"Xiao San, you guys seem to know this Fu Tian?" Fatty asked with interest as the battle began.
"Fu Tian… he was lazy, and very carefree. But one thing is for sure, he's strong enough to be carefree."
Clang
The soles of their shoes scraped across the arena, leaving dust particles.
Liu Yan reached up and wipes away sweat from his forehead.
He braced his legs before launching himself at Fu Tian, grabbing onto the hilt, halting it's attack.
Fuuuu
Fu Tian's head went to the side, dodging the punch.
Thump
He headbutted Liu Yan, sending him back.
Thunder boomed above the arena constantly.
Lightning surged upon the Guandao,
"You better dodge this…" he said as he swung his Guandao constantly, releasing air slashes.
Thump, Crack.
Liu Yan punched the ground, creating walls of crystal.
He followed up immediately, punching the crystal wall… but with a different tactic.
Fu Tian expected the wall to move in like last time, however, crystals condensed on the center, the pillar rapidly grew, charging at him with terrifying speed.
But speed wasn't an aspect you can surpass Fu Tian in easily.
He jumped and ran across the pillar, slashing it to put pieces and getting over the wall.
He spun and delivered a devastating air slash.
Liu Yan dodged, but his heart was beating fast. The floor tha was struck by the slash was cracked deep, 50cm of cracked reinforced cement and marble.
"Third soul skill: Shattering shards!" One of his gaunletd transformed itself into a rotating minigun, firing crystal shards at Fu Tian.
Fu Tian dodged again and again, dodging such a simple attack pattern with open space was an easy task.
Liu Yan suddenly took off the minigun, creating a stable tripod structure.
Splinter, splinter, splinter, splinter, splinter
The minigun aimed at Fu Tian, the shards that whizzed past would explode when hitting the ground.
Liu Yan moved quickly, picking up the crystal boulders left by Fu Tian's slashes. Attempting to box him in and wait for his to make a mistake.
Fu tian dodged another round of shards, but he was mid air, unable to dodge the boulder
Thud, crack
Fu Tian ragdolled onto the floor, breaking the ground as he went.
He summoned his Guandao and stabbed it into the ground right before he was out of bounds.
Sweat dripped down both their faces, both had grown stronger, in strength and in battle instincts.
Fu Tian stood up slowly, and used his third soul skill.
"You always have been a strong competitor… pant… you are the first to bear the attacks from my third soul skills enhancement."
Fu Tian moved his Guandao, lightning seemed to fused with him for a moment.
"Raijin's blessing…" lightning struck him, but he remained standing… he was almost one with lightning.
"Fu Tian, so this is the type of power you have hidden" Qin Ming watched.
"No wonder you rarely took action" he shook his head slowly, as his hair robe blew backwards.
"So… this is the type of power brother Fu Tian has?" Osler watched in awe.
"Say, he might even be stronger than our boss when it comes to lightning prowess" Yu Feng joked, which earned a glare not from TianHeng, but from Du GuYan.
He hid behind Osler.
Fu Tian dashed forward, his strength… his speed, seemed to have almost doubled.
Liu Yan was being launched further from every attck he blocked.
Aghh!
Liu Yan was flung back, creating barriers to stop himself.
He created himself a Guandao made of crystals, charging straight at Fu Tian.
"What sort of…" he watched in shock, with a swing of his Guandao, the crystal one shattered into pieces.
"A blind spot!" Fu Tian threw out an elbow, but Liu Yan had predicted that.
He aimed lower, for his stomach!
Thump!!
Fu Tian laid in a small crater on the floor, dazed.
But Liu Yan wasn't gonna let up this chance.
Crack
He stood utop of him, before starting to rain down punches on Fu Tian.
Thump, thump, thump
Punch after punch landed again and again. Bruising Fu Tian's body, boulder of crystal formed and cracked on his body. He was locked in a beatdown.
Fu Tian clenched his fist, a sudden lightning bolt struck down, causing Liu Yan to dodge.
This distraction was enough.
Fu Tian stood up slowly… eyes determined.
Liu Yan went in for a right hook, but he disappeared. Appearing below Liu Yan, he delivered a strong punch, sending him upwards.
"Second soul skill: Thunderous sound chain…"
Fu Tia flew up at lightning speed, slashing me with his Guandao once, breaking my defense stature.
Second time, paralysis began to kick in on Liu Yan's body.
Third time, his body was being tased constantly. His muscles contracted uncontrollably.
Fourth time, Fu Tian, using the blunt side of his Guandao, smashing it into his body, sending him into the centre of the arena.
Fu Tian raised his Guandao high up, ready to stab down.
"May the Ten Heavenly Lords of the Skies bear witness to my might, may they blesseth me with the power to call upon thee! So thus I decree…" he spoke in olden english, no one could understand him.
"MAY RAIJIN's WRATH BEFELL UPON THOSE OPPOSE!"
He struck down like a lightning bolt.
"Ughh, Crystalline shield." Liu Yan raised one hand, struggling to hold it up. 3 Crystal shields formed on top of him, shielding his body.
The moment the Guandao struck down onto the first one, it shattered instantly.
The second one, it started to hold up, but it still failed.
The third one, it held up as long as he could hold it.
"Aghh!!" Liu Yan grunted in pain, all the soul power he could spare was being used but to no avail.
Crack
The third shield finally cracked.
The guandao stabbed down…
Thump
A dust cloud formed, everyone watched in worry.
After a few moments, the cloud cleared, revealing Liu Yan still in that crater, and the Guandao's blade stabbed to the right of his head.
Pant, pant
Liu Yan slowly raised a hand, surrender. Fu Tian still stood while he couldn't move a singular muscle.
Whooooo!!
The crowd cheered in excitement.
"What an amazing performance from our two contestants!!" The emcee announced into his mic as the audience got even more hyped.
"And with that, we officially tie the battle between Nine Devils of Shrek, and Sky Dou Emperor Battle team!!"
Fu Tian extended his hand.
"Heh, well fought." Liu Yan smiled and grabbed his hand, helping himself stand up.
"Clearly didn't slack off, I honestly thought you would go back to Holy Spirit village after we ended primary school" Liu Yan joked with him.
"What?! God damn it!" The rich old man kicked a table to the ground in anger.
"C-calm down" the young noble said
"Don't tell me to calm down! You're telling me the battle I bet on Emperor Battle Team's win they lose. And the battle I didn't bet on, they won! What utter bullshit!" He destroyed another piece of furniture.
Ying Xuan rushed up the arena to help me.
"See you soon, Fu Tian." Liu Yan said weakly as he is led weakly back to the viewing room, his body still recovering from the paralysis.
"See you." Fu Tian walked by himself, back to his viewing room. His body was bruised and bloodied, but nothing Ye LingLing can't fix.
Back at Shrek Nine Devil's viewing room.
Liu Yan immediately got onto a couch as Oscar gave him some sausages.
"You fought hard, brother Liu." Oscar praised him.
"I'm going to take a nap" Liu Yan said before dozing off from exhaustion.
Grandmaster shook his head, like he expected it while Flender chuckled.
"As long as they gave their best, that's all we ask for"
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