Battle I

Battle I

What Solaris said was true.

He could have willed himself to stop but he continued anyways and this was because of the tingling, warm sensation that flooded his entire body.

"Hmm. Apologies accepted. Solaris, I believe you can see what's going on in my energyhouse. How long would it take me to build a lump to the size of a real sun?" he accepted her apology and quickly used the opportunity to chip in a question.

"I can't tell you that. Telling you might affect your endeavor in cultivating the energy." Solaris replied.

Huuuuuu!

Bai Chen took a deep breath. He knew it wasn't going to respond to his question. He only hoped. So he tried.

"Alright" He nodded.

........

Training continued for weeks until a month and half was up.

** A particular day**

On the training field....

"So, like I said before. We would be having our little competition to decide who the captain of recruits would be? Am I right? Of course am right. You don't need to tell me." the instructor said.

Then he looked around "Bai Chen! out boy!" He barked.

Bai Chen stepped out from the ground.

He knew what this meant.

Another round of battle!

He looked at Bai Chen. Then he looked at the boys and girls. "If you want the title he has. Come out now or don't come out again" he said.

Once he finished saying this. Many boys came out. Both tall and short and were at the late-phase and peak-phase flow activation stage.

Only the flow activation stage could come out as Bai Chen was still at the flow activation stage. If he was in the condensation stage, students at that cultivation stage would troop out.

This pained the others in the condensation stage. These people were in the batch Bai Chen came in with for enrolment.

But they accepted it like that. There was nothing they could do about it.

The boys that came out looked at Bai Chen with smiles plastered on their faces. These smiles gave Bai Chen the chills. It was like devils were smiling at him.

Precisely fifteen boys came out to contest with Bai Chen for the post.

"Alright. Everyone I want you to take twenty steps backwards." the instructor said.

Then everyone did as they were told.

The instructor looked at the other instructors. They understood his gaze. Then they went forward and produce screens of energy in front of the students.

These screens of energy were created to protect the students from the energy-attacks that would be sent off by the combatants.

Then one of the boys that came out to contest for the post came many feet before Bai Chen.

"Fight" the instructor shouted.

The boy whose fist had long started to glow, sent out beams of energy at Bai Chen.

Once Bai Chen noticed a movement from the boy. He did a front flip evading the beams shot at him.

The energy beams went on and collided with the screens of energy. But they couldn't penetrate through it.

Bai Chen while airborne twisted in the air and pointed his two fingers at the boy.

"Gashing fingers" he shouted. A thin ray of energy shot from the fingers he pointed at the boy.

The boy dodged the thin ray of energy with a twist. Then the ray of energy shot into the earth and gashed it.

It left a slightly deep cut in the earth. It was like that portion of the earth was impaled with a sword.

The boy who had evaded the sharp energy ray quickly shouted a technique and unleashed a beam of energy at Bai Chen at the spot he landed after he executed the flip .

The instant the boy sent out his energy-attack, Bai Chen who had fast reflexes and was very agile, lowered himself to crouch on his feet. Then he turned his body around in that position while swinging a leg out as a sweeping kick.

As he revolved on one of his feet in this crouch position, with one of his legs straight out to produce a sweeping kick, he fired off a wide beam of energy at the boy.

The beam of energy was wide as Bai Chen sent off this energy along the horizontal plane.

As the wide ray of energy shot towards the boy, the boy did an aerial cartwheel, a cartwheel in the air, evading the energy.

He landed to the ground with an intentional heavy stomp, then a powerful ripple of energy erupted from his stomping feet and traveled in all directions with destructive power.

This ripple spread towards Bai Chen.

Once Bai Chen saw the energy ripple come towards him, he swung his arms backward with great force and threw himself into the air with his increased leg strength.

The powerful backward swing of his arms provided a force that pulled his body thrown high into the air backwards.

Then he tucked himself in the air, bringing his folded knees to his chest and so his body rolled backwards horizontally in the air for sometime before landing many feet away from where he initially stood.

Like an agreement, both Bai Chen and the boy paused and gazed at each other.

"You think only you is good? Eh?" the boy asked with a smile.

"No, why would I think that?" Bai Chen replied but in a questioning manner.

But this person was pretty good.

Then Bai Chen ran towards him. He moved very fast because he saturated his leg muscles with profound cosmic sword energy which have him heightened speed.

Once he got to a few feet before the boy, he jumped high into the air and spun his body. With one of his legs straight out, he sent out a wide ray of energy.

Once he kicked out in that full body vertical aerial spin, shooting out that ray of energy at the boy, he forced his body to rotate three more times, doing a 720° spin. And with every rotation, he sent out wide rays of energy from his kicking leg.

Bai Chen had just achieved a 1080-degree spin and incorporated a sweeping kick into it which he used to discharge energy as attacks at his opponent.

In this way, he sent out four wide rays of energy at the boy. The rays of energy followed one another as they shot towards the boy.

The boy who had thrown out a energy-attack from his fist which Bai Chen evaded with a powerful jump wasn't expecting this. So he wasn't able dodge on time.

But he quickly produced a screen of energy to protect himself from the energy-attack.

But the protective energy-screen he abruptly produced with his profound cosmic energy couldn't withstand the rapid barrage of energy-attacks.

His energy-shield was impacted heavily by the energy-attacks and cracked. At the third hit, it shattered and the fourth energy-attack Bai Chen sent out struck him.

Puchi!

It left a deep gash in his body.

Argh!!

He shrieked in agony and fell to the ground unconscious with blood gushing out quickly from the large cut in his body.

The screens of energy vanished and the instructors quickly ran towards the boy. They fed him him a blood congealing pill to stop the blood coming out of his wounds.

Then he was taken away for treatment.

"Haha! That was beautiful and intense" the instructor laughed and said. He was enjoying the spectacle and the bloodshed.

Then he shouted in excitement "Next!"

Fear set in the heart of the boys that wanted to contend with Bai Chen but it didn't show on their faces. Their faces retained their angry, ferocious looks.

A tall boy came out.

He looked at Bai Chen with slight fear. But he was confident in himself.