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The Almighty Tyrant - Chapter 40

Published at 3rd of January 2019 03:10:44 PM


Chapter 40

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Shi clan, Clan arena.

"Shi Li, you're gonna fight against Shi Kuai. Do you accept the challenge?" Shi Xingtai asked.

"Shi Kuai?" Shi Li couldn't help but mutter as he looked at the other participants, his eyes landing on a certain individual.

This individual was quite skinny, but not skinny enough compared to Shi Li's body. His stature was smaller compared to Shi Li by a bit, yet his pitch black hair and irises exuded an aura that won't lose against Shi Li's. Shi Li could also feel some sort of strength hidden beneath the skinny frame, allowing the individual to gain the moniker of Lightning Feet.

The individual Shi Li was looking at was precisely Shi Kuai.

"Oh? Checking me out to see if you could win?" Shi Kuai noticed Shi Li's gaze and couldn't help but sneer. "In front of absolute speed, you'd lose in front of me, Shi Kuai!" He puffed his chest out, asserting his position of dominance.

Shi Li ignored Shi Kuai's actions and instead commanded his eye to identify Shi Kuai's attributes. Gradually, Shi Li's pupils turned crimson red as a screen filled with information appeared in his head, rather than a white screen in front of his face.

He was a bit shocked as to why a screen popped inside his head, but he thought it was better since it's his little secret.

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Shi Kuai

[Cultivation Realm]: D-2 (Tempering 2nd Stage)

[Peak Combat Strength]: 45 ren (?)

Stats (based on average D-2 cultivator stats):

Vitality - C+

Strength - B

Defense - B-

Agility - A+

Intelligence - C+

Skills:

[Lightning Stab], [????]

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Reading Shi Kuai's information, he was surprised that a Second Stage cultivator who would usually have only one skill, would actually have two!

'[Lightning Stab] is his main martial technique, which relies on his agility that's at A+, which is the same grade my strength was at when I was still at the First Stage of Skin Tempering.'

'What's the second skill then? Is it related to his cultivation technique? Is it a martial technique focused on defense? Or is it possibly a movement technique, which made him gain the moniker 'Lightning Feet?''

He took a deep breath before muttering softly, "In any case, this is a good way to test out my current strength."

Shi Li looked at Shi Kuai who still stood there like an inflated balloon and lightly chuckled. Shi Kuai saw that Shi Li was laughing at him, making him frown as he stood properly. "What? Are you laughing cuz you're scared? Hahaha! If you don't want to fight, then kneel down and beg for mercy!"

Shi Li looked at him and thought that this Shi Kuai had some sort of 'young arrogant master' disorder commonly found in the novels he read. He also thought that it might be just him putting up a false front so he could still retain his pride.

'I'm sure that it's the latter and not the former. It might be because I'm way stronger than him, yet he has participated in the tournament for multiple years now, and he was pushed down to third place given my strength,' Shi Li got to a conclusion.

"Since this guy wants to use me as a stepping stone, let him be my stepping stone to the top then," Shi Li muttered inwardly as he stopped laughing.

He then looked at Shi Kuai with an arrogant grin on his face, angering Shi Kuai on purpose. "Oh? You think I'm scared of you? What a joke. Let's fight it out and see who's stronger."

Shi Shisi heard Shi Li's statement and hurriedly came closer, whispering something in his ear. "Shi Li, are you sure? I know you're saying these because you want to agitate the competitor, and trust me I've done that before. But do you think you can beat him?"

Shi Li looked at Shi Shisi, lightly grinning as he replied, "As you've said, we're not limited to this place alone. We're meant for the world outside. If I can't beat this kind of guy right now, what would happen to me in the future?"

Shi Shisi looked at Shi Li's eyes filled with resolution and determination. From this, he knew he found someone similar to him. He then chuckled as he said, "I worried for nothing hehe. Show these kids that they're only frogs in a well!"

Shi Kuai saw Shi Li and Shi Shisi's actions of ignorance and mockery, which fueled Shi Kuai's rage. He couldn't help but harrumph as he said, "What are you waiting for? You said we're fighting, let's fight!"

...

Shi Li and Shi Kuai were positioned at each end of the stage, facing each other with solemn gazes. Shi Li looked at Shi Kuai's eyes that were filled with flames of rage and couldn't help but smile.

'This is gonna help me a bit,' Shi Li said inwardly.

