First round 3

Telling it Du Lan also made sure that after all of that they would take a good break, during which she could check on Xiao Fan's mental state.

Last time when they were in the small town slaying the snake, Xiao Fan's mood had dropped near the breaking point because of dead people around him.

And this time he had murdered them himself, so it wasn't unlikely at all that he might have some problems.

When getting inside a building from the street, she started her inquiry ¨Fan'er are you okay after everything?¨

Xiao Fan had now stopped being in a state of battle had begun to rethink more clearly about the things, yet for now, he didn't feel nauseous.

¨Yeah, I'm fine¨ He replied to her inquiry ¨What do we do now? We have well enough marbles to get into the second round so shouldn't we just hide?¨ He added in.

Although it wasn't so, Du Lan thought that Xiao Fan needed some time to rest and indicated to by this comment, so she agreed ¨Okay, well hide here for now¨

New strategy in place the two of them started quietly waiting for a few hours.

Soon the night was upon them, which was a good thing since the first round would be over when the sun came back up again.

Du Lan waiting like this became a little anxious, she didn't want to hide here.

She wanted to go and seek out Du Huan during this round because, after this round, she would surely track herself to them when hearing that a woman almost identical was also participating.

Her nerves handled her anxiousness until the moon was straight above them.

As at that point, Du Lan broke their silence by stating her want to begin a plan of finding Du Huan ¨Fan'er let us find my sister¨ She whispered.

They had been completely silent during this time as not to be noticed by anyone roaming the street even if they hadn't heard anyone close to them.

The area was still quite large, and most of the people should already be walked themselves off the round surrendering any chances in the tournament, so the slum had become quite spacious for anyone that wanted to hide, but that didn't mean one could make noise.

Xiao Fan hearing this, he nodded slightly, and so inside the slum house, they made their way towards the rooftop to see if anything was going on.

Outside there wasn't a whole lot happening.

From peaking the window, only a few fires could be seen inside the play zone, plus no signs of battle were to be heard.

Ten minutes of peeking later, Xiao Fan looked at Du Lan, who was just next to him.

¨How are we going to find your sister in all of this?¨ He asked the critical question to her plan.

And truth be told Du Lan had little idea how to begin her plans.

Her problems started from the few people who could be seen on the highest buildings scouting the rooftops for anyone foolish enough to try them and ended in that finding a person who most likely didn't want to be found.

Some pondering later she came up with a rough idea ¨You go and make some noise¨ The plan she had come up with wasn't anything good in terms of a plan nor his health.

¨You are hoping that when she sees me, she will run after me in hopes of murdering me?¨ Xiao Fan got this idea pretty quickly and was against it.

¨Have any better plans?¨ She shrugged off his objection.

Du Lan was going to do just that what Xiao Fan had thought about.

She would use Xiao Fan as bait even knowing that it had a good chance of him being pummeled during all of that.

¨I better be getting something good out of this¨ He stated, leaving the window towards the ground floors door.

For now, he would go with this plan as he didn't have anything better and if he didn't like her plans, then he needed to take the commander's duty himself which he wasn't planning on doing.

So with a slight objection in his mind, he left the house towards one of those people scouting the rooftops.

The man being very focussed on scouting the rooftops hadn't noted Xiao Fan's approach from below, and so was cut down in one swift motion of the blade when he got up on the roof.

After the man was cut in two around the torso, Xiao Fan checked his bag to see if he had any marbles.

Unsurprisingly he didn't have anything.

However, this action had made enough noise that the people who were camping with the now-dead ally had noticed Xiao Fan.

Then for a moment, Xiao Fan held his ground, making more noise while slicing a few men who were jumping towards him killing one, yet the other one survived the blade while only losing his right hand from the shoulder.

Holding his ground for a minute or so, he disengaged from the group of thirty or so Body Warming realm practitioners and started running circles inside the area, alerting more and more people to notice him.

Other groups of Body Warming realm practitioners seeing their prey for some reason appearing didn't think much and started to hunt him.

The same time any Body Activation realm experts thought why one of them had decided to uncover himself.

For everyone else, including Du Huan had already gotten enough marbles that they didn't need to prey on anyone anymore and were saving their powers for the real battles to come.

The aforementioned girl, Du Huan, had been hiding inside one of the houses, but hearing a big commotion going on, she decided to peek into this matter from the safeness of her house.

What she found from doing so shocked her deep into the bones.

The character being chased by all most all remaining Body Warming realm practitioners was none other than the man who was closely intertwined with her sister's disappearance!

Immediately after seeing Xiao Fan, Du Huan ran into the mob, pretending to be one of them yet slowly getting into the forefront of all chasers by using a little extra power compared to everyone else in the mob.

