Chapter 274: Ying Xiong vs Hong Yen - 274
The next two battles results were not surprising. In the third battle of the 2nd round, Lernean attacked ruthlessly and harshly, defeating his opponent in just 30 seconds.
The next battle was between Yao Mun and an unnamed person. Yao Mun defeated his opponent in just a single move, similar to before.
Yao Mun's battle concluded the second round of fighting. What remained were the last four competitors.
Ying Xiong, Hong Yen, Lernean, and Yao Mun were the last contestants remaining.
After another brief break, Ying Xiong and Hong Yen walked up to the stage.
Both stood still with confidence as the numbers counted down. Ying Xiong was no longer as nervous as before, but he was wary. Hong Yen had never been nervous, but she too was wary of Ying Xiong.
The very moment that the number one turned into the word fight, Ying Xiong burst across the stage. A golden light covered his body as he moved.
Hong Yen did the same thing, a bright red flame bursting from behind and a layer of red covering her body. As they reached each other, they both punched out.
A bright flame covered Hong Yen's fist, while a golden light covered Ying Xiongs. When their punches collided, a strong wind burst out from between their fists.
In that moment, both got the first taste of each other's power. They continued to push their fists together, trying to force the other back.
After a few seconds, both repelled from the others fist. In just a moment, they came towards each other again.
This time, Ying Xiong punched at the stomach, while Hong Yen aimed at the face. Without dodging or adding extra defense, their fists hit their targets.
Ying Xiong was sent flying backwards, doing a few flips in the air, and Hong Yen was sent to the ground as she rubbed against it.
Both had been protected by their Qi's touching their bodies, but there were still slight injuries on both of them.
As soon as they regained balance, they launched at each other again. As they collided, multiple fist were thrown in an instant.
They were pushed back again, then came back again, repeating this brutal scene of brute strength for an entire minute.
Eventually, they stood across from each other, injured to different degrees in different areas.
Ying Xiong had a bloody and broken nose, while Hong Yen was clutching her stomach. After a moment, they began to fight again, but this time with intelligence.
Ying Xiong activated the buddha phantom. He stood where its legs crossed, still on the ground.
The flames covering Hong Yen's body suddenly expanded with an explosion. In an instant, she seemed to be set on fire as an immense heat covered the arena.
Ying Xiong charged forwards at her, but Hong Yen moved backwards and kept her distance.
As Ying Xiong tried to charge towards her, she used multiple techniques, sending out things such as fireballs and flame waves.
Ying Xiong struggled to advance the entire time. He was constantly dodging and defending.
As he slowly got closer, Hong Yen used different and stronger techniques. One of them sent a flame phoenix soaring towards Ying Xiong. Another created a flame giant that contended against his buddha phantom for a few moves.
As time passed, Ying Xiong slowly got more and more frustrated and annoyed. Hong Yen's fighting style had done a complete 360.
She went from crudely contending against him, to evading him and attacking from a distance.
The Qi usage of the buddha phantom was no joke. There had been multiple times where Ying Xiong had to deactivate it in order to regenerate some Qi.
Unfortunately, he could barely even defend himself against Hong Yen without the buddha phantom. Her casual attacks were nearly enough to overwhelm him.
Just as Ying Xiong was thinking of giving up, he saw her breath falter for just a moment.
'She is getting exhausted as well!' He thought to himself.
All he could do was hope that he was right. He started to push Hong Yen harder in an attempt to make her more exhausted faster, but it was also taking a burden on him.
By the time he was nearly on the ground from stamina loss, Hong Yen was starting to heavily pant. Her long range attacks took a lot more Qi than close range attacks.
The only reason she was outlasting Ying Xiong was because the buddha phantom truly cost too much Qi.
Ying Xiong rapidly tried to think of different moves.
The yellow piercing sword finger was the entire human race's trump card, but it was truly too profound. Even Ying Xiong could barely show a thousandth of its true power.
Since Hong Yen knew about it, she had surely kept a defense in mind. Even if he used it, he may not harm her.
As for the Qi expenditure, it was more terrifying than the Buddha's phantom. A single attack would drain 25% of his Qi. He had only successfully used it before by squeezing his body dry.
While Zhou Fan had originally created it to expend a relatively small amount of Qi, he had only kept in mind his amount of Qi.
Compared to others of the same realm, Zhou Fan had much more Qi. He was the most talented for a reason.
Although Ying Xiong had more Qi than Hong Yen, he did not have as much as Zhou Fan would at his level.
Therefore, he could only try some more theoretical techniques.
Ying Xiong deactivated the Buddha phantom and used all his stamina to dodge Hong Yen's attacks. He did so in order to replenish some of his Qi before his final strike.
After 5 minutes of recovery, he could not hold on any longer and jumped in the air.
Seeing his actions, Hong Yen warily watched. Ying Xiong held out his palms and a face with a wide open mouth appeared.
It didn't quite look like the face of a buddha, but similarities could be seen. Hong Yen was confused until a roar was heard from the mouth of the head.
Then, a soundwave hit her and sent her flying. She quickly grabbed onto the ground and ran towards the head.
She knew that she could not survive under its roar for long.
'I need to destroy it now!' She yelled inside her mind.
