Chapter 245 Bloody Counterattack
A tiny silver needle flew over, piercing the skin on Xiang Yun’s nose.
The needle was shot so close that though the Bald Head’s mouth didn’t give it much impetus, it was capable to cause injury.
Xiang Yun dodged this sudden attack with his rapid response capability, but as a result, the Qi gathered on his arms leaked. Without strength against it, the axe he had lifted before chopped down with unstoppable force.
“Ah…!”
A scream, terrible scream, spat the sky, resounding in this area. Everyone was shocked. Fear burst in their hearts then spreading over them from head to toe. Countless men couldn’t help trembling.
It was like a demon screaming in the deepest hell.
In the scream mixed a loud hissing noise. It seemed like the sharp axe peeled away a piece of bark, a large piece of bark, from the trunk. Actually, it was not about bark and trunk. The axe peeled off a piece of human flesh.
On the high platform, a long wound stretched from the man’s shoulder to his waist, peeling off a large piece of bloody flesh. Blood spurted out with fizzing sound, like thin water column frantically escaping from the cracks in the water pipe.
“Oh my god!”
The scene on the stage was too bloody to watch, making many people in the stands turned their faces away. Even those brave people paled, shivering with terror.
On the stage, the Dragon Group’s Perfection Stage Expert－Xiang Yun－looked at his body that was cut off, incredulous. The fear of despair spread in his pupil. He could see fresh organs beating in his body clearly.
Suddenly, with a clattering sound, his beating organs were crowded out and dropped from the wound.
“Ah…!”
This was the scream of the audience in the stage. In the scream, with a loud bang, Xiang Yun collapsed, falling into the varicolored things on the ground…
“Uh, oh…”
“Wah, wah…”
In the stands, vomiting sounds could be heard everywhere. Some people had already been paralyzed in the chair, pale and unable to breathe. Sweat rushed out from their forehead and slid.
Paramedics on the scene responded quickly. They carried fainted audiences away to give first-aid.
Silence, deathly silence pervaded at the scene. This battle made a longer silence and a more breathtaking scene, because the process was too bloody and horrible instead of fierce.
This was a bloody counterattack.
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In the stand of Dragon Group, people were stunned, ashen-faced. They were defeated. They were totally defeated in such a bloody way that they could not accept it.
Even Long Taibai’s white face, which lacked emotion all the time, was trembling. Ferocious anger was burning in his eyes, and a murderous look covered his face.
“Boss Long, let me kill him!” Wu Gang with a mask on his face stepped forward to ask for Long Taibai’s permission. It seemed that his anger and murderous intention were stronger than Long Taibai.
“Commander Wu, it’s unnecessary to kill a fly with a wheel. You are thinking too highly of him. Let me teach him a lesson!” Someone came up to ask for the next fight.
Long Taibai looked at the one came up. He knew this person.
It was Cang Qiu from the Cang Hai Sect, who had entered the middle period of the Perfection Stage for many years. He could even fight with a Perfection Stage Expert of the late period. However, he had already in his forties.
One of the rules of the competition was that competitors must be younger than forty years old. But now, Long Taibai didn’t care about the rules at all. He was overwhelmed with the flame of anger which burned the rules into ash.
Long Taibai nodded and approved his request without hesitation.
“You shameless and despicable rat, let me take your life!”
Cang Qiu burst a shout which stunned the audience. The silence on the arena was broken. When people realized what happened, a soft shiny sword had swept toward the Blady’s neck in a lightning speed, reflecting cold light under the sun.
At this time the Baldy was still immersing into the astonishment that he made such a bloody scene. He looked at his “masterpiece” on the ground with his face pale.
Far from the arena, countless people vomited and fainted in the stands. He was the closest and suffered the most visual impact.
As a member of the special troop, he used to perform special tasks abroad all year round. He had seen a bloody scene such like this, but those were made by others so he watched as a bystander. But today’s scene was made by himself. This feeling was different. He was not a cold-blooded person and couldn’t be indifferent to this. His state of mind was far from the stage that nothing could make him move.
This cruel scene was not out of his intention, but the opponent determined to kill him. He could only be forced to kill him. In a battle of “either you or I die will die”, such a bloody ending was beyond his expectation.
