Reborn with a Space: Building a Fortune Amidst Famine

Chapter 1411: Competition

The family of three sat down. Tan Shaoting explained the matches on stage to their young woman, while Su Yuanyuan read them on her own.

She could see through seventy percent of the Golden Core Cultivators’ patterns, and with her own movement technique, she’d now be able to escape from a Golden Core Cultivator’s hands.

She carefully analyzed the Golden Core Cultivators’ fights on the platform. There were some key people and moves she had to remember.

The whole family had miscalculated; there were no "daytime and nighttime" breaks in the competition. The three of them were stunned by their own assumptions, and mother and daughter quickly left.

Su Yuanyuan walked her young woman back to the platform where she was competing.

"Mom, you can go back, I’ll just stay here. If anything comes up, I’ll send a Sound Transmission Talisman."

"Alright."

Su Yuanyuan went back to ask around and found that the first round still hadn’t finished. She was still worried about Tan Shaoting, so she headed over to the Golden Core Platform again.

The couple sat together watching the fights on the platform. Su Yuanyuan used voice transmission to tell Tan Shaoting the patterns of those cultivators.

Listening to his wife and combining it with the matches on stage, Tan Shaoting actually started to see some of it as well.

As for Liu Xiaozhu’s match, there was no suspense at all. Because he had something on his mind, this ended up being the fastest fight of the round.

"Senior Brother, what urgent business do you have again? You’re making us lose too much face like this." Bi Qingyang of Jingyang Peak, Golden Core Fifth Layer, joked as he complained to Liu Xiaozhu.

"Qingyang, I really do have something to do, I’ll be leaving first."

Seeing him leave in such a hurry, everyone here could tell he really did have something urgent.

After two more bouts, it was finally Tan Shaoting’s turn to go on stage.

His luck was actually decent. His opponent was Lu Ziqi of Qingyun Peak, Third Level of Golden Core.

Tan Shaoting was Second Level of Golden Core, while he was Third Level of Golden Core, so their fight drew quite a bit of attention.

Tan Shaoting hadn’t been in the Xuantian Sect for long, but his reputation was already not small, not to mention his wife was also formidable.

One was a Sword Cultivator and the other a Magic Cultivator. In theory, Tan Shaoting did not have the advantage.

As soon as they started, everyone sighed; Sword Cultivators really were ferocious. And his speed was just too fast, right? The fight ended very quickly. With no suspense at all, Tan Shaoting won.

He went to ask around and guessed that the first round might not finish by tomorrow. With that, he was relieved. He gave the Steward one of his own Sound Transmission Talismans, then pulled his wife by the hand and left.

Too many people envied him. But they all knew this was something you couldn’t get just by envying.

Su Yuanyuan also casually asked the Steward on her side; it turned out they still wouldn’t get to her round tomorrow. Only then did the family go to the platform where their young woman was.

The Qi Refinement Realm matches went much faster. The first round had already ended, leaving one thousand people.

The second round was just as rough as the first, still eliminating half. They also solemnly pointed out that Arrays were no longer allowed.

Qi Wen curled her lips. Seriously, now she’d have to put in effort.

There would be two bouts in total, five hundred people in each.

Su Yuanyuan stood below, watching her young woman hugging her sword and standing off to the side.

Miao Xiaotong and the other three stayed as well. They slowly edged closer to Qi Wen, feeling that things should be safer around her. Qi Wen didn’t care. She knew very clearly that right now she had no friends. As she watched one cultivator after another get blasted off the platform, there were fewer and fewer people left on stage.

At that point, Qi Wen also couldn’t avoid getting involved, but she basically didn’t use her hands, she literally just used her feet—direct kicks. She directly kicked more than ten people off in a row, and once again it was quiet around her.

"Qi Wen, you’re way too fierce, aren’t you?"

"This counts as fierce? I don’t think so. Zhao Yan Yan, you’d better focus."

"Heh, it’s safe around you right now."

Just as she finished speaking, she was blasted off by a Spell.

Zhao Yan Yan scrambled up in a sorry state, extremely annoyed. How could this happen? In her heart she also blamed Tan Qiweng for not warning her.

Qi Wen couldn’t care less what she thought. If someone attacked, she just dodged. If they attacked her three times in a row, she would definitely kick them down. She played petty vengeance to the fullest.

The cultivators below watched what was happening on stage and all ground their teeth in anger.

Cultivators used Divine Sense, so they didn’t have to count. Once they knew there were two hundred and fifty people left, they all stopped.

Miao Xiaotong and Cheng Xiaoya both made it through, while Huang Li was blasted down.

The referee told them that in two days they would draw lots and enter the semifinals again.

Qi Wen jumped down and walked toward her parents with a smile.

The family of three went straight back to Huai Sheng Mountain.

The couple went into the space. Tan Shaoting was especially proud today, soaking up everyone’s envy. That feeling was different from any other kind of being envied.

Su Yuanyuan really didn’t know what to do with him. It was rare for this man to be so childish.

The next day, after they came out, the family didn’t go to the platforms. The two of them were likely scheduled for the evening, and Qi Wen didn’t have any matches today or tomorrow.

Liu Xiaozhu hurried back to Ancestor Peak. Yu Huping looked at his disciple’s expression. "What’s going on with you?"

"Master, Xu Ying from Yufa Peak is pregnant with my child."

Seeing his disciple’s smile, Yu Huping also smiled. "Let’s go, we’ll take a trip to Yufa Peak."

Yu Huping was rather helpless too. Disciples living together without forming Dao-companionships wasn’t a very good trend, but newborns in the Cultivation World were far too few, so he turned a blind eye.

He hadn’t expected his disciple to actually have a child—that was already pretty good.

Over at Yufa Peak, Xu Ying had also told her master about this.

"Alright, as long as you’re willing yourself."

What could a master say? The disciple was already pregnant; this was a huge matter. Whether the child was a boy or a girl, the chance of having a Spirit Root was extremely high.

The Cultivation World needed newborns now. These days, even recruiting disciples in the Mortal World was getting harder and harder, and that absolutely wouldn’t do.

The two elders discussed it together. Xu Ying said she didn’t want any ceremony, so the two of them just knelt and kowtowed to their two masters here and made vows. With that, the two were considered to have formed a Dao-companionship.

That night, the two returned together to Xiao Zhu Peak.

The next day, Liu Xiaozhu told his good friends. Several of them also had female cultivators, but none had children.

There wasn’t a single one who didn’t envy him. They told him that he must throw a grand celebration after the child was born.

News like this spread very fast, and soon many people in the Sect knew.

Many cultivators who wanted a next generation were moved.

That night, Tan Shaoting and his wife went to the platforms. After sending his wife to hers, he returned to the Golden Core Stage platform, where half the people were already gone.

He heard about Liu Xiaozhu’s joyous news. "Congratulations, Martial Uncle."

"Thanks." Liu Xiaozhu’s tone was different from usual, carrying obvious excitement.

The first round was about to end, and the second round would also be by drawing lots.

Tan Shaoting drew number five. Liu Xiaozhu drew number nine.

While they waited, Tan Shaoting got to know all the Golden Core Cultivators here. Everyone had been curious about him to begin with. After they met him, they found him to be quite an easygoing person. Very soon, a large portion of them accepted him.