Chapter 272 - The Battle of Diablo: Daybreak

Chapter 272 The Battle of Diablo: Daybreak“Be quiet, everybody! We are only the onlookers here. I just hope that your will to fight will not be changed by anything!” The yellow-robed girl said this lightly and calmly, and sounded very regal, with her overwhelming aura. After she said that, the enthusiasm that had gathered at the site immediately faded away, and was replaced by a dead silence.

But that compulsive silence was just for an instant. Later, it vanished completely. At the time, there were still no sounds, but the expressions on everybody’s faces became even more fervent.

“Okay, next, I’ll announce the rules of the competition!” The clear voice at that time also sounded much calmer than before.

“The first rule: The 32 teams have to draw lots to decide your opponent and the orders. The top eight from the last competition will not meet each other in the first round. If they make it successfully to the next round, the top four from the last competition will not meet each other in the second round!

“The second rule: Every team must fight until their last person falls. During the competition, the competitors are allowed to give up or admit defeat. If you want to fight three people in a row, you have to start from the first battle of each round. Every member has at most, two chances to enter the stage for each round!”

“The third rule: The competitors are not allowed to bring the Lu Tian Divine Stone to the stage. It’s also forbidden to fight together with doppelgangers. Spirit beasts are fine, but they should not surpass the level of Heavenly Master.”

After the three rules were announced, the clear voice faded. Then, Kong Liang came up to the platform, waved his hand, and suddenly there was a golden light ball floating in the air. He said, “Next, from left to right, each team will send up a person to draw lots!”

“Junior Brother Man, you are new. You go!” Feng Mazi pushed Lyu Liang forward, and mumbled at the same time, “I’d rather die than draw lots. Two competitions in a row, we came across the three tough teams…”

It was fast. Lyu Liang put his hand into the light ball, and got an “eight”, which seemed to indicate good fortune. Their opponent, according to the rules, should be the team that got a “seven”.

Soon, their opponent for the first battle was announced. It was the team with the members all clad in gray robes. They looked very handsome, but their faces were full of do-or-die aura.

“Damn it! You are not lucky, either… Team of Self-detonation…” Feng Mazi gritted his teeth, as if he had a bad headache.

“What? Team of Self-detonation? What does that mean?” Lyu Liang was puzzled.

“Hey, it’s good! At least, we don’t have to be too concerned that we’ll lose too much strength. Just focus on defending.” Meng Yun laughed, and did not seem to take that team seriously. Actually, he seemed to be looking forward to it.

“Nonsense! You have an indestructible golden body, so you can afford a number of detonations. But Zidao and I will be in a lot of trouble… ah!” Feng Mazi felt quite helpless at the moment. He then turned to Lyu Liang and said, “This is the team of the Seven Taoism Door from the Darkness Country. Their capability is just fine, but they have a particular trait we saw from the previous competitions. When they are unable to defeat their opponents on the stage, they will always end the battle by self-detonating. What’s more, they generally have a weird detonation move that specifically targets the Divine Soul. So, you should stay alert at all times.”

When he heard that, Lyu Liang was totally speechless. No wonder they were called “Team of Self-detonation”. They were actually Men of Sacrifice…

“None of the people who made it to this stage are losers! Self-detonation is just the last move that they would use in the battle!” Feng Mazi was afraid that Lyu Liang might not take them seriously. What he did not know was that Lyu Liang would always fight with all his might, no matter who his opponent was!

“Senior brother, I want to be the first!” Lyu Liang rubbed his head ingenuously, and struggled to say this.

“Sure! You are a real man!” Feng Mazi gave him a thumbs up, and then continued to say, “There are five rounds in all, and you need to keep fighting without a break for the first three rounds. Be careful and reserve your energy.”

The other three on his team also nodded. Yan Zidao warned him, “It’s your first time to take part in this kind of competition. When you get on the stage, you can literally feel the pressure that is quite different from general battles! Remember, every battle is a deathmatch!” After he finished speaking, he also patted Lyu Liang’s shoulder heavily.

Lyu Liang nodded solemnly. At the moment, he was totally a member of the team. If the team lost in the end, his follow-up plans would never be fulfilled.

There was no return for an arrow that had already been discharged. Since he joined the team, he would do his best to win!

He had never been so eager for a battle. Even though he appeared serene, his heart was prepared to break out anytime!

When every team had finished drawing lots, after a flash of brilliance, the platform was clearly divided into 16 independent small platforms. Each platform had a golden light gate on it, with two figures above it.

“Based on your number, the person of every team who attends the first battle, will now enter the corresponding light gate! The first round of the competition officially starts now!” The clear voice rose. Then people started to move.

