Chapter 45: The Preliminary Round of the Martial Arts Competition

  A crazy roar suddenly echoed through the courtyard of Guo's house!

  "You, you didn't bring back the Shadowless Sword? The Shadowless Sword was taken away by Hu Gao?"

  Kuo Te-sheng sprang up from the bed, his injuries were not very serious, he just fainted at that time, now he was awake and had almost recovered. His face was full of anger, he raised his hand and slapped the guard's face, "You bunch of useless things, how could you not even bring back something as important as the Wuxin Sword?"

  "Guo Shao, it's like this. We've already asked Hu Gao for the Wuying Sword, but he didn't give us any face at all. Even when we brought out Young Master Guo De Yun, he ignored us completely and didn't understand our intentions at all. Moreover, at that time, there were many disciples in the Hu family, and several of them didn't dare to come forward, fearing they would hurt Young Master."

  The guard was very wronged because he had indeed tried his best before, but now he still had to be educated and could not defend himself, so he could only tell the process.

  "What a ridiculous Hu Gao, he actually dares to look down on our Guo family. Does he really think that just because he's the so-called successor of the Hu family, he's superior? He's asking for death..."

  Lost the precious thing, Guo De Sheng was so angry that he almost burst his lungs. "You few follow me to find my elder brother. If my elder brother shows up in person, even if it's just sending one or two attendants, Hu Gao won't be able to withstand it."

  "Yes!" The four people's faces lit up with excitement as soon as they heard the three words "Guo De Yun".

  At this moment, Guo De Sheng quickly walked out of his room and led the four people towards a nearby courtyard.

  A moment later, they arrived at a separate courtyard.

  In the Guo family, each direct descendant had a separate courtyard and was assigned four to sixteen guards of varying numbers.

  "Mr. Guo De Sheng, are you looking for Young Master Guo?"

  As soon as Guo De Sheng arrived at the courtyard, Guo De Yun's guard asked respectfully.

  "That's right, I have something important to discuss with my elder brother, I'll go in myself, you all wait outside for me."

  Guo De Sheng pushed away the guard and walked directly into the courtyard.

  Those guards couldn't do anything either. Guo De Sheng and Guo De Yun were cousins, with the same status in the Guo family, not someone they could afford to offend, so they didn't dare block them.

  "Brother, something's happened."

  Kuo Te-sheng pushed open the door of the house and saw a young man two years older than him sitting inside drinking tea.

  "What's with the big fuss over small things? You're already so old and still can't keep a level head."

  The young man was Guo Deyun, with a handsome face, and could be said to be elegant and refined. He remained calm in the face of events, even when Guo Desheng shouted loudly, he was still sipping tea lightly.

  "Don't drink tea anymore, Big Brother! Can't you see that I don't even have my Wuying Sword in hand?"

  Guo De Sheng wanted to knock Guo De Yun's teacup flying, but the other party was stronger than himself and also his elder brother. Moreover, he still needed the latter's help to retrieve the Wuying Sword.

  "The Invisibility Sword is a treasure given by your grandfather, why don't you carry it with you?"

  Guo Deyun's eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if he had thought of something: "You just mentioned something, is it related to the Wuying Sword?"

  "Of course..."

  Kuo Te-sheng nodded helplessly, picked up a teacup and poured himself a cup of tea, drank it in one gulp, and said: "Elder brother, have you been to the Martial Arts Institute these days? Have you heard that an apprentice named Hu Kao has appeared in our Tang Clan?"

  "Who's Hu Gao? Of course, I've heard of him. He's a celebrity in your Ordinary Hall and also a celebrity in our Ning City. He's the successor of the Hu family and is said to have an immortal body. What, did you offend him?"

  Guo Deyun's eyebrows slightly furrowed, he didn't want to go against Hu Gao because Hu Gao was an important figure in the Hu family, provoking him would bring no benefits and instead easily lead to big trouble.

  "I did indeed provoke him, because I issued a challenge to him this morning."

  Kwok De Sheng frankly admitted this, but immediately said: "But he designed a trap for me, he has an immortal body, I am not his opponent at all, and then he snatched my Wuying Sword and didn't return it to me."

  "Has he snatched your Shadowless Sword?"

  Guo Deyun furrowed his brow, unsure whether he was dissatisfied with Guo Desheng or Hu Gao. "Doesn't he know you're a direct descendant of the Guo family, doesn't he know that your older brother is me?"

  "He knew everything, but he didn't care at all. He even knocked me out and left with the Wuying Sword."

  Guo De Sheng's tone was stern and full of resentment: "He must be relying on his identity as the successor of the Hu family, not putting our Guo family in his eyes, even daring to snatch my things. Eldest brother, we can't let him off..."

  "You scoundrel, do you really think the Guo family is easy to bully? Relying on the Hu family, humph, I'd like to see if the current Hu family will oppose our Guo family because of him. Don't worry, he took your Wuyin Sword, I'll definitely help you take it back and make him apologize to you."

  Kwok De Yun was also infuriated by Wu Gao, vowing to make Wu Gao hand over the Wuying Sword and apologize.

  "Thank you, Uncle."

