Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 159 — Zhou Yuan Vs Linxia
The next day, the eighth round of the tournament finals begins.
This round is also the last day to cover the event of the tournament and announce who will be champions.
There were eight more participants who still remained in the tournament including Zhou Yuan among them, the young man sitting in a seat reserved for participants, preparing to compete.
"Hm, the audience this time is much more..." Zhou Yuan looked at the spectator bench, the seats provided had been fully filled even though the academy committee had increased the number of seats.
Some of those who did not get seats had to watch standing while the rest had to cram in order to see the tournament arena.
"Are you not nervous about this situation?" Yifei who was sitting beside Zhou Yuan commented, seeing the audience who were far more in number than he expected made the girl's nervous feeling reappear.
"There's nothing to shake, as before you have to focus on your opponent, not the audience..." Zhou Yuan stroked the top of the girl's head slowly.
Zhou Yuan's eyes again combed the surroundings, moments later he realized that there was a certain person in the audience who was wearing a hood to cover his face.
Zhou Yuan had no problem with their looks but the center of attention was that the coat he was wearing was the same outfit as the beast-human race he had hit in Lily City.
'What everyone who wears that coat buys his clothes in the same store, doesn't... Come to think of it too coincidentally someone wears the same outfit at one time...' Zhou Yuan could see not just one person wearing the coat, but dozens and scattered among the audience seats.
Somehow Zhou Yuan felt uneasy about this kind of situation and his premonition worsened.
Zhou Yuan was still thinking about the people who wore those coats when on stage Xiong Bian opened his tournament event.
'I hope this isn't something bad...' Zhou Yuan sighed, preferring to focus his attention towards Xiong Bian who had already made a speech in front of the others.
"Guests, we have finally arrived at the event of the eighth round of the tournament final... Today we can see who will be the champion and get a special gift from us..." Xiong Bian started his show. "Those who have reached the top 8 are the talented swordsmen of the younger generation, no doubt their strength at such a age at least rivals that of a swordsman who has reached the Golden realm..."
Xiong Bian smiled. "To shorten the show we'll just start this tournament game but first I'll remind you again about the rules in the arena."
Xiong Bian for the umpteenth time explained the rules so that those who had just watched this tournament could better understand it. Not to forget he also introduced the four Emperors present and sat on a special seat.
Although Jiang Long was not the real Moon Emperor yet for the time being he represented the leader of the Empire.
"The first match in the eighth round of the final we start with the participant Zhou Yuan against the participant Yue Linxia, the name mentioned please go to the stage..."
Zhou Yuan frowned, not expecting him to be the first to appear plus his opponent was Linxia.
No longer waiting for Zhou Yuan to climb up the arena followed by Linxia afterwards, the focus was immediately on the two.
"Ah, I remember this man named Zhou Yuan, although not famous but he has quite a high ability to be able to defeat Zuo Lang..."
"Right but the girl who became his opponent was also no less talented, let alone his agile and deadly sword skills."
"I think this match must have been won by Linxia."
"Omong empty, of course that young man, did you not see the fire ability he had sprayed in the previous fight?!"
Whispers rang out among the spectators even became a debate, they realized the strength of both sides both have high strength so as not to know who will win.
Xiong Bian stood between Zhou Yuan and Linxia, after seeing the two prepare he then blew his whistle.
"Brother Yuan, I didn't expect to be your opponent." Linxia paid his respects to Zhou Yuan first then pulled out his weapon. "I will use all my abilities against you..."
Zhou Yuan smiled gently then pulled out his father's heirloom sword. "Then I will also use all my abilities!"
For the sake of respecting Linxia, Zhou Yuan would use his swordsmanship seriously.
Linxia took a deep breath, exerting a deep energy in his mouth before making any kind of change.
"Elemental Sound — Smile Night Tone!"
With the element of his voice, Linxia then whistled loudly enough to make the air around him tremble violently.
Zhou Yuan who thought Linxia would use his sword skills was certainly not ready when the girl suddenly attacked him with a sound wave. The smile managed to get into his ears.
Zhou Yuan immediately covered his ears with both hands, hoping that in that way Linxia's whistling was not heard but in reality it was quite the opposite.
Zhou Yuan could feel his entire bones now screaming in pain, he admitted that he had only first faced off against someone who had a sound element like Linxia.
Not only Zhou Yuan, the match referee Xiong Bian, the four emperors and the other spectators were also affected although not as bad as Zhou Yuan.
When he saw his whistling successfully disturb Zhou Yuan, Linxia then changed his previously hard tone to a little soft.
Zhou Yuan noticed the change, the voice with a different tone made his body suddenly become heavier, he had a little trouble moving due to hearing Linxia's melodious whistling roar.
'Xia'er has this ability, I can't believe it...' Zhou Yuan smiled, should he admit he was surprised by the girl's strength.
As Zhou Yuan had trouble moving his body, Linxia took the opportunity to attack, he moved closer to Zhou Yuan and attacked him with his sword technique.
Linxia used his entire ability to fight the young man, his sword movements were extremely agile and unpredictable making everyone who saw him clack in awe.
Zhou Yuan received every attack of the girl with his sword, even if Linxia's whistling managed to interfere with his movements but it wasn't enough to paralyze him. With the effects of Linxia's whistling, at least Zhou Yuan could only use 75% of his strength.
"Wave Wave!"
Zhou Yuan released a sword swing that was quite powerful and fast, Linxia who realized it immediately held him back with his navel but his body remained pushed for several meters.
Linxia's hand felt pain as it resisted the attack, before he reacted further Zhou Yuan had already disappeared from his sight and appeared right behind him.
Linxia had no time to dodge so he used his elemental abilities.
"Elemental Sound — Wave Vibration Tone!"
Linxia plucked both of his fingers which then caused shock waves to the surroundings.
The shockwave was so strong, Zhou Yuan who had wanted to stab Linxia from behind immediately pushed far enough to leave a wide distance between the two.