Number twenty four's face paled visibly. He realized that his opponent was finally taking him seriously. He then raised his free hand and punched his chest. Number twenty four vomited a mouthful of blood. But the blood landed on his sword made of green screen of light. The screen of light seemed to take on a faint crimson hue.

The now crimson screen of light now seemed to have a second layer. Another sword appeared in number twenty four's hand. But the swords no longer looked transparent and glassy, instead they looked corporeal and emitted a faint bloody stench.

Almost at the same time this happened, the seven flying swords circled around him before attacking him at high speed and newfound power.

With a low yell, token number twenty four defended against eight flying swords simultaneously. Sparks and sounds of cracking glass resounded as a high speed fight took place.

Number twenty four's opponent no longer took him lightly and attacked with everything he had. His eyes turned red as he groaned and suddenly started casting hand seals.

A series of buzzing noise sounded from the eighth swords. The seven flying swords each seemed to be enveloped by a faint blue light. Their speed suddenly became astonishingly faster and each attack carried more power as well.

At first number twenty four could defend against the seven swords simultaneously, but now that they had been empowered by the faint blue light, he could hardly keep up even with his double swords.

As more and more injuries appeared on his skin, his reaction to the seven flying swords slowed down by a lot. His injuries affected his movements and it was clear that he wouldn't be able to last any longer under their continuous attacks.

Number twenty four doubled his efforts but the seven flying swords and the blue sword in his opponents hand completely overwhelmed him. If this was a life or death battle, number twenty four would be dead but because this was just a flimsy battle he couldn't outright kill number twenty four! He would face penalty!

Number twenty four's opponent allowed a small smitk to appear on his face when he saw the situation. But he suppressed his urge to sigh. If he had used his full strength from the get-go, this match would have already been won by now.

Just as he was thinking of ending the fight, the bell suddenly rung! Announcing that token number twenty four had survived for ten minutes! And just in time too, his opponent had finally arranged his sword in a array that he had just made.

His opponent looked on in disbelief! Number twenty four was even more shocked, but the bell was proof. He had survived for ten minutes!

***

On the arena, Grey and the others were watching the fight intently. Number twenty four's fight was truly interesting. From the beginning he had always been at a disadvantage, but he still chose to hide his power. It was only when his opponent finally got serious that he poured all his might into defending.

In the end, his opponent tried to eliminate him before the bell was rung. But number twenty four persevered despite the pain and injuries. Grey couldn't help but acknowledge him silently in his heart.

With a growl, his opponent dashed away in away, but Number twenty four was teleported away as the victor of this match.

***

After number twenty four, number twenty five stood upon the stage. It was a very petite and harmless looking girl. Her opponent stood and stared at her coldly. The moment the match began, Number twenty five opponent let out a low roar and stomped his feet aggressively on the ground!

The ground rumbled and at the same time, number twenty five opponent started creating hand seals. He created some hand seals that turned into visible pale yellow threads.

These threads spun in the air and formed a hexagram made of yellow pale threads. Number twenty five opponent created four of these hexagrams in the air.

He then pointed and did one more hand seal again. But this hand seal did not turn visible, neither did it create anything. But instead, the four yellow hexagrams landed on the floor.

As they were on the floor, they resembled inscriptions. Out from these inscriptions, four malicious ghost spirit rose up. These malicious ghost were filled with sinister and dark intent. They howled from under the inscriptions, wanting to be let out.

Number twenty five opponent released his hand and the pale yellow hexagrams turned illusionary and the four malicious ghost flew towards number twenty five.

All these seemed to have taken a long time, but in reality only four breaths of time had passed since the match begin. On seeing the four malicious ghost rushing towards her, Number twenty five expression turned pale. But she still reacted accordingly and quickly circulated her cultivation base.

As she did that, a loud sound like the rushing of water echoed from her body. As that happened, number twenty five's petite body shook and trembled. But she continued to circulate her cultivation base and a huge illusionary mountain about fourty meters tall stood above her.

One must know that the height of the hall was a little over fourty meters, so the peak of the illusionary mountain was almost touching the metal ceiling.

Number twenty five's eyes turned red as she roared and swung the illusionary mountain towards the incoming the four malicious ghosts. The sounds of rushing water echoing from her body as well. It made quite a contrast to see her petite body releasing such astonishing strength.

***

'Note to self; Never judge a cultivator by their appearances. It's very misleading...' Grey said to himself.

***

The four ghost crashed into the illusionary mountain, the ghosts fell back while the mountain trembled a bit. It was clear that the power of the four ghosts was nothing to laugh about.

Number twenty five's opponent must've captured and refined these four malicious ghosts. For them to have reached this level, they had to have been refined by him a lot of times.

Ever since the descendence of God, all forms of life whether animated or inanimate would all be affected by the corrosive substance. That meant that not only could living things like humans and animals be affected by the corrosive substance, plants and structures are also affected by the corrosive substance. It was not correct to say anything that is alive, instead anything that has either life or spirit energy. The corrosive substance also corrodes spirit energy as well. So that's why things like magic artifact or treasures have a level of strength in them. If they have been corroded by the corrosive substance for too long, their power would reduce significantly. But the amount of power that any treasure had would be the amount of corrosion that it has been through. If a magic artifact has been corroding for five years, it's strength would differ from one that has been corroding for ten years.

Since corrosion also affects spirit energy, nothing in this would is spared. And that includes corpses. Any recently dead corpse that has stayed long without proper burial has a chance of forming a malicious spirit. These spirit come alive from the resentment they felt before they die.

For number twenty five's opponent to have four malicious spirits with such strength, he must've killed a lot of cultivators. Not all corpses culd form malicious spirits. Only those that harbored a lot of resentment could fill that criteria.

So these four malicious ghosts would be number twenty five's opponent multiple months of hard work and bloodshed. The illusionary mountain projected by the petite girl could handle at least seven strikes from cultivators in the perfected level of Qi accumulation.

And these malicious ghosts managed to make the tremble a bit, so it meant that their attack power was close to the perfected level of Qi accumulation. Number twenty five's opponent was only in the eigth level of Qi accumulation, but this would surely be a herculean task for Number twenty five.

In the midst of all these chaos, no one had seen number twenty five's opponent rush towards her silently. As her attention was on the illusionary mountain and the four malicious ghosts, she did not notice until it was too late.

Number twenty five's opponent threw a punch fiercely. With his cultivation being at the eigth level and number twenty five being at the seventh, it was bound to end up as a disadvantage for Number twenty five. Especially since she didn't have the time to prepare for the incoming punch.

But the next scenes that followed shocked everyone. They saw Number twenty five hurl a punch at her opponent. The sound of raging waters sounded from her body as she punched forth. The illusionary mountain projected seemed to be dimmed a bit.

Number twenty five opponent did not seem the least bit fazed. He just raised his head and snorted coldly. He was confident in his strength and was sure that number twenty five would be knocked away.

But what happened next shocked everyone. Instead of seeing number twenty five punched away like a ragdoll, number twenty five's opponent was sent in the direction he came from.

But before he flew far, number twenty five suddenly sped up and punched at his chest. Number twenty five flew to the other side of the stage before skidding for seventeen meters then coming to a stop. His father face was pale and he coughed out a mouthful of fresh blood.

His expression was that of disbelief as he did not believe that he would lose to her punch despite sneaking up on her unawares. But now everyone knew how she managed to project that mountain and the sounds of rushing waters from her body. She was a body refiner! Or at the very least a cultivator that practiced the art close to body refinement.

'Truly, never doubt a cultivator based on their appearance!' Grey said inwardly as he laughed wryly in his heart.

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