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Chapter 342
One second.Two.Then the stands erupted.Not gradually—this was an eruption that had been waiting since Li Mingzhi hit the protective array, held back for two seconds by the collective shock of twenty thousand people who all needed nearly the same amount of time to process what had just happened in front of their eyes."INCREDIBLE!""I HAVE NEVER SEEN A FIGHT LIKE THIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!""TWELVE SLASHES—TWELVE!—AND NOT A SINGLE ONE LANDED!""HE BEAT LI MINGZHI! LI MINGZHI!"The voices were uneven, uncoordinated, with no single source that could be pointed to. This was the sound of thousands of people all speaking at the same moment about the same thing in different ways—cheering mixed with shouting mixed with outcries, all of it producing a noise that filled the entire arena from the lowest tier of the stands to the highest.Some stood—without realizing it, with the way feet make decisions before the head has a chance to be consulted—and yelled in ways that didn't reflect how they n
Chapter 341
In the stands, no one made a sound.Because what they were witnessing had no easy words to describe it.Twelve slashes each sufficient on its own to end a fight—not one touching its target, not because the target was running but because the target was always one position ahead, faster than each slash could arrive at where the target should still have been.Seventh, eighth, ninth—Still nothing landed.The frustration on Li Mingzhi's face was no longer something that could be hidden. His best technique, one that had never failed in hundreds of fights before this, that required most of what he had to draw out—and not a single slash had touched the fabric of the man across from him.Tenth, eleventh—Then—The twelfth slash.The last one.The strongest.All the spiritual energy remaining from the eleven slashes before it—each of which had already spent a small portion—now channeled into one final strike.This wasn't eleven times the first slash. This was everything that remained gathered
Chapter 340
Li Mingzhi stood.One long breath—controlled, in the way of someone drawing something up from a place that wasn't shallow. His left hand came down from his chest. The expression that had shown something new returned to one more practiced.He tightened his grip on his sword hilt.In his head, the calculation was complete.The fight so far had been enough to produce one conclusion that couldn't be avoided: the man across from him was too strong to defeat by ordinary means.Everything Li Mingzhi had already put out—speed, precision, technique that had taken years to build—wasn't enough to break through a defense that never looked like a defense because there was nothing to defend when attacks never arrived.There was one technique he hadn't used yet.Not because he didn't want to, but because that technique carried a cost that wasn't small—drawing it out too early in this tournament meant entering the subsequent rounds in a condition far from ideal.But not drawing it out meant acknowled
Chapter 339
In the Five Great Sects' pavilion, no one spoke for a few seconds after that cough.Not because no one wanted to speak, but because each of them was processing something in their own way—and the first to finish was the first to speak.Lei Qinghe."That man is holding back."Her voice came out the way it always did—measured, every word in its right place. Her eyes didn't move from the arena below, from the two people still standing at their respective positions after that kick."Li Mingzhi has already pushed his full capacity. But the one across from him—" A brief pause. "He hasn't even used half."Dao Tianyue gave a slow nod—a small head movement for a neck that was anything but small."Their power levels are on par. I can feel the spiritual energy of each of them." His large hands rested on his knees. "But that man—he has a thorough understanding of how to maximize every part of his potential. Nothing wasted. No movement just for show." His eyes narrowed slightly. "He is extraordinar
Chapter 338
KRAANG.The impact didn't produce an ordinary sound. This was the sound of two spiritual energies meeting at one point and refusing to give ground to each other—producing a burst of air that pushed outward from the point of contact in every direction at once.The stone floor beneath them cracked in several places. Participants still fighting within the nearest twenty-meter radius lost their footing for one second before finding it again.Caelan was pushed back four steps.Li Mingzhi was pushed back four steps.Equal distance.Equal speed.They stood at two symmetrical points from that point of impact, in the way of two people who had just put out enough to respect each other from what had just been felt in each of their palms.One second.Then both moved again.Li Mingzhi attacked from the right—a short horizontal slash, at a higher speed than his first, moving from the hip rather than the shoulder and therefore giving no signal from the way the shoulder moved before the attack arrive
Chapter 337
Caelan moved.Not in one direction. This was movement with no straight line in it—reading the space, finding gaps between fights already underway, and moving through them.Three seconds after Su Ming went down. First casualty.A large man with an axe, mid-swing at the opponent in front of him, never noticed something approaching from his side. Caelan entered the axe's swing radius at the exact moment the swing passed him, and one light strike landed at the Yanglingquan point outside his left knee—the same point used before, the one that severed the connection between the brain's command and the leg's ability to bear weight.His left leg folded.The axe embedded itself in the stone floor as its owner lost his balance.Caelan was no longer there when the axe hit the stone.The opponent who had been facing the axe man stared in confusion toward a direction completely different from where he should have been looking, and Caelan wasn't there either.Five seconds. Two people.The third—a wo
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