The Domineering King of the Netherworld and His Sweetheart

329. Evil of Mind Knockout Competition

Translator: 独步三月

Although there was a small episode, the match was still going on.

In the first round, 919 teams were knocked out of the total 1024 teams, with a little more than 100 teams remaining. This number was undoubtedly astonishing, but it was also reasonable. After all, more than half of the teams were actually here to make up a number. Although there were only five final places, there would be rewards for the top ten rankings, which was what they were here for.

After the first round of the Chaotic Competition, many of the weaker teams were sifted out and the ones with power finally surfaced.

In Ring No.1, the team led by Feng Xi got the highest score of 69 points and temporarily ranked first.

However, the second place was not anyone Feng Xi knew about, but a real black horse composed of five powerful people. Their total score was 39, temporarily ranked second, and the third place was the team led by Di Tianxiang.

The total score of Di Tianxiang’s team was only 36 points, 3 points less than the second place, which was not a big gap. The fourth place was Lorraine’s team, with the total score being 36 points, closely after the third. The fifth was the warlike family represented by Zhan Ling, whose total score was 31 points, and Zhan Ling himself got the least 5 points in their team.

The gaps between the other teams was not big. Many teams had the same score, and in that case, they would rank according to time.

While some were laughing, some would cry. The ones who were the most uneasy were Di Tianxiang and Zhan Ling. Neither of them expected that they would fall behind by so many points in the first round, since it would be difficult to catch up later.

Di Tianxiang’s expression was particularly sullen. In fact, he had already prepared everything before the first round of the competition, but he didn’t expect that his plan still couldn’t catch up with the changes.

Yesterday, he was the person who tried to make an ally with Zhan Ling. Originally, his plan was to make Feng Xi entangled in a drawn-out fight, but unexpectedly, they had drawn Ring No.1, thus the people he had arranged were scattered, leaving only a few weaker teams on Ring No.1. Subsequently, not to mention that his plan couldn’t work at all, it had given Feng Xi’s team an advantage.

“Your plan doesn’t work at all. Let’s stop our cooperation!”

Zhan Ling walked up to Di Tianxiang. Hearing his definite guarantee yesterday, he thought they would really succeed. However, it turned out that they left behind by so many points only in the first round. He was no longer interested in continuing to work with Di Tianxiang. Besides, Di Tianxiang was so sophiscated and Zhan Ling felt very uncomfortable about it.

“This is only the first round. Haste makes waste!” Di Tianxiang darkened his face, hearing that Zhan Ling wanted to quit.

“I don’t want to cooperate with you anymore. That’s all.”

Zhan Ling saw the ugly look of Di Tianxiang and thought of Zhan Zhen’s advice, which suddenly made sense. This person didn’t look kind. Very wilful Zhan Ling might be, he had already learned to think about things in the position of the warlike family.

Di Tianxiang looked at his receding figure with a chilly expression. As the warlike family was closely related to God Demon Tower, it was not suitable for Heaven World to start a feud. Di Tianxiang stared at the lively crowd in the distance and said coldly, “Feng Xi, Mo Feihan, you are lucky enough to survive the first round. Next, I want to see if you have such luck!”

After the first round, the second one would start after two hours. In other words, all contestants only had two hours to rest and they would compete in the second round.

However, the second round was obviously different from the first one.

The first round adopted the Chaotic Competition, which tested the strength of the participants, while the second tested the willpower.

Anyone had an evil in his mind, which was something that all practitioners would inevitably experience. This evil was the biggest obstacle between Lesser Heaven God and Great Heaven God. It was precisely because of the existence of this obstacle that there were so few Great Heaven Gods in the God and Demon Kingdom. Because Evil of Mind existed deep in one’s heart, only after conquering the Evil of Mind by relying on one’s own will could a practitioner progress upward.

Therefore, the second round was the Evil of Mind Knockout Competition. Only after successfully overcoming one’s own Evil of Mind would a contestant be qualified to rank the first place.

Since the a-hundred-year competition was held, the Evil of Mind Knockout Competition had always been an indispensable round, mainly related to the quota for the God Demon Tower Reward. Those quotas were the qualifications for the participants to enter the God Demon Tower, but it did not mean that they could enter the Void Space freely with the quota, because staying in the Void Space for too long would trigger the Evil of Mind. Therefore, if one couldn’t shake off his own Evil of Mind, even if he entered, there would only be one dead path. That was why God Demon Tower set the Evil of Mind Knockout Competition as one of the rounds of the competition.

Although more than 4,000 people had been knocked out in the first round, there were still over 400 contestants.

Because the second round was going to take place two hours later, most people sat directly in the contestants’ area to rest. Owing to the fact that they had to deal with their Evils of Mind, few people were talking. At this moment, they were all in a meditation wtih eyes closed. Only one person was still rolling his eyes, and could not be idle for a moment.

