Free Web NovelChapter 121: Masked man vs Bai Bing and Song Tianyu
Bai Haoran looked at Gu Fan and could do nothing but clench his knuckles hard. He wasn’t going to get in a verbal spat with a junior.
"You have a big mouth, Junior... But your Gu Clan has nothing to show for it," Bai Haoran looked down at Gu Fan and spoke in disdain. freewebnøvel.coɱ
"Where in the heavens is Gu Chen?!" Bai Haoran suddenly shouted, his booming voice echoing loudly across the entire town square to ensure that every single spectator and sect elder heard him perfectly.
"I was expecting the famous Golden Boy of the Gu Clan. the so-called once in a century talent to jump onto the stage Stage and show off his incredible talent."
"But where is he? Why is the Gu Clan’s top genius is absolutely nowhere to be seen!" Bai Haoran laughed out loud, his deeply mocking voice dripping with venom.
"Did your precious Golden Boy suddenly realize that his martial foundation was no match for the Bai Clan?!"
"Or is he currently hiding under his mother’s skirt because he is too afraid to show up in front of our esteemed guests?"
Following the Bai Clan Patriarch, the entire Bai Clan pavilion instantly erupted into loud, aggressive laughter, actively joining their Patriarch as the Bai elders loudly taunted and trolled the Gu Clan, ruthlessly mocking Gu Chen’s absence and completely disrespecting the Gu Clan’s martial reputation in front of the scouting sect elders.
"That is right... Even in the hunting competition, he was no match..."
"I heard he tried to lay hand on his own sister..."
"What a scum...!!"
"In Gu Clan, not even the mothers and sisters are safe..."
’Hey... hey... hey... Why are you bringing in mothers in this?’ Gu Fan felt wrongly targeted in the crossfire as he looked at Madam Li who sat there on the pavilion showing no change in her expression through the corner of his eyes, ’Mother is so tough.’
Meanwhile, Patriarch Gu Yangtian’s face turned completely black with raw fury, and he violently gripped the armrests of his throne, but he had absolutely no response.
Denial was the biggest acceptance, and he obviously could not publicly admit that the star of Gu Clan was currently locked in the underground repentance caves for trying to rape his own cousin.
Gu Yangtian furiously ground his teeth together and glared at the surrounding clan elders for support, but the Gu Clan elders just awkwardly looked away and stared at the floor, completely humiliated and entirely unable to defend their absent genius against the Bai Clan’s vicious verbal assault.
However, intentionally or unintentionally, someone unexpected came to Gu Clan’s rescue.
"Are we actually going to fight, or are we just going to stand around listening to the bunch of old women gossiping?!" the masked cultivator on the third stage suddenly spoke up, completely interrupting the political mockery as his patience completely ran out.
He then turned towards the old man hosting the competition, "Announce me the winner if these bunch are not going to fight."
"Don’t be impatient junior," the old man replied politely, "They are still to..."
But instead of waiting for the old man to preach about the rules, the masked man stomped his foot against the stone tiles, causing the entire platform to violently rumble before he explosively launched himself completely off the stage, flying directly through the air toward where Bai Bing and Song Tianyu were standing.
He didn’t pull a weapon, but instead violently thrust both of his palms forward, unleashing a massive, terrifying shockwave of highly condensed, pitch-black Origin Realm Qi that roared through the air like a beast, aiming directly for the two clan geniuses.
"Oh! You won’t!" Song Tianyu instantly narrowed his gaze as he fiercely snapped his fan shut and slapped the incoming attack away.
At the exact same time, Bai Bing’s icy blue eyes narrowed sharply as her Nirvana Phoenix Fire Physique erupted instinctively to the incoming attack to form a dancing blue fire wall directly in front of her.
The masked cultivator’s black Qi violently crashed into their hastily erected defenses, creating a massive, deafening explosion that instantly shattered the dirt ground beneath them and forced both Bai Bing and Song Tianyu to aggressively jump backward to avoid the blast.
"Finally, you cowards can actually move!" the masked man sneered as he landed back on the stage right across from them.
"There is no need for you to be so hasty," Song Tianyu shook his head as he looked at the masked guy.
"But since you are so eager to taste defeat, I will gladly accommodate you, brother," Song Tianyu declared coldly, his eyes completely losing their polite warmth as he fiercely slashed his silver fan through the air, sending three highly compressed, razor-sharp blades of wind Qi flying directly at the masked man’s neck.
