“Are you going to say something or not? Standing here, staring at me with those tender eyes, not saying a word, do you want to ruin my reputation?”

Wan Lei helplessly looked at Fang Xiaoyu in front of him.

This girl had been silently staring at him ever since she approached.

This caused Lan Ningguo and the other participating contestants behind Wan Lei to gather together, gossiping about the relationship between Wan Lei and this beautiful girl from the Central Region.

“Which dog eye of yours saw me looking at you with tenderness?”

Fang Xiaoyu finally spoke, but her tone was as cold as ice.

“Oh heavens, kill me! Little Yu not only looked at that guy, but she even spoke to him! I can’t go on living. My Little Yu!”

“She would actually talk to a bumpkin from the Northern Region. Why? Why? I’ve decided, whoever that kid is, he will be my eternal enemy!”

“Our Protect-Yu Alliance will never allow the pearl of our Central Region to be tarnished by a boy from the Northern Region.”

“Take him down, and win back Little Yu!”

Young Master Lei was unaware that he hadn’t even done anything yet, and he was already hated by countless male contestants from the Central Region.

Young Master Lei was wronged.

Young Master Lei has no relationship with your Little Yu. They are just enemies!

Young Master Lei, who had become a public enemy of the Central Region, was still chatting "happily" with Fang Xiaoyu, completely oblivious.

“Aren’t you looking at me with tenderness? Then what are you here for? Don’t tell me you came to confess your love to me? Sigh, it’s really annoying. Wherever I go, I’m surrounded by beautiful women, crying and begging me to accept them. Sigh, when will I ever stop being so outstanding?”

Young Master Lei was being very flirtatious. Since fighting was not allowed here, he might as well take advantage with words.

This Fang Xiaoyu isn't bad-looking either.

“Shameless rogue!”

That was said by Fang Xiaoyu.

“Little hussy!”

That was said by Qi Yao.

Far behind, in the spectator area, Qi Yao stood in the crowd, her silver teeth clenched, staring hatefully at Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu, her small mouth pouting high.

Qi Yao had the same expression when facing Ba’ernu, but the sense of crisis wasn’t as strong, because Ba’ernu was dark and skinny like a monkey.

But this Fang Xiaoyu was different. She had only heard Wan Lei say that she was very beautiful before, and hadn’t really formed an impression.

But today, upon seeing her in person, Qi Yao immediately felt ashamed of her inferiority.

From the perspective of beauty alone, Fang Xiaoyu, as the number one beauty in the Central Region, was indeed more beautiful than Qi Yao.

“Wan Lei, this time, I will defeat you in a fair and square manner on the final stage, and win the first place on the Myriad Pride Rankings. And you, you can only be second!”

“Oh, listen to you, are you overestimating yourself and me, or underestimating the hundreds of thousands of heroes in this Thunderwind Realm?

What makes you think that only you and I will be left in the final circle?”

“To me, they are nothing more than hundreds of thousands of worthless rabble. Among all the contestants, only you are worthy of being my opponent.

If you don’t even have that much confidence, if you can’t even enter the final circle, if you don’t even have the qualifications to fight me, then you are not worthy of being my opponent either.

At that time, I will defeat the person who defeats you, which will also be considered as defeating you, and washing away my shame.”

Hearing this, the people from the Central Region realized that something was wrong. Could it be that the two of them were not going to team up, but were enemies?

Moreover, judging from what Fang Xiaoyu said, she should have fought this Wan Lei before, and hadn’t won.

“Heh, Fang Xiaoyu, you’re still so proud.

Very well, I will take this opportunity to crush your pride fiercely, and let you know,

that your arrogant and conceited self is nothing in my eyes.”

Young Master Lei’s lines were extremely cliché, like those of a villain, and one didn’t know where he had copied them from.

“Good! Wan Lei, I’m waiting for you. This time, it’s either you die or I die. There will be no more draws!”

“It’s a deal!”

Looking at Fang Xiaoyu’s departing back, Wan Lei had a cold smile on his face.

“What a proud little peacock. After all your feathers are plucked, will you still be so beautiful?”

The crowd gradually dispersed, but everyone in the Central Region knew that there was a person named Wan Lei in the Northern Region who had once fought Fang Xiaoyu to a draw.

In an instant, Wan Lei’s level of danger directly entered the forefront of all participants in this competition, on par with the leaders of the nine major forces.

At this moment, Young Master Lei was still ignorant…

At the southernmost end of the Central Region’s participating team, adjacent to the Southern Region’s participant area, was a team of black-clothed people with only a dozen members.

The flag in front of this team was also black, with three large characters written on it,

Heaven’s Scourge.

In the Central Region, the reputation of the Heaven’s Scourge wasn’t very good among the nine major forces, because they always assassinated disciples who had made mistakes.

In the eyes of the nine major forces, their own disciples had made mistakes, so naturally, they would be punished by them. What right did the Heaven’s Scourge have to interfere?

Therefore, this team was squeezed to the southernmost end.

But among the low and middle-level cultivators, the Heaven’s Scourge had a good reputation. They assassinated evil cultivators and upheld justice, saving them from the suffering of being slaughtered.

In the team, a black-clothed man raised his head, looked to the north, his eyes full of fighting spirit, and smiled softly,

“Heh, Wan Lei…”

Two hours passed quickly in a tense and serious atmosphere.

The Liu Family Clan Leader walked out and shouted loudly:

“All participants, enter the formation. The competition… begins!!!”

With this order, hundreds of thousands of participants immediately flew up, like a swarm of locusts, flying towards the formation.

Wan Lei stood in the first row, flying the fastest. After entering the formation, he immediately disappeared.

Soon, hundreds of thousands of people had all entered the formation, leaving only the spectators outside.

Suddenly, countless projections appeared densely on the great formation, each projection containing a figure, with their name and power marked above.

“The spectators are free to move around, find the projections of the people you are interested in, watch quietly, do not make noise, and do not fight to disturb the order!”

Qi Yao flew into the air and began to search for Wan Lei’s figure among the hundreds of thousands of dense projections.

But there were too many projections. Searching one by one, how long would it take her to find Wan Lei?

“Hey, Slow Shake, over here!”

In the distance, came Sui Xiaohang’s shout.

“Wan Lei’s projection has been moved to the middle position. The nine major forces are paying close attention to him. Come on, follow me to see.”

Qi Yao nodded and followed Sui Xiaohang to the middle position.

“Make way, make way, this is the territory of the Heavenly Pill Pavilion, don’t squeeze!”

Sui Xiaohang shouted repeatedly, finally leading Qi Yao to Xuanming Second Elder.

…………

“What… what is this place? They didn’t even give me a map?”

Wan Lei looked around, all he could see was endless yellow sand, without a single reference point.