Chapter 45: Defeat Mingde, Water-Extreme Mystical Master

“Brother Chu, please don’t do that!”

Li Wang did not expect Xu Yang to be so arrogant and Chu Mingde to be so rash. He was at the furthest position from Xu Yang. It was too late for him to save Xu Yang. He could only think to himself, ‘Xu Yang, bless you!’

Xu Yang frowned when he felt that there was a strong gust of wind coming from behind him. He quickly turned and extended his palm.

Fire Mystical Power appeared and collided with the yellow Earth Mystical Power. A strong billowing wind spread as a bang sounded. It caused everyone’s clothes to flutter and make rustling sounds.

The situation seemed to have been frozen solid when Xu Yang’s slender right palm tightly grabbed onto Chu Mingde’s right punch.

The slender Xu Yang seemed thin compared to Chu Mingde with a tall and strong figure. However, Chu Mingde’s thick fist was held by Xu Yang’s smaller palm.

All of them saw green veins appearing on Chu Mingde’s forehead. His body was forced into a half-lowered stance and his arm muscles were bulging. It was obvious that he had used all of his strength. However, his fist that was in Xu Yang’s palm could not move an inch.

On the contrary, Xu Yang had on a relaxed expression. His body was unmoved and his hand was still. It was easy to tell who was stronger.

Only Chu Mingde himself could understand the pain. He could feel that Xu Yang’s fingers were as hard as steel. As Xu Yang continued tightening his grip on Chu Mingde’s fist, he felt a severe pain running down his arm. He could imagine his bones rubbing against each other and groaning in pain.

“Huh… Let go!” Chu Mingde roared loudly. Earth-Mystical Power blasted and his right fist strength became even stronger. He launched a Mystical Power attack on Xu Yang with the intention of inflicting damage on both sides.

The Earth Mystical Power that Chu Mingde, who was in the Intermediate Mystical Warrior stage, possessed was strong. He was taking a risk, in hopes that Xu Yang only had strong physical strength but weak Mystical Power as Xu Yang had just entered the Mystical Warrior stage without the one year accumulation that he had.

The truth of the matter was, if Xu Yang were to blast all his eight-extremes’ Mystical Power, the strength he could exert would assuredly be more than double of Chu Mingde’s strength. However, it was not worth it for Xu Yang to reveal his true powers for such a small contention. He smiled and his right palm suddenly turned grey as if it was made of rock.

Chu Mingde launched all of his Mystical Power and finally escaped from Xu Yang’s grip. Thump! Thump! Thump! He was thrown back by his own exerted force and he retreated three steps backward. There were three fuzzy footprints left on the wooden floor of the Warm Pavilion, and slight cracks had appeared on the edges of the footprints.

Xu Yang stood still and did not look at Chu Mingde. He led Xu Yu and Song Tinglan to the window once again, showing his back to everyone present.

“Fuh…” Everyone inhaled sharply. Did Xu Yang really just advance into the Mystical Warrior stage? Chu Mingde’s physical strength should be in the top three among the people present but Xu Yang’s body strength seemed to be stronger than his. Chu Mingde did not have the advantage over him even though he had utilized his full Mystical Power.

“Xu Yang, you have formed the Fire Mystical Core!” Li Wang was surprised. “Everyone, I think that Xu Yang deserves to be known as a teenage genius. He is now a Fire-Extreme Mystical Warrior and he has the foundation of refining Spirit Elixirs. Xu Yang would be able to become a Grade-3 Alchemist Master in no time with his alchemy talent.”

Chu Mingde had suffered a big loss. He felt embarrassed and said indignantly, “He would need the help of a faction to prepare enough Spirit Herbs for him to squander. Little Official, I’m not feeling well. I’m going to take my leave now.”

Li Wang’s face revealed traces of regret seeing Chu Mingde take his leave with shame and anger, but his eyes flashed with a glint of delight as he said, “Take care of your body, Brother Chu.”

Ge Weifeng also got up and left his seat. He first apologized to Li Wang, then looked at Xu Yang and said provocatively, “Xu Yang, don’t think that you have defeated Brother Mingde because of your actual abilities. He just didn’t know that your physical strength is strong. It will be a battle between Mystical Power if it were a duel between two Mystical Warriors, and your opponent will surely not give you a chance to get close to him.”

Xu Yang did not respond, nor did he turn around. Ge Weifeng regarded Xu Yang’s behavior as disregarding his words. This made him even angrier.

