Immortal Cultivator System

'The hell is happening ?! Why are they all fighting ?!' Jian started to panick. A spear thrown his way had him dodge in a hurry, before his eyes widened as said spear got out of the ground by itself and flew towards him once more.

He looked at the little girl who had thrown that spear and saw her chanting something in the language that was spoken in the land of the everlasting sun. The spear had some incredible speed to it, but it could also change it's trajectory at any time.

It was as if Jian was constantly followed, and he couldn't even try to have the spear attack someone else, for the little girl was fixated on ending him.

'Kid....Ughhh, that's why you need to stop that thing. You have an habit of going into your inner world and ignore everything around you, and it's bad. Anyway the announcer and the crown prince, yeah that huge guy who's smiling at the little girl...They said that while this event wasn't supposed to star any fights, the nobles had expressed their desire to see the exotic talents that you guys are, fight to prove their worth. Basically this event is made to have people to recruit, but some nobles don't care about that and only want to see some actions...That or they already decided who they wanted, and they don't want the others to get their targets...So they hope that this fight will take out the talents that don't interest them. Because in case the little girl trying to impale you wasn't big enough of a clue, this is a no rule fight.' Mara explained.

Jian could only curse himself whilst desperatly dodging the spear. Even if he was here as The Crow, which meant he couldn't afford to use all of his abilities, in the end he couldn't bring himself to care. It wasn't that he didn't fear getting recognized or anything, but The Crow and Jian were two very unknown people. 

Except if some disciple from the Raja sect or a Zhao Warrior was there, no one could put a link between the two. And so no matter what he ended up using, it shouldn't backfire. Of course he still decided not to use his eyes, just in case.

As this was a fight, he couldn't afford to hide much actually. He wanted to keep the Kishin's powers for later, but he knew that if the other contestants were strong, he might have to give in.

The little girl was already a problem, but one he could resolve easily. The spear wasn't faster than him, and he could still dodge it without getting grazed every time.

So after a few minutes, during which everyone thought he was done for, he moved around and ended up behind the girl in a flash. 

Before she could fully turn around, he had run up to her and took her hostage. The chanting stopped and with it, the spear dropped to the ground.

"Sorry about that." He said.

The girl looked up to him with a deadspan expression and pointed at the Crown Prince, before pointing at an older man with an extremely long beard.

"I already caught the eye of some people, no need to worry mister. But I was still that close to getting you." She said, puffing her cheeks.

Jian laughed and let go of her. But he couldn't laugh for long, for just after he knocked down the little girl, two contestants landed in front of him.

Those two had been showing immense strengh ever since the beginning of the battle, but it seemed like they hadn't shown everything yet. As the first got up by doing a front flip and immediately had his body mass triple, Jian understood that those two were insanely dangerous.

And he was proven right. The second one got up in a strange manner, as if he was a puppet directed by some strings. He seemed lost and completely out of it, and yet in a split second, he had already attacked and had put a deep wound on the first guy's arm.

"Arghh ! You got some really interesting techniques, I can give you that, but I ain't gonna drop that easily !" The first one said, rushing towards his enemy while looking around to see if anyone was going to intervene.

However Jian wasn't just standing there and watching the two fight, he had his own fight to win. You see, just after the second one woke up, an old man came out nowhere and tried to kick Jian in the stomach.

A quick dodge to the left got Jian out of trouble, but he also had to find a way to defeat this old man. And he knew it might prove to be difficult, seeing how the old man was quite literally impossible to hit.

That old man had a watery body, and no matter how Jian hit him, any attack would just go through. And not just that, the old man was also able to turn into a literal puddle, moving around rapidly and shooting back up in an instant.

This turned to be quite an impossible fight for Jian, except when he had the idea to coat his body with a thin barrier of Kishin's gas. 

And so, the ones who had been watching this particular fight were all stunned as the old man started to scream.

"What is that ?! What have you done to me, boy ?!" He asked. The barrier was so small, no one had even noticed it. But the old man's body surely felt it. It was like putting your hand through a fire. Except it would start to hurt your entire body after a few seconds.

