Chapter 290: Unstoppable Black Heaven Sect, The Ongoing Third Round
“Young Emperor, is that all you have?”
Murong Xuan was astonished to see Linghu Teng lying on the ground.
He had antic.i.p.ated this to be a challenging battle, but he did not expect to have defeated that Young Emperor that easily.
‘That’s it?’
He thought about it and realized.
It was because Linghu Teng was too weak.
There were reasons why his opponent fell so quickly.
Firstly, his opponent underestimated him.
Secondly, with Chu Kuangren’s help, not only did he understand his opponent’s abilities, but he was fully aware of the weakness in his opponent’s techniques as well.
Thirdly, he had improved so much in the past few months that his strength was already on par with Linghu Teng.
Both sides had equal strengths. However, one underestimated his opponent while the other took no risks, and one was clueless about his opponent’s strength while the other understood his opponent like the palm of his hands.
Based on those arguments, it was only natural that Linghu Teng would lose that quickly.
Although Murong Xuan could figure that out, and some Sect Leaders and other sky-prides could clearly see what Murong Xuan did, the audience could not!
All they saw was Murong Xuan attacking head-on and defeating the Young Emperor Linghu Teng in lightning speed!
Everyone was amazed by his terrifying combat strength.
“My G.o.d, who is this guy?”
“He defeated Linghu Teng with just a few moves. How the h.e.l.l can there be such a powerful sky-pride in the Black Heaven Sect!”
“That’s just horrifying!”
“I know him, that person is Murong Xuan. I heard he was the main reason that Chu Kuangren went to the Murong clan and killed both of their Sages one year ago!”
“By the heavens. Black Heaven Sect led the first round by nineteen points, and because Lan Yu single-handedly challenged a hundred beasts in the second round, they took all the points for that. Now this Murong Xuan defeats a Young Emperor in just a few moves… Are the Black Heaven Sect people on drugs? Their performance is just too remarkable!”
Amidst the audience’s astonishment, Murong Xuan took in the crowd’s long-awaited cheer and admiration. He stretched open both of his arms and declared loudly, “Our Black Heaven Sect is the strongest! We’re unstoppable!”
“We’re winning this champions.h.i.+p!”
His declaration of a.s.sured victory boosted the atmosphere within the arena!
“Black Heaven Sect!”
“Black Heaven Sect!”
“Black Heaven Sect…”
Everyone was cheering Black Heaven Sect’s name.
None of them felt that Murong Xuan was boasting because the results that the Black Heaven Sect partic.i.p.ants had demonstrated already convinced everyone.
The Black Heaven Sect was unstoppable!
“Is everyone from the Black Heaven Sect that arrogant?”
Unlike the cheering audience, the sky-prides from other orthodoxies who were their opponents had a terribly unpleasant expression on them.
Since the Black Heaven Sect had stolen all the thunder, what was the point of their partic.i.p.ation anyways? Were they there just as fodder to prop up the Black Heaven Sect’s glory?
Chu Kuangren burst out laughing in the skybox when he heard that. “I’ve never noticed this before, but has Murong Xuan always been this c.o.c.ky?”
He had no objection to this though.
Having undergone two months’ worth of his training (torture), Murong Xuan and the others deserved to bask in the audience’s cheers. They had the strength to be so c.o.c.ky.
Group Delta’s second match.
It was a fight between the Heaven Chord Sect’s Lady Snowflake and a sky-pride from the Eight Wind Palace.
The guqin music that came out of Lady Snowflake’s guqin was startling, and along with some spiritual energy, the guqin sound waves spread towards the sky-pride, attaching him.
Compared to Murong Xuan’s swift battle, this one lasted around an hour. In the end, Lady Snowflake won.
The third, fourth, and fifth matches lasted four hours in total.
The sixth match.
Nangong Huang walked into the arena.
“It’s finally my turn.”
With a grin, he looked towards his opponent.
The sky-pride he was fighting against from the Thunder Falcon Tribe. Although he was not as powerful as Lei Mingtian, he was extremely skilled as well.
It was a pity that his opponent was Nangong Huang.
“Thunder Falcon Tribe, huh? If I recall correctly, you guys used to have two Young Emperors, am I right? One of them was Young Emperor Lei Ao, a sky-pride from the previous era, who was killed by my Sect Leader. The second one is Young Emperor Lei Mingtian who seemed to have fallen under my Sect Leader’s hand as well. Speaking of which, there’s quite a lot of bad blood between our sects.”
