Chapter 155: Initial Fight

Chu Lin's martial Dao cultivation had already reached the realm of the Eighth-Rank Early Stage, while Sun Xuan's apparent martial Dao cultivation strength was at the Eighth-Rank Middle Stage.

Actually, logically speaking, whether it was Sun Xuan or Chu Lin, at this moment both of them had the qualifications to be promoted to Deputy Town Demon Envoy.

However, because whether it was Chu Lin or Sun Xuan, the time they two took to promote to the Eighth-Rank Martial Artist realm was relatively short.

Furthermore, after Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing returned to the Qinghe County Town Demon Guard, he had constantly been busy with who knows what.

Therefore, the time for the two of them to be promoted to Deputy Town Demon Envoy was delayed quite a bit. Now, whether it was Sun Xuan or Chu Lin, although they both had reached the qualifications to be promoted to Deputy Town Demon Envoy, due to various reasons, their official titles as Deputy Town Demon Envoys had not yet been finalized.

Above the discussion grand hall, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing sat in the prime seat, while on both sides were two Deputy Town Demon Envoys.

As for Sun Xuan and Chu Lin, because they had already advanced to Eighth-Rank Martial Artists, on the two rows of seats below, Sun Xuan and Chu Lin both sat at the prime positions on either side.

After all the Town Demon Guards and Deputy Town Demon Envoys had completely arrived at the discussion grand hall, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing, who sat in the main seat, let out a light cough at this moment.

Then, with a glowing complexion, he opened his mouth to say to everyone inside the discussion grand hall:

"Fellow colleagues of the Town Demon Guard, I, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing, have come to the Qinghe County Town Demon Guard to serve as the Town Demon Envoy for five years already.

During these five years, I have been conscientious and diligent, on one hand eradicating the threats of various ghosts and monsters to the populace under Qinghe County's rule.

On the other hand, I have maintained the balance of major forces within Qinghe County city, and over these past few years, I can be considered to have established some meritorious achievements.

Just a short while ago, the prefecture city Town Demon Guard has already issued an order to me, and Lord Town Demon Left Envoy has confirmed that I am to be transferred to the prefecture city to assume the position of Town Demon Right Envoy."

Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing spoke up to here, then paused slightly.

Meanwhile, the crowd inside the grand hall revealed expressions that were both unexpected and reasonable.

As for those four Deputy Town Demon Envoys, their faces revealed an uncontainable look of excitement.

Because after Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing was transferred away from the position of Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy, then within the Qinghe County Town Demon Guard, the position of Town Demon Envoy would be left vacant.

According to past conventions, the newly vacated position of Town Demon Envoy generally had to be selected from among the Deputy Town Demon Envoys.

Consequently, the four of them would have the opportunity to become the Town Demon Envoy who controlled the Town Demon Guard of a county.

Thinking of this, the expressions on the faces of these four Deputy Town Demon Envoys suddenly became somewhat unable to suppress their joy and excitement.

Inside the discussion grand hall, the other ordinary Town Demon Guards also let out a low buzzing sound at this moment.

One by one, they began discussing among themselves regarding Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing's sudden transfer and promotion.

Among these ordinary Town Demon Guards, some were happy, some were worried, and some treated it calmly.

After hearing this news, Sun Xuan slightly raised his eyebrows.

And in his heart, he quietly pondered his next plans.

Regarding the position of the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy, after pondering for a while, Sun Xuan felt that it was still necessary to grasp it in his own hands.

Because right now Sun Xuan's strength had greatly increased, and if he wanted to further improve his strength, Qinghe County was gradually becoming somewhat unable to satisfy Sun Xuan's demands.

Therefore, Sun Xuan prepared to promote himself to become the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy, and then use this Town Demon Envoy position as a stepping stone to transfer to the prefecture city, or even the state city.

Because only within a wider region would there be more and stronger Martial Artists.

In this way, the level of missions he could access would also be higher, and if battles occurred then, the chance for him to pick up stronger attributes would be even greater.

At this moment, listening to the buzzing discussions inside the discussion grand hall, if it were in the past, when such noisy sounds were emitted in the grand hall, given Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing's temper, he definitely would have flown into a rage.

But today, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing was in high spirits due to happy events; on the joyous day of his upcoming promotion, he no longer cared much about these trivial matters.

Instead, he let these Town Demon Guards continue discussing. Even regarding the desire and greed for the Town Demon Envoy position on the faces of those few Deputy Town Demon Envoys, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing felt it didn't matter, because he was about to be promoted to the prefecture city's Town Demon Right Envoy.

As a big figure in the prefecture city Town Demon Guard whose status was second only to the prefecture city Town Demon Left Envoy, he no longer looked down upon this tiny single-county Town Demon Envoy position.

After letting the crowd inside the discussion grand hall discuss for a short while, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing, who sat in the main seat, coughed lightly once more.

