Before the martial trial began, many people believed they would witness an exciting battle. Ye Chui would fight arduously, delivering a dazzling and brilliant performance. Of course, in the end, he would definitely lose to the snake-haired Yuren. Instant kill? That was impossible. Ye Chui had gained some fame by now and possessed a certain level of skill. He could at least hold out for a while…
Most people watched the battle with this sentiment.
However, contrary to their expectations, just as their moods began to surge with excitement alongside the snake-haired Yuren’s roar, they were instantly doused with a basin of icy cold water. It took only a few seconds from start to finish. The snake-haired Yuren opened his petrification demon eye. Ye Chui transformed into bats, some entangling the snake-haired Yuren while others flew into the air to condense an entity. Then he summoned a strange bald heroic spirit, followed by a single punch KO.
Now, that pitch-black crater in the centre of the field seemed not merely punched into the hard dragon’s lair mountain but more like a fierce strike to their hearts, causing them all to feel an instant shock. Many had not even reacted to what had happened. “Ah, is it over just like this?” This was the only thought in many people’s minds now.
On the stone platform against the mountain wall, those imperial nobles were all dumbfounded, their bodies rigid.
Some among them were very familiar with Ye Chui, even quite knowledgeable about him, yet they were still stunned into a daze, utterly bewildered.
“This…” The old emperor’s fat face contorted comically as he looked towards Prince Geller.
Prince Geller wore a similar expression and said: “That bald heroic spirit… Ye Chui has summoned it before. When he left Windrock City, some guilds went to intercept him. It is said they were completely resolved by this heroic spirit with one punch… Also, when they first arrived in Windrock City, he summoned this heroic spirit once. Without even throwing a punch, just relying on the fist wind, he destroyed a guild’s residence, leaving several swordsmen and magus guides severely injured on the ground. And in Stan Town, it is said that the fallen nun summoned an apostle, which was also punched back by this bald heroic spirit!”
Prince Geller had conducted a thorough investigation into Ye Chui. However, an investigation was still just an investigation, not a firsthand witness. He was very curious about Ye Chui’s bald heroic spirit, but this was the first time he had seen its power with his own eyes.
“It seems… this heroic spirit only needs one punch to resolve any opponent.” Prince Geller finally exclaimed in astonishment.
“Impossible… Why has such a powerful heroic spirit never been heard of before? This, this should at least be a legendary-level heroic spirit.” The finance minister shouted in shock from the side. This was a short-statured man with a moustache, possessing a pair of cunning and greedy eyes.
“Any impossible thing is possible when it happens to Ye Chui!”
Prince Geller said coldly to the finance minister. Among the Privy Council, the one he disliked the most was this finance minister. However, after saying these words, Prince Geller thought of something, and the corners of his mouth revealed a delighted smile. He said to the finance minister: “This time, you are probably going to go bankrupt.”
The finance minister’s expression immediately changed in alarm.
Among those running the betting in the imperial capital, the most famous was a man named Hess. In the bet between Ye Chui and Yuren, Anduin had placed two hundred thousand on Hess, and the Rahn family fifteen thousand. These were the largest bets in this gambling event. Although Hess was extremely famous among the gamblers, his identity was particularly mysterious. No one knew who he truly was, and only a very few knew that Hess was actually the empire’s finance minister!
This greedy fellow!
Prince Geller had long wanted to deal with the finance minister, but the other controlled the nation’s economic lifeline and could not be easily touched. This was something Prince Geller had always held against. And this time, the wealth he had amassed over the years was probably going to be completely wiped out, right?
“Charles III, you truly raised a fine son.” The girl Posri, sitting to the side of the old emperor, suddenly smiled and said to the old emperor. When the old emperor and Prince Geller looked at her, her big eyes blinked, and she smiled: “But what a shame. Yuren has not died yet.”
When Yuren was KO’d by the punch earlier, she had also shown an expression of immense surprise. But after the Black Phase Servant whispered something to her, she regained her smile.
“What!?” Prince Geller, the old emperor, the finance minister, and the other people on the stone platform who heard their conversation all exclaimed in shock. Then they hurriedly looked towards the field.
Only at this point did they notice the anomaly. After severely injuring the snake-haired Yuren, Ye Chui did not show any relaxed expression but instead stood in place with furrowed brows, looking down at his magic guide book.
“What did you do?” Prince Geller asked Posri coldly. He knew that Green had bumped into Posri and the Black Phase Servant. They had gone to the Beastmaster family.
The Black Phase Servant standing beside Posri seemed dissatisfied with Prince Geller’s attitude and immediately moved half a step towards Prince Geller.
“Black Grandpa, do not be tense.” Posri said to the Black Phase Servant before continuing: “I did nothing. I merely helped the snake-haired Yuren fully activate his demon eye. Now the snake-haired Yuren has completely obtained Medusa’s magic power. This cost me a full three drops of giant dragon essence blood!”
