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Chapter 965 - 965 Challenge Whale King Arlington (4200)

Chapter 965: Challenge Whale King Arlington (4200) Chapter 965: Challenge Whale King Arlington (4200) The final phase of sparring battles at the International Exchange Meeting did not take place within the guild hall or the urban area of East Sea City. Instead, it was held in a remote and flat prairie in the suburbs, bordered by a maple woods on the left and a lake on the right.

The location was sufficiently spacious and secluded, with few people around, which made it suitable for the battlefield of top fighters and those of higher caliber. The Eastern Martial World of the Hong Li Empire, as the organizer, had already checked the area in advance and chose the viewing positions. It was a relatively tall hill near the prairie where the audience of the International Exchange Meeting could look down from above, overseeing the competition.

It was now ten o’clock in the morning, and the golden sunlight penetrated the white cloud layer, casting its glow and making the sky bluer and the grassland even greener.

A gentle breeze blew, carrying a hint of moist vapor, soothing the heat on one’s face. On the edge of the Green Lake Plains, contestants and spectators from various schools and countries around the world gathered. From the sky, it was a dense crowd of people, a bustling sight of figures. At least hundreds were present to watch this final battle.

Zooming in, among the spectators were some with white bandages wrapped around them, and others so injured they had to be carried on stretchers by their fellow disciples to watch the fight. This final battle of the International Exchange Meeting almost represented a clash of the finest boxing philosophies and wills between the two major Secret Martial Arts Worlds.

To put it more simply, it was a competition to see which was stronger or weaker between the Secret Martial Arts World of the Hong Li Empire and the Yana United States. How many top fighters could be fielded? Who would have the last laugh and become the publicly acknowledged number one figure of the Secret Martial Arts World for the two countries in this era? The reason it’s between two countries is that the Star Blue Empire is too far from the North and South Reef Continent, and the speed of ships in this age is slow, with maritime trade not being very well developed. Therefore, only some schools from the Star Blue Empire arrived.

Many famous major schools weighed their options and chose not to attend.

While small countries around the world do have a variety of Secret Martial Art schools within their territories, they lack strength and influence and can hardly pose any threat to the two major powers. Therefore, this International Exchange Meeting is essentially a competition between the Hong Li Empire and the Yana United States, which are evenly matched so far.

Initially, as the host, the Hong Li Empire faced collective targeting by participants led by the Yana United States. Despite having the advantages of terrain and people, they were still put on the back foot. The casualty rate in the arena of life and death was the highest among all nations, a somewhat embarrassing situation. However, there was a subtle shift in the events for fighters over the last two or three days.

A hidden sect called the Magical Golem Sect, like a black horse, appeared in the International Exchange Meeting. The sect had four powerful masters, each with formidable strength and a brutally ruthless combat style, and they possessed peculiarly lethal boxing methods. Three days ago, the first time they took collective action, they caused the death of two veteran fighters and seriously injured two others, severely thwarting the arrogance of the foreign participants led by the Yana United States.

In the sparring events over the following two days, they continued to injure their opponents frequently, with a ferocious momentum. Although they couldn’t continue to kill due to their opponents being prepared, they still demonstrated the flair and reputation of the Magical Golem Sect. From the Yana United States’ side, only some veteran fighters with long-established methods and craftiness could contend with these four and not be completely suppressed.

Over three days, the Secret Martial Arts World participants from various countries had remembered the name Magical Golem Sect and formed a general impression of it.

Mysterious, ferocious, powerful…

Of course, these were just some incidental results. Casio’s main purpose for having the four participate in the competition was to continue refining and perfecting the Southern Dipper Boxing Method, drawing experience and nourishment from actual combat. Indeed, actual combat always proves to be the quickest way to expose issues, with both strengths and weaknesses becoming clear at a glance. Casio optimized the four Southern Dipper Boxing Methods little by little, based on the combat conditions of the four.

Otto’s Shadow Moon Fist has already been branded and inscribed onto the Southern Dipper Secret Transmission.

The Firestone Fist of the Ascetic is also mostly written, and will be completed soon.

Casio’s recent efforts have all been focused on this, so much so that even the Blood Soul Secret Box left by the first king was only briefly studied before being set aside. Undoubtedly, the Blood Soul Secret Box is an Evil Object that kills people to extract their essence and then absorbs the essence to enhance strength.

This will inevitably lead to a chaotic and mixed strength, with an inability to have a pure will.

Although it can boost strength dramatically in a short period, it is actually inferior in the long run. It’s likely that one might become trapped at a bottleneck and unable to progress for a lifetime because higher realms of power require purity.

How can a vast and yet mixed strength become pure?

To abandon one’s cultivation and start over?

This is why Casio, when he got the Cupan Magic Box and learned that the Blood Spirit Association planned to use the box to extract the blood of strong men to gain strength, did not make use of it. Depending on external objects too much makes control difficult, and later stages might demand a price. It’s better than the life vibration energy from the magic puppet secret weapon Casio created, which focuses on the core essence and shuns other large and mixed superficial strengths. It aims to evolve one’s own magnetic field.

Thinking this, the original forms of the Blood Soul Secret Box and the Devil’s Book, the Cupan Magic Box, seem somewhat similar. They might be products of the same era…

At ten-thirty in the morning, on the plains of Green Lake, the battlefield of the International Exchange Meeting.

The last phase, the sparring among the top fighters, had begun.

These are individuals of a caliber that are the pillars of their respective sects, either the masters of the first-rate schools, hidden experts of boxing methods, or the highly respected elders of past generations. Their reputation had spread over the past ten to twenty years, and they hardly needed any introduction from the International Exchange Meeting; many spectators could chat leisurely with those next to them, recounting stories where these participating warriors, premises of a gory and fist-filled journey, fought their way to fame and power.