The soundwave was rupturing her insides and causing blood to pour out of random places on her skin, as well as her mouth, eyes, and nose.
Chapter 275: Fight - 275
Ying Xiong was barely doing any better. Under the backlash of forcefully using such a technique, he too was bleeding everywhere.
He tried his hardest to enhance the technique, ignoring the harm to his body.
Despite that, Hong Yen slowly made her way towards him. Ying Xiong could do nothing more than watch as she approached and hope that she would fail to reach him. He was not even able to move while using the unfinished technique.
Hong Yen was forcefully advancing by grabbing the arena ground with all of her grip strength.
Eventually, Hong Yen was within striking distance. She put all of her strength and some Qi into her legs before blasting off of the arena ground towards the head.
As she was in the air, she suddenly spotted Ying Xiong smiling. Then, from within the head, a golden dragon made of buddhist Qi charged towards her.
Hong Yen looked at Ying Xiong, who had a victorious smile on his face. Suddenly, she smiled as well. In that moment, Ying Xiong had a bad feeling.
Then, a fire dragon flew up from behind Hong Yen and collided with Ying Xiongs. He was shocked as they canceled each other out and Hong Yen continued to fly towards him.
'She had expected it! It's a trap!' He thought to himself as he stood in place, still unable to move.
Hong Yen barely reached the head and broke it with a large fireball. As the soundwave disappeared, her body sped up and collided with Ying Xiongs knocking both of them down from the sky. Neither had the strength or Qi left required to fly.
As they fell to the ground, they wrestled in the air. Neither of them would be able to survive the fall in their current state.
Both of them had used up even the Qi naturally in their bodies. For a few minutes, their bodies would be weakened significantly.
What remained was a contest of who could make sure the other hit the ground first.
They wrestled back and forth, but eventually, Ying Xiong was on top as Hong Yen's head touched the ground and both were moved out of the arena.
"Third round first fight winner! Ying Xiong!" The announcer said.
Both Ying Xiong and Hong Yen were in perfect condition now. As if the fight before was a dream.
After a moment, Hong Yen shook Ying Xiong's hand.
"I look forward to seeing your future achievements." She said before walking to the stands with Fairy Hong Yun.
As usual, Ying Xiong celebrated with Zhou Fan and his mother until the next fight began.
The number 9 and 15 tokens flew up in the air and Yao Mun and Lernean jumped on stage.
The numbers counted down, and as soon as the word fight appeared, Yao Mun charged.
Like in the previous fights, Lernean immediately transformed into his nine headed hydra form. His size did not lose out to the buddha phantom or Bai Hun's phoenix form.
As Yao Mun ran towards him, all nine of Lernean's head breathed down breaths upon him.
With no intention to dodge, Yao Mun continued forward. Soon, he was bombarded with nine different Qi's.
The poison Qi poisoned his body, causing blood to seep out of his mouth and his skin to shrivel, but Yao Mun continued running forward.
The fire Qi burnt him severely, but he kept going. The ice Qi caused his body to slow and he was pierced by icicles, but he continued forward.
Everyone outside the barrier watched in awe as Yao Mun, with his bare flesh, resisted the attacks of nine different Qi's from a being at the same level as himself.
As he continued forward, only the light and darkness Qi's were left. As the light Qi surrounded him, he was blinded and his senses were interfered with.
Yet, Yao Mun did not need eyes or a sense of direction. With blood pouring from his eyes, Yao Mun kept going forward, directly towards Lernean.
When the darkness element hit him, he was casted into a world of darkness with no ability to feel and senses. Along with that, his lifeforce was being continuously drained.
Yet, for some unknown reason, Yao Mun's heart never wavered, his resolve never faltering. Even unable to see and sense, he continued to walk.
As he passed the breath of Darkness Qi, he was met with the simultaneous attack of all nine Qi's.
In an instant, his body was burned, bruised, frostbitten, and weak.
Eventually, Lernean realized that breath attacks weren't doing anything. His nine heads stopped breathing out at the same time.
Then, simultaneously, nine spears from the nine different elements appeared and shot at Yao Mun.
Now being able to see and sense, Yao Mun knew that he could not react in the same way as before.
The breath attacks were mostly formless, similar to gas. Now, the attacks were solid. No matter how firm Yao Mun's willpower was, he would simply be obliterated by the attacks without a proper defense.
Seeing the spears almost directly in front of him, Yao Mun covered his body with Qi. it was actually the first time he had done so in the fights.
A dark reddish hue covered his body perfectly, as if he was under a waterfall. It was the effect of Yao Mun's demon Qi.
He continued to run forward without stopping as his defense met Lerneans offense. As the fourth spear hit him, the barrier around his body broke and Yao Mun had to dodge. He moved the perfect amount to perfectly dodge the attacks as he continued to run forward.
Although Lernean tried a few more methods, Yao Mun eventually reached within a hundred feet of him. Then, he went on the offensive.
Yao Mun moved his arm, which was holding his sword, behind his back as far as it could go. Then, as if he was angry, he swung his sword down as fast as he could.
Nothing came out from his sword, but a light shone in his eye as a giant sword Qi 20 feet long appeared in the air above Lernean.
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