The screen turned off.
The whole venue turned bright again.
But no one said anything.
They were thinking about what they saw.
Real or fake,
It started with a sad girl, who needed help, looking for revenge.
And she received it in a time of need, but it was from the darkness that the mysterious lady in black represented.
And it ended with a lost girl, who once again needed help.
And she received it again, but this time, it was from the light, which the eldest senior brother was representing!
The only price, for her to come out of 'darkness' and join the 'light', was a hand that the eldest senior brother sacrificed...
What happened to her revenge?
Nobody knew.
Those in VIP seats thought it wasn't the story of her revenge at all, but the story of her becoming a certain troublemaker's assistant...
At this moment of silence,
A clapping sound came from the direction of the elders.
When the disciples, who saw many flaws in this story, heard it, they started clapping too.
They didn't know that only one person was clapping there, that none of them knew who she was.
But what could they do?
In the location of the elders, they finally could turn back and see who arrived with the lady butterfly,
And which one was clapping now!
And the next moment, two voices full of resentment sounded,
"Master!"
One of them was the sword god, and the other the supreme elder.
The rest of the crowd, though, finally feels at ease.
So the newcomers were all people whom they knew,
The masters of Sword god and the Supreme Elder.
Charm goddess and Former Sword God, or to be exact, the parents of Little Mortal.
They all stood up and greeted them,
"Greetings, immortal masters!"
The supreme elder was the first to run to her master while pretending to be crying,
"Master, you should take revenge for me!
He keeps pinching me and making trouble everywhere!"
Sword god was more polite,
"Master, he is telling everyone that I'm dead..."
The two 'masters' asked while confused,
"Who?"
Sword god and supreme elder pointed towards the little commentator on the screen and were going to say your "son", but,
Fourth brother, and charm goddess, who people around expected them to laugh, suddenly turned pale!
The two disappeared and appeared in front of their disciples, covering their mouths and stopping the words from coming out!
Luckily, they succeeded!
The two first looked at the bald referee in the arena, and when they saw him there, with no special reaction, sighed in relief!
Fourth brother said in a serious tone,
"My good disciple, did I ever harm you in any way?"
Sword god, who was as surprised as everyone else,
With his master's hand covering his mouth, he only shook his head, saying 'never' without saying it!
"Then listen carefully!"
Sword god nodded,
He was going to send a spiritual message, but it was 'off' again!
What was happening?
Fourth brother said word by word,
"First, I don't have any son!"
The crowd's eyebrows raised all together!
"Second, you are dead!"
The crowd all furrowed together!
"And third, you aren't my disciple but..."
He thought for a second and continued,
"My disciple's twin brother!"
The crowd became shocked altogether!
'What was he trying to say?'
Charm goddess looked at snow goddess and added,
"And Rose isn't your daughter for now!"
Snow goddess, who always knew things were too complicated with this child and he was too abnormal, nodded.
Charm goddess then looked at her disciple,
"And you, let him pinch you as many times as he wants!"
Supreme elder gulped and nodded with a blank face.
Lady Butterfly coughed and said,
"Let's go with this arrangement until he is done with his business.
Until then, let's enjoy the show."
The group of bewildered people sat down in silence.
They were puzzled about what had happened just now.
At first, they thought this little boy was the son of two people they knew, and the group of immortals under his command listened to him because of his abilities...
But from the looks of it, not only was he not the son of anyone they knew, even the immortals under him were scared of him...
'What in the world are we facing here?'
...
A while back, the moment [ The End. ] was shown on the screen, and awkward clapping, the audience started whispering to each other as the non-existent illusion started breaking,
"So that's called an intro clip? Something like records of your important life events?"
"Can someone tell me what this 'intro clip' was about, though?"
"It should be fake...
Sect master Sword god is still alive, how could there be a grave for him?"
"And it was from 50 years ago..."
"I think we will know about the truth when 'Rose' that we saw comes to the platform!
If she is still a mortal, then..."
"And who is this Eldest senior brother we never saw before?"
"Did you see his mustache?"
"He was so arrogant!
And all the people in the city were his followers?
When did that happen?
Why were they so miserable all their life if he was their backer?"
"I was in the city a couple of days ago, they were like before, mortal, weak, and hopeless..."
"Nothing makes sense...
Maybe they just put on some new clothes for this record, so it looks real?"
"Yeah, that should be it...
Let's hope the 'fight' won't be too embarrassing."
