Can Age Be a Factor in Outsmarting Others?! Chapter 426
d the sound of knocking on his door: "Jia du jia."Sitting cross-legged and taking a deep breath, he opened his eyes. “Who is it”"It's me, I've made breakfast for you guys," Xie Yujia's clear voice ran...Chapter 426: Is Experience Really the Spice of Life!
The 'Ji Yin' level cultivators who had previously practiced this basic boxing style all personally experienced its power, but at this moment, when Hao Ren and Zhao Kuo were demonstrating it, the spectacle was even more breathtaking!
Although Donghai Dragon Palace's basic boxing style appears simple and unremarkable, it is actually a must-practice martial art for the soldiers of the Dragon Palace.
The soldiers of the Dragon Palace cannot rely on their elders' profound cultivation realms to perform unique techniques; they are low-level cultivators with average talent. They achieve their worth through constant battles and military feats!
Therefore, this boxing style used for battle is free from any fancy moves, aiming directly at vital points with every punch and kick.
Bang! Bang!
Hao Ren's right fist struck Zhao Kuo's chest, while Zhao Kuo returned the favor. The ground where they were standing immediately collapsed by half a meter.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The exchange of punches and kicks between Hao Ren and Zhao Kuo was even more dazzling than the sword lights surrounding them!
Thump…
Both men's shoulders collided with a punch.
Sa, sa, sa, as they retreated three steps, when they regained their footing, the ground beneath their feet immediately crumbled into a deep pit.
They used the heels of their feet to absorb the force, and this strength was enough to create a huge crater in the hard arena stones!
"Damn it," Zhao Yanzi looked at the arena with concern, calling out to Zhao Guang.
No one was yielding between Zhao Kuo and Hao Ren; they had reached an unyielding deadlock.
Zhao Guang stared intently at the arena without uttering a word.
Sword lights rushed into the space between Hao Ren and Zhao Kuo, clashing fiercely.
Hao Ren and Zhao Kuo leaped up simultaneously.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The battle continued from mid-air to the arena below.
Zhao Kuo kicked at Hao Ren, but Hao Ren dodged, causing the ground where he had been standing to collapse into a flat surface with a loud 'bang'.
Hao Ren jumped high and punched toward Zhao Kuo. As Zhao Kuo hastily moved half a meter sideways, Hao Ren's punch turned his landing spot into rubble!
Two small arenas were instantly destroyed by punches and kicks; the power required was definitely infused with massive amounts of spiritual energy.
This wasn't even an Earth Rank or Metal Rank battle… The surrounding cultivators were dumbfounded.
If such punches and kicks landed on a cultivator's body, they wouldn't be less destructive than those from magical treasures!
Just as everyone thought this, Hao Ren's elbow met Zhao Kuo’s with a loud bang; it was like two balloons colliding. The two men kicked each other's feet again and instantly recoiled several hundred meters.
Bang!
The small arena where they landed immediately crumbled to the ground, but Hao Ren and Zhao Kuo leaped up in crane-like fashion once more before anyone could react, engaging in another clash high in the air.
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
The two men fell straight from the sky to the central large arena. With an advantage of half a move, Zhao Kuo swept across towards Hao Ren; wherever his feet landed, the giant stone blocks of the arena crumbled into dust.
Crack! Hao Ren used his fists to block Zhao Kuo's legs and feet, then countered with a barrage of punches. Boom boom boom boom! Hao Ren directly turned the arena that Zhao Kuo could kick into powder!
The cultivators around them seemed to be destroying the arena rather than sparring.
"Mom, what kind of fighting style are Uncle Three and Hao Ren using" Seeing Zhao Guang ignoring him, Zhao Yanzi turned to Zhao Hongyu and asked.
"Uncle Three and Hao Ren don’t want to seriously injure each other. They’re trying to force the other one to admit defeat," Zhao Hongyu said.
Zhao Yanzi thought for a moment before finally understanding what she meant by "forcing the other to admit defeat."
One small arena after another was destroyed, and the large arenas were also becoming increasingly damaged. The area that could be stood on was getting smaller and smaller, making it harder and harder to fight. So, the weaker one would lose if they couldn’t suppress the opponent.
"Emperor Zhao’s…"
At this moment, a shout interrupted Zhao Yanzi and Zhao Hongyu’s conversation.
Zhao Guang, who was watching the martial trials, turned around. A middle-aged wood-element cultivator led two young wood-element cultivators to come behind them respectfully.
"I am Song Xi, the senior elder of the Wood Dragon lineage on Jade Emperor Mountain. I’ve come to thank East Sea Dragon Palace for their medicinal gift," said this elder as he introduced himself.
Zhao Guang looked at him in slight confusion. The Wood Dragon lineage on Jade Emperor Mountain was one of the larger factions among the wood dragons, but there seemed to be no connection between East Sea Dragon Palace and Jade Emperor Mountain.
"From now on, whenever East Sea Dragon Palace needs help from our Wood Dragon lineage on Jade Emperor Mountain, we will do our best," this senior elder bowed toward Zhao Guang and continued.
