Chapter 11: The Duel
If there is only one round in this contest, there is no doubt that Shi Xiaoling is the rightful winner.
Unfortunately, the training base's martial arts test uses the same 10-round format as a fighting tournament, and as long as one side is not knocked down or automatically concedes, the match will be played for 10 rounds, with only a one-minute break between each round.
In the previous 29 trainees and instructor battles, none of them were able to make it to five rounds, and most of them lost or conceded defeat in one or two rounds. There has never been a student who has a clear upper hand in a certain round, the difference is only in the length of time of support.
No one expected Shi Xiaoling to perform so well in the first round, and although the students were competitors to each other, most of them couldn't help but applaud Shi Xiaoling's wonderful performance.
Zhou Jie was extremely depressed in his heart, if he hadn't lost his first move because of the light enemy, and his momentum was firmly suppressed by Shi Xiaoling, he would never have fallen behind in the first round.
Shi Xiaoling's strength was indeed much beyond his expectations, but whether it was Zhenyuan cultivation, athletic talent or fighting skills, Zhou Jie was still confident that he would be better than the other party, and the scene in the first round should definitely be reversed.
During the one-minute break, Zhou Jie sat in the corner of the competition venue and stared at Shi Xiaoling diagonally opposite, the raging anger in his eyes made people shudder.
In the second round, when the referee loudly announced "start", Zhou Jie's heavy punch had already swung out fiercely.
At the same time, Shi Xiaoling's figure flickered, and he jumped away with a beautiful sliding step, not only just avoiding Zhou Jie's heavy punch, but also slashing at Zhou Jie's neck with a knife in his left palm.
The timing of this sliding step evasion and palm counterattack was extremely clever, it seemed that Shi Xiaoling had long expected Zhou Jie's route of attacking with a heavy punch, and just found the gap in Zhou Jie's neck and attacked with his palm while avoiding Zhou Jie's heavy punch.
Although the angry Zhou Jie desperately wanted to rely on continuous heavy punches to suppress Shi Xiaoling in one fell swoop, he didn't expect that the opponent would find a gap in the enemy with only one punch.
Seeing that Shi Xiaoling's hand knife slashed his head and neck, Zhou Jie knew that if he was hit, he would inevitably fall to the ground on the spot, so he had no choice but to stop the offensive and first set up a hand knife that hit Shi Xiaoling with his elbow joint.
Shi Xiaoling immediately launched a comprehensive attack after seizing the opportunity with one move, urging Zhenyuan to unfold the "Thunder Palm" in a set of ancient martial arts layer by layer, with a flexible and changeable pace, and launched a fierce attack on Zhou Jie.
Zhou Jie lost the lead again due to the rash advance, and had to fall into a passive situation of defending more and attacking less again, just like in the first round.
Although he was extremely anxious in his heart, the more anxious he was, the more passive he became, Shi Xiaoling's True Yuan strength was only slightly weaker than him, and sometimes it was even above his imagination in terms of the sophistication of running True Yuan. In the case of losing the opportunity, although Zhou Jie asked himself to be better, he was never able to recover the situation.
The five-minute contest passed quickly, and the second round ended, and Shi Xiaoling still had the upper hand on the scene.
The students in the audience cheered loudly for Shi Xiaoling, and even many instructors couldn't help but applaud. No one would have imagined that Zhou Jie, the strongest special training instructor in the training base, would fall behind in two consecutive rounds.
Cai Haohua sat in his office and watched the surveillance screen intently, and Cai Haohua couldn't help nodding his head again and again for Shi Xiaoling's performance in these two rounds. If Shi Xiaoling won the first round against the opponent's light enemy, then in the second round, he won with the wisdom of anticipating the enemy's opportunity.
Shi Xiaoling obviously expected that Zhou Jie would fight back frantically as soon as he came up in the second round, and he was fully prepared early, and as soon as he came up, he cleverly seized a gap after Zhou Jie's onslaught to counterattack in time, and grasped the initiative again in one fell swoop.
In addition, he changed a set of ** in the second round, which obviously made Zhou Jie very uncomfortable, so it seems that the advantage on the field is even greater than in the first round.
Fortunately, Zhou Jie's strength is better after all, although the scene is always at a disadvantage, but relying on his excellent physical talent and a deeper Zhenyuan background, he finally came up with it, and did not let Shi Xiaoling take a bigger advantage.
After gaining the upper hand in two consecutive rounds, Shi Xiaoling's confidence and momentum will be further strengthened, and Zhou Jie is afraid that he will become cautious after being frustrated twice.
"It seems that this duel is likely to turn into a protracted battle, but I don't know if Dao Shi Xiaoling's True Yuan Reserve will be enough to support it for that long. Cai Haohua still has some doubts in his heart.
The ensuing battle situation was as Cai Haohua expected, Zhou Jie finally put away his contempt for Shi Xiaoling after two consecutive rounds of setbacks, knowing that the opponent may not have an advantage in strength, but it is definitely a rather difficult opponent, and then measuring Shi Xiaoling by the standards of three years ago is bound to suffer a lot.
From the third round onwards, Zhou Jie adopted a steady strategy, no longer seeking to crush Shi Xiaoling in one fell swoop, but using his advantages in true thickness and athletic talent to steadily put pressure on Shi Xiaoling.
Shi Xiaoling also understood that once Zhou Jie made up his mind to change his strategy, he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to have the advantage as he did in the first two rounds.
Fortunately, he knows a lot of ancient martial arts routines, and there are also many mental methods to urge the true yuan, and they are all very skillful. Zhou Jie never dared to let go too much before he fully adapted to Shi Xiaoling's moves, and the two fought for a while.
