Chapter 54: Win Your Fill

Chapter 54: Chapter 54: Win Your Fill

After that cry of "You’ve lost," the surrounding senior disciples were all in disbelief. The silence, born from sheer astonishment, was instantly shattered by gasps of shock.

"He lost!"

"Sun Bing actually lost to a new disciple!"

"What a fucking disgrace."

These senior disciples had originally planned to "teach the newcomers a lesson" and establish their own prestige.

But no one could have imagined that Yi Xiaoyao, a new disciple, had actually defeated Sun Bing, whose Cultivation was higher than his own!

This made the senior disciples feel both ashamed and astounded by Yi Xiaoyao’s strength.

"If I saw that correctly, Sun Bing was using a Yellow-rank, high-grade Saber Technique, yet this newcomer managed to break it with a Yellow-rank, low-grade Swordsmanship."

"This newcomer must have extremely high talent in the Sword Dao. It seems we have a pretty strong one in this batch of new disciples."

Seeing everyone’s reaction, Jin Sanbao and Xuan Mo were secretly snickering. They had personally witnessed Yi Xiaoyao kill Qi Yue. ’Isn’t it perfectly normal for him to beat Sun Bing?’

As for Yi Xiaoyao, this outcome was well within his expectations. ’This was only after I intentionally held back; that’s why it took so long to defeat Sun Bing.’

’Ever since I broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, my ability to fight opponents of a higher level has grown quite a bit. To beat Sun Bing, who’s in the Foundation Establishment Second Realm, I used less than forty percent of my strength.’

At this thought, Yi Xiaoyao gave a faint smile.

’If I’d gone all out, I could have beaten Sun Bing in a single move.’

The reason Yi Xiaoyao hadn’t used overwhelming force to instantly defeat Sun Bing was, naturally, that he wanted to earn more Star Points from these senior disciples and their superiority complexes.

Otherwise, if he had scared them off from the very beginning, who else would dare to challenge him?

At this point, the defeated Sun Bing had picked up his long saber and gotten to his feet. With great resentment, he took out a Jade Token and transferred the Star Points from their bet to Yi Xiaoyao’s Jade Token.

Seeing the additional five hundred Star Points, Yi Xiaoyao smiled in satisfaction.

’Looks like earning Star Points isn’t so hard after all.’

Hearing the scornful curses from the other senior disciples, Sun Bing’s expression grew even darker. He snorted coldly and said, "You’re cursing me? If you have the guts, challenge him yourselves!"

Yi Xiaoyao raised an eyebrow and added with a smile, "Is there anyone else who wants to fight me?"

"I’ll do it!" a horse-faced disciple stepped forward.

Although Yi Xiaoyao had defeated Sun Bing, and everyone agreed his strength was impressive...

...most of them believed it was just because Sun Bing was too useless. Besides, all the senior disciples felt they had lost face and wanted to win it back.

What’s more, the Star Points in Yi Xiaoyao’s possession were very tempting.

"This time, let’s bet one thousand Star Points," the horse-faced disciple said coldly.

"No problem." Yi Xiaoyao didn’t hesitate at all. ’They’re basically free Star Points. I’ll take as many as I can get.’

"Hmph, I’m not a useless piece of trash like Sun Bing. Kid, you’d better prepare yourself for a crushing defeat!"

Seeing Yi Xiaoyao’s confidence, the horse-faced disciple sneered and then suddenly attacked.

A wide broadsaber came slashing over, its blade glinting coldly at an astonishing speed.

Yi Xiaoyao smiled faintly and met the attack with his sword.

After a few exchanges, Yi Xiaoyao found that this horse-faced disciple was indeed a bit stronger than Sun Bing. ’But only just a bit.’

Yi Xiaoyao didn’t need to use more than forty percent of his strength, his longsword still switching between the Flowing Light Swordsmanship and the Earth-Cutting Swordsmanship.

The Sword Shadows were sometimes as fast as lightning and incredibly agile, and at other times, their power was sharp, delivering relentlessly direct horizontal and vertical slashes.

He effortlessly countered the horse-faced disciple’s Saber Technique with just two Yellow-rank, low-grade forms of Swordsmanship, moving with complete ease.