He was still in shock, but the soft sword had reached close to his neck.
“Watch out!” In the stands, Li Zhanwu jumped up and shouted, and Qin Hao had disappeared before his words ended.
“Ouch!”
Others in the stands also came back to earth and let out a burst of fright.
Looking at his soft sword was going to cut off the bald head, Cang Qiu smirked in pleasure. But when the soft sword just wrapped on the Bald Head’s neck and was about to cut it off, a hand appeared and caught the soft sword in a blinding speed, pulling the soft sword away from the Bald Head’s neck.
“Ouch!”
The crowd burst out an exclamation. Even Cang Qiu himself was shocked and constricted his pupil. Grasping his sword with a bare hand? He didn’t want his hand?
Seeing someone dared to grasp his sword with bare hands, Cang Qiu cruelly sneered, “You asked for it.”
He turned his wrist to rotate the sword, willing to stir that hand into a lump of meat jam, but what happened the next made him showed an expression of astonishment.
The upper half of the sword rotated, but the lower half didn’t－It was held firmly by the hand.
“Go back!”
Cang Qiu let out a cry. He used strength to draw his soft sword back. The sword was straightened but didn’t move.
This time, Cang Qiu’s face changed, and then he moved his eyes on the owner of the hand.
The owner of the hand was in a sharp military uniform. He had a young and cold face and a pair of cold eyes, wearing an unruly sneer.
Qin Hao, the drillmaster of the Sky Group.
Almost all the members of Dragon Group had heard of Qin Hao. Although not everybody had the chance to see the real one, they had seen him in photos or videos. In the stands they saw Qin Hao sitting next to Li Zhanwu, so Cang Qiu recognized him at a glance.
The strength of Qin Hao had always been a legend to them. It was said that Qin Hao was very powerful, but to be specific, they hadn’t seen how powerful he was. So they remained sceptical to these legends. How powerful could a teenager be? He was just twenty years old.
But now, he personally felt the strength of Qin Hao, and other people had seen it with their own eyes. Qin Hao easily grasped the sword of a Perfection Stage Expert in middle period master with bare hands, making the expert could not move and left himself uninjured.
As his strength enhanced, Qin Hao’s first level of Skin Refining had been perfected. With Spirit Strength protecting his body, it was not hard to grasp a middle-stage Perfect Stage Expert’s sword with bare hands.
But this was for him. For others, it was a shock.
Many people in the stands knew about Qin Hao, the drillmaster of Sky Group, as well. But none of them had seen him showing strength. Now they had seen it, and it made them admire from the bottom of their hearts.
Li Zhanwu stared at Qin Hao on the stage, and he breathed a sigh of relief. This guy finally lent the Bald Head a hand and saved him. But he did not notice Li Tielan behind him was looking at Qin Hao. Her eyes were bright.
Young, handsome, composed, calm and aggressive.
This was her impression of Qin Hao at this time, and the previous one had long been erased from her mind. A man like this was a woman would dream of.
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“Drillmaster…”
On the arena, the Bald Head finally reacted. He staggered a few steps and called Qin Hao.
“Go ahead.” Qin Hao ordered.
“Yes…….” The Bald Head turned around and stepped down the stairs. By then the matter on the stage had had nothing to do with him. His mission was completed.
“Go, go and help him.” Li Zhanwu looked at the Bald Head, who was covered with blood, staggering, and loudly called Li Bo and Wang Hanjiang behind. Then he shouted at the back, “Paramedic, we need paramedic here!” The Bald Head needed paramedics to bind up his wounds. His injury was so horrible that his body was covered with knife marks, leaving no fine skin.
Now Bald Head stepped down, leaving Qin Hao the focus of everyone. Something had changed with his action. He was the drillmaster of the Sky Group, who represented the strongest power of Sky Group. Then what would Dragon Group do? Would Long Taibai take part in the competition?
Long Taibai’s strength was also a mystery. Many people were looking forward to seeing him and Qin Hao fighting against each other.
Most people believed that Long Taibai must be stronger. After all, he was much older, and had already been a prestigious master in his early years. Qin Hao was young and just became famous recently.
But all those were just hypothesis. People still expected to watch the two strongest masters coming to a decisive battle.
