Chapter 49: Mock Competition ( 2 in 1 )
The mock competition will always be held three months before the Qing Sai Banquet Party Begins. Only the top five rankers of the mock competition would be able to join the Qing Sai Banquet Party.
All the Zhang family branches would send their top five rankers to the capital of the Divine Elements Empire to the main Zhang family to participate the competition between the other youths from the other branch families.
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"Shaowei, why did you go to find trouble with that boy Hongxie again? Look at you, you always come back with bruises, and now you even got your arm broken. Hongxie is considerate enough not to cripple you, he at least has some respects for me." Zhang Shaowei's father, Zhang Duida said to his son.
"Dad, you must revenge for me. That guy is too cruel, he broke my arm despite being in the same clan." Zhang Shaowei said.
"Just stop it already you fool, if not you go to bother him, he wouldn't break your arm either, I know what's right and wrong. Humph, breaking one of your arm is too light, it would have been better if Hongxie could break the other side and both of your legs too. From now on I won't permit you to bother him anymore, just stay home to train for the upcoming mock competition, if I were to know that you dare to slack off I will personally break your legs." Zhang Duida scolded his son angrily and he directly waved his sleeve and left.
Pah...
Zhang Shaowei slammed the table angrily "Humph, Zhang Hongxie, I will take the first place and win you for sure, just you wait."
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Three months later
At the training field of the Southern Zhang branch family, there were a big crowd gathered around the battle arena for the Mock Competition.
"Alright, dear disciples. Today is the day that will decide your very future, the top five rankers will have the chance to go to the main Zhang family and if you could get to the top ranks then your future will be unlimited. Here are the rules for the mock competition: No killing, No outside help, No using any kind of pills, No using hidden weapons and For the weapons, you can only use the normal rank, no higher rank permitted. If I find out that you go against these rules, I will personally cripple you and expel you out of the clan." The patriarch said very clearly, he really hold high hopes for his clan disciples this year.
"Then let the competition start. The first match Zhang Lizhong Vs Zhang Yidao."
A handsome youth clad in white, with a normal sword in his hand, walked toward to arena. In front of him was another handsome youth with a red robe, he was holding a normal blade. He gave off a killing aura around him and his face was ice-cold without any expression.
"Look it's Zhang Yidao, he is the top genius of the clan. He practices the blade art to a formidable level, anyone who meet him wouldn't be able to stay calm at all because this guy is ruthless at the blade and this guy is as cold as his Element, the Ice Element." A person said.
"Heh, but Zhang Lizhong is not bad either. He is a proficiency in sword, last time I saw him beat his opponent whose cultivation a realm higher than him, I saw him used only five sword moves. He has the Fire Element. Now, the two geniuses, one is skill in sword and the other is skill in blade.This match is worth watching." Another person said.
"Yeah, also one is Fire and the other is Ice. Worth watching indeed." The guy said excitedly.
The referee came to middle of the arena and shouted "Begin."
Whoosh!
Zhang Lizhong unsheathed his sword and rushed toward Zhang Yidao, his speed was very fast, the distance between was five meters but he only used three seconds to arrived in front of Zhang Yidao.
"Blazing Sword!" Shouted Zhang Lizhong as his sword suddenly produced fire all over the sword itself.
Zhang Yidao remained expressionless but he already unsheathed his blade and raised it to counterattack.
"Grace Of Ice Blade!" zhang Yidao's blade instantly became white and it emitted the cold fog around itself, he leaped forward and waved his blade back at the coming Fire Sword.
The Fire Sword colliding with the Ice Blade.
Ding...
Zhang Lizhong was pushed back a few steps and he felt his hands became numb and it was cold. He couldn't really feel his hands at all, luckily his Element was Fire, if not then his sword would drop put of his grip because of the numbness for sure.
Suddenly Zhang Lizhong saw Zhang Yidao became blurred and he heard the running footsteps from the front and only to find nothing in front of him but then he found something wrong and immediately turn backward and raised his sword to block the sudden attack Ice blade.
This time he didn't expect Zhang Yidao to attack so suddenly and his opponent seemed to use a weird foot technique, he heard the footsteps from the front but only to find it from behind instead. This was surly a formidable foot technique.