“Ow!” Lyu Liang roared like a barbarian, and directly leapt up to the platform with the light gate marked “seven, eight”. Almost at the same time, a tall and lean man from the Seven Taoism Door, also jumped onto the platform, after an instantaneous flash.

After they went through the light gate at the same time, there were ripples flashing around the platform, which was clearly protected by some high-level restriction formation. Then, the light gate flickered again, with a scene appearing on it, which was the real-time image of the battle between Lyu Liang and the man from Seven Taoism Door!

Inside the light gate, was a broad expanse with a starry sky. At this time, Lyu Liang started to study his opponent carefully.

“He is at the peak of the Supreme Master stage?”

As Lyu Liang took in this fact, he suddenly felt a stream of cool air flowing toward him. Then his cultivation was instantly promoted to the Peak of the Heavenly Master stage, while the cultivation of his opponent dropped to the same level as his.

“Oh, I see! That’s fair!” Lyu Liang was secretly pleased, as he realized the principle there, was the same as that of the introductory trial in Icy Peak.

The man opposite him had a cold expression, his eyes showing a color of extermination that was unique for this Man of Sacrifice. The aura of his whole body burst forth in a split second, and he immediately rushed at Lyu Liang.

Meanwhile, a gray fog which was filled with several beams of colorful sword lights, appeared all over the space and swept down onto Lyu Liang in a flash.

A huge Star-picking Palm emerged out of nowhere, and touched the fog lightly enough to scatter it. Then Lyu Liang quickly moved and disappeared. Next minute, he was already in a place that was less than 50 feet away from his opponent. Meanwhile, four Ghost Soldiers with the same level as Lyu Liang, followed behind him!

At that time, Lyu Liang totally treated this first battle as a death match, so he was going all out from the very beginning!

The 500 days in the Thoreau Secret Realm had not brought a breakthrough to his cultivation, but it did improve the power of his moves to a much higher level!

Next minute, the man temporarily stopped his attack and managed to change most of the Gray Fog and the sword light to a defensive state. He obviously perceived the power of the Star-picking Palm and the Ghost Soldier Transforming Realm, but he did not hold back his moves, and continued to move forward.

At the time, Lyu Liang approached the man after two instantaneous flashes and swung his right fist with the intention to punch him, but the man suddenly gave him a creepy smile. Then the aura of his whole body started to become disordered, which was followed by an appalling self-detonation!

Lyu Liang narrowed his eyes and tried to avoid it with an instantaneous flash. But he suddenly realized that the scattered fog had reappeared and closed in on him, just like a cage. The most important thing was that Black’s Crossing Skill did not work at all. It seemed that the fog was neither an array unit or a Bounded Domain!

“Boom!” Continuous cracking sounds were coming out from the light gate where Lyu Liang was in, followed by great vibrations. Lyu Liang’s teammates were all frowning at the sight of that.

Inside the light gate, many illusions from the man of Seven Taoism Door rushed into the fog cage, trapping Lyu Liang at that instant. Once they came near the cage, they did a self-detonation. At the same time, there were also beams of colorful golden light falling like raindrops…

30 minutes later, the Star-picking Palm appeared again in the starry sky, and smashed fiercely toward the Void about 1,000 feet away. With that, a figure flew out. That was the lean man from Seven Taoism Door!

Meanwhile, a howl was heard from the center of the blasting fog, along with something that appeared to be breaking into pieces. Next minute, a furious Lyu Liang appeared about 30 feet away from that man!

He might have been shocked before, but at that moment, he was extreme afraid. The situation was really hard for him to swallow. How could Lyu Liang came out unscathed after he used his secret skill “Explosion of One Thousand Souls”? Lyu Liang was clearly about 1,000 feet away from him a moment ago. How did he manage to come so near to him, after he heard his Bounded Domain breaking down?

But Lyu Liang decided not to give him any time to ponder about this. After an instantaneous flash, he appeared right in front of that man, and directly swung his golden right fist to punch him hard. The man fixed his eyes and created a blue shield in front of him. Meanwhile, his body erupted in a thick golden fog again, ready to continue to exert his powerful secret skills.

At that time, he was surprised to find that a trembling sensation had occurred deep inside his Divine Soul, which made his cultivation freeze for a moment!

Lyu Liang came even closer, at this moment. Although the man instantly created a blue shield the second he recovered his cultivation, still…

“Bang!” With a muffled sound, the shield was torn into shreds, and that man, also like a broken kite, directly flew backwards. After what Lyu Liang did to him, his story was definitely at an end.

