Only after entering the city did Ye Lin see what was taking place inside: something like a marriage tournament.
Ye Lin had last seen such a spectacle in a mortal city, back when he had first begun cultivating.
He had never expected to see one in the Immortal God Realm.
A marriage tournament.
Ye Lin pushed Yue Qingyi to the front of the crowd. On the vast Arena before them, two Heavenly Immortal cultivators were locked in battle.
This was supposed to be a marriage tournament, with each bout ending before anyone was seriously hurt. But these two had clearly worked themselves into a fury. Every move was deadly, and their eyes brimmed with murderous intent.
They were plainly out to take each other's lives.
"What are they doing?"
Yue Qingyi watched the dazzling spells flash overhead and the two fighters blur into afterimages. She cried out in excitement, then turned to Ye Lin with a puzzled look.
"It's a marriage tournament."
"What's a marriage tournament?"
"A woman is looking for a Dao partner, so she set up this Arena. Whoever can defeat everyone who steps onto it—or fight so fiercely that no one else dares to step up—becomes her husband and Dao partner."
Seeing that Yue Qingyi did not even know what a marriage tournament was, Ye Lin explained it to her.
"Fellow Daoist, you certainly know how to enjoy yourself. Bringing your own Dao partner to a marriage tournament? Impressive. You're a model for us all."
A young man beside Ye Lin gave him an admiring thumbs-up.
Dao partners were not like mortal spouses. Once cultivators became Dao partners, they were bound for life. If either dared betray the other, they would surely be struck by the heavens' fivefold thunder.
The Heavenly Dao and the karma of all