None of the eight contestants remaining were weak anymore.
Tong Qi and Ye Chen were evenly matched, fighting almost neck and neck.
Even after more than three hundred exchanges, Su Jiu still could not tell which of them held the upper hand.
This was arguably the fiercest match so far.
Ning Hai and Ling Cangjue could not help feeling a little nervous.
The two disciples were simply too close in strength.
Both excelled at swift attacks, though Ye Chen clearly had the edge. Yet Tong Qi's perception of danger was unexpectedly, frighteningly precise, allowing him to narrowly evade every attack and strike back.
As time passed, Tong Qi did spot a few openings in Ye Chen's fighting style. He was indeed skilled at swift attacks, but his defense seemed somewhat weaker. After a little thought, Tong Qi understood why.
"Quite a few disciples here favor using offense as defense. As long as they defeat their opponents quickly enough, the other side never gets a chance to attack, so naturally, they have no need to defend." Su Jiu explained this to Yun Huanling, her words coinciding perfectly with Tong Qi's thoughts.
But Tong Qi was not like the opponents Ye Chen had faced before. He was stronger than all of them, and even his attack speed was not much slower than Ye Chen's own.
What surprised Ye Chen most was Tong Qi's powerful perception of danger, which repeatedly made him wonder whether Tong Qi had awakened his perception talent early.
A folding fan and a longsword clashed in midair, sending showers of sparks flying.
From time to time, Tong Qi would pull a rib from his fan and fling it at his opponent, irritating Ye Chen to no end. Defense had never been his forte, but against an evenly matched opponent,