The sect master waved his hand, and in the middle of the air, a large competition bracket formed. It was split into two brackets. Each with fifty members. Yuki quickly found her name and saw that she would be in a different bracket than Nana. But she was in the same bracket as her senior sister. This meant that if she wanted to make it to the finals and follow her master’s orders, she had to beat Rin. 

But Yuki realized real quick that she would not get o fight much. This was a one hundred person bracket, which meant that one person would be seeded after the first fight. This person would not need to fight again until the semi finals. And from the bracket listed, she was in this seeded net. The same was for Nana. 

Yuki glimpsed up at her Master, who was looking back at her with a big smile on her face, and then at the old man who was said to be the sect master, and this old miser actually winked at her! Yuki rubbed the spot between her brow before looking at  Nana and saying: “After the first fight, we will sit and watch the other matches together.”

“Okay!” Nana was very happy she could spend time with Yuki instead of needing to fight. 

Although this was just part of the tournament and was only meant to tell who was the best in the outer sect, the main dish of the tournament was the inner sect challenges. This was what she wanted the most because there was one person she wanted to skin alive on stage. 

“Yuki, I smell something strange coming off the male disciple over there. It is a smell I know well…” Nana whispered to Yuki. Yuki turned to see a male disciple glance over at her but quickly turned his head away. He looked quite nervous for no reason. But she did not miss the small smile on his lips. 

Yuki wrinkled her nose and then looked up at the bracket once more. The person she was fighting was named Hiro. Which meant her first battle was with a male disciple. She leaned close to Nana and asked in a low voice: “What is this smell?”

“It’s a kind of powder that, if you breathe it in, will make one rip their clothes off. When I was wandering around, I saw a few people use it on the girls in the brothels. I always stayed away from people, so I never experienced it myself, but I have seen quite a few girls being subjected to these kinds of acts and made to do things out in the open in front of a lot of people. And because they are under the influence of this powder, they do not care what is going on.” Nana replied.

“Alright. I will take precautions. You should as well.” Yuki was thankful that Nana knew this smell. If she was attacked with this powder unaware, she would definitely end up in a bad spot. Nana might end up killing everyone here. Even her master would probably burn the sect down to silence everyone. “Use spiritual qi to put a layer over your entire body, including your nose and mouth.”

“Mmm. I was about to suggest the same. It will stop anything foreign from entering our systems. Just because of any blades.” Nana smiled and hugged Yuki’s arm. “Whoever is responsible is not allowed to leave the stage uncrippled, right?”

Yuki’s lips curled up into a bloodthirsty grin as she nodded her head. “Mmm. We are no longer staying low.”

Elder Nishikawa saw her disciples’ strange expressions that were filled with killing intent and wondered which idiot was plotting something now. She waited for the sect master to tell everyone to go to their battle stage before walking over to him. “Sect Master. Keep an eye on the people in my disciples’ stages. I think someone is plotting something.”

“Oh? Someone dares to do something in my presence?” The sect master knew Elder Nishikawa would not say things on a whim. If she believed something was going to happen, then it must be so. “We will wait and see. If something does happen, go to their aid immediately. I will go to Nana while you go to Yuki. I don’t want to get stabbed.”

Elder Nishikawa saw the old man stroke his beard as he said that and chuckled. “I think that is best as well. She is not too fond of old men.” 

Yuki walked over to her battle stage to see that the young man from earlier was indeed her opponent. She frowned slightly and made sure her spiritual qi was blocking all passages that might let the powder in. 

Since he had it, she would make good use of it. She will keep some to make sure she had the right to cripple him and then use it on the person who would actually do such a thing. And there was only one person who would want to humiliate her in such a way. And that was Yuko. She knew that girl did not have many brain cells and would use men to her advantage. She had already done it once. As for Elder Shoji, he would just out kill her and not humiliate her. It was not his sort of ploy.  “Since you want to play, let’s play, shall we.” 

Yuki restrained her asura aura, but her killing intent was off the charts, and all of it was directed at the young man in front of her, whose face paled so much that he looked like a ghost. Yuki’s smile turned sinister as she pulled her sword out and placed it on her shoulder, pointed at the young man, and parted her lips as she kindly warned: “Don’t die, okay?”