Translated by BerryBunz

Not Allowed to Win

When Li Chang Zai was carried away, a few spectators and participants continued to stare at him, the atmosphere around the competition had unknowingly risen.

Why did he persevere? No one knew, but from the looks of it, he had become the brightest star in the competition.

The stage was completely broken, even the formation array beneath the stage was broken, so it was unable to restore the stage. Furthermore, the protective barrier meant to protect the citizens was destroyed by Su Yun's attack, so continuing the competition was no longer possible, as they required a proper stage.

The organiser immediately summoned a few almighty beings to utilize their mystical techniques to restore the stage. During this period, the competition stopped for a break.

Li Chang Zai was eliminated, leaving only one competitor in Group A. Group D also had one competitor, while two representatives for the organisations remained: Huo Quan Cai and Qin Si.

At this point, the competition was close to its end, but the remaining four participants were the most striking existence of the whole competition, two more rounds and the competition would end!

Su Yun returned to his participant seat and closed his eyes and recuperated quietly. By his side, Lu Zhan Yuan blabbered nonstop, he was completely convinced by Su Yun's swordsmanship, to the point of kneeling down to Su Yun, begging him to take him in as a disciple. More participants had gone over to Su Yun for guidance and were all in discussion.

A Group D participant had knocked out more than two Group A participants, rushing to the top four... What kind of achievement was that? Was he truly a Group D Participant? How was he placed there in the first place?

Countless of people had the same question in mind, even more were suspecting that there was some problem differentiating the participants. For such an outstanding person to be placed into Group D, it was too exaggerated.

"Hello, are you Young Noble Su?"

Just then, a voice sounded out from the walkway. Su Yun opened his eyes and turned to look towards the voice and saw a man dressed in black and red robes with his fists cupped and a smile on his face. On his chest was an emblem of the New Deer Auction House.

"Who are you?" Su Yun asked.

"Oh, this lowly servant is from the New Deer Auction House. Young Noble Su is an unmatched hero, able to defeat other heroes with one sword, my family's Old Master admires Young Noble Su greatly, if Young Noble Su doesn't mind, could you come to the pavilion after the competition to meet with my Old Master?" The man spoke with respect towards Su Yun.

"Your Old Master?"

"My Old Master is also the President of New Deer Auction House!" The man's voice was filled with pride when he announced who his Old Master was.

"President?"

Before Su Yun could even speak, Lu Zhan Yuan patted on Su Yun's shoulder anxiously and said: "Brother Su, it is a blessing, a blessing indeed, the President of New Deer Auction House has taken a liking to your talent and strength, and plans to recruit you to be groomed! This is an absolutely good blessing, with an organization grooming you with their resources, all the treasures and cultivation coins that you desire are within reach and your cultivation will grow even faster! Brother Su, you are extremely fortunate today!"

Lu Zhan Yuan was extremely excited, as though he was the one being recruited. But he was right, to be able to catch the eye of a huge organization was considered a blessing for a wandering cultivator. As long as he agreed, it would mean that he had sold himself to the organization. Since he would be groomed by them, he had to obey to their orders and do what they wanted him to do.

The main goal of joining the New Deer City competition was to raise his fighting strength and head over to the Emperor Palace, if Su Yun were to be stuck in New Deer City, it would be difficult for him to leave. Furthermore, the New Deer Auction House was competing with the other three organizations in the shadows, it was best for him not to get involved to prevent even more troubles. If he were to offend the other three organizations, it would not bode well for him.

Su Yun scratched his chin and thought for a moment, then spoke: "The competition has not ended, whether or not I'll be safe and sound is unknown. Why don't we do this, you go back first and help me thank your President, tell him that we should take this thing slowly and wait for the end of the competition before talking about it, what about that?"

"Hehe, Young Noble Su is right. Alright, this lowly servant will return first." Without speaking further, he bowed and left.

Seeing that, Lu Zhan Yuan looked at Su Yun as though he was looking at a monster. It was a good thing, but he did not accept immediately, if it were Lu Zhan Yuan, he would have immediately left to meet the President.

Just then, two bursts of dense Spirit Qi suddenly pervaded from outside the competition grounds. All of the Spirit Cultivators on site could feel the powerful and horrifying Spirit Qi.

A few anxiously turned to the direction of where the Spirit Qi came from, only to see two figures flying over at a quick speed. Both of them were dressed in colorful robes and were extremely striking. One man and one woman of about forty years old, one wielding a sword while the other wield a cane, the two of them were very powerful.

