Shadow Sword Saint's Rage (1)

Gu Qing Shan stood for a few seconds, then very seriously replied: "Without the Saint's permission, both me and my junior sister cannot accept any disciples of our own, otherwise, once the Saint gets angry, not only will we be punished, but even your life might be forfeit, so just give up"

The other person still wanted to say something, but Gu Qing Shan already loudly declared to all: "I'll say this right now, my junior sister and I are new members of Bai Hua Sect, aside from us, Bai Hua Sect have no plans to accept any new disciples"

"If you really want to join Bai Hua Sect, please first go attempt a Bai Hua list"

Seeing him so adamant about it, the crowd could only stop their schemes. As the other person heard that, he reluctantly stood up, mumbling while walking away.

"I had to kneel for nothing…"

Lee Chang An lightly laughed, then muttered: "Bai Hua Sect doesn't accept any disciples, but if you can defeat these two new members of Bai Hua Sect, you might catch the attention of some other large sects"

These words weren't very loud, but all the people here are cultivators, so they all heard it quite clearly. Many people suddenly realized, then looked at Gu Qing Shan and Xiuxiu with ulterior motive once more.

The 3rd round quickly ended.

Ning Yue Xi went off the raised platform. After that was the final round of the semester examination. Four sect masters came up the platform, all bowed towards the Sky Palace, then placed their hands on the four corners of the platform. They infused their spirit energy into the four corners. Very quickly, the four pillars light up together with the platform itself. The four lights shot straight up at the sky, past the clouds and into the high unseen.

One of the sect masters ceremoniously declared: "One last round, the Chosen of Divinity, begin"

The large platform was now split into 4 sections, each of them turning into their own fighting ring.

One newcomer jumped onto the ring, loudly declared: "This one is Zhang Bui, who shall challenge me?"

"I will!" Another newcomer also jumped on the ring.

The referee looked at them, seeing they were both qi training realm, nodded and reminded them: "This is just sparring, do not take it too seriously"

"Yes!" they both confirmed.

"Begin!"

Then they entered combat. Very quickly one of them lost as the other got to move on. More cultivators were also fighting on the other 3 rings.

"Senior brother, what do we do now?" Xiu Xiu asked.

"Ah, we only need to watch" Gu Qing Shan responded.

"We came all the way here and did nothing, would that make Shifu angry?" Xiu Xiu asked anxiously.

Gu Qing Shan smiled, saying: "Did you forget what Shifu said?"

"I remember, to come safely and to return safely" Xiu Xiu answered.

Gu Qing Shan continued: "That's right, we only need to show up here to say that Bai Hua Sect has come, then watch them fight to broaden our views, that much is enough"

He rubbed Xiu Xiu's head, saying: "Not to mention, our Xiu Xiu is only 8 years old, what kind of fighting do you want to do? Let's just wait for a few more years"

Xiu Xiu smiled, then said nothing anymore. As she focused on watching the fights on the ring, she quickly became immersed. Gu Qing Shan was also watching, but didn't concentrate much. Finally, around 20 people remained, picked out as the top cultivators of the 4th round. All the sect leaders watched the newcomers, silently exclaimed something, then quickly picked their seeds.

To be able to make it this far, their talent, effort and battle sense are all the cream of the crop, the only thing left to do is to see if they fit the sect's core scriptures.

"Very well, you've all earned your places here, but we will need to pick out the top three of you all to finish this year's Chosen of Divinity" one sect master said.

"Next, you are free to challenge your opponent by name"

Challenging by name, means that you can call out anyone's name you want to challenge him to battle, if they refuse, it will count as automatically losing that battle. 20 people exchanged looks, quickly evaluated the other 19 people, looking for the opponent most suitable for themselves. This is also a test of observation skills and wits.

Suddenly, one of them shouted: "I want to challenge Bai Hua Sect's Gu Qing Shan"

The whole place went silent. Everyone quickly looked toward Gu Qing Shan and Xiu Xiu.

"Senior brother" Xiu Xiu asked

"No worries" Gu Qing Shan smiled.

He noticed, this was the same person that kneeled down earlier.

'You really want to be noticed that much?'

Leng Tian Xing was one of the referees, and the first to shout for him to stop: "Gu Qing Shan has not made it to the top 20 competitors, he's not part of those you can challenge"

The other person said: "According to the rules of Chosen of Divinity, the top 20 people can challenge whoever they like, no one can refuse"

This is correct, but no one has ever done so before. Because if they couldn't make it to top 20, that means they've already lost. As a strong person, actively challenging someone weaker will only invite disdain. Not to mention, there are many sect's cultivators, just like Bai Hua Sect, come here only to follow tradition, only to watch the examination, not to participate.

