Chapter 1265: On the Ring (2)
Translator: StarveCleric Editor: StarveCleric
Right after saying those words, Zhang Xuan tapped his finger forward leisurely.
Zhang Xuan’s finger was positioned straight in the face of the furious pierce of Kui Qing’s spear, and it seed as if the spear would pierce right through his finger at any mont. Yet, for so reason, before the spear could even reach the finger, it suddenly lowered its trajectory slightly, as if Kui Qing was intentionally going easy on Zhang Xuan.
Hula!
With a simple downward grasp, Zhang Xuan grabbed Kui Qing’s spear and flicked it slightly.
A powerful might shot right through the spear and struck Kui Qing.
Deng deng deng deng!
Kui Qing’s face reddened, and he was forced to retreat several steps in a fluster.
“You were able to see through my move?” The disbelief in Kui Qing’s eyes couldn’t be concealed.
There was no way Kui QIng would have gone easy on Zhang Xuan in the midst of a duel. What had happened earlier was that the change in the trajectory of his pierce earlier was actually an intended change in his battle technique to catch his opponent off guard, but sohow, Zhang Xuan seed to have anticipated it in advance and positioned his finger right there, creating the illusion as if it was his finger that had caused the change in trajectory.
“I told you, I am the ancestor of spearmanship. You are still much too inexperienced to be shaking your spear before !”
Zhang Xuan dashed forward once more and raised his palm to strike Kui Qing’s face.
Huala!
A powerful might burst forth.
Alard, Kui Qing retreated in a panic.
He thought that five consecutive matches should have exhausted most of Zhang Xuan’s zhenqi, preventing him from using that move anymore. He thought that with his spear in hand, he should be able to achieve victory easily. But he never thought that the other party would be able to see through his spearmanship so easily and utilize that move against him once more.
Realizing that he wouldn’t be able to escape from the slap, he imdiately attempted to raise his spear to counterattack, but it was already too late. A palm struck his face, and the spear in his hand flew away.
Padah!
Kui Qing crashed onto the ground and blacked out.
“Seventh match, Zhang Xuan VS Guan Yongfeng!”
Following which, a familiar face walked onto the ring. It was no other than the scar-faced young man who had treated him as a ta sheep earlier.
“And I thought you were a ta sheep. It turns out that you are a wolf instead...” the scar-faced young man, Guan Yongfeng, said with a shake of his head.
When Zhang Xuan first entered the room, he had an innocent and dazed look on his face, reminiscent of a naive newcor. Such people usually end up suffering a great deal on the ring. Yet, who could have thought that he would be so strong that even Qian Xu wouldn’t be a match for him!
“I know that you are strong, but there’s no way I’ll be going down without a fight. Co!”
Hula!
Drawing a saber, Guan Yongfeng drove his zhenqi furiously and slashed down on Zhang Xuan.
Zhang Xuan had a rather good impression of Guan Yongfeng, so he didn’t go too hard on the latter. After two blows, he knocked the latter out with a light blow.
On the other hand, on the spectator stand, Zhang Jiuxiao had also been diligently staking the concentrated high-tier spirit stones which Zhang Xuan had handed him previously into the matches.
As Zhang Xuan was a newcor, despite his outstanding results in the earlier matches, the crowd still wasn’t too confident in Zhang Xuan’s strength. Thus, in the sixth match, most of the crowd had placed their stakes on Kui Qing. On the other hand, Zhang Jiuxiao successfully doubled the initial 111 concentrated high-tier spirit stones he had into 222.
After the match with Kui Qing, the crowd gained a clearer glimpse into Zhang Xuan’s strength, so the payout wasn’t that high anymore. Nevertheless, by staking everything into Zhang Xuan once more, Zhang Jiuxiao managed to increase their total asset to 300 concentrated high-tier spirit stones.
“It really is lucrative!” Zhang Jiuxiao exclaid as he looked at the huge pile of spirit stones before him.
Despite being an offspring of the Zhang Clan, he was only from a side family, so his allowance every month was rather agre. Concentrated high-tier spirit stones were extrely beneficial to his cultivation as well, but even when using all of his ans, he could only earn one to two of them each month. Yet, in just a short twenty minutes, he had actually just earned nearly two hundred concentrated high-tier spirit stones! This sure was frightening!
“Let’s do it!” Knowing Zhang Xuan’s intention, Zhang Jiuxiao didn’t hesitate to stake all 300 concentrated high-tier spirit stones on Zhang Xuan’s victory once more.