“It will be the Sea-Cloud Academy’s selection of special envoys in a month’s time. If you are eligible to participate, I will teach you a lesson then.” Ge Weijun said coldly. Then, he sarcastically added, “The thing is, we don’t even know if you have that kind of qualification needed to participate!”

The atmosphere became heavy with Ge Weifeng’s departure, they no longer had the mood to enjoy themselves and left one by one.

Li Wang came slowly from behind Xu Yang who had not turned around a single time. It was as if the people sitting behind him were not the teenage geniuses of the entire Lin Yuan City, disregarding their presence entirely like they were nothing but the air around him.

“My apologies for being a disturbance to your gathering, Little Official.” Xu Yang smiled and said.

“We are friends. It is normal for young people to have such a hot temper. I won’t call it a disturbance.” Li Wang was not bothered. He went close to the window and looked down at the situation in the ring. “You seem interested in the duel between the two dojos.”

“I’m just interested in the duel between the Mystical Masters.” Xu Yang answered. “Which match is it now? Why do the people of Vast-Gate Dojo appear to be scared? ”

Li Wang had a kind of gleeful look as he said, “The rule of the duel is the best two of three matches. The strength of Vast-Gate Dojo is definitely stronger, but the arrangement of their battle sequence is terrible…” He told Xu Yang about Fire-Cloud Dojo that had sent out their master in the very first round.

“There are also such strategies in horse racing. One would use the worst horse against the best horses of the opponents, the best horse against the opponents’ good horses, and a good horse against the opponents’ worst horses. Although they will be defeated once, they can win two rounds.” Xu Yang nodded. It seemed that Fire-Cloud Dojo was prepared beforehand, but how did they get their opponent’s battle sequence? He was certain that it was related to the Li family who was in charge of the duel.

However, these were not things that Xu Yang had to be concerned about. Both Vast-Gate Dojo and Fire-Cloud Dojo had bad relations with him and there was even some hatred involved.

“It is the second round now. Qi Hong, the young master of Vast-Gate Dojo, is matched with Yang Lianting, the younger brother of Fire-Cloud Dojo’s master.” Li Wang introduced the participants as he knew that Xu Yang did not recognize them. “Although Qi Hong is only in the Primary Mystical Master stage, he was fully cultivated by Vast-Gate Dojo from a young age. Hence, he possesses many Mystical Techniques. He is much stronger and is able to fight against Yang Lianting who is in the Intermediate Mystical Master stage.”

Xu Yang looked carefully at the situation on the ring, it was not complicated. Every hit launched by Qi Hong, dressed in a cyan-colored suit, was wrapped with surging Fire Mystical Power. They were either in the form of a tiger or an owl and were pouncing toward Yang Lianting. It seemed that Qi Hong had the upper hand in attacking while Yang Lianting was more passive as ninety percent of his moves were defensive ones.

“Water-Extreme Mystical Master.” Xu Yang said in surprise when he saw Yang Lianting waving his hand and a blue wave wrapped the Fire Mystical Eagle that was headed toward him, extinguishing it.

“It’s strange for Fire-Cloud Dojo to send a Water-Extreme Mystical Master to participate in the duel.” Li Wang laughed and said, “This battle has been going on for an hour and Yang Lianting is constantly being suppressed by Qi Hong. His defeat is already in the books. In this way, Fire-Cloud Dojo will not have a chance to overturn the last round that Qi Liancheng will participate in.”

It was well-known that Water-Extreme Mystical Cultivators were not good at combat and this was related to the characteristics of Water Mystical Power. It was not as overbearing as Fire Mystical Power, nor as elegant as Wind Mystical Power. It was also not heavy like Earth Mystical Power.

“The battle has been going on for an hour?” Xu Yang was shocked. “Little Official, I’m afraid you have guessed wrongly. It should be Fire-Cloud Dojo’s victory this round.”

“Why?” Li Wang was puzzled.

“It’s because Yang Lianting is a Water-Extreme Mystical Master.” Xu Yang explained. “Although Water Mystical Power is not as intense as Fire Mystical Power, it can last for a longer time and even Earth-Mystical Power cannot be compared to it. This battle has lasted for more than an hour. It will be harder for Qi Hong to win now as he has taken too long a time to defeat Yang Lianting. If I guessed it right, Yang Lianting will start to fight back soon.”