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"Stop dawdling and get on the arena!" Chi Jishang stood up first.

"Dawdling?" Xu Ming shook his head and chuckled inwardly.

A fool is a fool, so eager to dig a hole and bury himself?

Xu Ming naturally guessed that the reason he was in the first match of the elimination round, and that his opponent was coincidentally Chi Jishang, was definitely arranged by Chi Jishang intentionally.

Money makes the world go round. It's not a big deal to secretly arrange the opponent for the first match of the elimination round.

"The first match is fine!" Xu Ming intended to be high-profile, and now that he could appear in the first match of the elimination round, the opportunity was naturally excellent.

"Xu Ming!" Gu Hanmo's voice transmission sounded immediately, "This Chi Jishang comes from the Chi clan and has been naturally gifted with divine strength since childhood. Moreover, the bloodline of the Chi clan is somewhat special, causing his profound energy to be mixed with a trace of flame aura from birth; when you fight him, be careful of his strange profound energy, and also..."

Gu Hanmo diligently analyzed Chi Jishang, so that Xu Ming could have a bottom line and be more prepared: "...Finally, Chi Jishang's cultivation is already very close to the limit of the Perfect Innate Realm; his overall strength should be enough to rank in the top thirty of this year's sect competition!"

"Close to the limit of the Perfect Innate Realm..." Xu Ming thought for a while and said, "Not bad, enough to warm up."

"What I know about Chi Jishang is just this," Gu Hanmo said. "You should have no problem winning against him, but be careful and don't get overturned in a ditch!"

Gu Hanmo knew that Xu Ming had instantly defeated Ye Qianjue with a single glance, so he was naturally very confident in Xu Ming's strength. In his opinion, Xu Ming was capable of impacting the top ten, and even had hope of impacting the top five. Dealing with a Chi Jishang was naturally a piece of cake.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing!" Xu Ming replied.

As he walked towards the arena, Xu Ming first secretly activated "Perfect Battle" for himself. As for "Super Perfect Battle", he was not in a hurry to activate it; trump cards are naturally best kept hidden as long as possible!

Then, Xu Ming casually threw a few hundred hanging points and activated level 4 attack boost, defense boost, and speed boost.

Xu Ming's strength had already improved greatly, and with the level 4 three boosts activated, his attributes directly "x5", soaring to the limit level of the Perfect Innate Realm in one fell swoop! -- This was just "pure attributes", without calculating secret techniques, realm, and other factors.

"Close to the limit of the Perfect Innate Realm? Is that very powerful?" Xu Ming was still hiding a lot of strength, which was enough to easily deal with Chi Jishang.

However, the others at the sect competition site did not look favorably on Xu Ming like Gu Hanmo.

After all, the others didn't know that Xu Ming had instantly defeated Ye Qianjue with a single glance; they still thought that Xu Ming was only slightly stronger than Ye Qianjue, just enough to win steadily, so Ye Qianjue directly conceded and dared not accept the challenge!

If he was only slightly stronger than Ye Qianjue, then he was obviously not Chi Jishang's opponent.

Therefore, many people who thought they had grasped the truth sympathized with Xu Ming:

"This Xu Ming is really unlucky to run into Chi Jishang in the first battle!"

But that's normal.

Xu Ming stood out from the crowd, so it was only natural that he would be envied; on the contrary, it would be abnormal if he wasn't envied!

Among the sect's higher-ups, the faces of Gu's faction were slightly unsightly.

Gu Kongshan transmitted his voice in the Gu faction elders' group chat: "Xu Ming running into Chi Jishang in the first battle, is this a coincidence, or did someone deliberately arrange it this way?"

The Gu faction elders all smiled wryly and said: "It's hard to say -- but aren't there always a few deliberately arranged matches in the first round of the elimination round every year? This kind of thing is difficult to investigate, and it's meaningless even if you find out."

Gu Kongshan also knew this principle, of course: "But in recent years, the performance of our Gu faction's disciples in the sect competition has been getting worse and worse. Now it's rare for a Xu Ming to emerge, who originally had hope of occupying a spot in the top 32, but he ran into Chi Jishang..."