  Kuo Te-sheng hastily made a fist and thanked him, knowing that his provocation had succeeded. As long as Big Brother took action, the Invisible Sword would definitely be returned, and he wouldn't be scolded by Grandfather. Thinking of Grandfather's terrifying appearance, he felt a bit chilled.

  "Hmm, tomorrow you go to your Ordinary Hall's Wu Tai and wait, since he likes to accept other people's challenges so much, tomorrow I'll send two people to challenge him. Hmph, does he really think that no one in the Ordinary Hall can handle him?"

  Kuang Deyun's eyes narrowed, and a cold light flashed across them.

  Kuo Te-sheng's heart was filled with joy, knowing that his elder brother would send a high-ranking expert to take the stage. Kuo Te-yun himself couldn't go to an ordinary hall to challenge an ordinary disciple, as this was against the rules of the Martial Institute. However, he had several trusted confidants within the ordinary hall, who possessed formidable strength and were among the top figures in the ordinary hall, with abilities that could even rival those of a general inner disciple.

  ……

  Hu Gao didn't know that Guo De Yun and Guo De Sheng were already planning to deal with him tomorrow, so he spent the night doing nothing, not practicing, but going straight to sleep.

  The next morning, he had just gotten out of bed when he saw Hu Yin Xue standing beside his bed in a daze.

  "Big sister......" Hu Gao was so frightened that he couldn't even speak, this female ninja was completely unreasonable, why did she always run into his room alone.

  "No need to say more, I'm here today to bring you the Green Body Pill. You should focus on cultivating it and strive to break through to the later stage of the Condensing Shadow Realm as soon as possible."

  Besides, I heard that you snatched away Guo De Sheng's Wuying Sword yesterday. The Guo family will definitely not let this matter rest. You'd better be more careful yourself."

  Hui Yin Xue flipped her palm and took out a transparent jade bottle, inside which were ten or twenty green dan beads, each the size of a bean.

  "Huh, is that a space ring?"

  Hú Gāo Mǐn keenly discovered that on Hú Yīn Xuě's middle finger, she wore a silver ring. He recalled some books he had read in his past life, which should be a kind of ring capable of storing objects, with its own space inside. Unexpectedly, this world actually has such a magical item.

  "Wow, if I could get my hands on a space ring, that would be totally awesome......" A hint of envy flashed through Hu Gao's mind, but he quickly suppressed it. This kind of thinking was okay to have about others, but absolutely not about Hu Yinan.

  "Alright, I have something else to attend to, so I'll be leaving first. I won't be coming back for a while, so you're on your own from now on." Hu Yin Xue said all this in one breath, then turned around and left.

  "Is something big going to happen in the Hu family again? Can't even take care of his own guardian deity?" Hu Gao was somewhat surprised, but he couldn't care about that much anymore. Although it was a bit reluctant that Hu Yinan was not around, it gave him a lot of room for activity.

  Hu Gao brought the jade bottle to his nose and sniffed it, suddenly a refreshing fragrance rushed into his nostrils, making his whole body's blood and energy surge, with a feeling of being full of power.

  "Unexpectedly, such a low-grade elixir has such great power. It seems that I still need to cultivate the way of alchemy in the future, otherwise directly absorbing the demon elixir would be a waste of heaven's gift."

  But now is not the time to bother with these side issues, let's go to the War Institute and give the demon pill to Extreme Joy first. Now his need for this thing is more important than his own, anyway, Hu Gao doesn't need to break through to the later stages to learn the Primordial Scripture, there isn't a great desire for it.

  After arriving at the War Institute, Hu Gao went straight to the tenth hall.

  As soon as he stepped into the classroom, he saw Teacher Yang Le with his hands clasped behind his back, staring coldly at the students below.

  "Please take your seats and get settled, I have an announcement to make..."

  Yang Le saw Hu Gao, her teeth suddenly clenched with a cracking sound, and she restrained the urge to go and beat him up. She hummed and spoke in a low voice, anyone could hear the suppressed anger in her tone.

  Hu Gaodi curled up his mouth and didn't bother to argue with Yang Le anymore, he went straight to his own position.

  Just sat down, Jile came over and said: "Hu Gao, where's my stuff?"

  "Don't worry, I've got it on me, I'll give it to you after class."

  "Everyone be quiet, I have something to announce next."

  Yang Le saw everyone arrive and a slightly childish voice rang out in the classroom.

  She is so strict in class that no one dares to disobey her, otherwise she will make them practice alone and they will definitely need to take two days off to lie in bed, nobody wants to mess with her again.

  "What I want to announce today is about the martial arts competition three months from now. At that time, our school will also send three students to participate. These three students must be the strongest three people in our school. This afternoon, I will conduct an assessment of you all and select the top three with the most comprehensive strength. You should get ready."

  Yang Le directly announced that the majority of students in Class 10 did not find it strange, because this was not the first or second time. Every time there was a martial arts competition, three of the most powerful students would be selected to participate, and they had already guessed that Yang Le would announce this news.

  Hu Gao helplessly turned his head away, he had just clearly felt Yang Lei casting a threatening glance at him, meaning that if you can't make it to the top three and represent the tenth class in the martial arts competition, then be prepared to bear my wrath.

  And once I participate in the martial arts competition, I must get a ranking back for myself.

  This goddess is incredibly confident in herself.