51 Semifinals of the gold tes (1/2)

The semifinals began soon after. By random choice, Zhang Zi and Gong Ming were up first.

Zhang Zi used his spear while Gong Ming used his sword. Unlike the previous fights, the two of them fought by testing each other out at first. They did not immediately start to use their most powerful attacks but used techniques to read each other.

When he saw them fight Bai Yun finally saw a good fight. But after a while, he started to frown. Gong Ming's sword skills were very beautiful to watch, but they were a little lacking compared to Zhang Zi's spear skills. Everyone else who saw the fight started to favor Gong Ming. But Bai Yun did not think so.

The fight proceeded as he predicted. Zhang Zi waited out until Gong Ming made a mistake, and then pounced on him without delay. After this, he easily dispatched of Gong Ming with an attack which combined both his shockwave ability as well as a battle skill.

But the moment he saw that he was going to lose, Gong Ming conceded very gracefully without fighting anymore. This won him the cheers of the crowd. When Zhang Zi returned to the waiting room, he had an irritated look on his face.

With this one of the finalists was decided.

Once their fight was over, SongHui and Bai Yun went up for their battle.

”Begin” The judge declared once they took their positions.

Song Hui swung her whip instantly. Bai Yun realized with a start that her whip was even faster than before. Without having to watch out for the shadow leopard, she had nothing holding her back.

Bai Yun did not change his tactics from before. There was no need to. Once again he perfectly hit the whip's tip to completely deflect all the power in it. Bai Yun stood there watching her fight for a short while before he confirmed that he had indeed read her technique properly.

After that Bai Yun started to take one step after other towards Song Hui. With each step, he only advanced a short distance, but it was stable, calm and unhurried. As he got closer to Song Hui, the pace of the whip increased, but Bai Yun was still smiling. He kept watch of the whip using his soul tendrils and used that to accurately handle the attacks. He kept one hand behind his back and only used his right hand to defend. The image of Bai Yun walking towards Song Hui like a mountain in the middle of a storm was imprinted on the hearts of everyone watching.

When she saw Bai Yun being so calm, Song Hui was enraged. ”Hmph.” She said. ”Let's see you block this.” With that, the number of attacks increased. Thankfully she had to reduce the strength of her attacks to go beyond her optimum attack speed. For everyone watching it seemed as if there were many whips dancing between them.

But Bai Yun was still unfazed. Even if it seemed as if there were many attacks coming at the same time, it was still coming one after the other. But with the increase in speed, he could no longer hit the tip to stop the attack. So Bai Yun chose to gently push the whip out of the way. Many people were startled at his perfect control. They would have been stupefied at the sheer speed of the attacks. But he could still see all of them coming. He was not watching the whip which was moving too fast to follow. His concentration was placed completely on Song Hui's body. He was watching her posture, her arms, her eyes, and every muscle responsible for her movement. Every twitch and tremor in her wrists were caught by Bai Yun. He would then use his huge experience to figure out the path the whip was taking. Even if others were able to figure out what he was doing, they would not be able to copy his method.

Bai Yun walked forward amidst Song Hui's frantic attacks. She suddenly switched to a defensive whip technique when he got too close. Bai Yun was right. She did know one.

The technique was good. Bai Yun was not able to break through her defense easily. He decided to take a step back to observe better.

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But once he did so, Song Hui suddenly switched back to her attacking method. When he saw this a strange thought appeared in Bai Yun's mind. He took a few steps forward, only to see Song Hui return to the defensive technique.

'Impossible.' Bai Yun thought. He once again moved in and out of the five-meter radius from her, and she would change her technique.

'Someone must have told her that you need to defend when the opponent came close to you. And that five meters is considered close.' Bai Yun concluded.

Bai Yun had learned the stupid girl's pattern by now. He decided to act. He was down to only half of his qi. If this continued, he would be defeated easily once his qi ran out.

Bai Yun once again approached Song Hui. Just as he reached close enough to her, Song Hui once again predictably changed her attack to defense. At the moment that she withdraw her whip to make this change, Bai Yun was left alone for an instant. That was enough for him.

Bai Yun had already charged up his legs with his qi. His soul tendrils were already wrapped around his legs. Every single strand of strength in his body was perfectly focused on the tip of his feet. Without a second's hesitation, Bai Yun exploded with all his strength. He charged forward at a horrifying speed. The only thing he had held back was wind motion, which he was keeping for Zhang Zi.

The sudden change in Bai Yun's momentum caught Song Hui by surprise. Her rhythm was completely ruined. With a scream she closed her eyes and swung her whip wildly without any technique.