Shi Li learned from his tempering journey that agitating your enemies would impair their cognitive abilities, allowing you to use your superior wits to win. Even if there's a large gap of strength, with a bit of agitation and a pinch of luck, anything is possible.

Shi Xingtai looked at the faint light blue barrier surrounding the stage and commanded a few clan members to infuse more qi into it.

"But Elder..."

"As they say, prevention is better than cure. Shi Li's peak combat strength is at the Second Stage of Bone Tempering, this barrier can only hold up against 2 to 3 hits of a Second Stage Bone Tempering cultivator. We need to ensure that the barrier can withstand at least 10 hits of that level."

The clan members heard the First Elder's statement and didn't continue to complain, infusing more of their qi into the barrier.

Shi Xingtai then looked at the two participants in the arena and threw a training hammer and a training rapier at opposite directions with his qi.

Whoosh!

Relying on their reflexes that surpass mortals, Shi Li and Shi Kuai grabbed their respective weapons with one hand and hurriedly accustomed themselves to their weapons.

Seeing that enough time was given for the two to prepare, Shi Xingtai asked them...

"Are you two ready?"

Hearing the question, the two of them simultaneously nodded.

Seeing their bodies in battle stances, Shi Xingtai did not delay any further and shouted, "Let the battle begin!"

Zoom!

The two fighters charged at each other as if they were rivals for multiple decades. As they used their full strength to charge, it only took a few seconds for one of the fighters to attack.

The first one to attack was Shi Kuai.

He waved the rapier like it was his own limb and pierced towards Shi Li's chest. Holding the large hammer with one hand, Shi Li took a step back, barely dodging the rapier.

Shi Li then let the weight of the hammer control his direction, and then used this momentum to rotate on his axis, bringing the hammer with him as he tried to hit Shi Kuai from his left.

Shi Kuai looked at the hammer and grinned. "It's fast..." Shi Kuai then jumped on the hammer and used it as a propulsion for an even bigger jump.

"...But not fast enough."

Swoosh!

Shi Kuai flew up to twenty meters in the air, way beyond the limit of the barrier as he adjusted his position and aimed his rapier straight down Shi Li's head. He then started to spiral, gradually getting faster as the speed picked up.

"This is the best form of my martial technique, [Sky Lightning Stab]!"

As Shi Kuai continued to fall down, Shi Li decided his choice of action.

'In these cases, I would use Lava Wall to defend. But since people think that I only cultivated a Low Human martial technique, I'll just use Magma Swipe.'

Coming to a conclusion, he infused the intent of destroying everything into his hammer as he slammed it down to the ground, creating a small shockwave.

As he lifted the hammer up, a small pool of magma could be seen. Shi Li then used his hammer as a staff to control the magma, forming a small magma ball.

At this point in time, Shi Kuai was only a few meters away from hitting Shi Li's head. He couldn't help but laugh and say, "This is your end!"

Shi Li looked at Shi Kuai directly in the eye as he waved his hammer while grinning. "Is that so?"

As he did this, the small magma ball flew towards Shi Kuai and ended up hitting the training rapier Shi Kuai was holding.

Not only that, thanks to the pointed tip of the rapier, the small magma ball was punctured, bursting into small clumps of magma which burned parts of Shi Kuai's skin.

"Agh!" Shi Kuai screamed in pain as he couldn't control his trajectory, directly falling to the ground with a slam.

Shi Li solemnly looked at the direction where Shi Kuai landed and used his eye to check if he was still alive or not. A breath's time later, he clicked his tongue.

"He's still barely conscious."

The dust from Shi Kuai's abrupt landing slowly settled, revealing the same man, but with multiple burns of various sizes all over the man's body.

Shi Li looked at Shi Kuai and asked, "Do you give up?"

"Give up?" Shi Kuai muttered the same line before grinning all of a sudden. "It's you who's going to give up."

Out of nowhere, a certain strength hidden in his body was being released and spread throughout, easily increasing Shi Kuai's muscle mass multiplefold. Not only that, the burns he received shrunk in size as tiny sparks of lightning circled his body.

All of a sudden, a screen appeared in Shi Li's head, warning him of the dangers Shi Kuai beholds.

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Opponent's skill [????] has been identified.

Advising User to run away as fast as possible.

- Nonpareil Eye Interface

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Shi Li looked at this and sighed. "This isn't gonna end well."




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