BXBX NOVEL Chapter 157 Insane!
A fortnight is a long period of time for some people. For others, it passes by too quickly.
Ikasa could be included in the first category of the people. The time passed at a snail's pace for him. Every day felt like a year. He was so excited to enter the Rift that he couldn't sleep well!
On the other side was Feng Yan. His injury was healing slowly. Fifteen days were barely enough for him to recover. If not for Elder Yi, the injury could've cost Feng Yan his leg!
But Elder Yi lived up to his title of the Medicine Master. The potent medicine he administered showed its effects. Not only did it prevent the wound from festering, it also hastened his recovery.
When the day of the Opening arrived, Feng Yan showed no signs of being injured except for a scar on his thigh!
Ikasa and his group gathered at the location of the Array half an hour before noon. Yet, they were amongst the few of the late comers.
"It seems many people have arrived here before sunrise!"
Feng Yan commented on seeing the huge crowd of people. Ikasa also surveyed the crowd and then shook his head.
"Most of them are just here to watch the spectacle. Our actual competitors are standing near the gates. Let's hurry and join them."
Ikasa spoke as he parted the crowd to make a way for them. His powerful presence and Feng Yan's Bloody Halberd swiftly made the discontented spectators shut up.
The group reached the nearest point they could approach. Five prominent groups had already made a space for themselves near the gates.
Ikasa recognized each of them at a glance. He began to whisper their introductions to his group.
"See the largest group to the right? The man with white streaked hair is Mu Shi. All the others are his cronies. If possible, avoid them."
He had spent the past few days socializing in the City. During that time, he had heard only the bad and the worst of Mu Shi and his group.
Ikasa even got to witness his tyranny a few days ago.
When passing by the residence occupied by Mu Shi, he had seen Mu Shi kick a pregnant woman in her stomach. She was not an ordinary commoner but the wife of a prominent merchant of Beech City!
He was shocked even more upon learning the reason she was punished. Mu Shi had kicked just because she had not bowed to him in greeting!
Thus, Ikasa had decided to keep his distance from the cruel man. Feng Yan looked at the man upon hearing Ikasa's instructions.
Mu Shi stood with his hands folded before his chest and his nose upturned. His eyes were disdainful of everything in his surroundings.
The old man remembered the face of the man standing like an arrogant prick and quickly looked away. Since Mu Shi was the center of attention for many, he did not care about the gaze of another group of people.
Ikasa turned his attention to the second most powerful group, standing to the left of Mu Shi.
"He Qing is just another arrogant young master. He may have some good qualities to back his arrogance but I haven't seen any in my short meeting with him. Nonetheless, the one we need to be careful of is that bastard next to him; He Ding. He is the Path Finder who ruined our Villa before."
Ikasa mentioned the two worthy of his notice in the He Family's group and ignored the other five Sense Trainers. Feng Yan and others had never seen the Path Finder responsible for the destruction in person. Because Zhen Ya and City Lord had carried him away while he was still stuck in the ice.
Noticing their gaze, He Ding looked at Ikasa's group. He neither smiled nor glared. Now that the He Family was cooperating with Ikasa, he couldn't afford to enact his vengeance.
Feng Yan looked away and his gaze landed on a man with a huge tattoo extending from his neck to his face. The abstract design made him look fearsome and dashing at the same time. The two men and two women that stood with him also had their skins inked with smaller symbols.
"He is Sang Yi from Nian Clan. Their clan worships totems. Most of the Mystic Blood we use in the Contracts comes from tribes and clans like theirs."
Ikasa introduced the Nian Clan upon noticing Feng Yan stare in their direction. His initial impression of Sang Yi was good. He was a man of few words and pure heart.
Unlike his fellow citizens.
Ikasa turned his neck to look at the last group left to be introduced. His eyes met with Su Zhi.
The plump vixen seductively licked her lips as she stared at him. Her hand traced her curves starting from her slim waist to her generous bosom. She ended the little show by sucking her index finger and winking at him.
Guduk!
Her little show had the three teenage boys gulping down their saliva. Luo Qiqi and Hei Ying threw them a disgusted glance and pinched their ears. Even Feng Yan was caught up in her little trick.
Only Ikasa, who had prior knowledge of her identity, could keep his tent from erecting. That doesn't mean he averted his eyes from her little show.
"Who is that seductress?"
Xin Ruo hissed, pinching his waist. Caught, Ikasa turned to look at her with a helpless smile. He explained their origin.
"They are the Su Family of Elm City. She is Su Zhi and the handsome man next to her is her brother Su Yang."
"Looks like a pansy!" Feng Yan snorted when Ikasa used 'handsome' to describe the man.
Ikasa ignored his comments and continued the introduction.
"They are a family of Dual Cultivators. So, if you fight them, be on the lookout for their partners."
He warned, eying the man and woman standing beside Su Zhi and Su Yang. Everyone took his warning seriously, especially the girls.
Aside from these major players, there was no lack of individual daredevils who sought a chance to breakthrough to higher realm.
Ikasa swept a glance through the crowd and saw around twenty two of such Sense Trainers. A few more might be hidden amongst the people at the back.
Still, the number of Sense Trainers gathered here was insane!
Ikasa counted and found that just the four powers of Mu, He, Nian and Su had 23 Sense Trainers. Including the 10 Sense Realm Experts by his side and 22 he counted in the crowd, a total of 55 Sense Trainers would surely enter the Rift!
This was nothing short of an insane number for a Tier-3 City!