The Nine Skies Swordsman

Episodes 165. The Island Tournament Finally Begins. 2

🎵Those who studied Cultivation🎵

🎵No priority appearance🎵

🎵But the way of life with Virtue🎵

🎵Become a pillar of Life Cultivator🎵

🎵Life in his world, the world that pursues Eternity🎵

🎵Engraving his name in the Nine Realms of the Sky🎵

The melodious song voiced the spirit of the spear and sword dance. The dozens of Dancers swerving around inside the Tarung Ring entertained the hundreds of thousands of warriors present there, on the Island of Fire.

The ring is a rectangular shape. Most of the floor is made of red rocks. There are four poles on each corner. Each pole was 108 Feet tall, carved with carvings of Dragons and Tigers fighting at the top and bottom of its mast.

There is a small rectangular yellow sheet of paper attached to the top of each pole. The yellow paper contained the formation carving, the Dragon Tiger Shield Formation was named after him. Formations that make attacks from the inside out of the ring or vice versa will not be able to be done when the formation is activated.

In other words, the Formation would confine every participant of the Tournament within the fighting ring. No matter how strong the attack that occurred from within the ring, it would not reach the audience seats, nor vice versa. This formation is absolute there every Island Tournament is organized.

As all the masked girls watched with hikmad the spear and sword dance treat, just below the flag fluttering of the Cambodian Flower Valley College, Meiling's eyes, whose face was masked, continued to point towards Tianfuzi. There was anger in both eyes.

Yubing, however, is invisible. He was assigned to go with an Elder to investigate the news about the Space Mountain Party. The news of the Angkasa Mountain Party was destroyed as if dimmed due to the excitement of the Island Tournament that was happening at this time, only the Cambodian Valley College was so worried about its branch.

One thing was certain, when Yubing arrived at the Space Mountain Party, he did not find the bodies of Lengjing and Qingyue there. While the news of Lengyue's abduction has been known more clearly than the story of a maid Granny Lengyue who arrived a few days earlier on Fire Island.

The grandmother herself, rushed back to the Space Mountain Party, and yet, she was late. By the time they arrived, everything was gone. With great killing intent he darted towards the House of Trah Gu, alone.

In the direction of Meiling's gaze, Tianfuzi sat in the row of the two martial ruler colleges of the Penda Continent, namely the Sky Cloud Academy and the Dark World's College. Both schools support each other. They even put their college flag pennants lined up, side by side, as if they were one college piece.

Although the ones attending the Island Tournament were more than hundreds of thousands of warriors, but in reality there were only less than 100 participants who participated in the Tournament, to be exact, only 96 Swordsmen and almost half of them were students of the two Pure Blood Tribe colleges.

During this time, they were the ones who monopolized the position of champion of the Island Tournament. Many warriors say, the tournament is just a spectacle event to show off the strength of the students from the two colleges. But there are still many Swordsmen who take the time to watch the Island Tournament.

Ranked first in the previous Island Tournament, the young man sitting next to Tianfuzi, was named Tianxian. His cultivation was the highest among all the participants who took part in this year's tournament, the early stage Saint Master realm. The land that is said to be the beginning of a bottleneck that is difficult to penetrate.

“Thank you Uncle. Thanks to Uncle's help, I managed to reach this cultivation realm.” Tianxian said to Tianfuzi. Just the day before, he had managed to break through the bottleneck and become a Saint Master Swordsman. All of that was thanks to the Saint Formation Pill that Tianfuzi had given him.

“Not a problem. I did all of this, also for the good of the Tian family. Remember, your job is to kill that White Devil, use this, before killing him.” Tianfuzi said as his eyes scanned the rows of seats in White Tunjung College.

The night before this, Tianfuzi found out, White Devil's real name was Gofan and was the New Heir of White Tunjung College, who had registered himself as a participant of the Tournament.

Tianxian received a small dark green nail the size of a thumb from Tianfuzi.

“Sea Nail Memories?.” Said slowly.

“True. Before he dies, I want you to copy all the boy's memories.” Tianfuzi.

The small nail he gave was a Secret Treasure, it could copy the memories and memories of the person who was hit by the small nail attack. Tianfuzi intended to find out more about Gofan before killing him.

