Chapter 199 – The First Beauty

“This matter of participating disciples will require some more wasted time. It’s fine to re-select the fourth and fifth disciples from the selection event, it’s just that in terms of searching and preparation, it might take some more time.” Qin Wuyou more or less helplessly said.

Yun Che suddenly said, “Mistress Qin, just now, Senior Sister said that the ranking of powers in the Ranking Battle is ranked according to the highest ranking of the disciples, not the average ranking, is that true?”

Qin Wuhuang nodded, “Indeed. It’s like saying that if a certain disciple of a power’s personal ranking is number one, and the other two disciples are outside of the top hundred, and another power’s disciple’s personal rankings are clearly number two, three, and four, then the former, is still the first in the power ranking, and the latter can only be relegated to second place. This is because being able to cultivate a top-notch powerhouse is the most important sign of a power’s strength.”

Yun Che smiled and proudly said, “Then, wouldn’t it be enough for me alone to compete on behalf of the Imperial Family? Although Burning Dust, Feng Bufan, and Fang Feilong are not bad, I’m confident that their rankings in the qualifying battle are definitely not higher than mine, and neither are the other disciples within the Xuan Mansion, so since that’s the case, there’s no need to waste any more time summoning other disciples.”

“What …… you said is indeed true, but, the opportunity to participate in the Cangfeng Ranking Battle is after all extremely rare. Regardless of the ranking, being able to personally attend the tournament can be incomparably rewarding for any young Xuanist. Such an opportunity, naturally, cannot be wasted.” Qin Wuyou said.

“I understand this point.” Yun Che said, “If there is enough time, it is indeed possible to re-select the other two participating disciples again, but there are still two days left until the qualifying battle, and time is already a bit tight when we set off now, so it is highly likely that we will be too late in time if we select the disciples and make preparations again. If in case there are any more minor twists and turns on the way, resulting in not arriving at the Heavenly Sword Villa in time, it would be a complete loss.”

“This ……” Yun Che’s words, Qin Wushan was unable to refute.

Yun Che turned to Xia Yuanba and said, “Yuanba, do you want to go to the site of the qualifying battle?”

“Huh? Of course I want to ……!” Xia Yuanba nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice, “When I was very young, I heard Cousin Uncle Sikong talk about the Qualifying Battle, and said that the top young geniuses of the entire empire were gathered there, and that to be able to be present at the Qualifying Battle in person would not be a waste of one’s life. I certainly dreamed of it.”

Speaking here, his complexion darkened again, “However, that kind of place, I’m simply not qualified to enter. I’m only at the Beginning Xuan Realm now, I didn’t feel anything when I was in Liuyun City, but when I arrived at the Cangfeng Xuan Mansion, I realized that this bit of Xuan Power of mine doesn’t even have the qualifications to be at the bottom of the pile, and as for the Qualifying Battles, I wouldn’t dare to hope for them in my life. Brother-in-law, you must cheer up in the qualifying battle and come back with a good ranking, then tell me about what happened over there.”

“No! I refuse, I won’t bother telling you.” Yun Che grinned.

“Uh……,” Xia Yuanba scratched his head.

“If you want to know what a qualifying battle is like, go and see it live yourself.” After Yun Che finished speaking, he said to Qin Wushan, “Mister Qin, I have a selfish request, and I ask Mister Qin to fulfill it. Since there is a high possibility of a delay in choosing the participating disciples again, then the position being empty is also empty for nothing, so how about bringing Yuanba with us?”

Halfway through Yun Che’s sentence, Qin Wushan understood what he was going to say and could only smile bitterly, “This is difficult for me, this kind of thing, there is really no precedent.”

Bringing a disciple who was only at the Junior Xuan realm to participate in the qualifying battle, this was even more “noticeable” than bringing the crippled Feng Bufan and Fang Feilong.

This kind of thing was not proper, it was simply nonsense. To put it mildly, bringing a junior Xuan realm disciple to participate in a qualifying battle where the world’s top juniors gather simply lowers the grade of the entire qualifying battle. It was estimated that before the match even started, all sorts of sarcastic and ridiculing voices would completely drown out the Cang Feng Xuan Fu, and even the entire royal family.

However, Cang Yue did not care about this. In the face of the “lost and found” Yun Che, her entire heart was now tied to him, and after extreme suppression and despair, her emotions were flooded with a huge and incomparable surprise, so what the identity of the Imperial Daughter and what the qualifying battle were all thrown behind Yun Che, and what Yun Che said was what he said: “Master Qin, what Senior Cloud said is correct, if we select disciples again, we will be able to select disciples again, and then we will be able to select disciples again. That’s right, if we select any more disciples, it’s very likely that we won’t be able to catch up with the qualifying battle. Although it would be a little bit of a minor impropriety to bring Yuanba, you have also seen Senior Brother Yun’s strength, he can even easily defeat Burning Jet Dust, and this time, he will definitely be able to represent the Imperial Family and achieve a very good ranking. It’s not excessive at all for Senior Brother Yun to have such a request.”

