Chapter 1360 - Martial Meet Begins

Everyone was flabbergasted when Shen Jianqiu and Chen Wang returned to the second Man-character secret realm and revealed that Chen Fan had declined their invitation.

“What? He actually refused!”

None of them had imagined Chen Fan would turn them down.

After all, they were the Hua Alliance. Within the Featherlight Sect, countless low-class disciples, high-class disciples, and even elite disciples had begged to join them and all had been rejected.

Yet when they, representing the Hua Alliance, extended the same invitation to Chen Fan, he refused. It was unprecedented.

Wasn’t he supposed to be overjoyed, overwhelmed by their favor, swearing loyalty to the alliance immediately?

“Damn it! Chen Fan really deserves to die! He dared to reject us. How dare he!” A late-stage Void Immortal expert couldn’t hold it in and cursed out loud. Intense murderous qi instantly swept out from him.

From their perspective, Chen Fan’s refusal was a direct provocation. It had always been them rejecting others’ requests. How dare he change the situation? Outrageous!

Outrageous!

“To reject our invitation, who does he think he is? What nerves!” said another Hua Alliance coldly, his gaze filled with chilling intent. Chen Fan’s refusal seemed to have touched upon their reverse scale.

“What do you say, Brother Ye? This brat dares to refuse our invitation, not knowing what’s good for him. This is going too far! An invitation from us is a favor; he should kneel and thank us, yet he dares to refuse! Brother Ye, just say the word, and I’ll send people over to cripple him and teach him the price of offending us. He really thinks he can act arrogantly in front of our Hua Alliance after defeating that trash Wang Ba? He’s nothing!” said a peak Void Immortal expert, fury in his eyes. He looked at Ye Kuang; all he needed was a single command, and Chen Fan would pay the price.

“Xing Qian is right. Chen Fan is only a peasant from the rural lands. Who does he think he is to dare refuse us? We need to make him pay!”

The others also chimed in succession, each eager to make Chen Fan pay a heavy price.

Ye Kuang sat in the middle. Xing Qian, Shen Jianqiu, and the rest seethed with fury, yet his expression remained largely unchanged, as if Chen Fan’s refusal had been expected. Still, if one looked closely, a trace of coldness could be seen deep in his eyes.

Finally, he said, “Calm down, all of you! We can’t spare Chen Fan for failing to appreciate our kindness. However, in the secret realm, we can only teach him a lesson at the most; making him pay a heavy price is impossible. Let’s leave him alive for another year and a half. At the martial meet, we’ll cripple him. In any case, fists and kicks have no eyes, so the sect elders won’t be able to interfere then.”

“Fine! Let that brat act arrogant for another year and a half. At the martial meet, I’ll make him wish he were dead!” Xing Qian’s eyes glinted red with bloodlust. He was very confident in his strength, as he owned the tenth secret realm and was a peak Void Immortal.

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The ninety-sixth secret realm:

For Chen Fan, the Hua Alliance’s invitation was merely a passing disturbance.

Although the Hua Alliance was a powerful organization that could crush him to death with a single finger, it couldn’t rule over half the sky in the Featherlight Sect, no matter how big it was. He didn’t believe that Hua Yunxiao would send immortal realm experts to deal with him just because he didn’t show them face by refusing to join the Hua Alliance.

As long as immortal realm experts were the limit, Chen Fan felt no fear.

Even though Shen Jianqiu and Chen Wang possessed tremendous strength, they weren’t enough to scare Chen Fan.

As for Ye Kuang, although Chen Fan was no match for him now, who could predict the future?

“Really, trouble falls from the sky even when I'm just sitting at home. How could the Hua Alliance feel offended just because I refused them? So tyrannical.” Chen Fan shook his head and smiled helplessly

It couldn’t be helped. The world was cruel, and it was all because he was still weak.

“Given their tyrannical way of doing things, Ye Kuang and the others won’t let this go easily. They will definitely target me at the martial meet. Fine, I’ll deal with whatever comes my way. I, Chen Fan, am no pushover.”

A cold, fierce light flashed across Chen Fan’s eyes.

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Time passed. A year and a half vanished in the blink of an eye, and the Low-Class Disciples Martial Meet finally began.

For the Featherlight Sect, it was considered a grand event, even though it catered only to low-class disciples, as there were hundreds of thousands of them.

Moreover, this competition carried great significance, as it was tied to spots in the Immortal Conferral Ancient Realm. Even low-class disciples, usually uninterested in contests, flocked to participate.

Swish, swish, swish.

Figures streamed into the plaza from all directions, and the low-class disciples’ area of the sect buzzed with life like never before.

“

Whew

, so many experts have emerged. It seems like this competition has drawn out a lot of hidden talent,” one disciple remarked.

“I know, right? Normally, many people ignore such competitions, focusing entirely on the martial path. But this time, with the Immortal Conferral Ancient Realm at stake, everyone is here to fight for a spot,” another replied.

“

Haaa

, we’re not qualified to compete for the spots, but if we put on a good show at the martial meet, maybe a sect elder will notice us and accept us as their disciples. That wouldn’t be too bad.”

“Say, who do you think will take the top three this time?”

“That goes without saying. It’ll definitely be Si Kong, Ye Kuang, and Mo Xue. They keep the top three Man-character secret realms all year round, publicly recognized as the three strongest. For a chance at entering the ancient realm, they won’t hold anything back.”

“That’s right, though don’t forget Chu Kui, Nangong Li, and Ji Zhenshan. The masters of the first ten Man-Character Secret Realms are all top-tier low-class disciples, but they rarely clash with one another, and they won’t fight just for a slightly better realm. It’s hard to tell who’s stronger, but we’ll probably find out at this martial meet.”

“It’s not only them. Bai Xiaotian and Tie Rushan were out training themselves all year round, so they can’t be underestimated either. They definitely wouldn’t be any weaker than those people in the first ten secret realms.”

“Aren’t you guys forgetting about someone? Chen Fan! That guy defeated Wang Ba overwhelmingly a year and a half ago, possessing combat strength at the late-stage Void Immortal level. Now that so much time had passed, he must have grown even stronger. Now, I’m afraid he might even be able to defeat a peak Void Immortal expert.”