If Ye Yuan really lost, this would be an absolutely devastating blow to the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion.
But . . . they probably would not have that opportunity.
Especially Wan Yuan this time around, he was definitely going to suffer a hefty loss.
. . . . . .
After this business was settled, it was already getting late. Fei Qingping slowly walked into the combat arena.
“Yii? Fei Qingping is actually already at the Fifth Level Essence Qi Realm!”
“It’s true! Ye Yuan is definitely doomed now!”
“Hahaha! That wager of 100 high-grade Essence Qi Pills just now was really a great haul!”
Under the same circumstances, a difference of one realm would already decide everything. That was why everyone was not optimistic about Ye Yuan.
If these students initially still had a trace of faith in Ye Yuan, after seeing Fei Qingping’s Fifth Level Essence Qi Realm now, even that last trace of faith was gone.
Listening to the public opinions, Fei Qingping felt very refreshed. The initial trace of worry in his heart was already wholly forgotten.
All along, Fei Qingping had always been following behind Wan Yuan. Never had he thought that one day, he would also become everyone’s focus.
After today, I will probably receive quite a few love letters from girls, right? Fei Qingping thought to himself.
These past three days, Fei Qingping did not dare to slack off even the slightest.
First, he used one day to break through the bottleneck. The Essence Gathering Pill’s effects were unexpectedly good, making him advanced to the Fifth Level Essence Qi Realm smoothly. Next, he went into a closed-door seclusion to train the Lesser Capturing Hand. Even though time was a little tight, under Wan Yuan’s guidance, there was some success.
Under this situation, Fei Qingping could not even find a trace of the possibility of losing.
“What time is it already? Why isn’t Ye Yuan here yet?”
“He probably didn’t dare to come and ran away already. Hahaha . . .”
“Losing face is better than losing his life. After all, he will die even if he comes. At least he can save his life by finding his father to shield him.”
It was already late, and everybody was already impatient from waiting. Under these sort of circumstances, everyone felt that Ye Yuan was too scared; that was why he did not dare to come.
. . . . . .
At a private viewing stand in the combat arena.
Two young men between the ages of 17 and 18 years old, stood with their hands behind their backs.
One with a domineering air soaring to the skies, while the other seemingly had a nonchalant attitude towards life.
“To think that the great Martial Roll of Honor’s rank one would actually stoop to come watch this sort of small fight.” That nonchalant looking man could not help but revealed a surprised expression after seeing the newcomer.
Rank one in the Martial Roll of Honor; this person who was emanating a domineering air that reached the clouds was actually the legendary number one figure in the Dan Wu Academy, Long Tang.
Long Tang did not have any intention to respond to the other party’s mocking. He knew that the person in front of him who looked laidback was actually an extremely nasty opponent.
“Didn’t you, Martial Roll of Honor’s rank two, come as well?” Long Tang rebuked leisurely.
This laidback looking man was actually rank two in the Martial Roll of Honor, Zuo Bugui!
If there were other students around, they would undoubtedly be greatly astonished. Martial Roll of Honor’s rank one and rank two, appearing together to pay attention to a battle between rookies. This was completely inconceivable.
“Hahaha! I can’t hold onto this rank two for long. Junior Apprentice Sister Feng is right on my heels. I’m afraid this rank two will have to change owners at the next Battle of Martial Roll of Honor.” Zuo Bugui had a helpless expression.
Long Tang did not make any remarks on this. He knew that with Zuo Bugui’s strength, one could not knead him as they wished. Even he himself has to be cautious when facing him.
“It isn’t just the two of us. Su Yishan, Xu Qingfeng, those guys came too. Look at the grandstand opposite. After all, it’s been two years since a deathmatch has occurred. Even if it’s only two rookies, it isn’t strange to attract everyone over, right? Thinking back, weren’t we also rookies back then?” Long Tang said lightly.
“Hehe. That’s true. Who wasn’t a rookie before? But that fellow Su Yishan and Wan Yuan have common interests. Is he here to watch a joke? After all, the Su Family and the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion don’t get along. With his personality, watching Ye Hang’s son get killed will definitely make him derive pleasure from others’ misfortunes.” Zuo Bugui seemed to be very clear on the arrangement within the capital.
