Chapter 704: Nonsense (2/2, Autumn Subscription)

In Shanwanquan's eyes, or rather in the eyes of most of the audience, everyone only saw the Third Elder of Cangshan Sect step onto the stage with his sword, get his sword grabbed, get slapped on the chest by a palm, sent flying backward, and then vomit blood and concede.

That's it?

That's it? That's it? That's it?

A veteran Human-Rank powerhouse, and that's all there is to it???

Shanwanquan was dumbfounded; he even suspected whether this Third Elder of Cangshan Sect was an impostor.

Only after carefully savoring it, and seeing the deep wariness that flashed through the eyes of the other Human-Rank powerhouses when they looked at Fang Yue, did he finally confirm it completely.

The guy on the stage, the one who defeated him, had truly relied on hard strength to one-shot kill this veteran early-stage Human-Rank powerhouse, the Third Elder of Cangshan Sect!

Hiss—

Coming back to his senses, Shanwanquan couldn't help but draw in a cold breath.

Yese Liming, terrifying as such!

Suddenly... he felt relieved.

Not embarrassing anymore!

Because the one who defeated him turned out to be, even among Human-Rank fighters, an awesomely domineering existence.

So what if he lost? He himself wasn't even a Human-Rank waste—what was there to losing?

"Master, I didn't disgrace our Shan Fist Sect! Our loss was well-founded, our loss was as it should be!"

Shanwanquan even suddenly felt a vague sense of pride.

The Third Elder of Cangshan Sect was one-shot killed by Yese Liming.

This waste, himself, was also one-shot killed by Yese Liming.

So me = Third Elder of Cangshan Sect!

Nothing wrong with that, right? By the result, I'm on the same level as the Third Elder of Cangshan Sect!

Shanwanquan, who had originally been preparing to return to the mountain gate for closed-door cultivation, suddenly wasn't in a hurry to leave, and even watched the arena matches with great interest.

Whenever Fang Yue took the stage, he would even wildly cheer him on, vaguely becoming Fang Yue's number one fan—his fanaticism far more intense than that of the ordinary fans who had appeared out of nowhere—seeming afraid that if Fang Yue lost the arena match, it would lower his own prestige.

This left Fang Yue a bit dumbfounded—fighting and fighting, and he inexplicably gained a little follower?

But Fang Yue didn't think much of it, and continued fighting the arena matches as usual.

To save energy, Fang Yue didn't hold anything back either.

Every time his assigned match number was called and he went up to the arena, he tried his best to maintain the level of defeating the enemy in one move.

But that was all. Compared to the other three groups, where ruthlessly lethal battle scenes frequently appeared, his side was really far too mild.

Inexplicably, Fang Yue also gradually accumulated a wave of steady supporters.

Among them, the one shouting the loudest and most excitedly was Yang Hongxia of the Great Sun Merchant Caravan.

"Lord Ye, go for it!"

"Lord Ye is number one under heaven!"

"Lord Ye is mine! The Supreme Guest of our Great Sun Merchant Caravan!"

Seeing this, the others silently distanced themselves a bit from this fanatic.

Of course, there was a reason Yang Hongxia was this excited.

Because the ranking displayed in real time on the stage—since Fang Yue had already defeated too many opponents—the name of the Great Sun Merchant Caravan had already squeezed into the top hundred!

The number of participating fighters had become fewer and fewer; Xiantian Realm experts, under the current pace of the arena matches, were gradually finding themselves unequal to the task.

Although Xiantian Realm martial artists still appeared, they were all at the ceiling level of the Xiantian Realm, generally possessing the ability to barely fight against relatively weaker early-stage Human-Rank powerhouses.

As for veteran Human-Rank powerhouses, like the Grand Elder and Second Elder of Cangshan Sect, they were naturally stably active.

This also proved that the Third Elder of Cangshan Sect, who was bound to these two, had solid true strength—it was just bad luck, running into the barrel of Fang Yue's gun; otherwise, winning several more rounds would have been no problem at all.

Just as he was thinking this, the Second Elder of Cangshan Sect from Group Two was slashed flying out by someone's blade, covered in blood, seemingly on his last breath.

