Chapter 128: Battle (1/2)

'He is after me?'

'Huo Tu still hasn't given up on beating me?'

'How did he even get to fight me?'

'Was he below me in the ranking? That can't be.'

'Did he purposefully got a lower badge number so he could challenge me?'

These and other various thoughts suddenly disappeared from Alex's head as soon as he heard the elder start the match. The man didn't seem the least bit fearful towards Alex.

'He can't see my cultivation base, so he is ignoring the danger.' He thought.

The man wielding the saber suddenly brought it to the side and made a giant slash horizontally that sent out energy towards Alex. The color of the man's sword was brown in color, so the element of the attack must've been earth aligned as well.

Alex sent out the second sword strike of Elusive Heavenly sword. He channeled his Qi into the sword and a green light was produced, which he sent flying towards the incoming brown light.

BOOM

A violent explosion of energies rang out in the middle of the stage. Alex took this opportunity to use his Fluctuating Friction Dance to get closer to the man. The man seemed to have the same idea, so he too came close to it.

However, unlike Alex, he couldn't see through the smoke. Alex managed to take him by surprise. With a swing of the sword, he hit the man right on the side of his chest, sending his entire body flying. With his current strength, the man's ribs must've been broken.

Alex fell back and waited for the elder to call off the battle. But the order to stop fighting never came. His opponent didn't falter either.

The man with the saber slowly got up from the ground and looked at Alex as he gnashed his teeth together. ”Don't think you are amazing just because you managed to hit me,” the man started shouting.

'What is going on? I clearly hit him?' Alex thought as he sent his spiritual sense inside the man to check his ribs, but suddenly, he noticed something.

Inside the yellow Tiger Sect robe, the man was wearing something else as well. Something that was hard and brown in color.

'An armor artifact?' Alex was surprised. This was the first time he had seen someone wear one outside of that blue armor in the auction.

'Can it be as good as the one in the auction? No way right?' he started questioning himself. 'Even though he didn't get harmed, he should have still been hurt. Dammit! I could finish the fight at once if I could use Heaven's impact, or the Flickering Shadows technique. Hell, he wouldn't last a minute if I went invisible. '