In this way, the two showed their abilities, and fought for five rounds in a row, although Shi Xiaoling could no longer gain the upper hand, but relying on changeable moves and **, he was not very passive.
At the end of the seventh round, there was thunderous applause on the sidelines, and most of the students and instructors stood on the sidelines and applauded Shi Xiaoling's wonderful performance.
Shi Xiaoling, who has always been inconspicuous among many students, actually survived to the seventh round in the duel with the strongest special training instructor Zhou Jie, and he didn't suffer much on the scene, which really made every spectator sincerely admire.
The moves and routines used by Shi Xiaoling in each round and the ** that urged the true yuan were very different, but he was so handy that he couldn't see the slightest astringency and reluctance.
Many instructors on the sidelines asked themselves if they were not able to master so many sets of ancient martial arts, and they couldn't help but be amazed by Shi Xiaoling.
Zhou Jie's face was pale, and he never thought that this Shi Xiaoling would be so difficult. After seven rounds of fighting, Shi Xiaoling actually used seven different sets of ancient martial arts** in a row, and even the True Yuan Heart Method with fist and foot kung fu was changed accordingly.
This made Zhou Jie never fully adapt to Shi Xiaoling's routine, in view of the loss of the first two rounds of light enemy attack, he never dared to attack too aggressively, so he could not fully exert his advantage in strength.
Listening to the cheers of many students and instructors on the sidelines, Zhou Jie felt more and more uncomfortable. Originally, I wanted the chief instructor Cai Haohua to see how Shi Xiaoling made a fool of himself, but he didn't expect it to become a joke that everyone was looking at the strongest special training instructor in his base.
There are still three rounds left, Zhou Jie looks at Shi Xiaoling's appearance and seems to have enough strength left, and the remaining three rounds are estimated to be able to hold on, if he continues to be entangled like this, then it will be a question whether he can finally win this duel.
After thinking about it, Zhou Jie finally felt a chord in his heart and decided to use his nirvana.
At the beginning of the eighth round, Zhou Jie did not rush forward to attack, but began to swim around Shi Xiaoling.
The footwork under his feet is quite strange, and there seems to be no discipline between advancing and retreating, but the speed of movement is quite fast, and he is obviously quite skilled in using this set of footwork.
Shi Xiaoling wanted to step forward to attack several times, but as soon as his body moved, Zhou Jie had already shifted his direction in a wrong step, so that Shi Xiaoling had to stand up and guard against Zhou Jie's surprise attack.
After a few times in a row, Shi Xiaoling found that he had no way to start at all, and Zhou Jie's footwork was getting faster and faster, and his palms were constantly changing his posture as he went, obviously silently preparing to attack.
Because Shi Xiaoling couldn't keep up with the rhythm of Zhou Jie's strange footwork, he couldn't attack if he wanted to, so he simply stood in place, just kept going back and forth sideways to guard against Zhou Jie's body changes.
The students and instructors watching the battle on the sidelines were a little inexplicable, and they didn't understand what Zhou Jie was doing, but they felt that his footwork was getting faster and faster, and gradually even the figure was blurred.
Although everyone didn't see the fame, they could also feel that the atmosphere in the martial arts arena was becoming more and more solemn and tense, and almost everyone had a hunch that Zhou Jie would either not make a move this time, and once he did, it would be an earth-shattering stunt.
Cai Haohua, who was watching the battle in the office, couldn't help frowning. He could see clearly that Zhou Jie used a secret technique called "Star Picker" in the ancient martial arts technique, and the seven-star step under his feet was also a rather mysterious footwork in ancient martial arts, which complemented each other with the "Star Picker" technique, which was a nirvana to defeat the enemy with one blow.
This kind of martial art requires a cultivator's physical fitness very high, and it also consumes a lot of true yuan, and it pays attention to hitting or even killing with one hit, which is a rather vicious killer move.
In the entire training base in Ganquanzhou, only quite senior instructors are qualified to come into contact with this kind of lethal martial arts, and ordinary instructors are not qualified to learn, let alone those who participate in the training.
As for the person who can really practice this trick "star picker", Zhou Jie, as the strongest special training instructor in the training base, is probably the only one who can practice this trick except for the chief instructor Cai Haohua.
"Star Picker" has only one move, which is a big killing move that combines the true essence of the whole body in one blow, and the power is several times that of ordinary moves, and it must be used at the same time as the Seven Star Steps to exert its maximum power.
For all those who learn this trick, this trick "Star Picker" is a life-saving stunt, and it must not be used easily unless it is absolutely necessary, and I didn't expect Zhou Jie to use it in the exam duel with Shi Xiaoling.
Although Shi Xiaoling has shown not weak skills, after all, he is slightly inferior to Zhou Jie in terms of absolute strength, and it is difficult to keep up with Zhou Jie's rhythm of stepping on the Seven Star Steps, once he is hit by Zhou Jie's "star picker", he will not only lose on the spot, but may even be in danger of his life.
Cai Haohua couldn't help but regret it, he arranged for Zhou Jie to fight against Shi Xiaoling, the original intention was just to force Shi Xiaoling's limit and see how much potential he had in ancient martial arts.
Seeing that Zhou Jie's footwork was getting faster and faster, and the palm in his hand was flying, it seemed that he was about to use the "star picking hand", and Shi Xiaoling was still standing in place in a daze, not knowing the severity, Cai Haohua couldn't help but be very anxious.
He didn't want to see Shi Xiaoling die in the hands of Zhou Jie like this, but his office was far away from the martial arts room, and it was too late to rush over now.
Cai Haohua grabbed the walkie-talkie at hand and shouted loudly: "I am Chief Instructor Cai Haohua, please send someone to the competition room to stop the game immediately! Also, let the medical room also send emergency personnel to rush over, hurry! Hurry ......up."