Everyone is Secretly in Love with Me

Lin Zhizhi wanted Qi Ting to directly send a message to inform the elders of their sect about the demonic cultivators roaming around in Linye City. Ever since Xuan Hua left, he might be a disciple of the sect, but in reality, he didn’t even know any of his sect elders. So he left this task to his martial brother, who probably, at the very least, know some of the elders in their sect.

“Tell the elders that there might be some pseudo-demonic cultivators in Linye city, their cultivation base is not high, but their cultivation technique is very refined.” 

Qi Ting was stunned as he asked, “How do you know?”

“Because you couldn’t defeat him.”

“…I’m asking you how you knew they’re demonic cultivators.”

“Intuition.” Lin Zhizih shortly answered. He was too lazy to explain, and it involves a lot of things related to the siege in the secret realm, so he casually made up a reason to avoid answering. 

“…”

Qi Ting thought that Lin Zhizhi was deliberately teasing him. He was angry and also felt a little bit wronged for some reason as he said, “You’re also a disciple of our sect, why don’t you just tell them yourself?”

The dark-haired boy’s indifferent black eyes were a bit dimmer than the night sky behind him. Lin Zhizhi was now deeply focused on building the perfect foundation tower as quickly as possible, and he didn’t feel like talking either. He didn’t answer Qi Ting’s words at all and was planning to leave alone.

Xie Ling stopped him before he left and anxiously asked, “Is it true, brother Lin?”

Linye city is her hometown. If something terrible happened here, the girl would’ve been the most anxious about this city than anyone else in their group.

Lin Zhizhi hesitantly nodded as he answered, “I’m eighty percent sure it is.”

Unlike Qi Ting, Xie Ling unconditionally believed him since she also went through the siege in the secret realm. Hearing this, she unhesitantly said, “Then I will send a letter to my master. It’ll take three days if we send the message by a spiritual bird, maybe a little later than that, but by then, the competition should end already…”

“We just need to do our best by then.” Lin Zhizhi assured her. 

He guessed that these few demonic cultivators probably came for the pool, because other than that, this small city wouldn’t have anything valuable to take.

It’s also possible that there might be a cave-dwelling left by an ascended immortal somewhere under the pool.

The young master of the Lin family made excellent use of the accumulation of his
childhood’s [love] great [smallish] learning [sight-seeing] talent [lying abilities], and found countless reasons for the appearance of demonic cultivators coming to this city.

Xie Ling returned to the Xie manor. A few phantom guards were dispatched to observe the Sun and Qian families, wanting to observe those families. He thought they were just going out for a walk, but turns out they had a good time with the two patriarchs, and after the daily banquet, they returned to the training room to practice diligently. 

Xie Ling looks like she’s going to do her best in the competition.

In addition to training hard, the girl also stepped up her cultivation with her elder brother.

Lin Zhizhi had already taken one step into entering the foundation building period. Unless he could condense it into a foundation building tower, his usual meditation practice would have no effect. He has been locked inside his room for the past few days, thinking about how to improve his control over his lightning techniques.

Most of the lightning manipulation methods his master gave him before he left were mostly subtle tricks that he could only use after entering the foundation building stage. With his current half-step into building his foundation, he could only use the most simple techniques. 

As for Qi Ting, he lingered in major auctions every day, spending thousands of precious spirit stones to buy numerous one-time use talismans and powerful spiritual treasures.

His idea was very simple, Laozi’s techniques couldn’t hurt him, but Laozi is rich! A single talisman couldn’t kill you, but could you put up with tens of them?

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This method is completely impractical in the foundation building stage and above, but in the qi refining stage, except for a small number of real cultivation geniuses, it will suffice against most Qi refining stage cultivators. After all, with the amount of money he was throwing in to buy those talismans, anyone would’ve been struck dumb for a while.

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The head of the Xie family looked solemn as he said, “Ling er, Lu er, Lun er, you all must remember that the family’s honor is in your hands. Also, young master Lin, young master Qi, we’ll be depending on you now.”

The three Xie juniors nodded with solemn faces, a stark contrast to Qi Ting’s relaxed demeanor.

Lin Zhizhi was still acting the same, he wasn’t fazed by honor, disgrace, and everyone’s change in demeanor. 

