In Songcheng TV station, Fang Juexiao the host shook her head and smiled.
"They finished this round much sooner than I have expected. Old Gan, could you please make a quick analysis of it?"
Gan Le answered with a smile, "I have nothing special to say. On the one hand, under a perfect condition, Zhou Zhengquan's able to fight face-to-face against an Eighth-Pin master with his Triple Bursts of Dan Stage. On the other hand, Lin Que had just defeated a Professional-Ninth-Pin mighty one, which cost him much stamina and energy. So the situation today is on the contrary to last week's fight, when Zhou Zhengquan, who had just defeated Lou Cheng, met Lin Que in his best state. Thus the game result is no surprise, and I just wonder why Zhou Zhengquan used full strength at the beginning instead of hiding it as he used to, which seemed as if he had never expected to enter the next round."
"Lin Que should be proud of himself, for Zhou Zhengquan regarded him as a well-matched opponent at the same stage. Anyway, he forced Zhou Zhengquan to use Triple Bursts of Dan Stage, wasn't it? So Lou Cheng won't worry about it in the following round."
Hearing the director's cue, Fang Juexiao interrupted Gan Le in time,
"Okay. Cheng gets on the arena. The second round is about to start. We shall wait and see!"
Yan Xiaoling, who was chatting in the forum while watching the sportscast, suddenly straightened herself, adjusted her sitting posture and fixed her eyes on the screen attentively.
"Lou Cheng! Lou Cheng!"
Cheering sounds echoing around the whole martial arts gymnasium, Lin Que stepped down the arena. He was a little shaky for the hand-to-hand fierce battle had burned his blood and Qi, which could not calm down for the moment.
Seeing the oncoming Lou Cheng, Lin Que slightly lowered his head and exhaled.
"A near miss… "
That's not good enough!
Though Zhou Zhengquan was forced to use the Triple Bursts of Dan Stage, I should have done better!
"That's enough!" Lou Cheng interrupted him and stretched his right hand.
Lin Que hesitated for a moment and then gave his response. Instead of merely giving Lou Cheng high-five, Lin Que pressed his hand.
Meanwhile, he said in a low voice,
"Come on!"
Lou Cheng nodded, adjusted his condition and then strode up to the stone steps.
It was time for him to find and even create an opportunity to give Zhou Zhengquan a Severe Warning!
As a killer move that could only be used once in the match, Severe Warning required Lou Cheng to make extra certain while applying it, before which he could at most use Frost Force once or Tremor Punch three or four times.
At this moment, Zhou Zhengquan was adjusting his breath to refresh himself calmly. His abdomen swollen and constricted, letting out a humming sound through his throat.
Seeing Lou Cheng step onto the arena and then place himself, the referee immediately raised up his right hand and swung it down with great force.
"Begin!"
Through his last match and daily practice with Lin Que, Lou Cheng knew it for sure that though with the help of visualization method he could make some realistic-looking feints, it was still easy for him to be seen through by a real Absolute Reaction. Daring not to take the risk to visualize, he straightened his knees, moved his waist and then directly marched over to Zhou Zhengquan.
Instead of pouncing at his opponent directly, this time Lou Cheng gathered strength through adjusting corresponding body parts and bulging or tightening different muscles with his steps, preparing for a good Severe Warning!
If Zhou Zhengquan found Lou Cheng's posture fit his fighting style well and could not help launching a face-to-face attack with an outbreak of strength, he would be exactly caught in Lou Cheng's trap. To say the least, even though Zhou Zhengquan was smart enough to see through Lou Cheng's trick, it wouldn't cost Lou Cheng much energy since he had just made somebody movements instead of stepping into the stage of visualization!
It was Lou Cheng's first try in this round, for he was baring the iron teeth behind his seemingly straight and narrow attack!
Clump! Clump! Clump! As Lou Cheng's tread turned behavior, the stone bricks under his foot began to crack. With the overwhelming presence, his body even seemed to be taller than before, which enabled him to "look down at" Zhou Zhengquan.
