Chapter 49: Cold and Lonely Orchid

  Shen Xiang stepped into the 8th layer of the Mortal Martial Realm, his spiritual awareness became even stronger. He could see that there were actually two people in the 7th layer of the Mortal Martial Realm on this martial stage, one of whom was a man wearing golden clothes, looking about twenty years old.

  Another was a white-haired woman, the woman was very beautiful, with soft hair tied in a ponytail, her figure was slender and tall, her face was extremely beautiful, looking mature and beautiful, but she had a cold and proud expression on her face. She wore the same black tight-fitting clothes as Shen Xiang, perfectly outlining her fiery figure, only the quality of that suit was much better than Shen Xiang's.

  The woman was very eye-catching, with her peculiar white hair, mature appearance, fiery figure, absolutely beautiful face, and noble cold temperament, making Shen Xiang unable to help but take a few more glances.

  "Now the rules are announced, and the first round will be held today. You forty people will be divided into eight groups of five each, and then a winner from each group will participate in the final match." An old man shouted, who was the elder of the Medicine Family: "Five people stand on the martial arts stage together to fight, whoever stands on the stage last wins this group."

  The rules are simple: five people fight on the martial arts stage, those who fall off the stage will be eliminated, and the last person standing on the stage wins.

  The elder of the medicine house began to recite some rules for the martial arts competition, mainly allowing the use of despicable tricks and not killing people.

  Then the grouping began, Shen Xiang was not with those two ordinary martial artists, and his group consisted of four men aged 19-20, all of whom were at the peak of the sixth level of the Ordinary Martial Realm, on the verge of a breakthrough. Shen Xiang suspected that this was intentional on the part of the Medicine Clan, in order to have him eliminated in the first round.

  At this time, Shen Xiang also knew the identities of those two ordinary martial artists at the seventh level. The girl's name was Leng Youlan, and she was the daughter of a famous general in Nanwu Country. She was only fourteen years old, but looked very mature, which made Shen Xiang secretly sigh in admiration.

  Another young man named Song Nanming, the emperor's eldest son and the crown prince of South Wu Kingdom, was twenty years old with a strength at the seventh peak of the Mortal Realm. This talent was not bad, but in Shen Xiang's view, compared to Leng Youlan, it was far inferior, because Leng Youlan was only fourteen years old.

  Shen Xiang was the last group and also the most unfair group, because only Shen Xiang was sixteen years old, while the others were all nineteen or twenty. Anyone could see that this was deliberately arranged by someone.

  If it's a one-on-one fight, Shen Xiang has a high chance of getting first place, but in the five-person mixed elimination match, Shen Xiang is very likely to lose.

  If Shen Xiang was still at the 7th level of Mortal Martial Realm, he would have been somewhat worried. But now that he is at the 8th level of Mortal Martial Realm, possessing formidable power, a mere stomp of his foot could make the entire square tremble. With his cultivated divine technique and Five Elements True Energy, his strength was almost on par with the 9th level of Mortal Martial Realm!

  Shen Xiang didn't expect that after breaking through to the 7th level of Mortal Martial Realm, he would enter the 8th level in just a few days. This was all thanks to Bai Youyou's transmission of the Devouring Magic Technique, and now he had deeply understood the charm of this magic technique!

  Shen Xiang stood below the stage, watching the five people fighting on the martial arts platform, observing the martial arts they used. In his piercing eyes, he could clearly see the flow of true energy in their bodies when they performed their martial arts. The most difficult thing to steal from someone's martial arts was the method of manipulating one's internal energy, but Shen Xiang could now discern it with his extraordinary spiritual awareness, allowing him to easily imitate others' martial arts.

  The five people on the stage were all crowded in the middle, no one wanted to be on the edge, once they fell off the stage they would be eliminated. At this time, they were fighting in the middle, and this kind of fight also required a certain amount of strength to last until the end. Sometimes it was even necessary to cope with the attacks of four people, and while resisting, they had to quickly counterattack, which could reveal a person's mastery of martial arts and reaction ability.

