The Abandoned Wife’s Rebirth - Chap 151
When the Yao family members noticed that Wu Yanlan and the others already knew that their intention was to kill Wu Ruo, they were no longer courteous with their methods. Their attacks were vicious, every move aiming to kill.
Wu Ruo hid behind Wu Yanlan, swaying to the right and tottering to the left. He seemed extremely full of vitality. It angered the members of the Yao family so much that their moves became even more vicious. But someone was even more aggravated than they were. Wu Yu had twice discreetly pushed Wu Ruo towards the Yao family members who wanted to kill him, but he had either been luckily dodged by Wu Ruo or Wu Yanlan had helped Wu Ruo to fend off the attack. He was so infuriated that he wanted to pull his own jian out directly and kill Wu Ruo.
After Wu Yanlan and his companion retreated thrice, helping Wu Ruo to fend off several attacks, they began to retaliate fiercely, forcing the people who were attacking Wu Ruo to the edges of the platform1.
Wu Yanlan lowered his voice and said angrily: “Right now, we’re in the middle of the competition. Can’t all of you set your grudges aside until after the competition? When the time comes, no matter what you want to do to Wu Ruo, I won’t care. But right now, we should be focusing on dealing with the members of the other family clans, not in-fighting amongst ourselves.”
The Yao family members laughed coldly: “It was Lord State Tutor who told us to take the opportunity during the chaos of the competition to kill Wu Ruo. If you don’t want to ruin Lord State Tutor’s plans, then distance yourselves from him. If after a joss stick’s time, he leaves the competition platform, then we won’t have any more opportunities to take action.”
Wu Yanlan and his companion were shocked still.
The Yao family members took the opportunity when they were stunned to quickly escape from them, gathering spiritual energy in their fists to attack at Wu Ruo.
Wu Ruo ran towards the edges of the platform. Suddenly, with a ‘gong’, the judge shouted out: “A joss stick’s time is up.”
In the previous five rounds of the competition, there had been no such reminder. However, the number of practitioners in the sixth level and subsequent rounds were fewer. The members of the ten major families’ didn’t want to lose talents because of the competition, so before the sixth level practitioners’ competition, they had instructed the judge to issue a reminder at the mark of one joss stick’s time.
The Yao family members were stunned, and their actions also paused slightly, and they simply watched as Wu Ruo jumped off the competition platform.
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The other families who were at a disadvantage also took the opportunity when everyone had come to a pause to hurridly run off the platform. After barely a moment, only the Song, Zhang, Lu and Yun families were left on the stage.
The Yao family members who wanted to kill Wu Ruo said angrily: “Fuck, we almost killed that little shit.”
“Right? That little shit is too lucky.”
“Our clan members have all left, let’s hurry down too.”
When the people who wanted to kill Wu Ruo saw that their own clan members had also left the competition platform, they worried that they would become the target of attacks from the other family clans, so they didn’t dare to delay any further and quickly retreated to the edges of the competition platform.
At the moment that they stepped off the competition platform, suddenly, they heard another ‘gong’ next to their ears, and after that, they heard the judge’s voice announcing: “A joss stick’s time is up.”
The Yao family members who were trying to kill Wu Ruo were stunned. They quickly turned back to take a look. Previously, the platform was clearly only left with members of the Song, Zhang, Lu and Yun family. However, right now, all of the practitioners from the ten major families were still on the competition platform. After that, those family clans that were at a disadvantage retreated off the competition platform one after the other. In the end, there were only members of the Wu, Yan, Ling and Zhang families. On top of that, Wu Ruo was actually still standing at the center of the competition platform.
They were shocked: “What’s going on? Didn’t Wu Ruo already get off of the stage? How is he still on the competition platform?”
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Everyone looked at each other, thunderstruck, then one of them shouted loudly: “Shit, we must’ve fallen for an illusion just now! Everything that we saw before was false, only what’s happening now is real.”
“Fuck, it must’ve been an illusion by Wu Yanlan!”
At this moment, Wu Ruo turned back to look at them. A corner of his lips curled up, blooming into a brilliant, eye-catching smile.
Wu Chenzi, who was spectating the competition from afar, narrowed his eyes grimly. Wu Ruo had actually managed to get by a joss stick’s time.
Wu Yanlan walked to Wu Ruo’s side: “Aren’t you going to go down quickly?”
He had managed to avoid one calamity with much difficulty. If Wu Ruo continued to linger here, it would really end up being a path straight to hell.
“Oh.” Wu Ruo was just about to turn around, but Wu Shunren held him back by the shoulder: “It’s a rare opportunity for him to come and have fun on the competition platform. It’ll be boring if he goes down so quickly.”