Then he reached out his hand and pressed down slightly toward below.

The buzzing discussion sounds in the grand hall immediately stopped at this moment, and then everyone's gazes could not help but gather on Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing's body once again.

Seeing this, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing could not help but reveal a look of satisfaction on his face. The charm of power lay right here, which was also one of the reasons why Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing had always been obsessed with getting promoted.

Seeing this, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing spoke to the crowd again:

"This time I am transferring to the prefecture city and promoting to Town Demon Right Envoy, while the position of Town Demon Envoy in Qinghe County has become vacant.

The meaning of Lord prefecture city Town Demon Left Envoy is that the position of the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy must be assumed by a powerful Martial Artist.

Now that this official is transferring from Qinghe County to the prefecture city, this position of the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy will be produced from among the four Deputy Town Demon Envoys, as well as the two Eighth-Rank Martial Artists Chu Lin and Sun Xuan.

As for among these six people, exactly who will assume the position of the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy will be decided by the method of a martial tournament.

I wonder if the six of you have any other opinions?"

After Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing's voice fell, he looked over toward the four Deputy Town Demon Envoys as well as Chu Lin and Sun Xuan, all six of them.

However, regarding this matter, since Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing had personally spoken, the six of them naturally would not have any opinions.

As for Sun Xuan, he felt that this method of using a martial tournament to decide who would sit in the Town Demon Envoy position was quite good.

Because Sun Xuan's current martial Dao strength, let alone those Deputy Town Demon Envoys including Chu Lin, even if Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing personally went up, Sun Xuan was confident he could kill Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing under his palm within three moves.

However, food must be eaten one bite at a time, and matters must be done step by step.

Right now, Sun Xuan's strength, whether within Qinghe County or even the prefecture city, was considered a relatively strong category of people.

But in the state city, or even within the central region of the Great Wei State, those stronger than Sun Xuan were still ubiquitous.

Therefore, Sun Xuan would temporarily not be too high-profile, but would continue to quietly accumulate strength.

Until he cultivated this Physical Body to be even more powerful, and also elevated its Soul to a certain strength.

Sun Xuan's true body would directly absorb this host body, and then return back to the Renegade Immortal main world.

Under this circumstance, all six of them, including Sun Xuan, agreed to Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing's suggestion.

Seeing this, a trace of a satisfied expression instantly flashed across Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing's face.

Following that, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing spoke some other polite remarks, and after giving a lengthy speech for a while, he directly announced:

With him presiding, upon the martial stage inside the Town Demon Guard garrison, the position of the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy would be finalized today.

Because Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing was going to assume office tomorrow and head to the prefecture city to assume the position of Town Demon Right Envoy.

Therefore, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing also wanted to finalize the position of the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy as soon as possible so as not to delay his travel schedule for assuming office.

Just like that, after a short while, all the Town Demon Guards, including several Eighth-Rank Martial Artists like Sun Xuan and Chu Lin, successively arrived at the location where the martial stage was situated.

Beneath the martial stage, one ordinary Town Demon Guard after another sat down at the viewing area below the stage.

As for Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing, he sat upon the presiding seat of the martial stage.

After everyone was seated, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing did not talk nonsense and directly and casually pointed out two people. The martial stage contest to vie for the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy thus commenced.

Coincidentally, the first person to step onto the stage for this martial stage contest was Sun Xuan.

Perhaps Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing felt that because Sun Xuan had just advanced to the Eighth-Rank Martial Artist realm not long ago, although his martial Dao strength's improvement later was not slow and within a short time he reached the Eighth-Rank Middle Stage realm.

However, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing presumably felt that Sun Xuan's strength should be a relatively weak one among all the Deputy Town Demon Envoys.

Therefore, he thought of letting Sun Xuan go on stage first, and after eliminating Sun Xuan, to then carry out other contests.

Unfortunately, Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing had thought wrong.

Among the people present, including Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing himself, the one with the strongest strength was actually Sun Xuan.

At this moment, with Sun Xuan taking the stage, it had already determined the outcome of defeat for anyone else battling against Sun Xuan.

Just like that, the first Deputy Town Demon Envoy to take the stage and battle Sun Xuan was named Yuan Dong.

This person was also a veteran Eighth-Rank Martial Artist within Qinghe County, and his strength could be considered extraordinary.

Although he did not hold a true spirit artifact in his hands, he had cultivated an ordinary martial art to the Transcendent realm, and furthermore mastered a Transcendent skill.

Therefore, his strength among Eighth-Rank Martial Artists was also considered relatively good.

And this person Yuan Dong clearly did not put Sun Xuan in his eyes. After stepping onto the stage, Yuan Dong coldly glanced at Sun Xuan, a trace of inadvertent contempt flashing across the corner of his mouth.

Then he opened his mouth to say to Sun Xuan:

"Kid, in this martial stage contest, it is still not too late for you to surrender now. If you surrender and submit in time, after I become the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy,

you can still become a Deputy Town Demon Envoy. By then you can submit under my command, and future benefits will not be lacking for you."

