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Stop with the self-introductions?

And "Number Three"?

The burly black youth was anxious—what was the point of him coming up here so enthusiastically? Wasn't it to defeat Xu Ming and make a name for himself!

But now, Xu Ming was actually telling him not to introduce himself, which was unacceptable—if he defeated Xu Ming but no one knew his name, wouldn't all his efforts be in vain?

What was even more infuriating was that Xu Ming had actually named him "Number Three."

What did "Number Three" mean?

Numbers One and Two had already been slapped off the stage by Xu Ming!—Number Three? Did that mean he was the third one?

"Hmph, clearly at the end of your rope, yet still so arrogant!"

Number Three stepped forward angrily, pointing at Xu Ming and shouting, "Listen up, my name is…"

Smack!

Before Number Three could finish speaking, he was slapped and sent flying.

Bang!

Watching the burly black youth crash outside the arena, the entire audience fell silent once more.

Feeling the sympathetic, pitiful, and mocking gazes from all directions, Number Three truly felt so depressed that he wanted to die.

"Fortunately…" Amidst his depression, Number Three was actually a little relieved, "Fortunately, I didn't have time to announce my name just now, otherwise, I would have lost face big time!"

Although he was losing face now, once the Longevity Celebration ended, no one would remember him; at most, they would only remember "Number Three."

"Number Three is losing face, not me!" Number Three thought to himself.

"Is there anyone else?" Xu Ming glanced provocatively at Envoy Zhao.

It's true that the tree desires tranquility, but the wind won't cease. I was even trying to save you some face, but you insisted on offering your face for me to slap.

Isn't that just asking for it?

At this moment, Number Three ran to Envoy Zhao while covering his face, complaining, "Master Zhao, this is a trap! You said Xu Ming was at the end of his rope… but as a result, I didn't even have a chance to resist before he slapped me off the stage."

Envoy Zhao's expression was unsightly: "You useless trash!"

Useless trash?

Number Three truly felt wronged…

Among their seven disciples, the strongest wasn't him, but Number Two. Even Number Two was slapped away, so it was only normal that he would be slapped away as well, right?

Number Three looked at Envoy Zhao resentfully, muttering in his heart: "This is clearly your misjudgment, saying that Xu Ming was at the end of his rope. Why are you blaming me instead?"

Envoy Zhao was unhappy, but he didn't dare to send anyone else up.

"Hmph, I won't misjudge! This kid used such a powerful secret technique, he must definitely be at the end of his rope now!" Envoy Zhao was certain, "It's just that I can't be sure when he will enter a weakened state…"

What if he sent someone else up, and they were slapped down again? Where would Envoy Zhao's face be?

"Wait and see!" Envoy Zhao immediately decided, "Wait for others to fight a few rounds first; that way, he will definitely have entered a weakened state; when that time comes, I'll find a way to provoke him into fighting!"

"Envoy Zhao." Seeing that the other party hadn't said anything for a long time, Xu Ming deliberately provoked, "Are you chickening out?"

"Chickening out?" Envoy Zhao laughed, "I just saw that you've fought three rounds in a row, and I'm worried that your stamina is too depleted, so I'm giving you a chance to rest!"

What the heck!

Xu Ming widened his eyes—this Envoy Zhao was actually able to be so shamelessly self-righteous!

Most of the spectators present were also discerning people.

"This Envoy Zhao is shameless!"

"Indeed shameless! Clearly he's afraid of Xu Ming and doesn't dare to send anyone else up, yet he's still saying such self-righteous words!"

"Why do I feel like Envoy Zhao is slapping his own face by saying these words, 'slap slap slap'!"

"Haha, this Envoy Zhao from the Wild Desolation Sect has reached a new level of shamelessness!"

Xu Ming looked at Envoy Zhao meaningfully: "Then I'll go down and rest; don't come challenging me later!"

After Xu Ming went down, many geniuses successively took to the stage to display their strength.

Among these geniuses, there were quite a few who genuinely had good talent, at least no weaker than the geniuses from previous Longevity Celebration battles.

However, this year's Longevity Celebration battle, because of Xu Ming's explosively arrogant strength in front, even if the geniuses who came on stage later performed as hard as they could and were as amazing as they could be, they all seemed lackluster in comparison.

"Boring…" Watching the battle on the stage, a lone Innate Realm expert sighed.

"Boring?" His friend said, "Actually, if you ask me, this year's geniuses are even better than those from previous Longevity Celebration battles. Just now, two geniuses with Half-Innate Realm strength have already appeared!—The only reason you find it boring is because Xu Ming is too powerful! Indeed, compared to him, the other geniuses are all trash!"

"Xu Ming is destined not to belong to this small place of the Flying Cloud Kingdom! Alas, let's just watch these ordinary geniuses on stage; the future stage of the Flying Cloud Kingdom belongs to them…"

The geniuses who perform amazingly in the Longevity Celebration battle may become Innate Realm warriors in the future, becoming important figures. And today's Longevity Celebration battle is the fame-making battle for these future Innate Realm experts.

"Speaking of which, we also became famous in the Longevity Celebration battle back then!"

These two Innate Realm warriors couldn't help but sigh and recall the past.

The geniuses from the various martial academies, various families, and various forces successively stepped onto the stage to show their strength.

"Boss, I'm going up to play too!" Sun Ji said excitedly, standing up.

His target was precisely the Inner Training Middle Stage warrior on the stage.

“Okay, be careful,” Xu Ming said with a smile.

Xu Ming was confident in Sun Ji's strength.

