Chapter 111 : Chapter 111

Chapter 111. The Match Begins, Each Side Reveals Their Skills

The instant the host announced the start of the match, the giant LED screen above the arena lit up with a blinding glare.

The four words “Peak Showdown” were projected across the sky itself, while scarlet banners and Yanhuang support flags stood opposed in the spectator stands like two armies facing each other in battle.

At the referee’s whistle, the screens surrounding the arena projected clear images of the two teams.

The Spark Team and the Yanhuang Team walked onto the field from opposite sides, their eyes filled with an intense smell of gunpowder.

Jiang Feng waved a broad hand, and the Yanhuang Team members immediately took up their assigned positions.

“Spark Team, your winning streak should end here.”

He slowly snapped his fingers, and his team uniform instantly transformed into an elegant suit.

Jiang Feng slowly removed the hat from his head and gave it a slight shake. Two white doves flew out.

“Enjoy my magic performance.”

When Su Linyu saw this, the usual playfulness vanished from her expression, replaced by an astonishing maturity and steadiness.

Because she knew that she was now the captain of Spark Team. She had to shoulder that responsibility and prove herself worthy of Brother Yichen.

“Jiang Feng, peak of the Sixth Realm, SS-grade talent, ‘Absurd Magic.’ Uncle Lei, I’m leaving him to you.”

“No problem.” Lei Zhen lightly clenched his mechanical arm, and lightning instantly began coursing around his body.

“Leng Zhenghan, peak of the Sixth Realm, SS-grade talent, ‘Kingdom of Ice.’ He specializes in direct offense. Sleep God, you take him.”

The drowsy Sleep God, his eyes half-open, nodded and walked to the position opposite Leng Zhenghan.

“Zhou Yue, Lu Shen, Zhang Wei…”

Su Linyu had clearly done her homework long ago. She knew the Yanhuang Team’s personal information like the back of her hand, and in no time at all, she had arranged everything.

“Two defeated losers, and you think you can win by bringing three Fifth Realm fighters?”

Jiang Feng let out a disdainful laugh and flicked his sleeve. Instantly, a rain of playing cards filled the sky.

Lei Zhen gave a cold snort and stamped one foot on the ground. The power of lightning instantly swept across the battle platform, reducing the descending playing cards to drifting ash.

“Thunder Resounds!”

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Peals of thunder shook the air so violently that people’s eardrums ached, and Lei Zhen moved with the speed of lightning, closing in almost instantly.

Jiang Feng was slightly startled. In last season’s match against Thunder Team, Lei Zhen had never displayed this level of power.

He frowned, put away his contempt, and said slowly, “Are you sure the one you’re attacking is the real me?”

The moment he finished speaking, Lei Zhen threw a punch. But the instant it touched Jiang Feng’s body, it turned into three white doves and vanished.

“You’re still as foolish as ever.”

The voice suddenly came from behind him, and Lei Zhen narrowed his eyes.

This was an ability from Absurd Magic called “Sleight of Hand,” one that could deceive the enemy’s eyes.

Lei Zhen smiled. Deceive my eyes? Then I simply will not look.

Arcs of electricity spread from beneath his feet and covered the battle platform. He slowly closed his eyes and used the power of lightning to sense his opponent.

He was not on the platform. That meant he was in the air!

With a thought, thunder exploded, and a bolt of lightning came crashing down from the sky.

Jiang Feng’s expression changed at once. He quickly conjured a lightning rod cane, and the power of the thunderbolt was immediately drawn away and redirected elsewhere.

Even so, Jiang Feng’s magician’s hat was scorched black by the terrifying lightning.

“All right. You do have the qualifications to be my opponent.”

Lei Zhen smiled. “If not for the Boss last season, did you really think I would have lost to you?”

“Come on, use your full strength. I’m afraid your frail body won’t be able to withstand my lightning.”

Jiang Feng’s eyes turned cold as he slowly raised his right hand. The surrounding scene changed in an instant.

“How arrogant. Come to my magic stage and enjoy the show properly.”

On the battle platform, Lei Zhen and Jiang Feng seemed to disappear into thin air, vanishing from sight.

Meanwhile, the battle among the other eight fighters on the platform had already become fiercely intense.

