Emerald city was dominated by the three great families which were the Feng, Li and the Yang family. Of cause it was an undisputable fact that the Feng family was the hegemon of the three.
The strength and the prosperity of a family was solely measured by the amount of core disciples present in the family. For it was difficult to raise disciples to the core level. The core disciples were the pillar and the future of a family.
At the battle arena of the Feng family...
Many of the guests had already arrived and took there best seats in order to see all the fights that were to take place during this day. The inter-clan gathering was a function that took a whole day to reach a completion.
Clamour!!!
Soon everyone seated stood up with faces full of respect and reverence as they all stood straight like statues. Soon the Feng family patriarch and all the higher-ups took large strides and walked up to the higher seats meant for them.
Leading the team, was a man clad in a golden rob who was exuding a cold and majestic presence.
"Is he the Feng family patriarch?"
"Of cause he is the renown strongest person in Emerald city. Even the city lord has to talk with a face full of respect in front of him."
"Lower your voices lest a disaster falls upon you. Don't implicate us in the search for doom."
Numerous murmurs could be heard from the attendees of the inter-clan gathering. The Feng family higher ups went straight to their allocated area and took their respective seats.
"Old Feng...this old man hopes he is not that impolite to have come a little bit late." Immediately, a loud voice echoed as a group of individuals made their way to the front.
Leading the group of elders was a middle aged man. He was the Li family patriarch Li Qian. He was exuding a very mysterious air around him which was coupled by a very cold aura that made him seem too dangerous in all rounds.
"He he old Li is as funny as he grows older. welcome to my Feng mansion. excuse our lacking hospitality at the moment. Have a seat at your place of order as usually old friend Li." Feng Tian politely said.
Listening to the exchange of words between the two old monsters, their is a hidden animosity that couldn't be noticed as the two had exchange words with faces full of smiles.
"Old Feng, why is it that i don't see your Li'er anywhere close. Is he busy cultivating in your family secret chambers?" Li Qian asked with a mocking tone.
"My Li'er is in my mansion, he will be here shortly." Feng Tian answered with a smile still hanging on his face.
Suddenly clamours and disturbance erupted from the crowd as hidden mocking sounds could be heard. Right at this moment, a youth clad in a red robe appeared. He was walking side by side with a blue robed girl. The girl was extremely beautiful her long black hair which were unpinned were left hanging on her back as her slightly large and blue eyes were looking at the young youth walking beside her with a smile on her face.
"Is that handsome youth the Feng family young master Feng Li who is alleged to be a crippled who cannot cultivate in his entire life?"
"Yes he's the alleged young master. Watch what you say. You might lose your head and start complaining to me."
Numerous words were being thrown out loudly. Feng Li could hear each and every word being uttered but he was too lazy to even turn his head to look at those useless individuals in the first place. Soon he reached in front of the arena and politely greeted the higher ups from all the three big families and went to sit next to his mother. Of course, Feng Xue followed behind.
"Since everyone is here, i would like to take this opportunity to call upon all the young warriors from all the three families to step forward and stand on the battle arena." The Feng family elder responsible for the inter-clan gathering said out loudly.
As soon as the words fell on the crowd, numerous young warriors ranging from 5 years up to 14 years of age took their positions on the battle arena.
"Old Feng, don't tell me you plan to hide your son from participating in the battles today. He after all is the direct descendant from the linage of patriarchy. He should be representing the family in the battles in honor and glory. what do you think old Feng?" The Li family patriarch said slowly.
The words spoken by the Li family patriarch were not an exaggeration at. Since Feng Li was the patriarch's son, then he ought to take part in the battles no matter what.
"Dont worry about that old Li." Feng Tian said with a smile hanging on his face. He was nervous as he turned his head to look towards Feng Li's direction. What he saw made him so speechless.
Feng Li was silently sitting as his eyes were closed. He appeared like as though he was not concerned about any mundane affairs at all. No matter how much he tried to look at his son, he couldn't find any trace of divine qi which could otherwise lessen his worries.
How could Feng Tian a nascent soul master see through Feng Li's cultivation which was cloaked by the number three supreme treasure- the divine pagoda?
Suddenly, Feng Li stood up and took Feng Xue's small hand and slowly begun walking towards the battle arena. Feng Tian was taken aback and he suddenly wanted to make a move into stopping Feng Li. But next he was welcomed by an assuring smile from Feng Li which made him relax. Though he was not able to tell why his mortal son was so confident but he chose to relax.
Together with Feng Xue, he went to the middle of the battle arena and stood there. He stood straight like a statue as he tightly closed his eyes.