  Although the five famous young masters on stage showed off their impressive martial arts skills, which elicited bursts of amazement from the audience below, Shen Xiang looked down on them. Although they were all good, there were too many shortcomings, and he didn't know that they had secretly learned from him.

  The first round ended quickly, the winner was quite strong, with a thick true energy, and could hold on to the end. The other four people were either knocked off the stage or automatically walked down due to exhaustion of their true energy.

  These young men and women were all at the sixth level of the Mortal Martial Realm. In the eyes of many, they were geniuses with formidable strength. However, Shen Xiang knew that the foundation of those young men and women on stage was generally poor, their roots unstable, their true energy not thick enough, not pure enough. Although they had good martial arts skills, they couldn't exert their power, and their application wasn't thorough either.

  "After all, they are all spoiled and pampered, each one is treated as a treasure, who would go through the hardship of practicing martial arts?" Shen Xiang thought to himself, people like him who practice diligently in the middle of the night are not many.

  At this time, it was the turn of Nanwu State's prince, Song Nanming, to take the stage. He was at the seventh level of Mortal Martial Realm, while the other four were only at the sixth level. From the start, two of them were knocked off the stage, and Song Nanming took advantage of his superior strength as a seventh-level Mortal Martial Realm cultivator to quickly knock down the remaining two with his powerful true energy, causing the crowd below to erupt in shock and amazement.

  At this time, it was the turn of the great general's daughter. As soon as Leng Youlan stepped onto the stage, many men's eyes were fixed on her fiery figure. Leng Youlan was wearing a black tight-fitting dress, with a pair of straight and slender legs full of elasticity. She had an appearance that did not match her age, with a mature and enchanting figure, and an aura of cold arrogance emanating from her entire body, making it hard for people to imagine that she was just a fourteen-year-old girl.

  "This girl's aura is very strange!" Shen Xiang frowned and muttered.

  Su Mei Yao said: "This girl is an Ice Fire Pulse, what rank I don't know, she cultivates the true energy should be ice fire true energy, these two kinds of conflicting energies merged together will become so strange, can make people grasp not transparent, if you see her put out a fire, it's very likely that flame can freeze you up, in short this little girl is not simple, you can make friends with her the best."

  Shen Xiang's pupils constricted as he gazed at the seemingly mature and elegant girl on stage, secretly astonished in his heart. Whoever could gain Su Mei Yao's affirmation certainly wouldn't be too bad.

  "Let's start!"

  As soon as the sound fell, everyone saw that Leng Youlan on the martial arts stage suddenly turned into a black shadow, running east and west on the martial arts stage, dragging a long black virtual shadow, with a speed that made people gasp in amazement. The four people on the stage were also stunned.

  Shen Xiang furrowed his brow, and he could barely make out the beautiful yet solemn face of Leng Yu Lan, but it made his eyes extremely tired. The speed was also so fast that it surprised him.

  A loud "bang" was heard, and a person on the stage suddenly flew out. Although everyone couldn't see how that person was knocked down, they knew it must have been done by Cold Youlan, who was as swift as a shadow.

  Shen Xiang saw that it was Leng Youlan who kicked the person down with one foot, with great force, directly kicking him flying.

  Immediately afterwards, there were successive shouts, and Leng Yulan utilized her speed that was too fast for people to see her figure clearly to launch a surprise attack, kicking them off the stage one by one.

  "Ling Yu Lan successfully entered the top eight, next is the last group!" The elder of the Medicine House shouted.

  It's finally Shen Xiang's turn. Everyone knows that Shen Xiang will be facing four ordinary martial realm sixth layer men, all of whom are twenty years old and have been stuck in the ordinary martial realm for many years. Their strength is naturally much stronger than those young boys, which is very unfavorable to Shen Xiang.