This attack was much fiercer than the previous ones.
Yan Qi had held back a little before, fearing Qian Duoduo's counterattack.
After gradually figuring out Qian Duoduo's strength, he let loose and attacked with full force.
“Bang!”
The moment the Flying Sword got close, Qian Duoduo caught its trajectory and blocked it with his wooden sword.
Yan Qi stopped speaking and focused on his attack.
His Flying Sword was like a giant poisonous bee, dancing in the air, striking at Qian Duoduo from different angles.
It stabbed, chopped, whipped, lifted, slashed, and pared.
Qian Duoduo, however, had only one move, no matter what you used: gripping his sword with both hands, he focused all his attention on blocking the attack.
If he failed to block even once, there would be no next time.
On the square platform, the two swords clashed repeatedly.
Below the platform, Gongsun Zheng grew impatient and cursed loudly, “Yan Qi, aren’t you ashamed? A Ningqi Level 1 fighting a zero-level and still struggling so much, you’re just a big idiot!”
On Zhu Anquan’s side, under Hu Qingyin’s command, they shouted in unison, “Jin Buhuan, victory! Jin Buhuan, victory! Jin Buhuan, victory!”
Sword met sword dozens of times, hundreds of times…
Gradually, sweat appeared on Yan Qi’s forehead, his fingers forming the hand seals trembled slightly, and his Flying Sword also slowed down.
He couldn’t understand how Qian Duoduo managed to block every single one of his difficult moves.
“Admit defeat!”
Qian Duoduo’s limbs were still strong, and he suddenly shouted, leaping forward a step and making a feigned slash at Yan Qi from a distance.
Yan Qi jumped in fright, retreating two steps, only to realize it was another feint, and his face flushed crimson with shame.
Gongsun Zheng cursed even more gleefully, “Useless, truly useless.”
Meanwhile, Hu Qingyin led his people in shouting, “Admit defeat, admit defeat, admit defeat!”
Qian Duoduo continuously pressed closer to Yan Qi, getting nearer and nearer.
On the square platform, the short one chased the tall one, attacking him.
“Bu Huan Senior Brother, don’t come any closer!” Yan Qi roared with wide eyes.
“If I don’t go over, I can’t hit you,” Qian Duoduo said, less than a zhang away from him, seeing the fear in Yan Qi’s eyes.
Suddenly, Yan Qi clutched his wooden sword and roared, “I’ll fight you to the death!”
He copied Qian Duoduo, gripping his sword with both hands and slashing forward.
He fought desperately, firstly because Qian Duoduo was too close and he couldn’t change his moves as quickly as Qian Duoduo, and secondly because after fighting for so long, he was losing control of his Flying Sword.
Qian Duoduo was like an unbreakable hard walnut, rapidly exhausting his Qi.
“Come!”
Qian Duoduo was waiting for this moment.
Instead of retreating, Qian Duoduo advanced, thrusting his wooden sword upwards from below, directly at Yan Qi’s throat.
“What do you mean only victory or defeat, not life or death? I don’t remember. I only know that if I lose, I die. Even if I die, I’ll drag my opponent into the grave! I have nothing anyway, so who’s afraid of whom!”
Yan Qi’s wooden sword thrust towards Qian Duoduo’s head, while Qian Duoduo’s wooden sword thrust towards his throat.
At this moment, the two groups of spectators below the platform stopped cheering, and Qian Duoduo’s ears only heard Yan Qi’s heavy breathing.
As the two swords drew closer, fear appeared in Yan Qi’s eyes, and he twisted his wooden sword to block Qian Duoduo’s wooden sword.
“You’re a madman!” he cursed.
Qian Duoduo had no intention of stopping; the immense impact force from his wooden sword pushed Yan Qi back two steps.
Just as he was about to counterattack, Qian Duoduo’s second sword, aimed at a mutual destruction, arrived.
After seven or eight more sword clashes, Yan Qi was forced to the edge of the square platform by Qian Duoduo.
“Yan Qi, if you lose, I’ll kill you!” Gongsun Zheng shrieked.
Yan Qi’s facial muscles twitched, and he gripped the hilt of his sword with both hands, thrusting a sword fiercely at Qian Duoduo.
Qian Duoduo shifted his body to the side, and his wooden sword aimed directly for Yan Qi’s eye!
“Don’t dodge, don’t dodge!” Gongsun Zheng screamed madly.
If Yan Qi was killed by Qian Duoduo, Zhu Anquan would also be considered to have lost.
However, Yan Qi was ultimately afraid of death.
He tilted his head, dodging Qian Duoduo’s wooden sword.
