Blue Phoenix Chapter 31 - Battle of the Guards

“Thank you for your warning,” Hui Yue said slowly, his every word heard by everyone who was watching the battle. “Although you warned me, I cannot help but want to see just how skilled you are at fighting.”

Hearing the white-haired young man speak with such arrogance the expression on the tall cultivator’s face turned dark, and his eyes started to light with anger. Seeing this Hui Yue allowed an eyebrow to be raised in surprise. The tall man had been incredibly rude towards him. However, when he was treated in the same way, his anger flared up. Hui Yue hated people who were willing to give harsh words, willing to bully others, but they were incapable of handling others doing the same.

Hui Yue sighed as he stood in the stone arena. His expression was as careless as before. He did not transform into his beast-shape. Instead, he stood there and carelessly summoned forth a flame in his hand. This flame was yellow, yet inside the flame were specks of silver. These specks looked like small drops. Upon looking at this strange phenomena, one was incapable of genuinely determining which kind of energy it had been created from.

After seeing the flame, the opponent narrowed his eyes for a long time. But since neither he nor Hui Yue started to move against each other, the guard had a long time to observe the man and the flame in front of him.

Although the person was in human form, a form that looked exactly like a human, the guard finally understood that this person was most likely not as simple as he had first expected.

For a beast to take complete human form one needed to be a Saint. But looking at this human in front of them, although his aura and the energies which swirled around him were a mess, no one believed that he was a Saint. A Saint would never stoop to fight against a King unless this King had gone out of his way to insult the higher-ranked expert. Seeing that no one on the training grounds had ever seen Hui Yue before, it was impossible for them to have insulted him.

Seeing that the other man did not charge strai

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