Chen Shen stood up slowly and patted his dusty clothes casually a few times.
He stared at the woman on the main seat with a cold gaze, and said word by word: "I hate it when others lie to me."
Shuang Qing'er had a sudden thought: "Is this guy... so he has been testing me?"
But on the face of it, the girl refused to give in at all: "How do you know I'm lying to you?"
"Couldn't it be that I had a good impression of you at first, but what you did after that... made me very disappointed, so I lost my thoughts?"
"Strong words make sense."
Chen Shen curled his lips, then waved his hand: "Okay, even if it is true as you said, then now we are settled."
"Although you lent me precious land, you deceived me on certain matters. It's unclear what your intentions were. Therefore, it is considered that the merits and demerits offset each other."
"From now on... you take your Yangguan Road, and I cross my single-plank bridge. We will not interfere with the water in the well or the river."
After finishing the conversation, the young man in white had already walked to the door of the main hall. He paused slightly, turned his face and said, "No matter what your intentions are, I would like to advise you: Never provoke me and my Qingyun Sect."
"You know, you and I have settled our grudges now. If you violate my taboo again in the future, you will be responsible for the consequences..."
"Bang!"
It wasn't until the sound of the heavy door of the hall slamming into her ears that Shuang Qing'er came back to her senses. Her pretty face was filled with uncertainty: "This guy... is much harder to deal with than I thought."
Outside the door, Chen Shen walked towards the Summoning Jade Pillar without saying a word.
He didn't know what Shuang Qing'er wanted to do, but he might as well give him a warning first and put the ugly words ahead.
After this incident, even if this little girl really has any evil intentions, she will still have some scruples.
It would be best if she would restrain her minions.
Even if she did something detrimental to the Qingyun Sect in the end, Chen Shen would never show any sympathy for her today's kindness!
…
The next day, noon.
“Buzz~~”
The spirit-summoning jade pillar in the middle of the martial arts arena No. 333 suddenly burst out with a dazzling light.
Immediately afterwards, a burst of majestic words resounded throughout the audience through the sound transmission effect of the summoning jade pillar——
"Dear contestants, today at 3:00 noon, the competition for ranking on the Dibuto List will officially begin."
"Things to note are as follows..."
Outside the Xuanling Hub, the Soul-Calling Jade Pillars in thousands of courtyard squares all started "broadcasting" at the same time, informing all the contestants of the rules and regulations of the Dibution Ranking Competition.
"Okay, you still have one hour to prepare."
"After an hour, the teleportation effect of the Summoning Jade Pillar will automatically activate, transporting everyone on the martial arts field to the venue of the first event of the competition, 'Capture the Flag Battle'."
As soon as the message from the Summoning Jade Pillar came down, there were more than a thousand disciples of the Qingyun Sect around, and the elders had already started gearing up——
"Huh~ Are we finally going to compete?"
"Hahaha, I can't wait to show off my skills!"
Each of their faces is filled with strong confidence and high fighting spirit!
About ten years ago, as disciples of the Qingyun Sect, they were just small characters in a group of spiritual sects.
At that time, if a strong man emerged from the Lingjie Sect and became a sect, he would have to show off in a big way!
It's like when the Beast Refining Sect gave birth to Pan Xu, who was known as the "God's Chosen Son". On the day he established the sect, he even scheduled his wedding at this time and invited thousands of sects to come and congratulate him.
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What an honor that is?
But today, the Qingyun Sect, which was also a spiritual sect a few years ago, has grown to the point where the Beast Refining Sect can only look up to it!
For the Beast Refining Sect, the grand occasion of one more Xuanzong strongman establishing a sect is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the Qingyun Sect——
Waiting for hundreds or even thousands of years before one person can establish a clan, is that nothing?
Looking at our Qingyun Sect, in less than ten years, the number of people who have established a sect has exceeded a thousand. The Beast Refining Sect...hey, there is no comparison at all!
It is precisely because of this unparalleled sense of honor that the cohesion and confidence of the elders and disciples of the Qingyun Sect have reached an all-time high.
"Thank you Lord Shuang for your hospitality last night."
After Chen Shen said hello to Shuang Qing'er who was not far away, he waved his hand: "Let's go back to the compound No. 359."
"Wait, wait a minute!"
"Hmm? Does Master Shuang have anything else to do?"
Yesterday, Chen Shen was quite shameless and kept calling "Miss Qing'er".
Now, his name for the red-armored and brown-haired woman has become the indifferent "Master Frost".
All the people who didn't know the truth were stunned when they saw this incident, and secretly speculated in their hearts: "Could this be the legendary 'Ruthless'?"
A look of embarrassment flashed across Shuang Qing'er's face, and she said: "Actually... I invite you here just because I want to wait for the summoning jade pillar to activate the power of teleportation, and then teleport outside the arena with you."
"Because... people who are teleported by the same Xuanling Jade Pillar will also be teleported to the same area when they enter the arena and can take care of each other."
Hearing this, Chen Shen glanced at Shuang Qing'er indifferently, and slightly curled his lips: "Haha~ So this is your ulterior purpose? Well, it's not as dirty as I imagined."
Shuang Qing'er smiled bitterly and whispered: "Haha, does Sect Master Chen really think that this little girl has evil intentions and will do something detrimental to you and the Qingyun Sect?"
"I just... want to give my sect a better chance of winning!"
Chen Shen nodded noncommittally. Although he didn't make any promises to the other party, he didn't mention the matter of Courtyard No. 359 again.
Shuang Qing'er secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Don't worry, Sect Leader Chen, since you and I have formed an alliance, when we enter the competition field, our Shuangyu Sect will never do such despicable things without any effort."
Chen Shen slowly raised a finger: "I have only one request: after the game starts, you and your people must unconditionally obey my orders and conduct unified command."
"This matter needs to be proved by a blood oath."
"If Master Shuang can do it, our Qingyun Sect wouldn't mind having another ally."
"If we can't do it, let's just let it go!"
"What?"
"Supreme Headmaster, please don't agree to him!"
"That's right, why do we, the Frost Rain Sect, have to obey his orders? And we have to make a blood oath?"
"Damn it, if this guy has bad intentions and asks me to die as cannon fodder, do we have to obey?"
…
After Shuang Qing'er thought for a moment, she waved her hand: "Shut up!"
"Sect Master Chen, I agree to your terms! I just hope you won't betray my trust in you."
Having said that, the young man bit his finger cleanly and swore a blood oath on the spot as the supreme leader.
"Supreme Headmaster, you can't do that!"
"well……"
Upon seeing this, the senior officials of the Frost Rain Sect couldn't help but sigh. Once this blood oath is taken, doesn't it mean that they have given away all their power of life and death to others?