CHAPTER 197: BUSTED!

Though he was a person who worked for Lord Yun, it doesn’t matter if he gave him a fair price and took him away for himself, right?

Since the first day Mo Ling Yuan faced Bai Yunxian, he felt as if he knew him from a long time ago. His cold demeanor that was only directed towards Mo Ling Yuan was especially drawing and exciting.

Or not?

That’s right, it was actually the second time in his life that he felt his hidden nature get completely exposed.

An unspeakable thirst to get closer to him engulfed Mo Ling Yuan, but it wasn’t easy at all breaking that ice shell around him and getting through.

Bai Yunxian didn’t give him a chance to do so, always feeling an indescribable disgust that no one ever showed him before Yun Shu.

Later Mo Ling Yuan understood what he felt at that time, it wasn’t contempt, but jealousy and hate.

However, what’s done was still done. He can’t turn it the other way around.

’If it’s like this, then why not persist until the end and ruin everything?’

***

Bai Yunxian felt refreshed after a good bath, sitting at the window side as he sipped on peeping hot tea.

Day of the Martial Arts Tournament.

Now that the tyrant kings are gone, it’s time for small shrimps like them to commit mischiefs, isn’t it?

Naturally, the arena and the whole area was crowded, bustling with people. Feng Shao and his entire group was also present in the arena, waiting for the guests to come and start the competition. Since the prestigious noble lords and Martial Artists like Yun Shu weren’t going to participate this year, naturally their encouragement died down a little. Because Feng Shao has been dreaming of fighting with the Lord of the Yun’s for a long time.

Just an exchange of blows would be enough for him, he didn’t even care about fighting properly. But it seems his fate was truly cruel, just the year when he finally got to participate in the match, Yun Shu quit.

And now the more crowded and bustling this place was becoming, the more irritated he felt. Even his junior brothers fighting over nothing wasn’t cute anymore.

From what he heard from Ren Jie, it seems that recently, the Nine Hall Palace has announced their successor, the new palace master. What’s more, he is going to participate in this competition?

If it’s the Nine Hall Palace Master, then he must be strong, right? Enough to rival the Martial Clans lords and Fifth master Yun?

If it was like that, then he couldn’t possibly miss the chance to fight with him!

Even if no one knows what he looks like, if it’s a man or a woman, or which origin the person came from, what does it matter?

He just needs to find out their identity and challenge them!

As Feng Shao was procrastinating over his new found spirit, his eyes fell into something that dazzled him for the worst. For real, the girl in red clothing stood out the most even within the crowd despite her attempt in mingling in.

Not that she cared anyway, because her eyes were constantly searching for something, like a needle in a haystack.

"Come on, where is that guy... I can’t believe I can’t find him... it should be easy..." Yun Shu mumbled as she stood in the corner, under a shed that she found while looking for Bai Yunxian.

Even if he wouldn’t be able to detect her, Yun Shu could tell it’s him at a glance. Since she didn’t find him, that means he hasn’t arrived yet.

Chill, Yun Shu sat in the shed and waited for the competition to start. She will also get inside the forest to observe and protect him in dire situations. Aside from that, she wouldn’t help him unless it was too much to bear, after all, it’s about time he became stronger and learned to rely on himself.

Even if Bai Yunxian was experienced from his previous lives, he didn’t have the skills and powers to use and utilize his ideas into reality. And the forest will help him with these things. The dense spiritual area deep inside the forest was the best place for him to gather spiritual power and cultivate to the next stage, that’s why Yun Shu especially sent him to this place.

He was at the peak of the foundation stage, it won’t take much time for him to reach the Core Formation Stage. Anyway, right now he was gathering all his subordinates and gaining powers, it was an ideal time for him to grow stronger. Because those Martial Artists were prideful there is no way they would take someone who was weaker than them as their master.

If he failed to get their recognition as the true master of the domain, then Bai Yunxian would fall from grace and suffer unimaginable consequences. Even if Yun Shu was strong enough to protect his body, this would take a toll on his psychological progress.

So Yun Shu made the best decision by letting him come here, it’s alright even if he fell, she can just help him stand back on his feet again!

Yun Shu thought as she finally spotted a light purple robe that swayed in the southern breeze, a soft smile made its way to her eyes.

"Finally, there comes my sweet potato..."

***

On the arena,

The elder made his grand entrance by descending from his high grade spiritual device, a seven colored shining feather. And thirteen more teachers, respected elders and Martial masters also took down their flight with various weapons and devices. They would be the judges of this competition and the ones to look over the competitors, so that they would win fair and square.

While they explained the rules of the matches, Yun Shu was bored to death as she continued yawning through the lecture given by them.

The rules were simple, and Yun Shu was also familiar with them after competing for so many years.

"You can gather the precious herbs, hunt the spiritual beasts and take their cores, what powers you use doesn’t matter, you can also snatch each other’s materials that others gathered, but no killing is allowed.

Means that the participants aren’t allowed to kill each other. And the competition will continue for about half a month.

However, if they were to ’accidentally’ lose their way inside the forest and died or left back, it would be only them left to be blamed.

The more they gather the materials, the more points they would gain. Which will decide the next top ten individual who will be sent to the Division wise competition as the representatives.

They did tell them that they can’t kill each other, but actually gave them subtle hints to pick up. Yun Shu pursued her lips as she glared at those wretched old men, they never changed.

However, Yun Shu felt like she didn’t need to worry about anything when she spotted the determination in Bai Yunxian’s eyes. Nah, he was beautiful as ever.

’I hope you’ll be a good boy and persevere, right?’

Even though she knew that Bai Yunxian had the protagonist halo and nothing serious will happen to him, still Yun Shu couldn’t help but worry a little.

Just as she was keenly dissecting him from such a distance with a slightly worried look, she looked up and unexpectedly locked eyes with him.

"Damn! Did I get busted...!"

’What is this? Why is he looking this way? Did he find out or something?’

At first, Yun Shu was worried that she was exposed, but seeing the scowl on his face, her heart rested.

’That’s one serious disguise I took, can’t believe he actually didn’t realise it was me. Well, this is a good thing, let’s not jinx it any further.’

Instead, Yun Shu threw a flirty wink at him, to which Bai Yunxian answered with a scowl and turned his head away.

"What the, I’m feeling seriously offended. How come he looked at me like that? Am I that dislikable in my real outfit? I didn’t think I would actually get dismissed like this. But this is so cute that at least I got to see his increase of expressions." Yun Shu laughed in secret as she wiped non-existent tears from her face.

Maybe, it wouldn’t be bad to tease him whenever she felt bored at times.

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"Hey, the young master over there." A guy with a deflated nose approached Bai Yunxian with a huge fake smile on his face, checking him out subtly with the corner of his eyes.

"..."

Bai Yunxian was silent as he didn’t even bother with answering, his intentions were too obvious for Bai Yunxian to fall for so easily.