After the first battle of the session, Wang Bugui came back to Ling Peak where the cultivators lived. Now it was all bleak here. A lot of people were eliminated during the first contest. About 70 percent of the cultivators here were degraded to be just spectators.

“Well, in Age of Dharma Decline, it’s also hard to be a liberal cultivator!”

“Yeah, no liberal cultivators in Age of Dharma Decline. It’s true.”

“We’ve got no chances and inheritance. We just can’t compete with those geniuses.”

…

All liberal cultivators gathered together, sighing over and over. They were all alone with no fellow apprentices. Facing the united noble sects, it was impossible for them to fight back. Wang Bugui came over and was also invited into the conversation.

When he walked closer, he found that Lyu Hao was also here listening to them, as well as some promoted liberal cultivators. Though being promoted, they kept humble. Right now liberal cultivators kind of made up a sect.

“Elder brother, you are here.” Lyu Hao saw Wang Bugui and got up to greet him to sit in the side. On hearing what Lyu Hao said, all liberal cultivators started staring at Wang Bugui surprisingly. They had seen Lyu Hao’s power. He was an absolute genius. As an inheritor of Overlord Halberd, he was even threatening to major sects.

“Well, brother Wang is your elder brother?” Someone was brave enough to ask.

“Yes!” Lyu Hao answered firmly.

These liberal cultivators were quite confused now. The behaviors of Wang Bugui during the day were nothing special except for his weird body movements. His promotion was totally due to the tangled fighting. And he was actually the elder brother of Lyu Hao, who was mighty and powerful. And he was so ordinary. It was quite beyond imagination.

“Well, nice to meet you then… Since you are the elder brother of Lyu Hao, you must have some special abilities.” Said a man in a green robe, cupping his hands. Other people were also thinking the same thing. If he were ordinary, Lyu Hao would not have regarded him as an elder brother.

“Haha, I was just lucky to get promoted. I hope I’m also lucky the next time.” Wang Bugui said, grinning. On hearing this, these liberal cultivators were speechless. Some of them agreed and believed that Lyu Hao admired him for some other special reasons. The others secretly thought that Wang Bugui should be very strong and just didn’t want to brag about it.

Seeing their different facial expressions, Wang Bugui laughed and said, “You guys don’t have to be so upset. You are as strong as those noble sects. Anyway, they need to unite together to expel you, or the result may be otherwise! What they did show was that those sects are scared, so what are we worried about?”

“Well…”

Many liberal cultivators, still feeling bad for the defeat, all raised their heads and looked at the handsome man standing in the middle of the crowd. He glanced at everyone with his hands clasped behind his back. He eyes were like black jade, inquiring all the depressed people.

Wang Bugui continued, “Even if we are weak, we are as capable as many elites in each sect. No need to feel bad about it. There’s no turning back for the defeat, so we have to be prepared for the following contests. Just like elder Tong said, there are always late bloomers among outsiders. They come to comprehend the techniques by watching the fight.”

“So don’t sigh and groan anymore. Try to get inspirations from their combat. We may obtain insight about long-standing problems and reach a higher level than those disciples of noble sects. Cultivation depends on talents and chances, but without hard work, the result is always disappointing. You guys think about it!”

Finishing the speaking, Wang Bugui called Lyu Hao to leave, leaving those liberal cultivators in self-examination. They came all the way up to a cliff, took out a good wine and started drinking. Lyu Hao took a gulp of wine and said, “Elder brother, why did you say those words to them?”

Wang Bugui also took a gulp of wine and said, “These people are not that bad. If they chicken out at this moment, some talented cultivators will be stifled. This is the loss of Coatard Realm of Chinese Descendant. Besides, those sects are bullies. I can’t just stand there and do nothing. These liberal cultivators are cowards. So these noble sects are sheer in numbers. Big deal! Let’s see how I will deal with them tomorrow.”

