The Battle Against Tyrone

"Kid, becoming a Saint-level powerhouse isn't easy, so don't go sticking your neck out!"

Tyrone glanced at Zhao Nan with disdain and spoke.

"So you're saying you won't leave, and you insist on fighting here?"

Zhao Nan looked at Tyrone and asked. Then he turned to Rudy. "What about you? What do you think?"

Rudy heard Zhao Nan's question. Though he scoffed inwardly, he thought it over. Zhao Nan was a Saint-level powerhouse, after all, and Rudy had no idea what tricks he might have up his sleeve. It was best not to provoke him.

Besides, what Rudy wanted was still in Tyrone's hands. He could let Zhao Nan wear Tyrone down, then swoop in and take advantage.

So he said, "You'd better deal with that guy first!

Even if I don't fight here, that guy won't agree to leave."

Hearing Rudy's words, Zhao Nan cursed him inwardly. What a shameless bastard.

If he didn't know how this had all started, Zhao Nan might really have believed Rudy was a decent person.

But having read the original story, Zhao Nan knew that neither of them was any good.

The two of them had tried to subdue Bebe's parents, but they refused. First, they killed Bebe's father. Then, after Bebe's mother gave birth to him in Wushan Town, they killed her too.

More precisely, Tyrone had killed her.

Naturally, Zhao Nan wasn't going to say that aloud. How would he explain knowing it?

Instead, he went straight to Tyrone. "Looks like we'll have to settle this with a fight."

Hearing Zhao Nan, Tyrone let out a mocking laugh.

"Rudy, is this your plan? Have this kid wear down my battle-qi first, then come fight me yourself?"

Tyrone ignored Zhao Nan's question and turned to shout at Rudy.

Rudy didn't answer. He just stood atop the Black Dragon and shrugged.

Seeing that Rudy had nothing to say, Tyrone couldn't be bothered with him anymore. He turned to Zhao Nan.

"Kid, are you really going to interfere?"

"I'm not trying to interfere. But if you fight on my turf, the people here could get hurt."

Zhao Nan looked at Tyrone calmly as he spoke.

Tyrone was taken aback, then said, "And if you fight me, won't the people here be in danger too?"

Zhao Nan shook his head and replied calmly, "No.

I don't think it'll be hard to take you down. The people of Wushan Town won't be in danger."

Tyrone flew into a rage. He glared at Zhao Nan and roared, "Fine! Fine!

Since you're so eager to die, I'll show you that there's a world of difference between Saint-level powerhouses!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Tyrone swung the longsword in his hand. A flash of light burst from the blade, and a vast, hazy sword gleam dozens of meters long slashed through the air straight toward Zhao Nan.

Zhao Nan watched the incoming attack, his expression calm. With a turn of his hand, a massive sword appeared in his grasp. He raised his arm slightly and shouted, "Fiftyfold Waves!"

With that roar, the giant sword in Zhao Nan's hand surged forward with tremendous momentum and crashed into the enormous sword gleam.

The moment the blade met the sword gleam, the attack vanished into thin air, like a flame falling into snow.

But Zhao Nan's sword didn't slow down in the slightest. It continued straight toward Tyrone.

Seeing this, Tyrone hurriedly raised his sword in front of him, trying to block Zhao Nan's attack.

Boom!

With a deafening crash, Zhao Nan's giant sword slammed into the sword Tyrone had braced in front of himself.

"Ah..."

The instant Zhao Nan's giant sword touched Tyrone's, Tyrone felt an immense force crash into his body.

A scream escaped his lips.

Zhao Nan hadn't planned to kill Tyrone outright. Once he sensed Tyrone was injured, he eased off the force behind his sword and stopped releasing the power of Pulse of the Earth.

Most people, when using Pulse of the Earth, could only redirect the attack. But for Zhao Nan, controlling its force wasn't particularly difficult.

From the very beginning of his cultivation, Zhao Nan had used his extraordinary mental strength to train specifically in controlling his attacks.

So even when using an attack infused with the profound mysteries of the laws, he could still control it with ease.

That was why Tyrone hadn't been killed by Zhao Nan's single strike.

In the original story, Linley's Pulse of the Earth attacks were the sort that couldn't be defended against. Zhao Nan's attacks were the same.

After that one move, Zhao Nan put away his weapon and stepped back several paces. He said coolly to Tyrone, "Well?

Do you still want to keep fighting?"

After Zhao Nan stepped back, Tyrone finished steadying his breathing. He took several deep breaths, then looked at Zhao Nan with lingering fear before saying, "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhao Nan. I, Tyrone, was out of line. I'll leave now!"

If you couldn't win, you admitted defeat.

That was already better than what most people in the Coiling Dragon World did.

Who knew how many people died outright when they couldn't win?

Besides, Tyrone understood that Zhao Nan had held back. Otherwise, he might have died from that one blow.

Hearing Tyrone, Zhao Nan smiled. "It's fine. It was probably just a misunderstanding!"

After saying that, Zhao Nan turned toward Rudy, who was standing atop the Black Dragon. "Mr. Mage, what do you think about this?"

Rudy knew that if Zhao Nan had defeated Tyrone with a single blow, then he clearly wouldn't stand a chance either.

So Rudy decided to back down as well.

"Haha, didn't I say just now that I never wanted to fight here in the first place?"

Zhao Nan laughed when he heard that. Then he said to Rudy and Tyrone, "In that case, I won't keep you two. I'll head down first!"

With that, Zhao Nan descended straight to the ground.

Rudy and Tyrone watched him leave, exchanged a glance, then took off and flew straight out of Wushan Town.

Zhao Nan paid no attention to what Rudy and Tyrone did. The moment he landed, he seemed to hear Linley and the others cheering.