While Lou Cheng was twisting his waist and back and stretching out the right arm, Zhou Zhengquan, who had been waiting aside suddenly began to move. Swing his center of gravity, he slid and flashed to Lou Cheng's side, shook his right shoulder to throw the arm at his opponent as if he was paddling!
Snapped!
Knowing Zhou Zhengquan had seen through his trap, Lou Cheng gave up using Severe Warning forcibly so as not to make a vain effort.
Quickly adjusting the whole body, Lou Cheng tightened his waist and legs to throw a side kick at Zhou Zhengquan, which was fast, accurate and ruthless.
Zhou Zhengquan lowered his shoulder to withdraw his force, and then again swung the center of gravity to change his position swiftly like a ghost, after which he appeared at Lou Cheng's right side.
Gathering strength with his waist and back, he tightened one arm to form an air-piercing iron whip and threw it at Lou Cheng's head!
Sure enough it was a guerrilla hit under mercurial balance. Hadn't him given up using Severe Warning blindly, he would had suffered a great loss.… As the thought crossing Lou Cheng's mind, he suddenly lowered his weight into a steady stance while swinging his fist upwards to block Zhou Zhengquan's attack.
Bang!
In a dull thud, Lou Cheng's right arm swung back with the strength he had borrowed. When he was about to make a whip kick at Zhou Zhengquan with the 24 Blizzard Strikes, his opponent suddenly swung the center of gravity and again changed his direction, which forced Lou Cheng's "wuthering wind" to come to an irreversible pause and was unable to get more and more fierce and destructive.
Flashing to Lou Cheng's back, Zhou Zhengquan tightened his abdominal muscles and the surrounding tendons, and then punched at Lou Cheng's backbone as swift as lightning.
Continuation, one kind of Fly Fall Punch, which was famous for gathering strength swiftly and its perfect connection with other movements.
Swinging his waist and back to dodge the attack, Lou Cheng threw out his punches at the same time, which exploding the air with a sharp snap.
After the collision of fist and elbow, Zhou Zhengquan bulged his back muscle and stretched right hand to make a blow, leaving Lou Cheng no chance to take actions.
Crash! Crash! Crash! Bang! Bang! Bang! They kept colliding into each other within the small area, while Lou Cheng had to use intermittent 24 Blizzard Strikes to block his opponent's continuous fierce blows.
Though he had learned from their last fight and wouldn't soon be in great peril, he was unable to use Frost Force or Tremor Punch under such condition, not to mention Severe Warning.
Having totally devoted himself into the fight, Lou Cheng raised one arm to block Zhou Zhengquan's Burst Fist. Then he took the opportunity to twist his waist and back, opened all his muscles and joints, and then threw a fierce Swing Force at his opponent.
Just as what he did in their last match, Lou Cheng wanted to gain himself a second to tighten and compress his muscles for a Tremor Punch. Once Zhou Zhengquan's body was shocked, he would be forced to calm it down with humming sound or Force Concentration, then came Lou Cheng's opportunity to use Severe Warning!
However, this time Zhou Zhengquan didn't force himself to swing back. Instead, he flew to the side in his original direction, leaving Lou Cheng no target to throw his Tremor Punch at.
Arching and stretching his foot, Lou Cheng broke the stone bricks with an outbreak of strength while pouncing at Zhou Zhengyun like an eagle was chasing his prey. Meanwhile, he kept adjusting his muscles in preparation for successful Severe Warning.
Crash! Crash! Crash! Just like a fierce barbarian, Lou Cheng broke the stone brick one by one with every step towards Zhou Zhengquan. While the later kept moving back smoothly and swiftly as if having eyes behind his back, during which he would occasionally change direction with mercurial balance like a butterfly dancing on the arena.
Chasing and moving back in this way, they had almost gone around the whole arena with an unchanged distance between them.
By this time, Lou Cheng was unable to keep adjusting his body in correspond with the Severe Warning and thus had to abandon all the preparation actions, which suddenly weakened his strength.
