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"Very well, let's begin the fight. Are you two ready?" Zing Ghe asked Yang Zhai and Yen Hu. 

"Hmm," Both of them nodded. 

"Okay, begin the fight." Zing Ghe announced the start of their fight and jumped down from the stage. He had no purpose of staying on the stage. After all, everything was allowed, even killing. So, he just had to announce the beginning and the end of a fight. 

Yen Hu released twenty small bees into the air. After this, he activated a treasure and his clothes changed colors to gray. Then, he pulled out a sword from the scabbard that hung by his waist. 

Yang Zhai looked at Yen Hu quietly. 

"Are you ready?" This time it was Yang Zhai who asked Yen Hu whether he was ready. 

Yen Hu did not say anything and looked at Yang Zhai with complete focus. He knew that Yang Zhai was definitely not an easy opponent: thus, he first wanted to see what Yang Zhai would do before he attacked Yang Zhai. 

Yang Zhai moved forward. His hands started to turn brown slowly. 

"Attack him!" 

When Yen Hu saw this, he ordered the bees to attack Yang Zhai. 

Yang Zhai activated the rank 2 Red Poison technique and poison began to appear in his hand in a round shape. When he had accumulated around twelve inches of poison, he threw it at the bees in splashes. 

The bees melted right away. It was to be expected: after all, these bees were only mortal bees, not even rank 1 and Yang Zhai used a rank 2 technique. 

"What is this technique?" 

Yen Hu was shocked to see his bees melt away in a few seconds. Not just that, but this technique also began to rot the floor of the stage. 

Yen Hu could only control twenty bees with his rank 1 Ka. He hurriedly activated a rank 2 Ka and a bear began to form in the air. 

When Yang Zhai saw this, he formed a fist and jumped at the bear with a powerful dash. He punched the bear's right side of the head with his left fist. The strength of one bull was released with this punch. 

Yang Zhai had held back this time around. He had already accumulated the strength of more than three bulls with just the help of the Strength Ka. And when he advanced to rank 3, his body also became stronger, because of which, his body could release the power of more than four bulls easily. But, he did not stop using the Strength Ka after advancing to rank 3 and his power increased to five bulls. 

His body could hold the power of seven bulls after advancing to rank 3. Now, even using two orange lines together was already difficult for him when he accumulated the power of five bulls. 

After advancing to rank 3, he did not stop using the Strength Ka and managed to increase his strength to the level of five bulls without using the orange lines. 

When he did that, he could only activate one orange line now. 

When he advanced to rank 3, he only had the strength of four bulls, including the strength that was obtained after he advanced to rank 3. Thus, he could activate two orange lines and could obtain the essence of two more bulls. 

One line could grant him the essence of the one Moon bull and the power of one bull. Using two lines together could grant him the essence of two bulls: however, the power obtained through two orange lines activated together could rival three normal bulls. Thus, when he advanced, he had the power of four bulls, and after activating two orange lines together, his strength could increase to the power of seven bulls. 

But after his body strength increased to the power of the five bulls, he was unable to use two orange lines together, as it would sum up to the power of eight bulls. 

Activating one line could grant him the essence of one beast. Using two lines could grant him the essence of two beasts and using three lines could grant him the essence of three beasts. 

However, one orange line would only be able to rival one bull. Even though activating two orange lines would grant him the essence of two bulls, he could rival three bulls with this essence. The same was the case for the other lines. The more the lines he activated together, the more power he could use. 

Every single line could grant him only the strength and essence of a single beast: however, after combining them —meaning after activating two or more lines together— could increase the strength. However, this increase was only possible through the lines of an aperture. 

It could be said that the more the essence of the beasts he combines through the lines, the more powerful he would get. 

Right now, as it was day, he could only use the strength that could rival five bulls, but at night, after activating one orange line, he would be able to use the strength of six bulls. So, a bear was nothing to him.

When he hit the bear, the bear was sent flying by Yang Zhai out of the arena. It fell to the ground, trembling. Yang Zhai had just used one bull's strength. 

"How, how can he be this strong? Is he a body cultivator?" Yen Hu was shocked after seeing this. 

Yang Zhai began to run toward Yen Hu. 

"I need to stay away from him." 

Yen Hu muttered and began to run. He knew that even though he would be safe because he had activated a defensive treasure, he still chose to run. It was because even though he could endure Yang Zhai's attack with the treasure, he would still be sent out of the arena just like the bear did. 

Yen Hu was still running when a small pit suddenly appeared in front of Yen Hu, and he faltered and fell to the floor of the arena after his foot stumbled into the pit. 

He looked behind and saw that Yang Zhai was already closing up on him. He hurriedly stood up and slashed his sword at Yang Zhai. 

Yang Zhai grabbed the sword and kicked Yen Hu in the stomach. Yen Hu was sent flying out of the arena because of his kick. His hand was not cut because he had activated the Wooden Fists Ka and the sword that Yen Hu was using was just a mortal Rank. 

Yen Hu was not injured because of the treasure. He stood up from the ground and looked at Yang Zhai with an unbelievable expression. He was sweating after seeing the strength of the punch. 

"If the defensive treasure was not protecting me, I cannot even imagine what would have happened to me after enduring this punch." 

He did not know that Yang Zhai was already at rank 3: in fact, the aura Yang Zhai was releasing when he activated his methods was of rank 2 early-stage. Yen Hu himself was at rank 2 mid-stage.

Yang Zhai did not want to show off his power and ended the battle as quickly as possible. 

"The winner of this fight is Yang Zhai, and the victory goes to the Bai clan. Now, both the clans have one point each. The winner of this competition would be decided in the final round. And the day of the final round will be announced later." Zing Ghe shouted after Yang Zhai threw Yen Hu out of the arena. 

Now, the competition was tied, and both clans had one victory each. 

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