On their chests were identical logos; New Deer Auction House logos.

"An almighty being! They look like the almighty beings from the New Deer Auction House!"

"They must be Master Yue Xiao and Madam Yu Ta Shan."

"Why are they here? And can they just fly in like that? Don't they know that New Deer City prohibits flight?"

Everyone started discussing amongst themselves.

The two of them flew straight into the competition grounds and directly landed in the middle of the stage. The man, Yue Xiao extended his hand and retrieved a snow white slab, and used his Spirit Qi to activate it.

The snow white slab cracked from the center, like a blossoming flower and the pieces flew in all directions while releasing thin grey lines that flew into mid air and split apart, forming a large web that covered downwards.

After the strange 'spiderweb' connected to the ground, its appearance started to change, secreting a large amount of liquid. After the spiderweb completely transformed, the liquid automatically congealed, ultimately forming a gigantic and unique snow white square stage.

When the two of them finished, they cupped their fists towards New Deer Auction House's pavilion. Without saying anything, they turned and walked towards the big gates.

One of New Deer City's personnel walked over to Zhu Wen and whispered a few words into his ears, causing Zhu Wen to reveal a look of understanding as he nodded his head, he then ran over to the gigantic snow white stage.

He climbed onto the stage and used Spirit Qi to enhance his voice: "Dear esteemed guests and spectators! Please do not find this strange! Just now, the two masters that came were invited by Our New Deer Auction House! Since the stage and energy barrier is broken and we are unable to restore them in a short frame of time, they were invited to construct a new stage for us! That's right! What you see here is a gigantic stage, which was sponsored by the New Deer Auction House and is called 'Snow Jade Space'. The following battles will be conducted in there!!!"

Snow Jade Space? The spectators were startled! After a moment, soft discussions could be heard from all around.

"The Snow Jade Space is the most recent mystical treasure obtained by the New Deer Auction House, it is originally used for Spirit Intermediate Cultivators to train, but today, it is extremely useful for this competition! When the participant enters the Snow Jade Space, their profound Spirit Qi will recover twice as fast, but inside the Snow Jade Space, the weather is extremely vile, with terrifying traps and monsters that would exhaust the spirit cultivator's Spirit Qi! Participants not only have to deal with their enemies, but also the test that comes from the Snow Jade Space!!" Zhu Wen shouted with exaggerated movements: "Now, is everyone ready?"

"Go! Go!! Go!!!!"

The spectators were shouting out excitedly, waves after waves of shouts announcing their anticipation towards the Snow Jade Space. Seeing that, Zhu Wen did not delay any further, and directly pointed his chubby finger to the screen in the air, instantly, the screen started to move.

Two names appeared on the upper part of the screen. Everyone anxiously looked up.

Huo Quan Cai versus Qin Si.

An official representative against another official representative!

The crowd exploded into an uproar as everyone got heated up.

Su Yun looked at the screen and could not help but look towards Han Yue Xin who was at the Group A region. Since it was Huo Quan Cai against Qin Si, then without question, the next match would be Su Yun against Han Yue Xin.

"Brother Su, do your best! Although Miss Han Yue Xin is very powerful, I believe that you will definitely win." Lu Zhan Yuan spoke softly.

"Really?" Su Yun turned and look at him.

"Of course." Lu Zhan Yuan puffed his chest out and spoke with a serious look on his face.

"Alright, then you can go and bet 500 thousand cultivation coins on me winning."

"Erm, about that..." Lu Zhan Yuan's face immediately turned red.

In the previous few rounds, when he saw Su Yun betting on himself and earning buckets after buckets of cultivation coins, he also followed along to bet on Su Yun, but he played it small and had amassed quite a few thousands of cultivation coins.

But in the next match, he did not have the confidence he had before, that was because Su Yun's opponent was the number one Cold Sword Han Yue Xin! In terms of strength, she did not lose out to the official representatives!

Seeing Lu Zhan Yuan hesitate, Su Yun shook his head, he took out his cultivation coins card again and handed it over to Xiao Xiu: "Please bet it on me winning."

"Yes, Young Noble." Xiao Xiu laughed and curtsied.

Seeing that, Lu Zhan Yuan's face was a mix of white and red, perspiration started trickling down his forehead as though he was struggling with a mental battle within himself. After a long while, he finally took out a hundred thousand cultivation coins card with trembling hands and stammered: "T-then help this young master b-bet a hundred thousand."

