"The next stage will be a 1 on 1 match up!"

"Please come forward as your name is called!"

"Chang Sun and Mao Yohan!"

"Zhu Dong and Lu Fu!"

"Wen He and Tan Lan!"

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Elder Tang Kong called the names of the remaining 100 disciples. She then set them up on a private circle until the individual fights numbered 50 all in all.

Once that was done, Tang Kong did not waste hers or anyone's time for that matter.

"The same rule applies. Anyone who steps out of the circle loses the game!"

"Let the second stage of the inner disciples exam begin!" Elder Tang Kong announced thereafter.

"BANG!" The 100 disciples then began fighting all at once. But a few were much wiser than the others.

"I give up!" They declared before their opponents could make a move...

"THUD!" While others directly moved out of the circle in their own volition and without wasting their breath.

They did not want to get beaten that badly especially now that they faced someone that was a whole lot stronger than them.

Alas, the same situation did not apply to our very own protagonist.

"I don't believe that those mere rocks could hurt me."

"I'm not the same as those weak disciples you faced earlier." A 30 year old disciple said unto our bored gamer. His cultivation was already in the 8th Stage of Innate Realm.

He used his senses at this time and judged that our good gamer was only in the 1st Stage of Innate Realm.

Thus, the difference between them should have been like the high clouds and the earth. Unfortunately for him, nothing was what it seemed when it came to our very own protagonist.

"More action, less talk. Come at me and find out how strong these mere rocks really are."

Clark replied in confidence. There were more than a dozen fist sized rocks that floated around his handsome form.

It did not need telling that these ordinary objects were not so ordinary at all since they could easily break the tough body of an Innate Realm cultivator.

"You ask for it!"

"Hymn of Lightning!" The 30 year old inner disciple roared and summoned the very essence of the heavens straight from the skies.

An innate realm disciple could command the elements of the world which made them already godlike existences before any mortal man, woman, or beast.

"It's the Hymn of Lightning! That's a superior grade delight cultivation technique of our Profound Delight Sect!

Anyone who gets hit by this thunder will instantly be stunned in a haze of lust. That is if it did not kill them in the first place!

Brother Yin Yahui is truly deserving to be in the top 100 inner disciples!" A smart disciple commented in place. Alas, what he saw next broke his concept of the world.

"BANG!"

"BANG!"

"BANG!" The myriad forces of lightning hit our bored gamer's body indeed but its effect stopped only in that aspect.

"How does he do that?!" The smart disciple in the audience could not believe his eyes.

He could see that the lightning essence surrounded the body of our good gamer and treated him more like a friend rather than an enemy.

"Back to you." Clark whispered and delivered his attack to the 30 year old man named Yin Yahui. Same as his recent technique, he used rocks and no more.

Perhaps the only difference from before was how these rocks glowed with silver lightning. This elemental essence coated these ordinary objects to become something more than the other alone.

"DING!"

"DING!"

"DING!"

"Water, Snow, and Wind Technique!" Yin Yahui intoned and his body was covered in a blinding brilliance.

His figure flashed to escape from the rocks but alas, he was only successful for a few breaths and then the inevitable happened.

Our avid gamer's stones were much faster than he could ever hope to dodge for long.

"CRACK!" One stone amidst the dozens hit his skull and knocked his brain out of use. He would have expected for his defense to shroud him from hard with the rocks just sliding off his skin.

Unfortunately, this did not happen at all.

'How?' This was Yin Yahui's last thoughts before he succumbed to a forced slumber. Most of the audience were shocked at this ending of course.

"A 1st Stage of Innate Realm defeating an 8th Stage of the same realm!"

"This is a dream right? Otherwise, that boy is really a monster in the same realm!"

"HAHAHA! This is the first time I see someone jump several stages in order to defeat someone stronger! I did not regret coming to this year's inner disciple exam at all!"

"Bu Fang! I shall remember this name today! He is surely the greatest dark horse of this event!"

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The disciples conversed amongst themselves and were openly rooting for the underdog. But unbeknownst to all, it was Elder Tang Kong who had the biggest surprise in the crowd.

'I swear that I noticed the defensive array tried to pull Bu Fang out of the circle when those crazy lightning was about to hit him.'

'But he resisted it calmly. Either he has a powerful treasure in his body or his real cultivation base is already in the Dao Soul Realm!' Elder Tang Kong mused in terror.

One should know that the elders of the Profound Delight Sect would often use this arena in order to exchange pointers amongst them.

With the use of this formation array, they could safely get battle experience.

But in all her years in the sect, she has never seen any Elder that could resist the irresistible influence of the array of this arena.

'I should better tell the Sect Master quickly!' Elder Tang Kong concluded. She would rather choose to be wrong than be overly dismissive of her intuition.

She could face the rebuke of the Sect Master but not the demise of her beloved Profound Delight Sect.

"WHOOSH!" Elder Tang Kong retrieved an origami bird from her storage ring and whispered some words into the construct.

A few breaths later and a paper bird left her hands then flew directly into the open sky overhead. When she looked back on our bored gamer, she froze immediately on the spot.

Elder Tang Kong saw Clark's mouth move in silence. Although she could not hear his words but she got the message loud and clear by simply reading his lips.

"It's good to see a wise woman for a change. Well done, Elder." These were the words of our very own protagonist.