Sun Fuyu sucked in a sharp breath of cool air. Qi under his feet let him jump high into the air, narrowly dodging the attack. The edges of his robes singed as the fire dragon missed him.
His opponent twisted around. He slashed up, the dragon coiling out like a whip.
Sun Fuyu activated four talismans in quick succession: two to produce water for a shower, and another two to cool water to ice. His sword’s wind twisted itself with the ice-cold water like a rope and slapped his opponent’s sword. The ice-cold water immediately became steam—and it was all still under Sun Fuyu’s control.
Sun Fuyu breathed in deeply, pulling away the ambient qi from his opponent and into himself. A targeted calmness spread out. The flames weakened as the qi was channelled into his own wind. A tornado spun, pulling in water and fire.
Sun Fuyu smashed the tornado into the other side of the battle stage, roughly breaking his opponent’s connection with the fire. The other’s brief moment of shock was enough.
CLASH!
The heavy winds coupled with clashing blade-against-blade threw his opponent off-balance.
Sun Fuyu drew his sword back, all his qi collecting in his muscles. With speed faster than sound, his blade swung forward once more. A sonic boom rocked the stage, with the wind-pressure directly throwing his opponent out of the ring.
Sun Fuyu sucked in a shaky breath, his sword arm suddenly heavy.
“…And the winner is Cultivator Sun Fuyu of the Golden Sun Sect!!!” the referee announced.
Claps and cheers filled the air. Sun Fuyu straightened his back and raised his head.
“Heavens! That Sun Fuyu really won! That banner was correct!”
“Is there some enchantment on those banners? Or is this Sun Fuyu a hidden tiger?”
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“Hmpf, you! Make a banner for me too! No, in fact, make five! I must have more than this Sun Fuyu! Don’t forget to cheer for me!”
“….(cough) Yes, da-shixiong!”
“Little Uncle won! Little Uncle is so amazing!!!”
“Xiao Yu is very awesome.”
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According to the giant display board, Sun Fuyu’s next fight would be tomorrow: now, it was time to head back.
Energy flowed into Sun Fuyu upon seeing Wen-ge. “Wen-ge, Wen-ge, did you see—”
Wen Zhihao grabbed Sun Fuyu’s hands. “Xiao Yu was so amazing and handsome!” he praised.
Sun Fuyu lowered his gaze shyly. “Mm.”
“Slash slash!” Ruan Lanxi jumped up and down, her face bright with excitement. “Little Uncle did this, and the other did that—” She made slashing motions with her arms.
Wen Zhihao was sure she would crash with exhaustion an hour later. With that in mind, Wen Zhihao let go of one of Sun Fuyu’s hands and took out the flying cart. The children knew the drill: they climbed in orderly.
“Xiao Yu, you get into the cart too,” Wen Zhihao urged.
Sun Fuyu shook his head stubbornly.
Wen Zhihao poked Sun Fuyu’s arm. “Look how soft your muscles are. Xiao Yu has worked hard. After a big battle, you deserve a rest. Unless you want me to carry you directly, ba?”
Heat flared to Sun Fuyu’s face. He did! He wanted to be carried directly! But Sun Fuyu’s skin was too thin for such a manoeuvre, so he obediently climbed into the flying cart with the children.
…In the end, Wen Zhihao was right. In the soft, gently moving flying cart and bathed in Wen Zhihao’s aura, Sun Fuyu’s eyes lowered until they closed in a light sleep. Wen Zhihao reached out once or twice to gently brush back some wayward hair from Sun Fuyu’s face.
When they reached their temporary place, Sun Fuyu woke up again, eyes a little moist from sleep. The qi he had gathered during the short travel was enough to sustain him for the rest of the sedentary evening, but Sun Fuyu felt better when he was able to lie down in their bed at night. He had truly expended too much qi in his last move.
Wen Zhihao kissed Sun Fuyu on the forehead. “Mn, go to sleep and recover, okay?”
“En,” Sun Fuyu’s brows tightened weakly in determination as he battled the sudden sleepiness in his limbs. “Wen-ge—”
Wen Zhihao stroked Sun Fuyu’s hair. “Shhh, sleep. Xiao Yu was very powerful today. Rest, and be powerful tomorrow too.”
Their breaths naturally synchronised, and Sun Fuyu fell asleep as fast as Wen Zhihao.
The scenery the next day was very different from the first. Multiple eye-catching banners waved around the stadium seating area, some with vigorous words, others with beautiful ones. Names of famous and not-so-famous cultivators caught numerous eyes.
“Hehehe, our banner is better than the rest!”
“Hmm, if everyone else is doing it…”
“I heard that there is a new stall down at the marketplace selling banners!”
“AH!!! Cultivator Ouyang Yue is my goddess too!!! Martial sisters, save my seat, I must also make a banner!”
Crafting cultivator Li Fanghua stared at the happenings with a deadpan expression.
I hope this cultivator celebrity fan culture doesn’t get out of hand, she muttered in her heart. It was hard enough dealing with other dog blood plots. Ultimately, she decided to pretend not to see it, and instead focused on Stage 9 where her girlfriend, Hu Lingzhi, was fighting.
At the moment, her girlfriend’s opponent was stunned silly as Hu Lingzhi pulled out her tenth…fifteenth…twenty-fifth sword, each of them under control and chasing the opponent around. When one sword was parried away, another came in the opposite direction. Finally, her girlfriend stopped messing around and pulled out two swords almost as large as herself and utterly defeated her opponent.