Xiao Xiu nodded her head and accepted the cultivation coin card.

Lu Zhan Yuan looked as though he was unwilling, as he stared at the cultivation coin card in Xiao Xiu's hands for a long time before retracting this gaze. Seeing that, Su Yun did not know whether to laugh or cry.

Clang!

Just then, the competition round began.

Qin Si and Huo Quan Cai had entered the Snow Jade Space at the same time. Upon seeing each other, they did not say a word, but instantly started fighting! Many different lights formed by mystical techniques constantly exploded within the Snow Jade Space, revealing the intensity of the fight.

Su Yun stared at the Snow Jade Space, wanting to see the uniqueness of the mysterious Snow Jade Space... Just then, someone patted on his shoulders a few times.

Su Yun turned to see that there was a man standing behind him without him knowing, dressed in flowery robes, looking like a rich man. He had a protruding mouth like a monkey and was skinny and tall. He had a birthmark at the corner of his mouth with extremely small eyes. He was smiling towards Su Yun, but did not display any courtesy or sign of respect.

~Who is this? Is he someone else from another organization? The New Deer Auction House already sent a person after all...~

Su Yun thought for a moment, then asked: "Who are you?"

"Me?" The man had his hands folded across his chest as he smiled: "Who I am ain't important, what is important are the words that my family's Young Master had me bring over to you, Su Yun."

Su Yun frowned: "What did he say?"

The man was smiling with his eyes, but he whispered softly in Su Yun's ears: "You are not allowed to win against Miss Han Yue Xin!"

Translated by BerryBunz

The Battle Between the Officials

~Not allowed to win against Han Yue Xin?~

Su Yun frowned, he stared at the man: "Who is your Young Master?"

"Someone you can't offend." The man did not speak further, he chuckled, then patted Su Yun's shoulder again, revealing a cheeky smile, he turned and left. Su Yun watched the man leave. After walking through the walkway, he reached an exquisite private room and after cupping his fists and bowing, he entered.

The private room was luxurious, by the door stood two maidservants, the door itself had an array formation, where the key to activating the formation was already taken by the guest inside. Aside from the guest, no one else could open the doors. This was specially used by the organisers to attract rich guests.

"Brother Su, what's wrong?"

By his side, Lu Zhan Yuan looked at him suspiciously.

"Zhan Yuan, do you know who is in that room?" Su Yun pointed to the room at the end of the walkway.

"That room? I don't have the specifics, but I heard from a few New Deer City participants talking about it before, they said that the person is a noble guest invited by New Deer City's City Lord, with an extremely huge identity. I think that ordinary people dare not provoke that guest? Brother Su, did that guest also display an interest in recruiting you?" Lu Zhan Yuan smiled: "You are truly popular, everyone seems to have take a liking to you, hehe."

"You're wrong." Su Yun laughed bitterly: "This time, the popular person should be Han Yue Xin."

Hearing that, Lu Zhan Yuan started to perspire: "What do you mean by that?"

Su Yun shook his head and did not speak further, he continued to look at the center of the Snow Jade Space.

As the official representatives, Qin Si and Huo Quan Cai had extremely high innate talent, their cultivation was more than multiple times that of their peers. Disregarding their peers, even in New Deer City, the two of them would be well known figures! The two of them were recruited by the organizations, thus were covered with high grade treasures of at least the Sage Level, they might even have Imperial Equipments!

The two of them had extremely beautiful techniques, their mystical techniques were even matched with treasures, the power produced was at a level that no one dared to imagine, but Su Yun was not focused on their style of fighting, they were already used to fighting with treasures matched with their mystical techniques, their methods not suited for wandering cultivators. What he was more focused on was the mysterious Snow Jade Space.

When the participants entered the space, it would immediately form bone chilling gales of wind, snow would fall and wind blew wildly. The wind was not ordinary wind, this wind was easily able to cut people's skin and flesh, the snow was no ordinary snow either, when the snow covered a person's body, it could prevent Spirit Qi from flowing out of the body.

To compete in here, not only must the competitor find ways to defeat their opponent, they also had to raise their guard against the harsh environment that placed them at an disadvantage. Of course, if it was only these, New Deer City Auction House would not use such a treasure to act as the stage.

