C26 Wager

The Heavenly Desolate Martial Meet was a gathering that everyone was so proud of. During this period of time, not only were the elite disciples from the various families in the surrounding cities participating, they also attracted the martial practitioners from the surrounding cities to come watch the event.

Of course, other than these, there was also the fact that the of the Tianhuang City and the winnings sent out by the three great families were extremely attractive; they were held only once every three years, so every session was always very grand.

Because the Zhou Family had produced Zhou Kuang, whose talent had reached the sixth level, the three great families had joined forces with the other two families to force City Lord's Mansion to prepare a prize that was far better than the past. Although City Lord's Mansion was not willing to suffer such a loss, once they thought that their family was one of the organizers, they could only pinch their noses and accept it.

Hong Ling brought Canfeng to the plaza at the center of the Tianhuang City and looked at the bustling crowd, a hint of admiration flashing past his eyes. This Tianhuang City, was only one of the side cities in the Chu, yet with a population of a million, it truly shocked that person.

It had to be known that even in his previous life, an ordinary city would have a population of no less than one million, but this Fringe City actually had so many people.

The master and servant walked to the side of the stage in the center of the plaza, showing their identity tokens, and quickly entered the heavily guarded martial arts arena. A huge open-air martial arts practice battle stage appeared in front of them, and on the thirty meters wide battle stage, there were many weapon racks, blades, spears, swords, halberds, hammers, iron rods, and all sorts of weapons.

Hong Ling led Canfeng to look, and then brought him to the spectator stand where the City Lord's Mansion s were. Lian Chengyu had already led the people representing the City Lord's Mansion s to battle, and quietly sat on the stand, and upon seeing the two of them walking over, he immediately stood up with a smile, and brought the two master and servant over.

Hong Ling's talent in cultivation had already been concealed under Lian Chengyu's intentional manipulation. Even the spies of the three great families were unable to determine the talent of the people who were participating in the competition, but even though they were unable to see through everyone's talent, their cultivation was still easily seen through.

Hong Ling met with the people from the City Lord's Mansion and greeted them, then did not speak anymore. He was not good at handling such situations, so he could only sit quietly and watch other people's performance.

No matter what, City Lord's Mansion was the only power within the family. But the three great families actually did not give face at all, and deliberately caused City Master Lian's face, this was truly a bit too much.

Fortunately, although Lian Chengyu had already led the group here, the mayor had not come to spectate. Hong Ling could carefully feel the strength of the ten people participating in the City Lord's Mansion, and the expression in his eyes slowly became heavy.

Amongst these ten people, there were four who were in the early stage of Essence Refinement into Qi, three in the middle stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi, two in the late stage, and one who was in the great perfection stage. And the cultivator who was in the great perfection stage, was none other than Lian Chengyu's maid, the Zhihuo who came to the pavilion at the center of the lake with a silver platter.

With regards to whether or not Hong Ling managed to smoothly break through the middle stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi, Lian Chengyu actually did not have much hope of success. After all, when he first met this person, this youth had only just consolidated his early stage Essence Refinement into Qi.

But what he did not expect was that Hong Ling actually only used two Sky Desolation Qi Pills to break through, which surprised him a lot.

The Desolate Heaven Transforming Pill was profound, but that was only for those with low talent. Generally, those with only a 1-3 level of cultivation would be able to smoothly break through a level after taking a single Desolate Heaven Transforming Pill.

The higher the level of talent one had, the more one wouldn't be able to breakthrough simply by relying on a single Heaven Desolate Qi Pill. With the level seven martial cultivation talent that Hong Ling had shown, two Heaven Desolate Qi Pills were actually able to help him break through a level.

"Young City Lord, why is there no one from the three great clans? The Desolate Heavenly Martial Meet is about to begin!" A participating cultivator could not help but ask.

Lian Chengyu snorted in dissatisfaction, his eyes filled with killing intent.

"Hmph, these three great families, along with the growth of their own strength over the past few years, have become more and more dismissive of my City Lord's Mansion. Do they really think that just by relying on these three small clans, they can resist my City Lord's Mansion?"

Lian Chengyu's voice was not soft, but as the Young City Lord and a cultivator of the early stage of Qi Refinement into Spirit, naturally, no one would dare to warn him to restrain himself.

"The young city lord seems to be in a bit of a rage today!"

A loud and arrogant taunt sounded out. The people on Lian Chengyu's side looked towards the direction of the voice, only to see that the crowd in the plaza had been split apart. A group of people slowly walked over.

The leader of the group was none other than the Zhou Clan Head, a cultivator at the peak of the Qi Refinement into Spirit. Beside him were the Wan Family and the Zhang Clan Head.

Although his strength was weaker than the patriarchs of the three great families, he still had a lot of arrogance. Furthermore, his father, Lian Chenglie, was the city lord of Tianhuang City, and his Authentic Qi cultivation had already reached the realm of the Refinement Realm, so he was naturally not afraid of these people.

"The three great families have such big airs and they actually want the people from my City Lord's Mansion to wait bitterly. Could it be that the seniors of the three great families are not willing to teach us well and made the patriarchs forget that they are also the initiators of the Heavenly Desolate Martial Tournament?!"

The patriarchs of the three great families frowned. Even though they were Lian Chengyu's seniors, everyone was in the Qi Refinement into Spirit realm, so even though they were dissatisfied, they couldn't do anything about it.

Lian Chengyu's tone of voice really was lecturing them, but they absolutely did not dare to offend him at this moment.

Other than Lian Chengyu's innate talent, it was also because Lian Chengyu's father, Lian Chenglie, was a genuine great cultivator that had yet to reach the peak of the Spirit Refinement realm. With a cultivation level like this, even the Zhou Family's Zhou Kuang who was at the sixth stage of the Martial Dao would not dare to say that he would be able to step into this realm in the future.

