Chapter 273

On the competition field, Yuwen Yuwen Donghao's injuries had already stabilized.

As a Dao Foundation powerhouse, his vitality was strong enough; after recovering a little, there would be no problem with him playing in the afternoon ranking matches.

But after losing to Li Fei, Yuwen Yuwen Donghao no longer cared much about whether he would rank ninth or sixteenth.

He walked off the competition field with a face full of unwillingness.

The big explosion just now was not his strongest method; he still had quite a few carefully prepared trump cards he hadn't used, and under the guidance of Yuwen Yuwen Xinzhang, he had even mastered a high-level inherited Dao Force!

Yet he hadn't had time to use these methods before he was defeated.

Experiencing such a failure for the first time in his life filled Yuwen Yuwen Donghao's heart with bitterness.

On the main viewing platform, Yuwen Yuwen Xinzhang glanced at his son's lonely back and smiled:

"His temperament is too impetuous; suffering this defeat is a good thing."

A Martial Arts Master sitting beside him nodded: "Brother Yuwen is right. Yuwen Donghao is still young; after being polished by this, his future will be limitless."

"Young, you say?"

Yuwen Yuwen Xinzhang looked at Li Fei's back in the distance.

That one is the truly young one.

"So amazing, to actually hide his real body in the dirt pit."

Ning Xing said in amazement.

Like Yuwen Yuwen Donghao, he hadn't thought of this point at all at the time.

Ning Tang Chuan glanced at him: "Do you know why you all ignored this point?"

"Why?"

"If Li Fei had used Ghost Shadow from the beginning, Yuwen Yuwen Donghao wouldn't have been fooled so easily. But Li Fei only suddenly used this method after being blasted by Yuwen Yuwen Donghao's Deep Rock Force so many times. Every time he was blasted before, he jumped straight out of the pit, which had already caused Yuwen Yuwen Donghao to form a cognitive inertia. That last time, he also jumped out of the pit first before using Ghost Shadow, which is how he successfully fooled Yuwen Yuwen Donghao."

Ning Tang Chuan patiently analyzed it for his junior brother.

"So amazing!"

Ning Xing praised sincerely.

"When dealing with such an opponent, you must use your brain more when you fight."

Ning Tang Chuan said.

"Understood, Senior Brother."

Ning Xing nodded earnestly.

In the upcoming 8-to-4 match, Ning Xing's opponent would be Li Fei, which was why Ning Tang Chuan had been having his junior brother pay attention to Li Fei from the very beginning.

When the bracket was confirmed, Ning Tang Chuan had firmly believed that both Li Fei and his own junior brother would enter the top 8 and eventually meet!

The battle between Yuwen Yuwen Donghao and Li Fei was the last match of the morning; after it ended, there would be a halftime break.

Come 2:00 PM, the 8 contestants who lost in the morning would hold ranking matches to determine the ninth through sixteenth places of this tournament.

Yuwen Yuwen Donghao did not appear; he gave up on the afternoon ranking matches.

With his strength, even if injured, he could easily defeat his opponents and take ninth place, but he didn't come.

To him, not entering the top eight was a failure!

Although the reward for ninth place was much better than sixteenth, Yuwen Yuwen Donghao didn't care.

He was not lacking in such resources.

Both were students of Tianqu University; yesterday, Zhuo Buping was in a position of wanting something he couldn't get—he wanted a better ranking but had to give up because of his injury.

Today, Yuwen Yuwen Donghao had it within his grasp but didn't care at all.

The same university, two different lives.

For the other contestants, having one less Dao Foundation powerhouse as a competitor was naturally a good thing.

The afternoon ranking matches were very intense and exciting.

In the end, a disciple from Mount Pudu Temple took ninth place, becoming the person with the highest ranking in this tournament after the eight peerless prodigies.

That evening, all the major newspapers reported on the duel between Li Fei and Yuwen Yuwen Donghao, using nearly half of their space to describe the match.

The remaining half was a look ahead to the upcoming battles of the peerless prodigies!

Wu'an University's Wang Wang Fengqing vs. Shangqing Sect's Gan Gan Jingcheng.

Wu'an University's Li Fei vs. Daluo Sect's Ning Xing.

Mount Pudu Temple's Ming Qi vs. Yuhua Sect's Liao Xin.

Mount Pudu Temple's Ming Cheng vs. Daluo Sect's Ning Tang Chuan.

These were the upcoming quarter-finals!

Among the eight peerless prodigies, only Gan Gan Jingcheng of the Shangqing Sect and Ming Qi of Mount Pudu Temple had incorporated five types of implants.

Therefore, when dividing the eight people into brackets, there was an intentional effort to keep these two in different halves.

Then, as the host, the Shangqing Sect specifically manipulated things to put the two from Mount Pudu Temple in the same half, which was a suppression tactic against the Buddhist sect.

Finally, they ensured that Ning Tang Chuan, who had incorporated four types of implants, avoided the half where Gan Gan Jingcheng was located.

Thus, the final result became: Upper half: Li Fei, Ning Xing, Wang Wang Fengqing, and Gan Gan Jingcheng.

Lower half: Ming Qi, Liao Xin, Ming Cheng, and Ning Tang Chuan.

In the upper half where Gan Gan Jingcheng was, the opponents were clearly weaker, while in the lower half, regardless of whether Ming Qi of Mount Pudu Temple or Ning Tang Chuan of Daluo Sect entered the finals, they would first have to go through a bitter battle.

