The two of them had both powered up with full strength, clearly sharing the same idea to end the fight with the next move.
Under the anticipation of the crowd, Pinela's fist landed on Eflar's jaw, causing the girls to scream out in joy. But before they could get to happy, Eflar's fist similarly landed on Pinela's jaw.
The two fists landed at the exact same time, with each of them taking a heavy unguarded blow straight to the chin. And just like that, Eflar and Pinela collapsed simultaneously, both knocked unconscious.
"..." The crowd's mouth's were still hanging open.
"..." Minos was also befuddled at the result.
"I guess the genders are equal?" A young man said, breaking the silence.
"Yeah, I guess so." Replied another girl.
"Nah, men are still better." Another fat guy spoke, but under the threatening stares of an entire crowd of young women, he suddenly swallowed his words.
"Ju-just kidding, of course we're all equal." He said as he quickly corrected himself.
"Since both combatants are knocked unconscious, they are considered forfeited from the match, hence let's quickly get to the final match." Said Master Lero, breaking the silence, and relieving the plight of that fat young man.
Finally it was the match between Venix and another man who clearly wasn't as popular as Eflar, but still most thought Venix would lose.
Despite easily beating his opponents who were at the Second Life Lock layer, most still assumed Venix was injured, so he stood no chance against a bonafide Three Life Lock layer cultivator.
Minos didn't share this assumption, instead he was fully confident at this point that not only was Venix not injured, but he had likely broken through to the Third Life Lock layer as well.
The two got onto the stage, and without a moment wasted, the fight began. Initially the crowd thought Venix would be swiftly defeated, but instead the two had a back and forth.
However, just as the crowd thought the two were equal, Venix suddenly revealed his Green Bull Tendon Fist, which had reached the perfection realm.
With the additional 50% strength that comes with the perfection realm, Venix landed a heavy punch on his opponent's stomach, causing him to reel.
Taking advantage of his disorientation. Venix landed a punch right on his opponent's temple, knocking him straight to the floor.
Had he not been at the Third Life Lock layer, a blow like that in such a fragile area would have been an immediate death sentence, but given his improved physique, he took the blow with only minor injuries.
Of course he was far too weak to keep fighting at that point, hence Venix was quickly declared the winner under the crowds shocked eyes.
"I thought he was injured? Why did he suddenly become so fierce?"
"Seems the whole injury story was fake from the start. Venix probably played along with it so he could catch everyone off guard this tournament and claim the mid-level Lock Breaking Pill for himself."
Minos smiled slightly as he watched Venix claim his Lock Breaking Pill under the envy of the crowd. Of course what he was really happy about was the 1,000 contribution points he had just won.
Heading to the gambling stall, Minos quickly presented his ticket to the stall owner, the same man who he had spoken to at the start of the day.
"Kid, you've got some amazing foresight, to think you'd actually realize Venix was fine from the start. But hey, willing to gamble, willing to lose."
The man swiped Minos's card on the strange machine from earlier, and Minos watched as the original 0 suddenly transformed into 900.