Although Yuren’s petrification demon eye was very powerful, Yuren had not fully unleashed the eye’s might. His direct gaze petrification could at most stiffen a person’s actions and could not completely turn the other into stone. The legendary Medusa could turn all living things and attacks into stone merely by looking with her eyes.
Now, Posri had actually helped the snake-haired Yuren unlock the petrification demon eye’s most powerful force?
Almost right as Posri finished speaking, a terrifying hissing roar suddenly echoed across the dragon’s lair.
That sound shot straight into the sky, as if scattering the few clouds in the heavens. The sound came precisely from the large pit in front of Ye Chui.
It was Yuren’s voice!
Countless people at the scene heard this hissing roar, and their expressions all shook. The snake-haired Yuren was not dead!
Those who had placed heavy bets on the snake-haired Yuren all revealed ecstatic expressions. Hmph, being instantly killed by Ye Chui’s punch or whatever was indeed impossible. The eldest prince, fourth prince, sixth prince, tenth prince, Shi Yi, Loras (the Rahn family’s eldest son, who had nearly been NRT’d by Ye Chui from the Flower Prince…) all showed faces of great delight. The previous attack had been so powerful that it must have consumed a great deal of Ye Chui’s strength, yet it had failed to kill the snake-haired Yuren.
Hearing this furious roar, the snake-haired Yuren had clearly not exerted all his power just now. The situation had dramatically reversed!
The finance minister swept away his previous dejection, feeling as if he was soaring from the abyss of bankruptcy: “This Ye Chui is decent, but he is just flashy on the surface. He makes a big commotion but has no real power. In the end, he will still lose to the snake-haired Yuren’s demon eye!”
“What a shame. I originally wanted to spare Ye Chui’s life, to deal with him myself later.” Posri also sighed as if speaking cool words.
The internal affairs minister himself from the Beastmaster family, a somewhat short and fat middle-aged man with a bald head, also breathed a sigh of relief. Disregarding decorum, he venomously said: “Hmph, if you have the skill, use another punch to take down Yuren!”
The old emperor’s and Prince Geller’s faces became extremely unpleasant.
Accompanying the snake-haired Yuren’s loud roar, a terrifying blood-red figure crawled out from that large pit previously punched out. It was the snake-haired Yuren, but now his appearance was already vastly different from before.
The most distinctive change was his head. He had originally been bald, but now, with the full activation of the petrification demon eye, strands of terrifying snake-like hair grew from his head. Those snake heads kept raising up, flicking their forked tongues. He was now truly snake-haired.
His skin had turned red, his clothes long shredded. His body had swollen by at least a full circle, revealing bulging muscles that no longer resembled a human form. Even on his arms, several bone spikes protruded. His mouth was full of fangs, and his hands’ nails extended, sharp as blades.
If previously he had merely given the impression of a humanoid ferocious beast, now he was a humanoid ferocious beast!
He had fully activated the demon eye’s power, and the demon eye’s power had also influenced his body’s bloodline, making him increasingly resemble the Medusa magic beast. Such an existence was called: human-demon. Although countless people at the scene all hoped the snake-haired Yuren could defeat Ye Chui, seeing Yuren’s terrifying appearance now, they were all frightened to the point of nearly falling to the ground.
Human-demons, these humans fused with magic beast bloodlines, had never been popular existences in history. The human-demon Magic Mountain of the past had left a terrifying memory for humanity. Some people even subconsciously cried out in alarm, letting out waa waa yells.
“Roar—” Upon hearing those sounds, Yuren immediately swept his gaze over in fury.
The person who had yelled earlier made eye contact with the eerie large eye on his forehead. That person’s body suddenly stiffened, then visibly turned into a grey stone statue. He had originally been retreating in panic. After his body turned to stone, it was leaning backwards. It paused for a moment before crashing to the ground with a crack, and that stone statue instantly shattered into rubble. From inside out, it had completely transformed into stone!
This was the petrification demon eye’s strongest might!
After displaying his demon eye’s power, the snake-haired Yuren’s eyes immediately turned towards Ye Chui.
“Be careful!” Debbie and the others hurriedly shouted.
Ye Chui’s reaction was also alert. He instantly dodged behind… the still-unsummoned Saitama Teacher.
“Huh?” Saitama Teacher was curiously looking at the snake-haired Yuren when he was directly looked at by Yuren. His body subsequently turned into a stone statue!
Seeing the terrifying heroic spirit summoned by Ye Chui instantly struck and turned to stone, many people around felt invigorated.
Ye Chui’s terrifying heroic spirit had been eliminated. Ye Chui was doomed.
The snake-haired Yuren strode forward, approaching the petrified One Punch heroic spirit. He raised his terrifying claw, preparing to crush this detestable and strange heroic spirit into powder.
