Indeed!
Under the rules of the Heaven Ranking Challenge Tournament, although Li Xiaoya had fought Xu Chuling and won, that had only been a supplementary challenge. It did not count toward the restriction of issuing or receiving only one challenge every three days.
This cultivator ranked eighth on the Earth Ranking. If he entered the Heaven Ranking, his ranking rewards would leap considerably when they were distributed twenty-three days later. Naturally, he wanted to seize the chance to challenge Li Xiaoya.
He was not the only one. The cultivator with the pale blue face had the same idea. Ranked fifth, he naturally wanted to snatch an easy bargain too.
Of course, those two were the only people present qualified to challenge Li Xiaoya. None of the others ranked high enough, so they could only watch the show...
"You!" Li Xiaoya choked at his words, looking utterly incensed. His face grew even paler, and even his aura seemed unsteady.
Just as I thought! Although this fellow defeated Xu Chuling, he clearly exhausted too much magic power. What an opportunity! The cultivator rejoiced inwardly, but said with a perfectly solemn expression, "Junior Brother Li! Are you refusing? That's fine!"
"Hmph!" Li Xiaoya's expression changed as he swept his gaze around. All the other cultivators looked delighted by his misfortune. Almost everyone present was an inner clan disciple; there were hardly any legacy disciples. Legacy disciples received nearly twice the benefits these inner clan disciples did, which naturally left them resentful. In their eyes, trampling an inner clan disciple underfoot was quite an entertaining prospect.
Besides, although Li Xiaoya was a legacy disciple, he had obviously only just arrived. Almost everyone was seeing him for the first time and naturally had no friendship with him. Inner clan disciples already had plenty of friction