Chapter 201 – A Gathering of Heroes

After entering the mountain gate, in front of them was a ten-mile long mountain path, and at the end of the path, was where the Heavenly Sword Villa was located. After the seven members of Xiao Zong entered the mountain gate, the speed of their footsteps were consciously deviated, and an increasing distance appeared between each other. Xiao Jietian and Xiao Berserk Rain and Xiao Berserk Thunder walked in front, Xiao Thin Cloud and Xiao Zhen walked in the center, and Xiao Wu Ji and Xiao Nan fell in the back.

Xiao Jie Tian, the master of the Xiao Sect, had four sons, named “Wind, Rain, Thunder and Cloud”, from eldest to youngest, they were Xiao Berserk Wind, Xiao Berserk Rain, Xiao Berserk Thunder and Xiao Berserk Cloud. Xiao Berserk Wind made a name for himself in the ranking battle in the upper realm, while Xiao Berserk Rain was the third in the last term, and was equally powerful. This time, it was the turn of Xiao Maniac Lei, who had just turned twenty, to take the stage. As for the youngest son Xiao crazy cloud, although he is only a month younger than Xiao crazy thunder, the same has reached the age of twenty, but a playboy known to everyone, and then not polite is a full of wine and colorful straw bag, Xiao Zong will not let him come to disgrace.

But in the Xiao clan, Xiao crazy cloud is the most favored, after all, he is Xiao Jietian’s only son born of a legitimate wife.

Xiao Jiantian lightly glanced behind him and said to Xiao Maniac Lei, ”Lei’er, this time, the heavy responsibility of getting rid of the name of ‘thousand year old third’ in the qualifying battle will be given to you. My father doesn’t expect you to defeat Ling Yun, but, with your talent, outside of Ling Yun, there’s no reason for you to lose to anyone …… including Xiao Zhen, of course. He is a tiger who is eyeing to compete with you.”

“My child understands and will not let father and the clan down.” Xiao Maniac Lei nodded his head, a touch of rigidity appearing on his face.

“Yu’er, regarding the matter of the qualifying battle, you will explain it properly with Lei’er again tonight. Also, when the round of sixteen begins, don’t forget to give the ‘Dust Shocking Sword’ to Lei’er, it will be our secret base card for this qualifying battle.” Xiao Jiantian exhorted.

“Don’t worry father, I know how to instruct third brother.” Xiao Manyu said with a faint smile.

In the back, Xiao Thincloud’s words to Xiao Zhen were basically similar. Xiao Boyun’s long eyebrows were slightly slanted, and at a glance, it was clear that his temperament was not very gentle. He said in a low voice, ”Zhen’er, this qualifying battle is your chance to make a name for yourself! Your opponents are not just other sect disciples, but also Xiao Maniac Lei! Back then, I didn’t compete with Xiao Jietian in the sect leader competition, and I could only end up as a Sword Sect Elder, I admit it, but my son, will never lose to his son! You not only have to take second for the Xiao Sect this time, but you also have to defeat Xiao Maniac Lei, so that my father can raise his eyebrows.”

Xiao Zhen nodded heavily, “Don’t worry father, my son will definitely not let his fellow disciples down, and even more so, I will not let my father down.”

As for Xiao Wu Ji’s explanation to his grandson, Xiao Nan, it was much simpler: “Nan’er, bringing you to the ranking battle this time is an opportunity that grandpa managed to fight for with great difficulty, you are still young, breaking into the top ten is basically impossible, but as a disciple of Xiao Sect, you can’t afford to fall any further than the 50th place, you’ve been subconsciously cultivating for such a long time, and this time’s actual battle will be the best training for you that and test of your hard cultivation for this period of time.”

“Yes!” Xiao Nan respectfully answered, then said, “Grandfather, when my child was out of the gate some days ago, I occasionally heard that your old man’s husband that you appointed for Yue Rui …… seemed to be called Xiao Luocheng, had been wasted? Is this matter true?”

“There is indeed this matter.” Xiao Wu Ji nodded his head, but his face was bland, obviously not putting this matter too much on his mind, “Yue Rui’s qualifications are mediocre, her looks and temperament are not outstanding, instead of looking for a ‘phoenix tail’ in the General Sect, it would be better to look for a ‘chicken head’ in the sub-sectors. I’d rather find a ‘chicken head’ in a subclan than a ‘phoenix tail’ in the main clan. Moreover, with her grandfather here, no one in the sub sect would dare to bully her. That Xiao Luocheng, although his qualifications are average, but in Crescent Moon City, he is also considered to be a supreme genius, and if he wasn’t invalidated, he and Yue Rui should have finished their marriage by now.”

