Chapter 949: Unexpected Forfeiture (1/1)
Mie Chenzi was a veteran of countless battles In every one of his past conquests, he’d maimed, crushed, and mercilessly tricked his opponents without mercy There had never been a battle as unpleasant as today’s He’d been outmaneuvered at every turn, stifled at every in to think of any solutions to his predicaht statues before Their previous owner had been a wandering cultivator known as the Prince of Shangping But in hisoffensive strength and the astonishi+ng mobility that they currently possessed The statues now had a new spirit to theence They had become similar to real cultivators, both in terms of raer and battlefield awareness
That wasn’t thepart was that the statues weren’t of flesh and blood; they were inorganic objects! None of his retaliation had any effect whatsoever The most a strike that landed did was leave a faint scar Mie Chenzi’s blade hacked at the statues again and again, but he had no way of totally annihilating them As essentially puppets of their controller’s will, the statues could not be counted as completely destroyed unless they were shattered The problem with this proposition was that… puppets were unafraid of taking a beating, but he was
Yes, he’d instantly increased his body’s defenses several times over, but the torrent of attacks he’d experienced just now had already inflicted a feounds Though he would be fine in the immediate future if he allowed the statues to continuously land blows on hier period of tilyph’s defensive boost had a time limit Once its duration was up, he had no way to protect hiainst the frenzied assault froainst the inorganic statues once a pitched battle ensued Mie Chenzi’s heart was aflame with anxiety
This was a predicament that he’d never encountered before He still possessed a final trump card, but it was difficult for him to draw it under the present circumstances More importantly, if he did show it to the audience, his identity would be revealed, and that would bring disaster onto himself and his sect
In this moment, Mie Chenzi was hopelessly uneasy The match had three secret observers ere even s fros Mu and Ke, and Holy King Bei— atching from a safe distance The ‘Mie Chenzi’ in the arena was a top-ranked genius from the Eternal Celestial Capital, one of the sect’s true disciples Having seen all of Pill King Zhen’s successive victories prior, they’d witnessed the brutal killing of soious disciple frohts about whether they should send their own best genius in the first place
The Eternal Celestial Capital had sent three geniuses in total However, the other tere already useless Even if they were to take the stage, the only thing that fate had in store for thehost of a chance When he’d produced the Souldrain Bell, all three holy kings were absolutely astounded Truly, the head of the sect’s favor for ‘Mie Chenzi’ knew no bounds
Strangely, the Bell that they saw as a path to certain victory had little effect on Pill King Zhen Quite the opposite, the counterblow that Pill King Zhen struck allowed hiain the upper hand instead Wave after wave, the pill king’s barrage was inexorable It see off his attacks The trio was flabbergasted by this They’d had their previous suspicions that Pill King Zhen was actually Jiang Chen, but this ti Chen was extraordinary, sure, but all news of him indicated that this kind of capability was beyond his abilities
Is… is this Pill King Zhen really not Jiang Chen? This was the question that each and every holy king had in mind Given what had happened so far? It was honestly hard to tell Pill King Zhen’s abilities had surpassed their estimates to the point of absurdity Could any of their true disciples overcoenius that could accoal Pill Palace was only a fourth-rank sect, and Jiang Chen was just a genius fro able to rise out of the Myriad Doions were two very different things Even theMu, became uncertain
Unfortunately, the current state of affairs was difficult to recover froe only increased the three holy kings’ anxiety A the Eternal Celestial Capital’s best disciples, Mie Chenzi easily made it into the top five and was even a reasonable contender for the top three Furtherrandson of the sect head The latter heavily favored him
“Brother Ke, shouldn’t Mie Chenzi have randson of the sect head, after all Is continuing to take Jiang Chen’s beating the only thing he can do?”
“I don’t think the sect head would’ve let Mie Chenzi take such a big risk by co Ke returned a wry s for aof counterattack” With things as they were currently, that was the only thing they could hope for
In the arena proper, Jiang Chen looked leisurely and relaxed In actuality, he was constantly observing his surroundings He aiting for a chance to land the killing blow He no longer had any doubts that his opponent was an envoy from an enemy sect
The Ninesuns Sky Sect, Eternal Celestial Capital, or Pillfire City it had to be one of these The Great Scarlet Mid Region was hostile to hienius from it could possibly reach the level Mie Chenzi was at, hence his hypothesis about the other’s origin As for exactly which one, Jiang Chen had no interest in finding out He had only one thought in e The target of thisChen’sserious For a tiuarded, and he was al Chen started brainstor how to break the stalemate when he saw this He hadLotus, histo use any of the his sleeves, he shot out an invisible ray froht Mirror
Mie Chenzi was already busy enough handling the eight statues Hoould he be prepared for the Mirror’s unforeseen intervention? His back swayed, and his step slowed a beat This momentary delay caused two statues to collide into both his left and right shoulders Ba defensive ward over his entire body, the attacks were fierce enough to cause hied, his vitals disturbed by the impact They weren’t exactly lethal, but the attacks definitely did a nuh to cause heavy trauesture Constant rays froht Mirror beamed towards Mie Chenzi’s body, perpetually opportunistic in their tih to be hit seven or eight more times in succession None of them caused any critical bruises, but the nonstop bashes only worsened his condition The talis ability was formidable, but it couldn’t stand up to an unbroken strea in panic, Mie Chenzi shouted at the top of his lungs, “Pill King Zhen, yourI ad Chen hadn’t at all iined the possibility of Mie Chenzi’s forfeiture at this crucial juncture Had he just been shamed into sub him was in order to provoke him! Preferably so that in the heat of thelike, “I’ll never surrender!” Alas, Jiang Chen had underesti! What a turn of events… at such a key time, too
When all was said and done, this was only a co down one’s opponent after a public surrender It was in the rules as well—upon a forfeit, the winning side could not pursue the losing side any further Jiang Chen wanted ht then and there, but reason told hi back his Mirror, Jiang Chen sneered “Mie Chenzi, you talked sostreak Shame that it’s all bluster and no bite, huh?”
This was an atteravate Mie Chenzi anew Mie Chenzi had a dark expression on his face “TheYou’re the former, so whatever you say is fine”
He was rather decisive about it all Those were the words of aleft to lose They were difficult to sink one’s teeth into Jiang Chen could onlyprofoundly into the other ain With an utterly undecipherable look, he appeared perfectly ordinary onceZhen, nine wins in a row! First place in the ranking battles, top of the Genius Rankings!” The e stood forward to loudly announce the result The other groups’ ranking battles were over noell The chance to challenge others caulations stated previously, the fourth to sixth groups had the right to challenge the top thirty geniuses within the first to third groups
Very few of them actually exercised the option, however They’d been witnesses to the differences in strength firsthand Clearly, everyone had a certain fear that issuing a challenge was equivalent to an open insult As such, it could be the spark to further aggression in the arena If by chance a higher-ranked person was challenged and took it as an affront, the lower-ranked person’s life would be in danger when he faced the full brunt of the higher-ranked person’s ht
Given this consideration, there were only six instances of such challenges All of them ended in failure without exception The last four areas had a similar opportunity open to thehtly different—they opened up the door to co Lords It was an opportunity that almost none of the particularly low-ranked cultivators wanted to give up Thus, the battles that occurred afterwards between the lower ranks were far fiercer