Those who advanced are Xu Tian, Xu Jie and Xu Bai. "Now pick your opponents" said Xu Feng. Both Xu Tian and Xu Bai chose Xu Jie. Xu Jie sighed saying " I'll make sure you regret your decision."
Xu Jie accepts Xu Tian's challenge making Xu Bai go straight to the finals. "Both contenders step onto the stage" said Xu Feng. Xu Jie asks Xu Tian the reason for choosing him and Xu Tian responds saying "There's no hope since he'll lose either way so he chose the one with a lower cultivation for a chance." "Well I understand, now shall we start" said Xu Jie.
"Begin!" shouted Xu Feng. " Mountain Breaking Palm technique: Mountain Slaps Man!" shouts Xu Tian. A mountain illusion appears above Xu Jie trying to squash him to the ground but Xu Jie easily avoids it saying "I've watched your last match and studied your moves so it's better for you to use another technique." "He's right, I'm inferior to him in cultivation and strength and he knows my technique" thought Xu Tian to himself.
"Mountain Breaking Palm Technique: 7 Palm mountains descend!" shouted Xu Tian. This technique showed the the illusions of 7 palms as huge as mountains and each stronger than the other. One palm strong as 600kg and each palms strength doubled as the numbers increased eventually reaching 38,400kg.
"Now this is a formidable technique but it's rather sad since you have low cultivation base. If you had used this technique at the 7th stage of Core Condensing you might have given me a hard time" said Xu Jie.
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Xu Jie acknowledged the fighting spirit of Xu Tian and decides to use his Black grade technique to show respect to his opponent.
"I admire your fighting spirit, to show you respect I'll use my Black grade technique." said Xu Jie. "Whaaaaat! Did he just say a Black grade technique" said the audience.
Whispers started to emanate from the audience and even the elders didn't expect him to know a Black grade technique, not even his own father since he didn't use it to fight against Xu Zheng's Black grade technique.
"2nd elder what's the meaning of this?" asked the other elders. "What do you mean?" said the 2nd elder. "Why did Xu Jie decide hide his Black grade technique in the previous match against Xu Zheng" asked the 4th elder.
"Would you show your cards to your enemies 4th elder" said 2nd elder. "No, but there's no need to think like that now since they're family" said 4th elder.
"It's a good thing he has this kind of mindset, the path of cultivation is a hard one and no one knows for sure what would happen in the future. You could get betrayed and even blackmailed so the fewer people know about you the better isn't it" said 2nd elder.
"Hahahaha, you're right. In the world of cultivation it's better to keep a low profile until you're absolutely sure you can defend what you cherish and hold dear" said Xu Ling/ the patriarch of the Xu family.
The Patriarch of the Xu family is a fair person and an outgoing person who holds his family dearly.
"Motionless Sword Art: Flawless Slash!" shouts Xu Jie and sends a sharp sword intent towards Xu Tian.
From Xu Jie's sword slash comes out a strong gust of wind and cuts through all Xu Tian's palm technique and almost cuts through Xu Tian, but Xu Jie disperses his sword intent saving Xu Tian from death. "Thank you for your mercy" says Xu Tian to Xu Jie and gives up.
"The winner is Xu Jie" says Xu Feng.