The Domineering King of the Netherworld and His Sweetheart

78. The Match within the Match

Translator: Ning LL

In the first round of the elimination match, Feng Xi was assigned to the tenth arena.

There were fifty attenders standing on the arena, but the place didn’t seem very crowded. Instead, there was still plenty of room, which was suitable for the attenders to fully display their talents even in a tangled fight.

Feng Xi was already engulfed by the flood of people due to his small figure.

With the loud rumbling of the drum, the judge who took charge of the tenth arena stepped out. He raised his hand and said, “I won’t talk nonsense then. No matter what kind of means you use, the longer you stay in the first round, the higher your rank would be. The last ten persons who remain on the arena would be able to enter the next round of the contest. Understand? So… Now start!”

As he uttered the last words, the attenders on the arena all got passionate again.

“Boom!”

The moment the judge put his hand down, the arena which had only been a little bit noisy suddenly burst into explosion. The attenders employed all kinds of eye-dazzling arts with different spiritual energy. In no time, the place was filled with the screams and the groans. The attenders who were not strong enough were kicked out of the arena so quickly that some of them didn’t even have the time to react.

Those who attacked ahead of others were mostly the cultivators who had attended the match before. They were well aware of the advantage of striking first, so they had thrown out the cultivators around them the moment the contest started.

After that, all the figures started to move at a fast speed, most of which headed to the edge of the arena.

That was because they had all been surrounded by their components at the beginning and none of them wanted to be sneaked up on by someone else before they started to fight.

Feng Xi had already stood in a corner of the arena, thanks to God of Books who knew everything in the world. As a result, the boy had already seen clearly everyone else’s movements as well as the ones who wanted to launch a surprise attack on others. While he was looking at the chaotic scene, he started to think where to begin his attack. However, little did he know that someone had already targeted him.

The boy looked thin and weak with a good-looking face.

When he stood among all those sturdy men, he looked very pitiful and vulnerable. What was more, the corner where he was staying right now was actually coveted by lots of cultivators. Therefore, some cultivators had fixed their eyes on the boy from the beginning. Nonetheless, most of the people knew that men could never be judged by their appearance, so some of the cultivators decided to wait and see.

The cultivators on the arena were still fighting each other right now. However, obviously they were more afraid of the sneak attack. Thus, even when they were in a fight with others, they still had to pay some attention to their surroundings in case someone would launch a surprise attack on them. Once they heard a sound, they would move right away like a frightened bird or attack the source of the sound instantly.

In a word, finding a good spot in a chaotic match like this was very important. Moreover, having a pair of sharp eyes was also very essential if one wanted to survive.

That was why the boy had been targeted.

In the meantime, the ones who had been observing the boy secretly were fooled by the boy’s appearance at last. Most of them assumed that the boy only hadn’t launched any attack right now because he wanted to win the match by hiding from everyone the whole time.

What they didn’t know was that the boy was assigning tasks to his Demon Beast and himself right now.

“Hairless Chicken is in the Saint realm and more powerful than me, so it should kick out more cultivators than I do. Then, it’ll have to defeat thirty cultivators. As for myself, I’ll accept nineteen.” Feng Xi counted that with his fingers, finding his decision very reasonable.

God of Books rolled his eyes, thinking, ‘Even if Hairless Chicken is powerful than you, the number you have assigned to the Chicken is still much larger than yours. This is so unfair.’

However, Hairless Chicken was quite generous and accepted that. Still, it couldn’t help but ask doubtfully, “Master, aren’t nineteen cultivators too many for you? Are you able to deal with all of them?”

The Chicken’s words showed clearly how doubtful it was about the boy’s power, which stimulated the latter right away.

“Huh, do not underestimate me. Just wait and see.” Feng Xi opened his eyes wide with his chest out, showing an imposing manner right away.

However, as those evil-minded ones saw it, Feng Xi looked like a baby who had just left his parents and could be easily defeated. Perhaps they had noticed that there were lots of people having the same thoughts like they did, so after those people looked at each other with fierce looks in their eyes, they rushed to the boy like running leopards right away.

As they were about to reach the boy, they suddenly saw a few colorful feathers in front of them. A pretty flying chicken stood in their way with coldness in its red eyes. Clearly, the Chicken was protecting its master, with a domineering manner.

