Shadow Mask Group
43 - Four Star V Tournament

Because of his mistake, Kai immediately received punishment from the leaders and vice-chairmen of the group. He was sentenced to 50 lashes. Surely the whip was of the intermediate level. So, even though he was a cultivator and could withstand with Qi, it would still hurt. Kai was also sentenced to not be out of the room for one month. About eating, then his friend who will deliver food to him.

Because Kai committed a foul, so the one who won the round 2 fight between Xing Fu and Kai was Xing Fu.

Now the day has changed again after the violation that Kai committed. Now is the day that the 3rd round will begin.

On the evening of the 2nd round, the chairmen and vice-chairmen gathered and discussed who would enter the 3rd round. They finally got it too.

"We have determined who will continue to round 3. For the ten people I call, then go up to the arena" Song Quon said using his Qi.

"Jian (Lao Tzu), Hong (Xing Fu), Dong, Yelu.", Song Quon began to mention the ten names that entered the next round, namely the 3rd round.

Everyone whose name was called, then they immediately climbed up onto the arena and stood before Song Quon.

Finally, all the names were mentioned. Some people who qualified during the 2nd round and were not selected to continue the 3rd round, looked disappointed. But they can't complain. They can try to win next time.

"In this round of 3, it's the same as the round of 2. You will fight individually. The rules are still the same and do not try to break the rules like Kai yesterday, because if you try to break them, then the punishment given will be greater. You understand?", Song Quon said as he looked at the ten participants one by one.

"understand!" say kompak tenth participant.

"Alright, there are only participants in this arena Dong and Yelu. In addition to the two of them, then you can return to your seats" said Song Quon.

Everyone followed Song Quon's words. Now the only ones in the arena are Song Quon, Dong and Yelu.

Dong and Yelu were a few meters away. Song Quon stared one by one at both sides, "You guys ready?"

"Yes!" yelu.

Dong hnya nodded at Song Quon's words. He and Yelu looked at each other.

Song Quon retreated to the edge of the arena, "Then, start!"

Dong took out 2 of his daggers. While Yelu seems to take the sword on his back.

"Are you ready to lose, Yelu?", Dong smiled.

"I should have said that, my friend" Yelu said with a smile.

They immediately ran closer and banged their weapons. The clanking of weapons began to be heard inside the tournament arena.

"I won't lose to you, Yelu" Dong said as he swung his dagger at Yelu from behind.

However Yelu immediately turned around and held back the dagger that Dong used against him. Dong slightly retreated a few steps. He immediately jumped back and then jumped high towards Yelu. He swung his two daggers at his friend.

Yelu directly tilted his head and body slightly, to avoid the attack. When Dong was right next to him and was about to land on the ground, Yelu directly hit Dong using his elbow to make Dong pushed back a few steps.

Dong looked towards Yelu. "Water element:water bubble".

After saying that, around Dong appeared bubbles bubbles of water bubbles are a lot. He immediately swung his hand forward and ordered the water bubbles to advance towards Yelu.

"You don't think I know your tricks?" yelu muttered. He knew that this water bubble was just a diversion to cover his sight temporarily from Dong. Because he was close enough to Dong, then he knew how to fight the man.

The bubbles of water bubbles immediately swarmed Yelu. Not just the front, but the right, left and back as well.

Yelu just kept quiet and waited for Dong to attack. But the water bubble bubble burst immediately. Yelu was surprised, he crossed his arms and tried to protect himself from the burst of water bubbles. It was thrown backwards when the last bubble burst.

"You must have thought that those water bubble bubbles were just a diversion. But your mind is wrong. When training with you, I did. So I know, that way won't work for you. I also learned the technique that can make the bubble burst", Dong smiled.

Yelu slowly stood up, smiling. "But I never showed you my powers either, did I? At practice"

Hearing that, Dong became wary. While training with Yelu, he never saw Yelu using his full strength and did not show too much of his skill.

"Metal element:binding chain"

Arriving alone, four chains emerged from the ground near Dong and directly tied the young man.

"W-what is this?!", surprised Dong.

"The person you brought is great too, huh? Haocuns. He had a special dantian with metal elements. It was very rare, there might only be a few people with such dantian" Liu Chen said as he watched the fight. He smiled faintly as he looked towards Zong Xian.

Zong Xian smiled, "Yes, he is indeed valuable because he has a special dantian that is rarely owned by others. He also did not often show his strength"

Why did Liu Chen know that Yelu's dantian was a special dantian? Earlier, one week ago, all the members were gathered. All the chiefs checked the dantian belonging to each member. Until they know it. But they do not spread what kind of dantian belongs to each member. Dong did not know. If only he checked Yelu's own dantian, then he would know about it. Dong did not do that.

