The round then soon begin. First, it's the city lord's daughter Fang Yue.
Her opponent is a boy at the six stage. He is a little older at 16 years old, but its still quite impressive for someone at that age to have reached such a stage.
For comparison, Hong is about 20 years old.
Three years ago when he go up the mountain to build the village with the chief, he was only in the second stage.
And he is considered one of the talented ones to have reached ninth stage at 20 years old. He is a few years faster than the chief himself.
At the arena, the boy is the first to make a move. He attack aggressively without holding back.
Fang Yue calmly dodging the attack with a graceful and fluid movements.
The two of them are moving very fast. Although they are kids, they are at the level where they can defeat a large beast by themselves after all.
The battle is not comparable at all to a ring battle from Cloud's previous world.
Every attack from the boy can crush a normal people's bones and destroy their flesh.
But even attacks like those are considered light attack by people on their level. After all its just a competition.
They are not trying to kill each other, so even those attacks are considered "holding back".
Of course, those attacks doesn't have the same effect as when used to normal people.
When they got hit by those attacks, they wouldn't receive any significant injuries.
Besides strength and speed you need to have a very strong body at their stage after all.
So their defense is also incomparable to a normal person's.
The boy doesn't stop his aggressive attack. He is fast, precise, and efficient.
But even then, non of his attacks manage to hit Fang Yue.
The battle went on like this. Fang Yue keep dodging while the boy keep attacking aggressively.
After a few minutes, the boy start to run out of stamina. His breathing become heavy, his movement slowed.
At that point, Fang Yue stop being passive and start attacking the boy.
Her movements are swift and graceful. She attack the boy from all sides.
Sometimes its a palm strike, sometimes its a kick. She overwhelm her opponent with her attacks.
The boy can't fight back at all. He is exhausted and can only barely defend against the attack.
Soon, he is completely overwhelmed and the attack start to hit him.
After getting hit a few times, the force send him out of the arena.
The first match end like that. It was completely one sided. The boy didn't even hit Fang Yue once.
After some cheers and claps from the crowd, the participants of the second match goes up to the arena.
Xiao Fan who always plays in the previous rounds, against a tall and sturdy boy.
The sturdy boy is one of the oldest amongst the participants. He is at the age limit of the competition, which is 17 years old.
But because of that, his cultivation is also one of the strongest, at the seventh stage.
When the match begun, the sturdy boy gesture toward Xiao Fan to attack first.
He gesture with his fingers while standing straight.
Xiao Fan who always wears a smile on his face stop smiling at the provocation.
His face turn serious and he start to attack.
He dash toward his opponent with impressive speed.
When he reach halfway, he dash to the side.
He keeps dashing around the opponent in a zigzag manner. His speed rising steadily.
The opponent try to keep up with his eyes but he soon lose Xiao Fan.
Since he can't keep up with the enemy's speed he decides to brace for the attack instead.
His body enter a stance and he tighten the muscles all over his body.
Xiao Fan's speed soon reach the peak, then he start attacking his opponent.
The blow from his attack surprised the opponent.
He can't believe that Xiao Fan who is a lot smaller than him can hit that hard.
But he quickly regain his calm and tighten his defense.
He doesn't believe that Xiao Fan can maintain his current movement for long.
He gritted his teeth through the attacks and soon, the blows gradually slowed.
With a smile, the sturdy boy look at Xiao Fan who's movement slowed considerably.
He prepare himself for an opportunity to attack.
Then the opportunity came. Xiao Fan is dashing toward him from the front. His speed has become very slow. It isn't hard for the sturdy boy to keep up with this speed.
Just when Xiao Fan almost enter the boy's range of attack, he dash to the side with the same speed as his previous attack.
It's like he never lost his speed at all.
When the sturdy boy is still shocked by the sudden turn of event, Xiao Fan has already circle to his back.
He kick the boy from the back.
The boy stumbles forward and the kick woke him from his shock. It is even more powerful than the previous blows.
He quickly try to steady himself, but before he could recover, Xiao Fan has already follow up with another kick.
The second kick push him to the edge of the arena and the third kick completely push him off the stage.
The battle end and people cheers after a moment of silence.
They didn't expect that the battle would suddenly end like that.
They thought that Xiao Fan was in trouble when his attacks slowed.
They didn't expect that its just a show that Xiao Fan made to lower his opponent's guard.