"The spirit about catching up, the spirit about struggling, the spirit about fighting... " After listening to his words, Lou Cheng felt startled and he couldn't help but shiver. Then he constantly meditated the three spirits and recovered from the mood about chagrin and self-blame.
The failure itself was not terrible. It was terrible that people always felt depressed after they had failed!
When Geezer Shi saw his reaction, he said with a satisfied smile, "As for you, Dongling Squad is only a small setback on your road to the martial arts. So until you conquer this threshold, then you look back, you will find it not a big deal at all. You should put your eyes on a higher target. The opponent whom you really need to challenge and to defeat is in the University Martial Arts Meeting! Lol, when Peng Leyun was in the level of Eighth Pin, he beat Zhou Zhengquan down as easily as you beat most of the fighters of Ninth Pin."
After this matter, he seemed to have agreed to make their mentoring relationships known to the public, so he taught Lou Cheng frankly.
Lou Cheng took a deep breath, feeling his goal for the next much clearer.
That was, trying to make a spurt towards the "Great Monster" Peng Leyun whose name had always been haunted in his ear this year, and fighting towards the real genius who had been set as his idols by his master since he began to learn martial arts, even catching up with him one day!
If he couldn't win the first prize of the University Martial Arts Committee before Peng Leyun graduated from the university, then he would be full of pity even if he had the honor to win the first prize along with Lin Que!
Geezer Shi didn't say more about this. He turned and looked at Sun Jian, "Why you are still here, go to the ring quickly. We have to start well and end well."
Since his team lost the last round with the score of 2:3, even if Sun Jian defeated Hou Yue whose physical condition was very bad, the final score would be only a draw. Then it would play the "bench war". While among the substitutes, Dongling Squad still had Li Shengnan who was a strong fighter of Professional Ninth Pin, however, there even was no fighter of Amateur First Pin in the substitutes of Songcheng University Martial Arts Club. So the result wouldn't change anyway. And that's why Sun Jian didn't go to the ring in a hurry. It wouldn't have any influence on the final results even if he gave Hou Yue the chance to recover a little.
"Good!" Sun Jian nodded and walked towards the stone steps, his feelings welled up within heart.
If we substitutes were a little stronger ...
Hou Yue who was still on the ring had already played three times of "waterfall" in Fly Fall Punch, so not only did he feel exhausted, his body was still suffering from the remained shock effect of the attacks. That meant that he couldn't run around the ring as before. Sun Jian fight carefully and cautiously around him for a while, finding his opponent even has trouble in moving steps, which lent him the courage to approach Lou Cheng and threw the 24 Blizzard Strikes at him. Finally, he gained the victory easily with limit attacks.
The referee raised his right hand and announced calmly,
"Round Five, Sun Jian wins!"
Under normal circumstances, the audience should cheer up for Sun Jian and applaud for the Martial Arts Club. But now they all sat there silently and were even sobbing as if they had watched a tragedy.
They have learned some common knowledge about the martial arts and they knew the rules. They also knew that the substitutes in their own Martial Arts Club were much weaker than the substitutes in the other club.
Sure enough, the referee continued to announce,
"The final result of this battle, Songcheng University Martial Arts Club wins. The total result, the two teams drew!"
"Here begins the 'Bench War'!"
Geezer Shi looked at Li Mao and others, then he sighed,
"Do you want to fight with them?"Do we want to go to fight with them? There is no possibility for us to win the battle and no way to change the result... Li Mao and Lin Hua were speechless for a while and they also felt very bewildered.
Why do we waste our stamina or our efforts?
As Yan Zheke's eyelashes hung down which covered her eyes, she squeezed a smile and said,
"Of course, we'll fight! Coach Shi, hadn't you ever said that we were here for the real combat? So why we don't fight even there is a battle for us?"
"Yes, you make sense." Geezer Shi was blushed and laughed hollowly, "Then go to fight."
I almost forget this slogan...
"Don't you want to cheer me up?" Yan Zheke reached out her hands towards Lou Cheng with her bright eyes and her red rim.
Lou Cheng took a breath, then he said in the voice that only two of them could hear,
"Coach Yan, just go for it!"
Pa, they clapped their hands.
Yan Zheke turned around and walked down the stand to the stone steps. There were not only sorrow, sadness, pity, regret within her heart, but also a firm belief:
We can be beaten down, but we never give up!
Watching such a beautiful girl who seemed not to show up on this violent arena walking on the ring without any hesitation, the audience also felt being inspired and began to calm down to find the peaceful mind. So there appeared several audience chants.
