noffsinger Chapter 596 - 595: I Don’t Understand What You’re Saying
Chapter 596 - 595: I Don’t Understand What You’re Saying
Gong You quickly tore an opening in the cage of metal needles. He slipped out, hauled Bao Chuan inside to take his place, then sealed the opening and stood where Bao Chuan had been.
He snapped his fingers. Just as the crowd held its breath, certain he was about to die, a blur of motion streaked before their eyes, and the two men swapped places.
Bao Chuan’s eyes widened in disbelief as he watched his own thrown metal needles flying right back at him. He didn’t even have time to register that his position had been swapped.
A fatal blow from a Middle-Stage Seventeenth Level Beastman was immensely destructive, powerful enough to reshape the world. Even an equally-leveled opponent might not escape unharmed if they were fully prepared. And Bao Chuan hadn’t even reserved any Spiritual Power to raise a defense.
"No—!" As he let out a terrified roar, countless Golden Needles pierced his body. Meeting resistance, they detonated.
The towering, burly Black Ape Beastman dissolved into a red mist of blood that filled the Array.
The crowd erupted. "Did... did a Level 14 Beastman just instantly kill a Middle-Stage Seventeenth Level Beastman?"
"It was a fluke, right? That Level 14 Beastman’s Secret Technique is incredible. It’s not Instant Teleportation, but some kind of position-swapping ability? He switched places with the other guy..."
"That superpower is insane! Doesn’t that mean attacking him is the same as attacking yourself? How is anyone supposed to fight that?"
"You can’t say that. If the Seventeenth-Level Beastman had been more careful and kept his Protective Shield up, he wouldn’t have left such an opening..."
"Just as they say, the Black Ape Beastman is all brawn and no brains. Once he got angry, he stopped thinking completely. A Seventeenth-Level Beastman losing to a Level 14 Beastman... how utterly humiliating. And I heard the winner is from outside the forest! What does this say about us Beastmen from the Yongchang Continent?"
Gong You’s Protective Shield had blocked the bloody mist, leaving him completely clean and untouched.
When the bloody mist dispersed, only he remained on the stage, along with the golden Crystal Stones scattered on the ground. His expression was icy. ’A taste of his own medicine.’
Si Shuo let out a long sigh of relief. If it weren’t for her absolute trust and confidence in Gong You, she would have had a heart attack. ’He really knows how to play with fire,’ she thought. ’That was too intense.’
Feeling Gong You’s gaze on her, she grinned and waved. In return, he gave a lazy wave of his own.
Zhi Qi clicked his tongue. He didn’t know whether to say the Beastmen of the Yongchang Continent were weak, or that his own Couple Brothers’ mastery of the Time Law was just too overpowered.
Sitting in the front row, Su Yan was so furious she was twisting the hem of her clothes. ’How is this possible?!’ "How did that Bao Chuan even become a Seventeenth-Level Warrior? Is that all he’s got?"
The males behind her sneered. "Most likely, he saw that the Big Fish Beast’s superpower Level was low and underestimated him. To be that careless... he deserved to die."
"Everyone knows you never drop your Protective Shield in a fight! He broke a cardinal rule of combat. This should be a wake-up call for all of us..."
Wei Ce was in the second match. He was a true Peak Seventeenth Level in terms of superpower, but his displayed cultivation was Peak Sixteenth Level.
Since his family had changed their strategy, they had all adjusted their displayed cultivation to be one level lower than their actual cultivation. The three Beastmen he faced were a Level 18 and two at Peak Sixteenth Level.
Against Beastmen who were backed by vast resources and relied on refined techniques, Wei Ce’s ferociously reckless, life-or-death fighting style sent them reeling. He quickly hammered them right off the stage.
The audience fell silent. ’Has fighting above one’s level become so common and easy these days?’ they wondered. ’That’s a two-level difference! How did he get beaten like a child?’
The Level 18 Tiger Beastman, Feng Li, was filled with shame and fury. He had been beaten black and blue, his body ached all over, he’d lost two front teeth, and he’d been knocked to the ground to roll in the dirt.
Others just thought he was too weak, a waste of such a high cultivation. But he could feel Wei Ce’s terrifying power.
Wei Ce was someone he couldn’t afford to provoke. Feng Li shot a dark glance at one of the males beside Su Yan. ’If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t have been so humiliated, and I wouldn’t have lost my chance to make it into the top twenty!’
Si Shuo’s other Beast Husbands also won their matches—some cleanly, some with brutal ferocity, and others by a hair’s breadth of luck—all advancing to the top 100.
Su Yan was so full of hate she nearly went berserk. ’How is this possible?! Si Shuo’s Beast Husbands don’t even have high Cultivation Levels! They should have been crushed to death by High-Level Warriors with a mere flick of a finger!’
She had imagined that Si Shuo’s Beast Husbands would all be intimidated today. They would either die on the stage, causing the doting Si Shuo immense grief, or they would be forced to endure heart-wrenching pain to serve and please Su Yan herself just to stay alive!
The thought of either outcome had made Su Yan so happy she couldn’t sleep, and she had spent the entire night fooling around with her own males.
But in reality, she felt as if her face had been thrown on the ground and trampled on. She had watched, helpless, as she personally handed Si Shuo’s family the Heavenly Ascension Ladder to success.
The City Lord sensed her mood and said in a cold voice, "Yan’er, I have already done what I promised you. Since her Beast Husbands are indeed quite strong, you will suppress your anger for now. You can look for another opportunity later, one that nobody will trace back to you.
This ends here! The Late Autumn competition is a major event for our Ningbei City. Too many Beastmen are watching. There can be no mistakes.
Otherwise, you will no longer be the City Lord’s daughter!"
Faced with the threat of losing her current status, Su Yan had no choice but to suppress her heart, which was twisted with envy, jealousy, and hate.
The fifth round of the competition was a four-into-one elimination. With ten stages running simultaneously, the pace was fast, and the top one hundred Warriors were determined by noon.
The City Lord smilingly presented each of them with a special Identity Card. However, when he got to Si Shuo’s Beast Husbands, he spoke in a low, meaningful tone:
"Young men, your strength is indeed impressive. After all, you came from outside the forest, traveling all the way through the Southwest Forest to get here. You’ve certainly had more real-world experience than the males from the prominent families.
But you must also remember that on the Yongchang Continent, strength isn’t everything. The courage of one man cannot stand against an army.
If you don’t learn what it means to yield, what awaits you is a long fall from a high place, ending with your body smashed to pieces, not even bones remaining..."
Xu Chi just smiled. "I don’t quite understand what you mean, City Lord. But are you speaking from experience? Is that why you seem so moved?"
The City Lord’s expression darkened for a moment before he immediately broke into a hearty laugh. "A newborn calf truly doesn’t fear the tiger. Good. I’ll be watching to see just how far your little family can go."
The afternoon’s matches were even more intense. Contestants fought in pairs, with the winners advancing to the top fifty and the losers eliminated. From there, the competition would decide the top thirty, the top twenty, and finally, the top ten champions.
Zhi Le placed fifty-third, Xu Chi forty-fifth, Ji Liang seventy-second, Gong You fifth, Xiao Cheng first, Yin Jiang thirty-seventh, and Wei Ce twenty-ninth.
And this was the result with most of them holding back; only Xiao Cheng and Gong You had fought with everything they had.
When the results were announced, any Beastman who knew of Si Shuo’s family was in an uproar. Those males from outside the forest didn’t have high Levels, yet their power was terrifying. They fought opponents ranks above them with ease, sometimes even by two or three Levels... It was numbing.