The sudden Heavenly Dao Proclamation completely interrupted Ren Ye's "conversation" with his Divine Avatar.
He slowly woke and cursed, "Fucking hell, this Melon is going too far! I only just got through my standing penalty today, and he immediately sent me a challenge... he's timing it precisely so he can beat me up!"
"Is he that sure he can take me?!"
"That son of a bitch even had the Heavenly Dao pass along his taunts. What an arrogant Melon."
"...!"
Ren Ye trembled with anger. For the moment, he stopped thinking about completing the Emperor Scripture and devoted himself to figuring out how to pry this Melon's mouth open and piss hard into it.
We're both fighting in our real bodies, damn it. Do you really think I'm afraid of you?
Little Bad King slowly lay down on the ground. Instead of answering the Heavenly Dao immediately, he began seriously considering his specific plan for the duel.
First, he certainly wasn't arrogant enough to assume that just because the man called himself Melon, he really was a pushover Ren Ye could handle however he liked. The man had a full 22 victory points and had eagerly challenged him twice in succession. That alone was enough to show... his opponent was an extremely formidable figure, surely among the very best Heavenly Prides in the entire Myriad Spirits Garden Secret Realm.
The Heavenly Dao's announcement had been very clear: when two Travelers dueled on the platform, the winner received four victory points. If they continued winning in their second and third matches, each round awarded one additional point. In other words, working backward from Melon's current 22 victory points... 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 came to exactly 22.
By that calculation, he had very likely won four consecutive matches without