In August, it was extremely scorching hot especially under the fiery sunshine. People sweat because of the heat. The sweat dropped down from their faces and necks. Now that the fever was gone and everyone got their health back, many tourists flocked into the Imperial City, bringing the city back as busy as before.

“Ba Se is in the city.” The wizard who kept an eye on the gate of the imperial city reported to Numu once he spotted Ba Se in the crowd.

“Now the ghosts will take over the supervision job.” Numu said.

The ghosts could be invisible to be caught easily.

“It’s strange. They should have arrived the city in the morning. But why are they late?” Wu Ruo asked.

“It’s not strange at all. Ba Se is a lustful man. He must have stopped over for playing with beautiful women or men. That must be why he was late. In addition to the fever, they have to wait to get into the city until the fever is completely gone.” Numu sneered.

“…” Wu Ruo.

As they spoke, Wu Xi, who had come back from learning from Wu Chenliu, dashed in, grabbed a cup of tea on the table, and gulped the water instantly.

“That’s the tea I drunk.” Wu Ruo said, raising his eyebrows.

“I don’t mind your saliva at all.” Wu XI wiped the tea drop off her mouth with one hand.

“…” Wu Ruo.

Since when did his little sister act so not like a lady?

She must have become such a bright girl and less lady-like after spending so long time with Numu and Numu’s fellowmen. But she turned out to be a better girl, much better than the shy girl from last life.

Wu Xi put down the tea cup and said, “My master Shifu told me before I came home that there will be the annual competition among ten great families one month later. He told me to prepare for it. I didn’t mean to attend the competition but my master Shifu said that it is a compulsory competition that any member from the ten great families have to attend as long as the one is in the city, regardless of whether we are from direct or side line of the families, or what level of spiritual power we have, or if we have been kicked out of the ten families or not. It means basically anyone from the ten great families in the imperial city has to attend the competition.”

Wu Ruo frowned. He almost forgot the competition. In last life, he attended the competition once but he gained a big fame from that competition.

Wu Xi grabbed Wu Ruo’s arms and said anxiously, “Ruo, you don’t have spiritual power. It means you will definitely be beaten up on the competition. I heard that the ten great families are very aggressive and cruel. They usually use every possible way to torture any opponents they face on the arena. Ruo, you’d better leave the city for a while and come back when the competition is over.”

Numu gave a look at Wu Ruo and had a relaxing sib of tea.

For what he knew about his pupil, Wu Ruo could manipulate any cultivators at level of two and three with bewitching skills alone, even if he had no spiritual power at all.

“You are hurting me.” Wu Ruo said and pulled Wu Xi’s grab away.

“My apologies.” Wu Xi released her grip.

Wu Ruo poured her a cup of tea and said, “Hasn’t your master Shifu told you that no one from the ten families is allowed to leave the imperial city one month prior to the competition so as to avoid the competition? Any violators will be seized and punished severely.”

“He has.” Wu Xi took a sip of tea to calm herself down and continued, “I am just saying it to see if you can make it out.”

Numu burst into a laughter and said, “Xi, don’t worry about your brother. Even if he has no spiritual power at all, he can deal with low-level cultivators with his medical skills. Besides, the competition is not a life-death game. He can give in directly.”

“You are right.” Wu Xi smiled happily, “I was too worried to remember the choice of giving up on the arena.”

She put down the tea cup and said, “Then if you’ll excuse me, I will go back to my room now.”

Wu Xi hopped out of the hall happily.

“She is very perky now.” Numu said with a smile.

Wu Ruo smiled.

Picking up the tea cup that Wu Xi once drunk, Wu Ruo smiled harshly behind the tea cup.

He wouldn’t give Ba Se a slight chance to get away this time.

“Are you not going to tell your family that you have gained your spiritual power?” Numu asked Wu Ruo.

“…” Wu Ruo.

His mother once warned him that he mustn’t tell anyone about the secret skills in his mind before he was really powerful. But his mother didn’t warn him that he had spiritual power. Now as the competition of ten great families was around the corner, wasn’t it the greatest chance to share with his family that he had the power?

Now his husband and his master Shifu had known that he had the power. There was no reason not to tell his own families about that. The problem was that a level-five cultivator could be found everywhere in the city. It was not powerful enough. It was too bad that the emperor ordered to suspend the Four Clan Festival to disrupt the channels to other three clans due to the fever. Now he had no chance to absorb spiritual power from the ghosts.

One more thing he was worried about was whether he should expose his spiritual power on the arena of the competition?

Wu Ruo gave it a thought and finally decided to go with the flow. If must, he would use the power.