Chapter 300 - Thousand Returning Blades, Sky Rejecting Slash (1/2)

The two lazy people were as sloppy as they were since the beginning. With no battle intent seen on their faces, the odd duo immediately attracted the attention of tens of thousands of eyes.

Xue Tian’s smile was also filled with laziness. With his katana still in its scabbard, he gently rubbed the corner of his nose with an up and down motion and turned to look at Qin Fen, “Old Qin, are you interested in placing a bet? How long will it take for me to beat him?”

Qin Fen looks stunned. Xue Tian was the most unpredictable among these recruits. If someone else was to be put against Brooks, it would be easier to estimate. But only Xue Tian’s ability was unpredictable; how good or bad was he?

“Old Qin, I bet that I will end this battle with three strokes.” Xue Tian raised his three fingers high above the head with a weird smile on his face, making others unable to guess whether he was joking or bluffing.

Qin Fen’s eyes beamed with surprise. Brooks was not a weak contestant in this tournament. He was truly at the pinnacle among the seven-star martial artist and may advance into eight-star at any time. Even if Qin Fen were to fight Brooks himself, if Brooks placed effort into prolonging the battle, he still wouldn’t be a character that could be taken down with a stroke.

Three strokes? Qin Fen looked at Xue Tian from the head to toe again. This feat required a minimum ability of eight-star martial artist and extreme control!

“Three strokes?”

Brooks’s usual drowsy yet handsome face showed a proud smile this time. Even if Qin Fen personally came to fight him, he would not dare to say that he could take him down within three strokes.

A series of icy mechanical yet emotionless voice from the loudspeakers slowly sounded. “Brooks from the American region please come up to the stage…”

The sound echoed in the sky of the stadium. Brooks turned back and pulled a saber from the waist of an American recruit near him. Both his feet stomped the ground and his body was like a projectile shot by a high-pressure spring. After a few ascents and descents, he jumped to the center of the battlefield.

The saber in his hand lightly swung behind him. The bright sword reflected the sunlight directly on Xue Tian’s pair of eyes. He stood proudly at the center of the battlefield and gave people a feeling that the person and the sword were one entity!

In martial arts, there was a saying known as the human and the sword becomes one, human and the blade becomes one, as well as human and the spear becomes one.

At this moment, Brooks’ performance reminded people of the words often spoken by martial artists who used their weapons frequently.

The audience was stunned by the fact that Brooks was also a martial artist that used weapons! Upon looking at Brook’s smooth hands with no weapon grip bruises and looking like a pianist’s hands, everyone always assumed that he was a bare-handed fighting expert who does not use weapons.

It wasn’t until Brooks held the weapon in his hands that people knew they were wrong! He was a saber user! The saber in the hand was connected with him through blood and veins at this very moment! This saber was his main blade and it definitely was not borrowed from others in the spur of the moment.

At this moment, the eyes of the audience gradually glowed with excitement.

A truly successful swordsman was not determined by being identified as a swordsman at a glance. The real swordsman should be good at hiding his identity and only when he was using a blade would he be a swordsman.

More people began to look up at the replay in the projection screen. From the start of the Brooks’ entry, he made several ejections on the ground surface. Each shot looked like it dealt a huge impact, but as seen from the playback, the ground he stepped had no signs of being damaged.

“He did not disappoint as one of the Twin Stars of the American Recruits!”

“Yeah! Look at his amazing aura, there is no damage to the places he had stepped on at all. It seems that he had achieved a separate control of both his potential and strength.”

“Unfortunately, he has not achieved the strength of an eight-star, or else Qin Fen might not be qualified to be the current number one recruit.”

“Keke, even if Qin Fen was Brooks’ opponent now, it doesn’t mean that he would definitely win against Brooks.”

“That is indeed true. Brooks is already at the pinnacle of seven-stars. If he was against Qin Fen, he may suddenly break through the pressure from the other side. If so, Qin Fen might be in trouble.”

The three commentators with their neverending commentary had made audience members who were unaware of Brook’s tyrannical strength clear about how powerful he was.

At the same time, many viewers also looked curiously at Xue Tian. Did Xue Tian know about how strong Brooks actually was, to the extent where no other seven-star could challenge him anymore, so he had placed bets on himself losing? Not that because he wanted to lose, but because he knew that winning was not an option?

Bai Sheng looked at Brooks with eyes filled with a bit of appreciation. This young recruit had improved again! And the improvement speed was very fast. He was only window-paper thin apart from being an eight-star. With a little push, this window paper would immediately be torn.

