Holy Fist
Chapter 430 - 217 Semi-final, Battle Fang Chao!_2

Chapter 430: 217 Semi-final, Battle Fang Chao!_2

Fang Chao was clad in a white training outfit, his forehead wrapped with a red band. His resolute and determined features radiated an intense desire to battle. His tall and strong figure stood slightly angled, with forearm muscles tense, involuntarily adopting a posture of attack against a formidable opponent—a first for him.

This indicated that Fang Chao took this competition extremely seriously.

Directly opposite him, Bai Xiao also presented an unusual demeanor. His hands hung slightly lowered, his burly frame slightly leaning forward with the center of gravity lowered. It was the stance of a brown bear and a cheetah on the hunt, with an invisible airflow swirling continuously.

Two auras collided in the center, causing an imperceptible tremor.

"The good stuff’s coming up!"

"Two true masters, competing to reveal a real genius!"

Whispers filled the audience, their eyes gleaming.

"Who do you think will win? Fang Chao or Bai Xiao?"

"Fang Chao, surely. After all, he’s one of the Jiang Shuangxiong, who’s carved out a unique status with sheer strength in recent years! His Star Water Flowing Fist is also extremely powerful..."

"I bet on Bai Xiao, I feel he can win. All along the way, it seems there’s been no opponent who can stop him! I think even Fang Chao will be defeated..."

"Hehe, I can’t choose, I like both of them equally!"

Some of the audience discussed among themselves.

Among regular comments, some bizarre statements were also mixed.

On the octagonal arena, the two faced each other.

Fang Chao’s eyes blazed, firmly locked onto Bai Xiao’s figure.

"I have fought with Mountain King Chen Xiu several times before, personally clashed with his ultimate Mountain King Armor. So, battling against those with Horizontal Training is very familiar to me. Moreover, I have studied specific methods to defeat them, the tricks to victory! Originally, these were meant for Chen Xiu. However, unexpectedly you appeared. Now then, experience the tactics I have prepared..."

He took a step forward and suddenly bowed with a fist wrapped in his sleeve.

The airflow rustled his sleeves, whooshing loudly.

Bai Xiao also responded with a fist salute.

"Let’s have it, I’m looking forward to this."

Indeed, Bai Xiao was looking forward to it. His blood, stagnant for so long, seemed to be boiling. Having bulldozed his way from the city-level Dark World fight competition, Bai Xiao finally found an opponent who could stir his interest. His palms tingled, with the flowing energy gathering in his fists, growing hotter and hotter.

"The competition begins!"

The referee in black announced from the side.

"Swish!"

Instantly, ribbon-like blue light burst forth in the arena.

Fang Chao’s right leg was in front, left leg behind, his muscular arms lifting strongly, his fingers in a false grasping motion. His arms waved, like gentle, rippling streams of water. Yet on the end of his fists, an intense light flowed as if brilliant meteors smacked straight into a planet.

The Star Water Flowing Fist, combining both toughness and softness into one.

Both offensive and defensive, indestructible!

"Fight!"

His eyes suddenly burst with two streams of azure starlight, as the surging "Qi" inside his body expanded. Fang Chao stomped the ground, his whole body crossing dozens of meters in an instant, his hands swirled with light, a punch bombing Bai Xiao’s chest! In mid-air, a stark white streak suddenly appeared!

"Thud!"

The two collided abruptly, sending ripples of airflow expanding like wavelets.

Under the relentless drive of a massive force, Bai Xiao’s sturdy legs shifted slightly, pushing his whole body a good five meters backward on the ground.

This had never happened in any of his previous matches, and yet Fang Chao had managed to break through Bai Xiao’s solid Tai Shan stance.

But with a thump!

Slamming his feet backward fiercely, Bai Xiao’s right leg, like a pile driver, nailed directly into the special rubber. His figure halted abruptly.

Only several centimeters away from Fang Chao, his expressionless face suddenly twisted into a ferocious smile. Traces of excitement and pleasure!

"So this is the full-powered Star Water Flowing Fist!"

"Not bad!"

