Lü Fengrou looked around: "Where's Fang Ping? Why isn't he here yet?"
Zhang Haoran replied, "Could it be that he's never been to the Martial Arts Association and can't find it?"
At this moment, Yang Xiaoman walked over, pulling Zhao Xuemei along, whispering to her.
Zhang Haoran, meanwhile, walked into the arena with Lü Fengrou and found a seat close to the front.
About seven or eight minutes later, Fang Ping arrived. He had indeed gotten lost.
Then, as per custom, the Martial Arts Association's President Zhou asked Fang Ping if his challenge—a First Rank initial stage challenging four First Rank Peak martial artists—was under coercion.
Fang Ping was quite interesting. He directly asked, "What if someone *is* coercing me?"
President Zhou immediately stated that if there was coercion, the Martial Arts Association would definitely step in.
However, Fang Ping clearly had no intention of giving up this opportunity. He said there was no coercion and the challenge could proceed as usual.
Then, because of the significant power gap between Fang Ping and his opponents, Fang Ping was allowed to set conditions, which was considered relatively fair.
Fang Ping's first condition was that his opponents could not use cold weapons; they had to fight him bare-handed, which was very reasonable.
Even a First Rank Peak Martial Artist, bare-handed, wouldn't easily kill someone.
His second condition was actually for four Second Grade Qi and Blood Pills, which was unheard of.
Liu Yongwen, of course, disagreed; he wasn't a fool.
Fang Ping and Liu Yongwen haggled, finally settling on four First Grade Qi and Blood Pills.
After getting on stage, Fang Ping's opponent was Chen Guolong. Fang Ping then pestered him, asking if he intended to kill him.
Lü Fengrou listened impatiently: "If you're going to fight, fight. If not, surrender."
But Zhang Haoran didn't think that way. He understood Fang Ping very well. In some respects, Fang Ping was even stronger than him.
When he was preparing to kill someone, he had given himself a whole night of psychological preparation.
Fang Ping was afraid of death and cherished his life, which was why he dared to fight desperately. Wasn't he the same? People who Transmigration from a peaceful era. Not everyone could disregard life and death. For the people of this world, who viewed life and death so lightly, it wasn't just Fang Ping who found it hard to adapt. Zhang Haoran also found it hard to adapt.
What Fang Ping was saying now, seemingly trash talk, was actually him convincing himself to strike ruthlessly.
Soon, the battle began.
At the start of the fight, Fang Ping reacted quickly. He immediately launched his strongest attack, Chuō Jiǎo.
Fang Ping's Chuō Jiǎo was quite well-practiced.
Chen Guolong raised his left hand to block, clenched his right fist, and advanced instead of retreating. He punched directly at Fang Ping's throat.
"Bang!"
His left arm collided with Fang Ping's Chuō Jiǎo. Fang Ping's shoes were alloy shoes, weren't they? With this, Chen Guolong's arm was severely injured.
Chen Guolong pushed away Fang Ping's right leg. At this moment, Fang Ping attacked continuously. He leaped up and punched Chen Guolong's head.
Chen Guolong could only raise his right arm to block. As a result, Fang Ping was wearing brass knuckles on his right hand, injuring Chen Guolong's right arm. Now both of his arms were injured, which was clearly disadvantageous for him.
Chen Guolong gritted his teeth and punched Fang Ping's chest with his left fist.
Fang Ping used his Pile Exercise to lean back, while simultaneously raising his leg to kick Chen Guolong in the groin.
He dodged a punch while launching a counterattack.
Chen Guolong clamped his legs together, intending to trap Fang Ping's left leg, while simultaneously forming a claw with his left hand. He planned to grab this leg and then punch Fang Ping to death.
But Fang Ping's leg, halfway through its kick, suddenly moved downwards, stomping heavily on the ground.
At the same time, he sprang into the air. He raised his right leg and kicked directly at Chen Guolong's temple. At this point, Chen Guolong no longer had time to dodge. He was kicked in the temple by Fang Ping's alloy-booted foot.
