Chapter 434: Effortless Advancement
Chapter 434: Effortless Advancement (Calling for Monthly Votes)
Watanabe was a martial arts prodigy from the Sakura Kingdom. A senior student, he’d graduate and be deployed to the battlefront within months.
As an A-Rank Genius, he stood unrivaled among non-S-Rank competitors and Awakened prodigies. His cultivation had reached the peak of the Fifth Realm, teetering on the edge of the Sixth. In the preliminaries’ first round, he dominated unchallenged—Sixth Realm adversaries were near-mythical rarities here.
“I relish nothing more than slaughtering martial artists from the Xia Kingdom!” he roared, his blade slashing like the wind as he lunged at Lin Qi.
Back in the Sakura Kingdom’s viewing area, senior elites watched the clash with smug grins.
“That Xia Kingdom contestant’s doomed. Actually, all Xia Kingdom competitors will suffer.”
“Watanabe’s hatred for the Xia Kingdom runs deep. He’ll hunt them without mercy.”
To them, Lin Qi’s defeat seemed certain.
Yet in the Xia Kingdom’s zone, Wan Ming and Jiang Tao exchanged amused glances.
“This puny Sakura Kingdom runt dares attack Brother Qi instead of fleeing? What a fool!”
——
Amidst the desolate expanse of the Steel Great Wall, competitors scattered like leaves as Watanabe’s aura swept through.
“Hmph!” Lin Qi sensed a razor-sharp gust slicing toward him, a blade’s edge aimed at his throat.
But in a blink, Lin Qi moved—a lightning strike in human form, vanishing from sight. Watanabe’s sword met empty air. His smugness faltered, replaced by shock.
Then, a blur.
Lin Qi pivoted, his black Long Spear lancing out. The weapon’s tip quivered, piercing Watanabe’s neck in a crimson spray.
Watanabe saw only a phantom image before agony erupted in his throat. His body dissolved into nothingness.
Less than a second.
A-Rank Genius. Fifth Realm Organ Cultivation Stage. Gone.
His tournament ambitions—crushed in the preliminaries’ first round. There’d be no revival matches here.
Silence fell. Competitors from other nations stared, stunned. They hadn’t even glimpsed Lin Qi’s movement.
A top-tier contender, effortlessly felled.
Back on the audience stand, Watanabe materialized, his face ashen. The crowd’s pitying glances cut deeper than any blade.
“Who was that? How could he be so strong?”
“A sophomore who won last year’s Global Freshman Competition,” answered Moriyama Aya, a girl Lin Qi had eliminated in earlier qualifiers. Her tone carried reluctant respect.
——
The Steel Great Wall’s projection screen displayed real-time contestant counts.
Within three minutes of the battle’s start, Disaster Beasts swarmed the arena. Numbers plummeted as contestants faced both monstrous hordes and rivals. But when confronted with beasts, even seasoned fighters hesitated—
The horde’s scale was overwhelming.
Fifth and sixth-tier Disaster Beasts tore through lower-tier cultivators like paper. A single swipe from a Clawrend Ape reduced one contestant to pulp. A ten-meter-tall Ironspine Warbear flattened another into a crater.
“This is a Disaster Beast Tide? Why are there sixth-tier beasts here?!”
A fresh-faced competitor’s scream cut short as a Bloodrage Warg swallowed him whole.
Within minutes, over ten thousand contestants eliminated. Yet, a few geniuses rose above the chaos—Fifth and Sixth Realm cultivators carving through beasts with ease. Their dominance deterred rivals and beasts alike.
Lin Qi was among them.
His black Long Spear danced like flowing water, thrusting three hundred times per second.
Flowing Water Pierce!
Each strike found flesh. Beasts collapsed in sprays of blood.
A five-meter Bloodrage Warg lunged, claws gouging the earth. Lin Qi became a black flash, leaping skyward. His spear carved an arc of light, cleaving the beast’s throat.
A thunderous boom heralded an Ironspine Warbear’s charge, its bulk shaking the ground like a speeding tank.
Lin Qi stood motionless, waiting. Then—
Sky Sundering Qi!
A spear overhead, a burst of golden vital force. The beast’s skull shattered like china.
Its colossal body crashed down.
He was no longer the fledgling Fifth Realm cultivator. Sixth-tier beasts were mere stepping stones.
Distant competitors gaped.
“He took down a sixth-tier Disaster Beast?!”
“That was an Ironspine Warbear—an unstoppable juggernaut!”
“He must be the Xia Kingdom’s apex genius!”
Back in the Sakura Kingdom’s zone, Watanabe stared, horror-struck. Regret gnawed at him.
How could he have provoked such a monster?
A warrior who slaughtered sixth-tier beasts with ease—of course he’d died in an instant.
……
(End of Chapter)
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