The Heavenly Tiger Swordsman
Red Yarn

Returning to the tournament after having spent quite some time with Yue Yie, Hao Zhao was immediately notified by Yang Gao regarding the results of the match that had just happened.

Meng Dali the son of the city lord managed to become a semifinalist in the advanced tournament the next day after defeating one of the Minor Sect Master disciples who became his opponent, with that means there is only one more game left in the day before the next round is held.

Two young warriors were summoned to the arena after, where the day had begun at night making the quarterfinals round was almost at its end.

“This is it, I want to know if something I gave you a few days ago you managed to use well or even become free," muttered Hao Zhao seeing Jian San already face to face with his opponent in the semifinal round.

Jian San was indeed always Hao Zhao noticed his every move in the tournament, where either luck or what worked the young man went quite far in his tournament.

Hao Zhao realized that Jian San always met opponents who had a level of strength under him when participating in the tournament, it was during this quarter-final round that Jian San finally met an opponent who could be said to be on par with him.

“High-stage Body Training Swordsman, you can make it to the semifinals because of my help increasing your previous level of strength. Now with an opponent at a similar level of strength, can you defeat him?" mumbled Hao Zhao curiously.

On top of his own arena Jian San had already pulled out his sword as well as his opponent, whose opponent Jian San was a young swordsman who quite had a name thanks to his genius despite coming from a Small sect.

“Hey, you realize that you can't go this far just because of your luck?" asked the young swordsman before Jian San.

Jian San only stared intently at his opponent, not responding to the slightest hint of his obvious remark just trying to provoke him.

“Haha, it's definitely true what I said. Jian San, who knows you here? Inversely with me, Li Kao. Look at them, they are cheering for me while not with you" said the young man named Li Kao.

“Hey, shut up. You keep babbling like a chirping bird despite one difference ...."

Li Kao only frowned so curious about Jian San's continued remarks, where it didn't take long for him to be made emotional by the continued words that made him curious.

“The chirping bird is comfortable to hear while your babbling is not," Jian San continued.

“You ... die!" Li Kao immediately jumped forwards trying to reach Jian San with his sword.

Jian San was immediately surprised to see that, the match had not started yet but Li Kao had already moved to attack directly was definitely a violation.

Jian San had glanced at the match supervisor but unfortunately there was nothing the imperial soldier said, like letting Li Kao do whatever he wanted even if it was clearly to the detriment of Jian San.

Tankkk!!!

Jian San painstakingly managed to repel Li Kao's attack, though, where because of the sudden attack that Li Kao was doing obviously made Jian San completely unprepared so that the direction of his attack was not perfect kept him from receiving injuries.

“Hey, how about the start of the fight? Why would you just let it go?" Jian San while stepping back, tried to question the decision of the match supervisor.

“Once again blabber you will be disqualified, the match has obviously started since then so do not look for reasons to make yourself profit," said the match supervisor commemorating Jian San.

Feeling strangely afraid that the match supervisor's words were correct, immediately Jian San's lyrics towards the audience and none of them were bothered about what happened earlier made Jian San think that the match supervisor's speech was not mere nonsense.

“Hey, what were you thinking when your opponent was trying to finish you off," said Li Kao, who had returned to action with a sword in his hand.

Jian San immediately felt surprised to see Li Kao already in front of him, making Jian San immediately try to dodge even though it seemed to have been so late for him.

“Sial, I'm sloppy. The watchdog's gonna stop the attack, right?" muttered Jian San, it was already so resigned.

Slashhh!!!

Jian San was aghast when he realized that Li Kao's sword was still going to hit him, where it was lucky for him to try to dodge so that the sword missed its main target even though it still managed to hurt him.

Heart, that point was where Li Kao's sword tried to hit earlier. Where if Jian San just kept quiet and entrusted completely to the match supervisor to stop Li Kao's attack, then it was obvious that death would come his way.

“Damn it, why wasn't the match stopped when the attack put my life at risk?" jian San asked the match supervisor who had only been silent in his position, where the wound around his chest area had been bleeding quite a lot was proof of how dangerous Li Kao's sword intent had been before.

The match supervisor had a small smile before his face changed so quickly to full of seriousness, not long after he immediately approached Jian San as if very worried.

“Son, are you okay? Shit, it's my fault for being late in making a decision earlier." The match supervisor tried to check Jian San's wounds.

Jian San only frowned looking at the behavior of the match supervisor, what he did was obviously intentional and now chose to pretend clearly Jian San asked his point.

It did not stop there just how injustice Jian San felt, the next reason how the audience reacted was also no one questioning the slightest bit of what had just happened as if it was just an incident full of unintentionality in their eyes.

Hao Zhao on his stool just stared silently at everything that had just happened above the arena, how Hao Zhao's face looked to himself so expressionless as if he wasn't at all bothered by it.

“He was obviously rigged, how could his match supervisor just be silent? Not to mention the attack that led to him was clearly life-threatening, so the match supervisor should have stopped his match," Yue Yie obviously could not stand by the awkward course of the match.

Hao Zhao only glanced towards Yue Yie for a moment before turning to look at Yang Gao who was obviously also bound to have seen what had just happened, he said, where curious would she be Yang Gao's response to that.

“Li Kao, he is the main disciple of the Sword Mark sect," Yang Gao said suddenly.

Hao Zhao just stared at Yang Gao without the slightest change in expression, questioning himself what the intent of the remark was and what it had to do with what had just happened.

Yang Gao seemed to understand the meaning of Hao Zhao's gaze finally returned to speak, “ Sword Mark Sect is a direct subordinate of the Sword Pattern sect, let me ask you something. Are you familiar with the young man whose blood has been splattered there?"

Hao Zhao immediately clenched his palm tightly hearing this, clearly beginning to understand himself what if the reason for all that could happen.

“They've started investigating me, that's the most likely. If it's like this, obviously I can find where if the red thread is connected to each other" Hao Zhao said slowly.