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An angry roar echoed into the ears of the audience as the bad youth wielding two iron maces turned toward Cai Cao while swinging the two deadly weapons in his hand downward. However, all the iron maces managed to hit was the platform below his feet, sending shards of rock to fly everywhere because in the nick of time Cai Cao managed jumped out of the way.
"Too slow!" Cai Cao said as his sword snaked in the air as he slashed at the bald youth's hands, leaving two thin cuts across the youth's wrists before jumping back a few more times to create distance between the two of them. With a clang, the two iron maces fell onto the ground as blood gushed out of the bald youth's wrists.
"How dare you do that to Brother Bei!" The young woman wielding a bow and arrow said as she began to rapidly fire arrows at Cai Cao. Unlike the first four arrows that homed in on their target, the following arrows acted like regular arrows and either missed or stuck themselves onto the platform.
There were a few extremely unlucky people on other platforms who were hit with arrows and knocked into the air by the people they were engaged in combat with before they could even complain.
Finally joining the fray, a staff appeared in Yu Hong's hands as he smashed the arrow that had chased after him and began to battle a young man who was from the other team.
While Zhang's team engaged their opponents in battle, the other teams also fought crazily as the audience watched. A fury of techniques and skills were put on display as people tried to defeat their opponents. Talismans were used one after the other as weapons slashed through the air and techniques were used to both attack and defend.
"Go for their weakest link!" The young woman who was wielding a bow and that was fighting Zhang's team commanded, prompting every one of her teammates to focus their gazes into Zhang.
"Hmph, you think you lot can just ignore me?" Xue Shi roared as a javelin appeared in his left hand and was throw at the bald youth who had his wrists cut by Cai Cao.
Seeing the javelin speeding toward him, cold sweat began flowing down the bald-headed youth's brow as he tried ignored the burning pain in his wrist and tried to get up from the ground.
"Expand!" Xue Shi's voice could be heard as the tip of his javelin split apart and opened up, from a single tip into six of them, turning into a trident-like weapon.
"Shit…" The bald youth mumbled in a low tone as the three of the javelin's six tips pierced through his clothes and into his skin all the while pushing him toward the edge of the platform.
"Off you go!" Cai Cao's voice could be heard as he sped past the bald youth and kicked the javelin after jumping into the air.
Having been already standing on the very edge of the platform, coupled with Cai Cao's kick and the fact that he couldn't use his hands, the bald youth was sent tumbling off the platform and toward the air.
"Wha-what the fuck!?" The bald youth yelled as he caught sight of another one of his teammates, the young man who had been engaged in battle with Yu Hong, also falling beside him.
Looking back up onto the platform, Yu Hong could be seen seated on the floor nibbling on a rice cracker.
"Boy, this is tiring…" Yu Hong complained while a yawning.
In a flash, the four on four duel turned into a three on two battle for supremacy as Yu Hong ceased participating in the battle after two members of the opposing team were knocked off the platform.
Alone, Cai Cao and Xue Shi would have been more than enough to deal with the two remaining members of the opposing team, so with Zhang by their side, the battle soon concluded.
"Team sixty-four moves on to their third match!" A voice announced as the platform underneath Zhang's feet began to move through the air.
Before long another furious battle erupted in the skies as Zhang's team engaged yet another group of opponents. Luckily for them, the opposing team had already lost one of their teammates and only possessed three members in total.
Unlike Zhang's team, the opposing team was covered from head to toe in wounds and were in no shape at all to continue fighting. Thus the battle concluded fairly quickly and without any unexpected turn of events occurring. Xue Shi was able to quickly eliminate one of the enemy competitors while Zhang and Cai Cao took out the remaining two, all the while Yu Hong lazed about.
Keeping up their momentum, Zhang's team continued to gain one victory after the other as they quickly defeated one after the other. Slowly but surely they began to attract the gazes of the onlookers down in the colosseum stands.
"Elder Cai Long, prepare for me a small team of core realm cultivators, after the tournament, there are things that need to be done." The man who had stared at Cai Cao as he disembarked the Cai Clan's airship said to another man sitting beside him.
Despite receiving a heavy blow from Yu Hong and having his breastplate shatter, Fei Chang avoided being knocked out of the run by stabbed his sword into the platform before coughing up a mouthful of blood.