Chapter 413 - Soldier vs Soldier; General vs General; A Fight Between the Strongest! (1/2)
Who was the most famous martial artist in the Sacred Martial Hall? It’s Wu Zun! He represented the glory of the entire Sacred Martial Hall, and at the same time acted as the best assurance of the Sacred Martial Hall in terms of martial prowess.
However, who was the most famous among the young martial artists of the Sacred Martial Hall? The Martial Madman it was! Ninety-nine out of a hundred martial artists would shout his name in response to that question.
Some time had passed since Qin Fen came to the Sacred Martial Hall. From his observations, the Martial Madman was frequently heard from many people in the Sacred Martial Hall. Furthermore, almost everyone that mentioned the Martial Madman displayed looks of awe and admiration on their faces.
Many might know the name of the Martial Madman, but few had really seen the appearance of the Martial Madman.
Standing in the middle among the people on the ring, the Martial Madman wore a light-grey martial artist suit. He had slender fingers and bright skin radiating with vitality. In terms of body figure, even in a place like the Sacred Martial Hall where most people were fit, the Martial Madman’s figure gave the feeling of a cut above the rest. Harmonically balanced, the Martial Madman presented the perfect figure.
Martial Madman also had a very good-looking appearance with symmetric facial features as well as skin that was bright, smooth, and tight; his light brown complexion radiating energetic energy to people around him.
Martial Madman squinted his eyes as his slightly thick lips partially opened, emanating lively energy filled with vitality and at the same time masking some of his wildness within. His red eyes resembling rubies, in turn, complemented his wildness by enhancing his wildness to higher levels.
The audience stared intently at the Martial Madman, Nash. This martial artist with golden hair and red eyes and a tall nose successfully fended off both extreme attacks with both of his hands in opposite directions without any injury.
The audience clearly understood the strength of Caesar and Yang Lie’s destructive power. They were almost invincible among the ten-star martial artists. Even if they fought an eleven-star martial artist, both of them might even create unexpected results.
Recently, every person on his team had received a lot of attention from the audience due to the strong growth of Qin Fen.
The moment Yang Lie and Caesar showed off their power, many martial artists that had never seen Nash the Martial Madman had assumed the power both Yang Lie and Caesar to be on the same level as Nash.
Both of them possessed amazing power, and they were going to band up and fight against one person? Even twelfth-star martial artists would choose to dodge the direct hit only to retaliate later.
However, Nash the Martial Madman took the blow as if it was nothing! The Martial Madman even clamored for other martial artists to gang up on him as he felt that it was a boring battle.
Compared to the audience, Caesar, who was in the center of the battle was showing an expression of shock that exceeded the rest. The New Nine Suns Divine Art had revealed Caesar’s accumulated hidden potential and allowed him to display it within a short time. Despite his powers skyrocketing as a result of his hard work, his attack was easily taken on by this legendary martial artist whom he had never met.
This sensation of shock would not be felt similarly by other martial artists in the audience seat.
In a split moment, the pupils of Mourad, Brooks, and Solomon were reduced to the size of a needle. They might not be fully clear about Yang Lie’s fighting capabilities due to the lack of dueling, but they knew very well about Caesar’s capabilities.
On a one-on-one fight with Caesar, the three of them couldn’t guarantee that they would emerge victorious, as their odds of winning were only fifty percent. As to who was able to achieve the final victory, the answer could only be known after an actual fight.
Yang Lie’s boxing techniques were not at all inferior to Caesar, nor would he be any worse than Caesar. Even then, such a powerful duo was seemingly useless in the face of Nash, the Martial Madman.
Yang Lie was even more surprised than Caesar and the others. He had been training under hellish conditions to improve his martial arts recently. Yang Lie thought he could finally grow stronger and be the third strongest member in Qin Fen’s team. However not only he did not expect to have equal strength as Caesar, Yang Lie also did not expect the legendary Martial Madman to be way stronger than he imagined.
Qin Fen nodded a little. This Martial Madman really did live up to his name.
Yang Lie and Caesar both possessed different forms of internal art, with one having the affinity of Yang, and the other having the affinity of Yin. As their internal art flows swiftly through their meridians, it was either flowing with flaming heat or chilling cold that induced goosebump.
Even for martial artists who were better than them by a few stars would also flinch if they were to receive a strike from either of them. Imagine what would happen if they were to receive both attacks at the same time?
The totally distinct Yin and Yang attacks from Yang Lie and Caesar emanated two completely different kinds of true energy, which boosted their attack power beyond one performed by two martial artists.
One plus one does not equate to two sometimes.
For example, the outbreak of power from both of the opposing true energies at the same time would instantly defeat their opponent the moment their opponent was slightly distracted.
“Not addictive, extremely not addictive!”
The Martial Madman blocked that catastrophic attack with only both of his hands, all the while looking at Morad and the gang near the ring. “What are you guys still looking at? Come up here and fight me together!”
A commotion was once again raised among the martial artists in the audience. The Martial Madman was actually being serious! This group of young martial artists onstage who had easily and successively defeated countless Sacred Martial Hall’s senior martial artists had really hit a real dead end today for the very first time.
“Together?”
The Little Dragon King, Yang Lie’s eyes raised slightly, showing his star-like pupils that were covered with clear streaks of blood, as well as emanating fear from his murderous gaze. His body was poised in a horse stance, as he slightly moved his body backward, forming an archery stance by shifting his center-of-gravity towards his leg. His tilted body showed off a powerful stance, as if it’s the Leaning Tower of Pisa, tilting firmly on the ring.
