Chapter 37

"Do not worry my disciple, others may not have realized it, but that youth is only pouring all of the energy that he could to suppress his much weaker opponent. Since you are both a Body Refinement cultivator and you have the Bronze Body physique, your foundation is considered above average. When it comes to that youth who is being suppressed, I can see that his foundation is too weak so even with them almost being on par with their cultivation levels, there is still a wide gap." Master Shi mentally explained to Timothy as they watched the match.

"Still, it is rather impressive that he learned the basic technique of utilizing his inner force to dominate his opponent. I would tell you to be careful if you are to face him in the near future, but there is no reason to place special attention in getting along with that fellow." hearing his teacher talk about the youth helped Timothy look for the weaknesses in George's opponent. Sure enough, now that he understood what to look for, he realized that George was indeed only throwing around all the inner force he had to try and scare everyone else, and was not a peerless talent.

As George walked off of the stage, several contestants had fearful expressions on their faces as they subconsciously distanced themselves from him. As more matches began, Timothy realized that the other two contestants who were the most powerful youth's of the three major clans, had similar tricks that were not too effective other than to put on a show to entertain themselves or others.

After several more matches ended with the contestants giving it their all and more or less being equal in strength and combat experience, it was time for Timothy to finally step on stage to face his opponent. The opponent was small in height, but the power within his body made Timothy feel a slight pressure. Without wasting any time, the judge of this match told the two to begin.

Right before Timothy was able to execute his movement technique to get the initial hit in, his opponent executed a similar technique that allowed him to close the gap between him and Timothy while throwing out a kick. All that he could do was block the attack and try to counter.

What was strange, was that as Timothy put his arms up to block his opponent's kick, the opponent's leg began to grow out before slamming onto Timothy's torso, causing him to fall backwards. "What is going on?" Timothy thought as he looked once more at his opponent who's leg had shrunk to normal size.

Looking back into his memories, he did hear Master Sei teaching him about the different types of techniques that had existed. Other than elemental based techniques, there were body and transformation type techniques. If one had the correct physique, they could specialize in transformation type techniques whether it would be transforming into a type of demon beast, or simply being able to do unique things with their body. Unfortunately, Timothy had no idea how to handle this opponent properly!

Just as he did two seconds beforehand, Timothy's opponent dashed towards him once more, but this time, he threw out a punch. Since he did not even have enough time to catch his breath again, all Timothy could do was accept the attack. However, as he put his hands up to block the fist, his opponent's arm continued to grow like a whip and instead of a simple punch, his opponent chose to attack as if he were using a whip and aimed it at one of Timothy's blind spots.

Continuing to be hit, Timothy felt his consciousness fading slowly. Now matter how many times he tried to block his opponent from landing each blow, his opponent's body continued to shift accordingly to make any attempts at blocking him null.

The spectators including the elders all felt a sense of disappointment from Timothy. If it were them, they would have just suppressed his opponent who was clearly lacking in their cultivation level, with his force just as the other youth had earlier. It would have exhausted him faster, but at least Timothy would not be taking such a severe beating by him.

However, as his opponent once more tried to land a kick, Timothy had for the very first time in the match, blocked the blow as he continued to take deep breaths. Truth be told, even with the spar with Martin, he was not pushed to these limits. So it took even longer for him to find both his focus and correct pacing.

Up to this point, his opponent was controlling everything within the match, including the cheers of the crowd. But, Master Sei was possibly the only one watching who actually warmly accepted this happening to his disciple. For Timothy to grow into a top cultivator just as he was able to in his life, it took many of such beatings and tempering to reach such heights!

At first, Master Sei felt that maybe he would have to send a mental note to Timothy to assist him in the match as he did during the spar with Martin. Before he chose to finally step in and act, was the moment Timothy finally blocked his opponent's blow. Therefore, Master Sei chose to remain silent as he watched waiting for a show he had been unable to see since the moment he began cultivating.

Timothy blocking his opponent's attack for the first time in the match caused the spectators to feel a sense of enjoyment as if something special would happen next. And feeling the same type of pressure, his opponent could not help but to notice that the pacing of the match was no longer within his control as he launched his fist towards Timothy.

Throughout this match, Timothy's opponent thought that he would not need to use his fastest attacking speed in order to dominate over Timothy, but from seeing his technique being blocked, meant that the secret within it was now discovered by him which meant that it was useless to try to continue to use it, rather instead, to use the advanced version!