The Tournament

"Missed me, Mae?" "You stupid idiot, it's three in the morning! What are you doing stupid!" "I'm sorry, I thought you'd miss me. Anyway, I'm going train, today's the day of the tournament. I must get ready to beat some people up! Phoenix walked into his training room and started to train his body. Keeping up one's body was a good way to get stronger and maintain a healthy life.

6 hours later, Phoenix walked out of the training room and went shower. After he got dressed, he went talk to Mae before he left. "I'm going, Mae. Wish me luck!" "I know you won't need it because you're my Nix! Well, bye, my winner." Phoenix kissed her on the cheek and dashed out of the house, hoping not to miss any event that happened or his transportation there, since he didn't know how to get there or anything. As soon as he got to school, he saw someone sitting upon the steps. Upon closer inspection, he realized that it was his friend, Klein.

"Hey man, why are you just sitting there?" "Phoenix! I was waiting for you, but all of the buses left. I still have some ways to get there though." "Uh, How are you gonna get there? Stop flapping your lips and just show me." Phoenix followed Klein to wherever he was taking him to see their transportation. What Phoenix saw when he got to where Klein was taking him, he was shocked. "The hell man, how are we gonna get there with a tree!?" "Haha this tree is very elastic, and if I insert my qi into it, I can use it to fling you to the tournament!" "Are you sure that'll work, I mean, do you even know the direction and how far?" "Don't worry about all of that Phoenix. Just watch a master at work, or however you say it." "Ok fine Klein, I'll trust in you." Klein picked Phoenix up and placed him on the tree. "Hey man, It'll be up to you to land safely, ok? One wrong move means that you're dead." Phoenix tried to consult Klein on what he meant by saying this, but before he could say a single word, he was already in the air, the wind attacking his face.

He was moving past 60 miles an hour. Not having stepped foot in the Greater Deity realm, he didn't know what flying felt like. Only Greater Deity beings known what that felt like. There weren't over a million Greater Deity cultivators in this world. He didn't even know if the Greater Deity realm was the end of the road of Cultivators. Phoenix felt that he was getting a headache thinking about this, so he tried to avert his thoughts. As soon as he was going to think about the tournament. He heard a voice behind him. He could scarcely make it out to be Kleins. "Wow, you caught up fast." "Yeah I did, but first things first. Circulate the qi in your body to make you go faster and give you a better landing. We're almost there, so this will help you to not die." Phoenix circulated his qi. Seeing Phoenix speed up, Klein also circulated his qi and caught up to Phoenix. They ended up racing. Seeing that Klein was getting ahead of him, Phoenix released the limiter on his absolute power for 5 seconds, giving him the advantage and soaring through the skies faster than a jet. Phoenix slowed down, seeing he was about to touchdown. He put qi into his feet to soften the fall and ended up making a crater where he landed.

Shortly after, Klein ended up landing a few meters behind Phoenix. Klein walked up to Phoenix, and looked around to see that they were 1-2 miles off from the tournament. "Hey man, the tournaments gonna be starting in 10 minutes. We'd better hurry up and go sign up!" After saying this, Phoenix was on alert. He didn't think they had so little time left. He maximized his absolute power to 20 extra percent of power. Adding to his cultivation level, he sped to the tournament in seconds, with Klein in his hand. He felt he exhausted too much energy. So he sealed his power again. He followed Klein to the area to register. After they both registered, they got to the waiting area, waiting with all the other participants. They were in a room a hundred times bigger than their school, which was already quite big. They were happy to see that they had 4 minutes left before it started. Once they sat down, they heard the announcer explaining the rules of the tournament. "Hello everyone, we are hosting the tournament in which geniuses all around the world are attending. First is the preliminary round. You will be taking a test to determine if you have a cultivation of Quasi Deity intermediate, and your age is no higher than 25. You also must be adept at any 1 technique. I hope that helps you understand the preliminary round. I'll see you guys soon!"

After they were done explaining the rules of the first round all the participants were tested of their ages, cultivation, and techniques. It looked like less than one-third of the people remained after the preliminaries. Seeing that all the strong people remained, Phoenix couldn't help but be excited. "I can't wait to pound them into the ground!" The two walked to the second stage of the tournament. Here, it was a big stadium. Upon inspection, Klein realized that the stage was a mile big. There was a crowd all around them, just cheering. This made Phoenix even more thrilled. They then heard the announcer girl speak again, " Ok guys, if your here o this stage, it means you've made it to the semi-finals. Here, You will draw slots so that you can be matched to your opponent. You will have to defeat a total of two opponents to pass and advance to the finals. Basically, you pick a number and your opponent will have the same number. The numbers are split into a and b. The b's fight against each other and so do the a's. That way' whoever wins out of the pair will have 2 wins. Ok so, good luck everybody. I hope you get to the finals safely. Oh and there's a special prize at the end. Hehe!"