The Gu faction's higher-ups all knew that if Xu Ming was defeated, there would be one less Gu faction disciple in the top 32; conversely, the disciples of the Liang faction or the Zhang faction would have one more appearing in the top 32 list.

This feeling was, of course, unpleasant.

Luo Feng, Song Jiahan, and Chen Wansong had also heard of Chi Jishang's prowess. And their impression of Xu Ming also remained at the level of "stronger than Ye Qianjue, weaker than Chi Jishang".

"Xu Ming, good luck..." Luo Feng and Chen Wansong could only secretly wish him well.

Song Jiahan clenched her pink fists tightly: "Xu Ming, you must do your best, you must defeat him, and let the entire Desolate Sect know how powerful you are!"

Chi Jishang's attention occasionally fell on Song Jiahans body; this time, he saw again that Song Jiahan was staring at Xu Ming with shining eyes, and her two pink fists were clenched tightly, as if praying and anticipating something.

What could she be praying and anticipating?

Chi Jishang immediately thought -- Damn, she must be praying and anticipating that Xu Ming will defeat me!

"Defeat me?" Chi Jishang sneered in his heart, "Song Jiahan, ah, Song Jiahan, later, I will ruthlessly trample Xu Ming in front of the entire Desolate Sect. By then, you will know that compared to me, Xu Ming is just trash!"

Unfortunately, Chi Jishang would not know -- in Song Jiahan's eyes, he, Chi Jishang, was just like a "small monster" on Xu Ming's leveling path.

Xu Ming defeating the "small monster" was a matter of course and everyone was happy; and if Xu Ming was defeated by the "small monster", then Song Jiahan would not think that the "small monster" was so heroic and brave, but would expect Xu Ming to quickly level up and win back against this "small monster".

That is to say, no matter how amazing, how awesome, or how earth-shattering Chi Jishang performed, Song Jiahan's heart could not possibly shift from Xu Ming to him.

It was such a desperate and sad truth for Chi Jishang -- luckily, Chi Jishang didn't know it yet.

At this time, in the "voice transmission group chat" of the Liang faction's higher-ups, they were all happily discussing: "Haha, the Gu faction is going to have one less person entering the top 32 again!"

The top 32 was certainly nothing. But seeing that their opponent, the Gu faction, could have one less top 32 spot, they were just happy.

"This Xu Ming's talent is really good; it's a pity that he has already been snatched away by their Gu faction."

"I heard that Xu Ming's spearmanship is good -- by the way, Elder Wang, what do you think?"

Elder Wang Chao was the godfather of the spearmanship world in the entire Desolate Sect region!

"Good spearmanship?" Wang Chao sneered disdainfully, "A fifteen-year-old brat who hasn't even held a spear steadily dares to say his spearmanship is good?"

Month stick, year saber, a lifetime spear.

Wang Chao certainly knew how difficult it was to practice spearmanship. It was impossible "in principle" for a fifteen-year-old brat to use a spear well.

However, Xu Ming never reasoned with people!

Liang Weihe, the helm of the Liang faction, also spoke: "Elder Wang Chao is right -- then for this year's first 'faction bet', we will bet on Chi Jishang, does everyone have any objections?"

"No objection!"

"No objection."

"Of course, bet on Chi Jishang!"

"I'm just afraid that in this round, the Gu faction knows they will lose, so they definitely won't accept the bet!"

"I guess they won't accept the bet either!" Liang Weihe smiled casually, "However, how would we know if we don't try? What if they dare to accept? -- Besides, even if they don't dare to accept, it's still quite comfortable to ridicule their Gu faction's disciples in person, isn't it?"

After discussing and finalizing it in the "voice transmission group chat", Liang Weihe directly transmitted his voice to Gu Kongshan and Zhang Kuang: "Kongshan, this year's first 'faction bet', our Liang faction is betting on Chi Jishang, does your Gu faction dare to accept it? As long as you dare to accept it, I'll play along with any bet -- Brother Zhang Kuang, please help witness it."

Zhang Kuang was the Second Elder of the Desolate Sect and the helm of the Zhang faction.

"Kongshan, I know that you may not have the guts to accept this round. It's okay, just squeak and admit that your disciples are not good, I understand, right?"

No more today, five updates tomorrow.