The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Inside the Divine Scale Pavillion a shocking news spread at a very fast pace. The newly promoted Lead Core disciple was going to fight with the position of Lead Core disciple on the line. This fight was initiated by a core disciple named Houski and he was challenging the youngest person to ever reach the rank of a core disciple, Rein.

Even though it was sensational news, there were not many speculations about this fight. The new lead core disciple had joined the sect for just a few months and there was no way he would be able to match a veteran core disciple like Houski who had been cultivating for many many years.

But still as this kind of high profile fights were very rare, most of the disciples were extremely interested in witnessing it. So the arena where this fight was going to take place was definitely going to be filled with spectators.

While the other disciples were getting excited all by themselves, the story on the elders side was completely different. There was a very high level meeting going on among them to address this situation.

Houski had not taken any permission from any of the elders or even his own teacher before making this challenge. He had just gone to the administration hall and had asked the disciples working there to issue this challenge. If the elders knew about this they would have definitely stopped him from doing something so stupid but now it was too late.

The elders knew that Rein had already reached the Heavenly Platform realm and his foundation was extremely solid. Even though the disciples had that Rein had no chance of winning, the completely opposite thing all the elders were thinking. After seeing Rein's monstrous talent and fighting abilities, they had no doubt that Rein would be able to easily defeat Houski.

What they were worried about was actually exposing Rein's strength. Rein was like a great trump card for the whole sect so the elders of the sect did not want the world to learn that their trump card was even better than what everyone was expecting. That was the reason why the elders were so worried about this situation.

Quite a few of the elders were asking the sect master to step up and to cancel this stupid fight with his authority. Houski was obviously going to get punished after the meeting was over as he was responsible for all this mess. But for the time being they first needed to make a proper decision about this fight.

The sect master said that he had asked Rein to come to ask him for his opinion about this matter. He was the affected party and he was quite mature for his age too. So any decision he would make, the elder could agree to it.

Soon Rein entered the room followed by Mei. Himiko, Lan and Colinde had nothing to do here so they stayed in the home. After entering the high level meeting room, Rein bowed to the sitting elders and sect leader and greeted them. Then the sect master told Rein about the situation and asked for his opinion.

Rein had a very simple answer. He was fine with this fight. Rein also assured the elders that he was not going to show off his full strength and would only demonstrate a little power to defeat his opponent barely. This would not make Rein to look like a monster and at the same time would also not make Houski to look like a weakling.

This was a very good proposal that was acceptable for all the elders. All of them became very satisfied after seeing how amazing their future hope was. The elder who was Houski's master thanked Rein again and again for helping this foolish kid out.

Houski's talent was not bad and even without this method there was a chance that he might be able to become a lead core disciple but now that chance was gone.

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On the day of the fight, the arena where this battle was going to take place was filled with a ton of disciples. Most of them had not seen this legendary youngest lead disciple so they were excited to see his real self.

Houski was the first one to go in the arena. He was a young man of average height. His face was good looking but nothing exceptional to write home about. He was wearing a goudy purple dress decorated with golden thread. All in all, he gave off a very arrogant aura.

Then next it was Rein's turn to come to the arena. He was dressed in a pure white cultivator's attire. In that dress and with his handsome face, quite a few ladies were captivated by him.

One of the powerful elders would be supervising the fight. He was a powerful and observant person and even if something bad had happened, he would be able to stop that from happening. The two opponents faced off against one another as the battle began.

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Rein was not very aggressive in his approach and was in a defensive position for most of the time. On the other hand Houski was hyper aggressive and was attacking Rein non stop. From the side it might look like Houski was dominating Rein but the truth was completely opposite of that.

None of Houski's attacks were able to hurt Rein. Rein used his powerful Steel Scale skill and blocked most of the attacks and made them to be completely useless. This was a real demonstration about how insanely powerful Rein was with his skills getting utilised in a proper way.

After fighting for over half an hour, Houski was extremely tired and was unable to go on attacking for a longer time. Rein took this chance to hide himself in a blind spot of Houski and defeated him with a little punch.

Even though Rein won the match, he would not be getting many praises from the general audience as for most of the match, he was in a defensive position and his winning attack was a surprise attack. So this way, Rein was able to prove himself to be a talented disciple but not overly so. This was exactly the perfect outcome that the elders could ever wish for.

Houski was taken out of the arena by other disciples and then the headmaster himself gave a speech. It was somewhat of a successful speech where he tried to use Rein's legendary accomplishments to motivate the other people. Rein was also given a special pill publicly which would be able to increase his realm in a very quick manner.

So in the future even if Rein's real cultivation levels were revealed, he would have an excuse to hide his real strength.

Just like that this little incident came to an end with Rein's victory and increase in his prestige.