Legend of the Heavenly Swordsman
Ch.25 - Duel

After finishing making the strength measurement, Fu Chen immediately returned to the line of participants. Many strange gazes were given by the participants there to him, as well as the spectators and disciples of the Sacred Sword sect present.

Even Sin Lou was also astonished by this, he did not expect Fu Chen's punch to be consistent at number 5. However, among everyone only Qiao Wu was still smiling gently.

"You're amazing." Qiao Wu praised Fu Chen for his success.

"really? I think your performance was more stunning.. uh, I mean. You're also amazing." Fu Chen stroked his nape while smiling awkwardly, he had to learn a lot to deal with this kind of situation.

"Hei Chen'er, how can your punch be like that? Did you do it on purpose?" Sin Lou asked astonishedly at Fu Chen, he had indeed never competed with his future sister-in-law.

"I was just trying to control my strength, and it turned out that it worked.." Fu Chen looked at his palm, he was satisfied with his current achievement. "And again, who would allow you to call me that?" Fu Chen said coldly, how dare this young man call him affectionately.

"Come on, do you still not want to admit that I'm going to be your sister's candidate? Hahaha.." Sin Lou tried to tease Fu Chen.

"No way!" Fu Chen said firmly while pointing at Sin Lou, his so sharp gaze made Sin Lou slightly stunned.

"Ahah..all right, forget it." Sin Lou felt that Fu Chen was in a bad mood because the results he had obtained were not satisfactory.

The participants were then invited to return to the audience bench, because the announcement of the participants who were selected as sect disciples required a fairly long process. It took a lot of consideration that the Elders had to think about to determine who was worthy of being a disciple of their sect.

"Good work Chen'er." Tang Shu said as he patted Fu Chen's palm.

"Of course." Fu Chen smiled broadly at his father.

"Did you do that on purpose, Chen'er?" Sin Zhou asked Fu Chen, he was amazed by the control of this boy's strength.

"Yes, I just tried it on the first blow and after understanding the way, I just need to continue on at the next blow." Fu Chen replied with a gentle smile.

Sin Lou choked on his own saliva upon hearing that, Fu Chen said it as if it was a very easy thing to do. Even Sin Lou himself only thought of how to hit harder.

After a long time of waiting, Xiao Jung finally announced the results of the discussion the Elder gave. Xiao Jung then requested that the audience pay attention to his words.

"The results we have announced are absolute, as these have already been considered by the Elders present. And that consideration comes from the tests that the participants did. For the unelected participants, we hope that you do not despair of practicing, there might be another sect that will recruit you."

"The names I mentioned were those who were chosen to become sect disciples. First place, by Kyoto! Second rank Ji Jie, third rank Qiao Wu, fourth rank Sin Lou, fifth rank…"

Sin Lou's body seemed to be struck by lightning when he heard his name was in fourth position, didn't no other participant pass the record? thought Sin Lou. Not only was he shocked but so was Sin Zhou.

Tang Shu chuckled as she looked at the reaction of the father and son couple. "You why? Hasn't it been said by the warrior. Their decision was taken from all three tests, so Lou'er may have scored poorly on the other two tests."

Sin Zhou sighed softly hearing Tang Shu's remark, "I should also teach him how to read." he said regretfully.

"How is your own son?" ask Sin Zhou again.

"We'll just listen to what the swordsman says." Tang Shu was actually worried as well, what Fu Chen displayed earlier was indeed impressive but the points were still too low.

"Because there are two participants who have the same final score in the tenth rank, then we decided to provide a duel opportunity for both participants. Participants Fu Chen and Yong Gang, please enter the arena!"

The real reason for the duel was of course not to choose the tenth rank. Rather they wanted to test the power of the owner of the black dantian, and prove that the power test had not been a coincidence.

Fu Chen had now faced off against Yong Gang in the middle of the arena. One of the disciples of the Sacred Sword sect was also there as the referee.

"The rules of this duel are simple, you are simply not allowed to cripple your opponent and use weapons. The fight will be declared over if one of you gives up or goes out of the arena, do you understand?!" The sect disciple who was the referee explained.

