Chapter 89: Chapter 82 Unstoppable
"Alright, Brother Ye Chen, be careful!"
As Bai Xiaofei's words fell, the True Qi from within his dantian surged out, turning the silver spear in his hand a deep cyan.
This was the infusion of True Qi into the spear, he was about to employ True Qi Skills!
When the entire spear was roaring with surging cyan True Qi, Bai Xiaofei's hand trembled, and the spear, over three meters long, burst towards Ye Chen like a flood dragon emerging from water.
And just as the spear tip was about to pierce Ye Chen's body, the entire spear split into eight, simultaneously launching eight flashes of spear light, each targeting one of Ye Chen's vital points.
Ordinary spear techniques involved only one form of attack.
But these eight spear flashes hurtling towards Ye Chen each contained eight different attacking styles!
The one being attacked would have to divide their focus in eight different ways to defend themselves!
This attacking spear technique was incredibly powerful!
Bai Xiaofei's set of spear techniques was named "Jiao Dragon Thirty-Six Strikes," a high-grade yellow-tier Martial Skill. Its thirty-six strikes were derived from the thirty-six different attack methods of a Jiao Dragon, making it extremely difficult to defend against!
It was with this well-crafted set of spear techniques that Bai Xiaofei had forcefully fought his way into the top ten!
Bai Xiaofei thought that even if Ye Chen was strong, even if he could withstand the first of the eight attacks, there were still a relentless series of deadly strikes following closely, aimed at Ye Chen.
In the end, the most powerful move of the Jiao Dragon Eight Strikes could even unleash thirty-six different attacks, giving Ye Chen no avenue of escape!
However, Bai Xiaofei clearly overestimated his own abilities and underestimated Ye Chen's combat prowess.
At the moment his spear turned into eight spear flashes aiming for the eight vital points on Ye Chen's body, Ye Chen suddenly reached out with a large hand and grabbed Bai Xiaofei's spear in one go.
Next, not giving Bai Xiaofei any chance to change his tactics, Ye Chen released the hidden energy of the "Wind Sword Skills'" third technique "Wind Spiral Kill" straight from his hand, through the shaft of the spear, to the entirety of the spear and even directly into Bai Xiaofei's hands.
In an instant, Bai Xiaofei felt an unbelievable spiraling force coming from the spear shaft. The entire spear started to wildly rotate under the terrifying power of the twist, and Bai Xiaofei, who was holding the spear, was even spun into the air by this rotational force.
Bai Xiaofei, who had initiated the attack, was unexpectedly sent flying through the air by Ye Chen via the spear.
Trying to break free, he couldn't escape the terrifying power of the rotation!
This shocked Bai Xiaofei greatly and made the crowd watching from below the sky ring scream.
Ye Chen, who had just unbalanced Bai Xiaofei with a single move, had no intention of stopping. This was only the first fight of his ranking in the top ten, and he had no intention of wasting any more energy on it.
Ye Chen flicked the spear tip he was holding in an instant, hurling Bai Xiaofei from the other end with a terrible force, then with a horizontal sweep of the spear, he knocked Bai Xiaofei off the sky ring and slammed him heavily onto the ground below.
Boom!
This sweep possessed such a massive force that it even cracked the ground beneath the ring, forming a huge fissure several meters long.
Bai Xiaofei, struck by this enormous force, felt the True Qi inside his body churning chaotically; he struggled to get up, only to directly find an enormous spear tip suddenly appearing in front of him.
This was none other than Ye Chen holding what was originally his spear, swooping down like a great Peng spreading its wings from the sky ring, striking at him once more.
Bai Xiaofei tried to dodge the spear tip but was horrified to discover that all his escape routes had been completely sealed by Ye Chen's seemingly ordinary thrust.
He had no chance whatsoever to dodge.
If this had been a fight to the death, he might have even been killed by Ye Chen by now!
Bai Xiaofei knew that he had lost this fight at the hands of Ye Chen!
Facing Ye Chen, he had absolutely no ability to fight back.
Even though he wielded a powerful high-grade yellow-tier Martial Skill, it was to no avail!
"Brother Ye Chen, I have lost!"
Bai Xiaofei, holding the long spear, admitted defeat aloud.
In the first round of the top ten ranking battle, as Bai Xiaofei was defeated and fell from the sky arena, Ye Chen secured the victory after Bai Xiaofei conceded!
After this first battle ended, Ye Chen returned the long spear to Bai Xiaofei and then sat down cross-legged beneath the sky arena, recovering his True Qi while waiting for the other battles above to conclude.
When the battles on all five sky arenas ended, the winners and losers of the first round of the cycle battle were successively born.
Ye Chen, Bai Xiaodie, Qian Ming, Qian Fang, and Ye Xue were victorious in their first battles.
The remaining five lost!
Then, after resting for the duration of an incense stick, the second round of the top ten ranking cycle battle began once again.
Just like in the first round, where Ye Chen swept away Bai Xiaofei in an instant, in the second round, Ye Chen used only two moves to defeat his second opponent, Qian Yuan of the Qian Family, one of the top young fighters!
In the third round, Ye Chen defeated Qian Fang with just one move!
Then came the fourth round, the fifth round, the sixth round...
With each contest in the top ten battles underway, all the spectators from the three clans were shocked to discover that the first sky arena, where Ye Chen was fighting, was always the first to finish the battle.
And each time, the winner was Ye Chen!
Furthermore, Ye Chen never used more than five moves in each battle!
Even in the seventh round, when Ye Chen faced his own cousin from his clan, Ye Xue, who had True Qi at the ninth level and had already won four battles, Ye Chen still only used four moves to defeat her outright.
Everyone could see that Ye Chen's combat power far surpassed most of the others in the top ten.
These people stood no chance of halting Ye Chen's march toward victory.
Ye Chen, seemingly unstoppable, marched victoriously through the ranks, taking a more and more commanding lead among the top ten!
After all seven rounds ended, Ye Chen had achieved seven victories, a record matched only by Bai Xiaodie!
Even Qian Ming, who was originally considered the most likely to win, lost to Bai Xiaodie in the seventh round, finishing with six wins and one loss.
And the battle between Qian Ming and Bai Xiaodie brought an immense surprise to all the members of the three great families.
These two hot contenders for the championship even displayed Martial Skills of the lower grade Xuan level that they had perfected!
Along with Ye Chen, there were now three young members from the three great families who had mastered Xuan level Martial Skills, a phenomenon that hadn't occurred in the families for a hundred years.
This indicated that the three great families might flourish greatly in this generation!
Keep in mind, Ye Chen and Bai Xiaodie were only fifteen years old and had already mastered Xuan level Martial Skills, which would qualify them as prodigious talents even in Great Sects!
Everyone could see that the first place was very likely to be contested between Ye Chen and Bai Xiaodie.
And the two people Ye Chen had yet to face were precisely Qian Ming and Bai Xiaodie!
After a short rest, the eighth round of the top ten ranking battle finally began.
And Ye Chen's opponent for this round was none other than Qian Ming, a formidable fighter with True Qi at the eleventh level!
If Ye Chen, like Bai Xiaodie, defeated Qian Ming in battle, then Ye Chen and Bai Xiaodie, who were already far ahead, would commence the true battle for first place in the ninth round!
If Ye Chen wanted to contend with Bai Xiaodie for first place, he must first overcome the equally formidable Qian Ming!