Yelu unsheathed his sword right in front of Dong's neck. She smiled, "Give up. Then I won't hurt you"

Dong smiled, "Alright I give up"

Yelu stopped the manager. Instantly, the chains that bound Dong disappeared and entered the ground.

Dong looked at Yelu, "Maybe I lost this time, but next time I won't lose to you, Yelu"

Yelu hugged Dong, "Haha even if you can. I also cannot be silent. Surely I will also train even more and beat you back"

"The winner of this fight is Yelu!", Song Quon looked directly at Dong and Yelu. "If any of you get hurt, go to the second chairman"

"We're fine, second deputy chairman" Dong said.

Song Quon nodded, "Alright, then you can go back"

The two friends went back to their respective places.

Time keeps going. Now is the last fight of the 3rd round.

"Now is the last fight of the 3rd round. Jian (Lao Tzu) against Hong (Xing Fu)" Song Quon said. The two participants immediately went up to the arena and were currently facing each other in a distance of several meters.

"You guys ready?", Song Quon glanced towards his right and left. He also received nods from both participants. "Alright, the fight begins!", he goes straight to the edge of the arena.

"It turns out you will be my opponent, Jian" Xing Fu said.

There wasn't a word Lao Tzu said to Xing Fu. He clenched his hands forward. He was like yesterday, attacking without using any weapons.

"Alright, it seems like you are ready to fight me", Xing Fu directly picked up the sword that was on his back. He pointed his sword at Lao Tzu. "We'll see who wins" he smiled.

"He is always like that" inwardly Lao Tzu.

Xing Fu immediately ran towards Lao Tzu. Every time he stepped, there would be a sharp ground that appeared attacking Lao Tzu. But all the attacks did not touch Lao Tzu at all. The young man was very good at dodging attacks.

Some of the sharp ground was intent on squeezing Lao Tzu. But the young man jumped straight up. The sharp ground collided, but shortly after, the sharp ground returned to the ground.

Lao Tzu again treaded on the ground smoothly. He did not want to attack for the moment. The tactic is that he will continue to defend and make the opponent expend a lot of his Qi until when his Qi stays a little or even runs out, then Lao Tzu will attack him. Surely he would instantly win easily if his opponent had run out of Qi, while his own Qi was still plenty.

Xing Fu was currently a few steps away from Lao Tzu. "You're so good at dodging", Xing Fu looked at Lao Tzu.

Xing Fu then went back to attacking Lao Tzu. This time, however, he used his sword to attack. Lao Tzu himself, nevertheless dodged every attack directed at him.

Time continued to pass, now Xing Fu looked breathless. "Why don't you also attack?!", upset while staring at Lao Tzu.

Lao Tzu ran towards Xing Fu with a fist. Now he would immediately attack after seeing Xing Fu was already exhausted and seeing that his Qi was already drained a lot.

Seeing the sudden attack directed at him, Xing Fu was able to dodge by tilting his head to the side. He also continued to jump backwards when the kick or punch was quickly directed at him.

Lao Tzu seemed not to give Xing Fu a chance to breathe, even if only for a moment.

"Huh.hah. I can't keep dodging like this" Xing Fu's inner.

Xing Fu jumped up high. He immediately twisted himself in midair and gave a kick to Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu immediately brushed off Xing Fu's feet that led to him.

Xing Fu instantly rolled in the air and returned to tread on the ground smoothly. "It's better, 'cause he didn't attack back"

But his mind was wrong, it turned out that after Xing Fu retraced back on the ground, Lao Tzu again attacked using a kick.

"You're so evil that you won't let me be silent for a moment, Jian! We're good friends. So give me some time to rest, don't keep attacking like this" Xing Fu said as he jumped up to avoid the bottom kick Lao Tzu did.

"You were like that" said Lao Tzu without stopping his attack.

"Huh?! So you're a grudge against me because I've been attacking you all the time?" xing Fu said in surprise. Because so surprised, he was not focused until finally thrown because of the kick that Lao Tzu did.

"Ukh", Xing Fu stood up again and held onto his stomach. "He was very smart to beat me. He made me run out of Qi. Then he attacked me"

Xing Fu raised his sword towards the approaching Lao Tzu. He ran straight towards the young man. As he got close to Lao Tzu, Xing Fu leapt high and swung his sword towards Lao Tzu.

