Chapter 76: The Combat Class! (2)

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AHHHHHHHH!!!

When the elderly man gave the green signal to start, all of the students started fighting out against one another. Some could be seen making a small group of temporary allies to fight another group. There were also others who preferred to fight solo while the cunning ones avoided the fight altogether to reap in the last benefits.

However, the most striking ones on the battlefield right now were the groups of people that were rushing through to surround against an enemy they dubbed as the 'evil entity' of the holy land!

"W-why are all these people targeting me?" exclaimed Duan Li in shock as he readied himself into a defensive stance.

When Duan Li scanned through these people with his identify ability, he was glad that most of them was only at the Qi condensation level. Most were at the early and middle stage, only some were at the late and pinnacle stage of the Qi condensation realm.

This was because everyone on the field right now was just a fresh junior intake of the academy like Duan Li. There were also others who were at the Foundation establishment realm, but these were all the geniuses of some famous clans across the Jiu empire, and people were avoiding them like a plague in order to not get on their bad side.

By the looks of things, it seems that these geniuses would only fight against one another after the small fries were all defeated around them.

"HAHA! You have no escape path, we have blocked you from all sides!" shouted an excited student towards Duan Li.

"Beg for your puny little life right now and maybe, JUST maybe, we will consider to just rough you up slightly! Otherwise... don't blame us for going overboard! Hehehe!"

"Evil entity! For the sake of justice towards all the men here, we shall topple and de-throne you down!"

A lot of the people that were surrounding him right now has made similar statements. For the life of his, Duan Li could just not make sense of what these deranged fellas wanted with him.

"Their strength are not a threat for me, but with these sheer numbers alone, it could definitely pose a problem! Not only that, I have to carefully adjust my strength to every single person here so that I do not end up to accidentally kill them..!"

When all the skill arts were banned, the only thing that was left for them to fight with was using their raw strength. To Duan Li whose physical body was at the pinnacle of the Foundation establishment realm right now, he was much stronger than these people.

But, this also meant that he needed superior control of his physical strength, and perhaps, this was also one of the goal for the first lesson of the Combat class as well.

"CHARGEEE!!"

No one knew who was the one that shouted first, but because of that, the people surrounding Duan Li right now were letting out warcries one after another as they rushed forward at Duan Li to get a piece of him.

AHHHHHHHH!!!

Someone had been spreading the actual Physical strength of Duan Li, and when these people found out about that, they decided to not hold back anything at all!

Swishhh!

A front punch was thrown directly onto Duan Li's face as he evaded it by slightly moving to the left.

Swisshhh!

Another punch was thrown towards his left ribs and he dodged it by retreating half a step backward.

Swisshhh!

A kick was thrown behind his right knee that was supporting his weight, giving him no choice but to turn around and lower his stance so that the kick only hits the side of his thigh, which does no damage at all.

Swisshhh!

Two fingers struck out heading towards Duan Li's eyes, forcing him to block inwards using his palm and swiping it to the right.

Swisshhh!

A palm attack was heading towards the back of his head targetting for a concussion to destabilize him. Left with no choice, Duan Li's eyes gleamed like an eagle as he decided to make a counter-attack!

Whooshh!

Duan Li spinned his body to the right with a slight jump. Throwing a left kick while in mid-air, his right hand grabbed at the wrist of the owner of that palm strike at the same time, to act as a hand stand by borrowing its forward force.

BAM!

He managed to land a heavy kick towards the owner of the two fingers strike before, and then quickly landed to the ground while twisting his upper body with a slight spin to the right. As he lowered his center of gravity, a centrifugal force was created from the momentum that allowed him to threw the person that was locked by his right hand onto the one that attacked him on his thigh before!

BAM!

Immediately dashing forward for a single step, he kneed another person on the face and the other got elbowed by him in a single instant. These were the five people that had attacked him before.

Hissss!

The crowd sucked in cold breath as they watched this scene that happened in just less than three breaths!

During that three breaths of time, five people had ganged up on him from multiple directions at the same time. Yet, not only do their attacks had failed, all of them were even counter-attacked in a single sweep by the other party!

Formidable!!

Due to this shocking performance of Duan Li with his martial arts, the people that surrounded him began to back up for a bit as they hesitated.

"Damn it! What is with this guy?! How is he so formidable!"

"I can't even see clearly his stances when he changed from defense to supportive stance and immediately to attacking! It's like they were combined!"

"Idiot! That's called a combo you fool! It's formidable indeed, but we still got the numbers! For the sake of our pride now that we have him surrounded, unless we successfully beat him, we would become a laughing stock for everyone!"

"That's right! If we lost against him while having him surrounded and outnumbered, people would laugh at us! Let's beat him up again!"

AAAHHHHHHHH!

These people then let out warcries once more to steel themselves for another attack at Duan Li.

Noticing this, Duan Li's eyes narrowed together.

"Not good! The attack that would come after this would surely be even fiercer! It would be hard for me to control my strength if they all rushed in together! I have to get out from this encirclement!"

