Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

The sound of metal hitting each other reverberated across the area as two weapons clashed once again, the force coming out from the contact enough to make the audience feel some breeze pass through them. In the arena made by the combination of two stone platforms, Wu Xiaotian effortlessly continues his attacks, Ling Feng giving his best to parry each of his strikes.

"HAHAHA great!!! Let's fight more Bro Tian!!!" Ling Feng shouted with glee as he plays with the battered cudgel resting on his shoulders, spinning it until he eventually held it with two hands, aiming the pointed end at Wu Xiaotian, his body completely unmoving once he enters his battle form.

Amidst his fun though, he couldn't help but notice his body starting to get heavier despite the match between the two of them being relatively fast, from what he could deduce, the reason of this being the battle completely different in intensity compared to his previous fights.

"Final exchange?" disappointment filling his voice, Ling Feng decided to continue the fight as he asks, looking eagerly at his sworn brother hoping that he would accept despite his current state.

Wu Xiaotian, also noticing Ling Feng's current state easily deduced that he's about to run out of gas, however, seeing the look on his face, he decided to go along with his sworn brother's wishes, raising the blade in his hand, pointing it towards the amiable-looking young man, the light from the sky making it so that the sharp edge of his blade glow with white light.

'Looks like he's about to grasp something as well' he thought to himself as he observes Ling Feng's current state, his eyes seemingly focused at other things besides their match, his grasp on his weapon completely firm as if it won't even slip off his hands even if he were to lose consciousness.

"Final exchange" Wu Xiaotian answers with a smile before gesturing towards Ling Feng to go first, his figure standing straight as he awaits his sworn brother's next attack.

No words were exchanged after that, two figures dashing towards each other, waiting for the right time to brandish their weapon as the distance between the two of them gradually disappears.

After a brief moment, Ling Feng moves first as Wu Xiaotian finally reaches his range, thrusting the cudgel forward expecting the immortal-like young man to block it, plans about how he will proceed with his attacks once Wu Xiaotian does so already in his mind, only for all of it to disappear the next moment.

"Shi-" before he could react, Wu Xiaotian is already in front of him, his blade already on point blank range as he praises him.

After the last exchange, Wu Xiaotian takes Ling Feng by surprise as he disappears out of the amiable-looking young man's vision, this one finally catching him off-guard as before he could even manage to fend off the attack, the tip of the blade is already pointed towards him, his looks speechless as he stares at Wu Xiaotian

"That was a brilliant attack, Brother Ling Feng" smiling at the amiable-looking young man as he looks at him, Wu Xiaotian said while pointing at the stone platform damaged not only from Ling Feng's step but also from his previous attack.

The attack also surprises the crowd as this is the first attack since the start of the competition the leaves behind such massive damage in the stone platform. After all, even those at the Core Formation Realm fails to leave behind substantial damage in the platforms.

"That looks like a good lady magnet" Wu Xiaotian said while pointing at the mess Ling Feng just caused, after which he nudged the amiable-looking young man to look at the audience, some of the ladies looking at him with surprise, while some even going as far as shouting his name while sending him suggestive messages.

Seeing them, tears start falling from his eyes as he lifts his hand into a thumbs up while talking with Wu Xiaotian incoherently, "Damn… Su Tian, you're a real brother!!!"

After this event, the remaining contestants still on the field eventually finishes all of their matches, the outcome for some of them happening as most of the spectators predicted. Among Wu Xiaotian's friends, he found the two young ladies from the Astral Ice Sect already in the audience, the reason for it being revealed as they started communicating through the phone again.

"I encountered Wang Sheng, I surrendered"

"I encountered Huo Chen, I surrendered"

Turns out Wu Xiaotian is not the only one that noticed the two of them already eliminated as before he could even start typing, Hua Xian'er's message is already on screen, the two young ladies answering the exact same way had it been not for the names of the reason for them surrendering being different.

"That's fucking unfair…" Ling Feng messaged with crying emojis filling the end of his text, the complaint garnering him the ridicule of the two young men.

"Get a wife then, single dog" the two of them replied, the mockery apparent despite the text being the sole medium of what they just said.

"Who's your wife huh!?" reading the replies, the two young ladies from the Astral Ice Sect asked, their tones seemingly oppressive as they fill the ends of their message with threatening emojis.

Sending a crying expression, the two young men tries their best to coax their 'childhood friends', making them the center of attention and the target of jokes in the group as their display showcases how henpecked they are.

As they continue their small talks, the audience watches them doing so with curiosity, some of them even going as far as asking Ling Feng where he got such wondrous device.

Explaining what it does and who created it, requests of meeting Wu Xiaotian flooded Ling Feng, promising him good amount of payment if he does so, with his only replies being 'I would try', remaining ambiguous as he doesn't want to implicate his sworn brother with his decision, especially when the product got nothing to do with him given that Wu Xiaotian is the sole creator of the device.

As the popularity of his 'original' artifact starts booming, Wu Xiaotian, being completely aware of it already starts having some ideas, thoughts that will probably create enough money that will give him enough funds to start the making of one of his goals, the city in his mind named Roaring Heaven City.

While travelling around his mind, creating plans on how to maximize the benefits he would get from selling the phone he created, the given recovery time already spent, the stone platforms already moving again, creating multiple pairing from the two-hundred and fifty-eight participants left.

"Now dispelling the barrier, please prepare for the start of the fifth round" as the sound of the cold mechanical voice resounded, the paired people start getting better look of each other, some of them surprised with their match ups.

"HAHAHAHA, Lei Xing!!! Finally, some strong opponent!!!" a huge, barbaric-looking young man exclaimed as he looks at the young man wearing a purple robe in front of him, excitement filling his eyes as he starts approaching the young man.

The man wearing a purple robe merely harrumphed at the barbaric looking young man's words, his expression completely arrogant while looking at the young man dismissively as if he's not worthy of his attention.

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Meanwhile on another place, two young men, both good looking with one being having a more ferocious look while the other having a cunning look, were looking at each other seriously, the two of them refusing to take their eyes of each other.

"Are you sure about this Old Sheng?" the ferocious-looking young man asked as he reaches his fist out.

"Shut your trap Ah Chen, why are you so long winded with this?" the cunning looking young man retorted as he mirrored the pose of the ferocious looking young man.

"Suit yourself" the ferocious-looking young man said, the air near the two of them starting to get weird, creating a tense atmosphere, completely defused once they start speaking the same words.

"Rock!! Paper!! Scissor!!"