“Qin Hao, you are the drillmaster of Sky Group, so you have no right to join this competition. But now you are on the stage. Are you going to violate the rules in the view of the public?” In the stands, someone from Dragon Group stood out, querying Qin Hao loudly.
Qin Hao looked at the yelling person. A sharp light flashed in his eyes. His face showed a trace of contempt and scorn, “You are telling me not to violate the rules? Then ask him. How old is he? Don’t tell me he is not yet forty years old.”
His word made the person from Dragon Group speechless. In the rules there was a clear limitation that the competitors must be under forty years old. Even the blind could see that Cang Qiu on the stage had already passed this line. It was Dragon Group that violated the rules first.
“I’m here because you have violated the rules and killed two of us.” Thinking that he could not defeat Qin Hao with strength, Cang Qiu had to fight with words. His words immediately gained Dragon Group’s support.
The rules also stipulated that the competitors must stop in time to avoid killing the opponents.
Qin Hao sneered in disdain again, “We killed your members? Then who clamored that he would kill our competitor in five minutes in the first battle? And in the second battle, when our teammate admitted defeat, who kept on killing? Well, you haven’t seen or heard any of these? You pretend that you are blind and deaf, and want the audience at the scene and in front of the TV to admit that they are the same as you?” Qin Hao suddenly enlarged his volume. Sound waves contained with Spirit Strength blasted in the air like thunder rolling through the space, making everyone hear his every single word.
The audience responded with a discussion: Qin Hao was right. It was Dragon Group intended to kill opponents at first that violated the rules.
“Since you want to kill us, can we just wait and not fight back? It’s ridiculous. Listen up, Dragon Group members. Whoever dares to violate the rules again will end up like this.”
Qin Hao let out a shout. He knocked on the soft sword in his hand and it bent into a curve, stabbing at Cang Qiu’s throat.
“No!”
Cang Qiu’s pupils suddenly dilated. He wanted to let go of the sword and jump back to dodge.
However, his body was not as fast as he thought. He was nothing compared with Qin Hao. His own sword stabbed into his throat. Few drops of blood spattered.
“Hey!”
The audience exclaimed again. A Perfection Stage Expert of the middle period could not even resist Qin Hao’s single move. How strong was Qin Hao?
“Dang!”
In a clang, Cang Qiu, a Perfection Stage Expert of the middle period from Cang Hai Sect, also fell on the high platform and became the third dead body today.
He killed Cang Qiu. Under everybody’s nose, including Dragon Group’s boss Long Taibai’s, he killed a Perfection Stage Expert of the middle period?
Crazy enough. He was really something! He even looked down on Long Taibai.
Dragon Group members watched their people died one after another. Grievance, anger and madness filled their minds. They could not wait to burn all the people of Sky Group including Qin Hao with flames in their eyes.
“That’s enough!” With a violent roar, the man wearing a silver mask who sat next to Long Taibai suddenly flew from the stands like a streak of light. In the next moment he landed on the arena.
Fast. He was too fast that people’s eyes couldn’t keep up with his speed.
The crowd immediately exclaimed: Master, a real master of Dragon Group took part in.
Wu Gang stood firmly on the guardrail of the arena, looking down on the person on the stage. He sharply stared through the eye of the mask at Qin Hao, and spoke three words: “You are arrogant!”
Qin Hao looked up, gave him an indifferent glance and replied in a cold voice, “Fight or flight. Cut the cackle!”
You think that I am arrogant, then I will show you arrogance.
The crowd was again clamored. Qin Hao, this young drillmaster, was really very unique and proud, like what the legends said.
“Go to hell!” Wu Gang sprang all of a sudden. He rushed down from on the guardrail like a sharp arrow. His palm ripped through the air with screaming, slapping to Qin Hao. It had not arrived but the strong wind it brought up had blown up Qin Hao’s hair and clothes.
“So strong and fast!”
The audience shivered. They saw that Qin Hao had no chance to dodge.
“Boom!”
Qin Hao did not dodge. He raised his palm against Wu Gang’s palm directly. After a muffled slam, Wu Gang’s body rebounded backward and knocked down the guardrail in a “boom” sound.
“Wow－!”
The crowd in the stands boiled. Countless people stood up, looking at the young and handsome man on the arena. Their eyes were kindled with fanaticism.