Listening to his words, Hadelia was stunned at her place as she stared at Virus with mixed feelings apparent in her eyes.

A while later, she seemed to finally come to senses as a half smile showed itself on her face.

Soon, opening her mouth, she voiced, "Are you sure you want to see the full extent of my power?"

Seeing her reaction and hearing her words, Virus couldn't help but become even more interested in her as he responded with a rather wide grin, "Use everything you have to the very last drop of your strength... let's see for how long you can entertain me."

However, hearing him use the word 'Entertain' for their match as if it was just some kind of entertainment for him made Hadelia very frustrated as she thought, 'How arrogant... hmph... let's see how long you can stay like that.'

Then, she said, "Hehe, before this match, I wasn't going to reveal all of my power on this year's 'Martial Contest'... but now... I've changed my mind, I hope you don't regret your words later on for making me do this..."

"..." Hearing her, Virus didn't reply with anything more as only a mild sense of expectation rose in his heart as he waited to see what would happen next.

Then, slowly, Hadelia closed her eyes, making those who couldn't hear the conversation between them to misunderstand that she was about to surrender and honestly, if she really did that, no one would've blamed her because that was the most logical and reasonable decision at the current situation.

However, against all of their expectations, a few seconds after she closed her eyes, abruptly, her cultivation qi began to increase as her cultivation level soon rose from the tenth level of the Qi Pa.s.sage Opening Stage to the eleventh!

More surprisingly, it seemed this increase wasn't the end as his qi continued to rise even more until finally, it went past the eleventh level!

"Holy mother of heavens! Her cultivation level just increased by two whole levels and now she's at the twelfth level of the Qi Pa.s.sage Opening! Just how is that even possible?!"

"Amazing! She's opened all of her Qi Pa.s.sages!" The disciples' shocked voices began to roam around the Colosseum as Hadelia's cultivation level increased.

"Look! It hasn't stopped! It's still increasing... could it be?" However, to everyone's dismay, it seemed the show was not over yet...

Her cultivation seemed to rise to the absolute limit of that level before going even beyond that as it broke through to a whole new stage altogether!

"... Incredible... her cultivation is already at the Qi Circulation Stage!" One of the elders uttered, absolutely astonished!

"Yeah...sigh... just thinking about it makes me wanna have her as my personal disciple... to have such a young disciple who's already at the Qi Circulation Stage..." Another elder said.

"Well... too bad for you, because I heard she rejected every offer she received from the elders... though she might accept it if better elders asked her to be their personal disciple, who knows. However, what I'm sure of is that you definitely don't have any chances with her, hehe..." A female elder muttered with a giggle.

"Awesome..." In the disciples' area too, voices of amazement were heard here and there.

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Finally, at this moment, Hadelia opened her eyes as she glanced into Virus' eyes and voiced, "Shall we begin?"

"Sure... would you please do the honor of attacking me first?" Virus replied with a little bit of antic.i.p.ation.

"... Hehe, you might regret your words... but if that's what you want... why not." She vocalized before disappearing from her previous spot just to appear right in front of Virus... or at least, that's how disciples with a lower level of cultivation perceived this situation as.

On the contrary, those who had a higher level of cultivation could see this whole situation with much more clarity.

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Going in front of Virus with extremely fast speed, Hadelia raised her short sword as she mumbled, "Second form – Dance of the Sparrow".

'Hmm, nice try...' Thinking this, Virus raised his left hand which was covered in scales as he easily defended against the attack which came slas.h.i.+ng at his left side.

However, it seemed the attack was not over as her hands seemed to move in a strange way as it suddenly attacked to his right side too.

But, as Virus had long a.n.a.lyzed this technique and thus expected the attack, he easily raised his right hand and deflected the short sword.

Immediately afterward, much to Hadelia's surprise, Virus moved with extremely fast speed as he went right behind her and placed his open palm on her neck and whispered in her ears, "Just like that, you died once..."

Then, he continued, "If that's all you're capable off, you should just forfeit now... as honestly, you're not even close to defeating me."

Uttering this, a light seemed to turn off inside Virus' eyes, as if he was feeling disappointed at something or someone.

Listening to his tone of speaking, Hadelia's eyes jumped open as she felt something from Virus' tone which made her extremely uncomfortable like she had done something wrong.

As a result, Hadelia felt like she had to prove him wrong, so she replied, "Hmph... of course that's not all... I didn't want to do this... because I didn't want my ident.i.ty to be revealed, but that seems impossible if I want to go against you."

Immediately after that, she uttered, "The Sparrow Moves Like Flying!"

As she vocalized that, she began to distance herself from Virus with an extremely quick speed before turning toward Virus once again, looking at him, face to face.

Then, not stopping there, she directly charged at him while muttering, "The Burning Sparrow – The Sword On Fire!"

The moment she opened her mouth, shockingly, her short sword which was slas.h.i.+ng toward Virus in a strange way suddenly went on fire.

"No way... is that..." The elders who were watching the fight suddenly seemed to have seen something shocking as they stared at Hadelia with shock visible inside their eyes.

"Is she really from there?" An elder looked at another as he questioned in disbelief.

"...I think so... that burning sword... and what she uttered before executing that technique... She's definitely from there..." Another elder replied with her eyes s.h.i.+ning intensely.

Some of the disciples had also recognized Hadelia's technique as some of them even shouted rather loudly, "Holy f.u.c.k! She's from the Burning Sparrow clan!"

"What's the Burning Sparrow clan?" Listening to those shouts, one of the ignorant disciples asked in confusion.

"Are you f.u.c.king kidding me right now? You don't even know the Burning Sparrow clan? You don't know the clan that has the bloodline of the Burning Sparrow who is believed to be a descendant of the legendary Fire Phoenix?" One of the disciples who was obviously very annoyed with the question said in surprise.

"Really?... I've been living in my village before coming to the sect so I don't really know much about the world... anyway, what's that clan exactly?... Would you mind elaborating more please?" The ignorant disciple asked further.

"Just shut up... don't talk to me." However, unfortunately, this was the response he received for his curiosity as the other person no longer paid him any further attention and continued to watch the match.