Chapter 476 - One Sided (1/2)

Alex walked around the crater's side and then down the road until he reached the fighting hall.

He walked up to the stage he was called to and waited. Even as he waited, he could see his opponent on the other side who was looking at him too.

Alex send back a polite smile, implying that he was looking forward to the fight. His opponent scoffed and made a snicker.

The battle on top of the stage was starting to end and before they knew it, the battle ended. The winner took their badge and walked off the stage. However, no one was looking at him.

The surprisingly few people in the crowd around the stage were currently looking at just two different people. One of them was Alex since he was the 3rd Ranked disciple of the sect, and the other person was Yang Ma, who had come back after his one-sided defeat to make some of his names back.

Unfortunately for him, Alex wasn't going to let him.

”Number 45 and Number 3,” the elder on top of the stage called out. Alex looked to the side at Yang Ma and walked up the stage while staring at him the whole time.

He had a little smug smile on his face, but it was barely noticeable to anyone who was looking for it.

”I'm sorry you had your fun as a 3rd rank for just 2 days before I came back to attack you,” Yang Ma said with an ingenuine smile.

Alex copied the same smile and said,” Don't be, I'm going to stay as one for a while now.”

Yang Ma scoffed. ”We will see about that,” he said.

The two of them separated and moved back to either side of the stage and waited for the referee to give them the go.

Alex shook his head and took out the Steel sword. This was most definitely overkill, but since Du Yuhan had made him see the ways of the sword, he was going to only use this one from now on.

At least until he could finally weird that heavy sword that no one else seemed to be able to pick. It was a wonder how the person who wielded it could even pick it up in the first place.

Yang Ma took his sword red-colored sword out and got ready to fight. Alex could see red light shine from the sword even though the sun hadn't gone down yet.

”BEGIN!”

The moment the referee said that, Alex immediately started his Jade Skin technique. A bunch of marble-like patterns appeared in his skin, increasing his overall defense by a realm or two.

At the same time, he waved his hands and a five-colored barrier appeared in front of him.

A fire-red slash struck the barrier and tried to go past it. Alex was ready to block the remainder of the attack with his own body, but…

BOOM

A massive explosion rang out from the barrier that pushed both Alex and Yang Ma backward. Alex was barely moved a foot backward, and the same was true for Yang Ma.

However, given how far they were from the explosion, it was easy to see who had the upper hand here.

”What happened?” Alex was surprised. He truly hadn't expected an explosion to occur like that. What he had expected was the fire element to significantly reduce and thus make the attack no longer a threat for him.

However, what happened was different.

'Heaven's Five Barrier is focused on controlling the element and lowering it, then why di—'

Just as Alex was thinking about it, he finally remembered. 'Ah right. My metal root. It's now way too strong for his fire, and is thus Ruining it when it comes into contact,' Alex thought.

'Does that mean… I'm invincible against him since my Supreme root is a direct competitor against his?' he wondered.

Yang Ma didn't know what had happened, but he was more than happy to send out another shot at Alex.

This time, Alex didn't use Heaven's Five barriers. Instead, he simply freely controlled the Qi in his body to form a metal Qi and brought it out forward to form a barrier on its own.

The slash struck the metal barrier and once more exploded the same way it did just before.

”What's happening?” Yang Ma couldn't help but shout. ”What are you doing to my attacks?”

”Hey! You can't blame me just because you're weak,” Alex said and readied his sword.

Yang Ma sent out another slash, and Alex did the same. Only his was golden, compared to Yang Ma's red slash.

BOOM

Another massive explosion rang on the stage. Only, this time, there wasn't just one slash to disappear.

A remaining golden slash flew towards Yang Ma who barely dodged it by using his movement technique.

”Damn you!” he shouted and immediately took a deep breath before blowing it all out from his mouth.

Along with his break came out a bird of red and blue. The reds slowly disappeared and soon it was only left with blue, a fire that was much, much hotter.

Alex had never seen this technique or this bird. However, even as clueless as he was, he knew what a phoenix was.

'That's quite extra,' he thought. He couldn't imagine how strong this technique was, but seeing flames of a different color, he got cautious.

”DIE!” Yang Ma shouted and made the flames fly down on him. Alex wanted to send out a slash, but then he remembered his master telling him to beat him with all he got.

”Very well,” Alex thought and let go of his sword.