Chen Guolong was very unwilling and wanted to say something, but he no longer had the chance.
At this moment, Fang Ping muttered softly.
"I'm sorry, I'm really afraid of death."
In fact, among the people present, Zhang Haoran was the one who could understand Fang Ping the most. Because he was equally afraid of death.
Lü Fengrou also commented, saying that Fang Ping's strength was still insufficient; otherwise, if he had broken the arm with the first kick, he could have killed him with the second.
Zhang Haoran knew this was meant for him. However, if it were him, it wouldn't be so troublesome; he would have just killed him with one sword strike.
At this moment, the opponent's instructor also gave some pointers to the next person who came on stage. The implication was that they could exchange injuries, as they had more people.
This was a bit shameless. However, Zhang Haoran didn't say anything. Anyway, Fang Ping would only fight one more match.
Chen Guolong's body was carried down. The next person to come up was still a First Rank Peak Martial Artist.
The person named Zhang Guowei came up and immediately made it clear to Fang Ping: "Either you kill me, or I kill you."
Zhang Guowei could be said to be steady and unyielding, not giving Fang Ping any chance.
But he didn't understand Fang Ping at all. Fang Ping didn't just have a ruthless streak. Most importantly, Fang Ping was a cheater.
He had a cheat. Just as he saw Fang Ping's Qi and Blood weakening and was preparing to take Fang Ping's kick and end the battle with one punch, Fang Ping suddenly recovered his Qi and Blood. He solidly kicked Zhang Guowei.
Then, Fang Ping's fists immediately went for Zhang Guowei's temples, directly beating him to death.
Zhang Haoran had watched the show up to this point and felt he had seen enough.
He nodded to Lü Fengrou, then leaped onto the stage.
He patted Fang Ping's shoulder and said, "Junior Brother, you fought well. Leave the rest to me, your Senior Brother."
Zhang Haoran raised his hand and pushed Fang Ping off the stage. He turned to Liu Yongwen and the others and said, "From now on, I will fight on behalf of my Junior Brother. I am also a freshman, and I am also First Rank."
Liu Yongwen and the others, of course, wouldn't agree. At this point, someone stood up and said, "But Fang Ping has already accepted the challenge. So Fang Ping should fight. Why are you fighting on his behalf?"
Zhang Haoran retorted directly: "He accepted the challenge, so what? Does accepting the challenge mean you can just pull out hundreds or thousands of people to fight?
My Junior Brother only accepted the challenge; he didn't say he'd fight against how many people.
And you old students, do you have the nerve to say that? You, as old students, challenging a freshman is one thing. Do you only dare to challenge an initial stage with Peak strength? And that's not all, you even resort to continuous rotation battles. May I ask, do you still have any shame?"
Zhang Haoran's words made many people present feel very embarrassed, but they couldn't refute him.
At this moment, another old student spoke: "We challenged Fang Ping because Fang Ping has a connection with Wang Jinyang; that's why we challenged him."
Zhang Haoran waved his hand.
He continued to rant: "There are many people connected to Wang Jinyang. Even more people have received guidance from Wang Jinyang. You can grab a handful of them in Nangwu. If you're so capable, go challenge them in Nangwu.
Are Magic Martial Arts University students too scared to challenge in Nangwu? You've given so many reasons, but isn't it just because you think Fang Ping, a First Rank initial stage, is easy to bully?"
Did Zhang Haoran make sense? Of course, he did. Wang Jinyang was the president of the Martial Arts Association, and many people received his guidance.
He continued, "Let's not talk about those useless things. You can use Wang Jinyang as an excuse because he taught Fang Ping for a few days, and based on that, you challenge this Martial Artist who just entered school a month ago and is at the First Rank initial stage. Then why can't I, his Senior Brother, come out to accept the challenge on behalf of my Junior Brother?"
To be honest, they dared to challenge Fang Ping because he was at the initial stage.
But although Zhang Haoran's Qi and Blood didn't seem much stronger than Fang Ping's, since he was a Senior Brother, he should be more powerful than Fang Ping.
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