Chapter 294: Is This Still a Tournament? (1/2)
”Do you still have any unused technique? If not, I'll start attacking.”
Luo Song gritted her teeth. Although she had many techniques that she hadn't used, the dwarf succubus wasn't confident that she could defeat him now.
The petrification mist was her best attack skill. Yet, it couldn't even harm Lu Fengxian.
The intimidation and the impact disheartened her. As an inexperienced teenager, she had already given up fighting.
”I admit defeat! I give up!”
Hearing Luo Song's declaration, the crowd was thrown into an uproar. They booed and yelled at Luo Song for throwing the match.
”Bullshit! You can still fight!”
”I WANT MY MONEY BACK!”
”What kind of 5th-stage demon surrendering to a weakling of the Ding Family! This match is rigged!”
”What are you doing, bitch!? Kill that trash already!”
The spectators didn't see or sense what Luo Song had experienced. They found it illogical for a 5th-stage demoness to be weaker than a 3rd-stage human cultivator. Even after Lu Fengxian advanced to the 4th-stage, they still believed that his strength was fake.
Li Wenyou only gazed at Luo Song. Then, he pretended that he didn't hear it.
He wanted this match to continue!
Lu Fengxian glanced at the crowd and Li Wenyou. Then, he asked the latter.
”The match is over. Are you sure you want to continue the match?”
”I don't know what you're talking about.”
”Didn't she just forfeit the match?”
Li Wenyou burst into laughter, ”You've misunderstood something, Ding Bu. This is a deathmatch. It only ends after one of you dies! Now, if you want to win, kill her!”
”…”
This tournament began to get distasteful as Li Wenyou tried to force his hands. Even if Luo Song couldn't kill Lu Fengxian, Li Wenyou attempted to manipulate him to offend Ma Ping and Jia Shan, who was the current owner of Luo Song and the succubi.
Lu Fengxian no longer looked or cared about Luo Song. Instead, he directed his killing intent toward Li Wenyou, ”You have three breaths to announce the end of the match. If you don't, your little tournament is over.”
Li Wenyou scoffed as he found the threat pointless. Then, Lu Fengxian's killing intent enveloped the former.
Suddenly, from Li Wenyou's point of view, Ding Bu transformed into Immortal Fengxian, revealing the aura of a supreme immortal of Heaven Goose Planet.
Ding Bu was just a youth with average clothes, delicate white skin, and a plain face. However, Lu Fengxian was a middle-aged man with sharp eyes, thick eyebrows, a handsome facial layout, and rough skin. He exuded a threatening presence, which suffocated Li Wenyou.
”I-I-Immortal Fengxian!?”
Lu Fengxian sneered, ”Ho? So, your heart devil is me? Well, tough luck. You won't be able to overcome it no matter how hard you try.”
”W-What!?”
”Three-breath is up. I guess I should start killing now.”
Without waiting for Li Wenyou to react, Lu Fengxian circulated his newly acquired life essence and earth element Qi that he had stolen from Luo Song into his right arm. His feet kicked the ground and instantly appeared behind the referee.
Lu Fengxian's right arm was coated with his sword Qi and earth element. He swung it at Li Wenyou's neck.
”!!!”
Before Li Wenyou had realized that he was attacked, his head was already rolling on the ground. The headless neck gushed out a fountain of blood before it collapsed on the ground.
Lu Fengxian calmly searched Li Wenyou's body and pulled out the corpse's spatial ring. He overrode the ownership and scanned through the content.
40,000 refined stones were in there. Although earth-grade weapons, technique books, and pills in there were junk in Lu Fengxian's eyes, he kept them as he was poor at the moment.
The murder shocked the crowd and other referees, who had been standing guard around the arena. Even Hua Xiong in the sky couldn't believe his eyes.
”INSOLENCE!!”
Hua Xiong dove down, unleashing his dao avatar of a giant axe-wielding barbarian. He brought out a sky-grade halberd and merged his body with his dao avatar. Then, he swung the halberd.
Wind element and lightning element Qi resonated. Then, a lightning storm appeared from the tip of Hua Xiong's weapon.
”Hmm…”
Lu Fengxian leaped backward to dodge the halberd strike.
BOOM
As soon as the halberd hit the arena marble floor, a hundred lightning bolts chased after Lu Fengxian.
Lu Fengxian's body left a hundred afterimages, dodging the lightning bolts from Hua Xiong's weapon. He leaped 100 meters away from his previous position to get out of the lightning dome.
As if Hua Xiong had an element domain, electricity light sparked and cracked, moving around him as if they were lightning snakes.
'A wind-lightning pseudo domain user… I guess I'm scoring a wind element crystal and a lightning element crystal today.'
Lu Fengxian licked his lips, planning to fight Hua Xiong head-on. However, royal guards, Dong Zhongying's underlings, and subordinate referees in the stadium rushed him.
”Hmm…”
…
”Dafuq,” Miaomiao might have read many novels, but he had never expected this protagonist to be this gutsy. Lu Fengxian downright murdered the referee during a tournament event, which was unheard of.
Ma Moxi was also shocked, ”He's… Lu Bu, alright. But is this the right development? Didn't Lu Bu only kill Dong Zhuo and his men after Diao Chan's Seduction Arc?”
”We can't rely on Romance of the Three Kingdoms tale as a reference anymore,” Miaomiao stood up and patted his butt. ”Let's go help him now!”
”Are you sure, boss? We have nothing to gain from helping him.”
”Absolutely! We can't miss this chance to get on his good side, or we're screwed forever!”
Previously when Miaomiao had been plotting against Xie Tian, he used every villain to sabotage the protagonist's storyline progress since his plot armor power was limited to the protection of the seniors.
However, in this case, Lu Fengxian was a walking plot armor with the [Invincibility] trait. He had supreme cultivation techniques from a higher realm, and his combat experience was superior to anyone within this mortal world. Unless Miaomiao could ascend to the higher realm and secure stronger cultivation techniques or weaponry, killing this protagonist would be impossible.
Therefore, falling out with Lu Fengxian was a stupid thing to do. Even if Miaomiao had to kill Lu Fengxian one day in the future, he couldn't afford to become this protagonist's enemy when he was still in the middle of self-evolving storyline arcs.
Miaomiao could have missed a lot of profit if he were to annul his friendship with Lu Fengxian here! Had he missed this opportunity, Lu Fengxian would grow stronger in a blink of an eye. Within a year, he might even ascend and reach godhood.
To catch up with Lu Fengxian's progress, Miaomiao believed that he had to stay close to him, restraining the protagonist's progress by leeching his resources. Also, Miaomiao had a theory that he might be able to alter Lu Fengxian's destiny and transform him into one of the villains if he could pit him against other OP protagonists in the future.