Chapter 267: Special stage! (final)

"D-Damn it.. they've taken them both out at the same time!" Wang Dong stood on his feet with much difficulty.

"Brother Duan Li, we need to team up together if we even hope to defeat either of them at their current form!" he said as he wiped off the blood from the sides of his mouth with a grim countenance.

From his analysis, since they now knew that Duan Li was not someone that could be taken lightly of, they will definitely synchronize their individual capabilities with each other to the maximum level in order to take Duan Li down!

After all, hearing that the other party was able to take out 7,000 monsters single handedly during a monster stampede was a testament to the latter's strength!

Brother Duan Li?

On the other hand, Duan Li was a little bit taken aback by how the latter had changed the way he addressed him. Before, the other party would simply called him a 'Boy' as he was older than Duan Li. But now, there was a hint of subservientness when he called him out!

"Was I really that impressive?" Duan Li cupped his chin as he could not help but to feel a little bit proud of himself!

If I were to tell him that I secretly snuck out before the official expedition began and subjugate close to 10,000 monsters on my own, I wonder how he will react?

Huehuehue!

"Eh you are right. So, which one of them should we take out first?" Duan Li replied as he put the previous thought to the back of his head. In all honesty, he could probably take them both out on his own even with just 10 percent of his power, but seeing that Wang Dong's expression was really serious, he thought that he should tone himself down and responded with the latter's suggestion instead.

"While Lu Bu seemed to be stronger than Zhang Liao, and you Brother, are stronger than Lu Bu himself, we could choose to take him out first and then Zhang Liao next. However, I propose that we aim for Zhang Liao first!" Wang Dong said.

"Oh?" this made Duan Li's interest piqued.

Wang Dong then explained that, if they were to target Lu Bu first, Zhang Liao would definitely try his best to outmaneuver them and protect his friend, Lu Bu, against all odds. With the conclusion that Zhang Liao was smarter and more cunning than Lu Bu, if they made a wrong step, Wang Dong theorized that he would be taken down by them by some sort of diversion tactics; either separating him from Duan Li momentarily, or deploying varieties of feint attacks while actually targeting him!

Hearing this, Duan Li was once again surprised as he nodded in agreement.

"I never thought that he could actually be this smart from his outward appearance.."

But, why do I feel like this fellow wanted me to act as his meat shield?

Meanwhile..

"..." Lu Bu and Zhang Liao.

These two bastards, do they think that we are deaf?!

To be talking about their plans right in front of us so blatantly, either they are blind or that they are looking down on us!

"Let's just go all out. I'm sick of this competition already." Lu Bu said impatiently. He still remembers the back slap of Duan Li onto his chest earlier on, and the embarrassment that he felt after that makes him wanted to dig out a hole and hide inside it!

I'm not a spinning top damnit!

"Hold on. It could also be that they are messing with us and the things they talked about just now was all but a diversion to hide their real intentions!" Zhang Liao replied as he gritted his teeth, unsure of what their opponents were really planning.

"It doesn't matter. In the end, we need to take out Wang Dong first. We can use the strategy that we practiced 3 days ago." Lu Bu mentioned as he twisted his neck left and right, producing that 'crack' sound.

"I see.. that might work. Let's do it then, but I am going all out to 50 percent of my lung capacity!" Zhang Liao replied with a determined look on his face.

Lu Bu immediately frowned upon hearing this, but soon nodded his head. "In that case, I am going a little bit further as well."

Crack!

All the joints inside his body seemed to produce numerous cracking sound as if they were breaking apart. However, to everyone's surprise, the tiles below Lu Bu's feet was the one that began to crack rapidly instead!

Wang Dong's pair of eyes widened as he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Impossible! How did he changed the density of his bone to such an extreme degree!"

Duan Li beside him had activated the Tetra Soul Sense and replied, "He.. molded his muscles into his bones by using his blood! Like a forge, his blood acted as the searing flame that mend the numerous metals together!"

What a crazy fellow..

"Suuuuuu!!"

It was at this moment that Zhang Liao abruptly breathed in, and using 50 percent of his lung capacity, he created a spherical field of vacuum that covered the entire fighting platform in a single instant!

Due to this sudden attack, Wang Dong was caught unprepared.

"Dammit! The key to martial art technique is breathing, by sealing one's capability to breathe in properly, he is able to put his opponent in a bind anytime he wishes!"

Right after this thought flashed inside his mind, Zhang Liao had already appeared behind him!

"You're finished." Zhang Liao delivered a decisive hand chop towards the back of his neck.

Suddenly, a frown appeared on his brows as he saw Wang Dong lips curled into a smile, a foreboding sense of danger loomed over him!

This was because while his ability could rob his opponent of their means to breath in, he couldn't possibly stop someone's lungs from breathing out to make their move!

"Sh*t!" realizing that he was lured into a trap somehow, he immediately retracted his hand and was about to retreat.

However..

"Reverse suplex!" Wang Dong caught Zhang Liao's retreating hand like a snake curling flexibly onto a tree trunk with a single move, eventually locking the latter's neck to lift the other party up!

Haaappp!!

"This is my limit.. the rest is on you.. brother!" Wang Dong's eyes began to lose its focus while he grinned, showing his white teeth.

After all, breathing out forcefully while making two, consecutive big moves was taxing to his body without breathing in oxygen!

Just as his grip started to loosen up on Zhang Liao's neck, Duan Li abruptly appeared in the midst of the reverse suplex and pushed forward his palm onto Zhang Liao. "You've done well."

BAMM!!

Because Zhang Liao had breathed in too much air, his body was as light as a feather. While this might be advantageous to increasing his speed, the lack of any weight only required a minimal force to blew him away with a single attack from Duan Li!

Crash!

Wang Dong collapsed on the ground and blacked out, while Zhang Liao flew all the way to outside the ring and was thus disqualified.

"Bastard!!" Lu Bu bellowed out as he put his all into the opening that his friend had created and landed a solid blow to the back of Duan Li's spine!

Ironically, the strategy that they agreed on involved sacrificing Zhang Liao to create an opening!

Even Duan Li was surprised by this, because its not that he couldn't react to such a simple attack towards his back, but that their method was executed so flawlessly such that there was no delay between his attack on Zhang Liao and Lu Bu's punch landing squarely behind him!

In other words, both had happened practically at the same time!

However in the end, their combined effort was still in vain.

BAMMM!!

After a resounding punch echoed the whole stadium, Lu Bu's countenance turned pale, his previous body transformation had reverted back to normal, and he could not help but to utter in absolute disbelief, "You.. you are not at the Early stage.."

Crash!

And he fell to the ground as his consciousness left him and fainted. After all, he was also affected by Zhang Liao's breathing technique and only had that one move of mutual destruction left!

In addition, even as he fainted, he still could not believe just how solid Duan Li's body were!

"..." the crowd.

Witnessing this scene, the audience that were on their tenterhooks went silent for awhile as they processed everything that they saw, before erupting into a loud cheer!

Roarrr!!

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