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!"
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