Sun Xuan listened to Yuan Dong's words with a blank expression, and couldn't help feeling somewhat speechless in his heart.

Seeing this, a slight smile appeared at the corner of Sun Xuan's mouth, and he did not answer what Yuan Dong had said.

Instead, he stretched out a finger and gently hooked it toward Yuan Dong's direction.

Seeing this, Yuan Dong's expression immediately became extremely ugly.

Among the four Deputy Town Demon Envoys, Yuan Dong's strength was considered top-notch.

And this time the contest for the position of the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy was actually a competition between Yuan Dong and another Deputy Town Demon Envoy named Liu Suo.

As for the remaining two Deputy Town Demon Envoys, because they understood the power of Yuan Dong and Liu Suo, they had early on submitted under the command of Yuan Dong and Liu Suo.

Meanwhile, Sun Xuan and Chu Lin, because they had just been promoted to the Eighth-Rank realm not long ago, were not looked upon by Yuan Dong, Liu Suo, and the other four.

Furthermore, these four Deputy Town Demon Envoys also believed that this time after Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing was transferred away, the position of the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy would inevitably be produced between Yuan Dong or Liu Suo.

As for Sun Xuan and Chu Lin, they believed they were not qualified to compete with them.

Even though Chu Lin had previously been valued by Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing, the time Chu Lin took to advance to the Eighth-Rank realm was after all too short, so the four of them completely did not put Chu Lin in their eyes, let alone the unknown Sun Xuan.

At this moment, seeing Sun Xuan provoke him so ignorantly of favor or disgrace, the anger in Yuan Dong's heart suddenly surged up.

Yuan Dong had already made up his mind in his heart that in this martial tournament battle, he must leave some marks on this ignorant kid.

And after he was promoted to be the Qinghe County Town Demon Envoy, he would dispatch all the most dangerous and most difficult missions onto this ignorant kid Sun Xuan.

Then make him die unknowingly within this Qinghe County city.

This was the consequence of offending him, Yuan Dong.

"Kid, since you are so ignorant of favors, today Yuan Dong will teach you how to properly behave as a human being within this Town Demon Guard!"

Saying this with a gloomy expression, Yuan Dong spoke thus.

After hearing Yuan Dong's remarks, Sun Xuan could not help but reveal a trace of a derisive smile on his face.

Originally, with Sun Xuan's level, he did not want to bother with an ant like Yuan Dong.

But seeing Yuan Dong's appearance resembling a clown jumping on a beam, he couldn't help but arouse a thought of teasing.

Sun Xuan opened his mouth and said to Yuan Dong:

"You, this stray dog that only knows how to bark furiously, haven't even figured out how to be a dog properly, yet you still want to teach me how to behave? Truly courting death!"

As Sun Xuan's teasing words fell, Yuan Dong's expression instantly changed drastically.

With a fierce look on his face, Yuan Dong said angrily to Sun Xuan:

"Kid, since you are courting death, then don't blame me for being merciless with my strikes!"

As his voice fell, Yuan Dong immediately slammed his foot fiercely against the martial stage floor, and his entire body rushed toward Sun Xuan's direction like lightning.

Meanwhile, Town-Demon Envoy Lü Qing, who was sitting in the referee's seat, couldn't help but have a trace of an interesting expression flash across his face at this moment.

Before transferring to Qinghe County city, he did not expect that he could actually see such a good show.

Listening to the dialogue between Sun Xuan and Yuan Dong, a trace of a smile couldn't help but emerge on Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing's face.

However, right now Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing was also not very optimistic about Sun Xuan. After all, Yuan Dong could be considered his old subordinate, and Town Demon Envoy Lü Qing still had a clear count in his heart regarding what Yuan Dong's strength was like.

And the crowd of ordinary Town Demon Guards sitting below the stage also let out waves of buzzing discussions at this moment.

Listening to the crowd's discussion sounds, it was obvious they were not optimistic about Sun Xuan.

Although Sun Xuan had also been promoted to an Eighth-Rank Martial Artist at this moment, Yuan Dong had been a Deputy Town Demon Envoy for a very long time.

In the hearts of all the Town Demon Guards, Yuan Dong's power was already considered relatively deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Therefore, in this battle, there were not many people who favored Sun Xuan.

Meanwhile, Chu Lin, who was waiting for battle on the side, after hearing the dialogue between the two, could not help but reveal a trace of worry on his face.

Because after all, Chu Lin and Sun Xuan had jointly experienced life and death together when executing a mission in Wuling Town previously.

Therefore, the relationship between the two was considered quite good.

Seeing Sun Xuan speak out to provoke him at this moment, Chu Lin, who understood Yuan Dong's strength relatively well, couldn't help but reveal a trace of worry for Sun Xuan on his face.