In the round, there would be white lights that would appear from time to time, and after the white light dissipates, a third stage Spirit Master ferocious beast, called the 'White Haired Ape Sage' would appear using mainly Frigid Aqua Spirit Qi. This 'White Haired Ape Sage' did not have much destructive capabilities, but its most terrifying technique was being able to summon and manipulate the wind and snow to target the participants, bringing forth a lot of trouble.

The White Haired Ape Sage suddenly appeared beside Qin Si, it extended its massive fists and struck its own chest. Following that, it opened its mouth and took a vigorous breath in, which instantly pulled all the wind and snow inside the Snow Jade Space into its mouth, causing the wind and snow to stop.

The White Haired ape Sage then exhaled it towards Qin Si, the snow and wind transformed into a snow dragon that flew at Qin Si. Seeing that, Huo Quan Cai immediately took the opportunity and increased his attacks, perfectly taking into considerations the White Haired Ape Sage's attack.

Whooosh.

Being caught off guard, Qin Si was struck directly in the body by the wind and snow, causing him to turn completely into ice!

"That's great!"

Huo Quan Cai chuckled, he opened up the fan in his hand, where the tail of the fan actually turned into a blade which slashed fiercely towards Qin Si's neck!

A deadly attack!

But in a battle between the representatives of the organizations, no one would stop until their opponent was dead. Even with the evaluators there, even the crowds felt that it was considered a norm.

Crack!

Qin Si who was being frozen into an ice statue, had his head sliced off immediately! But when his head landed, the ice sculpture shattered and transformed into powder.

"A false body?"

Right at the moment when Huo Quan Cai's eyes constricted, a surprise attack was launched from behind him, causing him to be flung out straight for the White Haired Ape Sage!! Unknowingly, Qin Si had actually appeared behind Huo Quan Cai! It was a spectacular counterattack!

Upon seeing Qin Si, the spectators flew into an uproar, all of the participants also praised his move, everyone noting the beautiful counterattack.

The White Haired Ape Sage immediately locked onto the closer target, Huo Quan Cai. It opened its mouth once again and inhaled in the snow and wind, then spat it all out furiously.

Huo Quan Cai's face looked anxious, he immediately unleashed his defensive treasure which formed a layer of thick black armor on his body that looked like a skin made of iron, covering him up tightly.

With the snow and wind on him, Huo Quan Cai had difficulty moving. Qin Si took the opportunity to chase and attack, unleashing 18 palms at Huo Quan Cai. Every single one of these palms contained earth shattering might, which instantly dispersed the snow and ice on Huo Quan Cai's body and formed many handprints dented into the iron skin covering him.

Huo Quan Cai's face turned white, his mouth started flowing with blood, he had instantly fallen to a disadvantage!!

"Huo Quan Cai, you can do it!"

"Qin Si, defeat him with one move! Kill him! Quickly!"

The crowd was extremely roused.

Huo Quan Cai was forced into such such a desperate strait because of the White Haired Ape Sage and Qin Si's pincer attack, he gritted his teeth while staring ferociously at Qin Si, he no longer held back! With a low growl, he unleashed his famous consummate technique.

"Dance of the Heavenly Fan!"

Huo Quan Cai's entire body unleashed a powerful shockwave that pushed the man and ape away. Huo Quan Cai escaped danger, but he was not anxious to leave the bad position, holding onto his fan tightly. While staring at the tip of the fan, his hand moved like a golden snake, gently swaying as it oscillated continuously, the fan subsequently appeared to release Spirit Qi.

Suddenly, Huo Quan Cai's arm extended out straight, his expression warped, as though he had unleashed all of the power in his body and flicked the fan up into the sky.

Whooosh!

The dense clouds in the sky ripped apart as a gigantic fan made out of light descended and smashed to the ground in front of Huo Quan Cai. This fan of light was more than 10 m tall, with a width extending close to a 100 m, almost extending out of the Snow Jade Space, like a large blade slicing part of the dome.

Huo Quan Cai's eyes released a penetrating light, his hand was enveloped with a halo of blue light. He started to move his legs, striding in a serious manner. In his graceful dance, the fan in his hand started to move in an enchanting manner, whenever he raised up his fan, the gigantic fan of light would sway as well.

Huo Quan Cai was in control of it!

The gigantic fan of light slashed at Qin Si. Seeing that, Qin Si immediately dodged.

Boom!!

