

No touching the seal stones within the school compound or the lanterns will all float away and all contestants will be disqualified." No vandalising any properties of the school, including the lanterns. "So we can go on the rooftops," Wei Qingwei commented offhandedly as he took the list of rules. Please adhere to them or your group will be disqualified."

"Please be careful when you are travelling through the rooftops," contributed another disciple helping at the booth. "They will only float around the perimeters of the school grounds. "No," answered the young Yinhua disciple.

The young Yinhua junior cultivators were already releasing lanterns since early morning and now there were hundreds of floating lanterns everywhere, powered by sparks of qi instead of flames to avoid fire hazards. She paid a sum of ten spirit stones for the three of them and was given the poem that her group had to solve in order to find the winning lantern. "Won't they float away?" asked Qi Qingqi when she registered for the competition. They were only allowed to utilise the fishing rod given to them to catch the lantern. Even worse still when they had to compete with other contestants without use of their swords. It made it hard for the contestants to find the winning lantern amidst the others. "You said you'd catch it! You laughed at me and what did you say? 'Let the man do it for you.' Ha ha ha!" Qi Qingqi slapped her thigh, tears coming to her eyes.Īll around them, young Yinhua disciples and students were releasing floating lanterns up into the sky, all brightly painted and in various shapes. "Not again!" Wei Qingwei complained aloud, nearly stomping his feet in frustration. The first disciple of Wan Jian Peak reeled in his fishing rod and casted again to catch the winning lantern but his hook stabbed into another lantern that floated by in front of him right at that moment. Qi Qingqi laughed as Wei Qingwei made a face of outrage when the lantern he was aiming for floated away from him.
