Tai Bàoli proceeded to watch Seung Duang's match intensely. He wanted to learn as much as he could about Seung Duang's fighting style.
Additionally Seung Duang had somehow gotten very unlucky and had an opponent in the Altering Muscle Stage.
Elder Xian: "You know the rules, Begin Introductions."
Seung Duang: "Seung Duang, Viscera Training Stage, Disciple for 2 and a half months."
Seung Duang bowed.
Zheng Zhoushi: "Zheng Zhoushi, Altering Muscle Stage, Disciple for 2 years and 2 and a half months."
Zheng Zhoushi didn't bow instead getting into a low Kung Fu like stance with one arm extended, and one arm behind his back.
Seung Duang harrumphed
Seung Duang: "Be prepared to lose today."
Zheng Zhoushi didn't respond, instead concentrating intensely on Seung Duang.
Elder Xian: "Begin!"
Zheng Zhoushi stood motionless, it seemed he was going to wait for Seung Duang's approach. Of course Seung Duang would immediately begin his assault barreling across the platform his skin giving off a goldish tinge.
His heavy footsteps left deep imprints in the ground as he barreled towards Zheng Zhoushi. Finally after getting within range he'd begun a fast and fierce superman punch jumping into the air and putting his full weight behind his attack.
The attack itself created a vicious sound as it sliced through the air. Seung Duang's punch seemingly like a meteor destined to impact Zheng Zhoushi's Head.
However right as the punch was about to hit Zheng Zhoushi's body seemingly disappeared. Seung Duang's punch landing on nothing.
Even more unbelievably right as Seung Duang finished his punch, Zheng Zhoushi had seemingly reappeared behind him, Not just one Zheng Zhoushi however but three.
Tai Bàoli seemed astonished, was it an illusion? or had Zheng Zhoushi really created 2 copies of himself? he had no idea.
The Three Zheng Zhoushi's all simultaneously kicked out towards Seung Duang in different vicious manners. One aimed for the head, one aimed for the chest, and one aimed for the legs.
it was almost impossible for anyone to tell the difference between the three, and most didn't know if the 2 copies were real or fake. However none of that mattered, Seung Duang simply let all "three" attacks hit him.
As the attacks collided a large metallic clang would be heard, the only attack that was real was the head kick. the other two had simply passed through Seung Duang. But that wasn't the most interesting part. The most interesting part was that a Viscera Training Stage Disciple took a head kick from an Altering Muscle Stage Disciple and seemingly barely flinched.
Zheng Zhoushi tried to quickly pull his leg back and spin into another kick, but as he began pulling his foot back Seung Duang grabbed his leg swiftly. And with that Zheng Zhoushi was seemingly immobilized, in fact Zheng Zhoushi even screamed in pain as he felt the pressure from Seung Duang's tight grip.
Seung Duang swiftly pulled Zheng Zhoushi towards him and clobbered a hammer fist into Zheng Zhoushi's chest sending him downwards creating a small impact zone on the platform.
Zheng Zhoushi even spit up some blood, however before anyone could even think Zheng Zhoushi's figure distorted slightly and 5 copies of Zheng Zhoushi appeared all doing different things. examples being rolling away from the impact zone, wiping the blood of his mouth, doing Kip up's. They seemed unbelievably realistic in their own way.
However Seung Duang stayed unbothered simply doing a sweeping spin kick attempting to hit all the copies.
Which he did almost flawlessly, However unfortunately for Seung Duang two of the copies were just out of reach of Seung Duang's kick. and one of them was probably the real one as Seung Duang's kick hadn't hit a solid surface even after sweeping through the different Zheng Zhoushi's.
Both the Zheng Zhoushi's bombarded Seung Duang with different punches and kicks, and what was even more surprising was that it seemed like BOTH the Zheng Zhoushi's attacks were physical. like Zheng Zhoushi had actually copied himself.
Seung Duang was strong, but under the bombardment of two Altering Muscle Stage Disciple attacks at the same time consecutively he was gritting his teeth and could be seen even with a little bit of blood dripping from his mouth.
