Bab 267: Chapter 260: All according to Plan!
"Damn it!"
"Run away!"
Just like that, Duan Li had gone onto a full rampage as he threw his fists around at the participants like crazy. Somehow, he really enjoyed this more than he initially thought!
As for the others, their face was full of indignance! Not only that, anger, sadness, lamentation, sorrow, regret, and all sorts of emotions appeared one after another as these participants ran around the platform hanging on for their dear life, afraid that they would be thrown out of the ring.
Just what the hell is this? This is too unfair!
"Emcee! What injustice has we ever done to you? We have conducted ourselves properly and in order during the registration phase and waiting phase, so why must we suffer like this?! We beseech you to redress our grievances!" a participant who could no longer bear it shouted out with tears churning down from his eyes, his voice full of sadness that managed to struck the heartstrings of many of the audience.
Hais!
This was truly a tragic scene. Some who chose to bravely face Duan Li's attack even had their entire clothes torn to shreds and had to run around naked while covering their private parts!
Even worse, Duan Li seemed to be taking advantage on these people and was slowly pushing them out near the boundaries of the ring!
BAM! BAM! BAM!
At the sight of this ridiculous fiasco, even the emcee had to reevaluate the rules of the competition with sweats pouring down profusely from his forehead!
In all the decades since he had debuted as an emcee, this was the first time that such a bizarre situation ever happened!
To think that a single participant could cause a ruckus on this scale, this was truly an eye-opener for him and his horizons was finally widened!
Crack!
Suddenly, the emcee felt the bottleneck that caused his cultivation to stagnate for 10 whole years started to collapse! Within a matter of a few breaths, he had already levelled up into the Middle Stage of the Nascent Soul realm!
BOOM!
This scene caused an entire portion of the audience to gasp in awe, and they could not help but to nod in acknowledgment.
"It seems that witnessing something truly bizarre is extremely helpful when encountering a bottleneck in one's cultivation!" they thought to themselves with a serious look. Some even jotted this precious finding inside their notebook, to eventually be passed down to their future lineage!
Ahem!
The emcee made a few dry coughs as he could not help but to feel embarrassed when he realized that he had benefited greatly from the sufferings of those below him.
Wasting no more time, he quickly consulted with the rest of the organizers and swiftly came up with a new rule.
"Dear participants and audience, the organizers of this competition had come to a consensus that long distance attacks are prohibited from now on! Would participant Duan Li over there please stop whatever it is you are doing?" the emcee spoke out with his lips curled into a forced smile.
"Eh, what? I didn't break any rules.. but fine!" Duan Li pouted his mouth feeling a little bit indignant with the sudden change of rules.
What should I do now? I can't possibly hit them directly with my fists..
Duan Li thought hard as he cupped his chin. Meanwhile, the rest of the participants cried tears of joy and victory as they hugged each other, akin to getting a new lease on their life.
However, the Heavens were indeed cruel. This small celebration of the puny mortals was about to end.
A light bulb flashed inside of Duan Li's mind when he saw how vicious Wang Dong was pummeling his opponents by the side!
His attack pattern was truly a sight to behold! At one moment, Wang Dong would perform a series of movements mimicking one species of an animal, swiftly after, he would immediately assume a different move set belonging to that of another completely different animal!
These mix of martial art style was really flexible and could be altered at anytime! However, perhaps only the experts could see that the underlying principles of this style of his was extremely difficult to practice!
To name a few elements that one had to consider when doing such a flexible fighting style was weight, breathing and joint movements! Achieving perfect control of these three alone was definitely not an easy feat at all!
From these, it can be concluded that Wang Dong, despite his appearance and personality, was a real martial artists down to his core!
However, what captured Duan Li's interest was perhaps the latter's toughness!
Even when the other participants managed to land a blow onto his body, as if an immovable mountain, the other party would remain totally unfazed!
"His body is so tough.. huh? Wait a minute.." Duan Li snapped his finger together as inspiration flowed into him.
