Chapter 354: Return Once More
After Captain Ming left, Daoist Shi Yue turned and came up to the viewing platform. He first bowed to Zhang Yu and said, "Greetings, Profound Rectifier."
Zhang Yu nodded in return.
Shi Yue then cupped his hands to the cultivators who had come to watch the battle before facing Zhang Yu again. "Shi is ashamed. I have lost this match."
Tian Jiang asked in puzzlement, "Fellow Daoist Shi Yue, you clearly still had methods left. Why did you admit defeat on the spot?"
Shi Yue shook his head. "From the visualization diagram, I could tell that he was swift beyond measure and hard beyond measure. Just now, we were only several zhang apart. Since he had already pinpointed my location, he could have reached me in an instant. If I insisted on continuing, there would naturally still have been a contest to come. But once he broke my visualization diagram, I had no possibility of defeating him."
Tian Jiang glanced below and nodded. "That is true. This venue truly is too small. You would not need a thousand li—even a hundred li for you to maneuver in, and why would you have needed to concede, Fellow Daoist?"
Their strength lay in leaping through the air across a thousand li to strike their enemies. If this contest had not been fought at close range, the other party might not have been able to find Shi Yue.
Even if the visualization diagram had been broken, other methods could still have been brought to bear. Victory and defeat would yet have remained uncertain.
At that moment, an armored soldier walked over. Standing below the arena, he called upward, "Is Profound Cultivator Shi here?"
Shi Yue turned around. "I am here."
The armored soldier cupped his fists to him.