Ling Tian versus Su Liuxian

Many more battles ensued after the first intense battle. Everyone was riled up and fought like their lives were on the line.

If they lost their own battles, they would get fewer resources, and as a result, fall even further behind. That's how the world worked, the weak get weaker, and the strong get stronger.

"Ling Tian versus Su Liuxian!"

It was finally Ling Tian's turn and he walked up to the stage with a neutral face, he wanted a poker face to act mysterious.

A young woman with black, lush hair, a small and cute nose, flirtatious eyes that lured you in, creamy jade skin, and long, enticing legs that attracted eyes. A femme fatale, as people would say.

"Su Liuxian, I love you!!!"

"Su Liuxian, go out with me!" Many of her fans in the crowd cheered for her. Many young masters and even girls cheered for her. If you lined up all the followers she had, it would reach from city to city.

Ling Tian squinted his eyes at the sight of her. 'She's going to be a troublesome one. If I defeat her, her fans are going to send trouble my way, and if I lose, I will still get trouble either way because I fought against her. Now I really want to beat her up even more. Anyone who looks for me will get a beating and a half!' Ling Tian gave a sinister smile.

Su Liuxian noticed that eerie smile and her smile faded away, revealing an angry look. It seemed as if that she noticed that Ling Tian would not be easy to fool.

"Start!"

Ling Tian did not immediately dash forwards to initiate the first attack. He instead backed off and with two fingers, cut a rift in the space to make an unpredictable attack.

Su Liuxian noticed what he was trying to do and she looked around for any space disturbances. Her secondary Dao was of the Extreme Yin, just like his disciple, Bai Feng.

Ling Tian sent a probing attack which was a flying sword filled with spatial qi her way through a spatial rift behind her.

Su Liuxian sensed the disturbance in the air and parried the attack by sending out a gust of wind. However, Ling Tian expected that and sent the flying sword through another space rift and out through another, rendering her defense useless.

Su Liuxian was surprised and hastily formed a defensive layer made of ice on her body. The sword still tore through and caused some damage, but not as much as it should've because of the last-minute defense.

Ling Tian did not let go of the momentum he created and used his boundless combat experience to slash the space in front of him and appeared behind her.

He used his Spatial Void Sword Art to cause massive destruction her way at her back.

"Spatial Void Sword Art: 2nd Form, Void Emptiness Slash!" Ling Tian said with a vibrating shout, further disorientating her.

The Void Emptiness Slash directly hit her back and her body convulsed and fell to the ground, leaving a pool of blood.

He deliberately held back as he did not want to get in trouble. He attacked with no openings and defeated her quickly before she could use any other abilities like her Lust Enchantress Sutra.

The medics and physicians on standby immediately performed healing actions because blood was spilling out. Her life was not in danger as they had healing pills and many resources to help out.

"Boo! Get off the stage! Is this how you treat women?!" Her followers were shocked for a moment at the battle but immediately were angry at Ling Tian.

Ling Tian did not care and sheathed his sword while proceeding to walk down the steps like the battle was nothing.

He drained 50 percent of his qi after cutting through space and using strong skills that required a lot of qi. Cutting through space was not an easy feat, but with enough understanding of the Space Dao and enough qi, you could do it.

After about a couple hundred more battles that lasted a total of 3 days with multiple stages to accommodate the 1000 contestants, the contestants were tired. And that was only the beginning...

The about 1000 contestants in the competition were actually already disciples, this was just to assign them their ranks as outer disciples, in other words, the Outer Disciple Ranking.

The top 100 disciples had a chance of getting an elder's recognition and becoming their disciple. An elder's disciple had a lot of privileges and reputation as they gain guidance from a strong cultivator.

There were actually different ranks for elders, namely being, outer court elders, inner court elders, core elders, and secluded elders.

If you just so happen to be a disciple of a core or secluded elder, that would be like a carp leaping over the dragon gate, changing their whole life. The number of privileges, resources, and guidance you can get from being a disciple of an elder is unimaginable.

Many elders would actually choose to be in the shadow, watching the sect recruitment trial happening because if another elder chose to take a disciple under their wing and they happened to be extremely talented and they missed out on it, they would regret it for the rest of their lives.

An extremely talented disciple can help their master if they become stronger than them, they can give tips and resources to their master for their previous help during their master and disciple relationship.

So becoming a disciple of an elder can elevate both of their positions in the sect if all goes well. They can even become the junior sect leader if talented and strong enough.