Advancement to eight-star? Bai Sheng smiled confidently. For Brooks to enter the eight-stars in the next moment would not be a surprising thing.

Brooks has the qualification to compete with Qin Fen as the champion! Bai Sheng was convinced of this.

“Xue Tian from the East Asian Region please…”

Xue Tian put the katana on his shoulders and did not use any movement technique. Like taking a stroll, he walked leisurely towards the center of the battlefield. He stood in front of Brooks slackly and he continued to stretch his lazy waist.

Many viewers laughed. The two recruits were considered to be well known as lazy recruits in the tournament. If both of them were competing with being lazy, then Xue Tian would have won.

It’s a pity that today’s two sides are not competing with their laziness, but with real fists!

Many people began to suspect that Xue Tian might throw his weapon away and surrender at the very first moment the tournament bell rang.

After all, since entering the top sixteen, Xue Tian did something incomprehensible, where he publicly exposed his finishing move.

“Lead broadcast, please focus on Qin Fen. Recruit Qin Fen, as the lead in the current recruit tournament, what do you think? How big is Xue Tian’s winning chance?”

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Qin Fen shook his head and did not answer. Brooks was already at the peak of the seven-stars and it may not be surprising for him to advance into the eight-stars with this battle.

“Keke, since you have no comments, then let’s look at the upcoming tournament then.”

“I hope that no one will be killed as swords have no eyes.”

“Yes, that’s right! As you may see, the blade in Brooks’ hand is definitely a good blade.”

Xue Tian looked at Brooks and the blade in his hand. It’s a three-foot-long, two-inch-wide Damascus with cloud patterns on it.

One glance at the long blade was sufficient to give a person a suffocating feeling to hide.

First-class blade! First-class individual.

Brooks was born in the military. In his lazy temperament, he emitted a contradictory aura of hard work as a militant.

Brooks before he entered the battlefield and when he was outside the battlefield were two different concepts.

At this moment, there was no sign of fatigue in his body. The battle intent hidden in the body was dispersed through the skin, through the bones, and through the saber!

Brooks also stared at Xue Tian’s katana. The most terrible thing about this kind of blade was the moment it was drawn! As long as he doesn’t draw out the sword, it would always be a poisonous snake hidden in the dark that anyone should be cautious about.

The bell of the game suddenly sounded at this moment.

Brooks’s upper body pressed forward and his neat military uniform immediately was erupted by the true energy. The eruption made squeaking sound with the friction of his high-speed movement.

In an instant, he took the first step and wiped away the twenty meters distance between the two men! Close to using teleportation, he appeared in front of Xue Tian, showing the glorious side that the peak of the seven-star martial artist should have.

The body is pressed downwards again! The blade was drawn and a backhand appeared from the bottom!

The blade left a long silver arc in the air.

Qin Fen’s lips opened slightly. The speed was fast! The distance of twenty meters was covered in only two steps, but in many people’s eyes, it was just one step instead of two.

These two steps, although not comparable to the brutal outburst from the mammoth-like power of Qin Fen, wasn’t a strength that anyone in the seven-star ranking should underestimate.

The most horrifying thing was Brooks’s state of mind. The very instant the battle began, he seemed to become the war-mad Ashura in the malevolent state. His immense pressure suddenly rose sharply and the power ignited was enough to kill the fish-scaled gorilla that Qin Fen once killed.

“The sacred magic swordplay, Shura breaking path? Oh? Also combined with the Australian swordplay, the artistry of sword drawing? Oh? There is also the large sword swordplay from the Spring and Autumn swordplay?”

Xue Tian’s eyes were brimming with shock. The godly state that Brook’s hand, body, and legs displayed in that instant showed swordplay that infused three different swordplays.

Learning from others and combining the strength and advantages from it to create swordplay that suited you the most. This is the same as Qin Fen’s Martial Emperor Dragon Fists, which belonged to a new homemade martial art!

Bai Sheng’s eyes were even more shocked. Brook’s swordsmanship wouldn’t be considered as a great achievement but among the seven-star martial artists, this skill was already top-notch. Furthermore, it was his homemade skill. He was a young person with unlimited potential in his future.

With a single slash, Brook’s spirit had reached an unprecedented state. The blade had yet to touch the target, but he already felt the horrific look of defeat that Xue Tian had with this one slash.

Yang Lie’s eyes suddenly contracted like a needle tip and were brimming with a little bit of admiration. This was the origin of Brooks’s nickname.