“Boom boom boom!”…
The young man in white and the young man in tight clothes were equally strong, and the fight was difficult to determine.
Ten moves.
Twenty moves.
Thirty moves...
soon.
After more than a hundred moves, the two were still evenly matched.
After two hundred moves, the two men's faces turned pale as they had consumed too much energy.
The ladies and noble ladies in the stands looked anxious.
"The young master of the Jing family and the Ying family are both at the ninth level of the Huajin Stage, and their strengths are evenly matched. If they continue to fight like this, both will suffer losses. If they continue to fight, they will not be able to deal with this person who came up from the lower level. This person can come up from the lower level, so his strength must not be too weak."
"Yes, the two princes of the Duke's family should defeat this man first, so that they can settle the battle peacefully. Otherwise, they will be taken advantage of by this man who comes up from the lower level."...
There was no way the young man in white and the young man in tight clothes couldn't fail to understand this simple truth, but the two still had no intention of stopping, and the fight became more intense.
Xu Lian finally understood that these two teenagers had probably regarded each other as rivals since they were young. They only had each other in their eyes and no one else. They didn't care about winning or losing at all and only cared about defeating each other.
You can lose the game... but you must defeat your opponent!
“Boom boom boom!”…
The young man in white and the young man in tight clothes both tried their best, leaving no energy left to deal with Xu Lian, completely treating Xu Lian as air.
After three hundred moves, both of them were covered with wounds.
After four hundred moves, the two men's eyes became blurry, their steps became unsteady, and they were staggering like drunks.
After a few more moves, the two men could no longer hold on and both fell to the ground, fainting.
"..." This is equivalent to Xu Lian standing in the corner and watching a duel, and he won without doing anything.
The noble ladies and girls in the stands walked towards the arena one after another, performing their secret healing methods and feeding the two young masters healing pills. The winner Xu Lian was completely left aside. Everyone knew that he won this duel purely by luck.
The common people were anxiously watching Xu Lian on the stage. How come no one was interested in Xu Lian among so many noble ladies? This was what they cared about. The "rising grassroots genius" had to marry a noble lady in the end to achieve the perfect result.
"Xu Lian wins, congratulations on advancing to the knockout round."
The official in the scarlet robe presented Xu Lian with an expressionless face as he presented him with the token to participate in the knockout round.
Xu Lian took the knockout round entry token and turned to leave. His goal was different from the two geniuses. The two geniuses cared about defeating each other during the duel, while he cared about the result.
He must get a spot in the knockout round before he can continue to fight his way up until he becomes a royal consort.
Return to the inn.
Seeing the inquiring looks from the three women, Xu Lian took out the knockout round competition token, shook it and put it away.
Then he pulled Huo Xin'er into the house and tried to build up a good impression of her.
After a long time.
I saw that Huo Xin'er's favorability increased from 75 to 80 (PS: I wrote the wrong number before, it was 75 instead of 80, and it is 80 now).
This is the case with Huo Xin'er. The stronger his strength is, the higher Huo Xin'er's favorability will be, because Huo Xin'er is the sword servant sent by Jian Ge to him, and their relationship is more like that of a master and servant than a man and a woman.
To put it bluntly, the Huo family has already tied their interests to him. The stronger he is, the greater the benefits the Huo family will gain in Jiange in the future.
"As soon as I arrived in the Imperial City, I was busy participating in competitions and fighting, and I didn't spend enough time with you. Now I have passed the preliminaries and preliminary rounds and have obtained a place in the knockout rounds. The knockout rounds will not start for nearly a month, so I will spend this month with you."
Xu Lian did not ignore Jiang Yunyan and Miao Yueyue, and told them his next plans with a smile.
Next.
He accompanied the three girls on a tour around the imperial capital.
Jiang Yunyan and Miao Yueyue are both very happy and look radiant every day.
Huo Xin'er didn't mind. What she cared about was Xu Lian's improvement in strength and future achievements. As for whether Xu Lian had time to accompany her, she didn't care much about that. But she was of course happy that Xu Lian was willing to give up time to accompany her. Although she was a sword servant and everything was in the interests of the Huo family and the Sword Pavilion, she was only a young woman in her twenties after all. How could she not be moved by this gifted young man? Of course she was moved, but she just wouldn't show it.
"Master, you have been with us for almost ten days. That's enough. From now on, you should concentrate on your training and strive to break through to the Grandmaster level to prepare for the next elimination match."
Huo Xin'er reminded Xu Lian.
Xu Lian smiled and hugged her, "Xin'er, don't worry. I'm different from ordinary practitioners. I focus on my state of mind... As long as you are happy every day, it will be easy to improve your cultivation."
"I see. Xin'er understands."
Huo Xin'er suddenly realized. No wonder when she first met Xu Lian, Xu Lian's cultivation level was the same as hers at the eighth level. She didn't even see Xu Lian practice, but he reached the ninth level.
Xu Lian liked her very much. Ever since he took her in as his sword servant, she had been getting along with Xu Lian the same way she treated her master. Although other beauties were also very obedient, there was definitely a difference between this kind of absolute obedience and hers, which was really good.
There are still about twenty days left before the knockout round. Xu Lian plans to keep playing to cultivate his favorability. Miao Yueyue's favorability is 85, and it is possible to reach 90 at any time; Jiang Yunyan's favorability is 91, and there is also the possibility of further improvement; Huo Xin'er's favorability is even simpler, now his favorability is 80, as long as he advances to the Grandmaster level, Huo Xin'er's favorability should be able to reach 90.
In this way, he will have three advancement points, plus two advancement points to be used, so he can reach the fifth level and have the strength to compete with the top geniuses.
This day.
He was taking his three daughters to visit a scenic spot in the imperial capital when they were stopped by a group of noblemen and ladies. The leader was the strong-dressed young man he had met in the ring, the son of Duke Ying.
Xu Lian subconsciously stretched out his hand to block the three women behind him.
Seeing his action, the young man in tight clothes smiled and said, "I have no ill intentions, I just want to have a fight with you."
The noble sons and daughters also asked Xu Lian to accept the challenge.
"Ten days ago, Master Ming was only concerned with fighting Master Que from the Jingguo family in the arena, and both of them were injured. You took advantage of it and won without a fight, and got a place in the knockout round. As a result, some ignorant civilians spread rumors that the two masters combined were no match for you. The younger generation of our imperial capital really couldn't swallow this. Now that Master Ming has recovered from his injuries, I hope you can face him head-on!"
"This duel will not affect your place in the knockout round. Master Ming has no interest in the place in the knockout round. This is just to dispel the rumors and let those ignorant civilians realize their mistakes."...
Xu Lian bowed and said, "Rumors stop at the wise. Only foolish people will believe them. We are all practitioners. Why should we be bothered by rumors?"
It’s not that he wants to avoid fighting, but he doesn’t want to offend anyone.
If after this competition, Mr. Ming loses even more miserably... then his reputation will be ruined.
Therefore, he had no grudges against Mr. Ming from the Yingguo family, so why should he step on him