"Senior Sister Mu Xue has challenged Elder Si Chen. They've both headed to the Martial Training Ground!"
Number twenty-six on the Azure Profound Ranking was challenging number three!
What did that mean? Normally, to watch a fight at this level, you had to spend spirit stones at an auction to buy an Image-Recording Jade Slip!
And now it was actually happening live in their own sect!?
Forget the Joyous Union Sect-this would have made headlines across the entire Eastern Region.
Once the news spread, whether they were practicing swordplay, refining pills, or even whispering sweet nothings to a lover, everyone who could move surged toward the Martial Training Ground in a dense, dark tide.
Cultivation? That could wait! But gossip had to be served piping hot!
Li Tiezhu had just settled into meditation in his assigned disciple courtyard when he heard an uproar outside, as though a pot had boiled over.
He pushed the door open and caught a male disciple who was racing past. "Senior Brother, what happened?"
"Senior Sister Mu Xue's challenging Elder Si Chen! Martial Training Ground!" The disciple tossed out those words and ran off without a trace.
Li Tiezhu stood rooted to the spot, quickly running through the day's events in his head.
"...This isn't how things were supposed to go, is it?"
"Wasn't this a matchmaking date?" he muttered to himself. "How did it turn into a match in the ring?"
Black Mountain ambled out of the room, half a pastry still in his mouth. After hearing the whole story, he slapped his thigh. "Now that's more like it!"
Li Tiezhu turned toward him. "Huh? What is?"
"If you fancy someone, fight them!"
Black Mountain said it as though it were only natural, his face practically declaring, "I know all about this!" "Win the