Tianxian nodded, he recalled the moment Tianfuzi came to him and inquired about the news of White Devil identity. Tianxian explained that all the rumors he had heard were from someone who had suddenly spread the news about Gofan among the Taizongbudui Army.

Of course, it was Xiongmeng. After giving clues to Gofan's betrayal plan and White Cross College's cooperation to Lixiayo, he spreads Gofan's identity, however he knows, many Princes hate Gofan.

On the other hand, seated a one-eyed skinny Youth, he smilingly looked towards the King of Penda, as if he was very familiar with that king. He was a Freelance Swordsman, he, Gumulryong who some time before had annihilated the Space Mountain Party. He also registered as a Tournament Participant. Not representing the Gu Clan, his goal was not to obtain a Gift but something else. The Gu Trah has been represented by Guxiong.

Other participants who also participated in the Tournament, were some of the Swordsmen who had previously encountered Gofan in the Drought Bamboo Forest. It had been more than a year since then, they would not even remember Gofan, if they met him.

Under the fluttering of the Jade Bamboo College flag, sat Yanse and a young Girl representing the College. Not far from there, Hanbo from the Iron Stick College was also present as a participant.

In the line of Swordsmen who were seen flaunting their spears, sat Moyo, from the Dragon Spear College, he was also present as the representative of his college. Next to him sat Grandfather who loved him dearly, Mogui, the Swordsman of the Golden Needle. Now, Mogui has taken power while at the Dragon Spear College. He is the Mahaguru While the college with the flag bearing the crossed spear.

On the South side, under the flag with the image of Mata, Lingzi who also participated in the Tournament. But her appearance had changed considerably, The girl was now dressed very covered. His entire body was clad in black clothes, only his eyes and palms were visible from the outside. On his back hung two swords that crossed each other. He was the only representative of the Sky Eye College.

On the South side it also looks a college that almost all of its students wear clothes of animal skin. One of them, a Girl wearing a hat from fox skin, who was the representative of that college, the Beast God College.

The girl's gaze exuded manliness. His feet up, in his seat, did not look like a girl at all. His right hand continuously stroked the red-tailed white fox that was in his arms.

“Those who always occupy the champion position. But, it seems, this year, they will be eliminated all.” The girl muttered disdainfully, as her gaze led to Tianxian's seat.

**

“Fanfan. This voice token informed me again, the opening event is almost over. The False King will give his speech.” Xionan said as his hand clasped a wooden token emitting a thin green light illuminated his footsteps within the darkness.

While the excitement occurred at the Ring Tarung Tournament Island, underground, in a small tunnel similar to a cave passage, not far from the Ring Tarung, Gofan, Xionan, and others, and Shiyuxin was walking like she was looking for something.

“Silence. You don't need to know. Your job is done, why do you keep following us?.” Xionan ketus.

Gofan furrowed his eyebrows, all day, he kept messing around with the strange debate of the two girls who followed him “Nannan. You guys better come back, I'll send my land man puppets to represent me in the early rounds of this Tournament.” Gofan interrupted Shiyuxin who had just opened her mouth to reply to Xionan.

Gofan prefers to continue his own journey inside the long tunnel, rather than having to continue listening to the debate between the two. Already all day, during tracing the tunnel, the two look very incompatible.

Xionan was silent for a moment, he seemed to think of many things, “Good. But remember to share the Lucky Meetings section you got for me.”

“Fanfan. Me too.” Spoiled chirps Shiyuxin.

Knowing Xionan, constantly calling Gofan Fanfan, he followed him. I'm his wife, so I'm the one who deserves to call him that, that's what he thinks.

The tunnel they traced was still very long, whereas in the map they found, the Lucky Meeting on the Island of Fire, would not be that far away. It turns out that the image on the map is much different from the real scale. That's all because, on the map, only the initial picture of the tunnel passage and the place to go, does not show the existence of a long tunnel before reaching the location.

Yes, the day before, for seeing the nearby location of the Lucky Meeting on the Map they obtained from Jangbi. Gofan and Xionan decided to look for the Lucky Meeting, although there was only one more day left before the Tournament started. Who would have thought, if the location of the entrance was in the Dark World School tent.