“None of my business,” Long Tang said indifferently.
“Tsk. I knew you were like this! I know that you came here today because you wanted to see if the Stacking Waves Layered Palm that even you couldn’t master can be mastered by a rookie, right?” Zuo Bugui seemed to understand Long Tang very well, and he directly said out the purpose of Long Tang’s visit.
Long Tang did not deny it. Nodding his head, he said, “Stacking Waves Layered Palm might be an incomplete martial technique, but it’s publically acknowledged within the academy to be the hardest to master, as well as the martial technique with the greatest might. These past few years, virtually no one dared to touch it. I want to see if this Ye Yuan is here to be a joke, or does he really have the confidence to master Stacking Waves Layered Palm.”
Zuo Bugui curled his lips and said, “I think that you are thinking too much. Even a sicko like you spent a month’s time to master only the first layer. How can Ye Yuan that last place possibly master it? Even if he mastered it, what’s the use of the First Layer Wave? The difference between Fei Qingping and him is two whole cultivation realms!”
“Perhaps,” Long Tang couldn’t be bothered to debate with Zuo Bugui and replied nonchalantly.
“Hey hey. What kind of attitude is this? Is there a need to put on a cool appearance all day?”
“. . . . . .”
“I think you won’t be able to see it anymore. Ye Yuan that punk probably ran away already. What time is it already, and yet he still hasn’t appeared.” Zuo Bugui kept on talking non-stop, but Long Tang could not be bothered to respond.
. . . . . .
“Make way! Make way!” Right at this moment, Ye Yuan shouted at the top of his voice. He was stuck outside, unable to enter.
“It’s Ye Yuan! He came!”
“He actually dared to come!”
“Quickly make way for him; don’t delay me from collecting my Essence Qi Pills!”
Amidst a wave of laughter, everyone made way for Ye Yuan.
However, Ye Yuan did not enter the combat arena directly, but came to Tang Yu instead and asked slyly, “Is it done?”
Tang Yu smiled. “Don’t worry, Junior Apprentice Brother Ye. Luckily, I didn’t fail you.”
“Hahaha! Then that’s good, that’s good.” Finishing his words, Ye Yuan then raise both arms up and cupped his hands politely, and he said, “Many thanks to all Senior Apprentice Brothers and Sisters that gave these Essence Qi Pills. I, your Junior Apprentice Brother, thank you here, and kindly accept them.”
Everyone looked at each other speechlessly, not knowing why Ye Yuan was showing off. Did he mess his brain up from training?
Ignoring everyone’s surprised looks, Ye Yuan said to Tang Yu, “Senior Apprentice Brother Tang, take care not to lose the name list. After the match, I have to go and claim from each person.”
Ending the conversation, Ye Yuan walked into the combat arena step by step.
Fei Qingping had a cold smile on his face as he watched Ye Yuan showing off. “You are about to die, and yet you still dare to ask for Essence Qi Pills?”
Ye Yuan smiled and said, “Fei Qingping, did
you wager? Since I’m about to die, why don’t you bet some more?”
“Don’t worry. I’ve already wagered everything! Now, I will send you to the western paradise!” Fei Qingping fully released the power of his Fifth Level Essence Qi Realm as he wanted to take the initiative right from the start.
“Yo. Momentum’s not bad. Yii? You are actually at the Fifth Level Essence Qi Realm?!” Ye Yuan’s face revealed astonishment.
Fei Qingping saw Ye Yuan’s face change color and could not help but be pleased with himself. “Humph! Anyhow, we are apprentice brothers after all. How about this; I will allow you three moves. Make your move!”
Ye Yuan revealed a delighted expression and asked with amazement, “Do you really mean it, Senior Apprentice Brother Fei?”
“Of course!”
“Then that’s great!” Ye Yuan smiled. Looking all around, he said, “You all heard it! He was the one who said he will allow me three moves!”
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“This fellow is really dumb like a pig!”