Sensing Lou Cheng's weakness, Zhou Zhengquan immediately stopped to gather all his energy into the muscles and tendons.
Crack! With the groan of another broken brick, Zhou Zhengyun visualized rising water and waterfall roaring down onto the ground. Taking advantage of his opponent's temporary weakness, he stretched arms to throw the fist out like lightning, giving Lou Cheng a powerful blow with explosive strength.
The Fly Fall Punch, "Waterfall"!
Continuation, one kind of Fly Fall Punch, which was famous for gathering strength swiftly and its perfect connection with other movements.
Bang!
The thundercloud exploded in Lou Cheng's mind when his palms froze in the air. There were circles of invisible waves rippling outward in fast speed, while the two on the arena both felt their muscles and tendons trembling, Five Viscera and Six Bowels burning shaking and all their Qi and blood burning, which prevented them from gathering and releasing force temporarily.
Moving his abdominal muscle and thus activating the Five Viscera and Six Bowels, Lou Cheng's body rumbled as if echoing the humming sound in Zhou Zhengquan's throat.
They both made a reverse shock with inner-body refining method to counterbalance most of the effects and restore their energy!
Swinging his center of gravity, Zhou Zhengquan again used the Continuation of Fly Fall Punch. As long as Lou Cheng had borrowed strength two or three times, he would immediately change attacking rhythms as an experienced fighter to interrupt Lou Cheng's follow-up movements.
The nose can't always lead me… After a while, Lou Cheng was caught by a thought and decided to create an opportunity for his Severe Warning.
When Zhou Zhengquan again moved around him with mercurial balance, Lou Cheng suddenly gathered strength with his waist and back to pounce forward widely, as if he wanted to keep out of the attacking range of Fly Fall Punch Continuation.
Clump clump clump! Listening carefully to the footsteps chasing him, Lou Cheng began adjusting his corresponding muscles and tendons in preparation for a back thrust as soon as Zhou Zhengyun approached him!
Crack! Stepping heavily onto the ground and breaking the black stones, Lou Cheng bounced back while visualizing a fallen sun with ice and thunder in his mind, preparation for pouncing at his opponent and giving him a fatal blow.
However, Lou Cheng froze as soon as he turned around, for Zhou Zhengquan was keeping a perfect distance from him, leaving him no chance to use combinational movements of pounce and attack, or Zhou Zhengquan would have enough time to dodge his attack.
Noticing Lou Cheng's blank expression, Zhou Zhengquan smiled and crooked his finger like a naughty cat that was chasing a mouse.
His bald provocation and contempt provoked all the audience's indignation. Yan Xiaoling almost exploded with anger while watching the live TV broadcast.
It's hateful of him to behave like that!
Lou Cheng was restrained, despite the anger that welled up inside him, for he had taken warning from Hou Yue's example. For a split second, he found something crucial.
Zhou Zhengquan was trying to annoy and provoke him deliberately!
Why should he do this?
Is he trying to sting me to make an active attack?
The thought flashed across Lou Cheng's mind and suddenly woke him up. "Why must I create an opportunity for Severe Warning by every means?" He thought, "I'll certainly get the chance as long as I wait patiently!"
While in Zhou Zhengquan's eyes, I have inexhaustible superhuman stamina, Zhou Zhengquan himself has just defeated Lin Que with Triple Bursts of Dan Stage, which greatly weakened him. If he still keeps using Continuation to suppress me, his stamina will soon drain away even before I'm forced to show flaws. By that time he will be unable to make another outbreak of strength.
So he just used Continuation to sting me to create an opportunity for active attack. When I've failed several times with my fighting will paralyzed, he will take the opportunity to make an outbreak of strength and seize victory!
Lou Cheng was still a little anxious before as considering himself to master a killer move, which nearly led to his mistake.
Facing Zhou Zhengquan's provocation, Lou Cheng stood firm with a stance and waved at his opponent.
Come on! Let's compare our stamina!