“How is this possible?”
Everyone was dumbfounded, their faces filled with disbelief, some even rubbing their eyes involuntarily.
However, the undeniable truth was that the one standing was the broad-shouldered, masked youth, while the one sent flying, spitting blood, was Duan Dongfeng.
“Good heavens, this guy actually knocked Duan Dongfeng out with one punch?”
“This, this is too unbelievable!”
The crowd from the Lanlan Empire let out bursts of astonished exclamations. They had held no hope for this fight, yet the outcome was so surprising that they could hardly process it.
“My goodness, is he really that powerful?”
The cloaked youth sitting at Lin Xiao’s table muttered in disbelief, while the cloaked elder and middle-aged man beside him were equally stunned. They couldn’t have imagined that the youth sitting across from them possessed such formidable strength.
“How is it possible? How can you be this strong?”
On the ground below the stage, Duan Dongfeng, who had spat out three mouthfuls of blood, gasped in disbelief, his eyes wide as he stared at Ling Hu, his face full of incredulity.
He was a prodigy of his generation in the Moyu Empire, with only one person in the entire empire capable of defeating him.
Yet this unknown nobody had sent him flying with just one punch?
Although he hadn’t used his full strength in that strike, being knocked out in one blow was something his pride couldn’t accept.
The crowds from both empires wore similarly incredulous expressions, unable to believe that Duan Dongfeng had been sent flying with a single punch under these circumstances.
“Hahaha…”
At that moment, hearty laughter erupted from the Lanlan Empire’s crowd.
“Aren’t your Dongyang Empire and Moyu Empire supposed to be so great? Yet you were sent flying by one punch from our Lanlan Empire’s fighter, hahaha…”
“You boasted about challenging our entire generation in the Lanlan Empire, but you couldn’t even withstand one move, what a joke!”
“Duan Dongfeng, didn’t you call him a savage brute? How did you lose to that savage brute in one move?”
A chorus of mocking laughter and jeers rang out. The Lanlan Empire had been stifled for too long, and now they couldn’t hold back their triumphant cheers and taunts.
The scene was lively, with voices rising and falling.
Now it was the two empires’ turn to look embarrassed.
“Hmph, you’ve only beaten two people. Our two empires still have two more fighters.”
At that moment, a robust youth from the prodigies’ table of the two empires stood up and leapt onto the stage.
“Kid, you got lucky, defeating Duan Dongfeng when he wasn’t using his full strength. If I’m not mistaken, the power you just displayed was at the eighth level of Tianwu, right?” the robust youth said to Ling Hu.
“If you think so, then so be it,” Ling Hu replied dismissively. He had deliberately suppressed his cultivation to unleash that level of power, otherwise, with one punch, Duan Dongfeng wouldn’t just have been sent flying, his body might not even remain.
Even when suppressing his cultivation to the same realm as Duan Dongfeng, he still hadn’t used the full strength of that realm.
With Duan Dongfeng’s level of skill, Ling Hu could have suppressed his cultivation even further and still sent him flying, but matching his opponent’s realm was intentional.
“Looks like landing that hit made you quite smug!” the robust youth said coldly. “But forget about what Duan Dongfeng could do at full strength, when I go all out, you’ll lose.”
“Is that so?” Ling Hu looked at the robust youth as if he were an idiot.
“Absolutely, because my name is Dong Yanggang!” The robust youth announced his name, his aura surging as his cultivation reached the ninth level of Tianwu.
“What’s so great about Dong Yanggang? Knock him out with one move!”
“Yeah, send him flying, let’s see if they dare to be arrogant again!”
“Blast him away!”
The Lanlan Empire crowd roared with enthusiasm. Although Dong Yanggang had a point, that Duan Dongfeng hadn’t used his full strength in that strike, it no longer mattered. If this masked youth could send Duan Dongfeng flying, he had the strength to defeat his opponent.
Now, they were no longer as dejected as before, but instead shouted with hope and defiance. Even the meekest have their limits, and who doesn’t have a bit of fire in them, especially a group of hot-blooded young men?
“I don’t care what your name is, or whether you go all out or not!” Unexpectedly, Ling Hu murmured, taking a large step forward and charging at Dong Yanggang. With the same unassuming punch as before, devoid of any grandeur, he swung at Dong Yanggang.
“He doesn’t even know who Dong Yanggang is, what an idiot!” a youth at the prodigies’ table of the two empires sneered.
“He’s the strongest genius of this generation’s royal family, yet he dares to use that move, he’s practically begging to die.”
“Dongyang’s Dongyang Palm is immensely powerful. In close combat, even I’d be wary of it. He’s rushing in himself, the outcome of this fight is obvious,” said another youth dressed in the Moyu Empire’s royal palace attire.
“Dongyang will definitely use the Dongyang Palm, because he wants to feel the thrill of sending this hyped-up opponent flying with one move. But I wonder if that kid will even survive the Dongyang Palm.”
Another smirked.
“Dongyang Palm!” Sure enough, on the stage, Dong Yanggang stood firm, shouting as he thrust a palm forward.
An aura of supreme yang and rigidity emanated from Dong Yanggang’s palm, which seemed to transform into a golden hand, carrying the force of pushing a mountain as it struck Ling Hu’s fist.
Boom!
A tremendous explosion rang out, a fierce shockwave bursting forth. A figure shot backward from the stage like a bolt of lightning, a trail of blood spraying through the air.
In that instant, everyone was stunned, the scene falling silent.
Because the one sent flying was none other than Dong Yanggang, while the masked youth stood motionless on the stage.
“Good heavens, he knocked out another opponent with one move?”
“He really proved his words, whether they go all out or not, it’s all the same, one move!”
“Who the heck is this guy?”
The Lanlan Empire crowd erupted in shocked exclamations, while the cloaked youth who had been sitting with Ling Hu was utterly dazed, too astonished to speak.
The kid sitting at his table was this overwhelmingly powerful?
“How is this possible?” The two empires’ side, from elders to prodigious youths, all wore expressions of disbelief, especially those from the Dongyang Empire, their faces full of incredulity.
Dong Yanggang was the royal family’s most nurtured talent, the top genius among youths under twenty, yet this unknown from the Lanlan Empire, only nineteen years old, had sent him flying with one move?
And this, even when Dong Yanggang had unleashed the Dongyang Palm?
It was something they couldn’t accept.
