Chapter 269: First Fight - 269
Yao Mun's appearance was dirty to say the least. There was blood visible on his clothes and skin. Aside from the blood on the clothes, there were also many cuts. His shirt should have been a perfect fit, but many cuts extended its length far below his waist.
In Yao Muns right hand was a longsword. It too was covered in blood. His most striking feature, despite everything else, was one of his eyes.
It had a red pupil with black surrounding it. From that eye, red cracks extended across his face.
Everyone watched in silence as he made his way down the stairs and reached the floor. Although everyone was paying attention to Yao Mun, the announcements did not stop.
"These are the sixteen most promising youths in both the Zhou Galaxy and the Heaven galaxy. Now… let the youth galactic assembly commence!"
As the voice finished speaking, a cube wooden box with a hole on top appeared.
"In the order that you came through the door, please walk up to the box and draw out a token. The number on it will decide when and who you fight." The voice spoke.
After a few seconds, Hong Yen walked up to the box and picked out a token. It had the number 5 on it.
In order, everyone grabbed a token and returned to where they were standing before. Even Yao Mun did not make a scene.
After numbers were drawn, the voice spoke again.
"The rules of the competition are as follows. Firstly, everyone's cultivation will be suppressed or raised to the 1st level of the nascent soul realm in order for the fights to be fair. Fear not, special techniques gained from your talent or race that cannot be used until realms after the nascent soul realm will be unlocked."
This rule would allow a being such as Pangu, who could not use Sky Qi to attack until later realms, able to use it even at the foundation establishment realm.
"Finally, there will be no deaths on this stage. Even if you were to use techniques that use your lifeforce, you would be stopped just before dying and fully healed. There will be no unfair disadvantages or advantages in the youth galactic assembly."
"Now, officially, let the youth galactic assembly begin!" The voice spoke once again.
As the voice stopped speaking, two tokens floated in the air. The number one and number two tokens.
The first people up were Bai Hun, the nine colored divine phoenix, and one of the unnamed people from the Zhou Galaxy.
They both jumped on the stage at the same time and faced each other. Then, the previously deactivated barrier appeared once again. It was a thin and clear membrane.
Suddenly, to both the people in the stage and those outside, the arena inside of the membrane seemed to expand. From a simple length of 50 or so feet, to a wide stage miles wide.
A number 3 appeared in the middle of the stage, floating off the ground. After a second, it went down to 2. Then 1. Then fight.
Both Bai Hun and the other person burst out with their power immediately. Bai Hun held a nine-colored flame on the palm of his hand, while his opponent held a wooden spear with golden lines designed on it.
Bai Hun used three fingers to form a claw and swiped his hand towards the person on the other side of the stage.
His action formed a fast moving nine colored flame in the shape of a claw that reached his opponent almost immediately. For the vast majority of people in the Zhou Galaxy and the Heaven galaxy, this simple move would have defeated anyone at the same level.
However, the man, while his name was deemed unimportant by Zhou Fan, was one of the top 16 most talented people under the age of a thousand in two galaxies.
Any other time, he may be remembered, but there were too many special talents born in the last thousand years.
Bai Hun's opponent moved to the side quickly, dodging the claw, before shooting as fast as he could towards Bai Hun.
He quickly reached Bai Hun and thrusted his spear at Bai Hun's face. Bai Hun let out an explosion of flame from his stomach, pushing him backwards so fast that the spear missed him.
Then, a green light in the shape of the spear shot out of the spear and followed Bai Hun. Bai Hun let out another blast of flame and moved to the side, dodging his opponents first attacks.
As he stopped moving from the explosion, Bai Hun shot yet another explosion of flame out of his back, propelling him towards his opponent.
Although he was more of a ranged fighter in humanoid form, he preferred being as close as possible.
As he reached within 20 feet of his opponent, he shot out another nine colored flame claw. With the much closer distance, it essentially reached the opponent before he could react.
Luckily, he had seen Bai Hun coming towards him and formed a defensive barrier of wood. The nine-colored flame was only halted for a hundredth of a second before it broke through the wood barrier, but another wood barrier greeted it.
Although wood usually countered fire, and this was a special fire at that, the wood was enhanced with both water Qi and Life Qi, triggering a great change in the wood's resistance against fire.
The man fighting Bai Hun had four affinities. Wood, Life, Water, and Gold. After the fifth barrier, the claw broke through without having another barrier behind it.
Sadly, Bai Hun's opponent had already ran out of its way.
The opponent went around the wood barriers that had been broken through and charged at Bai Hun again.
This time, Bai Hun let out a much bigger blast than before and charged towards the man as well.
Just as they were feet away from each other, Bai Hun's body changed. From humanoid form, it turned into a small phoenix.
Bai Hun's opponent hadn't expected him to suddenly transform, and the phoenix successfully rammed into his chest.
In an instant, the man and Bai Hun, now once again in humanoid form, appeared outside of the stage, unharmed.