Ning Yue Xi also said: "Bai Hua Sect is only here to watch the competition, they have never gone on the ring, so they are not part of those you can challenge"

Hearing two great cultivators saying so, the person was a bit hesitant.

Lee Chang An suddenly stood up, laughing loudly: "Very good, you have guts to dare to challenge a Saint's disciple, very good indeed, cultivators should be like this, to still face the challenge despite knowing it's hard"

"No matter if you win or lose this time, our Blue Clouds Pass will still take you in"

No matter if you win or lose. Means that he still has to fight. The person immediately understood as he heard that, as well as all the cultivators around him. As long as they fight, they'll get to join Blue Clouds Pass. Blue Clouds Pass is also a Saint's sect, their numbers also exceptionally numerous, no one in the cultivation world dares to cross them, as well as having a great reputation.

On one side is Bai Hua Sect that won't accept anyone, the other is Blue Clouds Pass that's opened its door waiting. Comparing the two, pleasing Blue Clouds Pass is the real way to heaven! Immediately, over half the 20 people below started to complain.

"Why can't we challenge him?"

"He's also here for the semester examination, why does he has the privilege to not get challenged?"

"We respect the Saint, but he's not a Saint!"

"If a cultivator won't even accept a challenge, how is he still a cultivator?"

Many of the elders exchanged looks, not knowing what to do. While the sects' Elites cultivators, aside from Leng Tian Xing and Ning Yue Xi, no one spoke up. Truthfully, Gu Qing Shan made too much of a ruckus before, not only did he ascend the Sky Palace with a Beast Saint, he was also seen talking close with Ning Yue Xi, making many green with envy.

Such a person, if he has to face a bit of a hard situation, or lose face a bit, it's a good thing for them.

Gu Qing Shan seeing them became more and more agitated, stood up and clasped his fists: "Gentlemen, listen to me"

He very sincerely said: "This, there's actually been a misunderstanding"

The person who stood out first stared at him, asking: "What misunderstand is that?"

Gu Qing Shan answered: "It's not that I won't fight, but rather, before we left, the Saint has specifically told us not to fight"

The person that stood out first waited for him to finish, about to rebuke him as soon as he explained. But hearing Gu Qing Shan say something like that, no matter how long he thought, he couldn't rebuke him.

The Saint.

The Saint specifically ordered.

The Saint didn't allow them to fight.

That's why I won't fight.

On the ring, all the top 20 cultivators looked at each other. He already said that his Shifu didn't allow him to fight, now the heck do they deflect that reason? How do they provoke him? Do they really want to offend a Saint before they're even sure about entering a sect? The loss outweighs the gain. They all shut up.

Xiu Xiu looked at this, then silently said: "Senior brother, it's so strange"

"What's strange?" Gu Qing Shan asked with a low voice.

"What you said is clearly very shameless, yet somehow I still feel you're very cool"

Lee Chang An cleared his throat, asking: "Bai Hua Saint really ordered you like that?"

"Of course" Gu Qing Shan answered.

Lee Chang An silently cursed him, but couldn't really say anything else, he really had no choice but to let him go, but does he have to let him go? This is in front of every sect in the cultivation world, the best chance to slap his face. Seeing him not wanting to enter the ring no matter what, he's obviously scared that he'll lose. But he already used the Saint as a shield, even if he doesn't want to stop, he has to.

Lee Chang An glanced at Ning Yue Xi, seeing her looking at Gu Qing Shan, her lips slightly lifted, a bit speechless, but also pleased. This act reminded her of Wang Li.

He gritted his teeth, very annoyed.

"So you really won't fight?" Lee Chang An looked at Gu Qing Shan, then at Xiu Xiu, softly spoke: "You also brought such a young girl, since the Saint ordered so, that must mean she's afraid you'll misplace the child ——-right, why does Bai Hua Sect have such a child, whose child is she?"

These words seem to be okay on the surface. But you only need to think about it a bit to see just how dirty his implications are. Bai Hua Sect really doesn't have many members, so asking "whose child is that" would create countless rumors.

"Lee Chang An, what did you just say!" Ning Yue Xi angrily glared at him.

"I'm only asking about this child's background, wanting to know which sect are her parents from, what's wrong with that?" Lee Chang An quickly added to his reasoning.

He showed that he had no ill will, only wanting to ask about her background ——-asking about background is a very normal thing, many cultivators who enter a sect will also get asked that. But the implications he said before had already went into everyone's minds, the longer it is left brewing, the more rumors will be borne, definitely affect her reputation later.

Xiuxiu said nothing.

Both her parents are already long gone.