Zhao Guang replied, "Senior Elder Song is too kind. We dragon tribes are one family; helping each other out is only natural."
With gratitude, this senior elder nodded at Zhao Guang and led the two wood-element cultivators away to a distant area.
As Zhao Guang watched his back disappear, he realized that the senior elder had approached the Wood Dragon cultivator who had just participated in the trial. Then he understood why this senior elder had come over specifically.
Turning around and looking at Xie Yujia beside him, Zhao Guang felt a myriad of emotions.
Due to recent events, East Sea Dragon Palace’s reputation among all dragon factions had dropped to an all-time low. Many dragon factions believed that it was wrong for East Sea Dragon Palace to destroy West Sea Dragon Palace and considered this act extremely domineering.
However, Xie Yujia used her pills to help a wood-element cultivator she didn’t know, which greatly improved Jade Emperor Mountain’s Wood Dragon lineage’s impression of East Sea Dragon Palace.
Since the magical beast delivering the medicine was from East Sea Dragon Palace, this senior elder naturally assumed that the gratitude should be directed toward East Sea Dragon Palace.
Judging from what the senior elder said, he would personally bring the Wood Dragon cultivator to East Sea Dragon Palace for a thank-you visit after his disciple recovers. Since it was "a thank-you visit," they certainly wouldn’t come empty-handed.
The Jade Emperor Mountain’s Wood Dragon lineage operated with low profiles and had an excellent reputation, not having the strongest strength in the southwest but being very influential there.
In other words, Xie Yujia used a single pill to bring East Sea Dragon Palace into a new situation!
Zhao Guang turned around to look at Zhao Hongyu. Zhao Hongyu understood his meaning and nodded slightly.
Xie Yujia was a treasure of East Sea Dragon Palace!
In the future, they both needed to treat Xie Yujia even more gently. And for her parents who were in America, they should give them more business opportunities and better development prospects!
Bang…
Back at the arena, Hao Ren and Zhao Kuo collided again.
Hao Ren’s body was sore and numb from overexertion, causing his swirling sword light to become chaotic. The state of sword light reflected the state of one’s inner energy.
Zhao Kuo took advantage of this opportunity to chase after Hao Ren. Zhao Kuo stabbed directly at Hao Ren’s body but cut into the arena floor below him instead.
The hard stone blocks quickly turned into powder under the sharpness of the sword light of Five-Color Decision Sword Formation, which was as sharp as any innate treasure and could easily shatter these special material stones!
Hao Ren quickly retreated, but the sword light still grazed his feet! The moment Hao Ren lifted his foot to step down on a stone block, it turned into powder!
"It's over, Hao Ren is going to lose," Yan Zi couldn't help but say.
Zhao Hongyu turned her head to look at Zhao Yanzi and thought, "So my daughter still hopes that Hao Ren will win after all." However, she didn't point out her daughter’s unintentional words. She looked back at the center of the arena where Hao Ren was facing Zhao Kuo who used to be a peak Qian-level cultivator. It wasn’t easy for Hao Ren to last until this moment.
Hao Ren quickly retreated with a flurry of movements, but he had already reached the edge of the large arena and there was nowhere else for him to go back to.
When Zhao Kuo and Hao Ren first stepped into the arena, there were only eight small arenas left. Now all those small arenas have been destroyed and only this large arena remains. There’s hardly any standing room left in it!
Bang!
Zhao Kuo’s last sword light slashed over and the pillar-like stone under Hao Ren's feet snapped.
With his sword light guiding him, Hao Ren jumped to another broken piece of stone.
"A cornered beast still fights," Zhao Kuo used his sword light to destroy Hao Ren’s landing spot directly.
This forced Hao Ren to have nowhere else to stand and made him fall to the ground in defeat!
Ding ding ding... Hao Ren split 160 Dao Sword Lights evenly to hard clash against Zhao Kuo's sword light, then he jumped over the air to another stone farther away.
"Dream on!" After a long series of battles, Zhao Kuo finally took the initiative and naturally wouldn’t give Hao Ren a chance for recovery.
His Dao Sword Lights bloomed in all directions, destroying every possible landing spot!
At this point, with 12 small arenas and one large arena remaining in the eastern exam region, there was only Zhao Kuo’s half-square-meter stone pillar left for Hao Ren to stand on!
"He lost," Zhao Guang said somewhat regretfully.
Bang bang bang... Zhao Kuo's sword light converged from all directions.
His Dao Sword Lights were evenly distributed in eight positions, with five Dao Sword Lights at each position. It vaguely displayed a grand aura and was the strongest central defense formation—the Pi Bagua Formation!
Swoosh! Swoosh!
A pair of sword qi appeared under Hao Ren's feet to firmly support him. When it comes to helping fellow cultivators, this elder would definitely count this favor as a debt owed to the East Sea Dragon Palace. Hearing what the great elder said, he will personally bring that Xun-level cultivator to the East Sea Dragon Palace for gratitude in the future and since it's about "gratitude," there's no way they'll come empty-handed.