Xiao Fan, who had been trying to lure Du Huan, was regularly looking over his shoulder to see if she would take the bait, and to his luck, she was there.

However, when his eyes rolled over her Xiao Fan felt that she wasn't happy at all, as very much like Du Lan, it seemed Du Huan could also be scary if she so chose to.

The two eyes looked at him like Xiao Fan had somehow killed her whole family for his fun as she got ever closer to him.

On the other hand, Inside Du Huan's mind, there was the thought of catching this man for some questioning.

That does mean keeping him alive, but in what state that was for her to decide; a state where all his limbs were broken did sound good.

When they were running, Xiao Fan was slowly making progress in losing the Body Warming realm practitioners.

Yet somehow one of these people was catching up to him just enough that one wouldn't suspect her being a Body Activation realm cultivator.

Soon he had successfully made a few rounds around the area and was running towards the place where he had been hiding with Du Lan.

During this hour of running, some of the people chasing him had given up or just ran out of stamina while Du Huan was already a few steps behind him.

Despite her closeness, everything was going according to plan when he ran past the house where they had been hiding like it was nothing.

When running past the point, Du Huan behind him never got a moment to think what was happening when a pull that was almost equal to her full strength came from her left pulling her into a house.

Xiao Fan seeing Du Lan being successful with her part continued his running to shake off the last people trying to catch up with him, leaving Du Lan to have a nice chat with her sister.

Du Huan, who had been suddenly pulled into the house, of course, tried her best to squirm out of the hug.

But at this point she had exhausted a lot of her power and didn't get to do anything before a familiar voice came.

¨Sister Huan it's me!¨ Came a voice that wasn't a shout but still firm in its tone.

When Du Huan heard this voice, she wasn't squirming a second longer, as hearing this voice, she turned her face towards the person who was hugging her.

Although it was dark inside the room with no light, she could still easily with the small help of moonlight tell who the person was.

¨Sister¨ she called out not even bothering any more about the people who were outside chasing Xiao Fan or if they would hear them talk.

Du Huan was overly ecstatic about now seeing Du Lan again even not bothering to think about why she was here.

¨Sister Lan where have you been¨ She asked after she had first said, sister.

¨It is a long story. Sit down, and then we can talk about it while he is keeping everyone else busy¨ Du Lan calmed her sister and closed the door from which she had pulled Du Huan in.

But she didn't calm a lot; she didn't even take a seat.

¨Here sit down¨ Du Lan said to Du Huan, who was too ecstatic even to sit down currently.

The second time Du Lan said so, Du Huan finally sat down on the chair her sister brought her since it might be better to be hearing some things with something under her.

Soon after their reunion talk had started, Du Huan began to ask questions about what she had gone through. The first thing she asked was what that man who they had been tracking before her disappearance was doing here.

And Du Huan was rightfully so shocked after hearing a brief introduction to who Xiao Fan was to her.

¨Your man? Your lover? What in the name of Neutral Chaos have you done Sister Lan!¨ She screamed, alerting anyone around them if there was still someone.

What she was currently getting from her talk was that this man had kidnapped Du Lan and then later they had fallen in love with another somehow?

Du Huan's brains were being fried when trying to imagine everything.

¨Get it or not I'm staying with him¨ Du Lan firmly stated back to her questioning and unaccepting statements that were in the dozens.

¨What about our parents? Do they even know about him? You probably haven't even gone to see them!¨ She continued to pull their parents into this argument about her being together with Xiao Fan.

In her mind, there was no feasible way that her sister would so suddenly get a man and what kind off man?

She had first ambushed the man, then made her fight the man causing even deeper troubles, yet now she loved the man?

Du Huan couldn't accept even the thought of her associating with Xiao Fan let alone about her being a couple with him.

However, including their parents into this was a bad idea for Du Huan's futile cause.

¨Hah, I have met them already with Xiao Fan, and they didn't even say anything bad about him! Even father, in the end, was acceptive of him¨ Du Huan listening to this could see her smirking even in the poorly lit room.

¨Even if they accept that I will never allow something like this! What happened to our pact of always being together¨ She switched the topic seeing that there was nothing to gain continuing that last topic.

But yet again she was marching into a dead-end.

¨Who broke it first? You did it! Suddenly became so powerful and all, yet you didn't share anything with me why that had happened, so don't say that I broke it¨ She put the blame on her.

Du Huan was about to say something; however, she decided not to speak about the man helping her.

The man had repeatedly told that she should never do it which was something she would heed to, and so he could just be there and think about ways to get her separated from him.

Seeing Du Huan not replying anything, Du Lan decided to start narrating her story so far.

Soon Du Huan also realised from her being here that she had suddenly become a cultivator. But how?