The patriarch then went ahead to draw lots, one person will be representing each side. The order of the final draw is Xie Ling against Sun Hao, Xie Lu against Qianjie, and Xie Lun against the youngest man in the group of three. Qi Ting’s enemy is Lu Zhai, one of the men who fought against him on the street last night, and Lin Zhizhi was faced with the middle-aged man.

Xie Ling was first.

The girl is young and beautiful, her Luo skirt hanging on her was fluttering with a gentle beauty, earning her the support of many young men in the audience.

It was worth mentioning that, upon seeing the faces of the two participants, save for those who carried the burden of their family honor on their shoulders, most people were slightly inclined to support the Xie family after seeing her. 

They didn’t have a solid reason to support her, but her beauty is enough for them to support her!

Xie Ling alone could defeat the three dull old men on the opposite team, not to mention that Lin Zhizhi had helped the girl a bit during training.

With a solid “bang’ echoing in the stadium, Sun Hao also stepped onto the stage.

Sun Hao is an outstanding disciple of the Sun family. Since childhood, he has been following a certain golded core formation stage master as his teacher, but he was obviously not as good as Xie Ling, who had joined the renowned Luo immortal sword sect as an inner disciple. 

His weapon of choice is a double hammer, and he is a physical cultivator, evident by his huge momentum. However, he was quickly subdued by his opponent’s soft-colored ribbons. She overcame her rigid opponent’s attack with her own soft and gentle techniques, hence, she managed to subdue her opponent’s might with gentle force.

The double hammer was knocked to a side of the ring, smashing a huge pit on the ring.

Xie Ling was as graceful as a fluttering butterfly. She moved dexterously, leaving Sun Hao helpless against her attacks. Finally, she seized an opportunity to wrap the young man’s waist and threw him out of the platform.

Xie Ling’s victory made the patriarch’s face smile a bit. 

The sect’s fame wasn’t from nothing. Their disciples were more than enough to deal with Sun Hao, a young man with limited qualifications who had failed to join the illustrious sect. But what really worried him, were the three men cloaked in black, and Qian Jie.

Although Qian Jie wasn’t a disciple of a large sect, he joined a sect that specializes in mind cultivation. This sect had a special technique, which could utilize a user’s spiritual consciousness, they could even attack their opponent with it! Very mysterious.

The other people came from mysterious origins and cultivated a special cultivation technique as well. Even the patriarch’s foundation establishment cultivation level couldn’t see through theirs. Xie Lun will most likely lose. According to the news he got a few days ago, that young man named Qi Ting is also useless against them… he could only place his hope on Lin Zhizhi.

The next round is Xie Lu against Qian Jie. 

This one doesn’t have anything much to watch. Just as Xie Lu was about to attack, Qian Jie had already closed his eyes and activated his spiritual sense, turning it into a knife, and had a fierce fight with Xie Lu.

Xie Lu endured the excruciating headache and wanted to interrupt Qian Jie’s cohesive spiritual attack through physical attacks, but he couldn’t sustain his headache until then.

Unfortunately, he lost.

In the match between Xie Lun and the black-clothed man, it went as the Xie family’s patriarch had thought it would go. Xie Lun was completely incapable of defeating his enemy, who possessed amazing defense. On the contrary, he had vomited blood and stepped down after receiving a few blows from his opponent. 

Two to one.

The Xie family’s patriarch felt as if his heart was at the bottom of his throat with how anxious he was feeling. Xie Ling was also looking at Qi Ting with nervous eyes.

Next is Qi Ting.

The man’s tendon in his left hand was severed by Lin Zhizhi, but he had found a good elixir and successfully healed it. Now, although he couldn’t exert too much force on his left hand, he could still fight using his right. What’s more, when he defeated Qi Ting, he didn’t even use his left hand at all. 

He didn’t take the initiative to attack, but like their last meeting, he cast a golden light all over his body. Waiting for Qi Ting to come and attack him.

Qi Ting had already suffered a loss against him and had no intentions of fighting the man with his sword. He stretched his hand into his bosom and took his weapon out. Like a goddess scattering flowers upon the mortal realm, numerous talismans scattered onto the man’s head.