“Hmph, if he’s wasted then he’s wasted, he’s only as good as his skin, we have hundreds of sub-sectors in the Xiao Clan, it’s not easy for us to find someone stronger than him. What’s ridiculous is that the people from the Crescent Moon Sub-Sect even said that it was a young man who was only sixteen years old who impersonated the Divine Phoenix Empire’s ‘Evil Heart Sacred Hands’ Huangfu Crane who had wasted Xiao Luocheng, and also stole everything in the sect’s treasure storehouse, simply treating me as a fool fools, it’s really laughable! They obtained a King Xuan Dragon Dan from the Black Moon Chamber of Commerce, even the Black Moon Chamber of Commerce has already admitted it, yet they repeatedly said that it was nothing more than a fake, and in the end, they even took out the Xuan Dan of a sub-Xuan Beast to fool me, it is simply outrageous, I didn’t abolish that sub-sect’s group of people on the spot, I have already been merciful to the best of my ability.”

Speaking later, Xiao Wu Ji’s voice was already slightly tinged with indignation.

“So there is such a thing. A small Crescent Moon Sub-Sect, actually harboring such a supreme treasure as the King Xuan Dragon Dan and not offering it up, grandpa condescended to personally go there, and actually deceived grandpa again and again, it’s simply an unforgivable sin, and it’s also a loss that Yue Rui didn’t marry over.” Xiao Nan concurred.

“There is no need to mention these trivial matters. Tonight, you can walk around the Heavenly Sword Villa more, then rest early to recuperate, grandpa is waiting to see your performance tomorrow.”

“Yes, Grandpa.”

In front of the mountain gate, the appearance of a group of five people instantly attracted the attention of everyone around.

The five people were all women, and their attire was very similar, all of them were dressed in a long snow gauze dress that didn’t cover their ankles and almost trailed on the ground. The long skirt was pure white, but as they walked around, their bodies were naturally surrounded by floating star-like dots of icy blue light, which embellished their skirts with icy blue colors and a dreamy aura.

The age of the five women looked very young, in addition to walking in the back, wearing a white veil of the young girl should only be sixteen or seventeen years old, the other four women looked only twenty years old or so. The five women, one in front of the other, had a total of two people with light veils covering their faces, only revealing crystal-like eyes. The other three women’s faces were uncovered, and none of them were extremely beautiful. The three stunningly beautiful faces were covered with a deep coldness. They do not put on powder, but their skin is as white and smooth as snow jade, so that the moment people see them, they will subconsciously think of the words “icy skin and jade bones”, “snowy face and vermilion lips”.

The three snow face each has its own unique style, but are exquisite and flawless, beautiful in the midst of a let a person almost do not dare to look directly at the holy cold and proud, as if it is stepping on the nine heavens above, do not touch a trace of earthly smoke and flame of the fairies in general.

Looking at them from afar, they will clearly feel an ethereal fairy gas mixed with cold breath straight into the chest …… Their right hand side, a similarly towards the door of the clan team in the moment they saw them all coincidentally stopped in their tracks, looking at them dumbfounded, as all the souls of all people were all drawn away in an instant.

As they approached, the Heavenly Sword disciple who was guarding the mountain gate froze for five whole seconds, before he fiercely bit his tongue, and made every effort to condense his spirit and return to the origin, collecting his soul and quieting his mind, and only then did he calm down with great difficulty, but his head was lowered, and his eyes no longer dared to look at them directly, and he took a step forward, and somewhat stammered, ”The five …… five honored guests Are they the fairies of the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace? Please also …… please show the invitation and list.”

After saying these words, this Heavenly Sword disciple hated that he could not smack himself twice on the spot. The mountain gate welcoming guests, this was an important event that concerned the face of the mountain village, so he, an important disciple who was strong enough to cope with any scene, was specially selected, and when facing the Xiao Sect and Burning Sky Sect’s sect leader level figures, he was unassuming and did not change his color, but when facing the Immortal from the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace, he was finally still in a state of confusion, after all, he was a normal man.

Although he hadn’t seen the invitation yet, a woman with such an immortal appearance and transcendent temperament couldn’t possibly be anywhere else but the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace. That floating dreamy ice splendor was even more ironic proof. Furthermore, in order to facilitate the control of unexpected situations that might occur, the rules of the qualifying battle had a hard and fast rule that the total number of accompanying persons together with the participating disciples of the forces participating in the qualifying battle must not exceed seven, and even forces like the four great clans would not be accommodated. A quota of seven people is too few even for a small clan, and there will almost never be a situation where a power has less than seven people …… except for the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace! Ice Cloud Immortal Palace is rarely willing to contact the outside world, especially where there are many males, the reason is well known to all. This time, the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace only arrived with five people, not surprising at all.