"Or our sect master's reputation might be questioned!"
"You are right!
The Rose we saw was turning to light specks like it was her daily routine!
But the Rose we know is just a mortal..."
A disciple from the sword sect snorted,
"It's all fake to just give her the first place."
The rest of them couldn't refute...
While people were discussing the flaws of the 'intro clip', the commentator, who seemed to be frozen with his 'professional' smile, started speaking again,
[And now let's welcome our second participant to join us on the platform so that we can start the only fight of the women's division.]
The whole venue turned silent.
A light footstep sounded.
A girl in a red robe emerges from the farm near the platform.
All eyes focused on her.
Her head was low.
She was blushing.
The crowd thought she was embarrassed because of this fake show that her mother and their 'fake senior brother' made for her.
But she was embarrassed because she now knew what had happened this morning, when she had beaten up the other followers...
Her boss was recording her 'intro', which was a mix of things that happened in these few days...
And there was even some story?
And someone was even more shocked than her.
Expert Luna, in the farm, didn't know if she could come out in her black robe anymore...
She was the villainess of the story!
And the citizens who finally found out who the figure was in their dream beating them up, and the interesting fact about the ground they were buried in!
That ground was actually the silver platform, the same platform that nobody could scratch!
How could they even survive the impact, let alone be buried in it? Was that some magic produced by that magical crystal?
When Rose arrived in front of snow white, she stopped with a still lowered head.
Snow white didn't know what was happening. She received a spiritual message from her master before this little bald referee came.
Snow goddess told her not to worry about her son and husband; they are both fine, and she can fight whoever her opponent is without worry.
So she felt at ease.
Looking at the judge, she said,
"Can we begin?"
The little referee looked at Rose, and she nodded with her head still low.
He then raised his hand and brought it down as the sign of the beginning of the match.
Snow White thought it was better to end this meaningless show as fast as possible.
And Rose thought it was better to end this one-sided match as fast as possible, not to embarrass her mother's disciple.
The two, with the same thoughts of knocking out the opponent, took action.
But one of the two could only think of taking action before her vision turned dark.
The audience only saw Rose with her head low,
Appear behind snow white, hit her neck with a
'Karate chop', then caught her before she fell, and placed her on the ground gently...
A question mark appeared above everyone's head!
What happened!
The audience didn't see.
The elders didn't see either.
Even the two sect masters saw Rose's figure turn blurry for a moment, and then she appeared behind Snow white.
The three special force members gasped in shock, too!
And you couldn't blame them.
The Rose in the intro clip was from this morning, but the current Rose was a couple of realms higher!
Charm goddess muttered to herself,
"How?
Weren't they just Tribulation Transcendence this morning?"
Snow goddess remembered her little disciple told her, Rose is even stronger than her, but she didn't believe it.
She even thought it might be all an illusion that he cast on them at this moment...
In the seat of the audience, a senior sister said,
"So that's how it is..."
The crowd turned to her,
"What did you find, senior sister?"
"Well ... I didn't see what happened, because senior sister's cultivation base is higher than ours.
But look at Lady Rose.
What's her cultivation?"
The crowd looked carefully,
"She is a mortal... like before."
The senior sister nodded,
"Exactly, so she wasn't the one moving, but the senior sister was.
She moved behind her and then dropped herself to the ground.
But because she was too fast, and Lady Rose 'struck' her, we thought she was the one moving.
But in reality, it was just an illusion, made by senior sister Snow... "
The crowd felt enlightened,
"So that's how it was?"
"Senior sister, you are the best analyzer I've ever seen!
Please accept this bow!"
A disciple from the sword sect said,
"So ridiculous, even the eldest disciple of your sect was part of the show..."
The crowd shook their heads in disappointment.
It was indeed embarrassing...
On the silver platform,
After Snow White dropped to the ground, unconscious, the referee was going to announce the winner, but a disciple from the sword sect,
who found the 'truth', suddenly jumped into the arena, while shouting,
"Where is my junior sister!
This whole competition is rigged!"
The little referee turned around and furrowed,
Then whistled, and the disciple who was running towards them froze on the spot!
Then he brought a red card out of his pocket, showed it to him, and pointed in a certain direction!
Where he pointed was a seat with a single row of chairs.
Beside it was written, [Rule breaker's seat.]
The disciple lost control over his body and walked there, sitting obediently...
Snow Goddess, before things got out of control, glanced at the Supreme Elder and gave her a sign.