As he completed the archery stance, Yang Lie’s Dragon Cannon fiercely vibrated! Sending shockwaves through his shoulders, waist, calves, and to the earth through anti-seismic force!
In the blink of an eye, power traveled across his body like a connected wire, forming a huge rotation axis. Yang Lie used the “Dragon Cannon” to propel his leg that lost its balance. That leg swept towards the head of the Martial Madman like a dragon’s tail.
This was one of the classic tactics of the Dragon Fist – the Dragon Tail Sweep!
In the art of the spear, people called this the “Back-thrust” technique, which also resembled the Sweeping Slash technique from ancient battles.
Most might know how to perform the Dragon Tail Sweep, yet only a few were able to master it. It was said that the dragon flips over the moment one tilts their bodies. But if the dragon flips over in mid-air, the results must be catastrophic.
Yang Lie’s previous move consisted of Qin Fen’s version of Dragon Cannon, as well as Qin Fen’s spiritual implantation on his limb movements. Now, Yang Lie had completely discarded traces of Qin Fen in his martial dao, thereby becoming a True Dragon of Nine Skies!
Qin Fen’s path of martial dao was still the divine dao. Although it was considered a Dragon Fist just like Yang Lie’s, there were still major differences between them, or else there wouldn’t even be the title of Martial Emperor for his Dragon Fist.
With his path of martial dao restored and no longer a copy of Qin Fen in martial dao, Yang Lie raised his foot and activated his spine to wriggle along, mimicking the movements of a huge dragon as his series of bones began to explode like firecrackers in Spring Festival.
The Martial Madman did not expect a shift in Yang Lie’s path of martial dao would bring forth further essence from his Dragon Tail Sweep.
Yang Lie’s Dragon Tail Sweep swept toward Nash’s temples. The fierce aura from that move had caused a strong wind even before the leg landed the kick, continuously stimulating and twitching the temple muscles of the Martial Madman at the same time.
“Great move!”
The Martial Madman slipped his foot and slid in front of Yang Lie like a pond loach. He did not tank the hit but rather chose to slide forward, appearing beside Yang Lie with a sprint of his body.
It wasn’t that the Martial Madman did not intend to tank the hit, but rather he wanted to set an example to the young martial artists below the ring that wished to challenge him by dispelling the Dragon Tail Sweep with all his might.
Fighting… is a battle of strength and technique.
As soon as the body approached, Yang Lie froze all of a sudden! The Dragon Tail Sweep might be sturdy and strong, capable of attacking in long ranges. However, the drawback of the move was the inability to counter attacks in close quarters. It might be over for Yang Lie if his opponent managed to close the distance between them.
Without thinking carefully, Yang Lie channeled his power through his balancing leg, producing energy that propelled his body ahead. The only way to win was to draw away the distance between him and his opponent!
Yang Lie’s speed was extremely fast to the point where the composite material under his feet slightly dented under the recoil. The moment he jumped away, the floor bounced back to its original form like rubber.
Yang Lie might be fast, but the Martial Madman was faster. With only two legs he managed to sprint across the ground and keep up with Yang Lie. Martial artists that were slightly weaker in skill may even have had illusions of the Martial Madman becoming an eight-legged spider.
Caesar wanted to move forward and help as the Martial Madman closed the distance, but he gave up when he saw the Martial Madman’s legs that were constantly in mid-air, firmly chasing Yang Lie at high speed.
The high-speed retreat might be amazing, but the pursuer had retained his distance with the one retreating without the dodging movements exhibited from the retreating movement. Just from the special way it moved, the power gap between both martial artists was clearly shown.
Yang Lie, who was retreating, suddenly landed on his feet firmly on the ground, abruptly stopping his movements. The Martial Madman’s speeding body followed suit and nailed himself on the ground like a literal nail.
“You win.”
When Yang Lie said this, there was a lot of frustration in his tone. A huge gap in power between him and the Martial Madman remained despite the hellish training he went through.
“Don’t be depressed, you are doing very well.” The Martial Madman said in admiration with slight happiness radiating from his eyes that were shinier than rubies, “When I was your age, I wasn’t as strong as you are right now. You possess promising potential, yet most of it is untapped at the moment.”
Yang Lie’s close up observation of Nash the Martial Madman had led to the discovery that the young martial artist with a wild look was not older than a late teen.
From the instincts of a martial artist, Yang Lie could almost deduce that the Martial Madman in front of him was definitely not a young man in his late teens, but rather in the stage of early adulthood.
If there were a time gap of at least three to four years under the conditions of being martial dao prodigies at a young age, a huge power gap would exist between the martial artists.
Whizz…
Three figures jumped up the quiet ring.
Brooks, Morad, and Solomon set foot on the ring and immediately regrouped with the other two teammates, forming a horizontal line to face the new opponent.
The action of the Martial Madman had proven everything. Yang Lie wasn’t qualified enough to go on a one-on-one battle with him! The power gap between both of them was too great!d
The Martial Madman slightly closed his flashing red eyes as he eyed and nodded to the five young and energetic martial artists, “Not bad, not bad! What a shame, why aren’t you guys in the same batch as me?”
Qin Fen looked at the Martial Madman above the ring and felt loneliness in his words.
Invincible among peers! These words might sound exciting, but how could anyone understand the inexplicable loneliness in the hearts of those unparalleled with their peers?