Lyu Liang did not even bother to check his situation. As soon as the man flew outside, Lyu Liang flashed to his side, and kept punching him nonstop.

After being hit for about 15 minutes, the man was a total mess, when he fell on the ground. He did not even have the chance to activate his self-detonation act…

When Lyu Liang’s strong figure came out of the light gate, the cheers were overwhelming, especially the applause from the eastern part, which was the platform for the square array of Tianshu Pavilion.

The fight had ended so soon!

That was the first reaction that all the onlookers had, at the time. Did their battle last for the time it took to burn three sticks of incense? While the other battles were still going on, they had already taken their curtain call! The most surprising thing was that Lyu Liang was not hurt at all!

The cheers were not only an encouragement for Lyu Liang, for having killed that man so speedily, but also an expectation for his fights that followed.

Most of the people had heard about Lyu Liang’s heroic acts against Icy Peak before. At that time, they finally got a chance to see his dominating fighting capability personally, and instantly realized that he was sure to be a daybreak star in the Nether Big World, if he could make it to the end.

Although Lyu Liang looked calm, he really had not settled down yet. He knew that the seemingly easy first battle was actually a tough one for him, during which he could have gotten killed all the time.

Lyu Liang had been too confident about his Divine Body before. He used to firmly believe that he was able to punch his opponent to death with his fists, if he had a close combat with him.

That was true! But, he had underrated the aggressiveness of his opponent!

When that continuous detonation started, Lyu Liang instantly broke out in a cold sweat! The weird airflow generated by the detonation, could cause damage to his Divine Soul!

Fortunately, the detonation had happened, together with a stream of violent lightning wave, saved Lyu Liang.

At that time, he had made full use of the magical powers of the Five-Elements Body and Golden. As the detonation was damaging his Divine Soul, the lighting wave was making up for his loss.

Lyu Liang was relieved at that time, and started to observe the position of his opponent with the help of Little Tian. Although Black could not break through the fog cage, he could do it himself with only one punch.

After that conclusion, he was finally able to defeat his opponent.

However, he was clear that his speedy win was also due to his good fortune. If the detonation did not have the lighting wave in it, his Divine Soul would have been damaged. It was hard to tell if he could continue with the subsequent battles, even with the help of the Tianxuan Holy Rattan, if he had not died or lost the battle in the first place.

“I want to fight again!” Lyu Liang roared at the moment, which raised more cheers.

He did not want to win three times in a row. It was just that the previous life-and-death battle had made his cultivation bottleneck loosen a little. He had a feeling that after another battle like that, he would probably break through to the Middle-stage Heavenly Master!

After he said that, another man flashed out from the square array of the Seven Taoism Door. That time, it was a square-faced youth, with the same expression as the Man of Sacrifice. He did not seem to be intimidated by the first battle. Glancing at Lyu Liang indifferently, he rushed into the light gate first.

Instead, Lyu Liang had become more cautious and agitated. He followed the man, while murmuring in his heart, “The second battle will definitely be much harder than the first one, but the winner has to be me!

…

Just as Lyu Liang was gaining great admiration for his super powers, a man wearing a mask from the blue-robed team on the east of the outside platform, smiled slightly, as if there was something profound in it.

“Boss, he is much stronger! He obviously has not gone all out earlier!”

“Yeah. I thought I’d already made a great improvement, but he did not fall behind, either! You also saw that the man from the Seven Taoism Door paused at that time. In my opinion, he had been secretly attacked by a high-level Divine Soul!”

“How about we avoid him for now? Since he is so strong, we’d better save our strength until the decisive battle! No matter what, there will be enough power figures here to check him out!”

“No, you are wrong. Even if you watch him fight five battles, you may still be unclear about his capability. The best way to get to know him, is to get on the stage and fight him!”

“…Well, did you guess he would act like this?”

“I don’t need to guess. Like I said, we are the same kind of people. The only way to know our real fighting capacity is to fight with us!”

At that time, a voice was secretly transmitted to the Divine Soul of the masked man, “Do you have an answer now?”

The masked man smiled lightly and replied, “The second round. We will meet the team from Tianshu Pavilion!”

“The second round? I have scheduled them to meet Snow Dragon Mountain.” The mysterious voice sounded surprised.

“No! It’s the second round. I’m now even regretting that I did not meet him at the first battle!” The masked man said this firmly, his eyes shining with expectations at the same time. “I have to find out what his real fighting capability is, when he is at a peak state! The unavoidable battle in the future is too important. I cannot afford a defeat. Neither can the organization!”