The End of Li Yang

Warning: Please do not read this part if you are eating something, as it might destroy your appetite.

“Argh!!”

Li Yang wriggled at a corner of the stage, holding onto his shoulder with his left hand. All the cracked bones within his arm were piercing his muscles. The pain was horrendous.

Satisfied, Leng San looked at his opponent and left... the stage. This meant that Leng San was disqualified in this match!!

“I will leave the outcome of this match to Sao Yijun!!” Leng San announced and gracely stepped down.

The crowd grew wild at this unexpected turn of event!! Leng San, who already had the match in his hands, withdrew himself and left the rest for Sao Yijun, who had the weakest qi in the match!!

Su Songyu’s face wrenched. From listening to the sound of Li Yang’s bones cracking, he immediately knew the severity of the injury. The disgrace of its disciple equaled the disgrace of the sect. The old man stood up from his chair and glared at Yi Longhu.

“Yi Longhu!! Your disciple had gone too far. How are you going to explain his action!?”

Yi Longhu laid his eyes on the old man and subtly grinned.

“Master Su, the kids were fighting. Isn’t it normal for them to sustain some injury? On the contrary, why did you blame my disciple for going too far? Isn’t your disciple just too weak? If you want to ask for compensation, I will send the best medicine for bone mending that we currently possess, after the tournament ends.”

“You!!” Su Songyu couldn’t think of a comeback.

Yi Longhu was very entertained. The power of the Soaring Sword Sect and the Fire Fortress Sect were very much at the same level. There was no way that Su Songyu would dare to use this as a reason to start a conflict with them. Furthermore, the spectators were an undeniable alibi that proved the fairness of the tournament. Thus, it was impossible for the Fire Fortress Sect to discredit the Soaring Sword Sect with such a tiny issue. Yi Longhu, instead, was proud of Leng San, who had brilliantly demonstrated that the disciples of his sect were superior to the disciples of the Fire Fortress Sect.

Leng San stood beside the stage. His eyes beamed with confidence.

“Sao Yijun, just follow what I told you to do. The stage will now be yours!!” Leng San shouted at Sao Yijun from the side.

Sao Yijun who was on the stage with a twisted expression looked at Leng San and nodded. The boy’s gaze was now filled with confidence. From the start of the tournament until now, he was unable to land an attack on anyone!! He had already made peace with the fact that he was just an extra to fill in the quota of participants, since the time he submitted his application. The boy had never imagined that he would come this far. Sao Yijun clenched his fist as he swept his eyeballs around the stage. There was only Qi Song, whose legs were injured, and Li Yang, whose right arm was crippled. This was his chance!!

Su Songyu couldn’t sit still. He could accept the fact that a disciple of the Soaring Sword Sect had injured his sect’s disciple. But he could not accept that the person that defeated his disciple would be some extra from a small village. He shouted to the stage in a loud voice.

“Li Yang!! You must win, even if you have to withdraw from the tournament tomorrow, or else, don’t ever think of coming back to the Fire Fortress Sect!!” Su Songyu, consumed by rage, shouted across the arena.

The color drained from Li Yang’s face. He tolerated the pain and stood up to release his level five indigo qi. The youth was confident that he could defeat Sao Yijun, whose qi was at the first level of the indigo stage, even if he had only one arm. The fighting spirit returned to Qi Song as he saw his partner get up.

The spectators had an intense discussion once more.

“Ma Chen had sealed his own fate. Even if Li Yang and Qi Song are injured, that trash would still lose.”

“Agreed, how would his attack penetrate Li Yang’s defensive qi? Even if Li Yang were to stand still for that boy to attack, he would still win, because the boy would hurt his hand by trying and eventually forfeit, haha.”

“Sigh... the prodigy had left his fate in the hands of trash. What an idiot.”

Leng San couldn’t care less about the spectators. He was overflowing with confidence. Suddenly, Sao Yijun, who was under immense pressure, acted as if he didn’t want to come up. But once he locked eyes with Leng San, he didn’t hear the crowd’s criticism anymore.

At that moment, Qi Song ground his teeth and dashed towards Sao Yijun while in pain!!

“Let’s end this fast, you weakling!!” Qi Song’s right fist imbued with a hundred percent of his level three indigo qi dazzled terrifyingly.

Sao Yijun gathered his courage and circulated his level one indigo qi into his right fist and struck.

Boom!!

