Chapter 95 The Immortals League Competition (2/2)

However, no soldier wins all the time. In the next three hours or so, the situation shifted. Only two were left from the Zhou State, while the other four were from the Qing. Yu Wenji started to knit his brows in deep worry. Xiao Chen walked over to Liu Yunzheng and signaled that perhaps he ought to go up for the next duel.

Liu Yunzheng had already recovered from his injury. He motioned for him not to be tense. As long as he won his first duel, even had he lost the subsequent ones, he could still take part in the third day's competition.

A tense and fierce battle ensued. The Zhou State lost again, but managed to exert the opposition's energy quite a bit. Right now, only Xiao Chen had not fought someone from the Zhou side. Liu Yunzheng nodded at him. ”Go.” Liu Fenghuang also said, ”All the way, Junior Brother!”

Xiao Chen spoke no more. He nodded slightly and leapt up to the platform. Right now, he was the only competitor from the Zhou State, while there were four from the Qing. Few people were now optimistic about their chances, and they all shook their heads and sighed.

Yu Wenji's face also clouded with gloom. Princess Xuanyue whispered at his ear, ”You don't need to worry too much, Father. Perhaps Young Master Han might win.”

Over at the Qing side, Ouyang Yu saw him and gasped. ”How come this man is here?” Both Qian Yeli and Ling Yingfeng by his side were equally perplexed, but they were not as surprised.

Xiao Chen cupped his fists slightly to show his respect. ”After you.” Although this opponent had the middle stage strength of the Foundation Building Realm, he had exerted his inner strength too much in his earlier duels. Xiao Chen was confident he could win.

The man said no more and with a wave of his arm, sent two streaks of fierce Qi blade over. Xiao Chen stood on his tiptoes and took off several meters into the air. He aimed the Cyan Dragon Roars at his earthbound opponent. The dragon roars resounded instantly throughout the heavens and the earth. The other man quickly mobilized his True Energy to ward off the blow to one side. The floor tiles started to splinter, strewing small pebbles. He failed, however, to notice the sudden attack from Xiao Chen from mid-air.

With a loud loud, Xiao Chen kicked the man's lower jaw. The man started to stumble backward for almost 20 meters. Shocked gasps arose from outside the platform. ”Might he be a Realm 2 martial artist?”

Martial arts were divided into Realm 1, Realm 2, Realm 3, Realm 4... they were equivalent to the Qi Refining Realm, Foundation Building Realm, Core Forming Realm, Nascent Soul Realm. Most people nowadays are Taoist cultivators, making ancient martial artists even more mysterious. Xiao Chen's speed and palm style just now did in fact greatly resembled an ancient martial artist's.

Cheers began to break out unceasingly from under the platform. Even Yu Wenji gave a loud cheer. Xuanyue frowned and said to herself, ”Why did his palm style just now so resembled our sect's highly accomplished Dragon Roars?”

The man opposite him wiped the trace of blood from the corner of his mouth. He stared at Xiao Chen coldly. Suddenly, he mumbled an urgent chant incantation. Countless dazzling Sword Radiances hurtled in from all directions, trying to hack Xiao Chen. The wind surged and clouds rolled, the sword radiance hurt the eyes. Xiao Chen knew he could not pit his True Energy with his opponent's. He started executing the Immortal-override Steps, leaving behind a streak of illusionary shadows, re-appearing before the man out of nowhere.

The man had previously suffered a setback and was now wary. His feet shuffling, his body shifted backward 20 meters. Yet Xiao Chen did not go after him. Instead, he kept moving fingers to cast a spell, chanting incantations. Suddenly, six light columns soared into the sky, trapping the man within a formation.

”An Array Formation! An Array Formation! This man can set up an Array Formation instantly!” Shocked gasps did not cease to be heard from outside the platform. Yu Wenmu, the Third Prince, narrowed his eyes. ”An instant formation? How interesting. But a formation can only trap an opponent within and will exert True Energy. It is flashy but useless. What good is it?”

At times, Xiao Chen executed mysterious, powerful ancient martial arts, at times Taoist magic spells. He gave one the sense of being unfathomable. The man was trapped within the formation. Although he could no longer suffer any injury and seemed almost to gain an advantage, being trapped did not look good. He tried hitting out at the formation points to release its True Qi to break free.

Xiao Chen smiled lightly and repeated his chant incantations, moving his fingers. Nine red light columns appeared inside the six light columns. It was the Nine Yang Extreme Heat Formation, a fire-style attacking formation. The company started to gasp again. ”A formation within a formation! A formation within a formation!”

Trapped inside the man realized that serious trouble was at hand. Yet it was already too late. With a resounding boom, the nine red light columns instantly exploded. Since they were surrounded by the Sixfold Trap Formation, their True Energy could not be released. The man would have to withstand all the extreme heat.

When the smoke and dust had gradually dissipated, he could be seen collapsed within a pile of rubble, his skin almost completely incinerated. Had Xiao Chen injected more True Energy in just now, he would have perished.

Two cultivators immediately flew up to the platform and supported him down to undergo treatment. Loud cheers erupted from the Zhou side, naturally. This fight was far more exciting than the previous few. The Teal Jade Sect's spirits had been roused. ”Did you see that? Our Junior Brother Han can beat an opponent even without using the divine zither.”

Liu Yunzheng's eyes narrowed slightly. Formerly, he did not overly question Xiao Chen's origins. It wasn't anything strange for someone to acknowledge another master with skills from a previous one. Yet now, it looked like this Han Chen had too much to hide.

An old man stroked his beard, smiling on the high platform. He spoke to the sides. ”It doesn't look like cultivation skills of the Teal Jade Sect. Can anyone tell me which sect his cultivation skills hailed from?”

”Can't tell.”

When the rousing cheers had faded away from all sides, two figures streaked up and landed on the platform. Xiao Chen asked nonchalantly, ”Are you fighting me together?”

The rules of the competition stipulated that the remaining competitors could not fight an opponent together. One said, ”Junior Brother has indeed open my eyes just now. I'm sure you will not object?”

Xiao Chen thought that although these two were only in the early stages of the Foundation Building Realm, they had not exerted any True Energy earlier on. They might be more troublesome to dispatch than the first. He said, ”It doesn't matter. Two of you can strike together first, Senior Brothers.”