Once Princess Cang Yue opened her golden mouth, Qin Wu Huan naturally had nothing to say, and could only let out a bitter smile as he said, “Alright, since Your Highness also said so, then there will be no more choosing of another disciple, so bring Yuan Ba with you.”

As he spoke, his heart groaned …… Nima! What is all this ah! Cangfeng qualifying battle is so important, such a serious matter, the original set of three participating disciples in a twinkling of an eye was crippled two, forcing away one, replaced by a strong unexpected, and a weak can not see …… the face of the royal family is a matter of great importance, the whole mess with the same as a child’s play.

Forget about it.

“However, in exchange, Yun Che, I also have two requests.” Qin Wuhuang said with a serious face, “First, Yuanba can go, but his identity can only be the same as ours, an accompanier, not a participant.”

“Good.” Yun Che nodded his head. What he wanted was to fulfill Xia Yuanba’s wish of being able to be there in person. As for allowing him to compete, even if Xia Yuanba really wanted to go up, he wouldn’t allow it. This was because in that arena, Xia Yuanba was simply too weak, and if the other party’s heart was slightly more sinister, it would be possible to seriously injure Xia Yuanba.

“Second.” Qin Wuhuang looked straight at Yun Che and said incomparably seriously, “I hope that your personal ranking …… can enter the top 100 in this qualifying battle! Listen carefully, it’s personal rankings, not power rankings!”

“Ah!” Before Yun Che could respond, Cang Yue had already let out a cry of shock.

In the last Ranking Battle, the Cangfeng Imperial Family’s power ranking was two hundred and twenty-third, but its highest individual ranking was only five hundred and thirty-seven! Such a ranking, if it was any other power, it could be considered honorable, and in one party, it was enough to be called an overlord. But the power of the world’s hall of royalty to obtain such a ranking, can only be reduced to a laughingstock …… and for so many years, has been such a dismal ranking.

Not to mention the personal ranking, is the power ranking into the top 100, are only the Cang Feng emperor has always been the dream, never realized.

And this time, what came out of Qin Wushu’s wounds was for Yun Che to enter the top 100 of the personal rankings!

That is, to kill his way into the top one hundred in the competition of the top young junglers under the age of twenty in the world!

Those who were able to enter the top one hundred were not among the strongest of the strongest. Every single one of them was famous throughout the world, and in the future, they would definitely be able to shake the four seas.

If Yun Che’s personal ranking could really enter the top 100, then the Cangfeng Imperial Family’s power ranking would not only be as simple as entering the top 100, but would most likely directly enter the top 50! It could be described as snowing the previous shame and exhaling.

Qin Wushan would give Yun Che such a goal, but of course, it was not a deliberate attempt to make things difficult or to make things up. Qin Wu Xie was shocked when Yun Che defeated Feng Bu Fan and Fang Fei Long in seconds, and he was even more shocked by the strength that he had just revealed when facing Burning Dust. He had been present at the previous two qualifying battles, and he had more or less understood the strength level of the qualifying battles. With his speculations on Yun Che’s strength, it might actually be possible for him to enter the top 100 individuals!

“Good!” Without thinking, Yun Che directly nodded his head, “I will never let Mistress Qin down.”

“Uh-huh.” Qin Wuhuang nodded happily.

“Yuanba, did you hear that, you can go to the qualifying battle site with us, so don’t be quick to thank House Master Qin and Senior Sister Xue Ruo.” Yun Che smiled at Xia Yuanba.

Their conversation caused Xia Yuanba to have long been excited and overwhelmed, so surprised that he could barely tell east from west and south from north, and his speech was even more shivering, “Thank you, Qin Mansion Lord, and thank you, …… thank you, Senior Sister Xue Ruo, I I I I I …… I really can also go to the …… platoon …… platoon battle??”

“Heh heh heh,” Xia Yuanba’s appearance made Qin WuXian laugh, he beckoned to Yuanba, “Yuanba, come, take a snow eagle with me, let’s set off now.”

“Huh? Good …… good good good!” Xia Yuanba nodded his head in a panic, then followed Qin WuXian towards the biggest giant snow eagle …… With his physique, it wouldn’t be possible for him not to choose the biggest one.

“Senior Brother Yun, let’s go as well …… Little Snow, let’s set off.”