The stunning woman standing at the front without a veil took out the invitation letter and list and handed it over to the Heavenly Sword disciple. Seeing the jade hand that was close to his eyes, as snowy as fat, the Heavenly Sword disciple’s heartbeat instantly sped up, for the first time in his life, he knew that a woman’s hand could still be beautiful to this extent. He even had a feeling that as long as he could touch this jade hand, he would be willing to die even if he died …… But then give him ten thousand guts, he didn’t dare to put it into action, he carefully reached out, pinched the corner of the edge of the invitation and the list, and picked them up.

Sweeping his eyes over the invitation and list, he hurriedly bowed his head and said, ”So it’s the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace’s Fairy Ice Li and Fairy Ice Cindy who are here in person …… ah? Ice …… Ice Chan Fairy?”

The Heavenly Sword disciple who reacted half a beat slower subconsciously raised his head to look at the woman who wore a veil and had a gaze as cold as ice crystals, as soon as he came into contact with her gaze, his whole body jolted for a second, and he instantly realized that he had been seriously out of order, and he hurriedly dropped his head again and respectfully said, “The name of Ice Cindy Immortal, is as good as a thunderclap, so please forgive the latecomer for being out of order. Five honored guests, please come in ……”

After saying that, he stepped to the side in a vain manner, and didn’t even dare to raise his head as an icy cold scented wind swept past his body.

All the time waiting for them to walk far away, the Heavenly Sword disciple only completely came back to his senses, somewhat dementedly glancing at their distant backs, for a time somewhat soulful. At this time, the disciple beside him suddenly said: ”Senior brother Haiya, what you just shouted is …… Fairy Bingchan? Could it be that legendary Chu Yuechan?”

“Right!” The senior brother called Hai Ya nodded his head, “Chu Yue Li, Chu Yue Chan, Shui Wu Shuang, Dancing Snow Heart, Xia Qing Yue …… That is indeed Chu Yue Chan’s name, and she actually came in person ……”

“Should we report to the manor master immediately? The manor master will definitely be thrilled to know that Chu Yuechan has actually come ……”

“Report your ass!” Ling Haiya slapped him on the head, “The Lord of the Manor and the Lady of the Manor are now welcoming guests together, in the mountain villa, all fools know that the name Chu Yuechan is a big taboo to the Lady of the Manor, if you report something, see how you can pocket it!!!”

“Then, then how should I report?”

Ling Haiya thought for a moment and said, “Just say that the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace has arrived, there are five people in total, Ice Glaze Immortal Chu Yue Li is leading the team, anyway, on the list, the name is written first. Never mention Chu Yuechan!!!”

“Oh, good.” The Heavenly Sword disciple hurriedly shifted his position, took out a sound transmission note, and transmitted the news to the Zhuangzhong.

At this time, the bunch of people who had looked dumbfounded earlier finally walked over, and the middle-aged man at the head of the group cupped his fists and said, “This little brother, the several people just now, are they the fairies of the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace?”

“Yes.” Ling Haiya nodded simply and dryly.

“Indeed, it’s really better to hear a hundred times than to see, and a sight is far better than a hundred times.” The middle-aged man let out a sigh, then said, “We are from the Eastern Domain Xuan Blade Sect, and have come to pay our respects to the Heavenly Sword Villa …….”

Waves of clan teams continued to arrive, and although each team only had seven people, the elders, all of them were overlord level figures who had moved the world with their fame, and the young ones, all of them were top geniuses who had resounded the world. In these few days, these world-famous Overlords, as well as the young geniuses at the top level of the young generation, would gather at the Heavenly Sword Villa to battle it out in the Ranking Battle.

At dusk, a somewhat unusual team arrived at the entrance of the mountain, the reason why it was said to be unusual was because there were only a handful of four people in this team, even less than the number of people from the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace.

And these four people were Qin Wuhuang, Cang Yue, Yun Che, and Xia Yuanba.

As they walked up to the mountain gate, Ling Haiya took a step out and said solemnly, “Several people please stay, these few days my mountain villa is preparing for the Cang Feng Ranking Battle matters, so I’m sorry for not being a guest, please return.”

There were only four people, besides that elder, the other three young men and women only had two True Xuan Realm in terms of Xuan power, and the other was actually only at the Beginning Xuan Realm, in this Heavenly Sword Villa where the group of heroes gathered, it was simply disastrous. No one would believe that they would be here to participate in the Cang Feng Ranking Battle.