The entire ground trembled. The Snow Jade Space was like a small boat inside a heavy storm, swaying incessantly. The area where the large fan of light had struck formed an extremely deep gorge which unleashed a powerful destructive force, forcing the White Haired Ape Sage that was closer to Huo Quan Cai to be instantly flung out!!!

What a terrifying force! If it were any human that was struck by it, they would instantly die without a doubt! With the standard of all the previous participants, no one would be able to take on Huo Quan Cai's technique!

Qin Si frowned, he stared and focus at the fan in Huo Quan Cai's hand, and with a snort, he rushed over. From his movements, it looked as though he was prepared to do something to the fan, but Qin Si had truly seen through it, his reaction speed was also very quick, the powerful and destructive fan of light was truly controlled by the fan in Huo Quan Cai's hands. But Qin Si did not understand one thing, it was that the fan held by Huo Quan Cai could not be taken that easily!

Huo Quan Cai moved agilely and steadily, when Qin Si approached him, he turned around and in an instant, landed at the side of the Snow Jade Space, instantly pulling away from Qin Si.

"What a beautiful movement technique and what stunning attack! Huo Quan Cai's Dance of the Heavenly Fan is truly unordinary! I never thought that a man can also dance so gracefully, it is a pleasing performance!"

Beneath the stage, Liu Gu could not resist but praise out loud.

"That's right, even though he is a representative of one of the official organizations, even I might not be able to defeat him." Zhang Guo Hao added.

Everyone else nodded. Even the evaluators could only be spectators in such a level of fight.

It seemed like it would not be easy for Qin Si to win the fight.

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Five Leaves City!

A huge trading city that was famous in the Ultimate Martial World. In here, many large trading families held onto large lands and was where countless of powerful cultivators chose to stay! And inside Five Leaves City, The Huai Rou Family was the most famous and powerful.

Inside the Huai Rou Mansion in the middle of Five Leaves City, a maidservant dressed in green, with a beautiful head ornament rushed anxiously towards a pavilion made out of gold and jade.

"Young miss, young miss!"

When the maidservant approached the doors, she shouted out excitedly: "There's news of the Young Noble, there's news of the Young Noble, Young miss!"

"Oh? So fast?"

An indifferent and gentle voice came out from the pavilion. Following that, the large doors that was covered completely with bright gems was gently pushed open. A young lady dressed in yellow and pink walked out gracefully.

The maidservant was smiling from ear to ear as she handed over a jadestone.

The young lady accepted the jadestone and extended her slender finger, imbuing some Spirit Qi in it which caused the jadestone to unleash a light aura that had rows of words flickering in it.

"Oh? Su Yun is in New Deer City? And is participating in the competition held there?" Huai Rou Mu Yu blinked her eyes as she started to ponder.

"With Young Noble Su's strength, he will definitely be able to obtain the first place." The maidservant laughed.

Huai Rou Mu Yu gently shook her head and said: "Su Yun is indeed quite strong, but the competition is an open competition with a few trading organizations collaborating and organizing it. It isn't considered an official competition, there will definitely be a few representatives from the organizations participating as well, all of them definitely powerful individuals. With the support of the organizations, they will have powerful treasures on them. Su Yun will be able to reach the finals without a problem, but if he wants to be the champion, I am afraid that will be difficult."

"T-that's already a very good outcome, since he will be in the top few..." The maidservant scratched her head and said.

"What I am more curious about, is his reason for running to New Deer City to participate in the competition. Is he doing it for the prize money? Is he lacking money?"

"Maybe he just wants to spar with a few experts." The maidservant grinned, when she suddenly thought of something, and spoke anxiously: "Oh yes, young miss, the servant that obtained the news said that Young Noble Su was placed in Group D, but he had already interacted with a few Group A and B participants. However, in the middle of it, something happened and Su Yun's present situation isn't looking optimistic."

"Isn't looking optimistic?" Huai Rou Mu Yu frowned: "Something happened?"

"It's related to the Quick Blade Sect. It was said that in the competition, Young Noble Su killed Quick Blade Sect's Disciple, Dao Huang. The Quick Blade Sect protects their disciples really well and Dao Huang is even the Sect Leader's daughter! I am afraid that when the competition ends, the Quick Blade Sect will find Young Noble Su for revenge and he will most likely be in a dangerous situation after the competition." The maidservant said.

"Quick Blade Sect?"

Huai Rou Mu Yu looked down to the ground as she whispered the name gently.