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!"
Chapter 271: First Round Finished - 271
As Ying Xiong realized he had won, he jumped up in the air with his hands out. He hugged his mom and gave Zhou Fan a high five.
Eventually, he settled down and the loser of the battle walked into the stands.
After a minute passed, two more tokens flew into the air. They were the number 5 and 6 tokens.
Hong Yen walked on to the stage as her opponent nervously followed. While Bai Hun had not been out in public much and Ying Xiong had never been seen fighting, their opponents weren't nervous.
Hong Yen, the daughter of Fairy Hong Yun, was much different. Her reputation was known throughout the entire Zhou Galaxy.
As expected, the battle ended in just a single minute. Although Hong Yen's opponent was able to resist for a while, it was clear he had no chance from the beginning.
Hong Yen won her battle and the number 7 and 8 tokens floated up.
The number 7 token was held by Ao Wen, while the number 8 was held by an unnamed person.
From the moment the battle began, Ao wen held a slight upper hand. Despite that, his opponent was able to struggle for 5 entire minutes before falling to a surprise dragons breath.
The next fight was between Lernean and someone from the Heaven galaxy.
Lerneans fighting style was different from the others. The moment the countdown finished, he transformed into his supreme beast form.
Without hesitation, his giant body breathed down 9 different breaths of different elements. His opponent struggled to even react properly.
When he used a water barrier to block the fire, ice froze the barrier and earth shattered it. When he used a wind barrier, lightning and dark Qi attacked it. Even when he tried to use a barrier made from non elemental Qi, the nine breaths rained down upon him at the same time.
Before even showing any offensive methods, Lerneans opponent was defeated. Lernean was different from those like Yao Mun, Ying Xiong, and Guang Fu. From birth, he had been trained in battle. Even before his birth, he was meant to be a powerful weapon.
Every youth attending the assembly immediately put Lernean near the top of their danger list.
He struck first, fast, and powerfully.
The next battle was between Guang Fu and one of the unnamed people. Zhou Fan payed a little more attention to this battle.
Despite Guang Fu's attendance, he was one of the more untalented people. Even now, his meridians were only of god rank. Only later would they grow stronger.
Guang Fu put up an unexpected resistance, almost defeating his opponent, but he unfortunately lost.
The next battle was between two unnamed people. Surprisingly, the battle was quickly won by one of them. He was essentially a perfect counter to his opponent.
The next battle was the final battle in the first round. Finally, Yao Mun got to fight. As the sole person of the demonic path attending, many paid attention to him.
As the number 15 and 16 tokens floated up, Yao Mun and his opponent jumped on stage.
As the numbers counted down, Yao Mun stared at his opponent with his eyes wide open. Even the talented opponent felt chills go down his spine as he looked into Yao Mun's unmoving eyes.
The moment the 1 turned into fight, Yao Mun exploded with power towards his opponent. He arrived in front of his opponent in an instant and leaped towards him with his sword raised high. His body was completely horizontal.
Yao Mun's opponent quickly took out a sword from his spatial ring and swung upwards at the sword. The moment he did, Yao Mun's eye activated, sending a piercing flame directly at his opponent's stomach.
Within a few seconds of the battle starting, they were both teleported out of the ring. Silence filled the stadium as even the announcer's voice seemed to be silent for a second.
Yao Mun had absolutely decimated his opponent without even giving him a chance to retaliate.
Soon, the announcer spoke.
"The first round of fighting is over. The 16 contestants have turned into 8. After 30 minutes of break time, the second round will begin."
After he finished speaking, another white door appeared. After seeing the cultivators in the stand entering the white door, the newcomers followed.
They were greeted with the same banquet hall as before. Everyone got some food, found a seat, and sat down.
After spending some time with Ying Xiong, Zhou Fan excused himself and walked over to Yao Mun's table. He was sitting alone and in the process of eating what seemed like an entire beast of food.
As Zhou Fan sat across from him, Yao Mun looked over for a moment before he continued eating.
Zhou Fan had no intention to talk with him. He simply stared at Yao Mun to see what he had become so far.
"Do you need something?" Yao Mun asked after a while.
"No. But you are quite interesting." Zhou Fan answered.
Zhou Fan didn't talk to Yao Mun like he talked to others. When speaking to someone else, he would often act kind and even smile in order to make them feel better around him.
For Yao Mun, however, all pretenses were dropped.
Zhou Fan looked at him with absolutely no emotion in his eyes. Even when speaking, it was the most flat and basic voice.
Yao Mun didn't speak afterwards, so a long moment of silence passed.
Eventually, Zhou Fan spoke again.
"I heard you want to kill Heaven." Zhou Fan said. "He is right over there."
As he spoke, Zhou Fan pointed at Heaven. Heaven was sitting with Tian Ren and Guang Fu as they ate.
His words got Yao Mun's attention as he looked over. After staring for 30 seconds, he looked away and continued eating.
Zhou Fan laughed and got up from his seat. He could tell that Yao Mun, while seemingly calm, had an immense amount of rage boiling inside him as he looked at Heaven.
The moments he spent staring were actually him memorizing Heaven's face.
'This level of hatred is quite irrational.' Zhou Fan said to himself. 'But he was never meant to be rational. That's the point.'
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