The Scum is A ***

29: The Scum Is Fickle

Since Cheng Sheng lost, Lei Qing faced Fei Yin. Lei Qing would sure lose, so Fei Yin will be facing Feng Mo – who finished resting, next.

Across the east mountain is the west mountain where Li Tian, You Rou and Lei Ling are training for the alchemy test in the preliminary stage. They are too focused on their training that they didn't notice Fan Wen was sitting on the roof of the Meditation Hall and was watching them. Meanwhile, after Xie Lan sent Fan Wen, he flew across the Xinfaxian and reached the east mountain. He's on his way to the Training Hall to watch over their disciples' training.

The goal of the Intersect Competition is to display the prowess of each cultivator in the competition. Those who can impress the sect elders from all over the continent that came to watch the competition will have the chance to be invited by the said elder's sect. However, it will be up to the cultivator if he will join the sect. Even if the cultivator already belonged to a sect, but if he will accept the invitation from another sect, his original sect cannot complain. This is one of the rules of the Intersect Competition, thus many promising disciples were offered of prominent sects and some sects will be successful in their poaching. The weaker sects blame Xie Lan who proposed that a disciple's oath should be taken only when they decided to become an elder of their sect. Meanwhile, the stronger sects are happy to bully the weaker sects. However, they can't argue with Xie Lan's reason that one has their own Dao to take. If they cared for their disciple, they would let their disciple fly. If their disciple would change sects, they only to be partially blame for choosing a fickle disciple, and reflect if they are not teaching their disciple enough.

Even if Lei Ling, Lei Qing and You Rou already promised them they wouldn't change their sect, but Xie Lan and Fan Wen aren't close-minded people. They already said they wouldn't trap their disciples on Xinfaxian, and that their disciples haven't seen enough of the world yet so they could easily promise them back then.

"Hmm... so Xiao Mo can now consume 60% of Xiao Yin's strength." Xie Lan muttered as he watched the four disciples afar. Cheng Sheng and Lei Qing chose to fight again on another place while Fei Yin and Feng Mo fought. "Lei Qing's strength isn't bad either to consume 40% of Xiao Sheng's strength." he said. Then, he took out a voice-transmitting talisman. "Wenwen." He called, the talisman glowed when his voice can be heard. The voice-transmitting talisman was created by Cheng Sheng, and he called it a 'cellphone' before. When they showed him blank expression, he dropped it. He named the talisman simply 'Voice-Transmitting Talisman', as its function.

Fan Wen's voice can be heard from the talisman when it glowed. "Don't call me that!" he hissed.

Xie Lan smiled. He may not see Fan Wen's face but he can imagine him blushing. "Wen. Why don't we have our kids – ehem, the disciples swap?" he asked.

"Hm? What do you mean?" Fan Wen confused voice came from the talisman.

Xie Lan looked at the four disciples who changed sparring partner. Cheng Sheng's opponent is Feng Mo again while Fei Yin's opponent is Lei Qing. Cheng Sheng and Fei Yin never sparred. "Let's do it tomorrow." he told Fan Wen and burned the Voice Transmitting Talisman.

Fan Wen, who's across the mountain, was confused. He also burned the Voice Transmitting Talisman and observed Li Tian, You Rou and Lei Ling from different places by splitting his soul into three to watch over them.

"East becomes West, North becomes South. The land below becomes the land above!" Li Tian said as he raised his hand. The wooden puppet turned from right to left, and flipped all over, now its feet raised up in the air. Then, the soil beneath the head of the wooden puppet rose, only to fall on it and bury it on the ground. "Whew!" Li Tian wiped the sweat off his forehead and looked at the wooden puppet buried on the soil. "I have to cast the spell faster." He muttered, his delicate face red from exhaustion. The longer the spell is casted, the more the energy consumed to maintain the effect of the spell before it can be casted. However, the opponent would never wait for someone to harm them. Thus, in the battle between the spell casters, the faster is the winner.