You Ditched an R-Rank, Now That I’m an SSR, You Wanna Cry? Chapter 85
At the same time.
Inside the high tower of the Contracted Spirit Arena, the competition was reaching its most exciting moments!
The audience in Gold City were immersed in the blood-pumping battles between contracted spirits, unable to tear themselves away.
The commentators in all the major livestream rooms were equally fired up, their voices booming like thunder.
Xia Yuan and Mo Shiyu had been winning continuously, and had already climbed to the fifteenth floor!
Although the opponents they’d faced were powerful, mostly high-level SR Contracted Spirits,
they were completely outclassed by Xia Yuan, and were all eliminated before the opposing spirit tamers could even manage to shout surrender.
Their path had been entirely smooth so far.
However, because Xia Yuan had encountered the SSR Molten Forgemaster earlier and had fought him, he had spent a fair amount of time there.
Demon Blade Princess and Alcas with Eternal Night Judgment, along with several other SSRs, were ahead of him.
There were also many surprise dark-horse spirits that had burst out from mid-tower, climbing quickly.
But Xia Yuan’s pursuit was extremely rapid; even when he met SSRs, he still caught up to the tower’s leading pack!
Fifteenth floor.
The elevator doors opened, and Xia Yuan used his old trick again.
In a flash, he closed the distance to the opponent’s contracted spirit.
Technique Forward Rotation, Cang!
Technique Reverse Rotation, He!
Two forces ravaged the arena!
The opponent had seven contracted spirits, and six of them were gone in an instant!
“Huh?”
Xia Yuan was a little surprised.
After this practiced combo, there was still one contracted spirit surviving!
Moreover, that spirit used agile footwork and sharp perception to dodge the attack, and even managed to save its spirit tamer!
Commentator Ziyue, her voice pinched through her nose, exclaimed:
“It’s finally appeared!”
“The contracted spirit that withstood God Yuan’s first lightning assault!”
“Let’s see who this noble guest is... huh?!”
She slapped the table with both hands in disbelief and said:
“Wait a minute, the contracted spirit that took the hit is actually a B-rank contracted spirit!”
“Oh my!”
“A B-rank spirit survived under God Yuan’s attack, something even SRs couldn’t do!!”
“Incredible!”
The entire venue was taken aback!
Even Xia Yuan glanced up at the B-rank tag above the opponent and felt a bit astonished.
Although he never looked down on lower-rank spirits and treated all contracted spirits equally,
from what he’d seen, generally the higher the rank, the stronger the power!
A B-rank spirit appearing on the Peak Tournament stage was already quite rare.
Let alone one that could survive his lightning assault.
At that moment, the opposing spirit tamer and that B-rank contracted spirit finally made out who had instantly killed their six companions.
SSR!
And it was the notorious Northern Chuan God of Slaughter, Xia Yuan!
The spirit tamer immediately attempted to surrender, but was stopped by the B-rank contracted spirit wielding twin blades.
“Hahaha...”
“At last, I’ve finally met one!”
“An SSR!”
The B-rank spirit that had dodged Xia Yuan’s attack was a human-shaped spirit: athletic, dark-skinned, and holding two curved blades.
Wild beauty flowed from her without restraint!
When she saw Xia Yuan, there was no fear in her eyes; instead, excitement blazed!
“Master, let me be willful this time!”
“I want to fight against the pinnacle of spirit ranks, to see exactly what makes them stronger than us low-rank spirits!”
Ziyue’s excited voice suddenly blared:
“Dear viewers!”
“I searched for her information!”
“She’s actually the biggest dark horse of this Peak Tournament. With a B-rank level 100 stat sheet, she slaughtered many SR-rank contracted spirits and dragged the team up to the fifteenth floor!”
“What an astonishing record!”
“She’s even broken the unspoken rule that everything below SR is insignificant!”
“Her name is… Black Lotus!”
