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.'
Chapter 272: Ying Xiong vs Bai Hun - 272
The 30 minute break ended quite quickly. As the white door appeared once again, everyone quickly entered and came back to the arena.
The first fight was between the holder of token 1 and the holder of token 3. Those two were Bai Hun, the nine colored divine phoenix, and Ying Xiong.
They both got on the stage as the countdown began. This time, Ying Xiong was more nervous than before. Although he had gotten a bit used to fighting in his first fight, he was now fighting against a much stronger opponent.
The worst part was, Bai Hun did not underestimate him like the last person.
'If I want to win, then I must not make any mistakes.' Ying Xiong thought to himself.
Meanwhile, Bai Hun just reminded himself to be careful.
As the numbers turned into the word fight, both Ying Xiong and Bai Hun launched towards each other.
Ying Xiong didn't use the body protection technique he used in the first round since he wasn't planning on being passive, and simply used the bell technique from before.
Along with the bell, a golden light covered his body. This was the basic technique of using Buddhist Qi to enhance his body.
Buddhist Qi was usually best used this way.
On the other side, Bai Hun covered himself in his nine-colored flame and ran even faster towards Ying Xiong.
As they reached each other, Ying Xiong stopped and punched out with all his strength. From behind him, a phantom of a buddha with his legs crossed appeared and punched as well. The buddha phantoms fist seemed to perfectly encase his own.
At the same time, Bai Hun sensed the danger of his opponent's attack and stopped holding back immediately, transforming into his phoenix form. Unlike before, he didn't limit his size.
Bai Hun's true form immediately appeared in all its glory. A hundred feet tall nine-colored phoenix with a wingspan of multiple hundreds of feet soared towards Ying Xiong.
The similarly sized buddha phantom was similarly imposing.
The buddha's fist and the nine colored phoenix's beak collided. In an instant, the nine colored flame on the phoenix spread across the buddha phantom's entire body.
At the same time, an incredible force pushed back the force from the beak and punched the nine colored phoenix in the face, sending it flying away.
Although Ying Xiong seemed to be the winner, the nine colored flame was rapidly injuring the buddha phantom.
Ying Xiong thought about dispersing it, but that would cause the flames to get off of the buddha phantom's body and directly attack to his body.
Ying Xiong stood inside the buddha phantom, his mind rapidly moving, as Bai Hun shook off the pain from the punch and flew back towards the buddha phantom.
As Ying Xiong saw Bai Hun coming back, he made a split second decision and hoped it would work out.
Instead of trying to disperse the flame, which would be extremely troubling, Ying Xiong decided to defeat Bai Hun before the flames destroyed the buddha phantom and killed him.
Ying Xiong pushed off of the ground and ran towards Bai Hun at his full speed, the buddha phantom following as he stayed in the middle of it.
As he was about to reach Ying Xiong, Bai Hun took a page from the book of dragons and let out a breath of the nine colored divine flame.
Ying Xiong saw it and decided to try his unfinished technique. While the buddha phantom was just a highly advanced buddhist Qi technique, Ying Xiong, in all his talent, managed to partially make his own technique.
Ying Xiong jumped in the air and arrived at the true center of the buddha phantom, not just inside its crossed legs.
As he reached the center, the buddhist aura that the giant buddha gave off increased greatly.
The buddha phantom's eyes snapped open wide and its legs uncrossed. It jumped up from its sitting position and copied the position of Ying Xiongs body. Now, every move that Ying Xiong made would be made by the buddha phantom.
Ying Xiong unfurled his fist and met the nine colored flame breath with his palm. As the palm met with the flame, some of the flame dispersed, while the rest attached to the buddha phantom's body, speeding up the process of its burning.
With the addition of more flames, Ying Xiong inwardly calculated that the buddha phantom would last three more seconds before collapsing.
After breaking through the flame breath, only the rapidly approaching Bai Hun was left. In the three seconds remaining, Ying Xiong decided to use all of his Qi to make three moves.
In the first second, the buddha phantom's hand grabbed at Bai Hun and grabbed his neck. Bai Hun scoffed and tried to break out using his immense force, but was surprised to feel that the density of Buddhist Qi in the grabbing motion was far too strong for him to break out of without multiple seconds.
In the second second, Ying Xiong moved the buddha phantom's arm and slammed Bai Hun to the ground.
Bai Hun was helplessly pushed down as his face slammed into the arena's hard floor. The floor did not even crack.
In the third and final second, the buddha phantom lifted its hand high and balled it into a fist. Then, it came smashing down onto Bai Hun's face.
As soon as the fist hit Bai Hun, the buddha phantom collapsed from the flames. Bai Hun's face was knocked into the ground and heavily bleeding.
Instinctually, Bai Hun transformed into humanoid form and fell on the arena ground. He laid on the floor, his face bloody. After a second had passed, he realized that he had not been teleported out and smiled.
That, along with the burning mass on the ground the size of a human not far from him, made him believe that victory was his.
'He is fighting the flames' power right now. He can't last too much longer.' He thought to himself as he struggled to get up from the arena ground.
He was in immense pain, but his willpower had always been high. He slowly limped over to the burning mass a few feet away from him.
Ying Xiong was feeling immense pain from the constant burning. Every second that passed, he felt like he would die.
He barely had any will to resist as he was slowly and painfully burned.
Suddenly, through his nearly destroyed eyes, he saw a blur limping towards him.
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