"Mu Yan, we're rich!" Huo Kai exclaimed excitedly as he saw Mu Yan return to his seat, holding a bag full of money.
It turns out that before the competition, Huo Kai had placed a lot of bets on Mu Yan to win in order to support his good friend.
Knowing that he was guaranteed to win, Mu Yan naturally bet all his savings without hesitation. With odds of 1 to 10, the two of them won a large sum of money.
Although cultivators should regard money as external possessions, they still need money for elixirs and weapons. Since his own wealth was limited, Huo Kai was so excited to suddenly receive such a large sum of money that he almost jumped for joy.
Mu Yan smiled when he saw the money, silently planning what he should buy when he went down the mountain.
As the matches went by, the audience began to tire of the monotonous gameplay, finding nothing exciting.
Until Li Yao took the stage.
When the host announced the match between Li Yao and Liang Hu, the entire audience erupted in cheers.
"Heavens! Senior Sister Li and Senior Brother Liang! How could they bear to harm each other?"
Wow, is this fate?
"Ahhh! Senior sister! I love you!"
"Senior Brother Liang! You're so handsome!"
The screams and shouts from the fans in the audience were endless, and they were as excited as if they were on the stage themselves.
"Tsk, so the Qingxuan Sect also admires others. I thought everyone looked down on each other and fought against each other." Huo Kai sighed as he looked at the commotion caused by just the two of them.
Mu Yan was already used to it.
Mu Yan is going to watch Li Yao's match closely this time. It's one of the few Foundation Establishment stage matches on the field, so he naturally wants to observe it carefully.
"Nice to meet you." Li Yao extended her hand first and shook hands with Liang Hu opposite her.
It was a perfectly normal action that both sides would do in every match, but it started to look abnormal when Li Yao and Liang Hu did it.
At least in the eyes of those who believe there's something going on between the two, their handshake is seen as a public display of affection.
Each of them covered their little faces, shyly lowering their heads; if you didn't know better, you'd think it was them who were being shaken.
"Now, I declare the match officially open!" The referee, seeing that both players were ready, promptly announced the start of the match.
At first, neither of them moved, waiting for the other to make the first move.
But this stalemate couldn't go on forever, and in the end, Li Yao couldn't hold out any longer and took the initiative to launch an attack.
With a sudden movement, she sent out a vine from her left hand and lashed out at Liang Hu.
Liang Hu reacted quickly, raising his sword to block the rattan cane.
Then he began to mobilize the true energy in his body, guiding it into the sword, gradually forming a vortex of energy, and then swung it towards Li Yao.
The cyclone, carrying a trace of lightning, flew rapidly toward Li Yao.
Li Yao tried to dodge to the right, but when she realized that the cyclone was chasing her, she covered herself with vines while running.
Gradually, a green barrier was formed, isolating the cyclone from the outside. However, the cyclone shattered the barrier the moment it hit it, and she was also slightly affected, her hair becoming somewhat disheveled.
But since Li Yao was able to reach the Foundation Establishment stage, she naturally had her own special abilities. She kept circling around Liang Hu and launching attacks, but Liang Hu blocked them all.
Liang Hu was also wondering what she was doing; her strength shouldn't be like this.
Sure enough, the next second, a green vine wall suddenly rose up around the circle where Liang Hu was located.
Liang Hu raised his sword and slashed with all his might, but found that the vine was very flexible, and if not handled properly, the attack would return to him.
But he remained calm and composed, conjuring a fireball in his hand and smashing it onto the vines, instantly igniting the entire vine.
Liang Hu was caught in the blaze and was instantly engulfed by the fire, disappearing without a trace.
"Wow, Senior Brother Liang is really skilled and daring, he really dares to do it."
"Won't Senior Brother Liang be burned alive by his own fire?"
"Senior Sister Li is amazing! She's so talented! I wish I could be like her."
"Huh, when exactly did Senior Brother Liang appear? I don't remember." A disciple's murmur was mixed with shouts, so weak that it was almost inaudible.
After Liang Hu disappeared, the people below began to whisper among themselves.
"Where is he?" Li Yao asked, looking at Liang Hu who had suddenly disappeared from the fire.
"Junior sister, I'm behind you."
Suddenly, Liang Hu appeared behind Li Yao and gently patted her back.
But in that one shot, Li Yao knew she had lost. In just a second, she forced a smile, turned around, and said with a smile, "Senior brother, your charm is as undiminished as ever!"
"You flatter me," Liang Hu replied with a smile.
"Li Yao versus Liang Hu, Liang Hu wins!" The referee announced the result immediately.
Then the crowd erupted in cheers, mostly female disciples, who were shouting Liang Hu's name. Liang Hu responded with smiles to each of them.
Looking at Liang Hu from the sidelines, Mu Yan became even more wary of him. Given his condition, he might be more than just a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Just the fact that he managed to emerge from Li Yao's barrier using fire as his body without being detected by his opponent shows a level of strength that is beyond what a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator could possess.
Mu Yan assumed that the other party had lied about their strength in order to win first place in the competition. Although he still had some doubts, he was sure that the elders could see through it, so he let it go and didn't investigate further.
Meanwhile, the elders continued to discuss the matter.
"Whose disciple is this?" Li Tao asked the elders.
The group looked at each other, but no one replied.
Finally, an elder sitting in the corner, who had just woken up from his sleep, replied, "He is one of my disciples."
When Li Tao saw that someone had claimed the body, he wondered why he didn't remember Liang Hu, but he ultimately attributed it to the fact that there were too many people and Liang Hu was too low-key, so he hadn't noticed him.
The elders glanced enviously at the elder who had claimed Liang Hu was his disciple, then looked away from him.
But Lin Han didn't just rush through things like them. She searched through her memories again and again, but couldn't find anything about Liang Hu at all.
Looking at Liang Hu, who was surrounded by the crowd below the stage, his eyes were filled with an unprecedented solemnity.
"Xiao Meng, I always feel that Liang Hu is too strange." Lin Han looked at Liang Hu and said to Xiao Meng with a frown.
"Yes, it is indeed very strange, but it's not written in the plot, and I don't know anything about it either." Xiao Meng flipped through the entire plot book but couldn't find anyone named Liang Hu, and said helplessly.
"Your storybook is probably not very useful anymore, the plot always fluctuates a lot." Lin Han said casually when she heard that Xiao Meng didn't know either.
Xiao Meng agreed with Lin Han's words. She also didn't think the plot book was that important anymore, since she had never met anyone who could influence the plot more than Lin Han.
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