“Feng Xi, don’t blame me that I didn’t tell you. Next is the Evil of Mind Knockout Competition. If you don’t adjust your mind properly and dare to drag us down, you’ll be doomed!” Ming Qingyu didn’t have to open his eyes to know that the person who was looking right and left was Feng Xi.

“I have something to tell you,” Feng Xi raised his hand and said, even though no one could see it.

“Don’t tell me.” Ming Qingyu turned his back to him. Without thinking, he knew what kind of question he would ask.

Everyone else maintained an unmoving posture with no one paying attention to Feng Xi.

Because everyone had to accept the test of Evil of Mind, if three of the five couldn’t pass it, they would be eliminated. They never intended to rely on Feng Xi, so they simply ignored him.

Feng Xi muttered, then ran away. They could ignore him as they liked, but he could go to look for Boss. No rules stipulated that he couldn’t talk to Boss now. There were still two hours before the second round. He was not interested in sitting still like them, but no one was willing to talk to him, so he decided to chat with Boss to kill time.

Feng Xi could be counted as a heterogeneous one in the contestants’ area, so each and every move of his was particularly conspicuous.

When they saw him running, many people’s eyes followed his small figure. However, when they  saw him running towards the direction of the VIP area, most of them showed a so-that-is-what-it-is  expression and smiled in a murky way.

The sound of running rang in the VIP area. Many people looked surprisingly at Feng Xi who was running over. The next round would be the Evil of Mind Knockout Competition. Instead of meditating to adjust his mind, he actually ran here. No wonder he was the man of King of the Netherworld. However, it was hoped that he would not be sifted out in the second round, otherwise not only would he lose face, but King of the Netherworld’s face would also be implicated by him.

As soon as the three elders saw Feng Xi, they immediately thought of the incident of being played by him before and turned their back to Feng Xi.

“Boss, I’m coming!” Before Feng Xi ran over, he waved at King of the Netherworld.

When King of the Netherworld saw him coming over, he could not help but reveal a faint sense of smile in his eyes. Mo Feimo and Di Yuntian felt that the surrounding air had partly melted.

Feng Xi ran to King of the Netherworld and sat on his lap in front of everyone. Then he blinked the naughty eyes and asked, “Boss, how did I perform last round?”

“Very good!” King of the Netherworld praised unsdisguisedly.

Feng Xi chuckled and the gloominess that he was blackmailed eleven jars of wine by Ming Qingyu and the others vanished instantly.

“After playing for so long, are you tired now?” King of the Netherworld wiped Feng Xi’s forehead with his sleeve. Because of the running just now, Feng Xi’s forehead was sweating a little.

“It’s not tiring at all, but there’s still two hours before the second round. I have nothing to do now, so boring.” Feng Xi yawned, then his whole body leaned against King of the Netherworld.

Seeing that his eyes were narrowed, King of the Netherworld said considerately, “Then you sleep for a while and I’ll call you when the time is up.”

“Alright,” Feng Xi fell asleep while leaning against the chest of King of the Netherworld with his eyes closed.

The surroundings instantly became quiet.

When Lorraine and the others in the contestants’ area saw this scene from afar, their corners of mouths twitched. The guy would never do things according to the right occasion. When others were trying hard, he just lay down in the King of the Netherworld’s arm to sleep. He was probably the only one who attended the competition in such a relaxing and enjoying way.

Two hours passed quickly. After Feng Xi was woken up by King of the Netherworld, he slowly returned to the contestants’ area. After sleeping for a while, he felt full of spirit and even recovered most of his consumed spiritual strength.

Ming Qingyu, Lorraine and the others looked at him the way looking at a monster. It seemed that he was in a better state than them.

“Why are you looking at me like this?” Feng Xi thought they were baffling.

“Looks like you’ve recovered very well!” Ming Qingyu said in a sour tone.

“I’m perfect. Are you guys not good?” asked Feng Xi strangely.

“Of course, much better than you,” Lorraine said sullenly.

“Oh yes, there was something I wanted to ask you just now,” Feng Xi sensed their sour tone, but he couldn’t figure out where the problem was, so he decisively changed the topic.

“Didn’t we tell you everything about the competition? What else do you not understand?”

They thought that Feng Xi wanted to ask about the competition, so no one paid attention to him at the beginning.

“No, I just want to ask you if you want to eat a Fruit of the World to calm down. I heard that the Fruit of the World is very helpful for the practitioners to pass through the Evil of Mind. Do you…” Feng Xi took out nine Fruits of the World from his ring. However, before he could say the word “want”, the Fruits of the World in his hand were gone.

He looked up and saw that the Fruits of the World were already in their hands. Then he was returned with a stare by them.

Feng Xi felt such a grievance!