Chapter 527: Learning About the Marriage Arrangement, Improving Cultivation

The morning of the second day brought the matches for advancing from 256 to 118 contestants.

The ten pre-selected individuals had also arrived at the viewing seats in the square, since they would take the stage in the afternoon to fight for a spot in the top 64.

Regarding Qin Xiao’s display the day before, the others had not given it much thought. Since it was far too unusual, they simply treated it as a joke-though Hu Huiyun took it to heart.

Thus, Hu Huiyun chose a seat right next to Qin Xiao’s.

Hu Huiyun, the older of the Hu cousins, was steadier and more suspicious than Hu Qiaoyun.

Hu Huiyun had a mature, poised beauty, while Hu Qiaoyun seemed more lively and mischievous.

“Qin Xiao, the Wu Family captured nearly twenty thousand Ascendants not long ago. You’re one of the few who managed to escape, aren’t you? For this upcoming Wu Family wedding, word is that the bridegroom is Wu Yuhuyang, a newly emerged genius of their clan, and the bride is an Ascendant likely from the very same world you ascended from. I wonder if she has any connection to you?”

Given the timing of Qin Xiao’s appearance, it was easy enough to link him to the recent incident involving the Wu Family. Hu Huiyun brought it up directly, watching closely for any change in his expression.

After all, the Wu Family’s grand wedding was rather unusual; there was no precedent for it, let alone arranging a match between their own talented disciple and an Ascendant. Coming right on the heels of their haul of nearly twenty thousand Ascendants, the two matters were bound to be connected.

“What? A marriage arrangement? An Ascendant?”

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