Junior's Tournament (10)

The battle for the third place will be the first to occur before her fight. Since if it was reversed, the audience might lost interest on the fight for third place since they already knew who won the first place. It took a long time for the match to finish as both contestants were equally matched.

After the third place holder was announced, the referee asked for the two grand finalist to step into the platform. Her opponent was someone in the Middle level 6th step Qi Condensation stage. This guy was the lowest in cultivation rank and she was surprised to see him reaching this far.

'Can't judge a cultivator by their cultivation level huh.'

Her opponent should have some tricks or skills to reach this far. Anyway, she will fight with all she have since her next fight will be in the competition that will happen tomorrow. There was no need to hold back.

As the referee announced the beginning of the match, Mu Yue dashed forward. This time, she did not use the 'Pulse Blade' technique. When they were near to each other, both of them launched their skills.

"Rupture Slash"

"Heavy Slash"

Although she won the exchange of blows, her opponent was strangely not that affected by her technique. Which was weird since a lower cultivation means a lower defense made from covering the body with spiritual energy. Or was it one of those faking things trick?

She then followed with basic attacks, not to test the other party but to let him get used to this kind of tempo. After a while, she used her underhanded tactic as well as her Youmei Sword Skill.

Yet her opponent only took a while to get used to her attacks. He even was almost able to keep up with her speed as he only receive a little bit of hits.

'Weird, is he really that weak in cultivation level? Did he just focus more on skills than his cultivation?'

She can still land some attacks yet it was not that many. Her opponent also knows how to distance himself to repair the spiritual energy that covered his body. Mu Yue could chase to disrupt what he was doing, but he was still able to recover, even with just a little bit at a time.

Her opponent was also a Sword Cultivator, same with her earlier two opponents. This was quite normal as sword wielders were more frequently seen than the other ones.

She decided to boost her body with her spiritual energy. Her opponent did the same but her boost was not normal. Her spiritual energy contain more yin energy which made her more agile compared to the others. Although her spiritual energy was like this, there were no setbacks so she always use it.

After a while of exchanging blows, Mu Yue felt that something was not right.

'Why does it feel like he is on par with me? It was like fighting someone in the same cultivation level- ah!'

If this was the case, then she must stop wasting too much energy! The fight might end up as a battle of attrition.

She then realized that she was always the one on the offensive and her opponent was always retreating and blocking her strikes. She was pissed off as this was definitely a scheme and she fell for it. She then stopped boosting her body and jumped back. She wanted her opponent to also attack.

In this fight, her opponent might be struggling to keep up with her, but she ended up using more energy. Defending could consume more energy but it could also let her save up. She was willing to do this rather than slowly damaging the enemy but using up more energy.

The two were just staring at each other. The guy was surprised when he just saw Mu Yue standing and not attacking him. He decided to wait a while to see what her reaction was.

"Why did you stop attacking? Clearly I have more disadvantages than you. Or are you scared at someone who is a whole step weaker than you?!" The guy taunted yet Mu Yue did not react to it.

She doesn't get affected that much on what the others say to her as she already experienced this a lot when she was at the orphanage.

"Tsk!" The guy clicks his tongue.

He then shouted, "THEN I'LL BE THE ONE WHO WILL ATTACK INSTEAD!"