Lyu Hao understood. He chuckled and drank again.

“Oh, you are drinking wine! Let me join you!”

“You drink wine without me! This is too bad!”

In a little while, Yu Wude and Zhao Changge came here, too. They both felt bored in a big room alone with no company and decided coincidentally to come to Ling Peak. The four kept drinking and chatting. When it was dawn, they finally went downhill to prepare for the next contest.

It was a match race with sixteen people. And eight people would be promoted. Wang Bugui was in the last contest. He first went to watch the contest for Zhao Changge. His opponent was a disciple called Li Ping from Unfettered Sect. Zhao Changge held a spear with one hand and stood there with his eyes closed. Li Ping frowned. He called out his magic weapon, Light Wind Sword, and slashed forward.

Zhao Changge suddenly opened his eyes, held the spear with one hand and stabbed forward. The tips of the spear and the sword met just like a pin against an awl. Both of them infused their energy into the weapons, which exploded fiercely upon touching. Then Zhao Changge rushed out from the smoke with his spear towards Li Ping. Seeing this, Li Ping gave out several cyan divine lights, but they were broke open one by one by Zhao Changge.

The Light Wind Sword roared up from behind Zhao Changge. He escaped with spear tip touching the ground and borrowed strength in the air to raise high to the highest point. At this point, he threw out the spear fiercely. An Aoki Seal was offered hurriedly to withstand this movement by Li Ping, but was totally shot through by the spear. Zhao Changge advanced forward with unstoppable power, forcing Li Ping to escape far away with his magic weapon.

However, the moment he landed on the ground, he found that Zhao Changge was already waiting for him. With a dozen of interlinking ever-changing spear movements, Li Ping’s protective aura was broke open. And then Zhao Changge swept his spear to knock Li Ping directly out of the field. He withdrew his pear and stood there firmly, smiling to Wang Bugui.

Lyu Hao finished his contest within moments. Facing a less capable opponent, he started with unbeatable aggressiveness, making his opponent really frightened. Next, he swung a halberd with thundering strength to attack fiercely. Double-bladed halberd burst forth dazzling red lights, hacking more and more violently.

This was the halberd trend. Once it came into being, its aggressiveness increased several times, being overwhelming all the time. The attacking was more and more violent. The opponent’s qi and blood were writhing and his face was as white as gold paper. Within six halberd movements, Lyu Hao knocked down the magic weapon of his opponent. Furtherly, he jumped to the air to hack with the third pattern of Killing Immortals and Souls, knocking his opponent directly out of the field.

The next one was Yu Wude. This guy just made a set of array units and stood there, watching. His opponent was from Crazy Saber Sect, who was good at close quarter combat. But now he was just trapped in these array units, being attacked by various spells around. When rushing forward, there was a more violent blow. Backing off was also impossible due to the spells.

Besides, all kinds of weapons forming from auras were coming to kill him on the left and right sides. Yu Wude was smiling, his hands gesturing in the air. Soon the method of the array was fully activated. All attacks began to compress and move forward until his opponent could struggle no longer. After that, he grinned and said, “You let me win. You let me win!”

Wang Bugui went back to join his contest after watching these contests. His opponent was Yun Qing from Unfettered Sect. Yun Qing stood there, his hand holding a red cucurbit. A lot of liberal cultivators came to watch. So did Lyu Hao and some other people. When they realized that Wang Bugui was the lucky guy yesterday, they laughed.

“There is no tangled fighting this time. We will see how he gets kicked out.”

“Dude, come back. You are not a match to that fighter.”

“Unless Yun Qing uses up all his aura to chase him and he makes it to the end, I will regard him as my ancestor if he wins!”

…

They all thought that Yun Qing was much inclined to win, whereas Lyu Hao and some other people just watched and tittered. Yu Wude even pointed to a person and said, “Well, well, it’s you. I just heard. You said that you will regard Wang Bugui as your ancestor if he wins. Don’t back out!”

