SCT-Novel #136 - Are you upset? Don’t complain about losing!
#136 - Are you upset? Don’t complain about losing!
The light flashed.
Xu Chengxian, now a small, patterned snake, reappeared on the arena.
Then, he leaped.
His snake body drew a cheerful arc in the air before landing in his seat.
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“Great King Xu, another victory? Congratulations!”
Hong Lie immediately sent a voice transmission as he landed.
Xu Chengxian coiled his snake body and nodded his tail at him, thanking him for his help.
Without this fellow stirring up Hei Jiao’s thoughts, things wouldn’t have gone so smoothly.
“What happened? Why the delay?” At this moment, Ling Yunzi also sent a voice transmission, asking.
“A long time?” Xu Chengxian was stunned.
He couldn’t help but look up.
By this time, the sun had risen to the middle of the sky.
“Nearly half of this incense stick has burned away.” Ling Yunzi gestured for Xu Chengxian to look at the incense burner on the arena.
That incense burner was used to calculate the time.
It burned a special incense stick.
One incense stick burning completely signified exactly one hour.
At the start of each round of duels, Prime Minister Turtle would light a new incense stick.
If the incense stick burned out and the two sides in the secret realm arena still hadn’t determined a victor, it would be considered a draw.
The result of a draw was that both would be eliminated.
Now, about one-fifth of the incense stick’s length had been burned.
Which meant that roughly half an hour had passed?
“Good heavens, I didn’t even feel it.” Xu Chengxian scratched his head.
During this duel, he and Hei Jiao had fought too joyfully.
The opponent had gone all out.
Using all his strength, innate battle skills and divine abilities were unleashed.
As his opponent, he couldn’t help but become more and more engrossed as he received the blows.
Then Xu Chengxian discovered that this kind of battle was not only exhilarating but also helped him improve his combat power.
He completely let go, concentrating all his blood energy and throwing himself into it.
The two people’s duel gradually became selfless.
It wasn’t until the feeling of being stuffed inside his internal organs completely disappeared that he felt the battle should end, and he found an opportunity to end the fight.
During this period, he hadn’t paid attention to the passage of time.
“Also, why hasn’t Ling Xiao come out yet?”
“No one has left.” Ling Yunzi shook his head.
He asked Xu Chengxian why he had stayed in the arena for so long because he was wondering about the Flower Snake's performance compared to the previous match.
It wasn't that the other great demons came out early.
In fact, of the six pairs of great demons who entered the arena at the same time in the second round,
only one group had come out before Xu Chengxian.
However, it wasn’t the group of Ling Xiao and Yu Feilong.
“Ling Xiao won’t come out that quickly.” Ling Yunzi said.
Xu Chengxian nodded.
Ling Xiao would definitely take the opportunity to do his best to weaken Yu Feilong’s combat power.
So, of course, the longer he dragged it out, the better.
If he could directly drag it out for more than an hour and directly eliminate this strongest fellow,
then he and Ling Yunzi would have a better chance of winning among the remaining great demons.
“How is your opponent’s strength?” Ling Yunzi asked.
While the two were talking, Hei Jiao had already walked off the arena.
He didn’t look well, but it didn’t seem like he was injured.
So he was very curious about how Xu Chengxian had won against the opponent.
“I waited for an opportunity and stole his demon core. I threatened him that if he didn’t admit defeat, I would eat it directly.” Xu Chengxian shook his tail triumphantly.
Wasn’t he very clever?
“… …You said that, and he believed you?” Ling Yunzi didn’t believe it.
“Of course he had to believe it, because before that, I had already swallowed it eight times and refined a lot of the demon power in the demon core!”
“… …”
“Okay, he was dubious. So, I told him that he could bet on it now. Bet on whether I could completely leave his demon core behind.”
If he wasn’t willing to bet, he should admit defeat.
“I see.” Ling Yunzi nodded.
If he were Hei Jiao, he wouldn’t take this bet.
Because the demon core was in Xu Chengxian’s hands.
It might not be easy to refine the demon core.
But to destroy it, with the Flower Snake’s method of being able to swallow the demon core and seize demon power, it might not be impossible.
What’s more, just causing some damage to the demon core would be a great threat to Hei Jiao.