Amidst a wave of exclamations, eyes were drawn over.

Fang Yue glanced sideways and, to his surprise, found that the guy who had cut the man down was staring straight at his side.

"Winner: Vice Regimental Commander of Luocheng Merchant Caravan, Luo Yijie!"

Accompanied by the referee's loud announcement, a stir of voices rose around.

"It's actually the Luocheng Merchant Caravan, ranked second in the Sky Merchant Alliance!"

"Luo Yijie of the Luocheng Merchant Caravan reached the mid-stage Human-Rank realm over a dozen years ago—his strength is unfathomable. Although the Second Elder of Cangshan Sect is also at the mid-stage Human-Rank level, compared to Luo Yijie, he's simply not in the same league!"

"The three Elders of Cangshan Sect, though their character is maxed out, noble and upright, their strength is not among the top tier—truly a pity."

Everyone felt regret one after another; it could be seen that the reputation the three Elders of Cangshan Sect had accumulated on ordinary days was still very effective.

The Second Elder of Cangshan Sect was quickly carried off, while the Grand Elder of Cangshan Sect, after checking the Second Elder's injuries, glared furiously at Luo Yijie and roared sharply.

"Luo Yijie, how dare you strike so ruthlessly! Even if my junior brother's injuries heal, his strength and realm will be forever stuck here—you've destroyed his Martial Dao foundation! This act is nothing short of what the demonic path calls for! Your demonic nature runs deep; you'll eventually suffer Qi Deviation!"

Hearing this, Luo Yijie couldn't help but snort with laughter, withdrew his gaze from Fang Yue, and sneered coldly: "You old dead man, don't bring that garbage martial arts philosophy of your sect onto all of us! Killing people leads to demonic deviation? Tomorrow I'll go up to Cangshan Sect and slaughter your entire gate, and I won't show the slightest sign of demonic deviation—believe it or not?"

His fists, clenched hard!

The Grand Elder of Cangshan Sect, red-eyed, trembled with rage: "Evil fiend! Heretical fiend! A person like you has no right to practice martial arts at all! On the path of Martial Arts, you'll never be able to advance another step!"

Luo Yijie burst out laughing outright.

"Twenty years ago, you were stuck dead at the early-stage Human-Rank realm, crying and begging for a Dao-Breaking Pill—the whole city knew! Now that you've received the Sky Merchant Alliance's favor and smoothly broken through to the mid-stage Human-Rank, this is how you treat our Sky Merchant Alliance?"

"You—!"

The Grand Elder of Cangshan Sect's face instantly flushed red.

Fang Yue still didn't understand why Luo Yijie was saying this, but the people beside him had already started discussing it, as if greatly shocked and bewildered, and for a moment began pointing fingers at Cangshan Sect.

It turned out that back then, the Grand Elder of Cangshan Sect had also committed great evils, with a long record of misdeeds, agonizing daily over his crimes—which led to him being stuck at the early-stage Human-Rank realm.

Then suddenly one day, the Grand Elder of Cangshan Sect began doing good deeds; after persisting for several years, once his reputation rose, he smoothly broke through his realm.

After that, no one knows where the people who suddenly appeared came from, but they began to spread the word that the Grand Elder of Cangshan Sect performed good deeds daily, repented and turned over a new leaf, and only then smoothly broke through his realm.

It was righteous qi, the conviction of the righteous path, that allowed him to break through his realm!

In an instant, the image of the Grand Elder of Cangshan Sect was established, and from then on Cangshan Sect completely transformed into the righteous path, and also became an important cooperative partner of the Heavenly Commerce Alliance.

But judging from what Luo Yi said now, what righteous path, what conviction — all of it is complete nonsense.

Someone just didn't know what conditions were used, took the Heavenly Commerce Alliance's pills, and forcibly broke through, that's all.

As for the constant propaganda about how killing intent leads to demonic cultivation, how one would later fall into demonic corruption — all of it suddenly became utter nonsense.

Night's Breath, activated once more!

(End of this chapter)