"understand!" Fu Chen and Yong Gang replied in unison.

After the referee shouted the word start, none of the two attacked first. Fu Chen seemed to only want to give the needed attack to the boy in front of him.

"Are you scared, boy?" instead of immediately attacking, Yong Gang just casually walked towards Fu Chen as he saw his opponent just staying in place.

"A cripple like you is no match for being a disciple of the Holy Sword Sect! give up, then I won't hurt you!" Yong Gang laughed after saying so.

Fu Chen smiled sinisterly hearing that, this was his first fight with someone. Tang Shu also told her not to underestimate the opponent under any circumstances. But that was not what Fu Chen had in mind, he stared incisively at the arrogance of the young man who was his opponent.

"Are you too scared to not talk? then I will help you leave the arena!" Yong Gang ran towards Fu Chen after saying so.

Yong Gang was the son of the gatekeeper of the Village, he was very confident in the martial arts that his father taught him. But that was nothing to Fu Chen, with his experience fighting in the forest, Fu Chen only dodged as necessary from the attack. Fu Chen had intended to exhaust Yong Gang's power first before defeating him.

Yong Gang clucked in annoyance as Fu Chen was able to dodge all of his punches. "Heh, you useless loser, can you just dodge?!"

Fu Chen smiled faintly in response to Yong Gang's ridicule. "It looks like you want to end this quickly, why not enjoy it a little?"

"Currently, I'm not going to serve a fight with a handicapped boy like you!" Yong Gang actually refused to believe his condition now, he was not even able to touch Fu Chen's clothes at all.

"Alright then, I will grant your wish!" Fu Chen brushed off Yong Gang's punch then slapped his punch right in the young man's face.

Yong Gang was pushed back by a meter due to the attack, blood started coming out from his nose as he tried to stand up.

"Hitting humans and rocks turns out to be a little different." Fu Chen smiled awkwardly in his heart, even though he had already tried to hold back but his punch felt still too hard.

Yong Gang stood up in distress, his head feeling dizzy after receiving the attack. He then wiped the blood coming out of his nose.

"Are you okay?" fu Chen asked because he felt guilty about hitting him too hard.

"Are you trying to play me? You little boy, you're gonna pay!" Yong Gang came back running, he did not care about his head that felt dizzy, shame and anger were already haunting his mind.

Fu Chen sighed looking at him, he also darted towards Yong Gang. Yong Gang immediately swung his punch when the position of the two was close. However Fu Chen could guess the purpose of Yong Gang, he parried the punch and kicked Yong Gang's leg to make the young man fall.

Not getting there, Fu Chen quickly locked onto Yong Gang's body so as not to fight anymore. "You realize who's the kid now?" jeered Fu Chen while having successfully locked onto Yong Gang.

Out of nowhere they talked to each other about children, even though they were both children.

Yong Gang groaned in pain as his hand in the back bend was too strong, he really could not move his body anymore at this moment. "Basic loser! If you dare then fight ak-Aargh!!"

Fu Chen strengthened his lockdown, he was lazy to serve the unconscious child with the situation. "If there's no rule, maybe your hand is broken right now!" Fu Chen said coldly to commemorate Yong Gang.

"So give up before that happens!"

Cold sweat poured out profusely as Yong Gang heard Fu Chen's words which seemed to be able to kill him at any time. "B-okay .. I give up! I surrender!"" he said hastily and loudly, so that the supervising referee can help him break away.

Fu Chen smiled faintly then released his lock, Yong Gang was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief as Fu Chen released himself. The referee then announced Fu Chen as the winner and became the tenth ranked disciple received in the Holy Sword sect.

The elder who noticed everything from the start nodded in satisfaction, he could see if Fu Chen was still holding back.

After the duel was over, Xiao Jung again continued his speech for the departure of the selected participants towards the Sacred Sword sect.

Xiao Jung gave the participants one week to prepare for their needs and spend the last time with the closest people. He certainly realized leaving the family was a difficult thing for eight to ten year olds like the participants.