The following battles impressed Wang Bugui and his companies very much. The geniuses from those sects were quite outstanding with several of them being really prominent. Leng Yueyan excelled in Tao. Every gesture and motion of her patterns was the expression of Tao, making her totally unbeatable! Ning Zhe was somehow comparable to her. He got a deep understanding of Buddha dharma and also had some achievements with his cultivation on 30 Foot Golden Body Manifestation, so he was nearly uninjured after the battle.

There was also a swordsman, Feng Tianming, who had beaten up his opponent without meeting any retaliation at all while keeping his sword in the sheath all the time. In addition, Meiqing was also a powerful opponent and even comparable to her senior sister, Jiang Lianyue. Lu Qianchen was number two in Sect of the Nine Heavens, but his power should never be underestimated.

Zhao Changge combatted with Jiang Lianyue. Being in Void Returning Realm for seven years, her strength was profound. After a fierce fighting, Zhao Changge finally defeated her by exerting several unique skills. But Jiang Lianyue lost the battle by a narrow margin. She created a disadvantage and was found by Zhao Changge. Then he hit her with a spear as violently as a mad dragon. She had no time to react and was knocked out of the field.

Lyu Hao won easily. He was superior to his opponent with the achievement of a small realm. When he attacked fiercely as usual and formed his halberd trend, the other guy was on the ground already. The last battle was Wang Bugui via Zhang Lan from Sect of the Nine Heavens. Zhang Lan was known as number one except the two geniuses in Sect of the Nine Heavens.

“I don’t think he can win this time. His opponent is Zhang Lan from Sect of the Nine Heavens, number one below geniuses!”

“Zhang Lan is well-prepared. Wang Bugui is in danger!”

“Haha. Let’s see how he flees this time!”

…

The cultivators off the field started to discuss him again. Some people had seen the strength of Zhang Lan. Even if he was not invincible, he’d never suffered any losses. Being thoughtful and good at observing every move of his opponent, he had already gotten all the details of the fighter when he started to attack boldly.

“This is Wang Bugui who you’ve been talking about? Plain aura, no talent. His blood vigour is also insufficient in addition to his weak Innate Prana Power. He is very lucky that he can fight all the way until now!”

“This dude looks mediocre anyway and you guys lost to him. You must have underestimated him in the first place and got beaten up by his body movements.”

Among the crowd appeared some elders, all of whom had a cultivation base of Void Returning Realm with several of them even nearly reaching Voiding Realm. It was not easy for cultivators to cultivate themselves in Age of Dharma Decline. But they also knew that this period was a genuine Great Age. They were born at the wrong time. With no talent and great support, they had to work really hard to reach this level.

But it was rare to reach Void Returning Realm in Age of Dharma Decline. The people with it should be called the stronger. Even the disciples in each sect had a lot of resources, only the most talented one was able to reach Void Returning Realm early. This kind of person was less than five, not to mention those in the middle and later periods of Void Returning Realm. Only geniuses in each sect were capable of reaching that level.

Peak stage of Void Returning Realm was the ultimate level that most of the old generation could reach. The people with a cultivation base of Void Returning Realm had already become elders in a sect. How cruel it was in the Age of Dharma Decline! With white hair, these elders were observing Wang Bugui carefully with telekinesis, but they found nothing surprising. He was mediocre indeed.

The elders had come to the conclusion that Wang Bugui made it to the last 16 just depending on his body movements and forbidden weapons. This battle would be his last one. The cultivation base of Zhang Lan was the middle period of the Void Returning Realm, while he had just stepped into Void Returning Realm even before the earlier period. With the differences between their cultivation bases and the forbidden weapons of Sect of the Nine Heavens, the result of this battle was doubtless.

“Haha. I’m not sure about it. Wang Bugui always has better luck than other people. Do you dare to gamble with me this time? I still place bets on him. He is my God of Wealth!” Yu Wude walked to the cultivators, who were grinding their teeth for their losses yesterday, and laughed. They were pissed off and hated his guts now.

“Well, well. You are the one who won the treasures of my disciples yesterday. Today, let me gamble with you. A half-holyness machete. I got it during my travelling. It’s as powerful as before and is the best treasure I’m carrying with me. I say Zhang Lan will win. Do you dare to take it?” An elder said as he took out a silver machete, the influence of it spreading around.

“No comer will be rejected!” Yu Wude grinned broadly.

“Ok. An old fellow like me will gamble with you, too!”

“I also place bets on Zhang Lan!”

The elders placed bets successively. They thought they had known everything about Wang Bugui. He was gonna lose undoubtedly this time. The treasures that their disciples lost yesterday were all precious, so it was best to win them back. Yu Wude couldn’t help laughing at the sight, let alone the happiness in his inner heart. The treasures owed by the elders were more valuable. Yu Wude just couldn’t take his eyes off them.

He wanted the contest to start now, so an earlier obtainment of the valuable treasures would be possible. Meanwhile, their facial expressions would be wonderful, too. The disciples were also expecting to see Wang Bugui being beaten up and Yu Wude suffering a complete loss.

Moments later, a clear bell rang and the final battle for the last 16 started.

“Sky Thunder Defeating!”

Zhang Lan roared loudly and started with thunder pattern, the most powerful skill, to test Wang Bugui. A peal of thunder appeared suddenly. Wang Bugui swung sideways to avoid it and continued to swing reversely to escape another peal of succeeding thunder. Then without hesitation, he jumped backwards and did a somersault, successfully avoiding two peals of thunder in a row.

The elders off the field nodded their approval for the marvelous body movements of Wang Bugui. But they sneered at once and thought, “The thunder was just a test. The following attacks will be more violent. How are you gonna avoid them then?”

“Ground Evil Scorching Defeating!”