We are good enough to play to such a high level!
There were few miracles around the world. At first, Li Shengnan was actually frightened by the ferocious attack of Yan Zheke in the beginning of the battle. But, as a fighter who had more experience and was stronger than Yan Zheke, she quickly calmed down and began to attack her opponent. She won the battle very easily and quickly. Even she also defeated Li Mao and Lin Hua in the next rounds one by one.
The referee took a breath before he announced it loudly,
"'Bench War', Dongling Squad wins!"
"The final result, Dongling Squad wins!"
The whole arena was silent. And everyone in the martial arts arena looked so sad. Yan Zheke bit her under lip and pulled Lou Cheng with her eyes filled with tears, "Cheng, let's go to say thank you to the audience."
Lou Cheng also had such idea before, but because he didn't win the battle, he couldn't do it for he was afraid to face the passionate students and was afraid to see their disappointed eyes and sad looks.
At this moment, after he heard of the suggestion of his girlfriend, he took a deep breath and said,
"Okay!"
As a man, I can't retreat. As long as this is my responsibility, I should face it by my own!
No matter they are disappointed or they cursed, even they threw stuff towards me, I will take it. And I will make this fight up and continue to take my duty next time!
Lou Cheng stood up and patted other members like Sun Jian and Li Mao. Then he took them to the stand before they made a bow together to the audience hands in hands.
Thanks for your support, thanks for your cheering, thanks for you slogans and thanks for your sorrow.
The moment that Lou Cheng has prepared well for taking all the inadequate responses of the audience, there suddenly appeared a scream which felt like shouting himself hoarse in the stand,
"Let's do it next time!"
Do it next time... Lou Cheng and others stunned for a while and they didn't understand this sentence immediately.
The audiences in this stand first of all were shocked, then they also began to scream in a disorganized way,
"Let's do it next time!" "Let's do it next time!" "Let's do it next time!"
Next time, please win for us!
The scream gradually become orderly and unified and also affected the audiences in the other stands. In the end, all the audience shouted in an organized way,
"Let's do it next time!" "Let's do it next time!"
They have no complaint, no disappointment, but only encouragements and expectations.
Lou Cheng suddenly had tears in his eyes and his nose also became acid even though he always believed that men shouldn't easily shed tears and men should shed sweats instead of tears. Then he led his members to bow politely again to the audiences for thanks for their love and support!
It's so good to have the audience like you. Next time, we will win the battle for you!
"Let's do it next time!" "Let's do it next time!"
The cheering chants in the arena also showed on TV, so many people heard it. It made the young girls like Yan Xiaoling and Brahman begin to cry suddenly. They cried so sadly and they followed the audience to shout chokingly, "Next time, do it. Let's do it next time... "
"Let's do it next time!" "Let's do it next time!"
Shu Rui who just graduated from the university only for one year felt affected by this atmosphere. She sniffed her acid nose because she was afraid that she would also begin to cry just like the young girls. At the same time, there was a problem wondering in her mind: What should I do. Songcheng University lost the combat, so how to interview Lin Que next... Thinking of this, she really was about to cry.
"Let's do it next time!" "Let's do it next time!"
Lou Cheng turned to look at Yan Zheke with his eyes filled with tears, and he found that although her eyes were also filled with tears and her rims of eyes were obviously red, she was still fighting back the tears.
"Just cry." He shook her hands slightly.
Yan Zheke took a breath and smiled very sadly, "I never cry when I am sad... "
"Let's do it next time!" "Let's do it next time!"
Some people like Li Liantong and Fan Yanxi have already burst into tears and were struck into this atmosphere, so they also shouted as they were crying.
Laugh would be a happy memory for people to recall it while cry would be an unforgettable memory for people to remember.
After this combat, Lou Cheng took a shower, changed his clothes and walked out of the locker room directly.
He has already been used to it just like traveling along a familiar road in a light carriage, so he knew there would be an interview for him. He just wanted to finish it as soon as possible.
Shu Rui looked at him in surprise, and she laughed, "Lou Cheng, I thought that you would come out like the last one."
Lou Cheng was going to play a joke to say, "I gave all the spotlights to my members before because we had won the combats. But today, we lost, so I should be the first man to be responsible to this." However, he didn't have the mood to play a joke, so he only answered politely, "Because I didn't know you have to wait to interview us before."
Shu Rui complained to herself, then she changed to the right topic, "It seems that you are a little depressed. Is the match today important to you?"
