Although taken aback, Yang Wenmiao did not feel that he was worse than Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan’s methods were heaven-defying, but Yang Wenmiao also had immense confidence in his own methods.
But without any doubt, Ye Yuan’s strength was already sufficient to rank among the powerhouses and had the strength to assault that advancement quota.
Just as Yang Wenmiao was ruminating, a wave exclamations suddenly sounded out again beneath the platform.
Yang Wenmiao was slightly stunned but saw a young man actually standing onto the platform he was on.
Somebody wanted to challenge him?
Only to see that young man clasp his hands and said, “I’ve long heard that Brother Yang is Ye City’s number one person. Younger Brother, Nanwu City’s Tang Fan, wish to challenge Brother Yang!”
Yang Wenmiao could not help sizing up this young man called Tang Fan. He did not seem to have any extraordinary aspects.
What made Yang Wenmiao slightly astonished was that Tang Fan was actually only Fifth Level Boundless.
Since young, the targets Yang Wenmiao challenged were always higher cultivation realms than him. This sort of situation today, it was still his first time encountering.
But Tang Fan’s actions caused an uproar among Yang Wenmiao’s defenders.
“Who the hell is that brat? To actually dare challenge Wenmiao! Just that level of his, wouldn’t going up be making a spectacle of himself?”
“That’s right, that’s right! This fellow is really overestimating his own ability, to actually dare challenge Wenmiao! This guy is definitely trying to impress people by doing something shocking!”
“Wenmiao, pummel him!”
In everyone’s thinking, Yang Wenmiao should have no one challenge for two days straight, then directly obtaining the qualifications to advance from there.
But now, there was actually someone who shattered this thing which everyone firmly believed. Therefore, the reactions were especially huge.
Even Ye Yuan was very surprised by Tang Fan’s actions too.
After Yang Wenmiao was slightly dazed, he nodded his head nonchalantly and said, “Make a move then!”
“Here I come!”
The moment Tang Fan made a move, Yang Wenmiao’s expression became solemn.
This Tang Fan’s strength was actually not an ordinary kind of strong!
Tang Fan was also a sword-practicing expert, but his sword seemed to be only particular about one word, and that was ‘fast’!
His sword art was unbelievably fast, virtually not giving his opponent the slightest bit of chance to make a move at all.
Myriad Sword Daos, every person’s pursuit was different.
Some people pursued the sword’s awe-inspiring righteousness. Some people pursued the sword’s level-headedness and composure, while what Ye Yuan pursued were nimbleness and sharpness!
What this Tang Fan pursued was agility!
Attacking thousands of times instantaneously, how could his opponent react in time?
Tang Fan’s sword made all the skeptical voices from before all quieten down.
These geniuses’ horizons were all very high. They were able to tell that if the one who stood on the platform were not Yang Wenmiao, they would have long been defeated already!
Seventh Level Boundless Realms, even if it was that Peng Yan, he was probably not this Tang Fan’s match too!
This Tang Fan was too strong!
Tang Fan’s movements were too fast, swift until his figure pervaded everywhere on the platform.
That was not a cloning technique like Peng Yan. They were purely afterimages left behind from speed being too fast!
Yang Wenmiao actually only had the strength to ward off blows for a time under Tang Fan’s attacks.
These Yang Wenmiao’s supporters were also silent already at this time. Each and every one of them clenched their fists tightly, secretly cheering Yang Wenmiao on.
“S-So strong! Could it be that this Tang Fan is actually going to drag Yang Wenmiao down from the altar?” Xiang Hao swallowed hard and said in shock.
This competition, he had really witnessed too many monstrous geniuses.
As one of Ancient Opulence City’s top geniuses, only now did Xiang Hao know that turned out he was a frog at the bottom of a well!
One Ye City had so many formidable foes already. Then what about the entire Crimson Afterglow Holy Land?
Mu Yun nodded and said, “Indeed very strong. But I feel that it’s probably still quite difficult for him to want to beat Yang Wenmiao.”