"I thought you weren't going to step on the battle arena all this time, seeing you here makes me so happy. I will defeat the two of you and humiliate the Feng family as i make their young master kneel before me. How wonderful." The little girl was non other than Li mei from the Li family.
Feng Xue did not bother to evel look at her as he slowly opened her lips and uttered one word.
"Stupid!"
Then she slowly turned towards Feng Li and got a bit closer and stood an inch away from him and she too closed her eyes.
"You..! i will make you pay for this." Li Mei angrily retorted as she left.
"He's but a mortal, how does he attract that young girl and i cannot." Standing at a distance, Feng Bu said as he tightly clenched his fist.
"Since all the warriors are on the battle arena, we shall not make you wait any longer. This year's event will be a bit different. There shall be two rounds, the elimination and the final round. In the elimination round, all of you will have to fight to remain on the battle arena to the end. The remaining ten on the arena will have qualified for the final round. Remember that... willful killing is not allowed. Now the inter-clan gathering is officially on." The Feng family grand elder said.
Suddenly groups of two, three and four were formed. Feng Xue together with Feng Li still had there eyes closed.
Boom!
Suddenly the first round which was the elimination round officially begun as booming sounds started. just as the fight begun, several figures were seen flying out of the battle arena while blood was oozing out of their mouths.
Feng Xue opened her eyes at this moment only to see three figures running towards their direction while holding swords in front of them. with a closer inspection, she discovered that the strongest of them was just a third level soul transformation master. with a wave of her hand, her blue misty sword appeared as she slashed forward lazily.
Boom!
A large boom was heard as three figures flew out of the arena while covered with blood as there clothes were highly tattered. Feng Xue turned around only to see that Feng Li had his eyes still closed. She lightly smile as she waved her hand and continued attacking while protecting Feng Li.
After some few minutes, only eleven people were left standing on the stage. All were covered with blood, of cause the blood did not belong to them. Only two out of the ten were not covered by blood.
Silence covered the battle arena as all of them were looking at Feng Li. Apparently, he still had his eyes closed as smile hung on his handsome face.
"Feng Xue, why protect such an arrogant fellow who cannot even protect himself. let me eliminate him and in the finals when i take a high position i will remember you."
Boom!
A blue ray of light flashed by catching all of the warriors on the battle arena off guard. suddenly a figure flew out of the battle aren screaming out loudly.
When everyone returned back to there senses, only ten people were left standing on the battle arena. The young man who was just eliminated was a genius from the Li family who wanted to eliminate Feng Li.
"With ten of you standing on the battle arena, i can now announce you as the champions of the first elimination round. Now i will allow you to select numbers from the box containing number lots. Now go on amd select your lots." The grand elder of the Feng family said.
In about a few minutes, everyone had selected their number lots. The rules were simple. Lot number 1 will fight with lot number 10 and number 2 with number 9 and so on. Looking at his slot, Feng Li revealed a smile as he had lot number 3 on him. This meant he was to fight with the one with having lot number 8.
Feng Xue had lot number 2 on her meaning he had number 9 to fight with. Soon this was the fights as per the lot selection:
Li Xiao slot 1 v/s Yang Cheng slot 10
Feng Xue slot 2 v/s Li Mei. slot 9
Feng Li slot 3. v/s Li Wang slot 8
Feng Bu slot 4. v/s Yang Li slot 7
After selecting the number slots, An hours break was give as it was now in the after noon. Feng Li returned to his seat calmly with Feng Xue by his side.
" The Feng family young master is after all a trash, if it wasn't for the girl beside him protecting him, he would have been banged flying out of the battle arena from the very beginning if the elimination round."
Every kind of discussion erupted amongst the battle arena as everyone had there own opinion on the flow of events since the inter-clan gathering begun.
An hour later....
On the battle arena, stood Li xiao on the one edge as Yang Cheng was standing on the other side. Looking at each other they calmly took out there weapons of use. Yang Cheng was a sword wielding master while Li Xiao took out a small dagger.
Li xiao suddenly made his move as he pointed his dagger out slashing towards Yang Cheng. On the tip of the dagger, a silver light was shinning brighlty as it begun expanding. Yang Cheng also slashed forward his sword out as a Scarlett beam of light glimmering on the sword met the incoming dagger head on.
Boom!
The two figures both took several steps back as they stared at each other seriously. In the first collision, they were evenly matched. The two stood out and begun looking at each other.
Boom! Boom!
The two erupted with there full strengths and begun rushing at each other.
"peak third level soul transformation Masters."
The crowd aplouded loudly.