When a Fanfic Protagonist Transmigrated into the Original Novel

The match between Wang Qingqiao and Yue Xiaorou was one without any suspense. Wang Qingqiao, who was so tired of losing, didn’t bother to waste any time playing around, and drove Yue Xiaorou down the platform in less than five minutes. He wasn’t in the mood of watching other matches anymore, so he quickly left.

The fourth match, now it was Zhangsun Zijun and Gong Sundi’s turn.

After Zhangsun Zijun won against Yue Xiaorou with just one move, it should be said that Gong Sundi wouldn’t have much of a chance against Zhangsun Zijun, but he was still quite stubborn. Two days ago, when Sword Refining Hall and Sword Guardian Hall stepped up asking for a change, Gong Sundi was one of the leading figures. He knew that the change would be more beneficial for Sword Refining Hall, and that Sword Guardian Hall wouldn’t be able to send more people than them. But he himself wanted more Sword Refining Hall disciples to be competing, so that he could beat more of them and make Qiu Jian regret not taking him in.

Losing to a disciple of Medicine Hall? Before yesterday, Gong Sundi never even thought of this possibility.

Before the battle, Gong Sundi walked up to Zhangsun Zijun and said with a scornful look, “Even if you defeated Sister Yue yesterday, you shouldn’t take me lightly! Sister Yue lost because she didn’t know how to react quickly to strong sword auras. But this is my strength. I can’t wait to see you crying after losing to me!”

——It wasn’t that Gong Sundi really looked down on Zhangsun Zijun, but he was a careful person. Provoking was a strategy. Sword cultivation required the connections between the human and the sword. The strength of the sword would therefore be determined by the state of mind. If the two sides were of similar strengths, then the state of mind could be the very cause of the outcome of the battle.

Zhangsun Zijun looked at him, “Sure.”

Gong Sundi: “……”

That’s it? I said all that and you gave a one-worded reply?

Gong Sundi refused to be discouraged and continued to speak harshly, trying to add some fear into Zhangsun Zijun. He said, “The sword techniques I practice are specially designed to defeat you! Did you see how I beat Jin Cheng yesterday? What, afraid now?”

“Didn’t watch.”

Gong Sundi: “……”

He almost started to vomit blood from anger. Didn’t watch? I fought for all that time and you didn’t watch? What are your eyes for then!!

“You… you… you’re lying! There’s no way you didn’t watch my match!” Gong Sundi continued. But just as he finished, he realized. Of course Zhangsun Zijun watched his match, he was only saying that he didn’t to anger him.  Hmph! No way I’ll be tricked this easily!

Gong Sundi sneered, “If you didn’t watch my match, then you’ll definitely regret it! You missed a perfect opportunity to understand someone strong. If you did watch, then you won’t be so badly beaten in this match!”

Zhangsun Zijun straight up ignored him and raised his head to check the time tracker. Why aren’t we starting yet? This is so boring!

He never thought of giving any psychological pressure on Gong Sundi. It wouldn’t cost him any effort to defeat him anyway. Yet it was this ignoring attitude that made Gong Sundi more flustered than any sharp tongue.

Gong Sundi gave two loud laughs, but they were dry and bitter. “Haha! I specially prepared a special move to use against you! Do you want to know what it is? For thousands of years this special move has never been used on any Sword Assembly! When you lose, you’ll feel honored!”

Zhangsun Zijun showed some minimal interest, “Oh? Oh.”

Gong Sundi: “……” He was about to be angered to death. Will it kill you to give me a full reply!!! I prepared so much to say! Ask what special move it is or something! I’ll tell you!

Finally the bell rang and Zhangsun Zijun stepped onto the battle plain. His steps were light and his mood was extremely relaxed.

Gong Sundi also walked up, but his steps were heavy and so was his mood. He originally planned to scare the opponent first, but before Zhangsun Zijun even showed any effect, his mind had already started to mess up.

“Brother Zhangsun, please show me what you got!”

“Let’s get started.”

Today’s opponent was no longer a woman, so right after the two bowed, Zhangsun Zijun didn’t show any mercy. His sword shot out of the case and floated into his hand. At the same time, all the disciples watching felt a wave of strong sword aura!

“Wow!” The disciples exclaimed.

“Zhangsun Zijun is indeed strong! Will Gong Sundi be brought down in one move like what happened to Yue Xiaorou?”

“I hope not. I still want to see what other moves Zhangsun Zijun got, we didn’t get to see anything yesterday!”

Gong Sundi was trembling. He was not stunned in place by Zhangsun Zijun’s fierce sword aura, but it was an uneasy feeling coming from the bottom of his heart. He didn’t dare to show any hesitation and quickly drew his sword as well. He placed the sword vertically in front of chest and started to mutter the sword method. The next second, his body was covered with golden light! 

“Body of Gold! Oh god, is Gong Sundi crazy?!” The crowd exclaimed again.

Immediately after the match started, he used a powerful protection skill – Body of Gold!

The so-called Body of Gold was when one condensed his or her sword aura into a shield. This shield could pretty much block any spells and skills, but was not definite. Every time a cultivator who had Body of Gold activated, his or her sword aura would decrease a bit after enduring an attack. By the time the cultivator’s sword aura was used up, he would no longer have any more defense capabilities. Such an extreme move was rarely seen under normal circumstances, and a normal cultivator would only use it in two cases: One, when your life was in danger, and two, when you were surrounded by a group of enemies.

