Chapter 104: Martial Arts Tournament - The Setup
The day of the tournament came and Rijun was genuinely surprised that his sister really didn’t want to join the tournament. Every one was busy, Shengli more than anyone and Xing stayed idly in her room doing her accounts and Shengli gave his business accounts for her to handle too.
Wow! He really makes a lot of money! I cannot spend everything this lifetime! Xing was happy.
The tournament spanned for a week with thousands of contestants participating and by the end of the week only ten contestants remained.
The final day of the competition is more of a day of celebration of the separation of the three kingdoms and the formation of the Wind Kingdom. This day was celebrated in all the three kingdoms as a day glorifying the Tianshi Emperor who is considered the ’Father of the Three Kingdoms ’.
The day before the finals, Rijun came with his work and he ended up chatting with her in their father’s study. He said about how grand the final day celebrations are, especially the ’Extinguishing Evil’ ceremony.
The general idea of that ceremony is that all of the people should unite with the Emperor to fight against the evil. There would be two dragons one white representing the Wind Emperor and opposite to it would be another dragon like fire symbolising evil. One person representing the unity of the common people, will release fire arrows at the evil dragon and burn it.
Xing knew about this as this would be the talk everywhere during this time. Usually the one lighting the fire would be from the Ran family as Zhong family cannot participate in this and Shu and Huang family had no one to participate.
Rijun told her that the ceremony itself is a puzzle that was devised by the Tianshi Emperor and he left it in charge of the Zhong family. But sadly in the past two centuries, no one was able to solve the said ’puzzle’ and everyone thought that it was a bogus claim by the Zhongs.
Also Rijun told her how the last day of the tournament is open for all citizens to watch and men, women and children of the city and some even from other places will be there and the event will be concluded with the fireworks at night.
Xing knew that her brother is bringing up all these to make her interested and he wants her to attend the closing day celebrations and let her brother bait her.
Rijun noted his ’Scarlet Tiger fanatic’ sister is not budging even after bringing up the puzzle and decided not to force her anymore. She had already said that her being there would definitely bring problems even when Shengli himself wanted to keep her by his side.
Well! If the Tianshi Emperor bait does not work, nothing else will work on her, right? Rijun decided.