Sometimes, talent was just a reference, but it was definitely not all of it. There were some people with very weak talent in this world, and their final achievements were not inferior to the Unique Aristocrat s. No one was sure if Lian Chengyu would be able to progress further in the future.

Even though the three great families had sent out Zhou Kuang, in the end, they still lacked the highest level of combat power like Lian Chenglie. Therefore, they were still not confident enough to face off against City Lord's Mansion.

The reason they had come this time, was mainly to slap their faces with City Lord's Mansion. As for everything else, they would wait until Zhou Kuang grew up.

The patriarchs of the three families looked at each other, although they could see the anger in each other's eyes, they did not refute Lian Chengyu's words. After all, they had taken their pride and wronged first, if they still dared to argue with Lian Chengyu, then they would probably provoke Lian Cheng Lie who was somewhere else.

At that time, perhaps Lian Chengliang would directly kill Zhou Kuang and let their hopes burn down.

"Young City Lord, there's no need to talk too much. The reason why we're here to participate in the Heavenly Desolate Martial Tournament is for the future path of martial arts for the disciples of various families. I wonder if the City Lord's Mansion has prepared a good prize today?"

The Wan Family Patriarch directly opened his mouth, interrupting Lian Chengyu's plan to continue questioning about the culprit, causing him to uncontrollably scold the old cunning fox in his heart.

Lian Chengyu did not reply, he casually clapped his hands, and immediately, an old man walked out from behind him. With a wave of his hand, he retrieved a jade slip and placed it on the tray of the female servant.

"My Young Lord is very optimistic about the juniors from this year's Heavenly Desolate Martial Conference. Hence, she ordered someone to prepare a high grade Profound Rank martial skill, the《 Dragon's Cry Sword Art》 that is stored within the City Lord's Mansion treasure pavilion."

After the old man finished speaking, he took the tray from the maid and slowly walked to the side of the three family heads, bowing slightly.

"Patriarchs, please take out your winnings. As one of the deacons of this Heavenly Desolate Martial Conference, I must collect all the winnings first!"

As the Patriarchs of the three families looked at the old man that was slowly walking over, their eyes were filled with shock. This old man was obviously a grand cultivator that still needed to refine his soul.

"My Zhang Clan is willing to produce a high grade Profound Rank movement technique. It's the Fish Dragon Steps that my Zhang Clan bought at a hefty sum of money!"

"My Wan Family is willing to produce a Superior Grade Profound Ranked Palm Technique. This is a precious《 Water Palm Technique》 that we have collected for our Wan Family!"

"My Zhou family is willing to come up with a secret art. It's the newly acquired 'Heavenly Desolation Flame Mantra'!"

Hearing that, Lian Chengyu instantly stood up, and looked at the Zhou Family Patriarch angrily.

"What does the Zhou family mean by this? Are they just taking out an unknown secret skill to scare people?"

The Zhou family's patriarch was not angry, but he slowly stood up. He looked at Lian Chengyu from a distance, and a look of contempt flashed past his eyes.

"Young City Lord, my Zhou family's « Heaven Desolation Flame Mantra » was obtained from an ancient monument. Even the Tianhuang City's appraisal grandmaster was unable to determine its rank. Plus, this is a secret art, could it be that the Young City Lord thinks that this auspicious item isn't comparable to your Dragon's Cry Sword Technique? "

Lian Chengyu snorted coldly, his face full of ridicule.

"Patriarch of the Zhou Family, as far as I know, your Zhou Family's secret technique, the" Heavenly Desolate Flame Transformation Art ", has yet to be mastered by anyone. Your Zhou Family has brought out this kind of trash secret technique, could it be that they're just trying to fool us?"

The leader of the Zhou family had a murderous look on his face. His original intention was to bring out this trashy secret skill. Once Zhou Kuang became the champion of the Heavenly Desolate Martial Conference, he would be able to obtain all the prizes without any cost.

It was a pity that this Lian Chengyu was very troublesome and did not want to lose out. Fortunately, he was already prepared.

"Since Young City Lord thinks that my Zhou Family's secret technique is not worthy of your City Lord's Mansion's《 Dragon's Cry Sword Art》, then how about this old man take out another piece of Meteorite Mystical Iron and use it as the prize for this Martial Arts Competition?"

Lian Chengyu snorted coldly as he watched the Zhou Family Patriarch take out a piece of meteorite that was the size of a watermelon and place it on the plate. Then, he sat back down.

Meteor Mystical Iron was a very rare material for forging weapons. In terms of value, it was still lower than other high-grade Profound Ranked martial skills. However, it was enough with an unknown rank secret technique.

"Young City Lord, in this competition between our three great clans and your City Lord's Mansion, I wonder how we'll split the spoils?"

The Zhang Clan Head stood up and directly asked. The Patriarch of Wan Family on the side also stood up. Obviously, he was cheering for the Zhang Family Patriarch.

"I wonder what the two Patriarchs think?" Lian Chengyu squinted his eyes and asked coldly.

These two patriarchs had already secretly allied with the Zhou Family to work together to fight against his City Lord's Mansion, causing him, a Young Lord of the Tianhuang City, to be very unhappy.

"Young master, that's not the case. Among the Four Great Clans, the person who obtains the champion spot has two choices, and the person who obtains the top spot has two, three, four. I wonder what the young master thinks?"

Lian Chengyu snorted, the people from the three great families had the same fighting strength as the cultivators from his own side, but they were all determined to destroy his side, and then he would split the prize, and even decide on the distribution of the treasures, there was no need to discuss with him.

"Just like what the various Patriarchs have said, it is meaningless for us to say anything more. Let the people under our command compete and see the real deal!" Lian Chengyu said coldly.