The cultivators who had wanted to sneak up on Feng Xi all showed a surprised look in their eyes. In the meantime, the Chicken suddenly sent out overwhelming air from all over its body. Normally, the Demon Beast in high realm was already able to hold other cultivators in awe. So, as a Demon Beast in the Saint realm, Hairless Chicken which gave out a domineering aura shocked all the other cultivators. The people who were on the halfway to attack Feng Xi stopped right away with their face turning pale and saw terrified looks in each other’s eyes.

The bloodline of Hairless Chicken was not very noble. Nonetheless, it had stayed in the majestic and saint Heaven Peak Palace ever since it was born. As a result, as time went by, the Chicken had also gained some domineering air. What was more, with its great power from the Saint realm, the Chicken was able to slaughter all the attenders on the arena.

The cultivators who wanted to sneak up on the boy got astonished, and even the attenders on other arenas had sensed the domineering air from the Saint realm. Lots of them looked in the direction of the tenth arena. Meanwhile, even the audience were taken by surprise.

A Demon Beast in the Saint realm was so rare and precious in the Netherworld.

No one had expected to see one in the elimination match held by the Green Nether Union. Also, the boy who was the master of that Demon Beast must be the super Dark Horse this year. Thinking of that, the audience all got overly excited.

As everyone fell into silence, there suddenly came a clear and adorable voice,

“Hairless Chicken, I’ll leave them to you. I want to go to the other side.” A handsome boy with an innocent look on his face jumped out from behind the Demon Beast in Saint realm. Actually, his words made others feel like he was only putting on airs since his appearance really couldn’t alarm anyone.

However, all the attenders on the arena were on the alert right now because they knew that it required great power to possess a Demon Beast in the Saint realm.

“Master, don’t worry.” Hairless Chicken nodded to the boy and said that.

The Chicken’s words confirmed everyone’s assumption since a Demon Beast in high realm couldn’t speak, but a Demon Beast in the Saint Realm could. The symbol of reaching the Saint realm for a Demon Beast was being able to speak while retaining the beast’s figure. As for transforming into a human figure, that was something only the Mythical Beast was able to do.

A few cultivators who had wanted to attack Feng Xi now were retreating at a fast speed.

However, Hairless Chicken had acted rather fast. Before the three cultivators could move, it had already rushed to them while sweeping toward them with its left and right wings. The fierce wind which had been stirred up by the Chicken blew them away at once. Because of the great disparity in strength between the Chicken and those cultivators, they didn’t stand a chance to fight back and flew out of the arena right away. In no time, their groans were sounded ceaselessly.

Seeing the Chicken’s resolute attack, the attenders around it all ran far away from it immediately.

However, Feng Xi had no intention to let those people escape in front of him. After he had seen Hairless Chicken sweeping those cultivators off the arena with one strike, he stamped his foot and struck the nearest attender to him right away.

In the meantime, that attender seemed to have been stunned by what happened. When he saw the little boy rushing toward him at a fast speed, he only stood there still and tried to withstand the boy’s strike as if he didn’t believe the boy would harm him.

However, when Feng Xi was two or three meters away from the cultivator, the latter felt an overwhelming air sent out from the boy like the tide. The power from the God King realm swept through the whole arena, and the first one who suffered was the attender who tried to resist the boy’s attack.

“God King realm?!” With that attender’s face turning deadly pale, he cried that out.

Everyone was even more astonished than before!

They had assumed that the boy could only have a Demon Beast in the Saint realm because of his luck. However, they then found that the boy was in the God King realm. ‘This boys seems to be under twenty. He’s as talented as Ming Qingyu!’ Thinking of that, the people were looking forward to seeing what was going to happen even more eagerly, because all of them remembered the miracle Ming Qingyu had made that year. They had a hunch that this boy might be able to break the record which had been set by Ming Qingyu if nothing unexpected happened.

“Bang!!!”

The bump of the two forces created a thundering noise and caused the explosion which spread in all the directions like ripples. The whole process lasted less than three seconds. At last, the attender struck by the boy flew up high and fell off the arena heavily under the gaze of the shocked audience. When he hit the ground, he made a huge sound.

During the short confrontation, the attender who was in the seventh grade of the Heaven God realm couldn’t even fight back!

Seeing that, those shocked people fixed their eyes on the little boy again. Most of them couldn’t help but gasp. At this moment, no one dared to underestimate this boy anymore because they didn’t know how powerful the energy inside the boy would be!