Chapter 647: Unable to Surrender? The Wretched George!

Boom boom boom!!

Above the entire Lei Ting, dark clouds hung thick and dense, forming a stark contrast with the surrounding blue sky and white clouds.

Wild golden arcs of electricity weaved and flickered through the dark clouds, while thunder rumbled and exploded without pause.

The sound stung the eardrums of the students in the surrounding spectator seats.

On the arena stage, the Extreme Glory Thunder Ring behind Xu Jingming spun frantically.

One after another, violent, dazzling bolts of golden Lei Ting slammed into George, over a hundred meters away!

As an Enhancement-type S-class ability awakener, he was by now already electrocuted until his whole body was scorched black.

Bright red blood seeped out from the surface of his body, making him look utterly wretched.

The hard alloy ground around him had also been blasted full of pits and craters by the wild Lei Ting.

"Can Instructor George not even manage to close the distance?"

"How is that possible? Berserk Ape Armament is an SSS-class combat technique!"

The arrogant swagger the students of the Holy Spirit Wu Guan had shown earlier in the great hall had completely vanished.

What replaced it was a blanket of shock and bewilderment.

As head instructor, George had always been a godlike figure in their eyes.

They had personally witnessed George defeat a powerful seventh-rank peak Grandmaster of the Holy Spirit Wu Guan.

But before Xu Jingming, he was pinned in place on the spot, unable to even get within striking distance!

If you can't close the distance, what can a martial artist use to fight an elementalist?

It wasn't only the students who were shocked—even George himself was filled with disbelief.

Anyone who had watched the Genius Tournament knew that Xu Jingming followed a dual cultivation path of both elementalist and martial artist.

And a martial artist's close-quarters combat was far stronger than an elementalist's methods!

In the end, it was only by relying on that long spear that he defeated Catherine.

Yet he couldn't even withstand Xu Jingming's elementalist spell bombardment—what talk was there of close-quarters combat?

"How can he be this strong?! He's nothing but a sixth-rank ability user, but I'm a seventh-rank Grandmaster!"

George's eyes nearly split with rage, a soundless roar tearing from his heart.

Xu Jingming's Lei Ting bombardment struck him like an iron hammer weighing tens of thousands of kilograms.

It not only dealt him massive damage, but also brought a crushing impact force!

He was as if mired in a swamp, completely unable to move his legs.

He could only passively endure the Lei Ting bombardment.

And the powerful vitality and recovery of a seventh-rank Grandmaster-class ability user—

Before this Lei Ting, it seemed to have no effect whatsoever!

He could feel the Lei Ting rampaging through his body, wantonly destroying his flesh.

Every cell in his body was wailing, and he even smelled the scent of death!

Only at this moment did he realize—

The SSS-class combat technique he had spent so much time cultivating was utterly useless before Xu Jingming!

"Great Xia people! Lowly Great Xia people!"

George had always looked down on Great Xia people, but now—

He felt that if he didn't surrender, he might very well die from this!

"I surre—"

He opened his mouth, wanting to surrender outright.

But at that moment another bolt of Lei Ting came crashing down, cutting him off directly!

"You think surrendering is that easy? Not a chance!"

Xu Jingming, wreathed in golden Lei Ting, had an unprecedented coldness in his eyes.

"Lei Shen Zhi!"

Boom boom~~

A thick golden Lei Ting finger poked out from the clouds and slammed straight down onto George!

"Ahhhh!!!"

Accompanied by a shrill scream, a golden Lei Ting mushroom cloud rose up on the arena stage.

George, who already looked like a man made of blood, was instantly electrocuted until his whole body was scorched black and carbonized, with waves of roasted-meat aroma wafting out.

Pain! Such terrible pain!

After that one Lei Shen Zhi strike, George felt as if his entire body was about to shatter.

Yet he couldn't speak, so he could only desperately signal with his eyes to Hearing Ling Shuang that he didn't want to fight anymore.

But Ling Shuang seemed not to notice, paying him no attention at all.

"Fu*k!"

Only at this moment did George finally understand.

All that nonsense about surrendering ending the fight immediately was total BS!

Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang simply wanted to beat him half to death!

"Hiss, how miserable."

"His whole body is carbonized and he still won't surrender—as expected of the head instructor of the Holy Spirit Wu Guan!"

Waves of exclamations rose from all around.

The melon-eating masses, unaware of George's thoughts, were all amazed by George's iron will.

"This guy... he's gotten stronger again..."

Catherine's pearly teeth gently bit down on her red lips.

She simply couldn't figure out how Xu Jingming's rate of improvement could be so fast!

At this pace, when would she ever manage to recruit Xu Jingming into the Holy See?

"And his elemental weapon doesn't seem to be any ordinary item either."

Catherine gazed thoughtfully at the golden ring behind Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming carried out Hearing Ling Shuang's instructions very seriously.

He bombarded with Lei Ting for nearly a full minute, only stopping after Hearing Ling Shuang called out to halt him.

And at this moment.

On the alloy arena, the area around George had already been blasted into a deep crater!

Within the crater, violent golden arcs of electricity leapt and flickered without cease.

George himself had long since lost consciousness.

He looked utterly wretched, his entire body charred black and carbonized.

If not for the faint trace of breathing still remaining.

The crowd would have thought he was already dead.

"George has lost consciousness. First match — Xu Jingming wins!"

Hearing Ling Shuang was not at all surprised by this outcome and announced it loudly.

"Tch, I thought this George was supposed to be so strong, and that's all it took?"

"What a joke — dragged this whole crowd of us here just to make a fool of himself."

"Lei Di is the number one prodigy of Blue Star. So what if he's a whole major realm higher? Still got crushed."

"..."

The gathered media people all shook their heads.

Before coming, George had declared he would surely defeat Xu Jingming.

Telling them to prepare the press releases in advance.

But no one expected that in the end, it was Xu Jingming who effortlessly achieved the crushing victory.

"Careful, don't use too much force!"

"Sh*t! What the hell are you doing? Lord George is about to fall apart!"

The first match ended,

and a number of students from the Holy Spirit Wu Guan hurried up onto the arena, gingerly carrying George down.

Afraid that one careless slip would crush George's carbonized body.

"Roughly 40% of his flesh and blood has carbonized and needs to be excised entirely.

Even with my treatment, it'll take at least a month to make a full recovery."

After examining George, the seventh-tier healing-type ability user accompanying the Holy Spirit Wu Guan said with a grave expression.

"Forty percent of his body carbonized?!"

The students were instantly shocked, and the looks they cast toward Xu Jingming filled with wariness.

And that was only because George's physique was so tough — if it had been an ordinary seventh-tier Grandmaster, he probably wouldn't have been salvageable at all.

"Truly worthy of Lei Di! Too strong!"

"Coach Xu is mighty!"

Compared with the heavy atmosphere at the Holy Spirit Wu Guan, the Lei Ting Wu Guan side was filled with cheers and joy.

George was famous, and before the fight began, they had still felt some worry for Xu Jingming.

But once it started, Xu Jingming didn't even need to activate his second layer of amplification before he defeated George with ease...