Maria stood up, gasping in shock at Xing Wenghu's words. "M-Me!? But why?" She was shocked, she believed she was an irrelevant side character. Only having to cling onto Xing Wenghu's arm to be carried throughout the competition. But Xing Wenghu knew, it was time for her character development. Xing Wenghu stood up and placed his arm on Maria. "Maria, the world of cultivators is harsh and unforgiving. You must test yourself!" Xing Wenghu shouted at her. Maria became anxious inside, she didn't have much confidence in herself. But with Xing Wenghu's encouragement. She would atleast try! "Y-Yes! I will!" Maria shouted confidently, as Xing Wenghu laughed. "Come on Fatty Wei, show us where the tournament is." Fatty Wei led the party to the tournament, where they quickly registered Fatty Wei and Maria as their main combatants for their team. However, then came their next problem. Their team required a name! Xing Wenghu thought, what was the coolest, most badass name he could ever come
The vine cultivator gasped as her vine was effortlessly slashed in half. "You fool! How dare you cut my vine in half. You will face my wrath!" She screamed frantically, and ran straight at her opponent. She swung her vines like a chimpanzee on the loose, with no coordination or focus behind her attacks. The audience was surprised, to see someone with such lacking skill or coordination. All rhyme and reason faded from her attacks. Her opponent casually batted each one away, slashing through them and rendering all of them unusable in seconds. Soon, after all of her vines were broken into pieces all over the arena floor. It was a sight for sore eyes, to be so thoroughly humiliated in less than one minute. She wouldn't let this stand. The cold cultivator stood over her, not having a single reaction. Her gaze was as cold as her outfit, uncaring and uninterested. "It's over." The Glacial Empress said, looking down at her opponent. The vine cultivator had fallen onto her knees in anger
Nakuke shouted his declaration, to dramatically start the battle as serious as possible. Fatty Wei stood in front of him, in a regular martial arts stance. "Hmph. I, Fatty Wei shall greet you in kind!" It was odd for Wei to call himself Fatty still, he had continuously lost weight and was almost as skinny as Xing now. The two completely ignored the match announcer, who only left in a kerfuffle after being brushed aside. Fatty Wei charged directly at Nakuke, preparing a strong fist based attack to hit him with. "No Fatty! If you do that..He will cut you down!" Xing Wenghu thought, worried about his friend's well being. Fatty Wei was in a vulnerable period of his development, he couldn't bite off more than he could chew right now. Or else he would suffer a similar fate to Xing Wenghu's past life, or worse. Xing Wenghu struggled to watch what would unfold next, as a mysterious black aura shined all over Nakuke. "Have you felt the struggle of a soul? The crying of an orphan? The ba
"Fatty!!!!!" Xing Wenghu screamed, Fatty Wei having used the last of his strength to stand up and throw himself in front of Xing Wenghu. He felt a pain inside of him, Fatty Wei was willing to die for him. His arrogance having caused this injury upon him. The katana blade had pierced through his stomach, just narrowly missing Xing Wenghu. Fatty Wei then coughed up blood. "You can't...You can't take him down like that Brother Xing.." Fatty Wei said as his last words, before collapsing for real on the arena floor. He was now fully unconscious, as the medical team went and retrieved him. He was quickly taken away, but the announcer didnt dare to interrupt the current fight going on. Nakuke Yubiha wielded his katana skillfully in front of him. "Any last words, before I kill you and make you join your friend? What kind of weakling requires friends anyway." He took a dramatic stance, making an edgy monologue nobody cared to hear. "Friends...Comrades..Allies.. All worthless constructs
Feng Peng looked at Xing Wenghu with positivity, as his master effortlessly struck Nakuke away. The audience began to cheer him on. "Destroy him!" Nakuke coughed up a little blood, as he stood up using his katana. "Hmph. Do you think the power of friendship will save you now? You're so naive and pathetic. Relying on your... Comrades." "Bonds...Friendship..Happiness... Only a pathetic, naive little kid uses those to fight." He swung his katana around, as a dark aura began to envelop him. "The only thing I need is the skill of my blade!" He rushed at Xing Wenghu, who only turned around and didn't look at him to receive his attack. With his power, he did not need to even gaze at Nakuke to block him. "What? Does he dare to mock me!!" Nakuke developed a massive rage, as he put his all into his next attack. How dare this naive kid insult his strength! Xing Wenghu however, side stepped him and slapped him across the face before his blade could reach him. It was a slap so loud, the en
Nakuke concentrated on the depths of his own soul, just like Xing Wenghu. He prepared to unleash his pain, his rage at the world. It was time to unleash the cringy edginess of his soul, and make the world understand his pain! "Kyah...Augh!!!!" Nakuke fought past the burning pain all over his body, and the black qi began to rise from all over himself. It enveloped Nakuke, the sharpness of the edginess was quite great. It began to slash the very ground around him, cutting it on his pure edge and hatred. Xing Wenghu looked down at him, like a parent at a child. "Hmph. You rely on such poor cultivation methods, no wonder you are so weak and cowardly!" It was up to Xing Wenghu to demonstrate, what true honor and morals mean't to a loser like Nakuke! Nakuke came running at him, his aura of edginess so powerful it even began to cut the air itself! "Let's see if you can take my anger. My hatred! You don't know suffering like I do!!!!" Nakuke shouted, as he leaped in the air to strike Xi
