Chapter 476 - One Sided (2/2)

Immediately, he brought both of his hands in front of him and started releasing Qi from it. It was the same Qi that he usually used when he had to control fire for alchemy, except with a key difference.

He was using True Qi.

The bluebird stopped right in front of him as he immediately gained control of it. Yang Ma tried to move the bird, but it was no longer under his control. He had lost connection with it.

His eyes went wide in surprise as he looked at Alex in horror.

”Do you want it back?” Alex asked with a sly smile. Without waiting for Yang Ma's answer, he sent the bird flying back towards him.

The bird flew at a speed that was impossible to Yang Ma's eyes. Yang Ma tried to dodge, but that wasn't going to happen at all.

Even the elder felt like he was going to be a step late to protecting Yang Ma.

However, right before the bird struck him, it stopped. It flew, and moved around in an obviously fake manner, going around Yang Ma's head, horrifying at the thought of it hitting him at any time.

”Give up,” Alex said.

”N- NO!” Yang Ma shouted.

”If you say so,” Alex said and dropped the bird on him. The bird wasn't as fast anymore when it dropped towards Yang Ma.

Yang Ma immediately tried to form an attack to block the bird, but he had lost sight of his main threat right now.

Suddenly, he felt a fist land on his stomach. Even as his mind realized what was happening, his body couldn't react. So, despite not wanting it to happen, his body flew out of the stage and into the crowd.

The few members in the crowd that was looking, looked in silence at another one-sided victory that lead to Yang Ma's defeat.

The dropping bird immediately stopped and perched upon Alex's shoulders in a manner Pearl never could.

”I wouldn't mind having a bonded bird beast sometimes,” he thought.

The elder announced his victory and Alex smiled and took back his badge.

'Still, using True Qi in battle is not as efficient, huh?' he thought. He hadn't even used much True Qi to handle the bird, but he already lost 5% of it.

'It will only to truly viable to use True Qi when I can start getting it passively. And that would only be in the True realms,' he thought. Finally, he looked back at the bird and wondered, ”how strong are you?”

He ordered the bird to attack the ground in the middle, and it left his shoulder to go attack.

The bird was incredibly fast and it struck the ground at the perfect angle.

BOOM

A massive sound rang out, followed by a bunch of small rocks falling on top of him. When the dust settled, Alex's jaw dropped to make a similarly large hole as he had at the center of the stage.

The stage for stronger disciples was made with very strong stones that wouldn't break easily even under intense battles. However, seeing the massive hole on the ground made him understand the strength of the True Qi.

However, True Qi alone couldn't possibly make this much of a mess. That was when he realized how terribly strong the attack Yang Ma was using on him.

'Where the hell did he get such a strong technique?' Alex wondered.

The elder came to scold him, and Alex made a small lie saying his bird was starting to go unstable, which was why he had to throw it out.

The elder was convinced after seeing the disaster, so Alex was able to get out without getting into trouble.

He walked down the stairs and heard someone shout ”Junior brother” towards him.

”Huh?” he thought and looked aside to see someone in there that he would have never thought to see in this place before.

”Brother Xiao?” he called in surprise.

Xiao Huang was in the crowd, below the stage right now.

”Hey, junior brother, Good job on the fight just now. You did amazing,” Xiao Huang said with a massive smile.

Alex looked to the side, expecting to see Luo Xing, but she wasn't there.

”What are you doing here, brother Xiao? I thought you would still be in Rubyroad city,” he said.

”Oh, no. We came back today,” he said.

”We?” Alex asked with a gasp. ”Does that mean sister is back too?”

”Yeah, both of them are,” Xiao Huang said while pointing towards a crowd in the distance with his head. The crowd on that side was infinitely larger than what it was for him and Yang Ma.

Alex looked towards there and saw a red-robed woman, standing out in the midst of many yellow-robed disciples. She wasn't looking in Alex's direction at all and was instead staring at the stage in front of her.

Alex turned his head towards the stage and saw a massive Iceball floating in the air, with a person inside flapping about, trying to breathe.

Beneath the ice ball, was a single woman with both of her arms up, controlling the ice.

Luo Mei was back.