Chapter 9: The Competition.
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And alas the students have arrived at their destination.
There was a wide stone arena that greeted them, with stone seat that was arranged similar to stair, the then students started to pick their respective places, the sound of anticipation in their hearts beat as the excitement they are feeling can't wait any longer to test their new strength, and amongst them all, Ryu who was smiling was at the highest seat with his arms crossed with his usual smile.
He have already surpassed his previous life prowess, and even he can't wait to test his new strength, unfortunately for him, there is no one stronger than him in this cave.
And as all the students waits in anticipation, Sang In Hyo walked up to the stone arena, by using Sound Arts his voice reverberated towards the entire area.
"All of you spent your last 4 years in isolation to grow stronger, and I'm sure that all of you want to test your new strength"
"This moment the third trial Of Life And Death will begin, all of you will fight, and there will be only two results, the winner and the loser"
"BEGIN!!"
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The first fight was quite boring if you ask me, but that is based on my standard, but it was not all that boring, the Martial Arts they were displaying was quite fantastic but amateurish execution ruins it.
And as I was musing to myself.
My fight was announced. In front of me was Teen holding a spear.
"No.68 you may be the strongest back then but these past 4 years, I have gained strength and power, Today I will claim the title of strongest" He said with arrogance and confidence.
"HOHOHO You are quite rowdy aren't ya"
and as the two exchange words the bell signals, initiating the start of the match.
My opponent was using a spear and he smirked looking at me weaponless, he probably thought that because I use Fist Arts he has the advantage due to the short range of Fist arts.
But boy Oh boy was he wrong.
Lowering my hips a tiny bit and squatting my legs, I pulled my left fist backward while outstretching my right hand, like an archer pulling an arrow.
"Huuu"
By breathing in and out, red hazy and fogy energy envelopes my left fist.
[War Fist of The Desolated Land: Arrow Mode]
[Red Arrow]
I punched through the air, and a red projectile of energy shaped like an arrow was shot.
Seeing the projectile coming for him the latter tried to block the arrow using his spear but he was underestimating the raw power of that attack.
His spear broke upon contact and the arrow landed on his shoulder.
The pain on his shoulder seer through, and the boiling hot energy spreads throughout his body infecting his energy pathway and disrupting the Qi flow, and simultaneously multiplying the pain.
"I-i I Yield!!"
"NO.68 WINS!!!"
After he surrendered I approached him and took back the Qi I planted on his body, otherwise, he will die from the pain alone. After retrieving it he fainted.
You see this is the result of an ultimate accumulation of Martial Knowledge of two worlds and extra inspiration from Novel, Manga, and some anime.
This is a Modified Qi I created, I call it [Red Leecher Qi], by planting this qi inside the body of my opponent, the target will experience unimaginable pain as it infects the energy inside the body of the target, and by slowly converting the Qi of the target into [Red Leecher Qi] once I retrieved my planted energy the rest of the Infected Qi will also be absorbed. The longer the energy stays the more it infects.
In other words, this is a Qi that once planted inside a body, the Qi will infect the Qi inside the body of the said target and converts the Qi in the victim's body into [Red Leecher Qi] and once I absorbed it back the infected Qi will also be absorbed in other words, a sort of a Gluttony skill.
After I absorbed it back, I stole over 20 years' worth of Qi from him, making my Qi over 120 years
Fortunately for him, he was unconscious, otherwise he would have a mental breakdown having over 80℅ of his Qi stolen.
After winning and stealing his opponents Qi, Ryu headed back to his previous seat and sat down, the instructor who was watching was all speechless, what Ryu did back then was called a Qi Fist Projectile, since Fist Arts have glaring weakness of being short range, only those who have reached a certain level can remove this weakness and that is Qi Fist Projectile.
Seeing Ryu performed it is a statement that Ryu have reached the level of a Great Demon, a similar rank to the Head Instructor.
Even Hyuk Weon Seong was speechless, this feat alone proves that Ryu is certainly the strongest Student on the cave, he may not want to admit it but he was doubting his chance of winning if he is forced to fight against him.
After this little fight, the competition continued, Hyuk Weon Seong fought one of the new guy Gwan Tae Ryang the future general and one of the most loyal cultist and follower of Hyuk Weon Seong.
Though Gwan Tae Ryang was very arrogant right now, he will go under new changes after his fight with Hyuk Weon Seong.
And one of the fight was with Chun Ah Young or No.17 fighting one of the guy from the new group, the one wearing purplish robe with his bangs covering his left eye.
The fight continued on and they have exchanged over 30 attacks but the one that won was Chun Ah Young, she won because she used [Dark Flower Spirit and Red Heart Connection] a martial arts of the Heavenly Demon, you see Chun Ah Young was the daughter of the Moon Splitting Heavenly Demon Chun Wi and what she used was one of the connections of the Heavenly Demon.
A demon practitioner can only become Heavenly Demon once he have acquired these connections.
First evolving [Dark Flower and Red Spirit Method] into [Dark Flower Spirit and Red Heart Connection] and fully blooming it.
Second is manifesting the [Divine Flame]
And third is having the bloodline of Chun.
The third was the easiest, as to have continue or aquire the Chun Bloodline was to marry Chun Ah Young.
Fourth was to be the disciple of the Heavenly Denon.
Though Hyuk Weon Seong became the Heavenly Demon without having the Chun Bloodline maybe Chun Wi decided to marry him to Chun Ah Young. Completing the the connection.
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