Chapter 162: True Strength


    The two contestants immediately stepped into the arena, and walked towards the centre, until they stood face to face in front of each other, with Elder Keh beside them. "Cutivators, bow your heads!" Elder Keh yelled loudly, and the two cultivators, who were ring at each other until now, immediately lowered their heads as soon as the Elder spoke, after which they headed to the two ends of the arena, as the Elder yelled out, "Warriors, step back!"


    The two contestants arrived at the two ends of the arena in a few seconds. Elder Keh looked at the two, and after making sure that they were both in the correct spot, he nodded his head, satisfied, and yelled out, "Contestants! Assume your battle stance!"


    As soon as Elder Keh finished speaking, a long saber appeared in Russell Davies'' hand, and ude summoned his katana. Elder Keh looked at both of the contestants and yelled out, "Start!"


    Whoosh!


    Right after the Elder finished speaking, both ude and Russell Davies charged forward, leaving bursts of air behind as they moved with frightening speed towards each other!


    "Take this!" Russell Davies screamed as he thrust his long saber forward, and a bright light burst out of the tip of the saber and headed for ude, who immediately used his katana to deflect it easily.


    ng!


    ude swung his katana as hard as he could, and arge stroke of pure spiritual energy in the form of a de light shot out forward, aiming for Russell Davies.


    As ude''s attack moved towards Russell Davies with an unshakable pressure spreading in his direction, Russell immediately shed his long saber directly forward, and a bright red sh of light flew straight out with an indomitable presence, slicing through the floor as if it was paper!


    ude''s de light and Russell Davies'' sh beam collided with each other, and for just a second, it was as though the entire world had slowed down. Spectators could see the various coloured strands that were bursting out from the collision, as though a beautiful painting was being created in front of them.


    BOOM!


    The collision resulted in an extremely loud explosion, and a chaotic force erupted from the centre of the arena, sending a burst of air towards the spectators stand and making it rattle as though leaves on a windy day. The spectators even felt slight tremors underneath their legs.


    The two contestants were pushed back multiple steps due to the impact of the collision, but immediately charged forward once again as soon as his foot touched the ground, moving towards Russell Davies with such intensity that he even looked like a god of war to many.


    Whoosh!


    ude burst through the smoke clouds that was enveloping the arena and charged towards Russell Davies. He held the katana high up in the air, as bright red particles began to gather at the end of the de, rapidly increasing the pressure that ude was releasing. Russell realized toote what ude was going to do.


    In a panic, Russell flipped backwards, narrowly avoiding the strike that send out shockwaves throughout the arena as it hit thr floor. He immediately tried to take a step back and swing his saber, but ude immediately appeared in front of him and ducked with ease right before twisting his whole body around andunched another strike, this time right onto Russell Davies'' side, which he sawing toote.


    BAM!


    The strike send Russell Davies flying high as he spun around in the air before crashing down onto the ground, bouncing a few times before he found his footing and flipped himself back up.


    Drip! Drip!


    Blood began to drip down onto the floor, and Russell Davies'' gaze had now narrowed onto ude and his face muscles twitched with irritation. He then touched the side of his head with great difficulty to looked at his hand with disbelief in his eyes.


    He was injured! By a junior no less!


    He couldn''t see it clearly, but he could certainly sense it. There was a fine bloody line on his cheek that went down to his chin. It wasn''t anything too deep, but it did make Russell Davies annoyed and angry.


    "Oh my lord! What am I witnessing here? Did ude Rayforth just injure Russell Davies first? Could it be? Does ude Rayforth actually have a chance?"


    "Oh hell no! Don''t do this to me, god. I''ve bet all of the money I''ve madest year on Russell Davies''victory. Don''t you do this to me now!"


    "Hmph! This is just the start of the battle and you''re already regretting your choices? What a bunch of idiots! Do you require think Russell Davies, the man who defeated the cultivation monster Javier Banderas, would go down so easily? This was just a warm up. The real fun begins after this."


    The audience, who had also witnessed ude creating an injury on Russell''s face, were bbergasted by the situation. Some were in disbelief, some were regretting making bets, while some were simply excited for what''s toe.