She understood what she meant and moved away from the elders' spot.
A moment later, she appeared behind the referee.
She was going to say she was taking the unconscious Snow White with her, but the referee suddenly turned around and stared at her with his scary green eyes!
Supreme Elder was so scared that her words stuck in her throat!
The commentator, at this moment, said,
[Remember everyone, if you enter the competition arena without the referee's permission, you will be
sent off to the rule breaker's seat.]
Supreme Elder was going to say she didn't know,
But the little referee already showed her the red card, pointed at the seat the other guy was sitting in now, and Supreme Elder lost control over her body and went there too!
Sitting obediently...
Now she was scared for real!
Who was controlling her body?
She couldn't even speak!
Snow Goddess looked at her with an apologetic smile, but received no response from her.
It seems she was angry...
But in reality, Supreme Elder was trying her best to ask for help, but her body wasn't listening to her at all!
The crowd was dumbfounded!
This referee didn't care who he was dealing with!
Even the Supreme Elder was 'sent off'!
What was happening?
The big screen locked onto the referee again,
He snorted, and for the second time, was going to announce the winner, but once again, he furrowed!
Even the corners of his eyes started twitching!
The audience's hair stood on end, seeing the little referee getting angry!
Fourth brother furrowed,
"Which ignorant one is making him angry?"
Charm Goddess said in a trembling voice,
"We are all gonna die!"
The elders, seeing even these big shots stressed like this, felt their heartbeat going up...
What is happening?
What will happen if he gets angry?
On the silver platform,
Now, even Rose felt that he was no longer the normal, playful boss who would pretend to be angry.
He was angry for real!
'Who made him like this?'
The crowd started sweating just from the face on the screen that was getting more and more twisted!
They all wondered, who else is going to get the red card?
But to everyone's surprise, this time, the little referee suddenly jumped towards the direction Rose was standing, raised his little hand holding the red card,
and attacked as if he were going to slap something with it!
Rose's eyes widened in shock!
She thought to herself,
'What rule did I break?'
But because she trusted her boss, she didn't move!
The audience thought,
'Is he going to 'send off' the winner?'
The two sect masters were going to rush over to her, but his 'red card attack' passed by Rose's head, and
hit a masked man's face in a black robe behind her!
The unknown man who appeared out of nowhere without anyone noticing, screamed and hit the ground on his back!
But it wasn't the end!
The little referee landed beside him and started slapping the mask with the red card while yelling at him angrily!
"I just *SLAP* want *SLAP* to *SLAP* announce *SLAP* the winner!"
Then, after a couple of more slaps and breaking the man's mask, he dragged him away by his leg, started spinning, and threw him away in the direction of the 'rule breaker's seat nearby!
BAM!
Seeing this scene,
The audience who didn't feel a thing from the man who showed up thought he was just a silly mortal from the outer sect city!
The elders looked at him suspiciously, because even they didn't feel a thing!
Were they distracted by the screen?
But the hearts of four people almost stopped at this moment!
Rose, Lady Butterfly, Sword God, and Snow Goddess!
They knew well who this guy was.
He was the third person from the immortal realm who was an accomplice with the two who kidnapped Rose!
Why was he out?
Rose only snorted coldly and didn't care much.
Because she knew that just two steps distance from her boss, not even heaven's will could do anything to her, let alone this guy.
And even if her boss wasn't around, with her guardian token, she was probably safe!
But the two sect masters started sweating profusely!
'How did he knock this guy out so easily?
Was he really the same person who was sealed in the sword sect?'
They thought of going to the guy and seal him again, but they saw the little referee, with the red card in hand, looking around vigilantly!
Like he was ready to 'give' anyone who moved a 'red card'!
So they just sat in their seats and thought to themselves,
'Does he really have a group of immortals under his command?
Or are they... his hostages?'
Neither of them knew,
Just a while ago, the old manager changed the whole planet's spiritual source from the old one to the new one from the orb.
And because the only sealed area was the empty one with only the third sister in it, and the outer sect city that didn't matter anymore, he didn't care if this change of spiritual energy made those restrictions disappear.
And the third member of the 'Rose kidnapping team' that the old manager completely forgot about was freed from his seal due to this change!
While suspicious of the reason behind his sudden freedom, he sneaked out of the sword sect and started looking around for his target, and ended up here...
The old manager who saw what happened was now sweating profusely!
He forgot about the guy in the sword sect, as if something influenced him to not think about it!