Resolving himself, Duan Li breath in a mouthful of air as he dashed straight to the front, launching fist attacks at the same time.

When the crowd saw this, at first they were startled and didn't expect for the other party to pre-emptively strike at them first!

Even worse, a single punch from Duan Li was already enough to knock a person out cold, even the five people that was counter-attacked by him previously are now lying on the ground twitching, unconscious!

Soon, when Duan Li began to push forward even more with trails of incapacitated people behind him, some people started to realize what he was aiming for.

"Damn it! He is trying to break through from our encirclement! Don't let him get out!"

"People at the back, break up and flank him from the sides! We need to whittle his stamina down!"

"Arghh! Damn it! We can't move! There are also another groups of people fighting at the back!"

"Curses! At this rate, he will escape!"

The people here knew that once Duan Li escaped from their encirclement, their temporary coalition would immediately break down due to their common foe was gone, leaving only themselves to fight against one another!

They were planning to continue to surround him until his stamina were depleted, because in the field right now, there were runic formations being activated that blocked out spiritual Qi to prevent cultivators from recovering their stamina by breathing in spiritual Qi. Otherwise, this battle royale would go on for weeks!

This was also the reason why they were confident in attacking Duan Li. Even if the other party were stronger in cultivation states and breathing technique compared to them, with no spiritual Qi to breath in, the other party would soon tire himself out and be easily defeated by their large numbers!

BOOOOO!!

The people who were watching this scene from the grandstand were boo-ing the crowd of people that surrounded Duan Li right now.

"Shameless! To attack a single person by outnumbering him, the juniors this year are quite brazen!"

"But look, they were the ones that were getting pummeled instead! That Duan Li is quite formidable with his martial arts!"

"Yeah, his stances are so fluid! Perhaps only the seniors could compare to him right now in terms of martial arts prowess!"

"Hurry up Duan Li! Escape from their formation!"

At this moment, most of the viewers attention were focused entirely onto Duan Li and his attempt to break through!

Some of them even began to stood up with their fists clenched tight in agitation and excitement! Even their blood was boiling, and if this were not the first lesson that was specifically for the juniors only, they would had already stepped into the field right now to add more to the mayhem and cause chaos!

For Xiahou Yu that was sitting calmly right now while biting through that crispy fried chicken on her hand, she was confident that Duan Li would be able to get out from being surrounded somehow.

After all, he was someone with a predestined future. Even Wang Guozhi, Ling Yu, Ran Yang and the principal himself were viewing this battle with similar thoughts as well.

However, if there was one thing that were able to shock and amaze them, it was that the martial arts of Duan Li right now was showing a noticeable improvement at a very rapid pace!

"Hmm.. this young man, is he using those crowd of people to temper his martial arts as he went along?" commented Shen Long, the elderly man with the 10 star rank Combat class token as his interest was piqued.

However, the truth was, Duan Li had never once thought about tempering his martial arts this way. Right now, he was earnestly trying to escape from the deranged fellas that was rushing at him non-stop!

Therefore subconsciously, this pressure had enabled his control of martial arts to become both solid and fluid!

Swissshhh!

Swissshhh!

Swissshhh!

A myriad number of punches, kicks, palms, fingers, elbows and knees were being thrown out relentlessly by Duan Li right now. Wherever he dashed through, people would be sent flying here and there.

(Author's note: you can imagine this scene like when Uchiha Madara was first reincarnated and fought single-handedly against the army of the shinobi alliance at the desert :p)

Slowly, Duan Li was already approaching the outer rims of the encirclement.

"Curses! We can't contain him!"

"Damn! We can't push forward anymore! There is another group fighting at the side, if we move into their range, we would be attacked immediately!"

Not long after that, Duan Li had finally managed to escape from their formation as he continued to dash forward into the distance.

"He... escaped..!"

"Unbelievable! We have more than 300 people here!"

"Hey look behind!"

When these people turned around, they shuddered from what they saw. Due to the heat of the moment, they ignored the people that were being defeated by Duan Li one after another in their frantic attempt to stop him from escaping.

Lying on the ground were about a hundred people twitching like dying cicadas. At the sight of this scene, they sucked in another cold breath subconsciously.

Hisss!

To think that they had not realize that the other party had already defeated so many of them. If they continued, would they actually be the one to be wiped out instead?

It did not take long for the crowd to process this, and when they came to a realization, their entire coalition broke down immediately, as they began to fight against one another.

...

Meanwhile, far in the distance, Duan Li sighed in relief.

"Holy-moly! That was a close one indeed! I need to lay low for a while and recover some of my stamina first!" said Duan Li as he hid behind a pile of unconscious people.

Unknowingly, a pair of eyes had already locked onto his figure from the distance.

This pair of eyes belonged to a burly man with long black hairs and red pupils. He was just sitting cross-legged on the field right now surrounded by fallen people.

"Kekeke!"

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