Chapter 112: Chapter 112: Final Round_i
Translator: 549690339
Before Chen Mobai’s meteoric rise, Shi Yuanqing was indisputably the top student at the Fairy Gate’s Fifth High School.
Song Zheng was a prodigy too, but only at the Qi Cultivation level 7, ranking below both Shi Jingjing and Cao Yaling, and was no match for Shi Yuanqing. Now, his opponent is Xue Luan, who had defeated a fully-committed Shi Yuanqing.
As they were talking, they had already reached the arena where Chen Mobai would duel.
Trading blows with him was Kan An, a Qi Cultivation level 7 student from the same academy.
And his observation of Kan An was accurate.
Just another ordinary opponent.
It took him less than two minutes to end the fight.
As he left the stage amidst the cheering, Chen Mobai checked on Song Zheng’s duel, which was still underway.
The result, however, came in a dozen minutes later.
As Shi Yuanqing had predicted, Song Zheng lost.
At this point, there were only three students left from the Fairy Gate’s Fifth High School.
In the fourth round, Chen Mobai was still lucky, faced with another ordinary Qi Cultivation level 7 fighter – slightly stronger than Kan An but lasting only three minutes.
However, for the first time in this round of duels, Chen Mobai used a rank-1 high-tier talisman.
The Soldier-transformation Talisman.
He was quietly laying a small subplot for the tactics of the last two rounds.
Shi Yuanqing, on the other hand, faced a strong enemy – a Qi Cultivation level 8 master of palm techniques. But by unleashing his latent capacities, he demonstrated awe-inspiring combat abilities and defeated the opponent to advance to the next round.
But Cao Yaling didn’t possess such strength. She encountered a woman named Ji Jing, and despite changing her tactics to rely on her Spirit Eye to seek the opponent’s weak points during this battle of attrition, she lacked both focus and willpower. In the end, she was the first to exhaust all her Spiritual Power and had to concede defeat.
In the fifth round, Chen Mobai finally encountered an interesting opponent named Jia Mo, a Qi Cultivation level 8 student from the Second High School.
He attended the same school as the Different Spiritual Root bearers Kong Feichen and Yang Jing.
However, when Jia Mo entered the field, he seemed intimidated.
“I know I’m not your match, but I will do my best.”
Once the referee was offstage, an earnest Jia Mo spoke to Chen Mobai.
“Have you ever sparred with Kong Feichen?”
Chen Mobai asked, causing Jia Mo to hesitate, but before he could respond, Chen Mobai asked another question.
“How long can you last against him?”
If he goes all out, I guess I would only hold out for three moves.”
After hearing Jia Mo’s response, Chen Mobai nodded in understanding.
Three moves imply that, without using any talismans, he could defeat you with three spells.”
These mumblings stirred Jia Mo’s curiosity; he felt overlooked by Chen Mobai who was standing in the ring, but seemed to be in a discussion elsewhere.
How conceited!
Fuming with indignation, Jia Mo deployed two intermediate grade rank-1 talismans.
Coincidentally.
Chen Mobai also possessed these – the Wind Blade Talisman and the Wind Binding Talisman. When used in conjunction, their power increased by thirty percent.
With the activation of the talismans, bluish wind blades began to gleam in the sky.
Then, whirlwinds rose, enhancing the power of the wind blades.
As Jia Mo’s Divine Sense moved, a wind blade hurtled towards Chen Mobai. A wooden shield materialized out of thin air, effortlessly blocking the first wind blade, but what followed was a continuous and intricate web of eight wind blades covering every possible escape direction for Chen Mobai.
As the Wind Blades rapidly emerged, they also stirred a flurry of cyan whirlwinds, abruptly halting the airflow within a three-meter radius around Chen Mobai. It made his movements involuntary and slow, and his limbs stiff.
This was the combined effect of using the Wind Blade Talisman and the Wind Binding Talisman together, they could promote each other’s effects.
Just by these two charms alone, Jia Mo used them more skillfully than Chen Mobai. Plus his talismans were clearly of better quality, vastly different from the cheap common ones that Chen Mobai would buy online.
However, under the triple protection of the Wooden Shield charm, Golden Light Talisman, and the Water Elemental Shield, Jia Mo’s Wind Blade Talisman still couldn’t break Chen Mobai’s defense.
Next was the Wind Binding Talisman.
Chen Mobai felt as if his limbs were weighed down by hundreds of pounds, and a charm slipped from his sleeve into his palm, triggered by the injection of Spiritual Power.
At the same time, Jia Mo was already preparing his trump card, a Rank-1 superior grade Shocking Divine Talisman.
Although Chen Mobai was confident in his Water Elemental Shield, it was better to avoid a head-on collision if he could help it.
Thus, he also activated a Wind Blade Talisman.
The whirlpools that were supposed to bind him became fuel at the instant the talisman was triggered, instantly swept away by the Wind Blade.
Before Jia Mo’s incredulous gaze, twelve Wind Blades, more extreme than the ones he had unleashed, tore through the air towards him.
He slapped his last two Defensive Talismans, a golden light, and a wind wall appeared in front of him, blocking the twelve Wind Blades manipulated by Chen Mobai’s Divine Sense.
“The Shocking Divine Talisman is ready.”
Just as Jia Mo blocked the Wind Blade Talisman and prepared to unleash his own trump card, he suddenly felt his hands and feet bound.
A simple Coiling Talisman, but he couldn’t trigger his talisman anymore.
Chen Mobai came to his front and knocked him out with a single karate chop.
“The winner is Chen Mobai.”
Another neat and clean victory.
Unlike Shi Yuanqing and others who had to exhaust all their spiritual power, Chen Mobai’s fights were always unexpectedly efficient, countering opponents’ attacks with the most suitable tactics, precise as a scalpel.
After the end of the fifth round of Magic Duels, this month-long competition was finally nearing its conclusion.
Only nine people remained.
Besides Gong Xiangyu, Kong Feichen, Yang Jing, and Yan Feng, the four Qi Cultivators at the ninth level, there were Xue Luan, Hong Gang, Shi Yuanqing, Ji Jing, the four Qi Cultivators at the eighth level.
And finally, there was Chen Mobai, the rather noticeable Qi Cultivator at the seventh level.
Next, they had to draw lots again.
Also, as the number of participants was nine, some changes were made to the rules of the tournament.
The Red-robed Daoist and the representative of the Daoist Academy will appear in this final lottery ceremony, or rather, only the students who can make it this far can earn their personal attention.
Dusk.
Jia Mo, who had just lost during the day, opened the door to his Cave Dwelling while Kong Feichen and Yang Jing came in.
“What was it like to face him head-on?”
Kong Feichen asked first. After pondering for a while, Jia Mo shook his head.
■■Although I lost quickly and felt I didn’t fully display my abilities, after giving it careful thought, I suspect that even if we fought ten more rounds, I probably wouldn’t be his match.”
“Oh, is he really that powerful? Even the Wind Binding Talisman and Wind Blade Talisman that I refined, along with her Shocking Divine Talisman, didn’t manage to push him to reveal his true strength.”
Kong Feichen originally thought only Yan Feng and Gong Xiangyu were the strongest opponents in this magic duel. He never expected Chen Mobai to appear out of nowhere.
The Shocking Divine Talisman didn’t trigger, so he probably still has a weakness regarding his Divine Sense. You can tailor your strategy according to
Jia Mo returned the unused Shocking Divine Talisman to Yang Jing and gave his assessment.
“I see, thanks.”
After getting the answer he needed, Kong Feichen excused himself with Yang Jing and left..