The opponent for the eighth match was a young man in his thirties. He had a pair of arms that were innately thick as if tree trunks. On the other hand, fighting seven consecutive battles seed to have exhausted Zhang Xuan greatly, and he looked as if he was about to be sapped dry. In view of that, the payout for Zhang Xuan’s victory increased this ti around.
After trading thirty blows or so, Zhang Xuan achieved a narrow victory.
And the spirit stones in Zhang Jiuxiao’s hand leaped from 300 to 720 in an instant!
Zhang Xuan had been able to subdue his opponents in a single strike in the previous matches, but in the eighth match, he actually took more than thirty blows. To the crowd on the spectator sign, this was a visible sign that the newcor was swiftly approaching his limit!
“He really knows how to act...” Shaking his head with a smile on his lips, Zhang Jiuxiao’s eyes glowed in excitent.
In order to draw more people to bet against his victory so as to raise his payout, it was necessary for Zhang Xuan to feign weakness. Otherwise, if he were to crush all of his opponents in a single move, there would be no suspense at all. Knowing that they would surely lose the bet, who would be willing to bet against him?
It was true that those who gambled in the Ring of Death were mostly scions from notable clans with powerful finances, but that didn’t an that they were fools who would squander their money away blindly. They were all biding their ti to place the decisive bet which would maximize their profits.
So naturally, Zhang Xuan would have to provide those scions an impetus to make their move. By giving out clear hints that he was getting weaker with every match, those scions would surely be tempted to go all in.
After all, who would be willing to stake their bets on a newcor who appeared to be already wobbling on his feet? Obviously, the stakes would start gravitating to his opponent!
The opponent for the ninth match was a middle-aged man.
The previous ti the middle-aged man had challenged the Ring of Death, he had won eight consecutive before failing on the ninth.
But the reason why he lost wasn’t due to his lack of strength. According to the rumors, it seed like he had drunk too much the day before, resulting in him being unable to exert his strength properly... As a result, in his matches in the Ring of Death the next day, his entire body was swaying weakly, and it seed as if he would collapse at any mont...
The fact that he could still achieve eight victories under such a condition was a clear sign of his strength.
It seed like he had learned his lesson this ti around and kept himself in check. His body was overflowing with energy, and from the very first move, it seed like he already had the entire battle in his grasp. This had induced a wave of cheerings from the spectator stand.
On the other hand, Zhang Xuan appeared to be weak on his feet, and it seed like he was only hanging on his sheer willpower at the mont.
With such a clear contrast between the two opponents, Zhang Xuan’s payout nearly broke through the roof.
However, despite the powerful assaults the middle-aged man sent at Zhang Xuan over and over again, the latter kept bouncing back as if an indestructible cockroach. The latter obviously looked as if he would collapse on the ground with the slightest breeze, and yet, that final bit of energy he had left in him seed to nondepletable, allowing him to withstand the relentless waves of attack.
Just like that, the battle stretched on to over a hundred moves.
At so point in ti, the incredibly exhausted Zhang Xuan sohow managed to bump into the back of the middle-aged man’s head and knocked the latter out, thus achieving a sowhat miraculous and unbelievable victory.
At with this, the number of concentrated high-tier spirit stones Zhang Jiuxiao had increased to an astounding 1800!
“To be able to achieve victory like that, that newcor sure is lucky. If he could just win another match, we would find ourselves with a new Conqueror of Ten!”
“That’s true, but it seems like the newcor has expended himself too much the previous round. In his current state, there’s no way he can win the tenth!”
“I thought that way in the eighth round too, but he still managed to grit the teeth and win the ninth round through his sheer willpower. I think that lad has so kind of unfathomable power laying dormant in him. As unlikely as it may be, I actually think that newcor will really be crowned as the next Conqueror of Ten!”
“You think so too? Alright, I’ll bet on his victory then...”
...
Very soon, the tenth match began. Despite Zhang Xuan’s appearance of weakness, the incredible endurance he had displayed in the previous match still won the hearts of so, and quite of a portion of the crowd actually chose to bet on him against the odds. As a result, the payout dipped significantly.
Zhang Jiuxiao placed all 1800 concentrated high-tier spirit stones in, as usual, but it only increased to 2200 this ti around.
On the field, however... Naturally, Zhang Xuan had a ‘tougher’ fight than ever. He traded more than three hundred blows with his opponent, maintaining the sa ‘I look like I’m going to fall but I just won’t fall’ appearance throughout the match...
In the end, the way which he managed to achieve victory nearly had the eyeballs of the crowd bulging out of their eyes. The tenth opponent actually moved too fast in the midst of his assault and crashed into the formation barrier, knocking himself out...