“En? Yang Wenmiao is already being suppressed by him until he doesn’t have the slightest strength to retaliate. Is it possible that there is still a chance to turn defeat into victory?” Xiang Hao said in surprise.
“Tang Fan’s fighting method is impressive but exhausts essence energy immensely. If he can’t take down his opponent in a short period of time, he will be in a bad situation,” Mu Yan evaluated.
Right then, Ye Yuan also sighed slightly on the platform.
This Tang Fan still lost in the end.
Indeed, Yang Wenmiao aura suddenly swept out, sending Tang Fan flying out.
Tang Fan seemed to be unresigned to being defeated like this and even wanted to struggle for a moment in the air. But Yang Wenmiao’s sword qi did not give him the least bit of opportunity to catch his breath, blasting him down the platform immediately.
There were no voices mocking Tang Fan at all. To be able to force Yang Wenmiao to such an extent, Tang Fan could be said to be the first person!
His strength won everybody’s respect!
Yang Wenmiao stood while carrying his sword and said to the Tang Fan beneath the stage, “You’re very strong! Looking forward to the next time I fight with you!”
Tang Fan struggled to his feet and said stubbornly, “Next time, I definitely can defeat you!”
Yang Wenmiao smiled but did not say anything else.
He already deeply sensed this Tang Fan’s threat.
One had to know that Tang Fan was only Fifth Level Boundless; he was three minor cultivation realms lower than Yang Wenmiao, but he was able to force the latter into such a plight.
This Tang Fan’s potential was absolutely very strong!
At this time, Yang Wenmiao’s gaze involuntarily looked towards Ye Yuan once more. This person’s threat seemed to be even greater than Tang Fan’s!
Yang Wenmiao never expected that he would actually encounter so many rising stars this competition, making him feel pressure deeply.
But in his heart, a soaring fighting intent was also ablaze.
…
Before the competition, no one would have thought that the second day of the competition would already progress to a white-hot stage too.
The originally obscure Ye Yuan and Tang Fan displayed their talents, becoming everyone’s focal point.
Although Tang Fan was defeated, he did not lose the opportunity to advance. Without any doubt, there was no problem at all with him obtaining an advancement quota.
While Ye Yuan, after he defeated four Seventh Level Boundless Realms in a row neat and tidily, nobody else dared to go up and challenge him.
With this, there were two of the six platforms which became very deserted.
One was Yang Wenmiao’s, the other was Ye Yuan’s.
After Yang Wenmiao defeated Tang Fan, everyone reckoned that no one would go and challenge him anymore.
While at this time, there was already no one who dared to doubt Ye Yuan’s strength as well.
This advancement quota, Ye Yuan nailed it!
But what made everyone surprised was that after Tang Fan was defeated at Yang Wenmiao’s side, he did not choose to occupy a platform on the third day’s competition. Tang Fan directly challenged Ye Yuan!
Chapter 780 - Dao of Fast-Slow
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Tang Fan stood opposite Ye Yuan, but he had a solemn expression on his face.
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�You’re very strong. But I’ll defeat you!” Tang Fan said.
Ye Yuan said smilingly, “You’re very strong too. But you won’t have a chance to beat me.”
“Heh, how would you know without fighting?” Tang Fan said.
Without much nonsense, Tang Fan’s figure moved explosively. Countless sword images instantly besieged Ye Yuan.
Tang Fan’s quick-sword was fast until it made people feel asphyxiated.
His sword art completely gave up on technique, just for the sake of pursuing the extremities of speed.
Each sword was without any flashiness. The angle of striking with the sword, strength, everything and all of it was all in order to pursue speed.
Yet, this sword-speed of myriad swords in an instant did not even touch the corners of Ye Yuan’s sleeves!
“T-Too terrifying! This Ye Yuan’s strength is simply daunting until it makes people despair!”
“Yang Wenmiao’s sword intent is grand and boundless. But his speed can’t keep up with Tang Fan. If not for him suppressing Tang Fan on cultivation realm, how the result would be would really be hard to say. But Ye Yuan, practically can’t even sense his essence energy undulations, but Tang Fan can’t even touch the corners of his sleeves!”
