Chapter 135: The Final Round Begins

  Yang Le panted and covered her chest, originally wanting to say something good, but hesitated and swallowed it back when she was about to speak. Yesterday, when she saw the cultural lesson, she herself didn't want to give up, now because of Hu Dehua's few speculative sentences, she took the initiative to abandon this final match, suddenly not knowing how to explain to Hu Gao.

  "Are you here by yourself?" Dugu Sheng said with a frown after seeing Yang Le remain silent for half a day.

  Yang Le shook his head, "No! Please rest assured, Vice President, the competition will proceed as usual."

  "Hmph, you all take care of yourselves then." Dugu Sheng turned around and left, thinking to himself that if it weren't for the fact that he saw her relationship with the Dean, he really wanted to...

  "How did you know I'd come?" a familiar voice rang out.

  "Is that Hu Gao?" Yang Le, who had been hanging his head in despair, suddenly grasped at a straw when he saw the real Hu Gao standing before him with his signature smile, and suddenly threw a punch.

  Hu Gao didn't dodge, and with this punch, he could still tell if there was any malice in it. "It's alright, I'm back," he said, roughly but smoothly embracing Yang Le and patting her shoulder. "Let's finish the match as soon as possible and go visit Hu DeHua and Ji Fei."

  Yang Le's face turned red, and she didn't struggle out of Hu Gao's arms in the first time. "You! How can you still be so arrogant? Do you know that Li Wuxin is already in the later stage of the Condensing Shadow Realm?"

  Hu Gao was speechless, the little five in his body had fallen asleep and couldn't disguise its realm, so how could Yang not see that he was already a martial artist of the Transcendent Realm?

  Indeed, worrying is chaotic!

  "It doesn't matter, Teacher Yang will just wait below and enjoy the show." Hu Gao chuckled and released Yang Le, instantly disappearing from her line of sight.

  On the arena, the judges have taken their positions. The three martial artists from Yidang are lined up in a classic "pin" shape on stage, with muscular man Zhong Qiong at the front, followed by Li Yao and Hu Fang.

  Half of the audience seats have already erupted in a round of thunderous applause, and even some fans of Li Yao in the audience have started screaming. Although Li Yao was not the ultimate winner in last season's final, she also won the hearts of many people with her fearless and hard-hitting style.

  Even many sentimental girls are thinking that if Li Wu were a man, they would probably immediately go weak in the knees and throw themselves at him.

  On the rostrum, Dugu Sheng sat there with a pale face and didn't say a word. Before this, he had great expectations for his son, Dugu Yi. If it wasn't for Hu Dehua's sudden explosion with six-stage totem, the one standing here challenging the three halls today would have been Dugu Yi representing the third hall.

  In Dugu's view, relying solely on a woman to hold the scene was absolutely impossible for San Tang to be an opponent of Shi Tang. As a result, the strongest Shi Tang and San Tang fought fiercely, but in the end, Yi Tang benefited from it.

  What was most annoying was that during the semifinal draw, Yidong thought there were fewer people in the tenth group, so he intervened in the drawing result with his cleverness, deliberately letting San Dang collide with Shao Ren's tenth group, which could save physical strength to deal with the final.

  It can be said that now there is a situation where the martial artist stands alone on the stage, which was completely caused by his own doing.

  The two guards who were quite familiar with Du Guo Sheng's temper also felt that their superior was not in a good mood today, and no one wanted to trigger his anger with some words, so they stood there straight, completely ignoring the judging gaze passed over by the referee on the martial arts field, hinting at him to announce the start of the match.

  "What's going on? Why haven't they announced the results yet, by rights, shouldn't he have already forfeited by now?" Zhong Qing muttered under her breath.

  Hu Fang also furrowed his brow, for him, being able to get the first place in the second stage without competing with Hu Gao was somewhat unglorious, but as a disciple of the Hu family, he really didn't know how to face Hu Gao if he really appeared.

  It is he who stands on the martial arts arena at this moment, silently praying for the judge to make a decision of ten points deduction.

  It was as if he had heard the murmurs of the audience below, that Dugu Sheng finally came back to his senses from his own little abacus, just in time to see the judge's gaze, and looked at the sand table on one side, just about to raise his right hand, make a decision he was very reluctant to make...

  "Sorry, there's a bit of congestion on the road, and you've all been kept waiting!"

  Hu Gao took a leap from under the stage and landed on the martial arts arena, smiling at the stern-looking crowd of martial artists.

  "Who is this person?"

  "Sending a martial artist to participate in the final match just because of a tie? What's there to see? Might as well directly announce the result!"

  "Haha, great timing! I had previously placed a huge bet that wouldn't back down, and now I've won big time!"

  The audience under the stage suddenly let out a more intense **cheer than when the previous martial artist took the stage, just because Hu Gao had made such an ordinary move.