Precisely in a small crack in the gap of the rock hill wall in the campground section of the College. Since the college was guarded by a herd of Undead, they inadvertently asked Shiyuxin for help to sneak in, so as not to cause a commotion. Back then, Shiyuxin was investigating about Xionan and met with the two.

The day after Gofan completed the merger of two Magic Shell Necklaces, Gofan met Xionan who reminded him of the Lucky Meeting Map on Fire Island and they decided to look for him.

As for the result of the merger of the two Magic Shells, it looks to be like a two-story foundation of a miniature tower. Now, Longwang, Longyun, and Longwei, all three, live inside the miniature semi-finished tower.

“Of course.” Gofan said, when a ground-man doll with a look similar to him appeared behind Shiyuxin.

“Ayo-!.” Said the human doll like Gofan. Somehow Gofan was able to make the Earth-man Puppets seem to be truly alive, that was what Xionan and Shiyuxin thought as they left the tunnel.

After a while, as Gofan walked deeper into the tunnel, a dim light was visible not far from him.

“This light?!.” Gofan murmured as he arrived near the dim light.

A lamp similar to the Soul Lantern emitted such a faint light.

“True. This is the Soul Lantern... It still works fine.” He muttered as he watched more closely the Soul Lantern that floated in the middle of the Tunnel.

“Hmm... The boy... Did you come to take the Treasure?.” A voice sounded out from that Soul Lantern.

Gofan was startled for a moment, he knew, that the dim light was not an ordinary fire, it was a soul light. As the voice rang out, a tiny figure could be seen emerging from the dim light within the Soul Lantern.

That figure, his body was only light, but it was in the shape of a small human. He looked like an old man with a long beard but no hair. The tiny figure, sitting cross-legged and gazing towards Gofan.

Gofan's body trembled, as their eyes met. It was as if there was a huge mountain on top of his back, which made his entire body feel almost fall. If not for the True Dragon Elephant Body, it was possible that Gofan had already drooped unconscious on the ground.

“Ukh...” Gofan spewed out a lump of blood.

His trembling legs tried hard to resist the heavy feeling that hit him. What is this, just looking at him, I feel like I almost died, he thought as his heart beat so fast.

Even a Swordsman in the Human God Realm, would not make it like this. This made Gofan really scared.

Gofan nodded, he was unable to say any words, his body was completely depressed. To nod that too, he had to exert a lot of his profound strength.

“Just go back. Go home and come again when you reach the late stage Human God realm Say the tiny figure.

Gofan. He's been spending all day, tracing the tunnel. Although with Step lightening his body, he still needed a day to get to where he was now. He was so curious about the Treasure that was called the glowing figure, obviously he would not want to leave.

After a few breaths later, the tiny glowing figure laughed out loud, “Good... If you can get to the next Lantern, and still be able to walk, go on.”

*Deg*

Gofan's eyes widened to hear the old man's soul speech in the Soul Lantern. There were still other lanterns after this, that was how he thought. The lantern in front of him alone, already made it feel like carrying a Mountain, what about the next Lantern.

Gofan forced himself to move further. Although just a moment ago, he was shocked, there would be another Lantern waiting for him in front. He insisted on continuing.

After a few breaths, the fear he felt at the beginning had turned into curiosity for the Treasure he might find. Although his steps were slow, his legs were trembling, and sweat was pouring down, in Gofan's eyes a glimmer of spirit light was emanating. His fear turned into a desire to become even stronger.

“The soul in the Lantern is very strong... I want to go beyond it.” Gofan murmured in the heart.

Today, he realized, to be a Swordsman who wanted to break through the Nine Celestial Realms, he was still too weak. He who had died many times because of his body exploding, for the first time felt a real dead sensation again, like the first time he died in the presence of a Bamboo Bear. The fear that made his heart seem like it was about to jump out left his body.

“Sials. If it's like this, I think it'll take longer to arrive at that place.” Think Gofan.

He tried hard to take every step of his foot. Although it was already five to six steps away from the first Soul Lantern, the pressure did not decrease in the least. More and more, the inner energy he exerted.

Seriate...