He got pushed back to the edge of the stage, almost fell off from the stage and he immediately returned to the middle of the stage again.
Zhang Yidao became blurry again, when Zhang Lizhong saw this, the corner of his mouth curved upward. He already figured out the work of this foot technique, so the same trick never work twice. Suddenly he heard the footsteps from behind him but he didn't turn backward, he still focus in front of him as he was sure that the attack would come from the front instead.
He was waiting the attack that was going to come from the front, but to his dismay, it didn't come from the front. When he figured out that the attack this time won't change directly, then he immediately turn backward to counterattack but it was too late.
Slash!
He was so unlucky, no it was to blame his stupidity instead. If he didn't turn backward then his back would injure and it was better because the back was stronger than the front, but he turned his body around and he got slashed in the front instead, his chest was almost slashed opened.
A lot of blood spurted out of his chest, when he saw so many blood, his pupils became white and he immediately fainted from the sight of so many blood. He was only thirteen after all.
But Zhang Yidao was also thirteen. -_-
What an unlucky guy, fainted just from seeing the blood and his own blood at that.
"Zhang Yidao won."
"Next match, Zhang Shaowei Vs Zhang Bao."
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"Zhang Shaowei won."
"Zhang Sunlai Vs Zhang Hai."
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"Zhang Hai won."
"Zhang Zhoulin Vs Zhang Tie."
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"Zhang Zhoulin won."
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"Zhang Hongxie Vs Zhang Yunshan."
"Oh look it's Zhang Yunshan, that guy is also a genius, his spear skill is practiced into a great level. His big physic equipped with a spear, wow impressive. This match is going to be interesting." One of the spectator said.
"Hehe, Zhang Hongxie, be prepare to take this daddy's spear attack. If you forfeit I can let you off, if not then I'll have to screw you with my spear. Hurry up and go off the stage, shoo shoo. I know that you're afraid of me, so hurry up before this daddy get angry. Damn, just go off the stage already. I ca-..." before Zhang Yunshan could even finished his sentence, "PAH!" He got smacked on the face and got sent flying off the stage, crashed his head into the wall nearby.
"..." The spectator who said just now became speechless.
"What a talkative guy." Zhang Hongxie mused.
"Zhang Hongxie won."
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Every winner above then fought with the other opponents for five more rounds and here's the result : Zhang Hongxie, Zhang Shaowei, Zhang Yidao, Zhang Bozhu, Zhang Lengwu.
Among these five, Zhang Hongxie was the most impressive one, all of his opponent either got smacked or slapped on the face and sent flying off the stage every match.
"The next match will decide who's stronger than who and all of you will receive the rewards base on your rank. For the first ranker you will receive three high rank Violet Jade Pills, Fifty Medium Grade Elemental Qi Stone. Second rank: two Violet Jade pills, twenty five Medium Grade Elemental Qi Stones. Third, Fourth and Fifth rank: One Violet Jade Pill, twenty Medium Grade Elemental Qi Stones" (A/N: I changed the name from Elemental Energy Ore to Elemental Qi Stone. Divided into: Low Grade, Medium Grade, High Grade, Spirit Stones, Divine Stone, Heaven Stone and God Stone. )
"First match, Zhang Shaowei Vs Zhang Bozhu, start." The patriarch said.
Then both participants arrived on the fighting stage. Zhang Bowu was surprisingly a very cute girl, she practiced the sword technique.
Zhang Shaowei didn't use any weapons, only his fists. Even though the cute girl was very fierce and strong, it seemed that Zhang Shaowei didn't take her into his eyes at all. He was very confident in himself, this was clearly looking down on his cute opponet.
He didn't give the cute girl any time, he immediately leaped forward as soon as the referee allowed to begin.
"Great Earth Breaking Fist!" Just from the name alone, it was impressive enough. As soon as he activated this technique, the earth in the surrounding started to tremble and it flew toward Zhang Shaowei and it formed itself into a bunch of fist-shaped earth, they floated silently behind Zhang Shaowei, waiting for its user to command them to attack the oppoent.
"Look, is that spirit rank technique?"