Wu Yanlan glared at him.
Wu Yu, who was walking over, shouted: “Young Master Lan, be careful!”
Wu Yanlan’s expression froze, he rapidly turned around to block the attack from a Yan family member.
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“Wu Ruo, continue fighting with us for a bit.” Wu Shunren locked a vice grip around Wu Ruo’s wrist and rushed towards the members of the Yan and Ling families.
Wu Xi, who was off the competition platform, anxiously said: “It’s already been one joss stick’s time, why hasn’t erge come down yet?”
“I’m afraid he won’t be able to come down.” Wu Chenliu had seen that Wu Ruo’s hand was being firmly grabbed by Wu Shunren.
Wu Qianqing’s expression darkened: “The person grabbing onto Wu Ruo, wasn’t he together with Wu Yu during the competition registration?”
Wu Xi said angrily: “That person is also a Wu family member. Damn him, he clearly looks down on erge, despising erge for being a loser without spiritual energy, yet he won’t let erge get off of the competition platform. It can’t be that he wants erge to die on the competition platform, right? This person’s thoughts are really too vicious! As expected, none of the people who hang out with Wu Yu are any decent.”
On the royal family’s viewing platform, Ling Mohan was gripping tightly onto the armrest of his seat, staring fixedly at the person on the competition platform.
On the competition platform, Wu Shunren dragged Wu Ruo along as he fought with the members of the other two family clans. When other people came attacking, he yanked on Wu Ruo to use him as a shield.
However, how could Wu Ruo go along with his wishes? He stood firmly in place and teased: “If you hold me by my wrist, my husband will get jealous after he sees.”
“Damn it to hell!” When Wu Shunren’s malicious scheme didn’t pan out, he hurriedly blocked his opponent’s attack. He secretly speculated: how was this loser so strong? Just now, he actually hadn’t been able to move this person.
“That’s right. They really do deserve to go to hell2. You should hurry and kill them.” Wu Ruo quickly flung Wu Shunren forward, blocking the Ling family member’s swift and fierce attack.
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Wu Shunren ended up in a two versus one fight, and gradually he was unable to keep up. On top of that, he was still dragging another person around in one hand. It was the epitome of the idiom, ‘a single fist cannot fight off four hands’.
Suddenly, the other party used a spiritual jian spell. Their actions were both speedy and ferocious, jabbing towards Wu Shunren and Wu Ruo.
With a tearing noise, Wu Shunren was stabbed in the chest. Closely after, because he couldn’t handle the spiritual attack embedded in the stab of the jian, the energies in his body flowed in reverse3. With a sputter, he vomitted a mouthful of fresh blood.
Wu Shunren’s companion swiftly hurried over, beating back the other party: “Shunren, are you alright?”
Wu Shunren let out a deep sigh, touching the blood at the corner of his lips: “I’m fine.”
He instantly turned his head, glaring at Wu Ruo fiercely: “You stupid piece of shit!”
Wu Ruo laughed coldly: “Since you already know that I’m a piece of shit, then why did you still keep me around for?”
“You want to get off the platform? Dream on!” Wu Shunren had originally just wanted to taunt and humiliate Wu Ruo, to see him screaming cowardly, but now he was of the mind to kill Wu Ruo.
However, he was still quite rational. If he were to murder Wu Ruo in front of everyone, he would definitely be punished.
Wu Shunren swiftly swallowed a pill to heal his injuries, then he dragged Wu Ruo towards where the fighting among the four major family clans was the most intense. He fiercely shoved Wu Ruo to the eye of the vortex of the four major family clans’ magic.
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Beneath the platform, Wu Xi’s eyes widened, and she shouted in terror: “Erge, danger——!”
Wu Qianqing also yelled anxiously: “Xiao-Ruo, use a defensive equipment quick!”
Ling Mohan, who was on the royal family’s viewing platform, was unable to hold himself back any further. He abruptly got to his feet and everyone around him looked at him in confusion.
When Wu Yu spotted this situation out of the corner of his eye, his lips curled up into a cold smile. This loser should’ve died a long time ago.
All of the other spectators’ hearts were in their throats for Wu Ruo, they didn’t want to see such an unparalled beauty die just like that. Quite a few people called out agitatedly.
“Dodge quick!”
“Quick! Use an equipment to protect your life! It’s worth it even if you get punished!”
However, the members of the four families on the platform heard someone chanting: “The heaven’s radiant sun, the earth’s glowing sun, by decree of the deities and goblins, and the nine chapters of the law4, break—!”