“Yeah, sure!” That person did not back out, making Yu Wude really happy.

After a clear bell rang, the contest began. A red beam of power was emitted from the cucurbit in Yun Qing’s hand, rushing to Wang Bugui. Wang Bugui escaped again with his weird body movements. Yun Qing frowned and continued to conjure, emitting dozens of beams of power in a row.

Wang Bugui shifted to the side and flipped, steering by several beams of power. He continued to flip in the air to escape the following three beams of power. As soon as he touched the ground, he rolled away from two beams of power from front and back. Just then, another beam of power came right to his face within less than half a meter.

Yun Qing smiled, thinking that the contest was over. Surprisingly, Wang Bugui knelt on the ground and stretched backward, his face barely passing over the beam of power. Yun Qing was angry and conjured again. But Wang Bugui seemed that he’d already known the way of his attacking, he sprung to his feet in advance with one hand pressing the ground and escaped the attack again.

So Wang Bugui had avoided hundreds of attacks in this way. Yun Qing got so angry that his face fell. After all this time, his aura was going to be used up. Being exasperated, he decided to use the forbidden weapon. He roared loudly and clearly, and then conjured to call out a huge green stela to press forward. There was a sage spell in it!

The green stela was approaching with great influence. Everyone was mourning for Wang Bugui. Those liberal cultivators were also sighing and groaning.

“Ah!!”

There was an ear-piercing scream and the green stela pressed down heavily. People all retracted their heads, not daring to see the scene under the stela. At this sight, Wang Bugui was supposed to break his muscles and bones.

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“Ah?! What? Wang Bugui?!” A cultivator screamed in great surprise. Following his words, people turned to look at the green stela. To their astonishment, Wang Bugui was squatting beside the stela instead of being under it. The ear-piercing scream was from Yun Qing, who was being pressed tightly under the stela. This was rather hard to swallow.

What just happened? No one knew. When they focused, they saw that the muscles and bones of Yun Qing had been broken by his own green stela. Wang Bugui touched his head and said, “Wow, it must be painful. Don’t risk your own life next time.”

“You! You, Poof…” Hearing these perceptive words, Yun Qing couldn’t catch his breath. He spurted a gush of blood and passed out.

“Well…”

These spectators were speechless now. This was unbelievable. No one knew how Wang Bugui won, except for those geniuses in each sect. When the green stela was about to press down, Wang Bugui ran away in a speed much higher than the speed of sound and then he kicked Yun Qing to the area under the stela.

The geniuses, who saw this scene, all frowned their brows. Wang Bugui was clearly a formidable opponent, but he pretended to be the weak. Dress up as a pig to eat a tiger. Now they all regarded him as a belittled dangerous person in the heart.

Wang Bugui walked down the field with a smile. Lyu Hao and some other people went to meet him, laughing all the way, except for Yu Wude. He directly caught the person who made the promise before and said, “You lunkhead, call him ancestor! Or I will strip off your clothes and throw you to the herd of spiritual beasts in Pure Land of Mountain Tai. Then I’ll drug them to give you crazy-ass happiness!”

Hearing these words, his face turned pale immediately. He knelt down on the spot at once, calling Wang Bugui ancestor continuously. “It’s an honor for you to call him ancestor. Take out some good stuff to show filial respect for him.” Yu Wude added.

Later, Yu Wude took out all his treasures directly and went back to meet Wang Bugui with a ruddy face. Meanwhile, the contests in the field were drawing to a close. All cultivators returned to their Ling Cliff and got prepared for the contests the next day.

Until now, the liberal cultivators were a minority in the field. In this era of the late arts, liberal cultivators were barely comparable to those heroes in the existing sects. Lyu Hao was excellent, but not surpassing all fighters.

As for another liberal cultivator— Wang Bugui, all the people thought that he was lucky to make it to the third round of the contests. Today he won simply for no reason.