The Jade Emperor Mountain Mu Long branch handles matters quietly and has an excellent reputation. In the southwestern region, its power might not be the strongest, but what it says carries weight.
In other words, with a pill, Xie Yujia brought about a new situation for the East Sea Dragon Palace!
Zhao Guang turned and looked at Zhao Hongyu. Understanding his intentions, Zhao Hongyu nodded slightly.
Xie Yujia is a treasure to the East Sea Dragon Palace!
In the future, they need to be more considerate of Xie Yujia's family and give her parents in America more business opportunities and better development prospects!
...
In the arena, Hao Ren and Zhao Kuo collided again.
Hao Ren’s body was aching all over, and his swirling sword light became chaotic. Sword light is essence energy, so the state of Hao Ren's sword light reflected the state of the essence energy in his body.
Zhao Kuo’s sword light attacked relentlessly. Without hesitation, he stabbed at Hao Ren’s body but cut towards the arena under Hao Ren’s feet instead.
Kacha kacha... This... The hard stone quickly turned to powder. The sharpness of Sword Light Formation's sword light was on par with any innate treasure, and it easily shattered these special material stones!
Hao Ren quickly retreated, but the sword lights passed under his feet! As soon as Hao Ren lifted his foot, the stone he stepped on turned into powder!
"It's over, Hao Ren is going to lose," Yan Zi couldn’t help but say.
Zhao Hongyu turned her head and looked at Zhao Yanzi. She thought, "So my daughter still hopes that Hao Ren will win after all." However, she didn't point out her daughter’s unintentional words. She focused on the center of the arena once more, where Hao Ren was facing Zhao Kuo who used to be a peak Qian-level cultivator. It wasn’t easy for Hao Ren to last until this moment.
Clang clang clang...
Hao Ren quickly retreated, but when he reached the edge of the arena, there was no more space to retreat.
When Zhao Kuo stepped onto the arena earlier, there were only eight small arenas left; now all of them have been destroyed. The remaining large arena had very little standing room!
Bang!
Zhao Kuo’s last sword light slashed over, and Hao Ren’s pillar-like stone underfoot immediately snapped.
With the powerful sword light escorting him, Hao Ren jumped to another piece of remaining rock.
"A cornered beast still fights!" Zhao Kuo directly used his sword light to flatten where Hao Ren was trying to land.
This forced Hao Ren into a situation with no place to stand and made him fall and lose!
Clang clang clang... After dividing his sword lights, Hao Ren would use them to hard clash Zhao Kuo’s sword light in the air and then jump towards even further rocks.
"Dreaming!" Having finally gained the upper hand after a long fight, how could Zhao Kuo give Hao Ren an opportunity to adjust
His sword lights blossomed fully and shot out to two places, cutting down all possible landing spots around him!
At this point, in the eastern examination area that set up eight small arenas and one large arena, the range of the arena where candidates could stand was only on this half-square-meter stone pillar under Zhao Kuo’s feet!
"Lost." Zhao Guang said with a slight regret.
Boom boom boom... Zhao Kuo’s sword light returned from all directions.
His sword lights guarded eight directions, each direction having five sword lights, vaguely revealing an imposing atmosphere—this was the strongest central defense array—the Eight Trigrams Formation!
Swoosh! Swoosh!
Two sword qi appeared under Hao Ren’s feet, steadily supporting him.
"Controlling a sword..." Cultivators who recognized its value couldn’t help shouting out.
Dragon Sect cultivators generally relied on magical treasures to fly; only Heaven and Earth Realm cultivators could hover in the sky using their own spiritual energy.
Hao Ren, with just an Earth Rank realm, was able to hover without relying on any magical treasures. This was considered extraordinary by most cultivators.
The old man Zeng standing at the side of the arena couldn’t help but show a look of surprise. Being able to release sword qi and sword light wasn’t necessarily remarkable, but using sword qi to support one’s body had reached the level of magical treasures.
In other words, Hao Ren’s 320 sword lights were each on par with magical treasures. Clang! Clang!
Zhao Kuo sent two batches of twenty sword lights towards Hao Ren respectively.
Hao Ren suddenly moved his body and dodged these forty sword lights, looking down at Zhao Kuo from above. The forty sword lights returned to Zhao Kuo’s side and slowly revolved around him in a formation of 640 sword lights.
Zhao Kuo defended while Hao Ren became an exposed target in the sky with no place to land.
The only half-rock pillar left from the arena was being stepped on by Zhao Kuo’s feet.
At this step of dazzling battle, it had turned into a contest between offense and defense.
If that rock pillar was destroyed, both would lose. If Hao Ren couldn’t knock Zhao Kuo off the rock pillar, then he would lose.
Hao Ren standing in mid-air slowly clenched his fists.
The powerful sword lights were neatly arranged.to expose 郝仁's miserable defeat in front of everyone!Hao Ren and his group arrived at the outer city and went directly back to their room numbered Ren Yin 246, picking up the bag they had left there.Z...