Major newspapers all made predictions for tomorrow's quarter-finals in their papers:

"Although Li Fei, the 'First in History,' won against Yuwen Yuwen Donghao today, he also had a certain amount of consumption. Tomorrow his opponent is Ning Xing of the Daluo Sect, who, like Yuwen Yuwen Donghao, has also incorporated two types of implants.

The Daluo Sect's inheritance is stronger than Tianqu University's, and Ning Xing's strength should also be greater than Yuwen Yuwen Donghao's. Most importantly, Li Fei's trump card has already been exposed in advance, so the probability of Ning Xing winning tomorrow is higher."

"Wu'an University's other peerless prodigy, Wang Wang Fengqing, battles the Shangqing Sect's Gan Gan Jingcheng. There is no suspense in this match; both are peerless prodigies, one is 22, the other 25. One has only incorporated two types of implants, while the other has already incorporated five. Gan Gan Jingcheng will definitely win!"

"In the lower half, the match between Mount Pudu Temple's Ming Qi and Yuhua Sect's Liao Xin also lacks suspense. Five implants against two implants; Ming Qi will definitely enter the top 4."

"The last match is Mount Pudu Temple's Ming Cheng against Daluo Sect's Ning Tang Chuan. Ming Cheng has also only incorporated two types of implants, while Ning Tang Chuan has incorporated four; the outcome is equally obvious."

"Therefore, the match with the most suspense tomorrow remains Li Fei's."

"Just how far can this 'First in History' go? Let us wait and see!"

"..."

Almost all the newspapers gave similar viewpoints.

For tomorrow's four matches, three of them had no suspense; only Li Fei's match remained an unknown.

And regardless of how heated the outside world was, Li Fei just quietly practiced in his room step by step.

He had currently practiced 【Flame Core】 to the mid-stage of Body Breaking, further strengthening his physique, and his total blood volume had risen from 356 to 362.

But it was almost impossible to break through 【Flame Core】 to the Qi Transformation stage within these few days to practice a new Innate Qi.

And without new Innate Qi, he had no way to condense high-level internal energy for the time being; against a powerhouse like Gan Gan Jingcheng, he would be at a great disadvantage in terms of internal energy.

Inside the room, Li Fei finished his practice of 【Flame Core】 for the day.

Then he took medicine and began practicing 【Illusion Leaf】.

This meditation went very smoothly, and he did not enter a dream.

Li Fei hadn't entered a dream at all these past few days, making him unable to figure out the pattern of entering dreams for the time being.

It wasn't until late at night that Li Fei finished his practice of 【Illusion Leaf】.

He still didn't go to rest, but instead took a pile of bottles and jars out of his suitcase to start mixing medicine.

After more than half an hour, Li Fei mixed a cup of liquid that emitted a foul stench; he drank the liquid in one gulp without changing his expression.

This was the poison he had mixed for himself!

The upgrade of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl required the absorption of energy that would cause damage to one's own body; compared to the elixirs used for cultivation, taking poison directly had a better effect.

But after taking the same kind of poison many times, the body would develop a drug resistance, and the energy the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl could absorb would become less and less.

Li Fei had to switch to a completely new type of poison.

This was also an important reason why Li Fei had been following Mo Mo Yizhou to study poison classes.

He had to constantly formulate new poisons for himself.

From the time Li Fei obtained the Nether Spring Poison until now, the "Self-Use Nether Spring Poison" he had improved was already version 11.6!

The "11" represented that this was the 11th brand-new type of poison.

The "6" after it represented that this was the 6th minor modification.

After Li Fei took the poison, he began to observe the growth of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl's energy.

He found it somewhat funny when he thought about it himself; after studying poison for so long, the target he poisoned the most was actually himself...

No poison master in the world could be as "ruthless" as Li Fei!

It was no exaggeration to say that in the field of "chronic poison," Li Fei felt that he should be even more formidable than Mo Mo Yizhou, a poison master who had also mastered the "poison formula"!

Because Mo Mo Yizhou couldn't test poison on himself like Li Fei, nor did he have something like the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl to obtain data feedback intuitively.

"In the end, will I become the most awesome Poison Saint in the world before I even become a Martial Saint?"

Li Fei thought with some amusement.

A moment later, he "watched" the energy value of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl rise continuously and nodded with satisfaction.

This revision was very successful and finally made the upgrade speed of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl faster again.

After several months of accumulation, the energy value of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl had reached 98% at this time; Li Fei estimated that he would complete the upgrade in the early morning!

A few hours later, Li Fei waited for the upgrade of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl while sitting in meditation:

【Level: 17, 1%

Blood Soul: 394

Blood Soul Skills: Blood Rage (Strong), Blood Fiend (Strong), Blood Might, Blood Spring (Strong)

Transformation Skill: Blood Demon】

With this upgrade, his Blood Soul increased by 32 at once; Li Fei's total Blood Soul count was only a few short of breaking the 400 mark.

As his physique continued to strengthen, he should be able to exceed it in these few days.

Inside the room, Li Fei revealed a satisfied smile and quietly waited for dawn.

September 22nd, 8:00 AM.

The stands around the Tianqu University competition field were already full of people.

Today would be the direct duel between the eight peerless prodigies, so today's ticket price was at least double what it was yesterday!

"First match, Wu'an University's Wang Wang Fengqing vs. Shangqing Sect's Gan Gan Jingcheng!"

Without any extra nonsense, once the match time arrived, the staff announced loudly.

On the stands, Gan Gan Jingcheng, who had a beard, touched his chin, stood up with a relaxed expression, and walked down toward the steps.

On the other side, Wang Wang Fengqing also walked down the steps calmly.

The battle of prodigies was about to break out!

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