98 Press yourself to win one more

  "With Lu Shi Xiong added, all thirty core disciples have returned!"

  "Not bad, all ten of the inner sect's top-ranked disciples have returned! I believe the sect's grand competition will be very interesting!"

  "Right! The sect's grand competition is about to begin tomorrow!"

  "I think Maple Brother is this year's biggest dark horse!"

  "Maple Shixiong? Are you referring to Maple Purple Scar Shixiong? That big trash talker?"

  "Haha! How can you say that about Maple Shixiong?!"

  "Isn't it? What a load of nonsense!"

  On this day, the Double Blade Sect was extremely busy. Many registered disciples and outer sect disciples were arranged to be at the Divine Martial Stage, some to welcome honored guests, others to set up the stage.

  Li Ke saw nothing good after all and returned alone to Tie Ma House.

  As soon as he returned to Iron Horse House, Li Ke saw a disheveled vegetable knife appear in his line of sight.

  "Have you been practicing on that mountain peak for six days?"

  Li Ke shook his head and asked as soon as he saw the shape of the vegetable knife.

  The kitchen knife nodded, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was a bit dazed. His skin was dark and yellowish, obviously his diet had not been good for days.

  "How was it?"

  Li Ke did not utter a word of blame towards the kitchen knife, he could understand what was on its mind. Over the years, the weight that the kitchen knife had borne was no lighter than his own.

  Red Seven-Class Kitchen Knife Soul, the worst Soul, a Soul that can't be cultivated with any martial arts!

  This soldier's soul is almost scrap metal.

  And also, the kitchen knife is like him, bearing the shackles that may never break through the boundaries of this life!

  From past despair to now having a glimmer of hope and a ray of light, Li Ke naturally understood the kitchen knife.

  "Frenzied Devil's Seven Styles, I've only mastered six styles. The last style, Frenzied Devil's Dance, no matter how hard I try, I just can't execute it!" The kitchen knife's eyes turned bloodshot, and his voice weakened significantly.

  "Dance of the Mad God!"

  Li Ke whispered the last move of the Mad Demon Knife Technique, which he had personally copied for Vegetable Knife. Naturally, he was very familiar with the moves on it. Unfortunately, the Mad Demon Knife Technique is limited to Vegetable Knife's Soul, and no other knife-type Soul can cultivate it.

  "This move......" Li Ke hesitated for a moment, then glanced at the kitchen knife, seeing its bright red eyes staring tightly at him, shook his head with a wry smile and said to the kitchen knife: "This move requires you to understand it yourself, I've said too much, it's useless! You'd better go back and get a good night's sleep now. Tomorrow is the first day of the Sect's Grand Competition, and also your first scheduled match!"

  "Oh!"

  Upon hearing Li Ke's words, a hint of disappointment flashed across Cai Dao's eyes, and he immediately nodded, trudging up the stairs to the second floor of the Iron Horse House with an extremely heavy gait, returning to his own room.

  Looking at the back of the kitchen knife, Li Ke smiled lightly.

  "This demonic godly dance move can only be understood through intuition and cannot be explained in words. Whether or not you can grasp the subtlety of this move depends on your tonight's performance!"

  As he spoke, Li Ke also prepared to follow with a kitchen knife, heading towards the second floor of the Iron Horse House.

  But just at this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind.

  "Li Ke!"

  Li Ke heard the sound and turned around to see a middle-aged man wearing a green long shirt walking towards him with a smile on his face.

  "Elder Ximen!"

  The newcomer was none other than Ximen Wushuang, the elder in charge of the Iron Horse House.

  Ximen Wuduan smiled and nodded, saying to Li Ke: "I heard you were back a few days ago. I wanted to find some time to come see you, but unfortunately, I've been busy with the construction of the stage these past few days and didn't have time to come back. Luckily, today the platform on Shenwu Stage was finally completed, so I came back to see you!"

  "How's it going? Are you confident about tomorrow's sect competition?"

  Ximen Wushuang patted Li Ke's shoulder. Since Li Ke killed Shen Yuan, the top disciple of the Armory and last year's inner door ranking disciple, on the grassland of the Iron Horse House, he had been thinking of keeping a close eye on Li Ke.

  Who knew Li Ke would leave without saying goodbye the next day and left the Double Blade Sect.

  This made Sima Yi feel depressed for a while, thinking that he had run east and west to smooth out all the good things you did, but you were fine, running away alone!

  "The top ten in the domestic league shouldn't be a big problem, but tomorrow is just a warm-up!"

  Li Ke smiled slightly, according to the Double Knife Sect's rules, tomorrow was just a prelude to the sect's grand competition. Inner door disciples could freely choose their opponents and challenge them, with long-standing grudges being settled on that day.

  "Ah!"

  When Li Ke said this lightly, Ximen Wushuang was slightly surprised. Although Li Ke had killed Shen Yuan, who was in the fourth stage of the Refining Soldier Realm, more than two months ago, the sect's grand competition was different. With such a strong opponent, it wasn't easy to rank among the top ten in the inner sect.

  "Ah! Having determination is a good thing, but I must remind you of something. Just now at the Shenwu Platform, I heard an inner sect disciple say that Xu Liu bribed Wu Lang, the seventh-ranked Golden Leopard Blade of the inner sect, to kill you!"

  Ximen Wuduan said very seriously to Li Ke.

  "Is there a golden otter knife in Wu's waves?"

  Li Ke heard this and slightly furrowed his brow. He hadn't really heard of Wu Lang, but the Golden Leopard Blade, that was a different story - he had seen it before, and the memory was still fresh in his mind.

  Because this Hei Soul is quite unusual.

  "Right! Last year at the Sect's Grand Competition, Wu Lang was ranked seventh in the inner door, his silent knife technique was unmatched. Tomorrow you'd better be careful!" Ximen Wushuang's face sank, he was extremely annoyed by Xu Liu's actions.

  "Elder Ximen, don't worry, I'll be careful!"

  Li Ke smiled and suddenly thought of something, hurriedly asking Xi Men Wushuang: "Xi Men elder, I'd like to ask if the odds for the big competition tomorrow have been announced?"

  "Who do you want to bully?"

  Ximen Wuduan's eyebrows furrowed as soon as he heard Li Ke ask such a question, and he hastily asked.

  The annual sect competition of the Double Blade Sect is also the biggest gamble of the Double Blade Sect!

  By Shuangdao Zong reward hall sits, sets odds.

  "I heard that the odds for several people have been set, Wang Hu's is one to one, Cheng Yue's is one to one point three... The specific ones are not yet determined, and we'll have to wait until tomorrow's draw to decide!"

  Ximen Wuduan thought for a moment before speaking.

  "Oh!"

  Li Ke couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard such odds.

  If it were in previous years, such odds would have made Double Blade Sect's Reward Pavilion profitable without a doubt. However, this year is different.

  "Ximen Elder, I have a million taels of silver bills here. After the odds are out, would you mind putting all of them on me?" Li Ke said as he took out a large stack of silver bills from his bosom and handed them over to Ximen Wushuang.

  "One million taels? All of it is yours?"

  Ximen Wuduan's eyes widened as he saw the large stack of silver bills in Li Ke's hand, one million taels, an amount so enormous that even he couldn't possibly produce it.

  And most importantly, did Ximen Wuduan just hear Li Ke say that he would put all the one million two silver tickets on himself?

  What's wrong with you?

  Is there anyone who presses like you?

  One million two silver tickets were pawned on oneself?

  "Push yourself to be the best insider?"

  Ximen's eyes widened as he stared at Li Ke.

  "What? Can't you just put it on yourself?" Li Ke asked with a big smile in his eyes.