The tournament was canceled suddenly, on account of the spontaneous injury inflicted upon Fatty Wei so early on in the bracket. Out of fear of crippling any of the cultivators, it had been stopped. They were instead granted an additional day to prepare themselves for the Royale. Xing Wenghu was currently standing by Fatty Wei's side, he was circulating a special healing pill that would make him quickly recover from the wounds. "I must plan ahead for such trials! There are without a doubt more cultivators just like that man." Xing Wenghu thought back to the qi that Nakuke used in his battle with him. It was dark, edgy and demonic. He never expected to come to blows with demonic cultivators here. He would need to be careful. Demonic cultivators were reckless and willing to sacrifice their own life just to scratch you. Fatty Wei would need a few more minutes to finish processing the pill he took, so Xing Wenghu stepped outside of the room. Feng Peng was in front anxiously waiting for
Xing Wenghu retreated to the group room meanwhile in order to go back to cultivating, waiting for him there was Maria. Who was shocked by the turn of events they had gone through. "Senior Wenghu..." She whispered with an allure in her voice, wanting attention from him. "Maria, we need to focus on cultivating. Time is of the essence." Xing sternly reminded her. Some Jade Beauties wanted to have fun too much, but in here their practice decided if they lived or died tomorrow! Xing Wenghu concentrated on gathering as much as he could of his original past life's qi within his Dan Tian. He felt a large power swell within him. "If I use this to cultivate, I can harness some of my original power without pushing myself too hard." He hid it from those around him, but the fight with Nakuke the edgy idiot had strained a few parts of his body. He could not allow anyone at the time to see him as vulnerable or weakened. Cultivators would sing praises about you one day, and then scoff and stab y
Feng Peng looked at Xing Wenghu with just a hint of confusion within his eyes. He was not sure what to say. Master Wenghu didn't have much of a plan? "Master Wenghu. So we just wait here for the enemy to come to us and eat all of their resources?" Feng Peng asked hesitantly. Xing Wenghu nodded his head at Feng Peng."Yes. We don't need to do anything. Whoever owns this place is going to come to us, and that will be when we ambush them and take over this place for good. From there, we can win The Cultivator Battle Royale!" It would be a goose chase to search for whoever might have owned this place. Xing Wenghu did not want to waste his energy chasing after people who would come to him on their own!Feng Peng nodded his head in understanding at Xing Wenghu. "Alright then. I am going to finally sleep. My eyes are so tired, and my whole body aches!" Feng Peng immediately ran to the upstairs bedroom of the house that they were inside of. Xing Wenghu took the opprotunity to sit himself on t
Xing Wenghu held his arm out to stop the party from moving forward. Their conversation had been cut off by Xing Wenghu. Xing Wenghu was currently looking ahead of him, the party was standing behind a bunch of trees. Ahead of them was a clearing, in which a suspiciously clean and immaculate House was standing in the middle of nowhere. There were no obvious traps, nobody standing around.The entire area looked as if nobody had touched it at all. Chaddy Wei looked up from behind Xing Wenghu up ahead. "Woah Brother Xing, looks like we found shelter already!" Chaddy Wei looked up excitedly at the Log Cabin that was up ahead of them. "This means we can finally take a shower properly Brother Xing! I don't want to cultivate The Dao of The Gamer Stench!" Feng Peng laughed at the ridiculousness of Chaddy Wei's statement. "A shower? Where!?" The Ultimate Vine Mistress called out immediately. But Xing Wenghu ssh'd them. "Everyone. It could be a trap. This looks too clean and too well prepared fo
Xing Wenghu stood still and looked out at the forest for a few minutes. He did this to be cool and dramatic, but also to make it look like he was having a moment of deep change and inner peace inside. By letting Billy go, Xing Wenghu had equally in a way let go of many things weighing him down. Xing Wenghu stared with the most solemn eyes into the horizon. While his companions awkwardly stood behind him. "Are we....Are we doing something?" The Ultimate Vine Mistress said, looking around like she was expecting something to happen. Immediately, Chaddy Wei shushed her. "Sssh! Brother Xing is having a moment!" Chaddy Wei knew from his intuition that Xing Wenghu was having a moment of deep contemplation, especially with how distant he looked into the forest.Xing Wenghu had alot on his mind that he just couldn't work himself out of. He thought to himself what he should do, but there was so much coming back to him. If he was willing to let a side character like Billy go, would he spare Sun
