Trial 2

¨Then let the trial begin¨

Ye De spoke as he was taking a step to the side, opening the way for Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan to this point hadn't heard what the trial was about at all but seeing Ye De point his hand towards a certain direction he took it as a hint.

Passing Ye De, he felt how the grand elder had disappeared from behind him.

Looking back where the grampa should be Xiao Fan saw nothing.

'That's some serious control of power' He thought to himself before continuing.

Xiao Fan had thought so since only Qian Bai had shown similar control of power; however, even Qian Bai was far from Ye De.

When Qian Bai had been extorting him, his rush towards him had left a dent to the floor, whereas Ye De's move only made a breeze around him.

'I need to learn to do that' He noted to himself as he was moving towards the direction Ye De had shown him.

Taking this route, Xiao Fan was beginning to be a little confused to what was his trial about.

He had already walked off the training area platform, but still, nothing resembling a trial was waiting for him here.

The only thing making him follow this route was the spectators around the sides. To him, they resembled barricades or something, and so he was going between the people.

These barricades were currently taking him towards a small path that didn't even seem to be maintained.

Still to Xiao Fan, this seemed the right way as the last people around him were standing on both sides the point where the path started.

'Maybe the trial is to get to the end of this path?' He reasoned and fastened his pace a little.

At least, for now, it seemed so, as when he crossed the point, the crowds cheered louder than before for a second or two.

Taking this as a good sign Xiao Fan finally gained enough confidence to start running the path.

Running on the path Xiao Fan did realise that this was some trial path for there were some marks that would indicate that other people have used this.

On the other hand, he didn't really like he marks that shoved this to him, for they were all signs of battle, unarmed battle but still a battle.

Also, from the deep bushes, he could already hear the noise of people trying to creep upon him.

Xiao Fan not looking for a fight decided that he might be able to clear this without fighting if he reached the end.

And so slowly realising what this trial was about Xiao Fan raised his speed to max.

A move that seemed to work as the people who were prying him in the thick forest couldn't keep up with him.

This let Xiao Fan run the path for sometime before he came to the first supposed trial in this path.

It was a cliff of the mountain that this whole sect was based around.

Looking at the cliff Xiao Fan wasn't too nervous about the trial for the cliff was only ten or so meters high.

'Too easy' He even thought and so didn't stop his speed.

Xiao Fan was thinking that he could easily climb this cliff.

Following this notion, he did a jump and then prepared to use his hands to punch holdings for his hands into the cliff.

His hands strained behind his back, he released them at the same time just before he was about to hit the wall.

Already having his head upwards, thinking it would work, he felt his hands hitting the rock surface.

They did indeed hit, yet no penetration was made.

When they had hit his hands bounced off the surface.

Xiao Fan, who was looking upwards now feeling that he hadn't gotten any support from the cliff as he had planned, was now falling back to the ground.

'Well, fuck me' Was the only thought before he made a smooth landing back to where he had started his jump.

Then the first thing his feet back on the ground was to test the cliff again with a punch.

After the punch, he noted 'No wonder there were no marks on the cliff' While shaking his hand a little that was now pained from punching something it couldn't break.

¨And things are only getting better¨ he spoke this aloud since he knew that people were on him, and so he wanted to speak to them.

The people he was speaking to came out of the bushes and such; however, they didn't say a word before they were charging to him.

¨No talking?¨ He questioned.

Still not hearing an answer, he raised his fists to meet the people.

The first one coming at him wasn't too fast, and so Xiao Fan calmly took his arm to himself and threw him to another direction.

Other people seeing this weren't scared when seeing one of them fly.

They knew what they had signed.

And so soon two others were already on Xiao Fan's striking distance, giving their all against him.

Xiao Fan dodges the other's fist while his own went towards the person coming from the other side of him.

When Xiao Fan's target had been knocked out, his fist came back to hit the person, who he had been dodging against for a second.

The two of them were again disposed of; however, he was being surrounded by more of these people.

¨This isn't fair to you guys. Let us talk¨ Xiao Fan spoke to them even while fighting outnumbered.

He had the luxury to do anything with these cultivators since they were only Body Warming realm nothing more.

When he would accidentally hit one of them would they be out of the fight, and in turn if one of them hit him would the conclusion be squealing from the person who had hurt his arm.

