Ulf had looked at Young's face and saw that his facial expression was a bit weird. For some reason, he was feeling great pain and had a very hard time maintaining his position. But Bakar was still trying to hold on.
"Take this if you can!" said Bakar with his bloodthirsty eyes.
"Gladly junior." answered Argo, who also wasn't leaking in his fearsome appearance. He was like an unmovable barrier.
When Bakar had thought that he was ready, He hastily took ten steps back, ran forward again, then jumped 4 meters high in the air and attacked his opponent. It seems he wanted to use gravitation power to accelerate his speed and give more strength to his strike. Argo was ready and wasn't going to change his defensive posture.
BOOOOM
This time the voice was much louder than the first time. Ulf, who was around 40-50 meters away, could still feel the impact of the smash. Even if he was in his mother's hands and couldn't sense it, saw that the ground under the Argo vibrated a little bit and then cracked. It seemed the power of the punch wasn't still exhausted and the collision continued for the entire 3 seconds. It was astonishing, what kind of power could last that long? Ulf understood soon, naturally, it was qi. At that moment, a young participant was using not only his physic power but also qi. As for how Bakar did it, it would be homework for Ulf, after the competition.
After one year of meditation, Ulf gained many benefits. One of them was to sense qi slightly around him. He felt that after the clash, a huge amount of qi was released in the stadium. In the distance, it wasn't dangerous, but if a normal human was standing near to the epicenter, he/she would be gravely harmed.
After that Bakar was so tired that he would fall to his knees, but his pride didn't allow him to do so. In his eyes, there is still some persistence. Argo was still standing and hadn't changed his stance. However, not without paying a price. The blood was leaking from his mouth. Instead of panicking, he felt happier and didn't even bother to clean his bloody lips.
"Hahaha, you didn't let me down. You have the strength of a warrior." Argo was extremely excited, after seeing his blood.
'What a freak' thought john. In a past life, he was bled not just one or two times but never felt that much joy from it. Maybe it was stimulant, but only for his survival.
"Don't insult me with your praise, it's more shameful. I used an enhanced punch and risked my life for it, but you didn't even use any kind of enhancement. It's a failure for me." answered a disappointed Bakar.
"Kid, you have just become the warrior when I am already at the peak of this rank. My physical body and control over godly energy are much better than yours, who is just a beginner. Unlike you, My body is so strong that I almost don't feel any pain using energy forcefully. I have been mastering them for more than two decades to perfect my foundation for a new rank. At this point, if you have forced me to use godly energy, it would be more embarrassing for me." Argo gave a quite long speech to Bakar and the audience around him.
"If it's your wish, then stand strong and take one full-power strike from me." It seems Argon still pity the young warrior and wanted to fulfil his wish.
Argo started collecting qi into his right hand like Bakar some time ago. However, in contrast to him, the warrior of the older generation didn't need any preparation, one second and Ulf could already feel enormous strength concentrated in his right fist. It was also clear that his power was much stronger than Bakar's.
It seems Bakar could feel the incoming threat, so even if it was more painful than the first time, still was trying to gather qi in his arms. soon...
Bang...
Loud sound again and then flying boy. With only one hit, Bakar was thrown across several dozens of meters.
The young warrior had fallen with his face on the ground and wasn't moving. Ulf thought he was dead and was going to pray for a young warrior to be reborn, somewhere else like him.
However, it seems Bakar's soul hasn't left the body yet. He started to move his trashed body. He was bleeding from his mouth and ears. As his right hand was broken, his left one was damaged and had some internal wounds, it was very hard for him to stand on his feet.
Although Bakar got up, barely was able to hold himself. Ulf thought that the young boy wasn't going to give up yet, but then the chief came between the warriors.
"Entertaining fight! Argo won the fight, but Bakar has shown amazing willpower. I must remind young ones that we don't demand victory from them against their opponents. However, they must show the strength of character. In the future when you hunt the beasts or fight against the enemies, single hesitation may result in the loss of not only your life but also your comrades.
Bakar will be in the hunting team. Though he has just advanced to warrior rank and doesn't have experience fighting against the beasts, he will be in the team, which has a less dangerous mission to accomplish. Okay, that's it. Let's continue the tournament."
The fight between newly advanced warriors and experienced hunters resumed. Almost every fight was the same. The young generation had lower cultivation bases and less physical strength. Nearly all of them lost quite easily. However, there were some exceptions. For example, the boy with a hump nose was the same one who lifted a huge stone four times in the past (read - chapter 2).
His name was Ursa. he put up a really good fight against the opponent and gave fairly good damage to the latter, who had to use body enhancement to fight the young warrior. Ursa had also better control over the qi than his other peers. It seems he wasn't just in the early stage of warrior rank, but also not at the peak of it. That's your so-called talented kid. Regardless of big differences in rank and experience, he showed nearly the same power as his opponent. Finally, the chief had to stop them and declared the match a draw. Everyone was praising young Ursa.
What interested Ulf was that the tribe didn't make a difference between female and male participants. Several young male competitors had to fight against female warriors and got beaten up quite easily. However, they weren't ashamed of getting defeated by the women. Young females also fought older male warriors. The outcome was also relatively disastrous. Ulf wondered what kind of reaction the feminists from the earth would have about this incident.
Then the time for challenges among the older generations came, though it was still around warrior rank. Nevertheless, these fights were more intense and also gave Ulf a better understanding of how they were controlling qi.
Ulf concluded that this village was a collection of mad warriors. They were crazy for fight, blood, pride and fame. Especially young boys and girls. They had no control over their emotions. Instead of being nervous before combat, they were abnormally thrilled. May it was logical and good to be confident in your abilities when you are still an adolescent, but the excessive arrogance was also disastrous. That's why from Ulf's point of view, the main purpose of these matches was to give reminders to young warriors that they were weak and still had a long way till they would be considered mighty figures in the tribe.
As for hadda tribe, he didn't really disagree with the words said by the chief at the start of the competition. Outside of the village seemed to be so dangerous. As this world is in its stone age, the fight between the tribes for just the food must not be an unusual event, particularly when a forest was more threatening. That's why tribesmen must be ready to cut down anyone or anything, no matter who/what will stand in their way.