Hearing that, Xia Yuan felt some interest and didn’t hurry to move.
Black Lotus held her blades, her feline, vertical-pupil eyes remaining constantly vigilant toward Xia Yuan.
When she heard the commentator, she sneered:
“Everything below SR is insignificant?”
“Who gave you the right to define contracted spirits by rank?”
“In my world, I was the strongest soldier in my country!”
“If you’re not strong enough, train harder, refine your skills, and one day you will become stronger!”
“That’s how I climbed step by step, until I cut those arrogant SRs down with my blade!”
Her gaze was as sharp as a knife when it landed on Xia Yuan, her expression excited and a little mad:
“Now…”
“I want to try to see if I can cut down an SSR with my blade!”
Black Lotus assumed a pouncing posture, like a hunting leopard.
A smirk tugged at Xia Yuan’s mouth as he slipped his hands back into his pockets:
“Oh? You’re brave.”
“To be honest, I quite admire your attitude...”
“So, I’ll give you a chance…”
He pointed at his neck, speaking with indescribable arrogance, “Cut me.”
Black Lotus gave an excited chuckle, “Then I have to thank you!”
As soon as those words fell,
she sprang forward and lunged at Xia Yuan.
A flash of blade light!
Black Lotus blurred past Xia Yuan; in an instant, countless slashes erupted around his body like a blossoming lotus!
“One of the twin-blade techniques!”
“Lotus-Slaying!”
Black Lotus landed with absolute confidence, but already felt that something was wrong with the feedback.
She turned abruptly and found Xia Yuan standing in place, not making any defensive moves, yet completely unscathed!
Black Lotus’s face registered disbelief, “What’s going on?!”
Xia Yuan looked a bit puzzled and said:
“Hey, hey, don’t tell me your village just got internet access and you haven’t watched my fight videos?”
“This kind of attack can’t pierce my Limitless Technique.”
“Come on, give me a slash that can cut open the world, even a dimensional slash!”
Black Lotus froze on the spot, “A slash that cuts open space? How could such a power possibly exist!”
Xia Yuan sighed, spreading his hands and wearing a disappointed expression, “If you can’t even do a space slash, then why are you talking about cutting me?”
After he obtained the Glint-Glint Fruit, he’d known that his Gojo Satoru template’s weakness—being cut by a dimensional slash—was gone.
Because even if he were struck by a dimensional slash, he could instantly elementalize, turning his body into light to avoid damage.
Maybe because it left a lingering grievance, Xia Yuan had an obsession with space slashes...
Black Lotus refused to believe it and spun her twin blades in dazzling patterns, a display of nearly supernatural skill that made heads swim!
“Twin-Blade Technique Two!”
“Web-cut!”
“Twin-Blade Technique Three!”
“Turbulent Edge!”
“Twin-Blade Technique...”
Xia Yuan was completely enveloped in blade light and sword qi, the air churning!
No matter how hard Black Lotus tried, her blades could not land on Xia Yuan. Every strike fell into the physical law of approaching infinitely close but never intersecting.
“Twin-Blade Secret!”
“Cycle of All Things Slash!”
Finding the right moment, Xia Yuan suddenly seized one of her blades, his eyes full of disappointment as he looked at her, “Enough. Your twin-blade style is disappointing. It’s not even worth one of the single blades in the three-blade style I know...”
Black Lotus tried to pull her blades free, but found them jammed fast by Xia Yuan, immovable.
Her expression went numb, and she said in disbelief, “How is this possible... how can the gap be this huge!”
Black Lotus had a premonition she might not beat Xia Yuan; she only wanted to display her strength, to leave even a single gash on him would have counted as a victory!
She didn’t expect to lose so miserably!
This could not even be called a fight; the difference between her and Xia Yuan was as casual as a father beating his son...
Her prideful twin-blade skill couldn’t even touch his body!
Xia Yuan understood.
So right now he was the world’s Hawkeye of the pirate world, huh...