The only thing Xiao Fan could give them to was to note how brave they were for trying.

¨You must be well paid for this job¨ And other lines were spoken by him fighting.

The fight was very one-sided and quick.

All in all Xiao Fan didn't take long before only two people were facing off him anymore.

The last two were neither the strongest of them or luckiest, they were the ones who had made this far in the trashing by sheer random.

But both of them still wanted to fight for some reason even after they had seen everything.

¨Before you two join the others can you tell me how to scale this cliff?¨ He asked the two people who were side by side.

He waited for a moment, as the two of them were eying each other, so they might be giving in.

However, they weren't as it seemed that they had been thinking about how to fight him.

After disposing these two last people on him, he took another look at the wall.

Then the mass of people behind him.

Then at the cliff again.

Now he had an idea.

It might not be the right way to get over this wall, but whatever, surely no one was evaluation his trial, he thought and got to work.

Xiao Fan's idea after seeing so much unconscious bodies waiting to be used was to use them to build stairs.

He would neatly pile them one by one in front of the cliff, and as everybody made some progress upwards, he soon had a step that was halfway to the top.

Looking at his creation, Xiao Fan noted that this should be enough and the proceeded to jump onto this step.

The person who he had jumped onto might have cracked a bone or two, but that wasn't his problem as he then made the second jump.

Indeed the step had been enough as Xiao Fan's hands could reach the top of the cliff.

Pulling himself up, he first only peeked to see if anyone was waiting for him, but nope none was waiting for him.

No one was trying to ambush him made sure did he then proceeded to get up to two legs.

Looking back down, he saw the pile of humans he had done and some of the outer sect.

Taking a point where from the path had ended, he drew a line with his eyes into the forest in front of him.

And there it was, a path that was being covered by shrubs.

Xiao Fan continuing the path that was taking him higher and higher for a minute or two, he noted that like before he was being followed.

Not a big problem he had thought for a minute and sped up hoping to lose them like last time.

Doing so made him realise that the problem was bigger this time, for the people were keeping up with him.

Now knowing that he had Body Activation realm cultivators after him, he became alarmed.

He knew that he couldn't take on multiple people of the same level if no weapon nor a miracle coming for his aid.

However, who said that he needed to fight multiple? Why couldn't he hunt them one by one?

The more he thought, the more he was sure that if he wanted to pass, he couldn't let them get to him all at once.

When he had locked this plan, he jumped off the path he had been travelling and made a beeline to intercept one of the people still thinking he was running the typical path.

If the enemy wouldn't notice him leaving the path, he could win.

Betting on this, he ran fast as one could inside a forest that was giving him just enough problems so that he wouldn't make it in time.

Feeling that he couldn't get to the person from the side, he took the more risky but faster route.

This route was the one that the hunter had made himself.

From there he could get to the hunter, but would the hunter not notice him?

'Gotta risk it' He made the decision and turned his direction to the line that should have been used by the hunter, who hadn't yet even noted his first move.

Getting to the path the hunters used Xiao Fan was beginning to think that was everything going like he wanted or like they wanted?

Surely one couldn't be this deaf not to hear all the changes around them.

Nevertheless, he had taken this route, and there was no going back anymore.

he neede to continue to push forwards before anything else.

And now that he was on the path that the hunters had was Xiao Fan's speed increasing.

For the path that the hunters had was in much better condition if compared to the one he used.

With this path, it didn't even take him a minute before he could see the person who wasn't necessarily running his max speed.

'This guy is something else' Xiao Fan wanted to laugh about how unbright this person in front of him was.

He was trying to hunt him, but couldn't even realise that he was already a few meters behind him.

Xiao Fan's view of the person lowered, even more, when he tripped over right in front of him.

He had been just about to knock him out, yet had now tripped over in a way that Xiao Fan run past him.

When Xiao Fan got back to him, he had the notion of setting his soul free, yet he saw something in this person.

And it was not the crying he saw when turning around.

Yes, the man was crying from tipping over...

Xiao Fan couldn't comprehend this, but he decided it was best for him if he didn't think about this and just acted.

Though the man crying didn't stop his crying even when Xiao Fan had taken a grip of his neck.

Only after a slap, the man responded to the thing that for him, was a sudden ambush.

¨Don't kill me!¨ The man squealed.