"Oh my god, it really is a spirit rank technique. The spirit rank technique could command the surrounding visible elements to use for attacking. But if you practice it to a perfect level, it is said that you could command the Elements Essence and fuse it into the attack, the power of the attack fuses with Elements Essence is many times greater than the normal attacks."
"This Zhang Shaowei sure is lucky to get his hand on such a great rank technique. Well, consider that his father is an elder then I think it's not difficult. Having a father as an elder sure is very great huh!?"
When Zhang Bozhu saw the technique that Zhang Shaowei was using, her face instantly became very pale. A spirit rank technique is no joke, the opponents in his previous matches were perhaps weak so that's why he didn't use this technique. Just from seeing him command the earth was already made her lost the motivate to fight.
When one practice spirit rank technique, that person could freely command the surrounding element, unlike the human rank technique, it could only attached the element into the medium that used for attacking.
The spirit rank technique could command the element and shape it into the weapons like the name of the technique, for example the name "Great Earth Breaking Fist" the user could only command the earth and shape in into the fist, it is not yet possible to freely shape the elements into other things. Only until Elemental Core Strengthening Realm could one freely shape the elements.
'So that's why he looked down on me.' Thought Zhang Bozhu. "I concede defeat." Zhang Bozhu decided to forfeit. Her water element defense definitely couldn't prevent those earth fists from evading at all. So why not just forfeit if sooner or later she would still lose to him.
"Zhang Shaowei won." The referee announced.
"If Zhang Shaowei has a spirit rank technique like this then wouldn't it make him directly a first place winner? This is really not fair." A spectator said.
"Yeah, how could the human rank technique compete with the spirit rank technique. It is simply impossible. But we haven't witnessed the real strength of Zhang Hongxie yet, so I think there's still a chance for Zhang Hongxie to become a top ranker." The crowd discussed with each other.
"Next, ZhangYidao Vs Zhang Hongxie."
"Wow, finally a match that I was waiting has come." The crowd cheered.
"Begin." The referee shouted.
Zhang Hongxie was the same as Zhang Shaowei, didn't use any weapon, only their fist.
Whoosh!
Zhang Yidao used the same foot technique when he fought with Zhang Lizhong. This technique is called "Illusion Blurry Step".
Zhang Hongxie saw Zhang Yidao's image went blurry and disappeared after that, then he heard the footsteps from the left side but the attack came out at the back instead. But Zhang Hongxie immediately activated his foot technique too, and he disappeared from the spot. The attack from Zhang Yidao landed on nothing, then Zhang Hongxie appeared behind Zhang Yidao and the he shouted "Fire Buddha Palm!" extended out his palm and landed successfully on Zhang Yidao's back.
Splash!
Zhang Yidao spouted out a mouthful of blood after he got attacked from behind just now. The Fire Buddha Palm of Zhang Hongxie was one of the hardest technique and it naturally strong as well.
The crowd became stunt, this match they expected it to be very interesting but it unexpectedly ended with just one move instead, this guy Zhang Hongxie is a monster. Even the poker-faces Zhang Yidao was defeated by him in one slam on the back.
On the back of Zhang Yidao there was a palm imprint and it was blood red because of the Fire Buddha. Despite got this heavily injured, his face was still expressionless but not long after that he fainted on spot.
'This guy is impressive indeed, he could still keep that poker face of his despite got attacked from my Fire Buddha Palm.' Thought Zhang Hongxie.
"Zhang Hongxie won."
"Next, Zhang Lengwu Vs Zhang Bozhu."
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"Zhang Bozhu won."
"Zhang Shaowei Vs Zhang Yidao."
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"Zhang Shaowei won."
"Zhang Yidao Vs Zhang Bozhu."
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"Zhang Yidao won."
"The last match, Zhang Hongxie Vs Zhang Shaowei."
Finally it the match that everyone was waiting for, could Zhang Hongxie defeat Zhang Shaowei with his human rank technique?
"Match begins."
"Humph, Zhang Hongxie, this time I will defeat you for sure. But your punny human rank technique can't afford to contend with my spirit rank technique you know!? I can let you forfeit the match now, I can still give you mercy." Zhang Shaowei mocked.