    BAM!


    At this moment, Russell Davies charged forward, and everyone''s eyes turned to him.


    His body moved like a gust of wind, and with a frightening speed, he swung his saber with all his might, as a bright red sh of light burst out from his saber and shot towards ude, cleaving through the air with terrifying power!


    This move was so bright that the light flooded the vision of almost everyone in the spectators stand.


    TWIP!


    ude bent his upper body backwards in an instant and the de light passed by right above his waist without even touching him. He then flipped back up only to find Russell Davies appearing right in front of him and in the middle of swinging his saber, aiming for his chest!


    ude contracted his pupils and immediately swayed left, but Davies'' strike hit him right on his shoulder, causing him to be flung a few steps sideways. He staggered for a split second, but eventually found his footing.


    On the spectators stand, the crowd went wild.


    "See? I told you before, didn''t I? He''s Senior Russell Davies. You think he''ll be an easy opponent to ude Rayforth? Well guess again!"


    "Whew! Thank god for that counterattack! I was losing faith! But I guess I should''ve been more level headed and thought more logically. After all, this was someone who defeated the cultivation monster! Of course he wasn''t going down so easily. And definitely not to some young boy who was his junior!"


    "Hey now, don''t shrug off ude Rayforth''s first attack as just luck! He definitely has the skills and the power to fight against someone like Senior Russell Davies and even injure him! Who knows, perhaps he might really have a shot at winning the contest!"


    As the crowd whispered amongst each other, the two cultivators stomped down on the ground, causing a slight tremor, and charged forward with terrifying speed, meeting right in the middle of the field.


    BAM!


    Another loud explosion followed after the two collided with each other, and bright lights began to envelope the arena.


    Whoosh!


    Both ude and Russell Davies werw pushed back, but immediately regained their footing and charged forward once again.


    Spiritual energy began to surge within Russell Davies'' body, and as he circted it through his meridians, the aura that he was channeling outwards was growing stronger and stronger.


    Even ude could feel the tremendous pressure mounting on his shoulders, growing ever so slightly as time passed.


    "You might be a powerful opponent, ude Rayforth! But you won''t defeat me! Not today!" Russell Davies yelled out loudly as he shed his saber, and all of a sudden, his spiritual energy, which had been increasing at a constant and slow pace, began climbing rapidly, and a bright red light began to emit from the long saber!


    BAM! BAM! BAM!


    Multiple red circr apparitions appeared behind Russell, increasing his aura and spiritual energy even further, and they charged forward allong with the bright red strand of light, aiming for ude Rayforth.


    ude took a few steps backwards and stretched out his katana forward, as his eyes glowed azure blue!


    Whoosh!


    All of a sudden, blue coloured particles began to appear around him, and he stomped his foot on the ground, as a bright light shot out from under his feet!


    Floating footsteps technique!


    Utilizing the floating footsteps technique, he began to rotate within the blue coloured particles with such frightening speed that a tornado began to form around him, causing him to float in the air.


    "The Dancing Sword Technique!" One of the Elders whispered to themselves. They knew this technique. Unlike other normal cultivation techniques, this was abination technique which involved the martial artist using multiple techniques at the same time to create something new.


    The Dancing Sword Technique was abination of the floating footsteps technique with a normal sword technique. But ude Rayforth was using it with the Sunrise Sword Technique, which was just infinitely more hard tobine with anything. The Sunrise sword technique was already too difficult, and adding anotheryer to that was simply too much for most cultivators.


    But to think this young man was pulling it off...


    Just as the Elder stood amazed by the technique, his eyes widened even more and his jaw dropped open with surprise.


    "Wait, three techniques?" Along with the Sunrise sword technique and the floating footsteps technique, ude was also utilizing the Invisible Sword Technique, which was just insane!


    Whoosh!


    As Russell''s red strand of light with discs approached ude, the tornado disappeared in an instant, rapidly shrinking to the tip of his katana, before shooting off with a loud noise and a terrifying burst of air that shook the arena!