"Every match I participated in is important to me." Lou Cheng said simply, "Failure definitely will make people depressed."
Shu Rui thought for a while, and she said, "So I dare to ask, what's your opinion about this failure? Why do you think about that you lost the match? And is there any part that you need to improve?"
"Our team owns the same possibility to win the battle as Dongling Squad. This time we lost the game mainly because I went with the flow of martial arts so smoothly that I became a little arrogant. If it weren't for me wanting to beat my enemy in one extreme attack, I wouldn't need to be hit by the eruption of Zhou Zhengquan's Dan stage." Lou Cheng said sincerely, he was so brave to take his responsibility.
Men should never shirk the responsibility!
As for the reason that was the simplified movement of physical invulnerability caused he lose the game, he certainly wouldn't talk about it. Since he didn't use it, then it would be his hole card.
Shu Rui thought back deeply for a while and she comforted Lou Cheng, "It's normal for a young people to be dazed and confused, well, knowing how to reflect and review is a sign of maturity. So, Lou Cheng, since your team will participate in the National University Martial Arts Match the next half year, what kind of target do you set?"
"Well, we would like to be in the national finals." Lou Cheng did not say his goal was Peng Leoyun, was the national champion, because it would certainly be laughed at by others dramatically,
Yes, your team is strong, but still, you aren't the same level as Peng Leyun. Or, we can say, you still are much weaker than him and his promotion is not slower than you!
"I hope that you could achieve your goals." Shu Rui ended this brief interview.
Then she continued to interview Yan Zheke and others one by one. At last, she faced an ultimate challenge, which was, Lin Que who lacked any expressions on his face.
"Lin Que, what do you think of your performances in today's battle?" Shu Rui tried to ask him from the perspective of Martial Arts Competition.
Lin Que answered indifferently, "Not very good."
"Why?" Shu Rui thought she was going to be crazy. Could you please answer at one go? Why do you behave like a voice assistant who could only answer only if I asked?
"I never expected that Zhou Zhengquan would attack three violent eruptions at the beginning of this battle." Lin Que said it with vague pain in his eyes.
If I could play a little bit better, and hurt Zhou Zhiquan, then the result would definitely be different...
Shu Rui nodded and kept asking, "The National University Martial Arts Match will be host the next half year, so what's your plan or what's your expectation on it?"
Lin Que was silent for a few seconds, and then he answered,
"Practicing hard."
When he finished his words, he passed by Shu Rui and walked towards the door of the arena.
After hearing this answer, Shu Rui was a little inexplicably sad. If Lin Que said "It's a secret" or "I don't tell you", which would mean that he was actually in the good moon because he even could tell the dry jokes. However, he must feel very painful now...
Time went by, it has been more than one month since the match they fought in May.
It was burning hot outside. Lou Cheng stood next to the lush trees and he closed his eyes to visualize the thunderbolt. As he compressed his muscles, he also moved the abdomen to create the slight shock which could constantly strengthen the organs in his body.
Gradually, he felt the heart beat more and more powerful and blood gushed out from it to flow through every organ in his body. And under his control, the heart quickly slowed down its beat with no obstacles, so did the other organs.
This symbolized that the martial arts has been tempered into his body, and it was also the sign of the peak of body refining!
The next step was to unify the forces around his body into one point and begin to learn how to "take back"... Lou Cheng opened his eyes and he had a ferocious and robust vigor.
He did not squeeze the Jindan again to improve the supernatural ability, because he felt it would go against with the state when he tried to learn how to "take back". Many fighters who had supernatural ability can't achieve the level of Dan Stage because their supernatural ability became stronger and stronger. I am a fighter, I shouldn't be confused about the main foal and the first goal. So I will go to ask my master about it and try to awake other supernatural abilities until I could understand how to "take back".
Also, my master has said that he had some hints about the playing style of the Fire Sect. And he would have the opportunity to get it for me the next semester.
Of course, this is the plan. What the most important now is,
Go back home! Back to Xiushan! Go back to Xiushan together with Ke!
His mind suddenly visualized a picture which looked like a Great Sun fell from the sky and crashed down the frozen river of thousands of miles. Yin and Yang crashed into each other ferociously.
"Bam!"
Lou Cheng hit out a punch on the tree in front of him. And then he took back his hand, he turned away even without glancing at it.
As he was walking away, the leaves suddenly began to fall piece by piece from the tree which seemed to stand there still. And they dropped down more and more quickly and the color of the leaves also became more and more yellow as if it turned to the cold winter in September.
(The end of the first part)