Old Jack took one look and immediately panicked. "Oh! Tian Gang, Mu Yi, my dear boys, don't kill each other! Can't you teach other people a lesson when it's time to fight? You're both so powerful—one kick, and it'll be either you dead or me dead! I'd be heartbroken if either of you got hurt!" Old Jack had watched plenty of matches in the Underground Boxing Ring. One careless kick could kill or seriously injure someone. He had no desire to watch his two money trees slaughter each other.
Li Yang smiled faintly and said nothing. If their strengths had been close, fighting each other might indeed have led to an accidental killing. But Li Yang was far stronger than Tian Gang now, so that was impossible.
Tian Gang shot Old Jack a cold glance and said fiercely, "Old man, I'm not one of your training camp fighters. I'm not without freedom! I came to the Underground Boxing Ring to fight experts. If you keep stopping me, Miss Mary will be my agent tomorrow. Miss Mary has approached me several times already. Hmph!"
Old Jack immediately dared not speak. The fighters in those training camps had no freedom. The moment they joined, they signed contracts with the camps and had to earn three million dollars for them before they could regain their freedom. The other five fighters under Old Jack could never leave him.
But Tian Gang was different. He came from China and had entered the Underground Boxing Ring in search of challenges. Old Jack had become his agent only because of his reputation. Yet there was a clause in Tian Gang's contract: Tian Gang could leave Old Jack at any time. The contract Li Yang was about to sign would be the same.
Tian Gang was said to come from an ancient Lineage in China. Even the Gene Potion he had taken was a Class 2 Gene Potion. No one knew exactly how much money he had, but everyone knew one thing: Tian Gang simply did not spend money. As one of the ten elite fighters, his appearance fee exceeded a million dollars. One could imagine how much he had earned, yet he was extremely harsh on himself and was never seen spending a cent.
"If you want to fight, then fight. Be careful, my dear boys!" Old Jack put on a deeply concerned expression. Perhaps all he truly cared about was his money.
Tian Gang's gaze returned to Li Yang, blazing with heat and battle intent.
"Mu Yi, we'll fight here!" Every muscle in Tian Gang's body seemed to be boiling. He felt an overwhelming urge to fight at once. Only by fighting the strong could the strong become stronger. It was that very urge that had driven him, in a fit of anger, to leave his Lineage and come abroad.
Li Yang smiled faintly. "Sure. This place is fairly spacious too."
Tian Gang and Li Yang immediately took their positions and faced one another.
Bang! Tian Gang pulled a weighted lead block from his leg and threw it onto the ground.
Bang! Bang! Bang! ... Tian Gang took off his sleeveless shirt, revealing a lead-block vest on his body. The vest was at least ten centimeters thick!
Everyone stared dumbfounded as Tian Gang kept pulling weighted lead blocks off his body. Altogether, those blocks must have weighed several hundred jin. The other five fighters could not understand it no matter how they thought about it. Tian Gang's body was only so large—how could he possibly have carried all those lead blocks on himself? Yet they were equally shocked by something else. They had never seen Tian Gang remove lead blocks before. That meant he carried several hundred jin of lead blocks even in daily life. It was normal for fighters to train with weights, but carrying such weight even while living day to day was beyond imagination. After all, muscles constantly enduring such immense pressure would likely be injured.
"I respect you, so I've decided to fight you with all my strength!" Tian Gang looked at Li Yang, pride in his eyes. The reason he could always bear such weights without worrying about strained muscles and the like was because he possessed the Internal Family True Qi unique to eastern China. The Internal Family True Qi constantly nourished his muscles, filling them with vitality. However, his Internal Family True Qi, which had only reached Hundred Crystals, was inferior in combat to his physical strength, which had reached a thousand crystals.
"Attack!" Li Yang could not even be bothered to say more. If he told them that Overlord Xiang Yu had placed a Gravity Restriction on him, making him bear five thousand jin at all times, they probably would not believe him even if they heard it.
Gravity Restriction was perhaps a common restriction in the Demon Realm. The Demon Realm took the cultivation of the physical body as its great path, and among the various methods of cultivating the body, applying a Gravity Restriction was a very common one.
Yet even while bearing five thousand jin, Li Yang, with strength exceeding ten thousand crystals, could still deal with Tian Gang easily.
"Watch out!" Tian Gang barked coldly. The instant his body moved, he rushed before Li Yang like a phantom. His legs twisted viciously toward Li Yang's body like a pair of shearing pincers. Li Yang's expression remained calm. With a relaxed shift of his feet, he slipped free of Tian Gang's attack...
Tian Gang immediately stood upright in midair and looked at Li Yang. In Chinese, he asked, "You know Internal Family True Qi too?" Tian Gang's speed just now had come from a combination of lightness skill and explosive physical strength. Li Yang had moved later, yet escaped the attack in one motion. Clearly, Li Yang's speed far surpassed his own, which was why he came to that conclusion.
Hearing him, Li Yang smiled. "You guessed right. I have Internal Family True Qi, and I've already reached the Innate Realm!"
Tian Gang was instantly stunned. He knew very well how formidable Innate True Qi was. It was energy measured in thousands of crystals. If Li Yang had truly reached the Innate Realm, then with his Internal Energy and physical muscle strength erupting together, Tian Gang would have no power to fight back at all.
"Don't worry. I'll only use physical strength to fight you. But when it comes to movement speed, I can't just stand there and let you hit me, so I have no choice but to use Innate True Qi." Li Yang appeared rather innocent. A rare expression appeared on Tian Gang's utterly blank face—perhaps it could be called a smile.
"Good. I'll let you see the might of the Underground Boxing Ring's Chain Sweep Kick!" Tian Gang's face returned to its stiff, cold look. His legs whirled madly like huge chopping blades, slashing toward Li Yang in an unbroken chain. Once the Chain Sweep Kick was unleashed, Li Yang had no room to attack.
"You're strong, but so am I!"
Li Yang lashed out with a whip kick. His formidable physical strength erupted, and the howl produced by the violent rippling of the air immediately rang out!
Crack!
Li Yang's right leg whipped fiercely against Tian Gang's right leg like a powerful lash. Tian Gang immediately felt an intense pain in his right leg, which then went numb, leaving him unable to stand.
One strike, and he was down!
Tian Gang sat helplessly on the ground. His right leg could not move at all. Fortunately, Li Yang had used a whip kick. Though it carried hardness within softness, it would not break his leg. Tian Gang could use his true qi to ease it, and he should recover after a few days. But for now, he could not even move his right leg an inch.
"I lost!" Tian Gang looked at Li Yang, his eyes burning with even fiercer battle intent. "But I won't give up. One day, I'll definitely defeat you!"
Li Yang merely smiled. "You're welcome to challenge me anytime!" Then Li Yang turned and walked toward the dumbstruck Old Jack. He did not know whether Old Jack had been stunned because his money tree—Tian Gang—had been injured, or because Tian Gang had been knocked down by a single kick from Li Yang...
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