Changing the Rules
The Moonless Household's unexpected move put the Yin Mountain Sect in a very difficult position. Sect Master Liu on the platform quickly received a signal from his son.
He glanced at the arena and quickly understood what the Moonless Household was planning.
His face darkened as he looked at the Moonless Household Head sitting beside him. "You promised a one-on-one arena, but you've arranged for five cultivators to participate. What does this mean?"
Sect Master Liu's tone wasn't exactly polite, but Moonless Household Head still smiled and said, "Sect Master Liu, don't be angry. I just wanted to add some novelty to our competition. Anyway, we have so many disciples, so instead of them going up one by one and wasting everyone's time, it would be more exciting if they all went up together."
"But you didn't consult me at all before changing the rules! This competition was jointly organized by our two families. You changed the rules without consulting me. Do you think we, the Yin Mountain Sect, are nothing?!" Sect Master Liu became angrier as he spoke. He was sharp-eared and could already hear the discussions of the cultivators below.
But the Moonless Household Head didn't seem to care. "It's just a small matter, only a slight change in the number of participants. Why is Sect Master Liu taking it so seriously?"
Sect Master Liu's expression grew increasingly grim, and no one from the Yin Mountain Sect was going to take the stage for a long time, causing the cultivators watching the match to discuss the matter animatedly.
Seeing Sect Master Liu's uncooperative attitude, Moonless Household Head was worried that if the other party was really angered, he might do something terrible.
After a moment's thought, the Moonless Household Head had no choice but to back down. "How about this, let's both compromise. It's true we didn't discuss this with Sect Master Liu first, but I've already changed the rules, and the people are already on the stage, it wouldn't be right to call them down..."
Sect Master Liu snorted coldly.
The Moonless Household Head stroked his beard and continued, "How about Sect Master Liu, you also make a slight modification to the rules?"
He's just unwilling to suffer a loss himself, so he's dragging Sect Master Liu down with him to break the rules!
Sect Master Liu remained silent for a moment before finally saying, "Since you've already broken the rules first, I have no choice but to do as you say. The rule I need to change isn't significant; it's just the rule that one person can only participate in one match. Just delete it."
Perhaps not expecting Sect Master Liu to say that, Moonless Household Head was taken aback and immediately refused. "That won't do. We've had this rule set for so many years. What would it look like to change it so suddenly?"
"Then get those five people off the stage!" Sect Master Liu made a gesture as if he were about to get up and pull them down, disregarding his reputation.
His attitude frightened the Moonless Household members, who quickly stepped in to stop him. At the same time, several elders from the Yin Mountain Sect also stood up.
The tense atmosphere between the two sides was so intense that even Wuyue Qing was somewhat frightened.
Fortunately, a fight didn't break out. After all, it was only the first day of the competition, and the disciples hadn't even taken the stage yet. If the leaders of the two sides started fighting, people would laugh at them.
Sect Master Liu might not care about his reputation, but Moonless Household Head would never allow his bad name to spread. Therefore, no matter what, the Moonless Household had no choice but to give in.
"That settles it. If you had said so earlier, would we have wasted so much time?" Hearing that the Moonless Household Head had finally agreed to his request, Sect Master Liu's expression softened slightly.
Although he knew that given the nature of the Moonless Household Head, the fact that he was willing to go to the trouble of finding these five cultivators from another world meant that these people must be of considerable cultivation level, enough to defeat their Yin Mountain Sect disciples and win this competition.
But Sect Master Liu insisted on giving it a try, and he had to propose a condition that would give the Moonless Household a headache.
The faster the other party agrees, the higher the value of these five people.
Sect Master Liu didn't feel there was anything wrong with him sticking to this matter and asking for benefits from the Yin Mountain Sect.
The newly revised rules were quickly distributed to Liu Duanyue and Wuyue Qing, and Sang Ying and the others also learned of the news immediately.
Gu Wangchuan immediately spoke up, "Great! I just happen to want to go on stage and fight the cultivators from the Hidden Nether Realm!"
"Don't get too excited," Sang Ying said bluntly. "The Moonless Household mostly sent cultivators from other minor worlds; there aren't many from the Hidden Nether Realm among them. You probably won't even be able to make contact with the corpse puppets."
It's really difficult to craft a good corpse puppet, and I'm afraid the Moonless Household doesn't want to use such an important thing in a competition between the two families.
Despite this, Gu Wangchuan's passion was not affected in the slightest, and he was almost the first to go up to Liu Duanyue and express his willingness to fight.
"I feel like I've improved a lot since I went to the training grounds last time. I wonder if I could be the first to go up and fight them?" Gu Wangchuan asked excitedly.
Looking at the five people who had been standing on the stage for quite some time and seemed very impatient, Liu Duanyue whispered to Gu Wangchuan, "The Wuyue Sect has changed the rules this time. I'm afraid you can't go up alone, otherwise it will be all five of them against you. Fellow Daoist, why don't you ask Fellow Daoist Sang and the others? Perhaps you three could go up together?"
Liu Duanyue was also worried that Gu Wangchuan went up alone, he would be beaten badly.
After hearing what he said, Gu Wangchuan realized what was going on.
Although he was confident that his Swordsmanship was no worse than others, he had not yet cultivated to the Golden Core. Facing five cultivators whose cultivation was higher than his, it was not a friendly sparring match, but a suicide mission.
Gu Wangchuan wasn't stupid; he immediately went to discuss it with Sang Ying.
Sang Ying readily agreed, but added, "Jiang Zhuoxue can't come with us, so let's find three other fellow Daoists to go with us. We shouldn't be the first to go; we should see how capable those five are before we make our move."
Sang Ying's idea differed from Gu Wangchuan's. Gu Wangchuan wanted to use those five people to test his strength, while Sang Ying wanted to defeat them in one go!
Having decided to participate, she had no other thought but to win.
Now that both sides have reached an agreement, the competition will officially begin.
The first to appear were naturally the disciples of the Yin Mountain Sect. They practiced the art of controlling corpses, but they also had their own corpse puppets.
When the five disciples brought their five corpse puppets onto the stage, the arena was almost completely filled.
Both sides quickly got into position, and with the sound of a gong, the competition began.
The five cultivators instantly drew their swords, and with a light tap of their toes, several halos of light spread outwards from beneath their feet.
By the time the Yin Mountain Sect disciples reacted, a formation had already been completed on the arena!
A blinding white light flashed by, and before the people below could even see the five cultivators' movements clearly, several loud bangs echoed from the arena.
Looking up again, the Yin Mountain Sect cultivators who had been standing on the platform were now lying on the ground, unconscious!