨ She said small anxiety in her tone.

Du Lan really wanted to be stronger than Du Huan right now, but that wasn't for her to decide.

The only thing she could do was watch her sister lift the third rock.

The only person knowing Du Huan's cultivation was happily smirking behind Du Lan.

This person was Cao Cao, who had visited Du Huan, giving her some tips and elixirs again.

Cao Cao had made sure that Du Lan couldn't come close to her sister in terms of cultivation, and was so smiling behind the girl, who was trying to figure out his identity.

Xiao Fan seeing his boss pester Du Lan could only roll his eyes at this god, who liked to play around with small-time cultivators like the two of them.

When Du Huan was going for the third rock, she like always looked around her to see if she could see her sister somewhere.

Yet not looking where her sister was, she didn't find anything, and so went for the lift.

Still, when already lifting the third rock without much problem, she could only think about the words the man in white had said to her over a month ago.

The person who had helped her get this far had come to see her a few days after losing her sister.

The man had brought with him happy news, telling that Du Lan was still alive!

Hearing about the good news she, of course, tried to question where she was, yet for some reason, she was only told that Du Lan would appear before her again during the tournament in Hangzhou.

Despite all the good news, he also warned that he sister would have changed in ways that might not make sense.

Du Huan had frowned upon hearing this.

Her sister, who she had been very close, would suddenly in a month change into something she might not recognise?

But what could she do other than train for that tournament like the man had instructed her for a few days, before leaving from her sight.

Then after Cao Cao leaving her, she had continued to train like he told and had used those potions he had given.

Thanks to the white man with her new increase in power, lifting the third rock wasn't even too hard for her.

Du Lan on the rooftop was watching how her sister was lifting the third rock almost if it was nothing to her, she tugged at Xiao Fan robe, wanting to say that Du Huan is her sister.

Yet released that notion knowing that Du Huan would immediately notice her voice.

Du Huan was a Body Activation realm cultivator now, so if she would raise her voice, there was nill chance her not knowing it was her speaking.

Thankfully Xiao Fan was also just as amazed about Du Huan, who he knew had been one grade higher than him during their last meeting, but now, somehow she was again at least a grade higher than him.

This did make a notion about how she was this strong rose again in his mind, but they were quickly extinguished.

He couldn't make excuses about how he had been slacking in training somehow.

So although his sensors regarding outsider assistance were tingling, he reasoned that there was no way for that and thinking so was only making an excuse for himself being slow at cultivation.

As of right in front of him, there was for him definitive proof that a person like Du Huan could cultivate at the same speed as him if not faster, yet the crucial thing was one had no backing while he had a god and knowledge unprecedented on his side!

It was a good thing that Xiao Fan's mentality about seeing stronger people wasn't one of denial and jealousy but one of genuine awe at her achievement.

Xiao Fan didn't think about is a bad thing, but a good thing for he again had an undeniable proof that knowledge alone wasn't the deciding factor.

One would also need hard work to reach the places one wanted to be in.

Xiao Fan felt challenged after seeing her progress and then finally looked at Du Lan, who was trying to get his attention.

¨It would seem like you are still the little sister¨ Xiao Fan said the one thing she didn't like to be called.

Which did make Du Lan grumpy ¨Huh? Next time we see her, I'll surely be above her by a few grades. If you think about it, I started when she was already over the halfway point, so I'm obviously the better one¨ She stated in a very assertive tone.

¨Sure sure, Lan'er is amazing¨ He responded to her pouting.

After a few minutes, they also went into the line; Du Huan had by now left towards her allocated starting spot in the battle royal.

They didn't need to wait in line for long, because when people saw the face of Xiao Fan coming towards the line, they let him pass.

When he came up with Du Lan, everyone was acting all nice to them, giving the VIP's space to pass them.

It would seem that a week in Hangzhou had made all of these young masters humble, he noted.

Still, while walking past everyone, he was thanking them for both of them since Du Lan didn't want to associate with these people after what had happened previously.

Everyone also steered far away from Du Lan.

After the incident in front of the auction house, everyone knew better than to go and introduce themselves to her.

They all knew what had befallen the few people who had done so.

More clearly, they knew that Xiao Fan had beaten them because Du Lan had made him!

Fighting Xiao Fan wasn't impossible for them, but fighting the backslash from doing so... Well, a different thing altogether, and no one wanted to end their families.

In simpler terms, their fame made them so well known that they didn't even need to wait in line to be tested like others.

They came into the testing ground only needing to wait for the person currently being tested.

And even the man who was being tested seeing such people waiting that he would be over forgot about trying to lift the second stone and quietly took off after lifting the first rock..