What Ling Yunzi couldn’t understand was: “That demon core is in his body, how could you steal it?”
“Haha! I gave his demon core back to him, but he only kept it on his waist and didn’t take it back into his body.”
“… …”
That was really…
I have to say, he deserved it.
How could this Hei Jiao be so reckless and careless?
“Actually, this can’t be entirely blamed on him.” Xu Chengxian coiled up, preparing to take a nap.
Looking at the situation, the remaining great demons wouldn’t be out for a while.
“Hmm, what do you mean by that?”
“This old man used a little trick to disturb his mind and make him lose his senses.”
“… …Oh.” Ling Yunzi glanced at the Flower Snake who had fallen asleep after speaking, his expression paused, and he thought of the other party’s innate divine ability before he barely managed not to think in the wrong direction.
… …
“Fire-playing one, you tricked me.”
Hei Jiao got off the arena but didn’t return to his original seat.
Instead, he plopped down next to Hong Lie.
As soon as he sat down, he said through gritted teeth.
“That’s not interesting to say, how did I trick you?” Hong Lie snorted and laughed, “Which sentence I said wasn’t the truth?”
“You implied that the Flower Snake’s divine soul isn’t strong.” Hei Jiao said in a deep voice.
“Heh, that’s ridiculous. Implied to you?” Hong Lie sneered, “Are you sure that if I told you something clearly, you would believe it?”
“Was the implication you heard from my words what I said, or what you thought yourself?”
Hei Jiao was silent for a moment.
Most demons have a weaker divine soul than their physical body.
So he easily believed it.
He even thought that Xu Chengxian had no magic power, no demon core, and didn’t show himself in human form.
Maybe this Flower Snake hadn’t even transformed!
Therefore, he认定了that his divine soul power was weak, which was a certainty.
But he ignored one point, and that was that the Flower Snake had a genuine great demon realm combat power!
The elder said that those who are different from ordinary people are either extremely weak or extremely strong.
Obviously, Xu Chengxian wasn’t weak!
“Water-controlling one, how many times did you hit Xu Chengxian with the demon core?” Hong Lie asked.
“… …What’s it to you!” Hei Jiao’s face darkened.
“Of course it’s none of my business, I’m just a little unwilling, so I want to know.” Hong Lie sighed.
After taking back the demon core, he didn’t choose to fight again.
Because he felt he couldn’t win.
But after leaving the arena, his unwillingness still emerged.
Because before that, he couldn’t be sure whether his choice and guess were correct.
So when Hei Jiao showed disdain, he became angry.
And instantly changed his mind, pretending to be twelve points of unwillingness, and tricked the other party in his words.
Until now.
The aura on Hei Jiao’s body was unstable.
It seemed he had lost miserably.
Hong Lie’s state of mind, which had been turbulent due to unwillingness, suddenly calmed down.
He even felt like enlightening the angry snake next to him.
“Didn’t Xu Chengxian also trick you into offering the demon core more than once?” he asked.
“… …Hmm.” Hei Jiao was unhappy, but hearing him say ‘also’, he hummed.
“Heh heh, did you fall for it?”
“… …Fire-playing one, are you looking for a fight?” Hei Jiao gritted his teeth.
“Heh heh, you can’t get any advantage from fighting me now.” Hong Lie said with a smile, “Do you feel like you’ve been tricked by my words now?”
“So you’re very annoyed and unwilling? Want to seek my bad luck?”
“But have you ever thought about why you fell into the trap?”
“Because you were too impatient, and you weren’t sure you could win him with other means!”
Hei Jiao was stunned by these words.
Asking himself, why did he fall into this trap?
The Flower Snake’s physical body was strong, so strong that unless he fought to the death, there was no chance of winning.
In comparison, there was a chance of winning only by starting with the divine soul.
Except for the first time, which was for the purpose of testing, Hong Lie was right about the other times.
… …
“Don’t be annoyed and unwilling, we didn’t lose unjustly.”
“Hmph, even so, he swallowed my demon power, I won’t let him go so easily!”
“What are you going to do?”
“No matter who his next opponent is, I will tell him the truth about the Flower Snake’s methods!”