The Six Immortals

 Disgraced

Finally, it was Jing Feng’s turn, and the Ming Fung Valley came to life amidst deafening cheers and screams.

“Jing Feng! Jing Feng! I love you! You’re the best!….”

All the girls were standing up and cheering for him.

Yunufeng girls were no exception, they were shouting so loud that Bi Fan felt as if his ear drums would explode.

Xiaofeng wasn’t shouting or cheering but looked seemingly tensed.

“Maybe I’m over conscious of my status. If I feel slightly better about my position, then maybe Xiaofeng will like me more.” Bi Fan tried to reason with himself.

Jing Feng walked onto the stage and took out a top grade magical weapon, a pike. The pike stood over two meters in height, and Jing Feng stood there, looking like a tiger. An elegant tiger, waiting to devour his prey.

This action seemed deliberate on Jing Feng’s part and drew a lot of cheers from the crowd.

Jing Feng’s opponent was a man named Han Zhuang. He was a third-year student, big and brawny, but was no match for Jing Feng. Which he seemed well aware of as he didn’t really seem interested in even putting up a fight.

“My respected opponent, now’s your chance to make a run for it.” Jing Feng pointed his pike towards his opponent and charged straight for him at a thunderous speed.

Han Zhuang, seeing Jing Feng charge, looked terrified, and stripped of any desire to fight.

“I give up!”

As his opponent resigned from the fight, Jing Feng stopped his weapon close to his face and withdrew it to a standing position. He stood there with his pike next to him, tall and proud.

“Jing Feng! Jing Feng! You’re so handsome!”

The girls in the Ming Fung Valley started screaming again, their voices flooding the arena like a tsunami.

Xioafeng’s beautiful eyes were looking at Jing Feng, the look in them clearly indicated the attraction she felt for him.

Bi Fan’s head was hung low, his heart, even lower.

Bi Fan liked two women in this world; one was Xiaofeng, and the other, Yan Yu Si, who was helping him with his career.

Yan Yu Si was not only the master of Yunufeng, but she was also very widely respected as one the most talented geniuses in Quinyang. In fact, she was well known and respected in the Tian Yu world as the master of one of the best schools, Xuannu palace.

She was so far beyond Bi Fan’s reach that even dreaming of her seemed unrealistic.

Relatively, Xiaofeng was a lot closer to Bi Fan and had been looking after him.

Earlier Bi Fan had never had any hope of improving his strength but at least now he could afford that luxury.

Unfortunately, she seemed interested in Jing Feng and even though Bi Fan could consider fighting off others, he knew that he was no match for Jing Feng. Jing Feng was far too superior to him in skill, and he could never hope to compete with him.

Bi Fan in his depressed state couldn’t help but think of Yan Yu Si’s voice and gradually a smile returned to his face as he felt good again.

The contest progressed very quickly, and most of the skills on display gradually started repeating. Bi Fan would remain very relaxed until he found something new, something he hadn’t seen before.

The Neimen school students were usually much better than their competitors and relatively stronger than Bi Fan; he was paying special attention to them.

Compared to these skills, ‘blood devil’ and ‘rainy-fly sword’ were much darker techniques.

Bi Fan put his thoughts aside, and began concentrating on memorizing as many techniques as he could.

Xiaofeng looked at Bi Fan’s ecstatic face, she felt her heart flutter.

Some say that passionate men are the most attractive.

If Bi Fan knew that he was attracting interest from Xiaofeng, his now calm heart would revert back to a state of turmoil.

The second round was under progress, and Jing Feng made his way to stage again.

Jing Feng took out his pike and charged straight for his opponent again, and the fight again was resolved very quickly. Another easy victory for him.

Jing Feng was extremely strong and had a decorated name, and over the years had disciplined himself as a martial artist. He was already in the ‘transformation’ layer.

Amongst the Neimen students Jing Feng was the deserved best and by some margin at that. But Mo Nan could still hope to compete against him.

Even if Jing Feng came across a Neimen student, they would be too afraid to fight him. Most of them considered him to be unbeatable.

Jing Feng stood there, tall and proud, undefeated, ready for any fight.

 Mo Nan had been watching Jing Feng carefully; he didn’t care much about winning or losing. He just wanted to give Jing Feng a run for his money.

Mo Nan’s eyes met Jing Feng’s and time seemed to freeze for them.

Bi Fan looked at the two of them: “I must become stronger, and sooner or later, I will get there too.”

The contest continued, and there were some excellent displays of strength and technique.

Jing Feng and Mo Nan were both very talented. And almost no other fighter was a match for either of them.

In the recent years, Quinyang schools had been unable to recruit a very large number of genuinely talented fighters. So naturally, the really talented fighters were very much sought after.

Because of this, whenever, Ling Xin Ya spotted a talented youngster, he would quickly inquire into their lives before accepting them as a student.

Jing Feng again swept his rival outside the ring with his pike and won conveniently.

Mo Nan wasn’t weak either, he would charge his opponents like a viper, and his with his double-edged sword assisting him, would force his opponents to admit defeat.

Jing Feng again took the stage, and knocked his opponent around till he admitted defeat.

Mo Nan’s feather light sword would reach his opponent’s throat making them submit to his superiority.

……      ……. 

The arena was becoming a place to watch out for these two performers, Jing Feng and Mo Nan, each had their own unique skill set and their mutual rivalry.

The stands were divided into two factions, the girls were cheering for Jing Feng whereas the boys were supporting Mo Nan.

Ming Fung Valley was bustling with excitement, it was reaching a point where it could be a few days before the noise of the tournament would stop resonating.

After one day of memorizing so many different skills, Bi Fan felt as if head was going to explode.

Most of the participants had been knocked out of the tournament and were beginning to leave, as the day was coming to an end, the tournament would continue on the next day.

With the contest over for the day, Jing Feng was again surrounded with girls, and could help but produce a wry smile.

Yunufeng girls also wanted to butt in, so they dragged Bi Fan along.

It was obvious that Jing Feng was extremely popular, and they need Bi Fan to get his attention.

They hadn’t gone too far before being stopped by five boys.

“If it isn’t the beauties of Yunufeng, you should hurry back to your mountain…” spoke a man with a face as black as charcoal.

Bi Fan on account of everything that had been going on today, especially after Jing Feng’s display was feeling slightly provocative.

Xiaofeng said in a cold voice: “what do you want Luo Sheng?”

“Nothing really, I just heard about a male student from Yunufeng who has a good relation with Jing Feng. A strong and desirable talent, so I just decided to take a look for myself.”

Luo Sheng turned to face Bi Fan, who would normally do anything to avoid trouble.

Nope, not today.

Bi Fan took a couple of steps forward, carefully looked at Luo Sheng and said: “Brother, leave just the way you came, before you disgrace yourself.”

His words were enough, the Yunufeng girls started laughing, and even Xiaofeng couldn’t help but produce a slight smile.

The look on Luo Sheng’s face drastically changed, he was suddenly red and purple with anger.

“Oh, so you think that because you’re friends with Jing Feng, I won’t touch you? Boy, I challenge you!”

“Oh, so you’ve been a student for years and still go around challenging new comers if they make you blush, well, given your complexion, I can’t even tell if you’re blushing or not.”

Xiaofeng was afraid that Bi Fan might accept the challenge. She wanted to say something as she knew that if he accepted the challenge, there would be no way out of it.

“I accept the challenge! But …….” Bi Fan suddenly responded.