Although Sun Ji was only at the early stage of Internal Refinement, he was born with immense strength and was not afraid of those at the middle stage. Moreover, Xu Ming had secretly used quite a few "Attribute Stones" on Sun Ji, so Sun Ji's true strength was approaching the late stage of Internal Refinement!

"It's just that these three types of Attribute Stones seem to be more difficult for others to use than for me, I wonder why."

With such inexpensive and high-quality items like Attribute Stones, Xu Ming certainly couldn't forget his good friends.

So far, Xu Ming had quietly let Sun Ji, Xu Kai, Wen Shuai, Old Du, Gu Hanmo, and Qin Ran try the Attribute Stones. He found that everyone's acceptance of the Attribute Stones was different.

For example, Sun Ji seemed to have a high acceptance of Strength Stones; he used ten in one go before feeling a little "full" and needing some time to digest before continuing.

However, Sun Ji's acceptance of Agility Stones and Wisdom Stones was much worse. He only used three Agility Stones, and only one Wisdom Stone before...

"It seems that Sun Ji's wisdom is... relatively weak!" Xu Ming thought euphemistically.

Xu Kai and Wen Shuai, in terms of Attribute Stone acceptance, were generally worse than Sun Ji. However, they both used more Wisdom Stones than Sun Ji.

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Old Du was the strongest among them, at the Perfect stage of the Acquired Realm. Xu Ming originally thought that he would be able to use the most Attribute Stones; however, Old Du felt "full" after using a dozen of each type.

On the other hand, Gu Hanmo, whose cultivation was not as good as Old Du's, used more than forty of each type of Attribute Stone in one go!

"Could it be that the absorption rate of Attribute Stones is linked to some kind of talent?"

Xu Ming suspected that Sun Ji would never be able to absorb a hundred Wisdom Stones in his life.

On the arena, Sun Ji was already showing some brilliance. His opponent, who was at the middle stage of Internal Refinement, was unable to resist him and retreated steadily.

In the blink of an eye, the outcome was decided.

"Who is this person?" Many people were curious.

Previously, Sun Ji was only relatively well-known within the Man荒 Martial Academy. Not many people outside the Man荒 Martial Academy had heard of him.

"He is Sun Ji, a new disciple of the Man荒 Martial Academy this year! He seems to have a very close relationship with Xu Ming and is Xu Ming's little brother!"

"So he's Xu Ming's little brother, no wonder he has such a strong ability to fight beyond his level!"

Sun Ji won three consecutive matches, and even defeated a late-stage Internal Refinement martial artist; it wasn't until the fourth battle that he was defeated by a veteran late-stage Internal Refinement martial artist.

Not long after Sun Ji went up, Quan Xin also stepped onto the arena.

Quan Xin's relationship with Xu Ming couldn't be said to be very close; it was only because she had a common enemy with Xu Ming that she was taken in by Xu Ming.

Xu Ming certainly wouldn't share treasures like Attribute Stones, which were impossible to find elsewhere, with Quan Xin—even though Attribute Stones were dirt cheap to Xu Ming now!

You must know that Quan Xin had assassinated Xu Ming before; it was already good enough that Xu Ming took her in because of a common enemy, how could he share Attribute Stones with her?

Quan Xin's attacks were strange. She sat cross-legged on the arena, playing the guqin.

Late-stage Internal Refinement geniuses successively went on stage to challenge her, but they were all easily defeated by Quan Xin. Even a semi-Acquired Realm martial artist appeared later, but still lost to Quan Xin.

Suddenly, there was a lull in the arena; which meant that no one dared to go up and challenge Quan Xin!

The geniuses of the Flying Cloud Kingdom were actually beaten to a pulp by a young girl?

Quan Xin's popularity soared!

In addition, Quan Xin had an extraordinary temperament, and the sensation she caused was almost as great as Xu Ming's!

"The Nine Cauldrons Merchant Association's Miss Quan actually has such strength!"

"What do you know! I heard that Quan Xin and Xu Ming fought once, and although she lost in the end, she retreated completely unscathed!"

"Retreated completely unscathed from Xu Ming's hands? Tell me more!" The listener immediately became interested.

You must know that being able to retreat completely unscathed from Xu Ming's hands was not easy!

The listener couldn't help but turn his gaze to several Man荒 Sect disciples.

"Those Acquired Realm Man荒 Sect disciples are all..."

Envoy Zhao felt the gazes of contempt around him and couldn't help but feel inexplicable—what's going on? I didn't send anyone to the arena, I'm just sitting here honestly, why am I being despised again?

How could he have imagined that others would directly compare Quan Xin's uninjured retreat from Xu Ming's hands with the Man荒 Sect disciples being repeatedly slapped away by Xu Ming.

The conclusion of the comparison was naturally: Man荒 Sect disciples, trash!

"Hmm?"

Even Old Man Yun Qi was amazed by Quan Xin's performance: "This Miss Quan actually has such talent?"

Old Man Yun Qi couldn't help but think that his time was running out, but he still had no successor, and his eyes lit up.

"Miss Quan Xin!" Old Man Yun Qi stood up.

"What are your instructions, Senior Yun Qi?" Quan Xin quickly stood up and bowed.

Old Man Yun Qi was the top expert in the Flying Cloud Kingdom. Even when the Sixteen Strings Sect was at its most prosperous, they had to be respectful in the face of Old Man Yun Qi.

"Miss Quan Xin, I wonder if you would be willing to become this old man's disciple?"

I only slept at midnight last night and got up at four in the morning to drive on the highway. I'm currently out of town and coded a chapter on my phone; there will only be one update today, please forgive me. In addition, I saw a lot of discussions about the plots of Chi Xue and Quan Xin in the book review section; in fact, I already have clear ideas for the arrangements of these two, please pay attention to the follow-up plot.