(The swords weren’t overly big: rather, Hu Lingzhi was small and adorably cute-sized, not that Li Fanghua would ever say that out loud.)
Now that Hu Lingzhi had won, Li Fanghua took out her qi-phone and sent a text to Hu Lingzhi to meet outside the stadium. She walked around the banner-waving cultivators and headed out.
As Li Fanghua was waiting for Hu Lingzhi, she saw a flying cart in the distance. Her brain started to whirr: a hover car? Hm, and no obnoxious fumes either! If it were me, I would add a roof, safety lights…
But then Li Fanghua shoved the thoughts at the end of her very long list of things-that-would-be-cool-to-make when she spotted Hu Lingzhi walking out.
Hu Lingzhi grinned, her bright blue eyes shining. “Did you see the look on his face?” She laughed happily. “HuaHua, let’s go buy some more swords! I think I spotted someone from the Shifting Sands Sect, I don’t have a sword from them yet!”
Li Fanghua hummed, letting her girlfriend talk as they strolled together to the marketplace.
Ah, it seems that Wen Zhihao and Li Fanghua just missed each other! 🤭
Author is a tease!
😏😏😏 Thank you~
🤣🤣🤣 I really like Li Fanghua, I don’t know why but she makes me laugh so much.
I’m glad her personality is likeable!🤣🤣
li fanghua is back
eh, as long as sun fuyu and hu lingzhi is participating, theyre bound to run into each other soon
thank you for the chapter 💖
Hmm depends if they’re in the same ranking/bracket. Sun Fuyu is late stage golden core, but I don’t know what level Hu Lingzhi is in 🤔🤣
This chapter make me to want to make a banner too 😂 Ai my poor English 😖
Thank you for the hard work
thank you!!! support your faves~~
Thank you for the chapter!!
Although I absolutely love the LGBTQ representation..Author Sama the only straight couple introduced in the book are those culativation Karen parents of the ori protag which leads me to the question – How are so many children there in the sect then?
You don’t need to be straight to have kids. Doesn’t salted fish couple also have several children? 😆
I think it’s quite common for sects in most cultivation stories to take in talented children from surrounding areas. Also, we have only seen small part of the sect (mostly the younger generation) so there are probably other families with children around somewhere. 🤔
Salted fish definitely has a lot of kids 🤣
Yep, let’s pretend that there are families with children elsewhere around the sect~
There have been other straight couples! Ish… There was that couple from another sect that has threesomes!!
And umm Zhang Wu is straight though I’m still thinking whether to pair him up with Hu Jingyan (Sun Fuyu’s shijie) or not…
But yeah, there are other straight people, we just don’t…focus on them 🤣 and kids get adopted / bought in too (like Zhou Sheng and Sun Fuyu and even the original Wen Zhihao to an extent)
Banners rule the world! The more the better
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seriously- are you sure we can’t con you into writing a girl’s love for us after you’re finished with the salty fish? puppy eyes
YOU CAN’T CON ME! Also CG doesn’t host girls love…. But I might do an extra with Li Fanghua…hm….
AO3 does! And there are GL specific websites like CG….. just saying.Also if we can’t con, can we bribe? I have home made baklava and smoked brisket if you live in the PNW I might be able to get it to you.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I just….have so many other story ideas too T_T
If only I had the ability to control time…!!!!
Reasons all the time dilation/pausing stories I have read were so unbelievable? No one ever went “I am gonna do so much Reading/Writing/Studying” It’s always feel up the girls or cheat on exams. Any writer has a mountain of ideas and no time to tackle them. Artists? Same beef with lac k of time. Readers? My backlog of novels is mountains high. The struggle is real.
Thank you for the chapter 🥰
Thank you for reading!!!
Sun Fuyu wanting to be carried but not saying it, so cute and relatable 😍
Wen Zhihao and crew just inspired the beginnings of cultivation idol culture XD
Thanks for the chapter!
Sun Fuyu is baobei~~~
And yess that’s the word, idol culture 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh my goodness, I was thinking more sport events since it’s a tournament, but idol culture, “shudder”, that’s a scary thought, lol.
I mean….even with sport events they can have a pretty big (and toxic) fan culture XD
sport fans are really scary…most scary…
Yep, all those who get the sever form of the “fan” disease (regardless of what they’re fan of) are horror movie scary…
Thanks for the chapter! They created a monster of banners & merchandise selling before sport events 😂!
Qi phone she said? How fun!
I mean, it wasn’t as though Wen Zhihao was forcing others to follow along 🤭
Li Fanghua makes stuff, and a qi-phone makes sense to have 🤭
¿Telefono Qi? no ¿tabla de jade? jajajaa… ¿es él otro transmigrante?, ummm parece que los supuestos dioses no se han dado cuenta de él.
yes, qi-telephone~ Li Fanghua is another random transmigrator, but she’s not really part of Wen Zhihao’s story~
Author-sans!! Let them meet!!! 😭😭 I want to see the chaos they create!!!!!😂😂
🤣🤣🤣 in the extras, hopefully!
Hover car or hover cart😂😂😂
heyy, the important part is the hovering 🤣🤣
Aw, loved the inclusion of the other couple at the end.
Thank you for another chapter
Hehe I’m glad you liked that~!