Immortal Doctor Expert in Urban

Chapter 1268: The Grand Citywide Tournament

Amid the towering mountain range, at the very top of True Essence Peak, palaces and pavilions rose majestically.

Lin Fei and his group were temporarily settled here; all the Wan family experts who had surrendered were incorporated into the ranks of the True Essence Sect powerhouses.

Under the watchful eyes of nearly a thousand True Essence Sect experts, these experts who had surrendered to the Wan family naturally didn't dare harbor any other thoughts.

Lin Fei also had Jin Zongfan send out several experts to enter the main city of Ten Thousand Swords City and gather information.

Within two days, from the intelligence those dispatched experts sent back, Lin Fei learned that the city-wide tournament was about to begin. Besides the ten great clans of the main city of Ten Thousand Swords City actively preparing for war, all the other minor clans across the entire Ten Thousand Swords City territory had also sent their strongest members to take part in the city-wide tournament.

There were as many as a thousand people participating in the tournament.

And the venue chosen for the tournament was on a perilous peak amid the mountain range beside Ten Thousand Swords City, a peak called Heaven-Stealing Peak.

This was the information regarding the city-wide tournament.

Of course, those experts also managed to pick up some news about Wan Jingyuan.

Namely, Wan Jingxuan had also dispatched some experts to search for the hundreds of experts who had gone to hunt down Qiu Qiming and then vanished without a trace.

However, those Wan family experts had already surrendered to Lin Fei and become True Essence Sect experts under surveillance, so naturally it was impossible for them to leak anything to Wan Jingyuan.

Two days passed by before they knew it, and soon it was the day of the city-wide tournament in Ten Thousand Swords City.

That morning, the sunlight rose from behind the mountains in the east, its bright rays spilling down onto True Essence Peak.

On the plaza, Lin Fei led Yuan Yuxi, Qin Zimo, Wang Yixin, Xiao Xiao, Qingcheng, Chen Xinyi, Su Xiaoyue—seven great beauties—along with Qiu Qiming, preparing to set out for Ten Thousand Swords City.

Two days ago, besides saying he would help Qiu Qiming take revenge and settle accounts with Wan Jingyuan, Lin Fei had also mentioned another important matter: he was going to make Qiu Qiming the new City Lord of Ten Thousand Swords City.

Only in this way did Lin Fei feel he could make up for the Qiu family's sacrifice.

"Jin Zongfan, Yun Yue, Xiao Ling, and you five old gentlemen, guard True Essence Peak well and wait for our triumphant return." Lin Fei said calmly, looking at Qin Yunyue, Jin Zongfan, and the others.

Qin Yunyue, Jin Zongfan and the others said, "We'll be waiting for your victorious return. You must also be careful."

Lin Fei nodded, then turned to Qiu Qiming at his side and the seven great beauties Yuan Yuxi and the others, saying, "Let's go!"

Immediately, Lin Fei's group of nine flew away from True Essence Peak, heading toward the main city of Ten Thousand Swords City, several hundred li away.

Bathed in the morning sunlight, the main city of Ten Thousand Swords City—a great Cultivation city with a population of a million—was livelier today than ever before.

Cultivators could be seen everywhere in the city; they poured onto the streets from all sorts of tall buildings and various places, talking and laughing loudly, full of joy and excitement, extremely bustling.

And that wasn't all—groups of Cultivators could be seen in the sky, flying into the city one batch after another.

This made the already bustling city even more boiling with excitement; every street and alley was filled with noise and clamor.

The reason Ten Thousand Swords City was so lively was simple: today was the day of the city-wide tournament.

Everyone was talking about who would become the final victor in this year's city-wide tournament.

"Our old City Lord already said last year that he wouldn't take part in this year's city-wide tournament, and that he intends for one of his two sons to take the position!"

"Do you think the Eldest Young Master Wan Jingyuan has a better chance of becoming the new City Lord, or is it more likely that the Second Young Master Wan Jingxuan will win out?"

"Is there even a need to ask? Of course the Eldest Young Master Wan Jingyuan has a better chance of winning."

"Yes, the Eldest Young Master Wan Jingyuan handles matters steadily and has great strength. He has always been deeply admired by countless Cultivators in the city."

Groups of Cultivators were hotly discussing this on the streets, and of course Cultivators in other places were also discussing the city-wide tournament and debating whether this year's biggest favorites, Wan Jingxuan and Wan Jingyuan, which of them would more likely emerge victorious.