Suddenly, a massive wave of spiritual energy burst forth. Following after, a heavy, formless force fiercely pressed downward. It was as if the sky had collapsed. The hundreds of competitors standing at the center of the competition platform were all flattened to the ground, one after the other. Closely after, with a ‘ping’, a massive pothole cracked open in the middle of the competition platform made of stone. All of the competitors that had collapsed to the floor spat out mouthfuls of fresh blood and fainted.
In an instance, the entire venue was silent. At this moment, only those who had been fighting at the edges of the competition platform were conscious. However, they had all been frightened senseless. It was as if they had all forgotten that they were fighting; they all stared foolishly at the huge pothole in the center.
What had happened?
Everyone blinked their eyes, then they realised that someone was actually still standing at the center of the competition platform. Moreover, it was Wu Ruo, who had been shoved to the center of the competition platform just before.
Wu Chenzi immediately stood up, staring fixedly at the person on the platform.
Everyone on the royal family’s viewing platform also stood up, one after another, to get a better look. They were curious about what exactly had happened.
Ling Mohan’s gaze was full of astonishment.
The people on the other viewing platforms also stood up, one after another.
The Huangdu City Wu family’s clan leader, Wu Bofang, as well as the other Gaoling City Wu family members all looked at the person on the platform disbelievingly.
Beneath the platform, Wu Xi said, boggled: “What… what happened?”
Wu Qianqing was flabberghasted.
Wu Chenliu narrowed his eyes, and a hint of admiration crossed his features: “Amidst the chaos, unbeknownst to anyone, your erge managed to set up a massive array. Heh, this old man has never seen anyone with the time to finesse a massive array on the competition platform before. Today has truly been an eye-opener.”
This beautiful little punk had clearly only been hiding here and there on the platform. When exactly had he had the time to put up the array? Even Wu Chenliu hadn’t noticed. After Wu Ruo came down the platform, Wu Chenliu would have to ask him about it properly.
Wu Xi was confused: “What massive array?”
“The Sky-splitting Array, it can crush everyone within the array to the ground in an instance.”
Wu Xi was even more confused: “Doesn’t setting up an array require the use of spiritual energy?”
Wu Chenliu glanced at her: “Therefore, your erge has spiritual energy. On top of that, his level isn’t low either.”
Wu Xi: “!!!!!!”
Her erge has spiritual energy?
As his little sister, how did she not know about this matter?
Wu Qianqing also had an expression of shock: “X-xiao-Ruo has spiritual energy?”
Wu Chenliu found it a little strange that they didn’t know: “When he comes down, you can ask him for yourselves.”
At this moment, someone suddenly called out: “Bravo—!”
Everyone came back to their senses and started clapping and cheering, one after another. The entire venue was full of cheering.
Previously, on the competition platform, other than those who had willingly retreated off by themselves, competitors had only been forced off one by one. They had yet to see someone forcing over a hundred competitors to the ground in one fell swoop.
“That’s my daddy, my daddy!” Dandan excitedly hopped and shouted on Hei Xuantang again: “My daddy is so powerful! My daddy is so powerful!”
Hei Xuantang hugged the child fervently: “My little nephew, your future betrothal gifts, I’ll cover them all5!”
Nu Mu laughed heartily: “He’s worthy of being called my disciple!”
“…” Hei Xuanyi shot side-eyed glances at them. When he looked up at Wu Ruo, who was on the platform, there was a hint of a beautiful curve at the corner of his lips.
1
Quick note: if participants fall off of the platform, they are considered eliminated from the competition.
2
该死 (gai si): literally means ‘deserve to die’, but it doesn’t quite have the same ring in English, so I modified it to ‘damn to hell’. You can see how in the previous sentence, Wu Shunren ambiguously says ‘deserves to die’, where he’s referring to Wu Ruo. Then in this sentence, Wu Ruo flips it on him and says ‘they do deserve to die’ and he’s talking about the people attacking them.
3
There is a natural order/direction for the spiritual energy in one’s body to flow in. If this is reversed, it causes harmful effects to the body. It’s kind of like if your heart pumps the wrong way, it causes stress on the entire body.
4
Did a quick Baidu search of this spell and it came up for a dead link mentioning something about Yinyang arts, which is the name of the magic style the Wu family practices. Not sure if this is an actual chant for any religion, but I roughly translated it according to what I thought it might mean. In any case, you can take it
5
Remember the betrothal gifts Hei Xuanyi had to send Wu Ruo and his family? Hei Xuantang is promising to cover the costs of all of Dandan’s future betrothal gifts for his future bride, probably using all of his winnings from betting on Wu Ruo winning.