She had to go through so much struggle to finally get back to normal.

But these words are poisonous, immediately hurt her deeply.

Immediately, many shadow's in the area started to vibrate as though the shadows were shaking in fear. Black clouds started to appear out of no where and every thing was shaking as though the they were angry.

Every cultivator was instantly scared shitless. The top level cultivators were also feeling afraid since they could feel as though the world itself was angry. But most people could not understand where this fear came from and chose to ignore it.

When the Sect Masters of the top sects saw this they instantly realized who caused this.

The Heaven's Limit Sect's Sect Master said in awe and fear: "This is definitely him. The Shadow Sword Saint is angry."

Gu Qing Shan's expression has already gone blank.

He let go of Xiu Xiu, seeing the little girl's eyes are already red, as her tears are dripping down, stopping at her chin.

Gu Qing Shan's insides felt numb, but still smiled and said: "Xiu Xiu, hear senior brother out for a bit!"

"Yes"

"Senior brother has really been too loose this time around"

"Yes"

"Now that senior brother knows what he's done wrong, I'll go fix it right now"

"Yes?"

The little girl wiped her tears, showing a face of hearing something unexpected.

But Gu Qing Shan had already picked her up, quickly walked to where Ning Yue Xi is.

"Help me watch Xiu Xiu for a bit"

Saying so, he didn't wait for Ning Yue Xi to reply and simple jumped onto the platform.

The Chikyu sword appeared from thin air, gripped tightly in his hand.

Putting the sword on his shoulder, glancing over at all 20 cultivators below, saying: "Since you all want to prove yourself so much, come here, I'll beat the proof into all of you"

"And you"

He looked at Lee Chang An: "You must feel like your way is speaking is so smart, don't you?"

A bone chilling killing intent could be felt from Gu Qing Shan, but his voice was as calm as water.

"Get the fuck down here and receive your death"

The entire crowd went silent, who could've thought such a calm and well-mannered young man would say something like that in front of everybody.

"How arrogant" the first person to step out spoke.

He stepped forward onto the ring, saying: "When you get beaten to a pulp by my martial thaumaturgy, you'll know just how big the world is"

Every step he takes, his body grew bigger and bigger, as visible layers of martial thaumaturgy flowed along his body. That means he already could channel martial thaumaturgy in his body before even entering a sect! No wonder he dares to challenge Gu Qing Shan first. When that martial cultivator stepped before the ring, he has already turned into a 4-person tall giant. His entire body was as hard as magma, even his skin turned jet black, standing below the platform, he was still 2-person taller than Gu Qing Shan.

"This is Rock Diamond!" a privy cultivator exclaimed.

Many elders who are experts in martial arts also looked at him in interest. There are a few martial thaumaturgies that could consecutively level up, and they're the subject of interest for many. Because these are very basic thaumaturgies, as the cultivator's martial arts grow more and more, it will also become stronger and stronger, until finally becoming unrivalled great thaumaturgies.

Rock Diamond, after reaching the final stage will become Fearsome Diamond, an extremely powerful martial thaumaturgy.

After the martial thaumaturgy evolve into Fearsome Diamond, if they can enter a Buddha sect to train in Buddha's teachings, they might be able to awaken one of Buddha's Divine Skills ——–Unbreakable Diamond. But when looking at the monks of Spirit Leaf Temple, all of them were lowering their heads, not even paying a bit of attention to him. Buddha's teachings emphasize temperament and fate, and it seems that this person isn't fitting.

Having such a thaumaturgy, yet still ignored by Spirit Leaf Temple, no wonder he would be so eager to prove himself.

The giant looked down at Gu Qing Shan, mocking him: "Such a weakling like you, I can kill 2-3 with a single swing of my fist"

His voice was very loud. Gu Qing Shan calmly stared at him, not saying a single word.

As the giant saw that he wasn't speaking, his fighting spirit increased: "Hmph, weakling, fighting on the ring have their own rules, even the Saint can't help you now"

The giant jumped up, attacking Gu Qing Shan straight on. His body was like a small mountain, blocking out the sun as he covered the entire ring. Right as he jumped, Gu Qing Shan also jumped, receiving him. The Chikyu sword was already being held tight in Gu Qing Shan's hands, batting at the giant. That's right, batting at him. The strike was extremely slow, but no matter how the giant tried to dodge, it always seems to be heading straight at him.

'I can't dodge!?' The giant realized.

"Then die!"

The shouted, swung his fist to meet him head on.

Bang—–

Boom!