“That also means that Ye Yuan is relying entirely on movement technique to avoid Tang Fan’s sword! Just how fast is that movement technique of his?”
Without any doubt, this kind of quick-swords of Tang Fan’s was very hard to crack. Even if his strength was just a bit worse, it could not be avoided by ordinary people either.
But Ye Yuan evaded each sword perfectly!
He did not even unleash a single move until now.
All of a sudden, Tang Fan withdrew his sword and stood there, his stubborn face filled with defeat.
This sense of defeat was even more intense than him losing to Yang Wenmiao yesterday.
Because Tang Fan could sense that if his cultivation realm was the same as Yang Wenmiao, he absolutely had the strength to brave it out with him.
Which was also to say that his comprehensions in sword intent was at least not inferior to Yang Wenmiao.
Yet, facing Ye Yuan’s movement technique with no weakness to exploit, he could not find any way at all.
He already strove with all his might, but still could not catch up to Ye Yuan’s figure.
In other words, he was fast, but Ye Yuan was even faster than him!
Tang Fan giving up everything was in order to pursue the word, ‘fast.’ If he lost to another person in the word, ‘fast,’ then he really lost.
“I … I lost!”
The stubbornness on Tang Fan’s face was all gone. What remained was intense unwillingness.
He cultivated the quick-sword. There had never been anyone faster than his sword before.
But today, this merely Divine Traversing Realm youth actually utterly suppressed him by a level.
Furthermore, Tang Fan could sense that Ye Yuan seemed to still have a great deal of strength leftover.
Under such circumstances, the sense of defeat was extremely intense.
Ye Yuan said with a smile, “Myriad things under the heaven are all Yin and Yang complementing mutually. The extreme of Yang is Yin, the extreme of fast is slow. You pursue speed blindly. Have you ever thought of letting the sword become a little slower? Maybe when you understand the Dao of Fast-Slow, it will make your quick-sword even faster!”
Tang Fan’s entire body trembled. He did not expect that Ye Yuan actually uttered such words.
Yes, cultivating until now, all of his thoughts were placed on how to make his sword faster. But he had never thought about making his sword a little slower.
Make quick-sword slow down, was that still called quick-sword?
However, Yin was born from extreme Yan, slow was born from extreme speed.
Were the extremes of speed slow or not?
Tang Fan’s comprehension towards quick-sword was extremely profound and knew that the slow Ye Yuan was talking about was not slow in its true sense, but another type of realm!
That was the realm of viewing the mountain as not a mountain, looking at water as not water!
If he were able to comprehend this realm, his quick-sword would definitely advance a step further.
Talking about it was easy, but to comprehend this ‘slow’ word, was exceedingly difficult.
But Ye Yuan’s word gave him a feeling of dispelling the clouds and seeing the bright moon. It was just like a ray of light in the dark night, pointing the direction for Tang Fan to advance!
Tang Fan suddenly clasped his hands and said, “Although Brother Ye’s age is young, your horizons are exceptionally high! The words just now, this Tang benefited endlessly. This battle, this Tang is utterly convinced by my defeat from the bottom of my heart! Today’s grace, this Tang has remembered it!”
Finished talking, Tang Fan turned right around and went down the platform, vanishing in the crowd.
When Pei Wenqiang saw this scene, he suddenly recalled what Ye Yuan said before, the words about wanting to enter the Crimson Afterglow Valley.
Those words sounded very laughable to him at that time. But recalling them now, it seemed like Ye Yuan … really had that hint of chance!
Up until now, seems like apart from Yang Wenmiao, there was already no one able to beat Ye Yuan.
But even someone as powerful as Tang Fan was still unable to force out Ye Yuan’s true strength!
If comparing Ye Yuan and Yang Wenmiao, taking Tang Fan as reference in-between, seems like Ye Yuan won more easily.
Could it be that Ye Yuan’s true strength was still above Yang Wenmiao?
