Chapter 45: Final Matches

A shiver runs down Feng Qin's spine. An unbelievable chill that even made his encounter with the Blazing Demon Lion King and its pack seem like a warm summer breeze.

'...Why do I sense danger?' he thought to himself as he left the arena.

He couldn't shake off the feeling that someone was watching him, someone with ill intent. But no killing intent...?

But he quickly pushed those thoughts aside, knowing that it was probably just his imagination.

He had won his battle and he needed to focus on the next one.

'I need to understand what the hell is going on with Mei Lin and get that Dragon Breaking Pill. After I get that pill, nevermind a couple weeks, in just three days I'll break pass Skin Tempering and enter Marrow Purification. I can probably even achieve 10% purification.'

With his skin tempered, he'd have iron-like defenses that even some Spirit Masters above his cultivation with a Spirit Tool wouldn't be able to pierce his skin.

'That much stimulation is enough for me to reach spirit rank 20, becoming a Spirit Grandmaster!' he clenched his hand, excitement filling his heart.

Soon, his dream of reaching the peak was close at hand.

But then, what happens next? He paused for a moment, sitting down on his seat with a pondering expression.

'I need a second spirit ring, one especially tied to some kind of element. The known elements in the world are: fire, water, earth, wind, metal, wood, lightning, light, and darkness.'

Feng Qin thought about which spirit beast element type he should go after for him to advance in the Heavenly Vast Universe Art and create a second spirit core.

'Water, lightning, light and darkness are definitely out. The latter three are rare to find and usually too powerful to hunt down. And water is the clear opposite of fire, though it is possible to make it coexist in my body, it would be unstable and would slowly destroy my body from the opposing energies trying to push the other away.' He shook his head and let out a sigh.

'Water is useful as it can increase my defense and give me a healing factor, so I'll get it as either my third or fourth spirit core.'

'So that leaves Earth, wind, metal, and wood. Any of them are great; as the earth element would highly increase my durability and lets me burrow into the earth to escape, wind would naturally increase my speed and agility, metal would highly increase my offensive capabilities since I'm mostly using a sword, and wood would highly increase my vitality so it'll make me very hard to get killed.'

Feng Qin hummed, pondering about it for a while.

'Well, I don't have any of them in sight right now so it doesn't matter. I just need to get to a hunting Spirit Beast Forest.'

And the closest forest that has all kinds of thousand year old spirit beasts available...was the Great Star Dou Forest.

Time was slowly closing to midnight but the audience, though were feeling a bit weary from watching the competition all day, were still feeling excited as the competition was in its final rounds.

Finally, it was time for the competition to end.

Feng Qin, Long Yuyin, Mei Lin, Li Fuji, Sarah, Cain.

These six competitors are the last ones to fight for the top three seats and represent Sky Fortune Kingdom to enter the main National Youth Competition at the capital city. Surprisingly, some of the top geniuses and dark horses that were highly expected to get into the finals didn't make it.

Instead, three new uprising dark horses appeared out of nowhere and made great waves in the entire competition.

Especially the one called Feng Qin. Not too long ago, no one knew who he was and was mistaken as of the dark horses, Cao Fengzi, the man that was said to equal Cain's personality and had greater potential, until he went up and defeated him, shocking everyone.

Now, almost everyone in the stadium was expecting a great battle to occur between the darkest horse against the brightest star in the kingdom.

It wasn't long before the slots of the final matches were decided.

First match: Long Yuyin vs Mei Lin

Second match: Sarah vs Li Fuji

Third match: Feng Qin vs Cain

The moment the final match was announced, everyone erupted into excitement and thrill.

All six competitors already went towards their respective stages, facing each other with their own expressions.

Feng Qin's attention went towards Long Yuyin and Mei Lin, worry and concern flashed in his eyes.

'Long Yuyin, I hope you know what you're doing.'

"Hey," A deep and serious voice sounded out. Feng Qin turned his head towards his opponent with a raised eyebrow.

"I know they're pretty ladies, and trust me that I would like to stare at them for days," He was a tall handsome young man, dressed in all green refined clothes, tanned skinned, with long dark unruly hair and sharp green eyes.

"But this is a competition. So, let's give it our all, shall we?" Cain said, his words firm and confident.

Feng Qin nodded, a small smile on his lips.

"Of course, let's make it a good match," he replied, unsheathing his sword from his waist.

Normally he wouldn't use his sword straightforwardly at the start.

But it was the final rounds, and he didn't want to hold any punches back. He wanted to show his true strength and make it clear that he deserved to be the champion of the competition.

"My name is Cain, Assault Power System Battle Spirit Master. Spirit rank 38. Spirit, Overlord Dragon." After saying that, his eyes lit up a red glow.

Badum

Suddenly, Feng Qin's eyes slightly widened as he felt a slight tingling feeling coming from his Myriad Soul Gem, even though he hadn't released it voluntarily, it just appeared and glowed. He greatly restrained from showing his surprise and excitement.

'My spirit? It's reacting! Although it was for a moment and faint, it reacted the moment he let out a bit of his spirit. So, just how it did with Long Yuyin, my spirit reacts to dragon type spirits.' he grinned.

He faced Cain with a calm expression, secretly excited about his discovery. "Feng Qin, Assault Power System Battle Spirit Master. Spirit rank 18. Spirit: Heavenly Yang Sword."

The audience's excitement grew as the match began, and the two of them radiated with intense fighting intent, getting ready to engage in their intense battle.

...

In the stage match between Long Yuyin and Mei Lin.

"...You are not Mei Lin." Long Yuyin coldly said, staring at her opponent with a serious expression.

Mei Lin raised eyebrow and replied more coldly, "And what gave you that idea?"

Long Yuyin narrowed her eyes, red light flashed. "You aren't warm, that's what gave you away."

"..."

Mei Lin's face turned colder, the air around her dropped as an ice blue spirit power aura erupted from her body. Though a condescending smirk escaped her mouth. She found the situation right now...amusing.

Long Yuyin didn't back down, with a large twitch above her eye, flames burned in the air as an intense fiery crimson spirit power aura exploded from her body, making her shine like a miniature sun.

The of them stared at each in silence, auras of fire and ice clashed in the air, they silently waited for when the referee would start the match.

Everyone felt their blood boiling at the matches that were about to begin.

.....

"...We're getting ignored." Li Fuji grumbled, crossing his arms.

Sarah glanced back at him and shrugged, before looking towards the match between Feng Qin and Cain.

Even their referee didn't look at them but look at the other matches.

"...." Li Fuji felt dead.

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