Chapter 12- Exams II

As I was playing with the rabbit, I could hear the elder Mu speak once again.

"Exam ends now! Those who caught the rabbits can now let them go."

Most of the people just grumbled a little because they were not able to catch their rabbit, some who managed to grab one stopped struggling to hold on to it and let the rabbit book it as fast as it could away from them, but me I just stopped petting the poor thing and looked down on it lying lazily on my lap looking at me reproachfully.

I just shook my head and chuckled, and I was not the only that chuckled I could hear the chuckle from elder Mu as she spoke again.

"You there, I see you are no longer petting the rabbit but could you please put it down from your lap and stand up?"

I nodded and did what she asked me to do. Rabbit didn't move an inch from the place I put it down on and kept looking at me very reproachfully. I decided to ignore the rabbit and elder Mu decided to do the same.

"Ok those who managed to catch correct rabbit get 20 points, those who chased the correct rabbit get 10, those who did nothing get 0 and those who chased or caught wrong rabbit get minus 10. Now proceed to your last exam. Good Luck!"

As I joined the group of the people in following elder Qu towards next exam, I reunited with Yuki that was laughing hysterically. When I asked her what is going on she pointed behind me, and the moment I looked I also started to laugh. I was being followed by the rabbit from the exam.

I looked up and was about to speak up when I was interrupted by elder Mu from distance.

"It's fine, let the rabbit follow you, there is no problem!"

I nodded and quickly followed together with Yuki behind the elder Qu.

When we walked for about a minute elder Qu spoke.

"This is going to be last exam. It is going to be test of your combat prowess. You will be split into groups of twenty-one applicants and will fight each other until only one applicant remains standing. No worries you will receive amulets that will ensure you survive the combat. First ten to be eliminated will get 0 points. Another ten will get 20 points and the winner gets 50 points. All clear?"

Everybody nodded and we proceeded to the part of the sect that looked like huge sparring area. One could see rings of different sizes and there was a lot of them. As we arrived, we were told to make single file row in front of a table. Each person was meant to pull out a ball from a black box.

Balls had a number that send the applicants towards specific rings that they would fight in. I didn't have to wait for long to get my number. Once I had it, I headed towards the ring that corresponded with it.

The whole draw took about an hour and after that we were asked to enter the rings. Where before the fight begun, we received the amulets that were meant to protect us, they would block attack that would kill us and teleport us to the close by infirmary.

Once that was done, we were informed that we could use anything, techniques, weapons or even treasures, everything was fair game. I quickly called upon my polearm and prepared for fight. I wanted to win this; I was exactly 50 points away from being a core disciple.

Once everybody readied themselves a referee floated above the ring and spoke.

"Everybody ready" After few seconds of silence he continued. "Fight!"

As he called fight, I activated both Frost Infusion and Qi detection. I set Qi detection to look for any attacks heading towards me since without any filter I would not be able to make head or tails from all the sensory data it provides.

And I did a good think, right away I detected two applicants heading my way. One of them being a rather slim and pale looking young men that started immediately to my right and a rather buxom looking woman with what could only be described as oversized sword in her hands immediately from my left. I smiled and quickly went on the offensive instead of waiting for them to strike. I charged the pale male and started attacking with flurry of polearm strikes quickly applying twenty-four stacks of everfrost and before I could do anything else amulet reacted and teleported the youngster out. This happened before the woman was able to reach me, and as the pale youngster teleported out, she arrived in fighting distance and swung at me. I quickly dodged and went on the offensive. She was able to parry a strike here and there but still did not last more than a few seconds and was teleported out.

It was just about three to four seconds into the match and huge part of the ring was already covered by my ice and two people were teleported out of the ring by my hand. This made everybody stop their fights and fixate their sight at me.

I chuckled and took a stance. After that I gestured with one of my hands for them come on and fight. I spoke while I did that.

"Guys come on, show me what you got. I hope you are going to be more entertaining than those two!"

My fighting style was very good at fighting against groups. And the fact that I didn't need big hits just scratches were enough and every scratch would slow down the opposition even strengthening my advantage didn't help them either. They all looked at each other in silent understanding.

'Let's remove the biggest threat we can duke it out later.'

I laughed internally this was exactly what I wanted, this way I am going to be done in no time. There was only one corporal in the group and he was cultivating just a mind, so I was not really worried to fight against a bunch of soldier ranks.

The show started shortly as all of them rushed towards me. I didn't wait for them to reach me and charged back at them. Most of them were using shorter weapons like swords and maces so I even had a decent reach advantage.

The moment we met it was like to waves crushing against each other. One huge consisting of many colors, speeds and styles while the second much smaller but very fast and coherent. I started to use quick wide circular swings with my polearm that were keeping them at distance and slowly applying my everfrost stacks one by one. Even in this big of numbers disadvantage I didn't ever feel like the fight was not in my hands, I always felt like I was in absolute control. I was overpowering the mass of fighters with my speed and technique. While performing a beautiful dance of dead and ice.

As the slashes started to accumulate on the group of fighters, they started get teleported without receiving any big or noticeable wounds. Once I was about half the way through the group of fighters, I jut sent the only corporal to the infirmary, a very loud voice resonated above the ring.

"Stop it!"

Referee stopped the fight and everybody froze in a position where they were.

"Why didn't you stop the fight sooner?" The same voice sounding very angry spoke to a referee.

"There was no reason to!" Spoke referee.

"Those kids are being teleported to the infirmary without any obvious wounds they just have a bunch of scratches. He must be cheating somehow!"

Referee was about to say something when another voice sounded, this one being female.

"Elder Ho, what the actual fuck are you trying to do? Are you trying to make us look retarded just because your son got his ass handed to him?"

The man that was screaming until, now visible shook.

"My greetings, assassination section leader Weng. No, I was just trying to make everybody follow the rules. This little shit must be cheati......…."

"SILENCE!" The same female voice sounded again and this time woman appeared next to the men.

She was gorgeous. She had long snow-white hair with few strands of jet black near her face. She looked to be somewhere in her late twenties maybe early thirties. She was wearing very tight red qipao with golden decoration in form of a dragon. She had deadly hourglass figure, perfect face, round ass of perfect size and a d-cup breast that looked like they had life on there own as they were jiggling lightly.

I had to swallow hard and force myself to close my mouth. My first thought was.

'Yuki, I found you a sister!'

She spoke. "You imbecile, say one more word and I will have you thrown out of the sect." She looked at me with her charming light green eyes and smiled. Then she spoke, without a trace of anger, very gently. like she was entirely different person. Her voice felt to me like she was caressing my soul directly.

"Boy, could you please explain what your technique does. I know you are not cheating but I am not sure exactly what is going on!"

I got lost in her voice and her looks so I started to daydream for a few seconds.

"Boy! Answer me!" She spoke after a few seconds with much sterner voice. Light irritation could be felt in her voice. This woke me from my daydream.

I quickly bowed with my head and spoke. "Greetings assassination section leader Weng, I apologize but I got too captured by your beauty and your velvety voice that I started to daydream."

As I spoke those words it felt like world around me froze, everything went silent. Nobody moved. And everybody started to look at me. I felt that I did something that I should not have done. I slowly raised my head to look at the elder Weng.