Pei Wenqiang drew a cold breath. Before this, he did not even dare to think about it.
But now, seemed like this guess was very likely!
If not for Peng Yan humiliating Xiang Hao like that previously, who knows if Ye Yuan would go up to challenge Yang Wenmiao or not.
However, this was already not important.
Ye Yuan’s strength would be displayed when he entered the grand finals!
On Wu Jianqing’s side, Peng Yan was long glaring like a ravening tiger already.
Previously, when he saw Tang Fan go up to challenge Ye Yuan, he was even secretly rejoicing for a bit.
He felt that with Tang Fan’s strength, Ye Yuan definitely could not win. Even if Ye Yuan really could win, he would have tremendous exhaustion too.
That way, he could completely wreck Ye Yuan if he went up to the arena.
But now that the match was over, Ye Yuan practically did not have any expenditure at all.
This kind of strength truly daunted him at the sight of it a little.
“Peng Yan, give up! This boy’s strength is likely not what you’re able to deal with! You go and challenge another person. Ensure an advancement spot. Don’t go and look for trouble anymore,” Wu Jianqing said with a solemn face.
Peng Yan was extremely unresigned when he heard that, but in the end, he nodded his head helplessly.
However, when Peng Yan was planning to go up and challenge another person, Xiang Hao ridiculed, “Yo, didn’t you talk big yesterday about wanting to teach Ye Yuan a lesson? Why, this direction that you’re heading doesn’t seem to be Ye Yuan’s platform!”
Xiang Hao kept a constant eye on the happenings at Peng Yan’s side. Therefore, Peng Yan’s behavior was taken fully into his sights.
Peng Yan’s entire body trembled, his gaze glaring fiercely at Xiang Hao, wishing to swallow Xiang Hao alive.
Xiang Hao also stared right back. Either way, fighting was forbidden at this competition area. Would Peng Yan dare to kill him?
Ye Yuan already smacked his face until such an extent. If he did not make use of it properly, how would he dispel the hatred in his heart?
“Don’t get angry. That punk is deliberately triggering you. Calm down, apart from Yang Wenmiao and Ye Yuan, there are still many strong opponents. You have to handle the situation carefully!” Wu Jianqing said.
“Oh wow, really don’t have guts to challenge Ye Yuan! Next time, remember, don’t have the strength, don’t talk so big! So as to avoid smacking your own face! Hahaha!”
Toward Xiang Hao’s actions, Pei Wenqiang felt very liberated too.
Of course, what made him even more pleased was still Ye Yuan obtaining a quota to advance to the grand finals!
Just as Ye Yuan said back then, making his face feel boundless honor.
Chapter 781 - Harsh Situation
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
With Peng Yan’s strength, taking down an arena lord was naturally something effortless.
The third day of defending the platform, Peng Yan maintained his position and won 20 matches in a row.
Although Peng Yan’s strength was formidable, it was still not formidable to the extent that no one dared to challenge him.
Those Seventh Level Boundless Realms, even some Sixth Level Boundless Realms, would all go up and challenge him.
It was just that Peng Yan never would have dreamed that the first match on the fourth day, Tang Fan actually came up to challenge him immediately, and then Tang Fan blasted him down the platform cleanly.
Furthermore, through a night’s rest and rehabilitation, Tang Fan seemed to be even stronger than yesterday!
After the fourth day, Yang Wenmiao and Ye Yuan directly obtained advancement quotas because no one dared to challenge them anymore.
After Tang Fan kicked Peng Yan, likewise, no one dared to go up the stage again. Him obtaining a spot was just a matter of time.
Based on this, there were only three quotas left.
Starting from the fifth day, a series of intense scrambling battles unfolded on these three arenas.
In the end, Peng Yan still relied on his powerful strength and obtained a quota.
The fifth quota was seized by another Ye City’s Seventh Level Boundless genius in the end.
But the sixth quota was what everyone did not expect. Through three to four days of fighting, Mu Yun actually completed 100 consecutive wins, obtaining the final quota!
This made Pei Wenqiang incredibly thrilled.
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