The impact of their fists produced an exploding sound as if this wasn’t a fight between two low-level indigo qi users. A storm of dust fogged the stage. Leng San who was standing beside the stage grinned wide. After the exchange of blows, the body of one participant flew for tens of meters and dropped down outside the stage without a slight chance to regain his stance!! That participant was Qi Song, who had sustained serious injuries. The boy was lying on his back right in front of the audience!!

The dust storm gradually subsided, revealing Sao Yijun who was frozen in his punching stance!!

“Hey!! What the hell was that!?”

“Shit!! This trash also concealed his true form?”

“The Floating Cloud Village is filled with monsters!!”

“Referee, quickly take a look at Qi Song’s condition!!”

The referee darted towards the participant. After checking Qi Song’s condition, his pupils dilated. He hastily waved to the medical team on the field!! Qi Song had severe injuries and his life was on the line!!

Even Xuanwu Jincan was astonished. He stood up unconsciously.

‘Preposterous!! That fist’s power of destruction was similar to that of a blue qi.’

Leng San grinned with satisfaction. Actually, before the match started, Leng San had whispered to Sao Yijun that he would temporarily boost the boy’s power, so a direct confrontation wouldn’t be a problem on the condition that he must not tell anyone about it. Once the match started, Leng San used the Radiant Sun technique to blind the spectators. That was when Leng San rolled up Sao Yijun’s sleeve and inscribed a rune onto his arm!! This was a blue rune, meaning that Sao Yijun's arm would be as strong as a user of blue qi. Leng San then swiftly rolled Sao Yijun’s sleeve down to hide the rune. The rune would automatically disappear in one shichen.

Trembling, Sao Yijun was awfully thrilled. He didn’t quite believe what Leng San told him. But after that exchange of blows, he was able to regain his confidence. The boy never felt this strong before. He took a glance at Leng San, who gave him a slight nod. Sao Yijun now felt like Leng San was a god that granted him superpowers!!

Sao Yijun turned to Li Yang whose face was white as a paper. The confrontation earlier sent chills over the youth’s spines. And out of nowhere, Li Yang felt that there was something very wrong with his body...

Sao Yijun approached Li Yang slowly, clenching his right fist tightly, radiating a horrifying aura that couldn’t be explained. Li Yang’s face distorted, becoming uglier by the second, partly because of Sao Yijun who was walking towards him, and partly from the sensation of excruciating pain in his crippled right arm. But there was another problem...it was as if a gigantic ocean wave abruptly appeared in his stomach!!

During the six months that Leng San learned to create medicines from Freya, he didn’t focus only on creating augmentative and restorative medicines, but he learned to create poisons and medicines that induced abnormalities within the body as well!! Leng San knew that the combination of poison and his metamorphosis, for a smooth infiltration, could enable him to carry out a perfect assassination!!

The pill that Leng San plopped into Li Yang’s mouth was a laxative. The effect of the pill would be amplified by the victim’s acceleration of qi!! The combination between his pill and the rune on Sao Yijun’s body would ensure his victory. That was why he was able to leave the stage without a care in the world...

Li Yang raised his left hand in front as if to impede Sao Yijun from walking towards him. But not a word came out of Li Yang’s mouth. Li Yang was trying to calm down the raging ocean wave within his stomach. He really wanted to surrender and get out of this place as soon as possible... but a particular voice had prevented him from doing so.

“Li Yang, demonstrate your honor as the disciple of the Fire Fortress Sect!! Envelop your body with fire qi. Do not let that trash come close,” Su Songyu stood up and shouted hastily.

Li Yang’s face grew pale as blood had disappeared. He couldn’t even force out a word, not to mention dispersing his fire qi. Unlike Sao Yijun, who gradually advanced towards him with confidence. The extra of the tournament was exerting pressure on the representative of one of the largest sects of the city. He could not be more satisfied.

“R... referee, I... I want to forf…”

Li Yang forced out a tenuous voice, but he wasn’t able to finish his sentence as a fist imbued with blue qi crashed into his lower abdomen.

Boom!!

He didn’t even circulate his defensive qi because he had inadequate energy to even say a word. His attempt to build a dam to stop the ocean wave that was violently brewing within his stomach had failed...

Sao Yijun’s right fist had completely vaporized the dam...

Li Yang’s body flew more than five meters high. An unworldly amount of brown matter gushed out from his pants and splattered across the stage. The smell that took over the arena had distorted the spectators’ faces!! Until somebody yelled...

“He... crapped his pants!!”