However Lao Tzu immediately avoided it easily. A cloud of dust covered Xing Fu. But that wasn't Xing Fu's real attack. After Xing Fu landed, a sharp ground immediately appeared behind Lao Tzu who had just jumped back.

Instantly, the sharp ground hit Lao Tzu and left the young man's back scratched deep enough.

After the puff of dust disappeared, there was Xing Fu standing there. He smiled at Lao Tzu and felt he had defeated the young man.

Although his back was injured, Lao Tzu seemed to feel no pain at all. But actually he was in pain, only he was good at hiding it. His nature that could hide the feeling was actually the same as Zhang Jiangwu. The young man with a flat expression was also very clever in hiding the true thing he felt.

Lao Tzu was still standing upright on the spot where it landed. As well as Xing Fu, he was still in his place.

"How come you don't feel pain at all, Jian?!", shocked Xing Fu. He knew that the young man must have had a wound on his body. But how could the young man not feel any pain at all? Is that young man immune to attack? That was what Xing Fu thought.

Xing Fu immediately shook his head to shake off all his thoughts. He held his sword tightly. "In that case, I'll attack you again", he ran straight towards Lao Tzu.

Lao Tzu clenched his hands forward and prepared to attack or defend. During this tournament, he had not shown all of his strength and abilities at all.

As he looked at Lao Tzu's left hand, Xing Fu could see there was a scratch that caused his friend's hand to be injured. The blood also appeared to drip to the ground. Seeing that, Xing Fu stopped running towards Lao Tzu. He then sheathed his sword, "I give up!"

"Ehh??!!", shocked all the spectators.

"Why did he give up? Is he no longer able to fight?" said an audience.

"Of course, maybe because his Qi ran out. So he's not confident to win" said the other crowd.

Song Quon was astonished by Xing Fu's statement, but he immediately announced the winner, "The winner of this tournament is Jian! With this, then the turnemen have ended! The winners are expected to gather in this tournament room, tomorrow. Now you can go back and rest"

All participants are now starting to return to their respective places. But there were still some people inside the tournament room.

Wu Anming went over to Xing Fu who was with Lao Tzu. While her sister had already returned to her place with Zhi Shu.

"Hong, why are you declaring that you're giving up? Isn't there still a chance for you to win?" wu Anming said in astonishment.

"If I go back to attacking Jian, then he will be even more injured because of me" Xing Fu said. He approached Lao Tzu and turned the young man's body upside down.

"Geez.I'm sorry Jian. It seems like this is very painful" Xing Fu said. He saw Lao Tzu's bloody back as well as the young man's left hand. His blood even dripped onto the ground. The wound looked quite deep.

"Let's go see the second leader! We'll ask her for a pill to cure you" Xing Fu said as he pulled Lao Tzu's hand. But Lao Tzu did not move at all from where he stood.

Xing Fu looked directly at Lao Tzu, "Why? We should go see the second-in-command immediately"

"Chairman, vice-chairman!", Wu Anming saluted the four chiefs and vice-chairmen who came to them.

Xing Fu turned his body and he now turned his back on Lao Tzu. He could see Liu Chen, Zong Xian, Zhang Jiangwu and Yang Jia Li in front of him at this moment. "A-honor the chairman and vice chairman", he also immediately saluted. And so is Lao Tzu.

The four chiefs and vice-chairmen simply nodded. Liu Chen stared at Lao Tzu and approached him. He immediately gave a pill and was immediately swallowed by the young man.

Instantly, all the wounds that Lao Tzu had obtained slowly healed.

"Thank you, second leader!" xing Fu said happily as he looked at Liu Chen.

"Thank you" said Lao Tzu.

Liu Chen waved his hand, "No problem"

"Now we have a meeting to determine who is the first to fifth champion" said Yang Jia Li.

"of course. Let's see, who will stay here" Zong Xian said as he looked at Yang Jia Li.

"Alright, let's see who will stay", Yang Jia Li looked at Zong Xian in annoyance. They also simultaneously left from Liu Chen's place and walked towards the main hall. The two of them started following them.

Seeing that, Liu Chen shook his head. He looked at Lao Tzu, "You seem to have the same nature as Guang"

Fine, Lao Tzu and Zhang Jiangwu looked directly at Liu Chen. Their cold, flat gaze made Liu Chen uncomfortable, "Ah, I will catch up with Xinxin and Haocun. See you, come on Qiang (Song Quon)"

Liu Chen started to leave from there followed by Song Quon.

As Zhang Jingwu passed by Lao Tzu, he said in a soft voice. "Congratulations", Zhang Jingwu walked back.

Lao Tzu smiled faintly and nodded.