(Long Jian POV)

"I still want to fight with Sikong Yi" Duan Jian. When he said that Hongyue looks like she about to break down crying again.

"So you choose revenge in the end despite the consequences?"

"No, you said it before. Only the strong get what they want in this world. After the battle, even if Hongyue hates me, I'll stay to protect her and her family so they don't end up like me." Duan Jian

"Is that so. What about you, what will you do?" I ask Hongyue

"I… I don't want any of this to happen." Hongyue

"So you want to stop them?"

"No, even if I don't want it to happen it needs to happen so I won't interfere with it." Hongyue finally comes to a decision.

"Since this is what you decided on, you'll have to live with the consequences," I said as I snap my fingers. Instantly all the arrays that I set up since I come here active. It teleports everyone in the town including the guards, civilians, slaves, and spies into an arena that I built.

The arena is shaped like a coliseum with everyone in the seating area. Sikong Yi and Duan Jian are teleported into the middle where they'll fight. I also include a few arrays to protect the people from the fight, prevent anyone from joining, make sure whatever the two fighters talk about can be heard by everyone and made the audience invisible to the two fighters so they won't be distracted.

Since Duan Jian chooses to stay here, I was hoping to use this battle to change things here a little. Even if it doesn't affect the people much, having Duan Jian's power be known will make things easier for him in the future.

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Their whole fight can be said to be boring. It's mostly just the two of them yelling at each other with Duan Jian yelling about why he wanted revenge and Sikong Yi calling Duan Jian's mom a traitor, whore, etc.

The fight itself is even more boring. Most of the time its just Duan Jian getting knock around since he doesn't know how to fight but because of his physique and higher cultivation, Sikong wasn't able to hurt him much.

In the end, Duan Jian uses his tough body to his advantage and manages to land a critical hit on Sikong Yi. From there it turns from Duan Jian being knocked around to Sikong Yi going on the defensive.

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While the fight may be boring for me, Hongyue is tense throughout the whole fight. At first, she was worry about Duan Jian because he couldn't keep up with Sikong Yi. After Duan Jian finally got the upper hand, Hongyue sigh in relief only to worry about her father next.

The fight ended when Duan Jian finally lands another critical hit injuring Sikong Yi enough that he can't fight anymore. As Duan Jian was going to kill Sikong Yi, Hongyue yells his name. Even though Duan Jian shouldn't be able to hear her, he still looks back at where we are supposed to be.

Duan Jian turns back to Sikong Yi saying "Killing you won't bring them back." before turning around to look for an exit.

Now that the whole thing is finally over, I brought Hongyue into the arena. As I was going to dispel the array that was hiding everyone.

Sikong Yi yell "You think you can just walk away after humiliating me?!" Sikong Yi got up to use one of his secret techniques.

As soon as my array is dispelled, Hongyue saw what her father is doing and yell "Duan Jian, Watch out!"

Duan Jian turns around just in time to see Sikong Yi finish his secret technique. Since Sikong Yi is running low on soul force, he uses his life force to power the technique instead. Sikong Yi summons giant pillars of lightning down on Duan Jian.

Duan Jian quickly uses his wings to cover himself as bolts of lightning continuous strike down on him. About a minute later, the lightning finally starts to die down. By then, Sikong Yi look like he aged a century.

"Hahaha, that's the outcome of whoever tries to stand up to me." Sikong Yi said with a horse laugh.

After the lightning disappears completely, we can see Duan Jian appearance again. He looked battered but other than that, he's alright.

"Is that it?" Duan Jian asks the stun Sikong Yi.

"H-How could you still be alive after that?" Sikong Yi

I summon an array to separate the two in case they start to yell and fight each other again. With Sikong Yi's current condition, if he does something stupid he'll just end up dead.

"Sorry to interrupt but the fight is over already," I announce

"Who do you… Yue'er?" Sikong Yi finally notices Hongyue next to me.

"Father..." Hongyue

"Come here and help me ki…" Sikong Yi

"No." Hongyue cuts him off. "The fight is over already."

"What?... what are you talking about?" Sikong Yi

"Look around you," I spoke up to make things go faster.

"You rule this place with your strength. Now that you are defeated, the people here have no reason to follow you anymore." I said loud enough for everyone to hear.

Sikong Yi looks around and finally notices everyone looking at us. Some people look concern about what's going to happen to them from now on. The few loyal members of the Silver Winged Family look at Duan Jian in anger. But most of the people look at Sikong Yi in hatred since the audience is mostly made up of slaves and the people that the Silver Winged family is oppressing.

I knock Sikong Yi unconscious and use the illusion array to make it look like he dies due to his injury. For now, everyone but Hongyue and Duan Jian will think that Sikong Yi is dead. It'll save Duan Jian and Hongyue the trouble of people wanting Sikong Yi for revenge.

I turn my attention to Duan Jian. "The fight is over, if you still want to do what you said, now is the best time to tell everyone."

Duan Jian nodded and turn toward the audience. "Sikong Yi, the one responsible for all the suffering is defeated. Form now on the Silver Winged family is under my protection, if anyone disagrees with it I'll accept your challenge anytime. If you want to leave I won't stop you."