Hundreds of years ago, the Tianming Sect was being attacked by countless demons. Seeing no sign of the enemies retreating and knowing that reinforcements wouldn’t arrive for another three days, the sect elders got together and all used Body of Gold to use every bit of their sword aura against the incoming attacks. They successfully held the barrier for three days and the reinforcements successfully defeated the demons in the end.

For the thousands of years of history of Heavenly Sword Sect, Gong Sundi was the first one to use Body of Gold on a Sword Assembly. This was because Body of Gold was used in the most urgent situations to save one’s life. But on Sword Assemblies, injuring others was not allowed, and the sole goal was just to get the opponent off the stage.

Sword Cultivation Hall’s elder, Wan Jin, who was sitting in one of the elder seats in the audience area above and watching the match, suddenly started to laugh. “Elder Lin, I’m afraid… your disciple wouldn’t be getting the win today.”

Lin Zhen turned his head away in embarrassment and didn’t reply.

Qiu Jian sneered on the side, expressing no interest in the current match.

Since the Sword Assembly wouldn’t go as far as taking each other’s lives, using Body of Gold would only have the effect of delaying time, but wouldn’t help Gong Sundi win. As long as Zhangsun Zijun attacked him over and over again, his shield would be broken eventually. And the problem of using Body of Gold was that while it was active, one wouldn’t be any different from a stone – they wouldn’t be able to attack back. This life-saving skill was basically to stall time and wait for reinforcements.

Zhangsun Zijun wanted to test the shield. He threw his sword towards him, but the second the sword touched the golden light around Gong Sundi, it bounced back.

Zhangsun Zijun raised his eyebrows and stopped attacking. He placed his hand under his chin and started to think.

Gong Sundi, who was in the center of the golden light, had his five senses sealed, but he could still tell when he was being attacked. He felt that Zhangsun Zijun only did a small test and didn’t continue to attack him. To be honest, saying that he was going to use his special move was just to scare Zhangsun Zijun, but after being scared himself, he accidentally actually used it. He was afraid that after saying all those aggressive words and losing to Zhangsun Zijun in only one move would be too embarrassing, but now he realized that losing while being petrified like this would be even more embarrassing. Now that he had already used it, regretting was of no use.

Zhangsun Zijun was a little annoyed. He could win without a doubt, as long as he had the patience to slowly break Gong Sundi’s protection. If he used full strength, two hours should be plenty. But with the current state Gong Sundi was in, fighting him would just be like fighting a rock. Fight a rock for two hours? — To be honest, unless they had some deep hatred and wrath between each other, almost no one would be willing to spend two hours breaking a rock.

Zhangsun Zijun thought for a while but couldn’t think of a better way. He suddenly frowned and said to Yi Xichen, who was watching from the audience, “Take a few steps back.”

“Huh?” Yi Xichen almost jumped from the sudden name call, “You want me to take a few steps back?”

Zhangsun Zijun nodded, “Go back at least a hundred meters, until I can’t see you.”

This was the first time a competitor on the platform asked something from the spectators. Yi Xichen didn’t know the reason, but he still listened and turned around to keep distance.

Immediately, all the other disciples followed Yi Xichen back like a backing tide!

Zhangsun Zijun is about to do a special move! That must be it! That’s why he told his friend to step back! He is afraid to accidentally hurt Yi Xichen! Let’s get away too!— This was what all the disciples were thinking.

Zhangsun Zijun looked at everyone backing away in confusion. He just wanted Yi Xichen to get a little further so that the blood could flow back to his head, why was everyone else leaving too?

But most of the disciples didn’t leave too far. Some even got onto their swords and flew into the air. They were all very curious about what Zhangsun Zijun was going to do. Even with the potential to be injured, they still couldn’t help but watch closely.

Not long after Yi Xichen left, Zhangsun Zijun suddenly got an idea. He released his hand, and the sword flew back into the scabbard. Then, he walked towards Gong Sundi with big steps.

Everyone held their breath, waiting to see his “special move”.

Even Qiu Jian excitedly stood up from his seat. He was originally very disappointed in Gong Sundi. As the elder of Sword Refining Hall, a place where people talked with their fists, stalling time was simply shameless! But now he suddenly realized, in order for Zhangsun Zijun to break Gong Sundi’s Body of Gold quickly, he must go all out. In that case… it was indeed well played on Gong Sundi’s part!

On the platform, Zhangsun Zijun had already walked into the center of the golden light and stood in front of the stone-like Gong Sundi. Because he didn’t show any sword aura, the shield did not regard him as a threat and allowed him in.

Then, Zhangsun Zijun picked Gong Sundi up, and threw him off like throwing a rock down the battling plain.

“Bam!”

On the field below the platform, a human-shaped pit was formed.

Everyone: “……”

Out of all the hundreds of people present! No one would have thought that this match would end… so childishly!

After being protected by Body of Gold, although he wouldn’t be hurt by any attacks, that didn’t mean he was glued to the ground. Zhangsun Zijun couldn’t hurt him, but didn’t want to waste the time to break his shield either. Then the easiest alternative would be to gently move his position. The Sword Assembly only required to get the opponent off the platform to win.

Such a clear solution, yet no one thought of it except for Zhangsun Zijun. This was because they were all pretentious cultivators, who would only think about how to defeat each other with swords. They wouldn’t even consider being like a child and just tossing the opponent off!

Everyone turned silent, and no one spoke for a long time.

Zhangsun Zijun waited for a moment in the center of the platform. Due to not hearing any announcement of the results, he looked up at the elders, and asked lightly, “Did I win?”

After another long silence, Qiu Jian’s bitter voice came: “Winner… Zhangsun… Zijun…”