Listening to how Fei Qingping allowed three moves so arrogantly during the match, Wan Yuan who was in the audience gnashed his teeth in anger.
These past few days, he warned that fellow countless times to not let down his guard. And yet, the result was that his strength indeed increased, but his habit of taking the enemy lightly surfaced once again.
Wan Yuan was different from Fei Qingping. He also looked down greatly on Ye Yuan, but if he were the one up there, he definitely would not say something like ‘allow you three moves.’ Instead, he would beat down Ye Yuan with full power.
Liu Ruoshui who was by the side covered her mouth as she laughed and said, “Don’t get mad, Senior Apprentice Brother Wan. Fei Qingping might be a little arrogant, but right now he does have the capital to be arrogant. Fifth Level Essence Qi Realm versus Third Level Essence Qi Realm; no matter how you look at it, he wouldn’t lose, don’t you think? Even if he allows three moves, it has no bearing on the overall situation.”
Since Liu Ruoshui already said all that, Wan Yuan did not feel it was nice to go into it seriously. But in his mind, he was thinking that after they return, he would definitely show him some colors.
“I’ve incurred Junior Apprentice Sister Liu’s ridicule. It’s just that this is a deathmatch. Fei Qingping shouldn’t be so careless. But I don’t think that Ye Yuan would be able to do anything.” Wan Yuan shook his head and smiled.
“That’s obvious. Senior Apprentice Brother Wan spent the past few days to help with Junior Apprentice Brother Fei’s bitter closed-seclusion training. Furthermore, he has an overwhelming advantage in terms of cultivation realm. Nothing is going to happen. What’s funny is that just now, Ye Yuan was still showing off as if so many senior apprentice brothers’ Essence Qi Pills were already his. Looking at this point, he isn’t any different from the past Ye Yuan,” Liu Ruoshui’s words carried a faint enmity as she replied.
“Oh? That’s true now that you mentioned it! Perhaps I was overly cautious. But this way, it does seem more like Ye Yuan’s personality.”
After Ruoshui said that, Wan Yuan also came around. Thinking back to Ye Yuan’s actions just now, it was like how he used to act recklessly and blindly in the past.
But, this was going to be the last time . . .
. . . . . .
In the arena, a middle-aged man dressed in black walked in step by step. He was the instructor who was hosting this deathmatch, Huyan Yong.
Huyan Yong glanced at the two people without any emotion. It was as if not at all caring the slightest about this deathmatch.
“Since the two of you are here, the deathmatch will begin now. In a deathmatch, each person is responsible for their own life and death.”
“Begin!”
Finishing his words, Huyan Yong directly left.
Presently, Ye Yuan was wearing a white martial outfit, standing there with a somewhat valiant and heroic bearing.
Except that this valiant and heroic appearance did not match his strength, leaving everyone with an inexpressible strange feeling.
“Hey, you said three moves. After I hit you, you mustn’t retaliate!” Ye Yuan suddenly grinned and exclaimed.
Fei Qingping smiled coldly. “Just relying on you?”
“Hehe. Won’t you know after trying? Here I come!”
Right after he finished talking, Ye Yuan’s figure already arrived in front of Fei Qingping.
“Stacking Waves Layered Palm, First Layer Wave!”
Smash!
Fei Qingping’s body flew out like a cannonball, crashing heavily onto the ground.
Silence . . .
Dead silence!
Everyone looked at Ye Yuan standing in the arena with an unbelievable expression, not knowing what happened just now.
No, to be exact, they could not believe the truth that they just witnessed with their own eyes!
How could he be so fast?
Stacking Waves Layered Palm?
H-he really mastered it?
How is this possible?!
“Just now, that was . . . Stacking Waves Layered Palm?” On the secret viewing platform, Zuo Bugui’s laidback attitude already disappeared from his face, and what replaced it was astonishment.
It sounded like he was asking Long Tang, and at the same time as if he was talking to himself.
Shocked was written all over Long Tang’s face, but he still replied, “That’s right. It’s Stacking Waves Layered Palm, First Layer Wave!”