As the two of them faced off, one of them was swatted to the ground as fast as a shadow. A cloud of blood filled the air, as a giant hole was formed right below the ring. When they looked back, they saw Gu Qing Shan still standing on the ring, while the giant was nowhere to be seen. The numerous judging cultivators quickly went down the hole. After a few seconds, a scream of agony was heard from inside the hole.

"It hurts, it hurts, IT HURTS! AHHHHHHH!"

As they heard the scream, the cultivators around couldn't help but be curious, spread their inner sight downward at the hole.

Many of them trembled on the spot.

"Holy shit…" someone muttered.

"All his bones are broken, even if you do all you can to fix him up, it'll take at least a few years to fully recover" another small voice muttered.

During these few years, the pain he'll have to feel won't be any less than going straight to hell itself. Everyone's expressions changed as they looked back at Gu Qing Shan.

Many sect leaders contemplated: "It's very similar to Kai Shan Style, but much stronger, what style is this?"

"Even our sect's Hidden Sword Hall doesn't have such a sword style, if it's not created by himself, it must be something the Saint taught him" an elder of Thousand Swords Sect commented.

Many elders became interested and continued to watch.

"Next" Gu Qing Shan swung the blood off his sword, coldly declared.

A thin cultivator stepped out from the top 20.

"Don't look down on people, your sword is only a bit heavy, so speed must be your critical weakness, you definitely can't hit me"

He said, shifting his body, already standing on the ring 1 second later.

"And my speed technique just happens to counter your heavy sword" He looked at Gu Qing Shan pridefully.

Gu Qing Shan didn't even look at him, only glanced down the ring and declared: "All of you, come up here, don't waste my time"

"You!" the thin man became angry, both feet stepped on the ground, rushing at Gu Qing Shan.

As soon as he moved, the expressions of all the people under the ring changed

Hm? What?

While the thin man was still confused, a voice from under the ring shouted: "Don't move!"

This voice was a certain large sect's elder who brought him here to participate in the semester examination. He really treated him very well, and he was very grateful, originally wanted to enter that sect. But the situation now is different, he has the chance to join a sect like Blue Clouds Pass right in front of him, and it's so easy to take, he has no choice but to let go and choose the best for himself. Even though the thin man heard it very clearly, he pretended not to, as his body turned into a hurricane, attacking Gu Qing Shan.

One second later, he found his eyes were looking at a headless body.

'That looks like my body.'

As soon as he thought that, he felt an overwhelming pain, then total darkness as he no longer felt anything. From the others' perspective, as soon as the thing man rushed forever, his hands, arms, feet, legs, gradually got cut off from his body one by one, until finally his head was also cut off. After all his limbs and head fell down, his body still moved forward for a meter before hitting the ground, spilling blood everywhere. On the ring, Gu Qing Shan held the Chikyu sword, softly swung it to one side.

"Don't blame me when you brought death upon yourself" he said.

Numerous transparent threads retracted back into the Earth sword before disappearing completely.

"Sword qi to silk? At this age?" The elder of Thousand Swords Sect exclaimed in shock.

This is a brilliant sword qi control technique, you have to be able to control it down to the micro-level to turn sword qi into silk threads and use them as layers of traps like that.

Gu Qing Shan pointed his sword at the remaining 18 cultivators, saying: "Come, come, come, all of you come, I said I'll beat the proof into you, and so I will"

Looking at the horrible state of the two before them, all 18 cultivators felt a chill down their spines. They gritted their teeth, exchanged looks, then immediately understood.

"All attack at once!"

"Kill him, or we all die here!"

The over-dozen figures all rushed onto the ring.

"That's right, this is less trouble for me" Gu Qing Shan raised the Earth sword upward, pointing at the bunch of people leaping forward, still in the air.

While he thrusted the sword forward, the intense killing intent they felt could almost freeze them in place. But very strangely, he didn't point his sword directly them. He was pointing it at the sky behind them all. The world became silent.

Inside the Chikyu sword, something seems to have awakened, as it let out a satisfied whisper. Then, blinding sword phantoms escaped from the tip of the Chikyu sword, all flowing outward, creating a deafening crashing storm of swords.

"Secret Sword Arts!" someone screamed in fright.

Many sect leaders looked at each other, as one of them confirmed: "That's correct, it's Water Flow Severance, it's been many years since I last saw such a Secret Art"

The fierce storm of swords blew past, as all of the people who rushed forward were nowhere to be seen. They've all been sent flying, their consciousness robbed by the exploding swords, their bodies scattering as they were knocked outside the Sky Palace. All the judging cultivators flew out, using flying treasures to catch the unconscious people. More than a dozen cultivators were lined up, their eyes closed tight, fainted.

Gu Qing Shan looked at the sect leaders that have already stood up, saying: "These people are still useful to humanity, so I left them alive"