489 Lack of opposition (1/2)
As soon as my palm touched as much as the wild strand of hair that protruded from this disciple's head, his entire body suddenly sank downwards, crushing against the rocks. Yet despite how I wanted him to simply break the rocks underneath him apart and fall in the barrier, this unstable-looking floor turned out to be far more resilient than how I expected it to be!
Splat.
With the body of my first enemy turning into a condensed pancake, all the blood that his body was no longer capable of holding splattered all over the area, dirting the barrier that I hurriedly erected to stop myself from getting it all over myself when I realised what was happening.
And just like that, the first fight was over!
But there wasn't any cheer present to celebrate my victory. Rather than that, everyone just stood in their place, unable to believe what just happened. Not only did I manage to see through the famed hiding technique of the monkey sect that I was challenging, I didn't need anything more than just a simple swat of my head to kill the man on the spot!
”Who's next then?”
After waiting for a moment in hopes of seeing any form of reaction either from the crowd or the sect that just lost one of their disciples, I realised that unless I forced them to make a move, this situation would just last for way longer than it was necessary.
”I will go.”
Finally, after quite a while of hesitating, another disciple, this time wearing a proper set of robes matching the tone of mine. As long as he would be allowed on the stage, defeating him would mean being able to force the entire second grade of the gorilla sect into following any law I could come up with!
”You may enter the stage then.”
With the voice of ancestor from higher up in the mountain acknowledging the disciple, previously shut opening in the barrier moved aside again, allowing him to enter.
This time, my opponent didn't require any rope or ladder, but instead, he started moving as if he was climbing some kind of vine hanging out from the fighting disc, despite travelling straight up through nothing but thin air!
As soon as he reached the point where his head levelled up with the stone disc, he suddenly jumped upwards, finally moving on top of the arena. Yet after just a quick peeks at his body with my energy vision, I realised that fighting with him would be just as pointless as fighting with my previous opponent.
No matter what kind of technique he would use, his overall weakness already decided the outcome of the fight!
”Are you really going to send one disciple after another just for them to die? How about sending forward someone who could at least make me produce a single drop of sweat to kill?”