These two words escaped his lips.

Then, an aura and magnetic field, spreading like layers of bloody ripples, enveloped almost half the arena with a domineering aura.

"Bang!"

Bai Xiao suddenly lunged forward, his arms extended to their fullest. His bulging dark arms, like huge hydraulic clamps, forcefully compressed the air, as his granite-hard muscles gradually protruded.

"Flowing Light!"

Fang Chao’s entire body seemed as elastic as rubber, rapidly retreating backward. At the same time, his fists swung back and forth with increasing speed. In just a few breaths, it was as if ten thousand streams of light exploded in front of his chest. A dense barrage of fist shadows bombarded Bai Xiao’s upper body, creating loud pounding sounds.

"Hiss!"

In the end, Bai Xiao’s attempt to embrace was thwarted. His hands, like iron shovels, tore through Fang Chao’s white practice clothes, leaving a shallow bloody mark on his chest. Bai Xiao himself, with his white and gold fighting attire now in tatters, revealed the robust body underneath, akin to a classical sculpture.

"It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this..."

"Hmm~"

He stood still, his expression seemingly intoxicated. At the location on his chest where he was hit by Fang Chao’s Flowing Light Fist, there was a tingling, itchy feeling.

"Just a bit more force in the punches, and it could have been painful..."

Bai Xiao suddenly turned his head, looking a few meters away. There, Fang Chao was swaying his legs back and forth, a small technique to maintain a fighting stance. He looked over warily, shaking his fists and continuously opening and closing his fingers.

His fingers clearly ached from the recent collision.

"Indeed, such a hard physique..."

Fang Chao twisted his neck, and bones crackled.

His gaze burning fiercely, he looked at Bai Xiao and spoke in a deep voice, "Continue!"

"Whoosh!"

A streak of light flashed, and Fang Chao disappeared on the spot, reappearing in front of Bai Xiao like a ghost. His right leg swung in a circle, the powerful Whip Leg crackling through the air and harshly striking Bai Xiao’s neck.

"Clang!"

Bai Xiao’s head tilted slightly to the left, hot breath exhaling from his nostrils.

His right hand instantly grasped, forcibly seizing Fang Chao’s leg that he tried to quickly retract. Terrifying strength erupted, his arms swung, lifting the white-clad figure before him and swinging him around! Bang! Layers upon layers of rubber cracked.

In a critical moment, Fang Chao used some secret technique to escape from Bai Xiao’s grasp, boneless and flexible. But his back still violently hit the ground, causing the arena to thunderously shake. He was flung out like skimming stones, and while flying, used a force-dissipating technique to transfer the power into the arena.

At the end of a ten-meter-long crack.

Fang Chao pressed his hands against the ground, blue light erupted.

He spun around, his feet firmly landing. Then he blasted off again, heading straight for Bai Xiao. His hand shaped like a knife, a long, slender, winding blue light ripped through the air, extremely sharp.

"Starlight Slash!!!"

The attack arrived in an instant.

A burst of brilliance surged in Bai Xiao’s pupils as his hands reached out in a flash.

"Ten Fists Sword!"

Fingers shaped like a sword, sharp and clear, Sword Qi roared out.

"Clang!"

The two muscular arms collided in mid-air, the hand-knife violently trembling.

Bursts of golden sparks exploded.

"Black Flame Lion Heart Fist!"

While grappling, Bai Xiao threw a claw, the lion roared. A vicious claw wrapped in black flames suddenly compressed and expanded in the air.

"Boom!"

Fang Chao also punched out, his entire arm propelling forward as if it had a thruster behind it, blue flames roaring. It appeared to be some kind of explosive secret technique.

The two collided once more, the entire Octagonal Arena shaking and rattling.

Amongst the howling wind, Fang Chao roared at Bai Xiao.

"Watch closely, Bai Xiao!"

"Next, is the full-power Star Water Flowing Fist!"

Bai Xiao felt the terrifyingly escalating aura opposite him.

He suddenly burst into laughter.

"I, too, have a move I haven’t used."

"Today, I’ll test it out on you!"