Very soon, however, word unfavorable to Wan Jingxuan quietly began to spread.

"Don't you know? The Second Young Master Wan Jingxuan has been put under confinement by the old City Lord. It's already impossible for him to become the new City Lord."

"What? The Second Young Master Wan Jingxuan has been confined? What on earth happened?"

"Because this matter concerns the Wan family's prestige, the Wan family has sealed off the news. Wan Jingyuan was held under the control of the Lin family's Patriarch Lin Fei in Thousand Dragon City for three days and three nights, and in the end it even caused the Second Young Master Wan Jingxuan to make a complete fool of himself at the Yuan family's grand wedding."

"And I heard that the Qiu family's eldest young master Qiu Qiming colluded with Lin Fei and killed all the experts of the Qin family manor in Thousand Dragon City, so the Qiu family was exterminated by the Wan family."

"Ah! So that means the Second Young Master Wan Jingxuan is already out of the running!"

"Looks like in this city-wide tournament, the new City Lord will definitely be none other than the Eldest Young Master Wan Jingyuan."

The people secretly spreading these unfavorable rumors about Wan Jingxuan were naturally ones Wan Jingyuan had sent out in the dark.

At this moment, among the mountains surrounding Ten Thousand Swords City, atop the grandest of the peaks, a golden hall shone brilliantly, exuding an aura of nobility.

This peak with the gleaming golden hall was where the Wan family's City Lord's Mansion was located.

Inside a sumptuous and magnificent pavilion in the Wan family's City Lord's Mansion, a young man dressed in purple robes, with a jade-like face and an elegant bearing, sat in a golden chair, leisurely savoring a cup of tea in his hand.

Just then, an old man with silver hair, eyes like lightning, and a hooked hawk-like nose, his aura deep and unfathomable, walked in from outside.

As soon as the hook-nosed elder entered, he respectfully cupped his fists toward the purple-robed young man and said, "Young Master, this old servant has already had people spread the unfavorable news about Wan Jingxuan throughout the city. If the City Lord hears this news, he will definitely not let the Second Young Master participate in the city-wide tournament."

The purple-robed young man was precisely the Wan family's Eldest Young Master, Wan Jingyuan.

"Mm, Gray Eagle, well done." Wan Jingyuan nodded approvingly.

The old man was the butler who had served and protected Wan Jingyuan since childhood, and he was also one of the Wan family's extremely powerful experts.

"It's about time. The summoning bell for the city-wide tournament is about to ring." Wan Jingyuan took a sip of tea and looked out beyond the pavilion.

The hawk-nosed elder Gray Eagle wore a slight smile as he echoed, "Yes, the summoning bell is about to sound."

As soon as his voice fell, a sonorous bell sounded from outside: "Dong! Dong! Dong! ..."

Within Ten Thousand Swords City, the boiling clamor of voices instantly fell silent in the face of the bell that resounded from the surrounding mountains and across the entire city.

After the three peals of the bell, joy appeared on everyone's faces as they exclaimed, "The bell from the City Lord's Mansion on Wan Family Peak has rung. This is the summons for us to go to Heaven-Stealing Peak to attend the city-wide tournament!"

"Let's hurry over!"

"The exciting part is about to begin!"

Shua, shua, shua.

In an instant, tens of thousands of Cultivators in the city flew up from within the city and sped toward the mountains surrounding the highest Wan Family Peak.

The highest Ten Thousand Swords Peak towered over all the other peaks, and Heaven-Stealing Peak lay below Ten Thousand Swords Peak—it was a peak of bare rock without any trees, a single massive stone pillar rising up amid a ten-thousand-zhang-deep abyss encircled by mountains.

This pillar-like Heaven-Stealing Peak was narrow at the base and broad at the top, shaped like a mushroom. Its top was a flat, circular plaza with a diameter of at least a hundred meters.

There was nothing else on it.

It would actually be more accurate to call this Heaven-Stealing Peak the Heaven-Stealing Stone Pillar.

It was this single colossal pillar-like Heaven-Stealing Peak that had become the arena for the city-wide tournament where the new City Lord would be decided.

On the surrounding peaks around Heaven-Stealing Peak, various platforms and pavilions had also been built—these were for Cultivators to use as viewing stands.

Tens of thousands of Cultivators from the city descended onto these platforms and pavilions.