"Examiner, I am ready."
What Gongsun Sheng had not expected was that Xu Taiping showed not the slightest fear at his threat. Instead, intense battle intent surged in his eyes, as though he could hardly wait to fight him.
"Gongsun Sheng, are you ready?"
The Examiner nodded slightly to Xu Taiping, then turned toward Gongsun Sheng on the other side.
"I am ready."
Gongsun Sheng put on a pair of gloves made from spirit beast hide and fur, then narrowed his eyes and assumed his fist stance.
"Since both sides are ready, let the match begin!"
Through the Sound Transmission Talisman, the Examiner's voice instantly carried across the entire Sword-Suppressing Sword Platform.
Boom! Boom!
Almost as soon as his voice rang out, two violent surges of energy erupted in the arena, stirring up ripples of force. Then a lion's roar rang out.
With the phantom of a Furious Lion condensed from fist aura accompanying him, Gongsun Sheng hurled a punch at Xu Taiping ahead.
This was Gongsun Sheng's signature technique, the Lion-Slaying Fist.
Because this fist technique had to be performed with true qi, and its training also involved spell incantations, it could no longer be considered a martial art, but a spell.
Boom!
Before the punch arrived, the Furious Lion formed from fist aura had already opened its blood-basin maw and pounced on Xu Taiping.
A phantom condensed from true qi like this was no illusion. Its power was nearly equivalent to a physical attack.
Bang!
But to everyone's surprise, Xu Taiping shattered the Furious Lion phantom condensed from true qi with a single Ox Horn Crashes the Mountain.
Immediately afterward, Xu Taiping vanished from his spot.
In the blink of an eye, he enveloped Gongsun Sheng in dozens of fist shadows.
"Nothing but a trick of the eye!"