Spirit Master Girl: Contracting with an SSS-Level School Beauty at the Start-Chapter 281: In a Martial Contest, Losing a Life is Quite Normal

Chapter 281: Chapter 281: In a Martial Contest, Losing a Life is Quite Normal

Time quickly brought us to the day of the martial arts tournament.

To Xiao Zhan and others’ surprise, Han Dingxiang had not sought him out during these past few days. She behaved as if she knew nothing, without any movements at all.

However, Xiao Zhan and the others knew that Han Dingxiang definitely knew about the matter.

Everyone was very curious about why she didn’t come to find Xiao Zhan.

Curiosity aside, they wouldn’t actively seek out the situation. After all, Han Dingxiang not looking for Xiao Zhan was a good thing for them.

The competition between the four great families was grand.

Preparations had started six months in advance.

The venue for this martial arts tournament was set in the huge palace complex owned by the Li Group.

Initially, this place was not chosen, but fearing Xiao Zhan’s Hand of Death might cause disturbances during the event, the venue was changed to here.

The other great families had no objections; after all, it didn’t matter to them where it was held.

At the Martial Arts Square.

Apart from the people from the four great families, many other family forces also attended as spectators. They weren’t eligible to participate in this competition since the four great families controlled almost 90% of the Federation’s resources.

The remaining families together only received less than 10%.

However, this did not stop them from watching the competition.

At Xiao residence.

Xiao Zhan and Ye Youlong looked at the data handed over by Hose with a relaxed expression, "The strongest is only Fourth Grade, there’s no pressure at all."

Hose nodded as well, admitting that a Fourth Grade combat power really wasn’t remarkable.

"Master, understand that it’s a small state; Sixth Grade is already their top combat power. Having a few Fourth Grades among the young generation is already pretty good."

Aside from Xiao Zhan, Xiao’s residence doesn’t have even one Fourth Grade.

Of course, this was only referring to the young generation of the four great families, not those who had already grown into mainstay forces.

On the other side, Li Group.

Li Tianshan and Li Tianxiu sat in their seats, both maintaining very calm expressions, showing complete indifference towards the material introduction by the attendant beside.

"Enough, stop talking, it’s a waste of time, meaningless," Li Tianxiu, growing impatient, stopped the attendant from continuing.

Listening to the introductions, they couldn’t identify any outstanding figures.

This martial arts champion had to be from their Li family.

"Big brother, let me have the first place in this tournament, since you won’t be able to participate next time anyway. You’ve been the champion before, no loss to you. Let me have this, how about it?" Li Tianxiu spoke to Li Tianshan by his side.

The two were real brothers, sons of the Family Head of the Li family.

Both had an SS-level talent, very high, only differing by a few years in age.

"A mere title, if you can win all, I’ll let it to you in the end," Li Tianshan laughed heartily.

Their Li family’s strength could easily secure the top three, it hardly mattered who came in first or second.

"Hehe, then thank you, big brother, aside from big brother, I guarantee to win all," Li Tianxiu smiled happily.

With just a few simple exchanges between the two, it was clear they didn’t take the other three great families seriously at all.

In the Han Family’s seats.

Han Jinhui held no hope for this martial arts tournament; in the individual matches, his Han Family did have an SSS-level Artifact Spirit genius, but it was of a Support Type, hardly an advantage.

Therefore, he chose to give up on the individual contest and focused all energy on the upcoming team matches.

Just then...

He couldn’t help but look back at Han Dingxiang sitting quietly behind him. The success of the team matches would depend on her.

But he wouldn’t force Han Dingxiang to make a choice.

At the moment, Han Dingxiang’s emotional state was not good, still looking as lifeless as she had in the past few days, engulfed in melancholy, like the sky before a rainstorm. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

She occasionally raised her head, her gaze towards the Xiao family’s direction, seemingly in search of Xiao Zhan’s figure.

But every time she raised her head, before even starting to look for Xiao Zhan, she would hurriedly lower it again, as if afraid of truly seeing him and not knowing how to face him.

Next to her sat, Chen Kun, who wore a face of eagerness to please.

Chen Kun of course knew what had happened to Han Dingxiang; on their first night of searching for her, he and his father knew Xiao Yu had returned and contracted the Artifact Spirit.

They knew this was an opportunity for the Chen family.

Thus, taking advantage of this martial arts tournament, and combining subjective and objective factors, they planned to win over Han Dingxiang.

This would significantly boost the status of their Chen family!

So, Chen Kun was continuously offering his solicitous attention.

...

At the Martial Arts Square, a slightly white-haired man walked up.

He held a microphone, "I’m very pleased to host this martial arts tournament, I am Li Cungao. This tournament will follow the same longstanding rules: each family sends out three contestants to compete in ranking matches by points, winning a match earns one point, losing earns none. At the end, the scores of the three contestants from each family are summed up, the highest total score wins the individual competition."

This rule had always been used, never changed.

Previously, the competition was fierce, but now, it’s practically a chance for the Li Group to widen the gap.

"Looking at our competition list against the Li family, it’s tough for us to win."

Xiao Zhan looked at the competition list in his hand; the Li group was very open, directly revealing the strength of their members, not hiding a thing.

Geez, two Fourth Grades and one Third Grade!

Looking at the other families, the Zhang family had one Fourth Grade, Xiao family one Fourth Grade, and Han family didn’t even have one Fourth Grade.

This was a complete mismatch.

Even if Xiao Zhan won all his matches, it would only make him first in individual points, but there were still two burdens.

The final result was ranked by the sum of scores from three people; with the Li family having two Fourth Grades, considering the overwhelming advantage of Fourth Grade against Third Grade, no matter how the battle went, the Li family would always score first overall.

Why the hell even bother competing?

But Hose said, "With the right method, actually, it’s not that difficult."

"What method?"

"Master, do you still remember your entrance competition when you first joined the Baidi Academy?"

Xiao Zhan of course remembered, at that time he was besieged in a battle of attrition by Zhao Long, but how was that related to this round-robin competition?

In this martial arts tournament, one person could only compete against another once.

Xiao Zhan was puzzled, and Hose, realizing he was thinking in the wrong direction, said, "What I mean is, in a competition, it’s normal for small life to be thrown into disarray."