"First fight winner, Bai Hun!"
Chapter 270: Ying Xiong's Fight - 270
Bai Hun's opponent and his escort walked away from the section between the stands and the stage, and sat somewhere in the stands.
This was a one elimination competition. A single loss would eliminate you. Although Bai Hun's opponent was very talented, he could not be compared to Bai Hun.
After a minute of waiting, two more tokens flew up. They were the number 3 and 4 tokens. The number three token belonged to Ying Xiong, while the number four token was in the possession of one of the other unnamed youths.
Ying Xiong nervously got on the stage under the encouragement of Zhou Fan, while his opponent hopped on in a leap.
As soon as they were both on, the barrier covered the stage and numbers appeared.
From the second they stood on the stage, it was clear that Ying Xiong had a disadvantage. Firstly, he was only 13 years old.
His opponent was 250 years old. While his opponent was considered a young woman, he was essentially a toddler.
Luckily, Ying Xiongs talent was helpful. He immediately adopted the plan of defending until he got used to fighting.
After all, he had never been taught how to fight. He had only sparred a few times with a few people.
As for his techniques, they were all from the human race. The human race's current status was that of one of the weakest races in the Zhou Galaxy.
The techniques he had were no better. Even those from his ancestors were still in the Huang Long academy, far away from the human race.
As Ying Xiong continued to think, the numbers lowered. Eventually, the numbers turned into the word fight, and he jumped backwards. The arena's space had already expanded.
As he jumped backwards, he used his Buddhist Qi to create a barrier. Despite his immense talent, he only had one affinity, Buddhist Qi.
His opponent on the other end did not chase him. Instead, she pulled out a bow and pulled back on it. As she released the string, a fire arrow formed and shot towards Ying Xiong.
Ying Xiong barely moved to the side before it reached the round sphere of buddhist Qi surrounding him and bounced off.
In an instant, Ying Xiongs combat talent was shown. Seeing how the sphere barrier would block attacks that wouldn't have even hit him, wasting Qi, Ying Xiong shrunk the barrier to only cover his body.
Now, he was shrouded in a golden light. It seemed as though there was no barrier at all.
As his opponent pulled her bowstring back again, Ying Xiong ran towards her. He knew that he couldn't fight long range with a bow user.
Another fire arrow came, but this time it also had bow and arrow Qi on it. Ying Xiong attempted to dodge, but the arrow was faster than before, hitting him and pushing him back 50 steps.
Luckily, he was unharmed.
He ran towards her again, this time in a random pattern. As another arrow came towards him, he successfully dodged.
His opponent responded by sending three arrows at the same time. Ying Xiong managed to dodge two, but one hit him, sending him far back again.
This continued for multiple minutes until finally, Ying Xiong felt he was ready. He was now 50 feet closer than when he started running towards his opponent.
It could be seen as a gain, but he had lost half of his Qi defending. The barrier he was using was the human race's most used technique.
The barrier would take very little Qi to sustain and only truly activated when hit. Depending on the power of the attack, an amount of Qi would be used.
It could be seen as a technique that could drain every speck of his Qi, but it was very practical.
The next time he was hit with an arrow, Ying Xiong decided to go on the offense. After using a lot of Qi, a bell formed around him. This bell was a defense technique.
The bell would help him resist getting knocked back every single time he was hit.
Ying Xiong charged forward with the bell covering his body, but as a result, he could not dodge.
His opponent let out hundreds of arrows every second knowing that Ying Xiong could no longer avoid her attacks.
Each attack was weaker than her earlier arrows, but they used up a similar amount of Qi for a lot more damage in total.
As Ying Xiong was within 50 feet of the woman, she ran around him and extended the distance again.
Ying Xiong hadn't even thought of that possibility. His battle experience was truly too little.
After realizing that he was back where he started and only had a third of his total Qi left, Ying Xiong decided to perform an all out move.
It would use up all of his Qi in a single attack.
Once again, he ran towards the woman. The bell now had many cracks across its surface. It was different from his other defense technique.
The bell took a certain amount of Qi at activation and remained until it was destroyed or the user willed it to go away.
Now, it was on the verge of breaking.
As Ying Xiong got within a hundred feet of the woman, the bell was a few arrows away from being shattered.
Only then did Ying Xiong make his move. He jumped up in the air and pulled his fist back as far as he could.
"BUDDHA'S FIST" He yelled out as he punched forward.
Every single bit of his Qi was drained from his body in that moment. As his fist fully extended, a giant golden fist appeared and shot towards his opponent at an insane speed.
This was where Ying Xiongs talent was truly shown.
Before the girl could even react, the buddha's fist had reached her. Her entire body was smashed by the gigantic buddha's fist as she and Ying Xiong were teleported out of the stage.
Her underestimation of Ying Xiong had led to her loss. If she was even slightly wary, she would have put up some defenses in advance.
"Second fight winner! Ying Xiong!"
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