A drifting crimson glow of Radiant Flame flickered between Su Linyu’s brows as she stood atop a Vermilion Bird formed from condensed flames.

“Radiant Flame Scorches the Wilderness!”

The moment she spoke, the Vermilion Bird beneath her feet let out a piercing cry, and leisurely Radiant Flame burned through the air.

Zhou Yue, a member of the Yanhuang Team, could not help but smile. “I admit your flames are powerful, and they strongly counter my wood-element talent. But with only the Fifth Realm, challenging me at the peak of the Sixth Realm is far too high an opinion of yourself.”

A trace of green rose into Zhou Yue’s eyes. Green vines crisscrossed beneath her feet, weaving together into a wooden shield before her.

But the instant that wooden shield touched the Radiant Flame, it turned to ash on the spot without blocking it in the slightest.

Zhou Yue’s heart jolted. She immediately shifted her position and avoided the attack range of the Radiant Flame.

“What kind of flame is this?!”

With her peak Sixth Realm strength, even if fire countered wood, her defense should not have been broken down so completely.

Her opponent was only in the Fifth Realm!

Su Linyu curled her lips into a smile. “What’s it to you?”

Inside, however, she was overjoyed. She had never expected that the cultivation art Brother Yichen had given her would be able to instantly dismantle the defense of someone a whole Major Realm above her.

As expected of a divine-grade cultivation art. It was simply incredible.

“Then let’s see how long you can last against the gap in our realms!”

Zhou Yue’s gaze sharpened, and the green in her pupils deepened.

She gave up on close combat and instead chose to avoid Su Linyu’s Radiant Flame, using wooden spikes from afar to wear her down.

To their left, Lu Shen of the Yanhuang Team, a man packed with bulging muscles, rolled his neck and revealed a lecherous grin.

“Little fatty, just surrender. Uncle’s fists don’t have eyes.”

Tang Long raised an eyebrow, slapped his round belly, and let golden light cover his whole body as he raised a middle finger at Lu Shen.

“Come over here. If you can break my defense, I’ll count it as my loss.”

“Sure.” Lu Shen cracked his knuckles, producing a sharp string of pops.

He kicked off the ground with his right foot, and with a BOOM, the tremendous force triggered a sonic blast in the air.

“Primordial Vajra Barrier!” Tang Long circulated his cultivation art with all his might. With the gap in their realms, he did not dare show even the slightest carelessness.

But just as Lu Shen’s fist was only a centimeter away from Tang Long’s face, it suddenly stopped.

The fierce wind generated by its force whipped Tang Long’s hair into disarray.

Huh?

Tang Long froze, then asked in confusion, “Why did you stop hitting me?”

Lu Shen pulled back his hand, scratched his head, and said with a fierce look, “Was what you said just now supposed to be provoking me? Fine, you little fatty. Today I’m going to beat you into a meat patty.”

“…”

Tang Long’s mouth twitched. What the hell kind of heavenly delay is this? That provocation was so obvious, and you only realized it now?

“Take this punch!”

Lu Shen threw an angry punch that slammed into Tang Long’s springy belly.

Dong!

It sounded like a great bell tolling, and Lu Shen was knocked back two steps by the rebound.

??

Lu Shen lowered his head to look at his fist. He stared at it for quite a while before shock finally appeared on his face.

“Little fatty, why is your belly so hard?”

Tang Long laughed, his eyes narrowing into slits. The Heaven-rank cultivation art Brother Yichen had given him was simply invincible. Even a Sixth Realm opponent could not break this defense.

He took out the reclining chair that had accompanied him for the past two months from his Spatial Bag, rubbed his round belly, and said, “Old man, keep going, keep going. I’ll just treat it like a massage.”

It was the first time Lu Shen had ever heard such a request. He stepped forward and began throwing punch after punch into Tang Long’s belly.

After roughly a dozen punches, Lu Shen finally came to his senses and cursed, “You little fatty, how dare you provoke me again? Take this punch!”

Dong, dong, dong…

A series of bell-like tolls rang out, but Lu Shen’s fists had no effect whatsoever on Tang Long’s absurdly overwhelming defense.

The spectators below were all left staring in a daze.