Ying Xiong was barely doing any better. Under the backlash of forcefully using such a technique, he too was bleeding everywhere.
He tried his hardest to enhance the technique, ignoring the harm to his body.
Despite that, Hong Yen slowly made her way towards him. Ying Xiong could do nothing more than watch as she approached and hope that she would fail to reach him. He was not even able to move while using the unfinished technique.
Hong Yen was forcefully advancing by grabbing the arena ground with all of her grip strength.
Eventually, Hong Yen was within striking distance. She put all of her strength and some Qi into her legs before blasting off of the arena ground towards the head.
As she was in the air, she suddenly spotted Ying Xiong smiling. Then, from within the head, a golden dragon made of buddhist Qi charged towards her.
Hong Yen looked at Ying Xiong, who had a victorious smile on his face. Suddenly, she smiled as well. In that moment, Ying Xiong had a bad feeling.
Then, a fire dragon flew up from behind Hong Yen and collided with Ying Xiongs. He was shocked as they canceled each other out and Hong Yen continued to fly towards him.
'She had expected it! It's a trap!' He thought to himself as he stood in place, still unable to move.
Hong Yen barely reached the head and broke it with a large fireball. As the soundwave disappeared, her body sped up and collided with Ying Xiongs knocking both of them down from the sky. Neither had the strength or Qi left required to fly.
As they fell to the ground, they wrestled in the air. Neither of them would be able to survive the fall in their current state.
Both of them had used up even the Qi naturally in their bodies. For a few minutes, their bodies would be weakened significantly.
What remained was a contest of who could make sure the other hit the ground first.
They wrestled back and forth, but eventually, Ying Xiong was on top as Hong Yen's head touched the ground and both were moved out of the arena.
"Third round first fight winner! Ying Xiong!" The announcer said.
Both Ying Xiong and Hong Yen were in perfect condition now. As if the fight before was a dream.
After a moment, Hong Yen shook Ying Xiong's hand.
"I look forward to seeing your future achievements." She said before walking to the stands with Fairy Hong Yun.
As usual, Ying Xiong celebrated with Zhou Fan and his mother until the next fight began.
The number 9 and 15 tokens flew up in the air and Yao Mun and Lernean jumped on stage.
The numbers counted down, and as soon as the word fight appeared, Yao Mun charged.
Like in the previous fights, Lernean immediately transformed into his nine headed hydra form. His size did not lose out to the buddha phantom or Bai Hun's phoenix form.
As Yao Mun ran towards him, all nine of Lernean's head breathed down breaths upon him.
With no intention to dodge, Yao Mun continued forward. Soon, he was bombarded with nine different Qi's.
The poison Qi poisoned his body, causing blood to seep out of his mouth and his skin to shrivel, but Yao Mun continued running forward.
The fire Qi burnt him severely, but he kept going. The ice Qi caused his body to slow and he was pierced by icicles, but he continued forward.
Everyone outside the barrier watched in awe as Yao Mun, with his bare flesh, resisted the attacks of nine different Qi's from a being at the same level as himself.
As he continued forward, only the light and darkness Qi's were left. As the light Qi surrounded him, he was blinded and his senses were interfered with.
Yet, Yao Mun did not need eyes or a sense of direction. With blood pouring from his eyes, Yao Mun kept going forward, directly towards Lernean.
When the darkness element hit him, he was casted into a world of darkness with no ability to feel and senses. Along with that, his lifeforce was being continuously drained.
Yet, for some unknown reason, Yao Mun's heart never wavered, his resolve never faltering. Even unable to see and sense, he continued to walk.
As he passed the breath of Darkness Qi, he was met with the simultaneous attack of all nine Qi's.
In an instant, his body was burned, bruised, frostbitten, and weak.
Eventually, Lernean realized that breath attacks weren't doing anything. His nine heads stopped breathing out at the same time.
Then, simultaneously, nine spears from the nine different elements appeared and shot at Yao Mun.
Now being able to see and sense, Yao Mun knew that he could not react in the same way as before.
The breath attacks were mostly formless, similar to gas. Now, the attacks were solid. No matter how firm Yao Mun's willpower was, he would simply be obliterated by the attacks without a proper defense.
Seeing the spears almost directly in front of him, Yao Mun covered his body with Qi. it was actually the first time he had done so in the fights.
A dark reddish hue covered his body perfectly, as if he was under a waterfall. It was the effect of Yao Mun's demon Qi.
He continued to run forward without stopping as his defense met Lerneans offense. As the fourth spear hit him, the barrier around his body broke and Yao Mun had to dodge. He moved the perfect amount to perfectly dodge the attacks as he continued to run forward.
Although Lernean tried a few more methods, Yao Mun eventually reached within a hundred feet of him. Then, he went on the offensive.
Yao Mun moved his arm, which was holding his sword, behind his back as far as it could go. Then, as if he was angry, he swung his sword down as fast as he could.
Nothing came out from his sword, but a light shone in his eye as a giant sword Qi 20 feet long appeared in the air above Lernean.