Nangong Huang smiled faintly.
“Cut the nonsense and bring it on!”
The Thunder Falcon Tribe’s sky-pride glared at Nangong Huang seriously as streaks of silver-white thunder gathered all around his body. The moment he stomped the ground, his whole body instantly shot out into the air like a cannonball!
On the other hand, Nangong Huang unleashed his Deep Pool Rainbow Sword into the sky and a surge of sword qi erupted like a raging tsunami. The range of his attack was so wide that it covered more than half of the arena and it immediately sent the Thunder Falcon Tribe’s sky-pride flying.
One move was enough to blast that Thunder Falcon Tribe sky-pride away. Since the countless sword qi had riddled his body with cuts and injuries, that sky-pride could no longer continue the fight.
“Sage Technique, Tide Surging Sword Art!”
Nangong Huang sheathed his sword and chuckled. No longer bothered with the Thunder Falcon Tribe sky-pride, he kept his sword before he turned and left.
Only the crowd of cheering audience remained.
“Another Black Heaven Sect disciple wins again!”
“One attack was all he used.”
“It’s just too awesome. No one will be able to stop the Black Heaven Sect now.”
…
“Sage Technique? That’s a Sage Technique that has never been seen before. Did one of the Black Heaven Sect Sages create this new technique?”
Some of the Sect Leaders who were familiar with Black Heaven Sect were puzzled since every orthodoxy only a handful of Sage Techniques.
The same thing could be said for Black Heaven Sect as well.
However, they had never seen the Sage Technique that Nangong Huang displayed earlier.
Hence, there could only be two explanations for this. It was either obtained by Nangong Huang’s Opportunity of Fortune or that the Black Heaven Sect had added a new Sage Technique at their disposal.
If it was the latter, it meant that not only Nangong Huang but all the remaining disciples of the Black Heaven Sect could have that Sage Technique too.
This thought shocked the Sect Leaders from the other orthodoxies. Had the Black Heaven Sect grown so much without them knowing?
Out twelve sky-prides from six orthodoxies, six people had emerged victorious from the six matches earlier.
The six of them were Nangong Huang and Murong Xuan of Black Heaven Sect, Lei Mingtian of Thunder Falcon Tribe, Lady Snowflake of Heaven Chord Sect, Li Yin from the Daoist School of Dedication, and Xiao Tianye.
As for both the Linghu clan and Eight Wind Palace, none of their sky-prides were going onto the next match.
The Linghu clan reputation, in particular, had been dragged through the mud since their Young Emperor was beaten unconscious by Murong Xuan.
The six sky-prides drew lots again, starting a new match for Group Delta.
“Huh, Lei Mingtian?”
Nangong Huang looked at the opponent he drew and could not help but felt surprised. “Now that I’m going to fight one of them again, it seems like Black Heaven Sect and Thunder Falcon Tribe really are fated to be enemies.”
“I got the Heaven Chord Sect’s Lady Snowflake. Tsk, fighting a woman really sucks.”
Murong Xuan laughed.
“I hope Brother Murong will show some mercy when that time comes.” Lady Snowflake walked up to Murong Xuan and chuckled.
“Ha, of course. Uh… We’re up first and it’s about to begin,” Murong Xuan uttered as he noticed the sequence.
Shortly after, the rest of the other sky-prides left the arena.
Murong Xuan and Lady Snowflake were left facing each other in the arena, with a distance of about thirty meters between them.
“Begin.”
The referee ordered.
Lady Snowflake immediately took out her guqin, and when she plucked the strings, guqin music transformed into razor-sharp blades and unleashed them towards Murong Xuan.
“Heavenly Radiant Sword Art!” Murong Xuan uttered as he channeled the power of Crimson Sun Daoist Physique to its peak and a large sun conjured in the sky.
He then unleashed an attack from his sword and along with the majestic force of nature, a vast surge of sword qi erupted towards Lady Snowflake. Wherever that attack went, it instantly shattered the guqin music!
Lady Snowflake’s pupils widened when she saw that incoming attack.
‘He’s starting with such a powerful technique!’
‘This is your so-called mercy?’