Eternal Heavenly Emperor

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Although Outer Sect Disciples have lower strength, every strong person has come up from the Martial Disciple Realm, and these Outer Sect Disciples are the future pillars of the Sect. Naturally, the upper echelons of the Sect attach great importance to this biannual martial competition!

Since Yunliu Sect only recruit disciples once every three years, and Outer Sect Disciples continuously get promoted to the Inner Sect, only the first competition carries the most weight. After another half a year, it's believed that several outstanding talents will have become Inner Sect Disciples.

Therefore, the rewards for this time are the richest!

Anyone who makes it into the top eight will receive ten pounds of Star Stone! Moreover, the top two will have the opportunity to enter the Scripture Pavilion to borrow a Cultivation Technique or Martial Technique—the champion will get two, and the runner-up will get one.

Although Chu Hao had already learned a Nameless Technique, and in terms of Martial Techniques, he also had the Mad Demon Hammer Technique, Mad Wind Fist, and Izumo Sword Technique, with the "Mad Wind Eight Forms" still lying in the Mustard Seed Ring, having many skills does not burden him, and he doesn't mind learning a few more.

Besides, the Martial Techniques he currently possessed were all of the attacking type, with none for defense or movement, which was a shortcoming! Moreover, the rank of Mad Wind Fist and Izumo Sword Technique were too low. It was not obvious in the Martial Disciple Realm, but once he became a martial master, the weaknesses would become magnified.

He must win the championship!

He had asked for a few days off from Bingyuan Pavilion, and naturally, he had no time for blacksmithing now.

However, before the competition even began, a series of deaths occurred!

——Starting from the third day before the competition, every night that passed, someone was found dead in the early morning! The news of the first death had been sealed by the Sect's heavyweights. But, as the second and third persons died consecutively, the news could no longer be concealed.

Moreover, the deaths of these three people were all identical and extremely bizarre!

Some people had seen the corpses and quietly described the state of the deaths to their friends. Thus, it spread from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, and became known to everyone.

These three people... all turned into mummies!

Just dead for one night, why would people turn into mummies?

Additionally, it was said that those three mummies all had smiles on their faces, as if they had died in extreme bliss!

Mummies, dying in bliss, how could these two things be connected?

Though strange, the martial competition was not affected and would proceed as originally planned tomorrow.

For this reason, Yunliu Sect strengthened the security. At night, experts of the Martial Sect rank led patrols to ensure no more deaths occurred. Of course, finding the murderer was also intended, but everything was secondary to the martial competition, with the manhunt to follow.

The next day, the martial competition for the Outer Sect Disciples officially began.

The competition was divided into two stages, the first stage being the preliminaries, and the second stage being the elimination rounds.

In the preliminary fights, all participants were divided into eight groups, with the first place of each group advancing. Then, the eight would fight in the elimination rounds until the champion and runner-up were decided.

Mo Guxin, Fu Xue, Lin Zhendong, Li Xiang, Zhou Yuan, Chen Jiaqi, Chi Dao, and Huang Yu became the seeded players and were distributed into the eight groups, which means that before the elimination rounds started, these eight would not encounter each other.

Chu Hao, after drawing lots, was placed in the eighth group, where the seeded player was Huang Yu—Chu Hao had expected to be grouped with Chi Dao. Tang Xin was in the fifth group, facing Zhou Yuan, the second strongest in strength only to Mo Guxin, and had a very slim chance of advancing.

But it was not necessarily so, as seeded players may shine, but they also expose themselves and are easily targeted by groups.

A one-on-one victory is certain, winning against two or three is possible, but what about one against ten, one against a hundred? Could one also win in that situation?

Indeed, the preliminary fight was not one-on-one, but rather tossing a group of people together, and the last one standing would be the winner.

"Don't lose! I hope to face you in the finals!" Fu Xue said to Chu Hao.

"You too!" Chu Hao smiled.

Tang Xin couldn't help but roll his eyes. These two had gloriously ignored him! But there was nothing he could do; he had not improved at all in the past six months! In fact, there were many like him, who rushed to meet the criteria within the three-years deadline, which of course, came at a considerable price!

As for Le Deqing and Yu Wenjing, they were also First Tier Martial Disciples, just like Tang Xin, and whether or not they could break through depended entirely on luck and strategy.

Chu Hao followed the crowd to an open space, which had a circle marked out. The rules for their preliminary fight were quite simple: enter the circle, fight, and if you're thrown out of the circle, you're eliminated.

There were just over a hundred people in their group, meaning that Yunliu Sect had recruited roughly 800 new Outer Sect Disciples, far fewer than Thousand Winds Academy. But in terms of strength... it's unknown how many times these 800 could dismantle Thousand Winds Academy!

"All enter the arena!" a deacon said.

In Yunliu Sect, the strongest was naturally the Sect Master. Below him were nine elders. To become an elder, one must have the combat power of a Warrior, at the same level as the Sect Master, with only slight differences in the minor realms.

Beneath the elders were the deacons, who were Martial Sects.

