The qualifiers passed easily, there were an obvious 8 winners but the most outstanding of the 8 were: Daniel, JacQuarius, Tela, and Selena!
The matches were announced for tomorrow:
1st Match: Tela Vs. Ian
2nd Match: JacQuarius Vs. Selena
3rd Match: Daniel Vs. Wao
4th Match: Xing Tu Vs. Mei Xi
The qualifiers ended after the announcement, and everyone returned to their rooms.
"Tela are you confident in beating Ian? I won't be ashamed or anything, if you choose to forfeit. Your health is key here, Ian and Daniel are most likely teamed up, and I need you in the best condition just in case they pull some sneaky shit. Daniel already counters my style, you're the secret weapon here!"
"Have some faith in me my nigga, I can beat Ian with no problem."
JacQuarius heeded Tela's words with acknowledgment and began to cultivate himself.
He was still attempting to solve his problem, he had a few ideas but no permanent solution.
DING!
DING!
His phone went off, he received two text messages.
The first stated: Tomorrow, your friend fights our Agent Ian. Would you like to make a wager on the fight? If our agent wins, you hand over the inheritance Tela received. If Tela wins, we'll fulfill whatever wish you and Tela have for us of equal value to the inheritance.
The second message asked if he agreed to the wager.
He then discussed the situation with Tela.
"What do you think Tela? They must have a trick up their sleeve if they're willing to risk this. Should we do it?"
"Hell yeah, we should! Tell them we accept and let's get a good night's sleep then finish training in the morning."
JacQuarius then agreed, and they headed off to bed!
16 Hours Later
JacQuarius and Tela entered the arena, JacQuarius handed Tela a storage ring. JacQuarius bought Tela a storage ring from the Tournament's shop.
"You got this my nigga. If you need help, drop a note in my storage ring."
JacQuarius and Tela linked their storage rings, so they could exchange notes and share space among each other.
Tela walked onto the stage, looking Ian dead in his ass.
"Get back gang, not sit back gang. It's up for you nigga."
Tela looked at Ian with a smirk.
Spectral Soul Battlefield!
Ian immediately activated his terrain skill.
Then he instantly formed 100 Clones.
It was quite clear, that Ian and his organization thoroughly prepared for the situation, attempting to end the fight immediately.
But JacQuarius and Tela had made preparations as well!
Intermediate Rank Defensive Artifact: Spirit Cross!
Ghost Hands would have a greatly reduced effect on him!
Just as they expected, Ian let off a diabolical laugh as 100 ghost hands all fired at Tela.
They were thoroughly prepared, Tela activated another artifact!
Advanced Rank Artifact: Hermes Slippers!
The movement artifact teleported him instantly ahead. Greatly shortening the distance between them.
He then activated another artifact, his boxing gloves!
Then his last artifact.
Legionnaire Armor!
As you can see, JacQuarius had made ample arrangements, ready for any situation.
The stakes were high, he knew Ian's organization didn't like to play fair!
"One Attack."
Two words.
That's all he said to Ian.
"You think you can defeat me in 1 attack? What the fuck is wrong with you, you can't even cultivate correctly retard!"
"Let me show you a hint of my power."
Two Piece Style: Earthquake Stomp!
Tela stomped hard at the floor, shaking the entire arena and breaking Ian's terrain skill!
Ian's heart immediately shook, he was in fear now. He never expected Tela to have grown so strong so quickly!
Tela had the inheritance of an Emperor Rank Body cultivator, along with Heaven Animal bones + blood, and the combat knowledge and skills of the Emperor Rank Cultivator, of course he could grow exponentially.
Ian immediately activated his trump card.
Shadow Style: Shadowmeld Behemoth!
Ian combined with his 100 clones, forming a phantom giant!
The Phantom Giant was 40 feet tall, purple, and radiating a monstrous deathly aura.
Tela stood there, unmoved, looking directly at the giant.
"That's it?"
The Phantom instantly turned invisible, making Tela's expression finally change.
He finally felt fear!
The Giant instantly appeared behind him, slamming its fist onto him!
It smashed Tela into the ground, nearly knocking him unconscious.
It didn't stop there, letting off many more punches and stomps onto Tela.
Tela still hadn't gotten up, he was too arrogant earlier.
JacQuarius couldn't do anything but send him a note.
Tela, while being barraged by the attacks, read the note and decided to do 'that' move.
He wanted to beat Ian without it, so he decided to wait.
The time limit finally reset, and he activated Hermes slippers.
He began to focus his Heaven Qi into his hand.
Ian disappeared again, turning back invisible.
This time he appeared in the air above Tela, crashing down with a monstrous kick.
