Walking outside of the house, Su Jun saw Duan Xi standing by the door with closed eyes. She opened her eyes and turned her head to him, looking at him, "Morning, are you ready?" she said with a slight smile on her face.
Su Jun raised the corners of his lips, forming a smile of his own, “Yeah, I am ready. Let’s go,” he said as he nodded his head.
Duan Xi nodded and together with Su Jun they left the house area and made their way to the arena area where the outer sect competition was being held. Once they were around two hundred or so meters away from the arena area, they both saw two things. One – a sea of outer sect disciples surrounding ten arenas that have merged together further back. Two – a line of disciples that started with the arena elder near the start of the sea of disciples and ended with a disciple that was twenty metres away from the two of them. When they saw these two things, the disciple from the back of the line saw them and he shouted out, “Su Jun is here! Duan Xi is here!”
All the disciples that heard the disciple’s words started turning their heads and when they turned their heads, others closer to the front who didn’t hear the shout, began turning their heads as well. This started a chain reaction which only stopped when all the disciples had turned their heads back and saw Duan Xi and Su Jun. When the disciples saw them, they all turned their head back and began talking amongst themselves.
Su Jun and Duan Xi lined up at the back of the line, “This will take a while,”
he said as he looked at the line ahead.
Duan Xi nodded as she looked at the same line ahead of them as well, “Yeah…” she mumbled.
To think that outer sect has this many disciples and compare it to the inner sect. Inner sect only has around 10% maybe 15% of the gathered disciples here.
Su Jun turned his head to Duan Xi, “Are there this many disciples participating in the competitions of the inner sect as well?”
Duan Xi shook her head, “No, there aren’t this many inner disciples,” she turned her head to Su Jun, “There are only about 13% as many inner disciples and usually only third of that participate in the competitions,” she turned her head to the front.
Su Jun nodded in understanding, “I see.”
He turned his head to the front as well.
After more than half an hour of waiting, Su Jun and Duan Xi came up to the arena elder. The arena elder looked at the two of them, “Rank 4 martial mortal and rank 8 martial core…” arena elder’s eyes widened and after a short moment they returned to normal, “You must be young miss Duan Xi and Su Jun. Su Jun since you are rank 4 martial mortal you will be seeded. You will have to win one fight to qualify into the top eight. The opponent you will have to defeat to qualify will be selected at random. Good luck.” The arena elder extended a token with a number 453 written on top. “Pay attention to the token, an arena number will lit on which you will have to fight when you have to fight.”
Su Jun nodded his head in understanding, “Thank you, elder,” he took the token from the elder’s hand and turned his head to Duan Xi, ”Let’s go.”
Duan Xi turned her head to him and nodded, “Alright.” She together with Su Jun walked to the arenas. Once they approached them, one of the disciples standing in the crowd spotted and shouted out, “Su Jun and Duan Xi are here!”
Like before, all the disciples that heard the disciple’s words started turning their heads and when they turned their heads, others closer to the front who didn’t hear the shout, began turning their heads as well. This started a chain reaction which only stopped when all the disciples had turned their heads back and saw Duan Xi and Su Jun. When the disciples saw them, they all turned their head back and began talking amongst themselves.
Su Jun and Duan Xi stopped some distance from the other disciples. She turned her head to him while he looked over them and saw each one’s name and cultivation level.
They are all rank 2 and 3 martial mortal realm cultivators. The elder said that this competition would be between rank 4 and 5 martial mortals. There is also Duan Jin that’s rank 6 martial mortal… I guess they will be in the top eight. Then that means that my opponent for a qualifier will be rank 2 or rank 3 martial mortal… I have crippled someone of my cultivation level in a single punch, I will have to hold back to not to kill my opponent by accident…
As this thought went through Su Jun’s head, the token that he received from the arena elder lit up. He raised the token and a number six appeared on it.
“Which arena are you fighting on?” Duan Xi slightly tilted her head and said.
Su Jun turned his head from the disciples to Duan Xi, “I have a fight on the sixth arena.”
Duan Xi nodded, “I see. Let’s go.” She together with Su Jun walked over to the sixth arena. But when they reached it, only the elder stood on the arena, “It seems your opponent is not here yet,” she said.
Su Jun nodded, “Yeah, it seems so, but I am going on.”
Duan Xi nodded, “Alright and don’t kill your opponent, it is a competition after all.”
Su Jun smiled and nodded. He walked onto the arena. The elder standing on the arena turned his head to him, “Your name?”
“My name is Su Jun.”
The elder nodded his head, “Alright.”
A few minutes passed and a crowd gathered around the sixth arena and then from the crowd emerged a youth. Su Jun, Duan Xi and the elder turned their heads to the youth and Su Jun with Duan Xi recognised this youth. It was someone that he had fought before. It was one of his childhood friends Geng Xia.
Geng Xia walked up on the stage and he bowed his head, “Hello, senior brother, Su Jun.”