Young Xing pointed his hand at Billy and his friends. Who all sneered and laughed at Xing Wenghu. He happened to also be the shortest kid in the entire class. So everybody metaphorically and literally looked down on him. "Whats the matter Immortal Emperor? Are you going to hit me? Are you gonna hit me huh little emperor?" Billy and his friends arrogantly laughed.Young Xing was brimming with anger. He raised his hand and immediately went to smack-"Wait wait. Now isn't the time for another flashback. I have to finish beating the shit out of you!" Xing Wenghu declared. He immediately broke out of the flash back. Now was not the time for a long and boring flashback about why he hated Billy. Xing Wenghu raised his hand to attempt to strike down Billy. He didn't need to explain himself to the audience. After all what kind of Main Character explains his actions before he acts! As Xing Wenghu raised his hand to attempt to kill Billy, he immediately on cue began to cry and squeal."No please
Xing Wenghu looked shocked at the figure standing in front of him. He pointed his finger out, shaking with slight anger and agitation. "You! You are courting death to come here! Only a fool would stand before me after what you did. And yet you have the boldness. As if you are a chicken standing before the chef, testing if you will be cooked!" Xing Wenghu directly shouted at the figure standing in front of the group. It was a young man who was of a similar age to Xing. His outfit was generic and forgettable. He did not have any significant features outside of a bowl hair cut and a skinny body build. Chaddy Wei looked skeptically at Xing Wenghu, unsure of the source of his agitation. "Brother Xing. Are you alright? This young man bears the resemblance of the side characters you talk about." Chaddy Wei doubted that the person before them was capable of anything. His senses had been enhanced from his Chad transformation. He could not feel a remote heartbeat of qi coming from the perso
Xing Wenghu was alarmed by what the Fat Cultivator told him. If Sun Yaozu was aware of his location, then it was only a matter of time until a dangerous foe attempted to ambush him. Xing Wenghu was not afraid, but the dao of the plot mandated that he not confront Sun Yaozu's imminent threat immediately. It would spoil the dramatic build up of the hidden powerful foe Sun Yaozu had recruited to fight against him."Brother Wei. We must not stay here. We have to find Feng Peng and whats her name and get a move on." Xing Wenghu said authoratively to Chaddy Wei as the two of them prepared to rejoin their companions. "How long has it been since we entered the trial?" Xing Wenghu asked the fat cultivator. The cultivator took a breath before replying."It has only been about three hours since you two entered the trial. You should have enough time to cover your tracks and make a run for it." The Fat Cultivator said. Xing Wenghu and Chaddy Wei nodded at each other before making their way back th
Xing Wenghu and Chaddy Wei were floating through the digital vortext. Both of them were swirling and flying in a mystical matrix of Data. "Brother Xing. What is going on!!!" Chaddy Wei shouted, flailing his arms around while floating in the mysterious portal. The two were being whisked away from the digital world they were in.Xing Wenghu floated calmly, despite erratically flying all over the place. "Don't worry Brother Wei. We are leaving the trial now and returning back to the Battle Royale. We just have to wait-" With a violent woosh, Xing Wenghu and Chaddy Wei found themselves back in their bodies in the mountain cavern they had previously been standing in.Chaddy Wei took a deep exasperated breath and ripped off the helmet that had been on his head, while Xing Wenghu took off the helmet calmly. "We're alive. We're alive Brother Xing! Hahaha!" Chaddy Wei shouted with happiness. Xing Wenghu looked at the make of the helmet he had worn, before tossing it away. The Fat Cultivator fr
Sun Yaozu stood in the dirtiest den of criminals in the Cultivator World. The floor was unwashed and grimy. Rats littered the building he was standing in. But to get to the black market, you had to not be afraid to get your hands dirty. He stood in front of one of the brokers of the Cultivator Underworld, arranging carefully a deal with him that would soon solve a headache for him."And you're telling me you want to kill one boy in the Cultivator Battle Royale?" The Cultivator Broker looked at Sun Yaozu skeptically. He could not believe what he was hearing. In his entire life, he had yet to hear of someone wanting to assassinate a delusional contestant of the Battle Royale. "It's hard to keep an assassination like that hidden. There are cameras all over the Cultivator Battle Royale. Anyone who is sent will be seen and recorded." The broker was surprised by the boldness of Sun Yaozu, to attempt such a open assassination on such a weak and feeble target. It was statistically likely they
Xing Wenghu turned to Chaddy Wei proudly, "Let's get out of here Brother Wei". Although he was tempted by the darkness and angst deep within him to kill Sun Yaozu. He could not spoil his fateful confrontation. For the sake of the Plot, he had to leave Sun Yaozu alive. The Dao of the Plot would remove Xing Wenghu's Plot armor if he wasted his time killing Sun Yaozu now. Who would be his final villain to beat the shit out of?Those who strayed from the plot, very easily and very quickly fell into qi deviation. Chaddy Wei nodded at Xing Wenghu as the two of them approached the portal, only to be cut off by a voice behind them."Y-You fool Xing Wenghu! I will kill you after you're done with this stupid game. But my children will kill you long before you have a chance!" Sun Yaozu spat with anger at Xing Wenghu, who only regarded him as a mere side character. The lowest of statuses he could bestow upon someone."Silence. I will beat the shit out of you later." Xing Wenghu coldly turned arou