While the body of the other party was definitely rock solid, his body was several times or perhaps, tens of times tougher!
That means..
I could practically just run over them with my body right?
The emcee as well as several figures observing Duan Li's movements felt a strange vibe when they saw the latter had snapped his fingers!
"What's he planning now?"
"Will he use a kick next?"
"Why isn't he making a move yet?"
These were just some of their thoughts, but none of them could even come close as to predict of what would ensue next.
With lighthearted footsteps, Duan Li started to dash forward!
BAM! BAM! BAM!
As if an incoming Airtrain charging forward relentlessly, Duan Li crashed onto several participants with his body which sent them flying all over the place!
"..." everyone.
"I name this martial technique, Mountain Footsteps!" Duan Li declared proudly.
Puuu!!
Martial Technique your a*s!
How can that even be considered as a martial technique? You just rammed onto people randomly, you idiot!
Come, let us beat that empty head of yours and fix a few loose screws while we are at it!
...
"..." Wang Dong was truly speechless. All along, he had thought that there was no one more blatant and direct in expressing their martial arts than him, but he had to give the trophy to Duan Li this time around!
In fact, he was even considering of receiving personal tutelage from the other party next time!
Huu!
Half an-hour had swiftly passed by in the blink of an eye, which was the time limit for the first stage. If there were more than 6 people currently standing on each platform, their points would be calculated based on how active they were during the battle royale. This way, those who avoided fighting just to advance for the next round was immediately disqualified!
This outcome was pretty much expected. However, the organizers truly did not imagine that the result from just the first round was entirely different from what they originally thought.
Except for the Middle stage Core Formation realm platform which had 6 participants left standing, the Early stage of the Core Formation realm platform, the Late stage Core Formation realm platform, and the Pinnacle stage Core Formation realm platform, all had only two or three participants left!
On the Early stage platform, the only soul left standing was Duan Li and Wang Dong. All the other participants had themselves being either thrown out of the ring or was knocked unconscious on the ground in cold blood. Thus, since there was only the two of them, there was no need for a round robin stage, and they were immediately declared as the winner, with Duan Li the Champion for obvious reasons.
For the Late stage platform, Ling Shin, Ruo Hen and Bai Li emerged victorious. In addition, they don't even seemed to be breaking a sweat at all as if they had just returned from taking a casual walk by the park! After calculating their individual points, Bai Li rose as the Champion as he was making use of preemptive attacks using ninja stealth arts all the time.
As for Ling Shin and Ruo Hen, although the both of them raked in quite a few points themselves, they had only stood their ground in defensive and counter-attacking style without moving around too much, hence was why they were ranked number 2 and 3 respectively.
For the Pinnacle stage, the title of Champion was surprisingly taken by two seemingly eccentric individuals! Both Zhang Liao and Lu Bu collaborated with each other perfectly, such that they took out their opponents at almost the exact same time, granting them similar points!
Therefore, only the Middle stage platform was having the round robin stage right now, while the rest of them had to wait patiently until the victors for this stage was decided.
...
Currently among the audience, there were figures secretly communicating with each other via their communication jade telepathically. These people were the organizers of the competition.
"Except for that black horse, everything else is going according to plan. Do we continue?" said a man. This person was the Emcee.
"Empress, that black horse is someone that I met just recently. However, my instinct told me that he is not a person to be trifled with. In addition, his follower is beside me and I can only deduce that her cultivation realm is beyond ours. What should we do?" said another man, this was the voice of Liu Sheng Duhai!
"It's fine, I know who that person is. So just continue on with the original plan." the voice of the Empress said nonchalantly.
"Yes, Empress!" the both of them replied with their tone full of reverence. This was the wife of the Jiu Emperor, and no matter how high their status were, especially so for Liu Sheng Duhai, they could not afford to put on airs against the Empress
Suu!
After their communication was cut off, Liu Sheng Duhai could not help but to become curious as his brows furrowed together.
The Empress Dowager knows about Duan Li?
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