Chapter 48 (2/2)

Since he took his leave from Gao Junmo, he was led into an extremely quiet room. The guide pointed to the hourglass placed at the window and reminded him that it would be time for the duel when the sand in the hourglass stops flowing.

As soon as the last grain of sand dropped, the door creaked open. A young sleuth dressed in green emerged and announced, “Time’s up. Please follow me!”

It was a winding journey, and they finally entered a lift. Xu Yi was speculating on where the lift derived its power from. The lift landed and the sleuth led him eastward. After several moments, they entered another lift.

Xu Yi was in awe. Earlier on, they had descended about fifty yards. Could they continue downwards? If so, would they be underground?

While he stood in bewilderment, the young man’s waist sounded twice. The lift started to move slowly upwards.

However this time, the young man did not accompany Xu Yi. He was left alone in the box.

He scrutinised the surroundings. This box and the earlier lift were different. It had four fixed walls. Only the metal plate beneath his feet moved upwards.

It escalated for almost ten yards. There was suddenly light against the pitch black above his head. Within a few breaths, there was light everywhere. Xu Yi was standing in the middle of the duel platform. At the same time, within ten yards of where he had stood, he saw a strong man clad in a gold armour leap upwards. Both Xu Yi and Gao Pan had discovered each other simultaneously.

When Gao Pan’s gaze was directed at Xu Yi, he started to lose his focus.

Xu Yi could swear that he had yet to see a scene as magnificent and glamorous as the scene before him. He was certain that no future 3D movie could be able to display such a grand spectacle.

The duel platform spanned a few hundred yards. The ground was not covered with the usual green stone panels. It was constructed from an alloy of iron and golden steel and was then toughened by green gold sand. It was as if he was placed in the middle of the black ocean. Such a grand duel platform was not meant for humans to fight each other. It could have been used for two beasts to battle.

If the duel platform had bewildered Xu Yi, then the towering spectators’ stands were utterly phenomenal. Xu Yi was beginning to doubt his senses.

There was no spectators’ stand. There were four huge city walls surrounding the entire duel platform.

The stand was a hundred yards in height. It was congested with people. From the enormous logo on the rooftop, Xu Yi was cold surmise that the rooftop could fit in a few dozen spectators.

To allow everyone to be able to get a closer look, the designers had intently built an uneven convex construction. From afar, it had looked like an ancient python attempting to eat up the entire sky.

However, in order to fit in several hundred thousands of viewers, the stand was extended sky high. At such a height, the two contestants were like two black specks.

In order to resolve the design conflict, the Guang’an Prefecture Governor had paid a purposeful visit to the Alchemists’ Chamber to hire the Master Craftsman whose notable craftsmanship was unsurpassable.

Under the superb Master Craftsman, each viewing stand was installed with a magnificent projector wall. It could enable the projections of the warriors during their fights. This solution allowed everyone to watch the fight in real-time, up close and personal.

In order to heighten the senses, the Master Craftsman installed amplifiers to capture the moans and grunts of the warriors as well as those feeble sounds made by fists and weapons.