Swordsman the Wanderer
Ch. 381 - Ning Xi VS Zhang En
Seeing the indifference on Zhang En's face, an inexplicable fury surged in Wang Biao's heart. Suppressing the anger in his heart with effort, Wang Biao let out a contemptuous snort, "Look, just wait, I'll see how long you can keep your arrogance." Throwing away this sentence, Wang Biao lalh turned around and walked away.
A short while later, Du Leng also arrived, causing yet another commotion among the crowd. However, when Du Leng arrived, he did not say anything upon seeing Zhang En, yet the burning desire for battle in his eyes was felt by everyone present.
After Du Leng, it was continued by the arrival of Li Shao. Unlike Su Leng and Wang Biao, Li Shao's strength was still at the realm of a peak Stage One-Star God Emperor, one step away from breaking through to the realm of a Second-Star God Emperor.
About an hour later, when the tournament was about to begin, Elder Zhang Huan appeared above the arena. He had also become the supervising elder for the battle today.
Zhang Huan landed gently on the arena stage, his sharp eyes sweeping over the gathered disciples before he briefly explained the rules and rewards for the appraisal this time around.
The Fire Spirit Sect had over a hundred thousand outer disciples, but not every outer disciple would take part in the tournament. Elder Zhang Huan would choose the hundred strongest outer disciples to take part. Only a hundred outer disciples who had been selected were qualified to participate.
Of course, disgruntled disciples could choose to challenge any disciple within the hundred chosen ones. If the challenger defeats the chosen disciple, the challenger can take their place, hence be qualified to participate in the tournament.
"Du Leng, Wang Biao, Lu Shao, Zhang En ..." Zhang Huan read out a list of the names of the hundred outer disciples chosen.
Everyone could only guess whether their sect was intentional in choosing that list of names, wrote Du Leng in the first place, Wang Biao in the second place, Li Shao in the third place, and Zhang En in fourth place! As for fifth place, it was another outer disciple
A hundred names did not take long for Zhang Huan to announce it.
"Are there any students who want to issue a challenge to them?" After he finished reading the list of names chosen, Zhang Huan looked around the arena and asked.
"You can take out the challenge now."
If none of the disciples issued any challenges, then the hundred disciples chosen to participate would remain unchanged.
A few seconds after Zhang Huan's voice sounded, a disciple had declared his challenge.
"I, Shi Heng, want to challenge Xiao Ping." A tall, burly young man jumped into the Arena.
Then, a figure with a small stature floated on the arena stage as well, the challenged outer disciple, Xiao Ping.
After saluting each other as usual, the two disciples started their battle. But it did not take long for the challenger disciple, Shi Heng to be defeated, to fall off the arena stage in a sorry state.
Many challenges happened after that. Some succeed, but most of them fail.
A little over an hour later, seeing that no more disciples wanted to challenge, Zhang Huan spoke, "Now I will read out a list of the top ten outer disciples chosen for this tournament."
“Du Leng, Wang Biao, Li Shao, Zhang En, Kai Yu, Long Fei, Su Guo, Xu Shaoqing, Wu Xiaoshi, and Yang Yue.”
Zhang Huan paused for a moment before asking, "In the hundred disciples that have been chosen, do any of you want to challenge those that have been selected in the top ten list of disciples?"
Again, if no challenges were issued, the ranking would remain the same, with Zhang En in fourth place.
Of course, not every disciple was qualified to challenge the list of names that entered the top ten, only those within the hundred names that had been chosen were qualified.
Zhang Huan's question was greeted with a silent arena.
The crowd of the arena was stunned and then broke into an uproar.
There was actually someone who wanted to challenge Zhang En.
And this challenger named Ning Xi was the first winner of the selection of the new disciple held two periods before, Ning Xi...! Actually, this Ning Xi was supposed to be one of the top ten ranked outer disciples selected, but unfortunately, her name was outside of rank 10. Therefore, he could only challenge to obtain a place.
Zhang En had won first place on the new disciple acceptance selection three years ago and was known for his terrifying talent. Judging by talent alone, Zhang En held the identity of being one of the Sect Master's disciples. Therefore, in the past three years, he has become a topic of discussion that is often talked about by many people.
Zhang En had not stood out in the past three years, secluding himself in closed cultivation in the palace residence of the Sect Master, no one could determine and measure his true strength.
The crowd grew increasingly heated as they looked forward to the upcoming battle of challenges. Their gazes were all fixed on Zhang En. Even Zhang Huan could not help but glance towards Zhang En. Three years had passed, he was also very curious about Zhang En's current increase in strength.
Wang Biao, Du Leng, Li Shao, and the others also looked at Zhang En.
It was as if he did not notice the many powerful gazes that were fixed on him, with a calm face and a slight movement, everyone only felt a blurry glint before their eyes and Zhang En was already standing on the stage of the fighting Dragon Arena, in front of his challenger, Ning Xi.
Wang Biao, Du Leng, and many other eyes narrowed.
'Very fast!' This is the first thought that comes to everyone's mind.
On the other hand, Zhang Huan's eyes twinkled, he didn't expect Zhang En's speed to have reached that level.
The challenger disciple, Ning Xi, was surprised to see Zhang En's sudden silhouette in front of her, but quickly became calm. His eyes shone brightly staring at Zhang En. Taking a deep breath, he said, "Zhang En, please guide him!"
The pressure of his aura surged as soon as he said those words. A strong wind blew around him, making the battle stage stir up ripples forming a storm surge.
Ning Xi was the first winner of the new disciple acceptance selection two periods before this year, there was no doubt that she was a powerful cultivator, either, it was recognized by many outer disciples as the strongest person under the realm of a Two Star God Emperor.
Sensing the strong momentum coming from Ning Xi, the watching crowd became tense, except for Du Leng and Wang Biao, who were standing in the distance with indifferent faces.
"We're in a good show this time! We can only say that Zhang En is not Ning Xi's opponent at all! If he was defeated by Ning Xu, he was sure to lose face. At that time, he won't even be in the top ten ranking list in the tournament later!”
Opinions in a loud voice rang out below the arena stage.
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