Now he was scared for two reasons.
First, what is this little monster going to do with him if he is dissatisfied with what happened just now!?
Because the one who was going to be harmed was his trusted assistant!
Not only that, if anyone from his team died, he would be disqualified for that guardian title he was after!
And second, what can even make him, the planet manager, ignore something important like this?
It was exactly like what he was doing with others!
A greater force, with a higher level of existence, influenced him without his notice!
...
On the silver platform, after being sure that no one else was looking for a 'red card', little Molina raised his hand towards Rose to announce her as the winner.
The frozen commentator started speaking,
[Congratulations to assistant Rose for winning the women's category.
Everyone, a round of applause for our winner.]
But no one clapped for her.
They just looked blankly at her, as if to say, 'We don't play this game.'
But a while later, the commentator said,
[Alright, what an excited crowd!
No need to cheer so much,
Another category is remaining, you need to have enough energy for that one too, right?]
The audience, who didn't cheer at all, looked at the screen in puzzlement.
Another round of discussion began,
"Fellow Daoists, is it just me, or is the commentator frozen?"
"It's not the first time.
After every sentence, he is like this, we didn't pay attention until now..."
"So natural...
If he hadn't spoken of something that didn't happen, we might not have seen through his trick!"
"Wait a moment, you are saying everything is supposed to go as planned, and there won't be any changes?
So even the winner's name was pre-recorded?"
"My goodness!
This year's competition is getting more and more ridiculous!"
A sword sect disciple who seemed to be really dissatisfied said,
"I am one of the participants of the men's category, and I guarantee you that I will give an unforgettable lesson to whoever is supposed to be in first place in this rigged competition!"
Others approved,
"Same.
I want to see who wants to play this game with me!"
"Alright, we aren't from the demoness sect, we are free to do whatever we want in our match!"
The blood of those registered for the men's division started boiling!
"They even took some of us before the match!
Even the sect master's disciple!
What were they thinking?"
"Oh, if they thought they took the strong away, and only the weak ones are left, then they are going to be surprised!"
Some female disciples who were dissatisfied with Snow White's loss started fanning the fire,
"Senior brother, if you win, I'll think about your proposal!"
"Me too, junior brother, it's time to show me how much you want to be with me!"
The disciples, with already boiling blood, received a 'love buff' too!
They couldn't wait to see the opponent they were going to smash!
At this moment, the little commentator spoke again.
[Assistant Rose, go back and wait for the end of the competition.
At that time, you can join the winner of the men's category and receive your rewards together.]
Rose nodded and, after picking up Snow White, went back to the farmlands.
The little referee turned to the elders' seat and nodded at the lady from the sword sect, who was supposed to be the men's referee, and left for the farmlands, too.
The lady from the sword sect looked at the former Sword God with pleading eyes, to see if he could go in her place, maybe, but he shook his head.
Lady Butterfly, who saw her scared like this, said,
"If we make changes, the consequences of it will be unknown.
Just go, don't worry, it's fine while you play along with him."
The lady stood up and left after hearing her say it was fine and she needed to play along...
When she landed on the platform, nothing happened; the commentator was silent, just smiling.
She already knew it was pre-recorded when the referee appeared, so she just waited.
A brief moment later, the commentator started speaking again,
[Alright, ladies and gentlemen, the long-awaited competition of the men's division is finally going to start!
As usual, we start with the intro clip of the competitors.]
Then he started flipping through some white pages,
[It seems there are no professional and experienced participants with an intro clip in the men's division either, except one person.
The eldest senior brother of the demoness sect.]
The unprofessional, inexperienced participants gritted their teeth!
If they just knew what this intro clip was before coming here, they could have made something to show off, too!
The commentator continued,
[Alright then, let's watch the intro clip of the eldest senior brother together.]
This time, he looked really excited, like he himself couldn't wait to watch it!
The audience already guessed who was supposed to be in first place in the men's category!
It was this eldest senior brother that no one knew!
And like before, the whole place turned dark again, in a way that no one could see anything!
These disciples really wondered why their elders were playing this game with them.
What was the point of it?
A sentence appeared on the screen, like last time,
[100 years ago.]
Then the screen started playing a scene with two people in it.
Everyone knew who they were.
Sword God and Snow Goddess.
The audience was a little shocked!
Even the two sect masters were shocked when they saw themselves!
'Who recorded us?'
'Is there any privacy in this world anymore?'