But Zhang Hongxie only replied a word to him "Idiot".
Upon hearing this, Zhang Shaowei immediately became very angry. He instantly activated the Great Earth Breaking Fist and push it to the limit.
The ground in the surrounding trembled and the a large piece of earth got dug out of the ground and it floated toward Zhang Shaowei then it shaped into a big fist. Just from the look, it seemed to be very solid and strong. It didn't end here, there were also a lot more smaller fists that made out of dry earth and it floated behind the big fist, like a general and its army.
Seeing this, Zhang Hongxie didn't panic, instead he adjusted his stance and prepared to use the Fire Buddha Palm to contend with the earth fists.
"GO!" Zhang Shaowei leaped forward and shouted, immediately all of his earth fists, flew toward Zhang Hongxie as if they wanted to punch the latter to death.
"HA!" Zhang Homgxie pushed his Fire Buddha Palm to the limit and an image of Buddha with a golden flame halo floated behind his head formed out of nowhere, the image was very clear and the surrounding became warm instead of hot like fire.
When all the people here saw this, they became astonished and their jaws almost dropped to the ground. The patriarch and the elders immediately stood up from their seats and their eyes wide in shock. "P...patriarch, this... this is that state right?" One of the old elder asked the patriarch.
"That stage?? What stage? There are on sixstages right? Could it be there are more stages after that?" The crowd became curious.
"That's right, this boy practiced the Fire Buddha Palm to the first stage of legendary stage, this stage is called Breaking Boundary stage. Normally, every single technique has only six stages and they are Small stage, Advanced Stage, Major Stage, Professional Stage, Full Mastery Stage and Perfect Control Stage. However, one could break the limit of the last stage by gaining an enlightenment, but the enlightenment state itself is very hard to meet, for some people not even in their entire life could achieve the enlightenment state. So after breaking the limit of the fifth stage, there are three more stages, those three stages are the three legendary stages, divided into: Breaking Boundary Stage, Origin Returning Stage and the last one, Origin Creation Stage."
The crowd became stunt upon hearing this, they never thought that Zhang Hongxie could manage to practice a technique to the legendary stage.
"When you practice to the Breaking Boundary Stage, every technique you activate would manifest the image of the origin of the technique. This Fire Buddha Palm is in fact only a simplified version, the main version is in a higher rank, if I remember correctly the real version is a...Heaven Rank technique, and its name is Heavenly Golden Fire Devouring Palm, that's what the old patriarch told me. That's why it is the hardest technique to practice. Next, if you practice to the Origin Returning Stage, it means that your skill has returned to its original state, meaning that you could release the strength of this technique the same as its creator. However, if you achieve the Origin Creation stage, then your technique will form its own spirit, meaning that it has its own consciousness and you could communicate with it, then you could simply command your technique's spirit to attack your opponent, to sum it up, you can attack your opponent with just mere words, also your technique will evolve itself to become stronger alongside you too. This is the greatest advantage of achieving the Origin Creation Stage."
The Fire Buddha Palm shot out and a big palm with golden fire on the surface manifested in the air and flew toward the coming earth fists.
(So it took this long for the attack to meet each other huh... because of the explanation on the way though.)
BOOM!
The earth firsts got destroyed and it turned into dust, made the stage filled with clouds of dust.
A few minutes later, the stage became clear. On the stage, Zhang Shaowei was fainted and blood could be seen leaked out of his mouth. While Zhang Hongxie got his clothe tattered and his face was dirtied, on the corner of his mouth, there was a line of blood leaked out and his face was pale, clearly he was very exhausted and out of strength. It wasn't because of the attack of Zhang Shaowei, but because he pushed himself to the Breaking Boundary Stage, he needed all of the Qi inside his body to unleash a Breaking Boundary Stage Fire Buddha Palm. Even so, he managed to hold on and didn't faint.
The crowd became very stunt, the human rank technique could defeat the spirit rank technique? This was simply unimaginable, this guy is a freak for sure. Or could it be he was a... reincarnated immortal? This was too crazy for them to think, haizzzz.
"Zhang Hongxie won." The patriarch announced instead of the referee.
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