
An old man walked out from behind the tree, Zhou Fan's forehead frowning trying to figure out who the person who had been paying attention to him while making the pill, said the paper, but since the sky was already a bit dark Zhou Fan was not very clear on who the old man was.
"Ze...., watch" Zhou Fan murmured softly as the old man got close to him.
"I never expected, the young master would hide his abilities so deeply, even after getting bad treatment from everyone, would the young master hide them forever?" Elder Ze who had seen the alchemist's ability Zhou Fan from the start had asked the young man.
Being able to sense his presence even after he concealed the aura of his existence, could not be done by a trash, not even a mere five beast master fighter could detect its existence, nor could it, surely the young man before him had a higher cultivation, Elder Ze thought.
Zhou Fan only smiled bitterly at Elder Ze's words, he had not expected that there would be someone coming to this hill at the time of the late afternoon like now.
"Older Ze himself knows how everyone thinks and treats me, now is not the time to show it off, and I hope Elder Ze can keep it between the two of us, he said, not even my parents knew that I was an alchemist, you were the second to know" Zhou Fan said.
"I'm really honored to be the second man young master, who's the first man?" he asked with a curious face.
Other than his two masters, who might know it, Elder Ze thought.
"There! Somebody..." Zhou Fan said with a smile looking at Elder Ze.
Elder Ze did not ask any further, as he saw the young man before reluctantly saying so.
"Young master, do you have a pill that can help me overcome my obstructed cultivation problem, I've been a few years still at the level of a 3-star grand master fighter" he lamented.
"Maybe this might help...." Zhou Fan gave a tier four pill to Elder Ze.
"Ah, this is.thank you young master," as an Elder he must have recognized the pill that Zhou Fan gave him, the moon pill.
Elder Ze intended to duck down to thank him, but Zhou Fan held him back.
"Older don't be like this, I won't have any face if I let an elder kneel before me." Zhou Fan held onto the shoulders of Elder Ze who was intending to lower his body.
"You used to be a small part of people who didn't demean me, I would treat people the way they treated me and my family, so Elder Ze don't hesitate! think of the pill as a gift from me." Zhou Fan explained the reason why he gave the moon pill without a second thought to Elder Ze.
"I didn't expect to get any recompense for an act I didn't even notice..," Elder Ze muttered inwardly.
***
The night passed quickly, now that Zhou Fan was in the hall to see the continuation of the internal match of the Zhou Clan.
"This match is already set, surely the three friends will not meet at the beginning," Zhou Fan inner as he looked at Zhou han and his two friends.
As Zhou Fan expected, the three comrades did not face each other in this initial round.
The three comrades escaped without a fight, because his opponent preferred to surrender, while Zhou Yin had to face his opponent who also had the same cultivation and age, he was Zhou Mei.
"Collapse! Before you find a sword in your beautiful body." Zhou Yin told Zhou Mei to surrender.
The third elder who saw his son in such humiliation just stayed in his place, because he thought such a thing was very natural in a match, provoking the opponent's anger was also a strategy in trying to defeat him.
"Sad..." Zhou Yin sighed in annoyance, he waited for the beginning of the fifth elder who was now in charge of being a referee.
"Ready?" ask the fifth elder to the two participants.
Getting the nod of the two fifth elders threw a cloth like what the fourth elder did.
Right after the cloth fell on the arena floor, Zhou Yin took the initiative to illuminate first, he moved quickly to where Zhou Mei was with a sword in his hand.
Zhou Yin took out his sword technique to attack Zhou Mei, originally Zhou Mei could still scan Zhou Yin's sword technique movements, but after a while Zhou Mei started to look overwhelmed.
Zhou Yin smiled disdainfully towards Zhou Mei.
"I told you from the beginning why you're so stubborn" he said in a slightly condescending tone.
"I'm giving up..." Zhou Mei said so while gritting her teeth.
Right after Zhou Mei said surrender, the fifth elder announced Zhou Yin as the victor, Zhou Yin descended the stage with a happy-looking face, while Zhou Mei's face looked still in disbelief that he had lost.
"Why? though his cultivation was no higher than mine, his sword technique was also the same as the one I used, but why was I always below him," Zhou Mei's inner being was irritated as she went down the stage.
Zhou Mei and Zhou Yin had known each other since they were children, he had always been behind Zhou Yin, whether it was strength or beauty, it was like living in the shadow of Zhou Yin. He was determined to be better than Zhou Yin, and from then on the relationship was no longer as a friend or friend, now they looked more like rivals.
The internal match had finished, Zhou Han had come out as the first champion in followed by his two friends and Zhou Yin in second to fourth.
The four of them got the reward according to what had been determined which was a tier two cultivation pill and a gold coin according to the rank they got, which was, moreover, they also obtained master rank weapons as a bonus for the preparation of the black stone city tournament.
***
Five months passed quickly, two more days were the day of the black stone city tournament.
Today was the day that the qualifying round for someone who did not get a direct ticket, got a tournament ticket.
The qualifying round will be looking for 12 participants.to enter the black stone city tournament should at least be the top 12 participants.
Since the place of qualification was held at the power of the medicine pavilion, then Zhou Fan had to visit the green leaf village again to take part in the qualification round.
It does not take long, like the first time to the village of green leaves. It only took him about an hour to get there, it was inseparable from Zhou Fan's current cultivation that had been at the level of a nine-star master fighter.
Since it still had a sign of entry to Green Leaf Village, Zhou Fan did not wait so long in line in front of the entrance gate of the village.
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