"Hey! Look there, elder Yun appeared...!" a disciple pointed toward an elder, the disciple screamed with joy because he happened to be his mentor.

"I have heard, elder Yun is preparing his son for the Intermediate Contemplation Battles..!" his fellow friend reminded him.

"Yes! his son is my inspiration, he is a genius among geniuses, he ought to be the star of tomorrow...!" his fellow answered with deep respect.

Another group of disciples was talking about a related topic, "Did not you remember...this son of elder Yun emerged victorious two and a half year ago in the Primary Contemplation Battles and he was selected for the Intermediate Contemplation Battles same day..!!" a disciple pointed toward the son of elder Yun and exclaimed awfully.

"He would be one winner whatever Apt.i.tude he gonna compete with...!!" another fellow disciple who had complete trust on his guesstimate uttered.

The son of elder Yun was sharp eye fella just like his father, he was standing like a steel pole.

He swept his eyes to see who were the compet.i.tors of Evanesce Proficiency Apt.i.tude.

And to his dismay, they were ordinary.

He felt he would not be able to show his absolute might because this ordinary disciple might not be of his caliber.

Today only two Apt.i.tudes would compete on the square.

~~~

The old man was hiding behind the immense crowd, he could see the arrogant elder.

He was here to support little girl.

He did not wish to be noticed by this elder.

His memories were still clear from the past.

He was living in Astral Manias though poor but contented to everything and learning in a low-grade Contemplation School.

By chance of luck, a disciple of Imperium Proficiency Apt.i.tude School became his friend.

They used to talk to each other despite the disparity of their living and schooling.

Both used to enjoy the company of each other.

His friend shared his Apt.i.tude learning to the old man and taught him Evanesce Apt.i.tude.

Somehow, elder Yun caught the wind and got angry.

His friend begged the old man to leave Astral Manias and came between the deathly dominion and saved the old man back then and sacrificed his life to save him.

Many years after the incident old man went to avenge his friend but the elder was more powerful than he expected and in result, the old man received grievous injuries.

This was a knot in his heart but he felt himself useless trash if compared their strength.

He wanted to defeat elder Yun but he remained useless trash.

He was not hiding out of fear but he did not wish to implicate the adorable girl.

He wanted to see her, how she would fight and win and if she lost he would rescue her.

He was not much learned to being a low-grade disciple and after chased out by elder Yun, he lived and tried to learn but every time he thought that he could defeat elder Yun, the latter became more powerful.

~~~

The compet.i.tion began and several disciples were paired to defeat their rivals.

Evanesce Apt.i.tude was considered necessary.

And the one who got proficient in this Apt.i.tude could fight multiple rivals of the same level.

Jen was standing at the edges of the crowd, she could see that these disciples were no less in comparison.

A sharp eye disciple, whenever he defeated his fellows, would stand to collect the praise by the crowd and would glare like to say, 'who is capable other than I'.

Up till now, he was undefeatable.

~~~

The old man got worried for Jen, he deduced that this young man was the son of elder Yun.

He could not go to her and drag her out from Astral Manias.

But compared to his worries, that girl was like she was not impressed or feared to see this compet.i.tion or the soulless compet.i.tors.

He saw her, she was calm and composed and to his surprise, she was less worried too.

Elder Yun swept his eyes like serpent after seeing his son undefeated like to threatening, lowly creatures.

His glare fell on a girl standing a far end.

He flickered his eyes to see the girl clearly.

He saw a girl at Primary Contemplation Battles, terrifying and threatening back.

This girl seemed to resemble that girl.

But it was impossible because that girl was the granddaughter of great Defender.

Since he was preparing his son for the Intermediate Battles and wanted his son to become a topper.

In actual occurrence, his aim was to bring his son in the row of young compet.i.tors of Highest Standing and to become the topnotch feared ent.i.ty.

He never lacked resources.

And for his son, he had piled up every single necessity and was grooming him, showering his wealth like rain.

He forced other elders to support his son even he started to imagine his son next ent.i.ty of the Defender Hacienda.

He clearly saw the girl back then, how could he forget her appearance so easily.

There were close to thousand Higher Standings, Heads of powerful Manias, top ranking disciples and many geniuses, she leisurely fought with two Levels higher Cultivator and defeated him like he was merely chicken.

He was afraid that if she remained alive she might be a hard stone for his son to step on.

He looked around to confirm that he was not dreaming of her presence.

He looked at her again.

He notices that she was standing away and around her were disciples of low-grade contemplation schools.

Her calm and composed stature only guaranteed that she was the same girl.

"Is that somehow her great grandfather abandoned her? or she dared to walk around alone? he was knitting the reasons in his mind.

His eyes sparkled with the revelation.

He woke up from his deep thoughts when he heard the announcement that his son emerged victoriously.

An elder announced his son triumph and looked around the crowd to see the disciples of low-grade schools, "Who dares to challenge the winner here?" he was about to finish to announce that compet.i.tion ended today.

"I wanted to challenge him...!" a melodic voice filled with threatening peace echoed in the surrounding.

Everyone looked bewildered to hear the voice and traced the voice source.

"Do you mean it...?" the elder put a chance for her to back down.

"I mean it...!!" she a.s.sured.

"Do you know the roles and that you will be responsible solely for the consequences if get seriously injured.

" I have heard...and I accept the consequences of my challenge too.

Most of them thought, who was so stupid to challenge the son of elder Yun?

On the other side, elder Yun was ready to believe that this girl was the same girl whom he wished to silent.

No one could understand why this small girl wanted to stake her life.

The old man was gritting his teeth, he thought that after witnessing so many duals of winner she might back down from her stubbornness but she did not budge an inch from her decision.

Everyone twisted slightly to see a girl wearing light blue robs with the lace of s.h.i.+ning pearls.

She was always exquisite to choose her dresses, even if she became Rapscallion, she did not wear ordinary dresses but she cared simplicity too thus appearing rich yet humble, fair fairy.

Everyone swept way for her to reach the square.

Elder Yun stepped forward, "Since we have woman challenger, I suggest to create an essence barrier around the square to spare her dignity in case, you guys know what I mean...!!" he suggested to the audience appeared to save her from any embarra.s.sment but he wanted to instruct his son to finish the girl.

The old man was certain about the sly trick of elder Yun.

He closed his fists with fury.

He did not know the reason behind his trick, what he thought that elder hate low-grade disciples and wanted to humiliate this girl.

He reached close enough to the square without being in the notice and waited for his turn.

Today he would not spare elder Yun no matter what happenstance to him, he was resolute like a rock.

The other elder created strong opaque essence energy barrier.

Jen was standing under the energy barrier, it was a silent rule that if low-grade disciple challenge in such open compet.i.tion, the high-grade disciple was supposed to teach him a severe lesson so that other low-grade disciple might not brazen themselves in future to stand against and challenge a high-grade disciple.

Sharp eye son of the elder Yun was standing like undefeatable ent.i.ty.

He was waiting for that challenger would attack first and he would knock her out in few stances.

Jen never attacked first even when she challenged someone, she waited for him to attack first.

Sharp eye fella creased his brows after looking her arrogance and calm att.i.tude, what makes such calm? he howled.

She was directly humiliating him even before the challenge begins.