Chapter 24 - Abbot White vs Zamir Yasin (2/2)

”Oh, then I would like to thank your friend for allowing us to see a great master like you fight in this little tournament.” Sima Yantong said while maintaining a professional smile.

Abbot White did not answer him and just muttered a few incomprehensible words quietly.

Sima Yantong then glanced at the crowd and called for the next fighter ”Can I have the fighter from the Eastern Shipping Company of Iraq to come onto the stage!”

A man on his early thirties stood up from his seat and took off his shirt.

The man was quite tall, standing at exactly six foot tall. His muscles were thick and looked explosive. One look from him and everyone could tell that this guy specialized in boxing.

Abbot White who was only five foot and nine iches tall was clearly at a disadvantage in reach.

In boxing, an advantage in reach was crucial in a match. Someone with the much longer reach was usually able to send more blows than the opponent with a much shorter reach.

Zamir Yasin was a fomer professional boxer and also a middleweight title holder. His professional boxing record was thirty five wins, zero draws and one defeat. He also had twenty seven knockdowns from all his thirty six professional matches. He was also known for his strong overhand right.

”Both fighters, are you ready?!”

Both Zamir Yasin and Abbot White nodded their heads in response.

”Second match, Zamir Yasin versus Abbot White. Begin!” Sima Yantong announced loudly.

Zamir Yasin placed his left foot farther in front of his right foot and with both arms guarding his head.

Abbot White did not move in his position and his fists were still pressed against each other. Zamir can hear him whisper some buddhist mantras and his eyes were half closed.

Zamir moved towards his opponent and immediately threw a straight punch. Abbot White leisurely evaded the punch by moving his head slightly. He then elbowed the outstretched arms of Zamir causing the latter to hastily take back his arms. Zamir then hopped back several times to avoid a counter attack from Abbot White.

”This Abbot guy is quite fast and his elbow strike does a significant damage.”

”Yeah, I didn't know monks could fight this well.”

Abbot White then pressed his fists on each other and waited for his opponent to strike.

Zamir Yasin was provoked by Abbot White's nonchalant expression and moved towards him while maintaining his guard.

Abbot White did not move, but his eyes sprung open. A ray of mystery can be seen behind his brown eyes.

All the martial art practitioners inside the grand ballroom felt a strong amount of vicious aura on the stage. They then saw the usually quiet Abbot White releasing large amounts of strong aura.

'This... this is... origin essence!' Brogen thought in shock after he felt the strange energy coming out of Abbot White's body. Although the origin essence that Abbot White released was feint, but it still shocked Brogen. He thought that in this advanced world, no one would be able to comprehend the deepest and the truest essence of martial arts.

'Interesting! Someone was actually able to release this much origin essence in this timeline.' Cale thought to himself while speculating the origin of Taixi Temple. He never heard anything about this Temple during his past life and it was quite intriguing how someone with that kind of power did not emerge in their fight with the demi humans.

'He might have died before those demi humans came to Earth.' Cale thought as he studied Abbot White carefully.