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.
Chapter 276: Sacrificial Technique - 276
Lernean felt the power of the sword strike above him and without hesitation he transformed back into his humanoid form and dodged out of the way.
The moment he left the area, the sword strike hit where he was standing. Seemingly unfazed, Lernean began to run towards Yao Mun.
Yao Mun's eye had the ability to display an attack above his combat strength every now and then. There was a cooldown, but the ability was incredibly powerful.
Without sustaining injuries, the attack would have to be only one level above his combat strength. Anything higher than that would cause injuries ranging from a cut on his body to the complete decimation of his body and soul.
Yao Mun had just displayed an attack one level above him when he attacked Lernean. At the very least, Yao Mun's combat power was at the same level as Lerneans. It was likely to be higher. Therefore, the sword attack could have very likely killed Lernean.
As Lernean ran towards Yao Mun, he once again transformed, this time slightly limiting his size. Although he was half the size as before, he still towered over Yao Mun.
As Lernean was about to use an attack, Yao Mun looked at him with disdain.
Although Yao Mun's lesser increase ability was on cooldown, he still had the ability to display an attack much higher in level than him, just with a price.
Since he completely healed after every battle, so what if he lost an arm or two?
As Lernean was about to attack, Yao Mun swung his sword in a similar way to before, a light in his eye shining.
The instant his sword hit the ground, a giant sword wave made out of demon Qi appeared and flew towards Lernean. Before Lernean could even react, he was sliced in half and appeared outside the stage.
Outside the stage was silence. Everyone was in shock at Yao Mun's attack. It was simply far too overpowered in this setting.
For an instant, everyone outside saw Yao Mun's arm disappear, but when he appeared outside the barrier, he was perfectly fine.
Eventually, the announcer spoke.
"Third round second fight winner! Yao Mun!"
"The finals will be after one more brief break. In that time, may both finalists fully prepare." The voice spoke.
Once again, the white door appeared.
Once again, everyone entered the room from before.
Yao Mun sat in the same place as before, eating the delicious food.
Meanwhile, Ying Xiong was nervously eating with Zhou Fan and his mother.
"There is no possible way that I can win. Did you see his last attack? How is that fair? What kind of bullsh*t is that?" He said as he sweat profusely.
"Language." His mother spoke.
Zhou Fan laughed as he looked at Ying Xiong.
"There is no way that you can win unless you are willing to die for it." Zhou Fan spoke.
Ying Xiong looked up at him confused. Zhou Fan continued to speak.
"If you couldn't tell from before, Yao Mun had to sacrifice his arm in order to have strength far surpassing his ability. He only had to sacrifice that little because of his special ability. For someone like you, you would have to sacrifice your life in order to match him. With your life, you could match him even if he sacrifices two arms and a leg." Zhou Fan explained.
"I don't know any life sacrificing techniques. There was never any good reason or time to learn them. How would I go about sacrificing my life?" Ying Xiong questioned Zhou Fan.
"There are three main ways to sacrifice your life for greater power. One, have a special ability like Yao Mun does. Two, use a special technique like most people would. Finally, three, the hardest, be so full of resolve and will that you momentarily are able to expend even your own life." Zhou Fan explained.
He then continued. "Naturally, you don't have the will to sacrifice yourself for a competition. That would require a life and death situation or plain insanity. Obviously, you don't have a special ability like Yao Mun. Therefore, in order to even the playing field, even just slightly, I will impart an ability that allows you to sacrifice your life in order to increase your power."
Although he avoided using specific words like divine physique, Zhou Fan planned to give Ying Xiong a technique that would sacrifice his life in order to temporarily allow him to display the power of his divine physique.
Under normal circumstances, he would only be able to use the divine physique's power at the void traversing realm.
Although Zhou Fan had allowed all abilities to be used even if they needed to be unlocked at a higher level, Ying Xiong had never used his divine physique. He likely didn't even know that he had one.
Even if a mortal was given the power of god for a moment, he would need to learn in order to create life. It was not something instantly known.
As Zhou Fan stopped speaking, he took out a talisman he had just created and stuck it on Ying Xiongs forehead. The talisman then burst into a golden light and shot into Ying Xiongs body. This would allow him to sacrifice his life and use his divine physique a single time.
"Go get em tiger." Zhou Fan said before the white door appeared.
30 minutes had already passed.
Once everyone was back in the arena, two tokens floated in the air. The number 3 token and the number 15 token.
Ying Xiong and Yao Mun jumped on the stage and looked at each other. As the numbers counted down, Ying Xiong seemed to calm down. He was no longer nervous or sweaty.
Everything seemed to be much clearer. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them, a golden light seemed to be within.
The moment the battle started, Yao Mun burst towards Ying Xiong.
Meanwhile, Ying Xiong did not waste any time. In an instant, he used the technique.
A golden light flooded out of his body!
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