“But . . . didn’t he only train for three days?” Zuo Bugui felt that his brain was a little insufficient to process this.
Three days to learn Stacking Waves Layered Palm, First Layer Wave. Could it be that this Ye Yuan’s talent was even more monstrous than this Long Tang in front of him?
But . . .
Even if Ye Yuan was more monstrous than Long Tang, it could not be to the extent of learning it in three days . . . Right?
Long Tang used a month, and yet Ye Yuan only used three days. The time that Long Tang took was actually ten times of Ye Yuan’s?
Isn’t it too demoralizing?
Long Tang didn’t know what happened either. But among Dan Wu Academy’s students, nobody was more familiar with this martial technique than him.
What Ye Yuan used just now was the authentic First Layer Wave!
“If this was Ye Yuan’s first time looking at the jade piece, it means he really mastered it in three days!” Long Tang’s words revealed mixed feelings.
Zuo Bugui clearly became aware of that point as well and asked, “Do you mean that . . . he trained in it before? This time around, it’s just to deceive the public? If it’s like that, then it makes sense.”
The more Zuo Bugui thought about it, the more he felt that it was the case. That trademark smile once again appeared on his face, except it was still a little forced. “That’s what I said. How can there be someone even more monstrous than you? Furthermore, it’s monstrous to such an extent!”
Long Tang shook his head and said calmly, “I didn’t say that. It’s just an assumption. In reality, I’m more inclined to believe that this was his first time seeing that jade piece.”
“. . . . . .”
Zuo Bugui was speechless.
In the arena, a trace of light flashed across Huyan Yong’s eyes, whose expression had been indifferent all this while.
He was similarly shocked by Ye Yuan’s strike, but what he was astonished by was not the Stacking Waves Layered Palm, but Ye Yuan’s movement technique!
Previously, Ye Yuan revealed Instant Flash. So everyone was not a stranger to it. But everyone’s understanding of him remained at the large success stage.
But the Instant Flash that Ye Yuan displayed just now was undoubtedly at the great circle stage!
What Ye Yuan executed just now did not leave any afterimages. Hence, he deceived every student’s eyes and ears.
Afterimage was a mark of mas
tering Instant Flash to the great circle stage. But it did not mean that a great success stage of Instant Flash will definitely leave afterimages.
Ingenuity in varying tactics depends on mother wit.
That was the true meaning of a martial technique at the great circle stage!
Coincidentally, back in those days, Huyan Yong also spent a great deal of effort on Instant Flash. He was one of the few people who trained this technique to the great circle stage!
Although he went on to practice higher ranking movement techniques, he was still most familiar with Instant Flash.
Yet, just now, he clearly felt that the Instant Flash Ye Yuan executed was somewhat different. It was just that he could not say how exactly was it different.
But without any doubt, Ye Yuan’s understanding of this technique was beyond his!
This punk isn’t simple!
Huyan Yong who was originally indifferent towards this deathmatch started to feel a faint anticipation now.
“That fool! I already told him not to underestimate the enemy!” Looking at the arena, Wan Yuan gnashed his teeth angrily.
Wan Yuan never thought that Ye Yuan actually managed to master the Stacking Waves Layered Palm!
Just what on earth happened on this guy’s body?
Just three days!
Something that Senior Apprentice Brother Long Tang only accomplished using one month, Ye Yuan actually managed to use only three days!
Was this really still the Ye Yuan I know?
“Don’t worry, Senior Apprentice Brother Wan. Junior Apprentice Brother Fei only underestimated the enemy for a moment. Even if Ye Yuan mastered Stacking Waves Layered Palm, First Layer Wave, he can’t win against Junior Apprentice Brother Fei.” Liu Ruoshui remained fully confident.
Wan Yuan nodded his head. He obviously knew that this strike was not unable to cause Fei Qingping any actual harm.
“Underestimated the enemy? Even if he didn’t take the enemy lightly, he probably also couldn’t avoid that strike just now, right?” Huyan Yong was not far from Wan Yuan and heard Liu Ruoshui and their conversation, giving this evaluation in his heart.
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