  However, for the few people on stage, their shock at Hu Gao was absolutely far greater than that of the audience below, because Hu Gao, who had not suppressed his realm in the slightest, now showed an aura that completely surpassed the Condensed Shadow Realm and belonged to a warrior in the Unity Realm!

  The referee Han Li who was in charge of the ordinary hall final almost fell to the ground when he saw Hu Gao jump up!

  As an ordinary steward in the War Institute, Han Li was only at the Unity Realm. He thought that being sent to take charge of the Ordinary Hall's final match would be a relatively easy task, but what was going on now?

  The threshold is set in the Condensed Shadow Realm, and a late-stage peak cultivator like Líu Wú would be considered ordinary. But now, it's said that one of the top ten sects will directly send out a cultivator who is on the same level as him, what's going on with this world?

  Duguang Sheng on the rostrum, his eyes bulging like a toad's, matched with his round face, and his expression was vivid. "It seems interesting, this is Hu Gaobai, the successor of the Hu family who returned from Longjia Mountain Range. I didn't expect him to break through to the Tongti realm. Hehe, now the competition is worth watching."

  Following the usual custom of the martial arts competition, both sides' coaches need to confirm each other's martial artists. Han Li, who had a bewildered look in his eyes, could only gesture for Yang Le and Wen Zhong to come over and make the confirmation.

  When he saw both of them nodding in agreement, although there were countless questions in his heart, he had no choice but to announce the official start of the competition.

  "First, as per convention, we will announce the rules for the final match. Although 'fists and feet are merciless' and 'swords and swords have no intention', our Martial Arts Institute's martial arts competition is guided by the purpose of sharpening one's skills as a warrior. Therefore, both warriors are not allowed to use killing moves, unless one side commits a foul that puts the other side's life in danger. In order to protect oneself, the threatened party can use unlimited moves."

  At the same time, as a referee of this match, I have the right to make decisions to suspend the game at any time according to the situation on the field.

  "Finally, both instructors also have the right to make a concession for their own martial artist. Do you understand?"

  Han Li loudly said that there was a huge gap in the realm between the two martial artists in this match, and in order to prevent any unexpected situations from occurring, he carefully read out these rules word by word.

  The three warriors of the temple had already understood these rules and all shouted loudly, "Understood!"

  Hu Gao thought for a moment and followed with a sentence, anyway the warriors on the stage were not going to hurt Hu Dehua and Ji Fei's gang, he didn't want to kill innocent people indiscriminately.

  "My god, is this Hu Gao still human? In such a short time, he's already reached the Unity Realm? I'm saying, shouldn't we just surrender directly?"

  The one standing in front, Zhong Qing, bore the enormous pressure and turned his head to say.

  "Get out, you're finished! You'll never be able to hold your head up again!" Hu Fang shouted loudly. Seeing the heir of the Hu family achieve such success, he was naturally delighted, but that didn't mean he would surrender unconditionally!

  Li Ya clenched her teeth and silently began to summon her Totem. In her opinion, if Hu Gao had already reached the state of Unity of Body and Mind and possessed a Variant Totem, they would have no chance at all. The only thing she could pray for was that he didn't have a terrifying Variant Totem. This way, relying on the three people's familiar team coordination skills, they might still have a fighting chance!

  Hu Gao didn't want to play a game of cat and mouse, nor would he use eloquent words to persuade the opponent to surrender. This battle, he only wanted a quick victory.

  Hu Gao charged forward with his strongest punch, directly striking the Clockwork Heart with a North Dipper God Fist. After breaking through to the Common Body Realm, he felt that the power of his Yuan force condensed in his fist had also doubled, which was far beyond what Zhong Lian's mid-stage Condensed Shadow Realm could withstand.

  "Don't resist my infatuation! Watch this!" Hu Fang had already summoned his totem from the rear, a black, fluffy lion-like creature with two massive fangs that were larger than its upper body. "Binding Strike!"

  At that moment, Hu Gao felt as if his advancing body was being shackled by some invisible lock, and his speed immediately slowed down.

  Zhong Qing saw Hu Gao's speed slow down, and he hastily dodged his most ferocious wave of punches. At the same time, he gathered the yuan force within his body, combining it with the Totem's effect, and let out a fierce roar, "Invincible Roar!"

  Hu Gao was caught off guard, and not only did his entire body suddenly come to a halt, but he also felt like the eardrums in both ears were about to shatter, and his brain emitted wave after wave of resonant sound. This series of skill attacks actually left his Du Gu Nine Swords with no room to be used.

  "It's time! New Moon Whip!" Standing at the back, Li Wu finally summoned her totem, but as soon as it appeared, it stuck to her forehead, forming a white circular object. With a loud shout, a bright light shot from her forehead to the whip in her hand, and the whip shook violently, striking Hu Gao's body like a new moon.