Hearing about this prize really made Phoenix curious. The way she'd said it gave him goosebumps. It made him think that it was something not that he wanted, something he needed, something he had to use all of his power to attain. He walked to draw his number and read his number aloud. "12357 A." He saw that he would be fighting with a 8 of the same number. He grew curious and went to ask Klein of his number. "Klein, what number did you get?" "Mine is 12357 A. What about you?" Hearing Klein. Phoenix started to panic, he never thought that he'd have to fight his only friend in the competition so early. "I'm just pulling your string man. I saw your number because you have it facing my way. Hahaha!" "Hey, man don't play like that. Anyways, what's your number?" "It doesn't matter right now. Anyways, let's pay attention." Phoenix and Klein saw a middle-aged man walk in front of everybody and talk with clear dominance, his voice booming like thunder. "Hello participants, I will be the head of the Semi-Finals. Just call me Master Zhang. We'll do it like this. A thousand battles will be commenced at once, to save time for the later events." After explaining the rules a bit more, the semi-finals finally started. A few hours later, It was finally Klein and Phoenix's turn. "Hey man, I guess we were in the same thousands for us to be called at the same time huh Phoenix?" "Yeah whatever man, good luck." Phoenix went to go fight his opponent. He put on a domineer that he was going to kill whoever he met in battle. His opponent didn't look like any pushover as he got on stage. His opponent ran at him. He flung a kick at his chest and jumped in the air to meet him and kicked him back down. "All I need is my feet for this battle." Phoenix felt that there was no need to use his hands as he flung his opponent through the air with his feet. He didn't even get his name before he made the opponent surrender. Phoenix got off of the stage and waited to be called again to face his second opponent. As he got back, he saw Klein approach with a smile on his face. "Did you succeed?" Klein didn't say anything, but nodded his head. Phoenix took this as a yes. He didn't expect anything less from Klein. Phoenix suddenly heard his name called, Knowing his opponent was ready to fight him. He got on stage and saw his opponent bow in front as he said, "Hi I'm Po. May I ask your name?" Phoenix didn't feel like wasting any time on telling his opponent of his details so he dashed at him and kicked him on the chin, throwing him in the air. He jumped in the air and threw a kick at his opponent's feet, making him turn in midair. He then kicked down onto his crotch area, making him howl in pain. He landed head first in the ground, and was thus knocked out. Phoenix walked away with a sinister smile on his face. He felt that there was no need to talk or look at those weaklings. The semi-finals were lame. It was by his bad luck that he didn't draw any strong opponents. Klein was very unfortunate though. His opponents were stronger than Phoenix's. He'd only won through tactics. Without his knowledge, he'd realized that he might not have won. Seeing as they both passed the semi-finals, they were quite happy. It was time for the main event, where they would join and make partners with somebody to fight other groups. They wondered how it would be. They waited in the designated area for people who passed both battles. They number to about 2000 participants. This number was quite big, after eliminating so many in the preliminaries and the semi-finals. Phoenix checked all of the people and realized that the ones left were exceeding strong and ferocious. Without realizing it, he started to leak drool from his mouth. "Holy! They are all so strong! Finally, I've waited too long for this." Phoenix finally couldn't hold out any longer as he yelled, "HEY! ALL OF YOU! I'LL BEAT EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE OF YOU INTO THE GROUND AND SHOW YOU MY STRENGTH!" His voice was as domineering as Master Zhang's. Every participant heard it, and even most in the crowd heard. Hearing this greatly enraged the ones left, wondering if this guy had gone mad. "Who does he think he is? I'll pummel him!" yelled some others from the ones left. Sitting down, Phoenix smirked. He had done that so they would thoroughly hate him, and fight him with all his strength. Finally, after waiting for 10 minutes, they announced that all of them advanced to the finals. "It's finally about to start! I've waited too long for this! I can finally show off my skills!" Phoenix couldn't contain himself. He jumped up and yelled, "FINALS, HERE I COME!"