But Tela was prepared this time!
Two Piece Style: Blazing Phoenix Strike!
Tela met the kick with his fiery fist, the impact created a huge shockwave throughout the air, shaking the entire arena once again!
But it wasn't Enough!
The Phantom Giant was still in perfect condition, Tela's attack didn't even harm the giant.
But Why?
Tela actually held back, he had to save some Heaven Qi for 'that' attack.
He tested out the Phantom's durability with his attack.
He now realized it was time.
He opened his storage ring, releasing Jimmy!
Yes, Tela had Jimmy! JacQuarius really thought of every situation.
Jimmy had grown, he went from the size of a tire to the size of a Ford F150!
"Jimmy hold him off, while I prepare."
Jimmy charged at the Giant, firing off multiple blasts!
The Phantom Giant turned invisible, but that didn't help at all!
Jimmy sniffed out the Phantom Giant, chasing it down and firing off more blasts. Jimmy had a magnificent improvement, he could now fire multiple elements, he's beginning to show off the power of his Tenfold Draconic Bloodline.
Remember how he could only do fireballs? Now he was firing fireballs, lightning spheres, and wind orbs!
Ian couldn't do anything but retreat, he tried several times to counterattack but Jimmy was too fast!
Tela finally preparing his attack. He had a formless aura around his fist, powerful but formless.
Everyone in the crowd could feel the immense power of this attack.
"Jimmy now!"
Jimmy flew back to Tela, opened his mouth, and began to charge a draconic sphere.
Tela then put his fist in the sphere, transferring the energy directly to his fist!
His fist was now filled with draconic Qi!
But it wasn't time yet, he sat there charging more Heaven Qi into it.
Ian saw the situation and knew it was turning bad, he charged at Tela but Jimmy didn't allow it.
The crowd was still shocked at the fact that they were seeing a Sacred Rank Heaven Animal.
They had blanked out and frequently stared at the Dragon instead of the fight going on!
Everyone saw that Tela had a Sacred Rank Heaven Animal, and began to cheer for him!
They could only try befriending him in this neutral environment!
It was finally time!
Tela waited for the right opportunity, he saw The Phantom Giant retreating and immediately used his artifact.
Hermes Slippers!
He teleported in front of the Phantom, hitting the Phantom directly in the face!
Two Piece Style: Draconic Hook!
The phantom giant state immediately evaporated!
Ian immediately fell to the floor, bleeding from everywhere in his face, unconscious!
He was bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and his brain barely could function.
A broken armor plate fell from the air to the floor as well.
It was an Advanced rank artifact!
If it wasn't for the artifact, then he would have died.
But Tela wasn't done!
He put Jimmy back in the storage ring, and immediately charged at Ian!
He ran, then jumped and began to land with a heavy stomp!
But he was immediately swatted from the air, Chenjao arrived!
"He has already lost boy! Do you have no honor?"
"Fuck honor, that nigga was trying to kill me. I'm giving the same energy that nigga gave me!"
Chenjao swung his hand out to slap Tela!
Jimmy sensed the danger, and immediately broke out the storage ring, cutting Chenjao's hand off!
Chenjao let out a scream of horror, at seeing his hand missing.
He began charging Lightning Qi into his hand!
JacQuarius then immediately flew in front of Chenjao, pressing up on him!
"Fuck is you doing nigga, move yo bitch ass out the way. If you don't move then you gonna die too!"
The whole crowd began to watch in awe, 2 mere Silver ranks had the nerve to offend a Gold Rank Expert, they were in for a show!
"Both you monkeys shall die then! My hand is worth more than 20 of you monkeys combined!"
He fired off a plasma sphere at JacQuarius, Jimmy quickly retaliated with his own plasma sphere, and they both collided and then dissipated.
"Senior, should I break it up? Chenjao is Gold 5th Layer, and both the boys are silver ranks, even with the Tenfold Dragon, they would need a miracle to win!"
"Yes, go break it up. Reveal yourself and your cultivation level, then transmit to JacQuarius, asking what they want."
JacQuarius was then about to activate his transformation when the man revealed himself.
He slapped Chenjao, immediately knocking him out!
The crowd was shocked, what rank could knock a gold-rank expert out with a single slap?
The man then revealed his aura.
Diamond Rank!
JacQuarius understood the situation immediately, this was the man watching him from behind the scenes, and that's why he was able to watch him without realizing it!
But now he had another question, who does this man work for?
"You won the wager, what do you want as your winnings?"
JacQuarius held nothing back, asking for a great amount!
Then the man transmitted another message.
"Want to wager again?"