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Chapter 344
Lei Qinghe's words fell into the arena like a stone into water.And the ripple spread in every direction. To the stands, to the pavilions, to everyone standing and sitting and still processing what they had witnessed in the past two minutes.Join one of the Five Great Sects?!That wasn't a sentence that could simply be accepted. It was a sentence that needed to be pulled from the ear and held up in front of the eyes for another examination—because this kind of sentence didn't come out often, never came out without a very large reason, and was never directed at someone who had only just appeared today from a sect that wasn't on anyone's list of names worth considering.In the stands, the shock was there, but it wasn't alone.There was something behind it that was denser—something without a pleasant name but very real. Envy that couldn't be suppressed even when someone knew suppressing it was what they should be doing.Joining one of the Five Great Sects was something spoken of in dream
Chapter 343
Caelan looked at the more than twenty people moving toward him.From various angles—with different weapons, with spiritual energy at varying intensities, with the same calculation in each of their heads.Faces that didn't hide what they were thinking because there was no need to hide it when the numbers on their side felt so reasonable.Caelan drew one breath.Then vanished.Didn't jump. Didn't run. No transition that could be reconstructed from the last visible position to the next one. There was only the last visible position, and then there was nothing there anymore.Caelan's sudden disappearance sent every one of those attacks into empty air.Truly empty air. No body, no robe, no resistance from anything that should have been there.An axe swung through a space already vacated. A sword thrust found the stone floor. A punch released with full spiritual energy hit something that didn't exist.More than twenty people stood with weapons already drawn, surrounding a center that was emp
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
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