As his wooden sword struck Qian Duoduo’s left shoulder, Qian Duoduo’s wooden sword struck his forehead.
With a cry of “Ah,” Yan Qi fell from the square platform.
He lost!
“Useless! Useless!” Gongsun Zheng rushed over and kicked him fiercely twice on the head.
Surrounded by a group of people, Jin Buyong stood up, stroked his pointed chin, and said to Qian Duoduo, “Your moves are still so ruthless. However, there’s still a third match. Let’s see if you can last until the end.”
With that, he led his people away.
Hu Qingyin excitedly sought credit from Zhu Anquan, “Senior Brother, I told you, we didn’t lose! Now it’s one to one. If we win one more match, the money will be ours.”
He then waved at Gongsun Zheng, “Gongsun Senior Brother, enjoying yourself? Be sure to have the money ready for the next match.”
Gongsun Zheng’s square face turned pale with anger, pretending not to hear his gloating.
Zhu Anquan pointed to Qian Duoduo, who was clutching his wound on the platform, and instructed Kang Shenjun, “Go give him some medicine.”
Kang Shenjun immediately nodded, fawning eagerly, “Senior Brother is truly benevolent.”
He took three steps as one, leaped onto the platform, handed Qian Duoduo a packet of medicine, and, leaning closer, whispered with a poker face, “This medicine costs ten gold coins. Remember to pay.”
Qian Duoduo tore open the medicine packet and sprinkled the powder on his wound.
The wound immediately stopped bleeding and no longer hurt much.
Zhu Anquan nodded at Qian Duoduo, “It’s still the same promise: win the prison fight, and I’ll get you out of here.”
Qian Duoduo followed Hu Qingyin out of the correction facility and returned to his cell.
Hu Qingyin walked out of the cell door, thought for a moment, then opened it again, “Three days from now, at the same time, will be the third prison fight. You must win!”
“Send some chicken legs over,” Qian Duoduo naturally didn’t miss the opportunity to make a demand.
Hu Qingyin laughed, “You’re even extorting me now—fine, as long as you make Jin Buyong and Gongsun Zheng lose face, giving you some Spirit Chicken legs is no big deal.”
A short while later, he threw ten Spirit Chicken legs through the door crack, identical to the large Spirit Chicken legs from before.
The sound of footsteps faded outside the door, and Liu Boli emerged.
Earlier, Qian Duoduo’s life-for-life move had also scared him.
“Eat these chicken legs, and you’ll win the prison fight in three days, and then you can get out?”
Seeing Qian Duoduo happily hugging the Spirit Chicken legs, Liu Boli, who had just been worried about him, now felt angry again and asked coldly.
Qian Duoduo then remembered that half the credit for winning this round belonged to Liu Boli.
If it weren’t for his devilish training, he wouldn’t have been able to withstand Yan Qi’s attacks.
He still didn’t know how he would cope with the life-and-death match in three days.
Liu Boli moved his hand, and all the large Spirit Chicken legs in Qian Duoduo’s hands vanished.
“Hey, Evil Teacher, stop messing around. Give me back my chicken legs, they’re my life.”
“I’ll keep them for you for now. Your life is in your own hands now.”
Liu Boli flicked his hand, and a silk book appeared before Qian Duoduo.
“Stubborn disciple, in three days, Cultivate to Ningqi Level 1. Then you might survive.”
“What did you call me?” Qian Duoduo picked up the silk book.
“Stubborn disciple.”
Qian Duoduo chuckled.
“This old man holds a grudge. I call him Evil Teacher, and he calls me Stubborn disciple.”
He looked down at the cover of the silk book, on which were two lines of red characters: “Refining Spirit Sect’s Golden Light Technique, Qi Condensation Realm.”
In the village, to find food, he often went to the village’s private school. Although he couldn’t write the characters in the book very well, he could recognize most of them.
“Immortal technique?” Qian Duoduo looked up and asked.
“Yes. This Cultivation Technique belongs to Jin Buhuan, it’s just right for you.”
Qian Duoduo opened the silk book, and the opening chapter explained:
The Golden Light Technique is a unique skill of this sect, divided into ten layers. Each layer corresponds exactly to Ningqi Level 1.
Cultivating one layer allows you to control external objects, transforming Spiritual Qi into a golden coin. It can be used for beheading in attack, body protection in defense, and also has assassination capabilities.
Cultivating to the tenth layer, ten coins transform into one yuanbao, possessing the power to move mountains and overturn seas.
Qian Duoduo’s heart pounded, “It’s that powerful? Am I about to become an Immortal?”