Roaring again, Zhang Lan held a red rune in his hand. He pinched it with two fingers and turned it around while reciting spells quickly. The rune was burned out in an instant, causing dozens of thick roaring flames appearing in the field and rushing directly to Wang Bugui. He firmly believed that Wang Bugui was merely good at body movements. Next, he just had to watch out for his forbidden weapons.

However, the body movements of Wang Bugui were too mysterious and unpredictable that geniuses like Leng Yueyan, Ning Zhe and Feng Tianming were also stunned. Some headmasters in the palace started to be aware of that, too. Some situations seemed inescapable to them, but Wang Bugui just had the capacity to pull through easily. He did it naturally and smoothly without any stagnation.

With this skill, he was already superior to all other young people. Right now he was like a dancer in the raging fire. The roaring flames around him were not for killing, but to serve as a setoff for his mysterious and changeful postures. Seeing this, Zhang Lan added a Dipper Scorching Rune and started to conjure after the recitation of Dipper Scorching Defeating.

Dozens of heaven flames were added to the field, almost filling up the location of Wang Bugui. To everyone’s surprise, he could still handle the situation freely. Speeding up his motion, he shuttled back and forth inside the firestorm like a ghost. It was kind of like he was playing with them with no injury at all.

In less than two minutes, the fire was gradually depleted. How mysterious! He was not injured after shuttling back and forth inside nearly one hundred heaven flames. Zhang Lan frowned and conjured again, calling out 36 huge fireballs to smash Wang Bugui. Being as dynamic as before, Wang Bugui jumped back for dozens of meters and dodged the first two fireballs.

He further ran for dozens of steps, changing his postures step by step, and consecutively avoided dozens of fireballs. He stopped suddenly in the last step, turned back and did a somersault with two jumps following to make an adjustment. Next, he swiveled for three circles, narrowly missing nine fireballs. Then he did a kink-weight to land on the ground and rolled over to avoid the last fireball.

“Eh! This is too fantastic!”

“He actually did it?!”

At the sight, all people off the field were dumbfounded. Even the old generation gasped, too. The speed, angle and timing of the fireballs were all tricky, but Wang Bugui did not get hit at all. Zhang Lan stopped attacking temporarily and stared at him. Other geniuses were also frowning, pondering.

“You loser! Stop using your body movements and fight with him directly!” A cultivator yelled. More of this, he may finally win at last.

Hearing this, Yu Wude tittered and said, “Elder brother! Go with something real. Show them what a genius truly is!”

“Yes. Elder brother, put the fear of God into them!”

“There is no need to pretend. Hurry up! Win this contest!”

Lyu Hao and Zhao Changge also cried loudly, making all the people stunned on the spot. The three guys called him elder brother?! They were geniuses. What on earth did he have to make them obey him? Except for the headmasters and elders in the palace, all cultivators here stared at him oddly. They just called him a loser.

“You can attack me with ten movements. Do everything you can to defeat me. I will take them all without any evasion!” Wang Bugui said resolutely. His momentum abruptly increased, and he released enormous aura.

Zhang Lan found that he was subdued by the aura, and even his hands and legs shook a little. Cold sweat was dripping down slowly from his forehead. This was the real power of Wang Bugui. All people misjudged him. Now he had no other options but to exert his energy to fight back. He gave out several thunder patterns first and then called out several burning fire pillars to rush toward Wang Bugui.

“Boom! Boom!”

The exploding sound incessantly lingered on. Wang Bugui did not escape as he said before and took all the attacks with his physical body. He was bathing in the thunder flames and slowly walking on and on without even blinking his eyes.

Under the attacks of the thunder fire, he was clumping more and more heavily. It was as if he stamped on people’s hearts with heavy steps. They could feel the tension from far away. Some cultivators with a lower-level cultivation base just couldn’t stand the tension and half knelt down on the ground. The power was truly horrible. Wang Bugui slowly walked to the front of Zhang Lan, staring at him expressionlessly.

“There are ten movements. It’s over!” Wang Bugui said coldly. Then he lifted up his hand and clenched it.

“Whoosh!”

The aura around him rushed crazily to his fist. Meanwhile, he was secretly circulating prana power and blood to concentrate them into his fist. Zhang Lan wanted to run, only to find that his legs couldn’t move. It seemed that Wang Bugui had used some kind of method to fix him there. There was nowhere to run! His eyes were wide open with horror, which were reflecting a man’s shadow like a demon. Suddenly, the demon’s right fist dashed toward him!

“Boom!”

Zhang Lan was hit by a heavy blow, so his protective armour and aura were smashed inch by inch. The fist didn’t pause and went all the way into his body. Then with them being the center, terrifying aura rays of light burst out and the blazing white light overshadowed the heaven and earth. This was Break Heaven Fist of Blood Sea. Its mixed two fist meanings poured out together with all prana power, blood and aura of Wang Bugui.

The blazing white light slowly faded away and there appeared Zhang Lan lying on his stomach, motionlessly. Horrific cracks were clearly visible throughout the entire field. And Wang Bugui was standing there calmly. At this moment, all cultivators were utterly speechless. Even the headmasters and elders in the palace couldn’t say a word either. They didn’t regain consciousness until he came down.

They made way for him automatically without saying anything. When Yu Wude took away the treasures with a burst of laughter, they still held their breath. The elders who had placed bets and cultivators who appeared as spectators were all amazed by this battle.

And now everybody knew that Wang Bugui was a real genius. He just pretended to be weak before, in order to help Yu Wude and his buddies get the money.

His real power was frightening, even scaring off some promoted geniuses. He was a formidable enemy indeed and almost comparable to Leng Yueyan. Wang Bugui stunned all with one battle and became world-renowned from now on.