Facing everyone's envious, jealous, and hateful gazes, Lu Yifeng thoroughly enjoyed it. "Damn it, you bunch of useless guys, go ahead and look up to me with your envious, jealous, and hateful eyes."
"Lu Yifeng, you can tell us your conditions now. As long as it's within the scope of our Alchemy Guild, we will do our best to meet them!" the judge in the middle said with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Lu Yifeng looked at the judges in the center and said, "My condition is that I want to marry someone from the Jade Cloud Pavilion..."
Before Lu Yifeng could finish speaking, Liu Xiaoyuan suddenly called out, "Wait!"
Liu Xiaoyuan's shout was very loud and abrupt, instantly interrupting Lu Yifeng's words. Lu Yifeng immediately looked over in the direction of the sound.
Not only did Lu Yifeng focus his attention on Liu Xiaoyuan, but everyone else did as well.
Nobody knew why Liu Xiaoyuan suddenly stopped. Did he want to challenge Lu Yifeng?
"What do you think this kid is trying to do? Has he gone mad?"
"Who knows? I think this kid's brain is probably full of water. Tell him to wait a minute, or the people from the Alchemy Guild might throw him out."
"Do you think he might be trying to challenge Lu Yifeng?"
"What a joke! With his cowardly appearance, he dares to challenge Lu Yifeng? It's an absolute joke."
Liu Xiaoyuan didn't care at all about the ridicule, treating everyone's words as nonsense.
"What do you want, cultivator?" the judge in the middle asked, pointing at Liu Xiaoyuan. He felt that Liu Xiaoyuan must have something to do, which was why he asked him to wait.
Liu Xiaoyuan immediately jumped to the front of the stage, clasped his hands in a fist and said, "I don't think Lu Yifeng has the ability to be a champion!"
As soon as Liu Xiaoyuan uttered his words, the onlookers below immediately erupted in anger. "What kind of talk is that?"
"Hey kid, you say Lu Yifeng doesn't have the ability to be a champion, but do you think you do?"
"Stop talking the talk, kid. If you're so tough, why don't you have a match with Lu Yifeng? I bet you're too scared. You're afraid of losing everything, like you'll be stripped of your pants. That would be so embarrassing."
"Haha... Kid, that's the funniest joke I've ever heard. Kid, could it be that you can refine pills yourself?"
None of the people below believed that Liu Xiaoyuan could refine pills, so they all activated their mocking skills and hurled all sorts of nasty words at him.
“Young man, don’t be so arrogant. This is not a place for you to act recklessly. I advise you to take back what you just said, or you will lose badly.” Lu Yifeng’s grandfather immediately stood up to defend his grandson.
Those who enjoy watching the spectacle like to talk a lot, but as for getting them to take action, sorry, that's not their forte; they won't do it.
Liu Xiaoyuan looked at Lu Yifeng's grandfather and said, "What's said is said, and it's like spilling water on someone's back. I'm not like some people who would give their alchemy cauldrons to their grandsons so that they could win the alchemy competition. That's really unscrupulous!"
Such things are permitted, but everyone knows it in their hearts and no one talks about it. It would be too embarrassing to bring it up in public.
Now that Liu Xiaoyuan has brought this matter to the forefront, Lu Yifeng and his grandson feel utterly humiliated.
"Kid, what are you doing causing trouble? This is the Alchemy Guild's territory, not a place for you to run wild," Lu Yifeng said righteously, pointing at Liu Xiaoyuan.
One of the judges from the Alchemy Guild looked at Liu Xiaoyuan, his face turning ugly. "You little brat, you've got some nerve, haven't you? What kind of place is my Alchemy Guild? How dare you come here and cause trouble?"
"Boy, get down here right now, this is not a place to run wild."
"Hurry up! If you don't go down now, don't blame us, the Alchemy Guild, for using force. Go down now!"
The two judges next to him said in an unfriendly tone that they believed Liu Xiaoyuan was there to cause trouble.
Liu Xiaoyuan said with a smile, "I'm not here to cause trouble. I want to challenge Lu Yifeng's alchemy skills."
As soon as Liu Xiaoyuan uttered his words, an uproar erupted below. Was this guy out of his mind? He actually wanted to challenge Lu Yifeng?
"Wow, he's really going to challenge Lu Yifeng? Is he out of his mind? Lu Yifeng is the champion, and he wants to challenge Lu Yifeng? Do you think this guy is crazy?"
"Maybe he really is talented. If he wins, everyone will know about him. Even if he loses, he'll still become famous this way."
"Holy crap! Isn't this the kind of hype the entertainment industry uses? It's disgusting. They'd use such underhanded tricks to become famous."
Standing on the stage, Jiang Qingming looked at Liu Xiaoyuan with surprise. He thought that Liu Xiaoyuan was just asking for trouble by challenging Lu Yifeng.
"Haha..." Lu Yifeng laughed heartily and asked, "You said you want to challenge me?"
Liu Xiaoyuan glanced at Lu Yifeng and said, "Of course I'm going to challenge you. To be honest, dealing with trash like you is the easiest thing in the world!"
When Lu Yifeng heard Liu Xiaoyuan call him trash, he was so angry that his face turned ashen. How could he be trash? He was the champion of this alchemy competition.
A champion—that's a title so many people dream of, but now, in the mouth of this nobody, it's become as worthless as trash.
"Kid, talking big is useless. If you're so capable, have a match with me. Do you dare?" Lu Yifeng decided to teach Liu Xiaoyuan a lesson and let him know how powerful he was.
Liu Xiaoyuan said calmly, "Even if you hadn't told me, I would still have challenged you. Do whatever you want, I'll take it."
Lu Yifeng wasn't afraid at all when he saw Liu Xiaoyuan's arrogance, because in Lu Yifeng's view, Liu Xiaoyuan's behavior was completely reckless and courting death.
"Kid, if you lose, you'll bark like a dog in front of everyone." Lu Yifeng decided to teach Liu Xiaoyuan a lesson.
Moreover, it made Liu Xiaoyuan lose face in front of so many people.
Liu Xiaoyuan readily agreed, saying, "No problem, I agree to everything. But if you lose, you have to kneel on the ground and bark like a dog, and you also have to give up your championship title."
Lu Yifeng was full of confidence in his alchemy skills. After hearing Liu Xiaoyuan's words, he immediately nodded and said, "No problem, there is absolutely no problem with that!"
"Three judges, what do you think? This is your Alchemy Guild's territory, so we need your approval," Liu Xiaoyuan said to the three judges.
The people below were astonished by Liu Xiaoyuan's audacity in speaking to an alchemist from the Alchemy Guild in such a manner. They admired his courage, for they themselves would never dare to speak to an alchemist from the Alchemy Guild like that.
(End of this chapter)
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