To co this far, one had to brave through nine life-and-death matches, and those who managed to do so were all indubitably outstanding warriors.
Yet, for an expert of such caliber to actually knock himself out... Zhang Jiuxiao really couldn’t bear himself to look on any longer...
Brother, can you be any faker than that?
Do you take the audience to be fools?
However, it was already the tenth match, and the results for the fight to beco the Conqueror of Ten was already out.
“Congratulations to Zhang Xuan for becoming our new Conqueror of Ten! You have a choice to continue your battle now or take a brief rest first. Either way, it won’t impede you from fighting for the title of the Conqueror of Hundred. I suggest that you take a rest first so that you can face your opponent in your peak condition...” the voice sounded.
Upon successfully becoming a Conqueror of Ten, one would be allowed to take a rest first before continuing one’s battle for higher grounds.
Considering how tired the young man already was—he looked as if he could very well faint at any mont—it would be best for him to take a rest first before continuing on his battle.
“I’ll continue on...” Despite hearing the voice’s advice, Zhang Xuan raised his eyes wearily and shook his head slowly.
Rest? You must be joking! I am not even close to being done yet!
Since I have already made the journey here, how could I leave without making a big killing?
In any case, everything was a fair ga in the black market, so he didn’t feel particularly guilty about this.
“Are you certain you want to continue? I don’t think that you are in any condition to fight another match...” the voice continued.
Every single Conqueror of Ten was a money tree for the Ring of Death. It would be a huge waste for the Ring of Death if the young man were to die on the ring right after his confernt as a Conqueror of Ten.
“I think that... I can still... persevere on a little!” Zhang Xuan said weakly.
“Alright then... In order to beco a Conqueror of Hundred, you must defeat ten Conquerors of Ten successively. Your first opponent will be...”
Before the voice could finish speaking, a nonchalant voice suddenly bood across the entire ring.
“I’ll fight with him. As long as he can defeat , he can beco the new Conqueror of Hundred!”
Following which, the clanging of tal sounded clearly in everyone’s eyes. Following which, the crowd saw a towering figure slowly walking over to the ring.
“It’s Hong Yang...”
“Hong Yang is going to fight the newcor personally, and he even promised the latter the position of Conqueror of Hundred?”
“All along, it has always been others challenging Hong Yang, so why would he suddenly challenge this newcor? As the strongest existence in the Ring of Death, there’s no one who could possibly defeat him... If that newcor were to really fight against Hong Yang, he would surely be crushed!”
“Of course, that goes without saying! But as long as that newcor doesn’t have sothing wrong with his head, he should know better than to accept the duel!”
...
When the crowd saw the figure walking over to the ring, there was a brief mont of silence before a huge uproar broke out.
The person who had spoken was no other than the man who could leave Qian Xu shivering in fear with just a single word, the Conqueror of Hundred, Hong Yang!
At this mont, the fatigue of battle that was plaguing Hong Yang previously had already vanished without a trace. Instead, his eyes were dyed crimson, as if he had already eyed a new prey.
“How is it? Will you accept my challenge?” Hong Yang gazed at Zhang Xuan coldly.
“This...” Zhang Xuan hesitated.
“You aren’t too bad at acting, but I have faced and destroyed countless experts in my ti. That act of yours isn’t going to fool ! To still have the strength to be holding back even after defeating ten opponents... Boy, you have caught my attention!” Hong Yang spoke impassively.
“...” Zhang Xuan’s face turned green, and a whole string of vulgarities nearly spilled from his mouth.
He was still thinking that he could earn a hefty sum from Zhang Jiuxiao’s bets during the battles with the Conquerors of Ten, but this fellow actually exposed him publicly!
“Acting? That fellow was acting?”
“Is that so? It doesn’t really seem like an act to be though...”
“Think about it! He was already on the verge of collapsing by the end of the seventh match, but he still managed to survive till the ten. Don’t you think that’s very suspicious?”
“That bastard! I staked all my money on his loss!”
...
Hearing Hong Yang’s words, the crowd was so angry that they nearly morphed into demons on the spot. This was especially those who were fooled by Zhang Xuan’s act earlier and betted on his loss.
“Even if you wish to find a reason to challenge , surely you need not fra like that? After battling ten people, there’s no cultivator who can avoid becoming severely weakened!”
With a voice devoid of strength, the pale-faced Zhang Xuan raised his head and exclaid, “Putting everything aside, do you think that you can defeat ten people and still have the strength to put on an act?”
“I can!” Hong Yang replied impassively.
“...” Zhang Xuan.
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