However…
“Unlock Saitama Teacher’s power!”
Ye Chui quickly operated on the magic guide book.
He had already learned the unlocking method for Saitama Teacher from Epyd. The current One Punch heroic spirit could only be summoned on Saturdays, and each summon allowed only one punch, with each punch at only one-fifteenth of a serious punch’s power.
The ways to unlock the One Punch heroic spirit were divided into three types.
The first was unlocking the date. For five thousand points, the One Punch heroic spirit could be summoned on any day besides Saturday, unlockable a total of six times.
The second was punch count. Each summon of the One Punch heroic spirit allowed only one punch. For five thousand points per unlock, one additional punch could be gained per unlock, up to fifty times total. After fifty unlocks, there would be no limit on punch count. Of course, the One Punch heroic spirit’s punches consumed points. If points were sufficient, after fifty unlocks, Saitama Teacher could throw as many punches as needed.
The third was punch power. Currently, Saitama Teacher could only throw one-fifteenth serious power. Each unlock greatly enhanced Saitama Teacher’s punch power, with each costing five thousand points, unlockable a total of five times.
In other words, a total of sixty-one more unlocks were needed, costing three hundred and five thousand points, to obtain the fully unlocked Saitama Teacher.
So many points, Ye Chui could not fully unlock in the short term. But now he had over thirteen thousand points, enough for two unlocks.
Ye Chui instantly completed the unlock.
Spending five thousand points to unlock one additional punch count. Saitama Teacher had already thrown one punch earlier and originally could not throw another, but now he could throw one more.
Then spending another five thousand points to unlock Saitama Teacher’s power!
The snake-haired Yuren had already arrived in front of Saitama Teacher. His terrifying claw was about to land on the One Punch heroic spirit. At this moment, the snake-haired Yuren was no longer even paying attention to the One Punch heroic spirit. He focused on Ye Chui hiding behind the One Punch heroic spirit. In a somewhat garbled human voice, he mocked: “You only dare… to hide behind your own heroic spirit… Do you dare come out… and fight me!”
But at that moment, crack, crack, sounds of cracking rang out.
Cracks appeared all over the petrified Saitama Teacher’s body.
The petrification was crumbling!
A layer of stone shell slowly fell off. The first to peel away was the head, revealing a shiny bald scalp…
The snake-haired Yuren was greatly alarmed and hurriedly jumped backwards.
That layer of stone shell completely shattered, revealing Saitama Teacher inside. The previous petrification had only affected a layer of outer shell on Saitama… and, well, his clothes.
Now Saitama Teacher was nearly naked, wearing only a pair of floral underpants around his waist.
Countless people around: “…”
“Huh?” Saitama Teacher looked down at himself. His body suddenly stiffened, and a voice suppressing endless fury rang out: “You actually destroyed my hero suit…”
When he raised his head, his originally listless expression had turned into one of immense anger. A faintly visible powerful aura erupted from his body. Ye Chui, who was close by, was nearly blown over and hurriedly dodged backwards. At the same time, he suddenly heard a familiar and uplifting music. Not just him, almost everyone on the dragon’s lair heard that music.
“This is…” Ye Chui was somewhat puzzled. When he heard that shout of “I fuck (one punch)” in the music’s crescendo, he finally confirmed it completely: “This is the One Punch heroic spirit’s theme song!”
He hurriedly looked at the iPad magic guide book.
Reminder: Heroic spirit rage IMAX, automatically unlocking exclusive BGM: The Hero !!~Ignite the Fire in Your Angry Fist~.
Then, amid that music, before the snake-haired Yuren could react, amid the countless shocked and stunned expressions around, the One Punch heroic spirit vanished. In the next moment, he appeared in front of the snake-haired Yuren.
One punch thrown!
The snake-haired Yuren let out a roar, fully urging the petrification demon eye. But this fully activated petrification demon eye facing Saitama’s fist actually exceeded the petrification’s limits entirely. Cracks instantly shattered across that huge eyeball, and before Saitama’s fist could land on him, it completely crumbled.
Fear, this emotion that rarely appeared, instantly enveloped the snake-haired Yuren.
He wanted to flee, but with the fist wind present, he had no path of escape.
The fist finally landed on his body.
Then his body began to crumble.
Crumble further.
Consciousness extinguished.
Flesh turned to ashes.
Instant kill.
At the foot of the dragon’s lair mountain, countless citizens of the imperial capital had gathered. They cared about this martial trial but lacked the qualification to go up the mountain to watch. They were anxiously awaiting the results of the martial trial to be transmitted back. And at that moment, someone noticed something and pointed towards the mountain in surprise. Thus, more and more people looked there.
Then, in their shocked gazes, the honeycomb-like upper half of the dragon’s lair mountain, riddled with caves, suddenly crumbled…
