Chapter 127: The Final is Coming
The final day of competition is finally here, with two semi-finals in the morning and a world-renowned final in the afternoon.
The stadium was still full, and the layers of stands were crowded with Dongyi people in white clothes and white robes, looking like snow-capped mountains.
The draw for the first semi-final began.
Qin Yue was the first to be drawn, she looked up at the big screen, waiting for her opponent.
Someone in the Dongyi audience suddenly chanted Cambrian Tianfeng's name, which immediately caused a chorus. If Cambrian Tianfeng defeats Qin Yue first, and then defeats Zhang Yue in the final, in the eyes of Dongyi people, it is a perfect verification of the name of Tianqi Buxing.
Soon Qin Yue's opponent was withdrawn, it was Zhang Yue, an internal match of Tianqi, and the Dongyi audience was suddenly dumbfounded, shaking their heads in disappointment.
At the beginning of the battle, Qin Yue didn't spare his hand at all, and the Songyun palm technique made it perfect all the way, worthy of the elite martial artists who were selected through layers of layers.
Zhang Yue did not use master-level internal strength, and used the Spring Tide Palm Method and Hongying Step to deal with it.
Two figures swirled and fluttered on the field, palms flying, strong wind overflowing, after three minutes of fierce fighting, Zhang Yue was a step ahead and won the victory.
At the end of the game, there were bursts of boos from the stands.
Qin Yue glared angrily at the stands, while Zhang Yue just glanced at it lightly, his face remained silent. For these Dongyi people, it is useless to be angry and angry, and only winning the final is the best response to their rudeness.
The next match is Cambrian Maple against Canaro from the Southern Star Republic.
The Nanxing Republic is the second largest country in the world after Tianqi in terms of territory and population. Located in the Southern Continent, the Southern Star Republic was once an overseas territory of the Republic of Nice on the Western Continent, and was allied with Tianqi in World War II, defeating its former lord and gaining independence.
After independence, the Southern Star Republic developed rapidly, and after the war, many scientific and technological talents from the Western Continent immigrated here, and the Southern Star Republic surpassed the Western Continental powers and became the world's first scientific and technological power. With the support of strong national strength, martial arts talents are also emerging in an endless stream.
Among the countries of the world, the Tianqi Empire is a well-deserved number one power in martial arts, as for who is the second in the world, it was originally recognized as Dongyi, but in recent years, the development of the Nanxing Republic has been extremely strong, and it has challenged the position of Dongyi.
Southern Star player Canaro rushed to the semifinals, in addition to the luck factor, his own strength is also very strong, and he is also a senior martial artist.
Standing on the stage, Cannaro's hair shimmered golden in the sunlight. In China, he is known as the blonde lion and is invincible to his peers.
Before the competition, Cannaro also had ambitions to compete for the title. However, the successive births of Cambrian Tianfeng and Zhang Yue completely dispelled his arrogance.
Martial arts master, and two in one match, Canaro simply can't describe his bad luck. No matter how confident he was, he didn't dare to expect that he could defeat the master.
As soon as the bell rings, the game officially begins.
Canaro sighed to himself, having given up on the game in his heart. He didn't want to be like Miao Jiulong of Tianqi, who fought so hard that he was seriously injured and was sent back to China overnight for first aid.
After a symbolic offensive round, Canaro took advantage of Cambrian Tianfeng's counterattack and flexibly jumped out of the ring and signaled to the referee to admit defeat.
Also against the martial arts master, Cannaro's performance was far inferior to Qin Yue in the previous game, strictly speaking, there were even some "fake fights", but the Dongyi audience still responded with warm applause and cheers.
When Cannaro came off the court, there were spectators throwing flowers at him.
The blonde lion smiled and waved to the enthusiastic audience, the Southern Star Republic and Dongyi were enemies during the Second World War, but relations between the two countries warmed up quickly after the war, and now they are almost quasi-allies. Especially in recent times, the two countries have frequently exchanged high-level visits, and people-to-people exchanges have also been rising wave after wave, and the two countries are in a "honeymoon period", but the relationship between Nanxing and Tianqi has a tendency to deteriorate.
After the morning game, when the players left the field, Cambrian Tianfeng glanced at Zhang Yue, with an inexplicable chill in his eyes.
By the time of the lunch break, the news about the final had been overwhelming in various media.
Martial arts masters generally do not participate in public competitions, let alone appear on live television, as the backbone of martial arts who can fight against modern firearms, martial arts masters from all countries are treated like treasures, such as in Tianqi, any martial arts master will be knighted and become a member of the nobility. Other countries are similar, because the number of martial arts masters is scarce, and the treatment is even higher than that of Tianqi.
As aristocrats and guests of the state, how could they participate in martial arts competitions with some performances? The places where they show their skills are the secret battles of the regional-level big powers, or the secret occasions for confrontations between countries, and these places are a little far away from the lives of ordinary people.
Under normal circumstances, due to the age limit of the Youth Martial Arts Classic, there will be no martial arts masters to participate, and being able to advance to martial arts masters before the age of twenty-five is definitely a genius-like figure, and one of them should dominate the arena and make the championship meaningless. But in this competition, there were two masters, Cambrian Tianfeng and Zhang Yue, at the same time, which has to be said to be an outlier.
Moreover, Tianqi and Dongyi are enemies of the two major wars, and the current relationship is also relatively tense, which has stimulated great enthusiasm among the people of the two countries, and they both want to see their own players overwhelm each other.
The finals have not yet begun, and the viewers who have locked the channel in advance are increasing, and the ratings are climbing. Especially in Tianqi and Dongyi, the ratings are about to explode, overpowering all other popular TV shows.
The last day of the tournament was on Saturday, which greatly increased the number of people who watched the live broadcast. Everyone waited with bated breath in front of the TV, enduring the frequent bombardment of one ad after another.
The companies that funded the contest were already smiling from ear to ear, and the advertising was far more effective than they had originally imagined.
Zhang Yue's name has also become known throughout the country with this game, and the streets and alleys are talking about this amazing young genius.
The Blue Sky Bar in Qinglan City has undergone an emergency set-up, changing the theme of the bar to the upcoming finals, with the logo and mascot of the competition filling all corners of the bar, and a large portrait of Zhang Yue posted next to the bar. This afternoon, the bar will broadcast the final live on a big screen TV.
Zhang Yue's two apprentices, Yu Wenjie and Guan Baobao, undoubtedly occupied the best viewing position, and the bar owner promised them free consumption and all-you-can-drink in order to pull them over.
Before the game started, the bar was already full, and I had to improvise a bunch of simple plastic stools without backrests to make an emergency.
It's not much more comfortable to have a drink in a bar and cheer on with like-minded friends than to watch the game alone at home.