Jian looked at the old man coldly and didn't even grace him with an answer. The response was swift and brutal. Jian grabbed the old man's arms, and while his own hands went through, the effect was immediate and brutal.

"DAMN IT ! STOP IT!" 

"Wield, old man. You can't possibly win this one. Your pain resistance is too low." Jian said. He had fully gone into his crow persona. He was brutal, direct and insanely cold, a stark difference from the usually quite warm and perhaps even jolly jian. 

However, the old man didn't quite react like Jian thought he would. 

"Please...i can't lose yet...." The old man said, pain lacing his every word as eemed to be begging Jian. He had perhaps even grown older while saying that, all his suffering coming up front.

"What ?" 

Jian was so surprised he actually let go of the man who immediately got him into a sleep hold. Fortunately, he didn't press on Jian's throat on anything, he merely started to talk while getting into a position where no one could see his mouth moving.

"Young man, I beg of you, take this one hit and go to someone else. I can't afford to lose just yet. I have many people looking at me with such worried faces...This old man cannot disappoint them....Not again, and certainly not during these grave times." He said. Jian looked at where the old man's gaze lingered for a second and saw some disciples wearing brown robes with little pins on the chest. Those pins had a peculiar symbol on them, a rosy bird. 

'The Karma Sect ? Wang Bei mentioned them too....Damn...I get it now. That old man should be...' 

Jian suddenly stopped fighting, and the old man got that as a confirmation. He elbowed Jian right in the back before grabbing the young man's leg. He then rotated his body in the air with a strengh a normal old man shouldn't ever possess, before throwing him away.

Jian landed at the other side of the arena, right on another contestant.

' Kid ! Explain what the hell that was ! Who's this old man ! I didn't follow that girl's explanation..I was too busy admiring the beautiful sculpture that was her body.' Mara said, before chuckling to himself like an old pervert.

' The Karma Sect holds the same name as a legendary sect that once roamed this continent. It has long since moved away and found a new home in another continent, but this new Karma Sect received a lot of attention for being the little sibling of that legendary sect. However they fell in disgrace after their patriarch, whom I suppose is this old man, had his boddy crippled by the patriarch of the Yuan family. I have no idea what this yuan family is, but I guess it should be a huge noble family. This old man and those disciples....I can see why he entered this contest and why he wants to last as long as possible. Call me a weakling for showing pity, but I can't just ignore him' Jian explained. He erased all those sad thoughts he had so he could focus, and he did so at the right time for an uppercut came his way.

He narrowly dodged it, unleashing a counter punch at the same time. His enemy smirked at him and yelled.

" I like ya ! Give me all ya got !" 

The rather savage looking boy rushed Jian and started to harass him with a flurry of kicks and punches. They carried a lot of power and an even more impressive amount of speed. Jian could only do his best to block, even though some hit ended up getting to him and he fell to the ground, clutching his stomach.

"What ? Ya already done, huh ?!" The boy exclaimed before trying to kick Jian right on the head with enough power to shatter the skull of any weaker cultivator.

However the kick missed entirely and the boy found himself with a blade under the throat. He looked around and saw Jian holding a halberd to his throat, while also blocking an elbow with his knee. 

That pose with an extended leg and the halberd in one hand was enough to put the boy under a daze for a second. That speed wasn't something the savage boy was used to....But to be honest, no one really was.

"That kid has quite the good cultivation level ! He looks like he is 18 at most !"

"I would say 16, not an insane talent, but still....This is rather interesting."

"Interesting you say, brother ? I would say this is more surprising than anything else we had seen. And I am not talking about his cultivation level. I am talking about that weird ability he used, but also his halberd. He swung it around quite expertly, or at least expertly for a boy his age. " 

As the different nobles discussed this, while the crowd cheered for Jian but also for the other contestants who were getting really warmed up, Jian's group had a different reaction.

"....So that's why he went to the forest a few days. He was looking for ressources to speed up his cultivation ! But even with those...Either he found a huge supply, or that dumbass is more talented than I thought." Zhao Shu said. Uma could only nod, however Biyu who was sitting at a random spot in the crowd widened her eyes.

'....But....Didn't he spend every single day training with his halberd and weird abilities ?! When the hell did he reach the mortal realm ?!'