The horse-faced disciple felt that every move he made had overwhelming momentum, yet each time, Yi Xiaoyao would cleverly neutralize it. It was incredibly strange.

After dozens of rounds, the crowd saw the expression on the horse-faced disciple’s face gradually shift from confidence to horror, just as they had seen with Sun Bing before.

Finally, Yi Xiaoyao found an opportunity and ended it once again with the Seven-layered Sword.

Nine Swords Overlapping, erupting in a single strike.

Once again, the CLANG of a saber hitting the ground rang out, and the horse-faced disciple collapsed to the ground.

The entire process was like a dramatic reenactment of Yi Xiaoyao’s victory over Sun Bing.

The disciples watching from the sidelines finally began to notice that something was off, and strange expressions appeared on their faces.

"Why do I feel like something isn’t right?"

"It’s hard to believe that a newcomer in the Foundation Establishment First Realm could defeat two of our senior disciples in a row!"

"Is this newcomer... hustling us?"

Meanwhile, after Yi Xiaoyao collected the horse-faced disciple’s Star Points, his total had reached five thousand Star Points.

He then looked into the crowd and asked, "Anyone else? Who wants to give it a try?"

A dead silence. Not a single person stepped forward.

After all, they weren’t idiots. After these two matches, anyone could tell that there was more to Yi Xiaoyao than met the eye. He was most likely hiding his true strength—a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Seeing their reactions, Yi Xiaoyao gave a wry smile.

’I can’t believe it. I deliberately held back and only beat two people, but they’ve already figured it out.’

’Now, how am I supposed to earn more Star Points?’

Just as Yi Xiaoyao was feeling secretly vexed, a loud voice called out from the crowd.

"Newcomer, do you dare to fight me?"

Yi Xiaoyao looked over in pleasant surprise. It was a bald young man.

But when he sensed the aura of the bald young man’s Cultivation, Yi Xiaoyao froze for a moment.

’Foundation Establishment Third Realm.’

"It’s Sharon! He’s been at the Foundation Establishment Third Realm for over half a year!"

"This time, Sharon can definitely take that newcomer down a peg."

Seeing this person step forward, the surrounding crowd began to whisper among themselves.

Jin Sanbao, worried that Yi Xiaoyao was outmatched, spoke up. "Hey, Baldy! You’re in the Foundation Establishment Third Realm. Have you no shame, challenging a new disciple in the Foundation Establishment First Realm to a bet?"

Everyone’s expression turned strange. It was true—the gap between the Foundation Establishment Third Realm and the First Realm was a full two Realms. Winning would be dishonorable, and losing would be even more humiliating.

"What? Are you scared?"

Sharon sneered at Yi Xiaoyao. "I’ll ask you one thing: Do you dare or not?"

Yi Xiaoyao looked at him calmly and said, "Tell me. How many Star Points are we betting?"

"Two thousand Star Points! Do you dare?" Sharon said with a provocative smile.

He knew Yi Xiaoyao had just won fifteen hundred Star Points, and adding the initial five hundred for new disciples, that made for a total of two thousand.

Sharon intended to win all of Yi Xiaoyao’s Star Points.

"In that case, forget it. I won’t bet," Yi Xiaoyao said with a frown.

Sharon snorted and sneered contemptuously. "What, you think the stakes are too high? You don’t dare to accept? So the so-called genius is just a timid coward!"

Hearing this, Yi Xiaoyao scoffed.

’Not dare? How is that possible!’

The reason Yi Xiaoyao had refused was that he was worried the same thing would happen again—after he defeated this opponent, no one else would dare to challenge him.

If he defeated Sharon, who was in the Foundation Establishment Third Realm, then even the other senior disciples at that Realm wouldn’t dare to bet against him. That was not the outcome he wanted.

’If that’s the case, I might as well win it all in one go.’

"It’s not that I don’t dare. It’s that the stakes are too low."

Yi Xiaoyao said with a cold smile, "Five thousand Star Points. Do you dare to bet that?"

If the other party dared to accept, then winning this match would get him the ten thousand Star Points he needed.

This was Yi Xiaoyao’s plan to win it all in one go.

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