CHAPTER 613: CHAPTER 105: NEW GRUDGES AND OLD HATREDS

Yun Sheng’s gaze was fixed on a door not far away.

The moonlight was hazy, and inside the room, a graceful figure was reflected on the door.

"Even if I can’t win, I will risk my life to protect Lingling," Gu Feng said with a flushed face. He was a straightforward person, firm in his convictions and unwavering in his loyalty to the people and causes he believed in.

Inside the room, tears glittered in Donghuang Lingling’s eyes. She bit her lip, remaining silent.

On one hand, she was moved by Gu Feng’s deep affection, but on the other, her heart was filled with sorrow.

This was the first time someone other than her Empress Dowager mother and brother declared their intention to protect her life.

Only, why was that person Gu Feng, a Light Mage?

"Gu Feng, don’t be impulsive. Yun Sheng and I share the same view; a head-on confrontation is clearly not feasible," Huang Lingling cautioned.

"Actually, today in the Earth Wing Competition Zone, Yun Sheng and I encountered a situation quite similar to yours," Gu Feng and Qi had returned early, and the reasons were not much different from what Yun Sheng and Donghuang Lingling were facing.

Qi and Gu Feng had gone to compete today, and they had also attracted the attention of the Dark Night Pavilion.

Chen Yeshi was in charge of the Earth Wing Competition Zone. Today, he approached both Gu Feng and Qi individually.

"It’s those people from the Dark Night Pavilion again, a real persistent bunch," Gu Feng grumbled.

Yun Sheng wasn’t too surprised that the Dark Night Pavilion had set its sights on Gu Feng.

After all, wherever you go, even in the Magic Temple, the number of Light Mages is limited, not to mention that Gu Feng is a graduate of the Mainland Magic Elite Camp.

Chen Yeshi was actually quite polite today, only suggesting that Gu Feng join the Dark Night Pavilion. If Gu Feng agreed, they would allow him to receive magic healing at the Sky Wings Arena.

Naturally, Gu Feng refused.

"They came to me as well," Qi fought and performed admirably, winning both of his matches today.

Qi’s outstanding performance naturally caught the attention of Chen Yeshi, and they approached Qi offering him high-quality magic potions.

But Qi paid them no attention at all.

"Heh, that’s not even the funniest part. Those blind fools even went after Feng Tian, that difficult guy to deal with," Gu Feng said with a schadenfreude smile.

Feng Tian was the strongest newcomer from this session of the Mainland Magic Elite Camp and was notoriously difficult to get along with, often indifferent even to his own mentor.

Feng Tian made his debut in the competition today and won three matches straight, instantly drawing the attention of the entire Earth Wing Competition Zone.

Naturally, the Dark Night Pavilion set their sights on him as well.

"They wanted Feng Tian to ’throw a match’ for them, but instead, Feng Tian hit that guy called Chen Yeshi with Ice Magic, freezing him into an icicle, then just turned around and left, haha," Gu Feng laughed heartily. Recalling the scene, Qi also couldn’t help but smile.

The so-called "throwing a match" meant they wanted Feng Tian to pretend to lose.

In a place like the Sky Wings Arena, betting was commonplace.

The Dark Night Pavilion’s two major sources of profit in Sky Wing City included the sale of elixirs and magic potions, the other being rigging contests to win big in betting pools.

Especially in the Sky Wings and Earth Wing competition zones, there are many experts. Accordingly, there are quite a few people outside the arena buying and selling bets on the outcomes of different competitors.

Through bribery, the Dark Night Pavilion has manipulated the results of more than forty percent of the competitors, which has brought them huge profits.

However, the Dark Night Pavilion clearly had a big stumble in the matter of buying off members of the Mainland Elite Camp.

Especially for someone as proud as Feng Tian, a single defeat is like a stain on his life, let alone a rigged match.

To put it bluntly, that kid is aiming for the title of Fighting King.

"However, today we also encountered other members of the Elite Camp in the competition zone. Chen Lianlian and two other mages went to participate in the team matches, along with a few from the Continent Martial Artist Elite Camp," Gu Feng asked about Yun Sheng and Donghuang Lingling’s competition results.

Yun Sheng informed them of the respective results of both parties, but did not elaborate on their transformation into the "Flame Emperor" duo, nor their collaboration with Chu Yu.

"It seems like I’m the worst," Gu Feng muttered, feeling somewhat embarrassed, even Donghuang Lingling had won a match.

"You are a Light Mage, weaker in offense, you don’t need to worry too much about it," Yun Sheng consoled him.

"In my opinion, the strength of the Dark Night Pavilion is truly formidable. To contend with them, we might need to leverage the power of the arena," Qi, though the most silent and reticent member of Magic Potion Group Thirteen.

But he is also the best at observing and thinking.

He had dealt with all sorts of people in the Wanlong Gambling House.

No one understands better than him the idiom ’even a mighty dragon cannot crush a local snake.’

Moreover, the current power of Yun Sheng and the others is truly negligible in front of the massive Dark Night Pavilion.

"Actually, there’s another doubt I have. I think it’s very likely that the Dark Night Pavilion has ties with the Medicine Emperor Pavilion," Yun Sheng has always had an inexplicable sense of familiarity with the Dark Night Pavilion.

Previously, Yun Sheng, due to an emergency, used the hemostatic agent and meditation water provided by the arena to treat Donghuang Lingling.

Yun Sheng became even more convinced, just by looking at the effects and ingredients, the hemostatic agents and meditation water from the Dark Night Pavilion were exactly the same as the elixirs she encountered inside Yujing City from the Medicine Emperor Pavilion.

And the actions of the Dark Night Pavilion, including that Yellow Night Envoy, are very similar to Medicine Emperor Pavilion’s Qi Fangfei.

"Could it be, the Medicine Emperor Pavilion actually set up a branch in Sky Wing City?" Yun Sheng’s unexpected discovery surprised both Qi and Gu Feng.

Both knew all too well the fierce covert battles that Yun Sheng has had with the Medicine Emperor Pavilion over the years.

But luckily, with Yun Sheng’s advanced medical skills, at least in Yujing City, she has already defeated the Medicine Emperor Pavilion. However, they didn’t expect to encounter a branch of the Medicine Emperor Pavilion after arriving in Sky Wing City.

"The Dark Night Pavilion might not necessarily be a branch of the Medicine Emperor Pavilion. In terms of scale and control, it’s more accurate to say that the Dark Night Pavilion is the main base of the Medicine Emperor Pavilion. The huge profits that the Dark Night Pavilion garners from Sky Wing City, including the Sky Wings Arena, are the real foundation of the Medicine Emperor Pavilion on the continent," Yun Sheng is certain that the same group of Great National Doctors, or even more skilled doctors, might be behind both the Medicine Emperor Pavilion and the Dark Night Pavilion.

And these doctors, compared to Grandmaster Wen in Yujing City, have even better medical skills, and they have even colluded with a group of mages.

If she hasn’t guessed wrong, then perhaps the Magic Temple also plays a rather inglorious role in this.

Yun Sheng thought to herself that if things are really as she suspects, maybe this time, she can uproot the Medicine Emperor Pavilion.

**I will be away and unable to write from the 1st to the 3rd of next month. Staring blankly while rushing to write this, I’ve seen the messages from everyone in the comments section, moved to tears, thank you for the encouragement**