Yun Che and Cang Yue got on the other Giant Snow Eagle, and the two Giant Snow Eagles rose up in the air together, and within a short time, they disappeared far into the sky.

The Giant Snow Eagles rode on the wind, and soon had reached a height of several thousand feet, flying at a high speed, but had flown extraordinarily smoothly. The speed of the two Giant Snow Eagles would deviate after all, and before long, they had already pulled far apart and could not see each other.

“Master Yun ……”

With outsiders on the side, Cang Yue, who had been trying to suppress her emotions, finally let out a delicate cry and tightly hugged Yun Che, hugging him so hard that she didn’t let go for a long time.

“I’m sorry, Senior Sister, for making you worry about me.” Yun Che hugged her soft body back and gently said.

“No, it’s my fault, it’s my own rambling thoughts. I should have trusted you …… to believe that nothing would definitely happen to you.” Lan Xue Ruo closed her eyes and said gently, peacefully and quietly enjoying the warmth of the moment.

“Senior sister ……”

The Giant Snow Eagle let out a joyful roar, and its speed accelerated once again, and without realizing it, they had already flown out of the Cangfeng Imperial City’s range.

This was the second time they had shared a ride on the Giant Snow Eagle. The first time they shared a ride also allowed them to experience their first common affliction. Cang Yue’s emotion towards him had also, from that time onwards, little by little, transformed from mere importance, to a deeper and deeper dependence, and then to an attachment that could not be severed at this moment.

Cang Yue crouched in front of Yun Che’s chest and said quietly: ”Senior Brother Yun, you and Yuanba’s feelings are really good. When he heard the news of your accident, he cried like a child, and when he was bullied, you also fumed to that extent …… You are already like this even though you are not blood brothers, and those elder brothers of mine ……”

Yun Che slightly tilted his head and said with a sentimental feeling, “Yuanba and I grew up together since we were small. When he was small, his physique wasn’t robust, instead it was a bit thin and weak, and at that time, when he was bullied in any way, I would always help him. Later, his physique skyrocketed, while I was found to be congenitally crippled with a Xuan Vein, both inside and outside the family, almost everyone looked down on me, and anyone could bully me at will, at that time, it was Yuanba who was protecting me, and he even cut off his friendship with many playmates who were mocking and bullying me for my sake. In my eyes, in addition to grandpa and my little aunt, he is my only family …… now, I have the ability to protect him, who dares to bully him, I certainly want to make the other party pay many times more.”

“How can it be the only relative, obviously there is also a wife …… hum.” Cang Yue very quietly whispered a sentence, the last soft grunt, suffused with the slightest hint of simple jealousy that only a young girl would have.

“Her?” Xia Qingyue’s absolute immortal face floated in his mind, at the age of sixteen she was already extremely beautiful and flawless, not having seen her for a year and a half, now that she is already seventeen and a half years old, she has inevitably fallen into even more elegance and splendor. Only, although she is his nominal wife, but after all, only belongs to the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace, and does not belong to him. He said in a flat tone, “Although she was not bad to me, or at least never looked down on me, and always tried to maintain my dignity which was fragile and weak at the time, she never treated me as her husband, and it is impossible for her to consider me as her relative.”

In front of a girl, it was best not to talk too much about another girl, not to mention that the other party also had an extremely sensitive relationship with herself. This was something Yun Che naturally understood. He immediately sidetracked the topic and said, “By the way, Senior Sister, have you ever heard of the name Chu Yuechan?”

“Chu Yuechan? You said Chu Yuechan?” Cang Yue’s reaction was unexpectedly strong to Yun Che’s expectations.

“Senior sister knows this name?”

“Of course I know. How many people in the world do not know this name?”

Yun Che: “……”

“Chu Yuechan, the head of the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace’s mighty ‘Ice Cloud Seven Immortals’. Moreover, since more than twenty years ago, she has always been recognized as the number one beauty of the Cangfeng Empire, and is even the number one strongest amongst women of the same age group that no one has surpassed. But her ravishing reputation is far better than her awesome reputation.”

Speaking of “Chu Yuechan”, Cang Yue’s face revealed a lot of emotion and yearning, “Many years ago, people who adored her were spread all over the four seas, and once, in order to get a smile from her, or just to see her, how many people risked their lives to travel to the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace. These people, including Xiao Zong’s current patriarch, also includes the Heavenly Sword Villa’s Zhuang Master …… and even my father, my father saw Chu Yuechan once back then, he could not help himself, and later inherited the throne, and never set up a queen, only because of Chu Yuechan, and even to this day, he often unconsciously recites the ‘Ice Chan Fairy’ name.”

Yun Che’s mouth was slightly open with a dumbfounded expression ……