This deacon was named Feng Qing, who was said to be a Third Tier Martial Sect. Chu Hao didn't know where he ranked in Yunliu Sect, but his strength was more than enough to suppress these Outer Sect Disciples.

"Begin!" Once everyone was in the arena, Feng Qing waved his huge hand, declaring the start of the battle.

"Listen, everyone!" someone immediately said loudly, "You all know, without me reminding you, that Huang Yu is the strongest in our group! So, if you want to win, let's join forces to push him out of the circle first. As for who emerges victorious in the end, that will depend on luck."

"Right! Without taking this guy down first, it doesn't matter how many people we beat!" someone immediately chimed in agreement.

"Let's join hands!"

Everyone turned their gaze towards Huang Yu, brimming with hostility.

Chu Hao couldn't help shaking his head internally. Was setting up seeded players meant to help these eight or to pressure them? However, a true strong person should be able to fight their way out no matter what!

"A bunch of trash!" Huang Yu said disdainfully, pointing his finger and saying, "No matter how much trash you gather, it's still just a pile of trash! Come at me together, I only need... ten minutes to take you all down!"

"What arrogance!"

"That's too conceited!"

"Let's work together!"

Those who entered Yunliu Sect were all geniuses, and geniuses naturally had their pride, not tolerating such disdain.

Immediately, more than a dozen people charged towards Huang Yu, all of them swinging punches and raising legs with ferocious momentum.

"Trash!" Huang Yu began to counterattack. Bang bang bang bang, he kept striking out, appearing nonchalant, but each blow was strong enough to make someone spit blood and then fly out of the circle.

Quite strong!

Chu Hao nodded inwardly. No wonder he was listed as a seed player, without this level of strength, it would truly be a joke.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The crowd flew around like straw. Wherever Huang Yu went, everyone got hit so hard that they spat blood and were swept out of the circle, displaying an unbeatable elegance.

"Too strong!"

"No match for us!"

"I'm done playing. The strength difference is too great, better to wait and fight another day!"

Many got cold feet and stepped out of the circle on their own, not daring to face Huang Yu any longer—who wants to be beaten to spit blood for no reason? In fact, this was also because they were a disorganized mob. If there were a relatively tough person to take the lead and unite everyone, how could 100 people possibly not beat one!

Soon, only 28 people remained in the circle.

"Do you trash want to roll out on your own, or do you want me to help you?" Huang Yu said disdainfully. After his random beating, more than 100 people had dwindled to just over 20, what else could they be if not trash?

"Don't be too arrogant, we just disdain to join forces with trash!" someone said indifferently.

"All irrelevant people, get out!" said the person standing beside him, targeting Chu Hao and the others with this statement. What was more surprising was the very similar appearance of the two individuals, and even more astonishing was that beside them stood three others who looked almost the same!

Five brothers!

The Mei Family's five brothers, consisting of a pair of twins and triplets!

Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang bang!

When the five brothers joined forces, their combat power was incredibly fierce. The triplets, being slightly older, were all Fourth Tier Martial Disciples, while the twins were slightly younger but also Third Tier Martial Disciples. The key factor was the impeccable collaboration between the five brothers, far surpassing the disorganized mob from earlier.

In just a few minutes, the number of people in the circle decreased sharply, leaving only seven.

Huang Yu, the Mei Family's five brothers... and Chu Hao!

"Are you not rolling out?" The Mei Family's five brothers shouted at Chu Hao in unison, full of oppressive force.

Chu Hao couldn't help but laugh and said, "Even if you five win, who do you plan to let advance? With your strength, no matter who goes on, it's a giveaway!"

"Asking for a beating!" One of the brothers leaped out and threw a punch at Chu Hao.

Chu Hao, of course, was unafraid and condensed his right hand, meeting the punch head-on.

Triple wave!

Bang!

Amidst a muffled sound, the man was immediately forced back in retreat, the fabric on his arm tearing into shreds. The second and third waves of force continued to push forward, causing his upper body clothing to burst apart and, after a short pause, his pants also exploded off.

"Ah!" Many female disciples immediately covered their faces with exclamations, but there were also those who were braver, scrutinizing and then showing a look of disdain.

A shortcoming indeed!

"Fourth brother!" The other four Mei brothers shouted, quickly helping up their fifth brother. But the youngest Mei brother was already limp all over and had lost consciousness.

"Damn it!"

"Beat him up!"

The four brothers released their hold and surrounded Chu Hao. Just like that, the youngest Mei brother fell to the ground again.

"Fourth brother!" They all ran back and again picked up their fifth brother.

"Why didn't you keep hold of fourth brother?"

"I thought third brother had him!"

"I assumed second brother was on it!"

"Of course, big brother should take care of the youngest!"

The four brothers blamed each other, seeming quite joyous.

Chu Hao burst into laughter and said, "It's a waste of talent for you not to perform cross talk!"

"What's cross talk?"

"I don't know!"

"Big brother, he must be mocking us!"

"Beat him up!"

The four brothers released their hold again and surrounded Chu Hao.

Bang, the youngest Mei brother was once again unfortunate and fell to the ground.

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