Bai Bing didn’t even bother with the frivolous talk as she instantly synced her attacks with Tianyu, elegantly drawing a thin, incredibly sharp crystal sword from her spatial ring before she slashed it forward, executing the Bai Clan’s ’Frost Phoenix Slash’ to send a massive, screeching bird of pure, freezing ice hurtling toward the masked cultivator.
"Yes! Give it to him Master Tianyu!"
"How dare he sneak attack my dear Tianyu?!"
"Young master Tianyu... I love you!"
The girls in the crowd cheered as Song Tianyu finally made his move. His fan following in the town was actually much more than the beautiful Bai Bing.
As the terrifying shockwaves of wind and ice aggressively clashing against the masked man’s dark energy, it completely overshadowed the measly brawls happening on the other two platforms.
Gu Fan leaned forward slightly from his spot at the back of the crowd, his sharp eyes meticulously tracking every single movement on Stage Three because he was incredibly keen to figure out the masked guy’s true identity.
’Who the fuck is this guy?’ Gu Fan thought to himself, narrowing his eyes in deep concentration since the plot was officially derailing again, ’I absolutely did not write an overpowered, masked rogue cultivator entering the tournament in the early Chapters, so this bastard has to be someone entirely new, or a character whose timeline was drastically altered because of my actions.’
’But why does he feel so familiar?!’
Meanwhile the masked man didn’t even try to dodge the incoming wind blades or the massive ice phoenix, but instead crossed his arms over his chest in an ’X’, allowing his pitch-black Qi to harden into a dense, metallic armour around his body just before the attacks hit.
The razor-sharp wind blades violently sparked against his dark armour, completely failing to pierce his skin, while the massive Frost Phoenix fiercely crashed into his chest and instantly exploded into a blinding cloud of freezing mist, but as the mist cleared, the masked man was still standing perfectly still without a single scratch on him.
’He just tanked a combined attack from two Origin Realm expert without even taking a step back,’ Gu Fan analyzed internally with a highly amused smirk, thoroughly enjoying the spectacle.
’Is he stronger than the two of them, or does he cultivates a high-tier body refining art.’
"Is that all the power the great local geniuses can muster? Pathetic!" the masked man laughed crudely, stomping on the stone floor before he launched himself at Song Tianyu, moving with incredibly terrifying speed that left deep cracks in the blood-stone tiles. Even Gu Fan’s eyes could not keep track of his move.
And before anyone could understand where the masked guy went, Song Tianyu had already thrust his glowing silver fan forward to parry the incoming assault, but the masked cultivator ignored the weapon and ruthlessly punched his fist directly through the silver wind barrier around him, slamming his dark-Qi-infused fist directly into Song Tianyu’s chest.
"Ughhh!" Song Tianyu coughed up a mouthful of blood as the brutal, bone-crushing impact violently launched him backward, sending the noble genius skidding painfully across the rough stone platform until he barely managed to stop himself near the absolute edge.
Seeing her "temporary ally" take a massive hit, Bai Bing fiercely lunged forward with her crystal sword, as she ruthlessly aimed aimed her thrust directly at the back of the masked man’s neck. freewebnøvel.com
However, the masked cultivator didn’t even turn around as he casually reached his hand backward, easily catching the sharp blade of the crystal sword right in his bare palm with a loud, metallic clink.
"How...?!" Bai Bing’s eyes widened in unadulterated shock because her sword was laced with extreme Frost Qi that should have instantly frozen his arm solid, but his pitch-black energy completely repelled the ice, and before she could even try to pull her weapon away, the masked man yanked the blade away.
This threw Bai Bing completely off her feet, and using the momentum of her own sword, and as she flew helplessly toward him, he ruthlessly delivered a heavy, spinning backhand strike directly across her beautiful face, violently knocking the Ice Fairy out of the air so she crashed heavily onto the stone platform right next to Song Tianyu.
Silence! Pin drop silence!
The entire town square went completely dead silent as the massive crowd watched in absolute, terrifying disbelief.
The two most highly regarded, incredibly talented geniuses of Poison Valley Town were both completely defeated and heavily bleeding on the floor, and they had barely managed to last three exchanges against this unknown, brutal monster.
On the other hand, the masked cultivator stood tall in the centre of Stage Three, effortlessly tossing Bai Bing’s crystal sword onto the ground before he slowly turned his head to look directly at the sect elders looking down on the stage.
"Do I need to show you more?"