The opponent was submerged by talismans, his mind was at a loss as he stood frozen, covered beneath the scattered talismans.

They were then detonated one by one, forming a mass of flames composed of the spirit stones he had spent on them. 

This firework came from a rain worth of thousands of spirit stones, with each droplet representing a single spirit stone.

The combusted talisman covered the man’s entire body, the impact suddenly blowing him away from his spot.

Qi Ting smiled proudly. This was the safest method he came up with. The real fighting tactic, he had already tried it that day at the market, but he couldn’t scratch him at all. Even if Lin Zhizhi abolished one of his opponent’s arms, he’s positive he still couldn’t beat him.

He couldn’t break through the other’s defenses at all, so how could he defeat him. 

He could only fight using his family’s wealth!

Upon winning, Qi Ting was so happy on the stage, that he couldn’t even believe his eyes, so he jumped down the stage and asked his junior sister for her recognition. But Lin Zhizhi had observed from the sidelines, that when the other stepped down, the hot-tempered man had actually not experienced any disappointment or anger. He was, surprisingly, very calm.

Generally speaking, even the heads of the Qian and Sun families jumped up in protest, but the person who should be the most outraged about it only clenched his fist.

It doesn’t make any sense, unless… that is what they were aiming for. 

But what good would it be for them to lose?

Lin Zhizhi rolled up his long sleeves and jumped onto the stage amid the chaos surrounding him, waving his hand to beckon the middle-aged man who was as steady as Mount Tai.

He seemed pretty humble.

The man wasn’t annoyed either, he didn’t see the same man who had threatened him at the market a few days ago. The other walked up to him slowly before cupping his hands and sincerely said, “I hope this young master will show mercy toward this old man.” 

Lin Zhizhi, “…”

Uncle, You must be setting me up! Wake up! Where is the man who kept on threatening me a few days ago?

Seeing that the candidates have already come up, the three families, who were tearing up from the incident earlier, were composing themselves. Tidying their clothes and maintaining their facade as they waited until the five rounds were over to see the results.

The audience went quiet again. 

The middle-aged man stood on his spot. This time, instead of waiting for his enemy to make the first move like his companions earlier, he chose to take the initiative. One foot shattered the platform’s ground beneath it as a sacred golden light shone on his fist, he lunged at the young man while simultaneously swinging his fist to attack the other.

Lin Zhizhi didn’t use his sword this time. He had to test whether the guy on the other side was bent on losing, and focused on dodging. Lin Zhiziheftly avoided the opponent’s fist and arranged his two fingers to mimic a sword, and while he breathed out his spiritual energy, he went behind his opponent’s back and slashed at the enemy’s legs.

The opponent’s legs were open. They avoided the sword made out of spiritual energy and turned around before grabbing the boy’s arm, pulling it vigorously as if he wanted to rip out half of the arm from the boy’s body.

But Lin Zhizhi didn’t back down. He struck the opponent’s chest with his palm, and the middle-aged man with his body modification skills immediately turned pale and was promptly knocked out. 

Lin Zhizhi: “…”

Brother- Isn’t this a bit too fake… He doesn’t know if he should just think that he was born with some sort of divine power that could easily knock out a body refining cultivator into the air!

He might know his own strengths, but others don’t.

Qi Ting was the first to jump up from his seat, “He- why is he so powerful?!” 

Lin Zhizhi is a sword cultivator! When a sword-wielding cultivator could fight a powerful opponent with just his bare hands, he’ll vomit blood. Is there any justice left in this world?! So many cultivators are gonna cry blood for this, okay?!

Meanwhile, Xie Ling had her eyes glued to Lin Zhizhi. The girl’s ribbon was wrapped around her arms, and her face was slightly red, resembling a peach. She stared at him for a while before she finally brought herself together and calmed her heart down.

Brother Lin is very reliable.

After winning the competition for the Xie family, the family patriarch expressed his gratitude towards Lin Zhizhi and the others in all kinds of ways. He took out 10,000 spirit stones to buy the remaining quota for Qi Ting, who could also enter the pool 

The Sun and Qian’s family’s plan fell through, making their faces as black as a lump of burnt coal as they immediately left the spot. The three men in black either sighed, or shook their heads, and walked out while they supported each other.