It seemed even though he could block the attacks and stand sturdy, he still felt the damage and it was building fast. As it stood Seung Duang just kept getting pummeled by the two Zheng Zhoushi's non stop, punch after punch and kick after kick.
It was because Seung Duang was just letting it happen, but because every time Seung Duang tried to grab Zheng Zhoushi or counter attack him the other Zheng Zhoushi would interrupt him. It was angering Seung Duang quite a bit.
Seung Duang: "Enough!"
As Seung Duang screamed a sonic boom was heard. Both the Zheng Zhoushi's were seemingly knocked back by the sound. Even some Strength training stage disciples in the crowd watching started holding their eyes.
It seemed Seung Duang had used some sort of Secret technique to release a sound wave.
Tai Bàoli was wide eyed, he didn't expect Seung Duang to have a technique like that, and for it to be so powerful to catch Zheng Zhoushi off like that.
The Zheng Zhoushi and the clone of Zheng Zhoushi had been knocked to different sides of the arena but if one looked at one of the Zheng Zhoushi's, specifically the one on the furthest side from Seung Duang, they'd see him seemingly start to dissolve into the ground, as the Zheng Zhoushi closest to Seung Duang began coughing up more blood and struggling to stand up.
At this point Seung Duang would have already assessed the situation and began sprinting towards Zheng Zhoushi like a bullet. This time doing the same superman punch from earlier and succeeding.
Zheng Zhoushi crumpled over hitting the platform. however Seung Duang didn't look done he in anger went to stomp on Zheng Zhoushi's unconscious head, but right before he could Elder Xian intervened pulling him to the side slightly and raising his hand.
Elder Xian: "Winner Seung Duang!"
Elder Xian looked down to Seung Duang and gave him a knowing look.
Seung Duang just whiped the blood off his mouth and began walking off stage. This fight had clearly taken a lot out of him.
The entire time Tai Bàoli just ran through different possible outcomes and how he'd deal with Zheng Zhoushi if he was against him. Of course Tai Bàoli felt if he went his absolute hardest right from the beginning Zheng Zhoushi wouldn't be able to respond in time to activate his technique. But if Tai Bàoli only used the High mastery he had previously shown he'd be unable to stop Zheng Zhoushi from activating his technique.
And now on top of this Tai Bàoli had to think of a way to counteract this soundblast Seung Duang had up his sleeve. Tai Bàoli had incredible defense but he didn't know if it would be enough to contend against the soundblast multiple times.
As Tai Bàoli was thinking up plans the next match had been called and started. This time it was Tian'Jun Jun, and just like Seung Duang he was unlucky and fighting an Altering Muscle Stage Disciple.
Well at this point it wasn't really unlucky, these last matches would determine who could enter the top 10, in fact Tai Bàoli had one more match today, and he'd probably get a high stage opponent too. Of course he wasn't scared, he was even excited. The more experience the better afterall.
But back to the fight at hand, it went drastically different then Seung Duang's which was long and difficult, Tian'Jun Jun simply looked at his opponent before disappearing and reappearing next to them in a flash of lightning. Creating a thunderous boom just like when Seung Duang had screamed earlier.
The boom flung Tian'Jun Jun's opponent back a dozen feet almost sending him off the platform. The Disciple reoriented himself mid air and landed safely at the edge of the border of the platform. but before he could even assess the situation and see where Tian'Jun Jun was, Tian'Jun disappeared and reappeared in a bang again.
And once again the disciple went flying, this time straight off the platform into the crowd.
Elder Xian smiled and quickly held Tian'Jun Jun's hand up
Elder Xian: "Winner, Tian'Jun Jun"
Tai Bàoli's mouth hanged open.....what....the....fuck..... Tian'Jun Jun seemed way....way...way stronger then Seung Duang, or anyone else Tai Bàoli had ever seen. Tai Bàoli even wondered if Liu Yanjiang could compete with him. The Jun Clans Divine Thunder Technique was absolutely insane.
However even with the astonishment, Tai Bàoli couldn't wait to fight him. Just the thought of the amount of experience the system would offer for winning made Tai Bàoli's mouth salivate.
Tai Bàoli couldn't wait to see just how much Experience he could accumulate through this tournament.