A title defense match is different from a training match.
Training exercises are just drills, usually conducted between people who are familiar with each other.
However, the title defense battle is a real Combat with a winner and a loser. Although the gymnasium has strong guards to protect the athletes and no one will die, injuries are sometimes unavoidable in order to win.
The defending champion must accept at least ten challenges, or remain unchallenged for half an hour, before being allowed to leave the ring.
Each challenger needs to pay a challenge fee before they can take on the challenge.
The challenge fee is determined by the defending champion.
If the challenger successfully defends their title, the challenge fee belongs to them.
However, if the challenger fails midway, the Awakened defeats the defending champion can take all the challenge fees.
Although the challenge fee is determined by the defending champion, there are also unwritten rules.
Generally, the challenger who defends the title will set the challenge fee based on their skill level.
Ling Yi, on the other hand, set a challenge fee of ten thousand.
Ten thousand is the cost of twenty First Tier crystal cores. This fee is not high, but it is not low either.
This is very difficult for ordinary Awakened.
Of course, for wealthy people, this amount of money is nothing.
At this moment, the gymnasium was packed with people, with at least a thousand Awakened gathered there.
More people continued to pour into the military sports stadium.
Fortunately, the gymnasium was large enough, and the arena that Ling Yi chose happened to be the largest one in the middle.
At this moment, Ling Yi was wearing a bright gold and red trench coat and oversized sunglasses, looking incredibly tacky, dazzlingly tacky.
Below the arena, some people were live-streaming, some were taking photos and videos, but most were just there to watch the excitement.
Ling Yi originally wanted to start his own live stream, but seeing that others were doing it, he decided not to bother.
As long as someone is streaming, it doesn't matter who's doing it.
"Is this Ling Yi? We Awakened are being ridiculed by this trash?"
"Damn, what is he wearing? He looks like a Joker."
"Give him a good beating later, just don't kill him. I'll pay for his medical expenses."
"We must teach this trash a lesson today. How dare an ordinary person provoke Awakened? Who gave him the guts?"
"Those in front, if you're not going to challenge me, then get the hell out of the way."
"Hey you guys in the back, stop pushing! You won't get a turn yet. The challenge starts in two minutes!"
"Why should I? I took the bus here at five in the morning just to beat this kid up, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten my revenge."
"How about we each take a punch?" someone suggested.
"So many people? How come each of them is getting punched?"
"The ones in front can just give up after landing their punch. I'll go last, you guys go first."
"Hey, do you think we're stupid? There are only ten challenges in total. And besides, I bet you're trying to pocket all the challenge fees, aren't you?"
Suddenly, a Loudspeaker appeared in Ling Yi's hand, and this Loudspeaker, like his clothes, was pure gold with red accents.
"Hey, you little trash, Laozi up!"
The Loudspeaker was incredibly loud, instantly drowning out the surrounding noise.
As he spoke, Ling Yi made a Slit Throat gesture, Awakened watching at the scene and in the live broadcast room to experience an instant surge of blood pressure.
"Listen up, Laozi. Today, every single one of you will face every challenge."
"If I say you're trash, then you're trash. What's there for you Awakened to be arrogant about? If you're not happy, then come and sign up to fight me!"
Ling Yi's words immediately made the scene even more lively.
The shouts of curses were almost deafening.
Ling Yi waved his hand, Loudspeaker disappeared. Then, he stood there with his arms crossed, looking at everyone with a defiant expression.
"Damn, this kid really deserves a beating. If I could beat him up, I'd definitely want to punch him."
In a corner on the second floor, the cousins Gao Haoming and Gao Jiaming were also present.
They both feared and hated Ling Yi.
Gao Haoming, in particular, still feels Yinyin sting in his face.
"What did Young Master Song say?" Gao Haoming asked Gao Jiaming.
"Oh, don't even mention it! Young Master Song said Ling Yi can't die in the city!"
"Why?" Gao Haoming, puzzled.
"I don't know. Your dad said the same thing, that we shouldn't get involved and should just watch the show."
"Sigh, we can't get involved. Ling Yi can even fight Sixth Tier Demonic Beast. These idiots down there, anyone who goes is just asking for death."
"That's true. I doubt anyone who's watched the Beast Arena livestream would get involved."
"Damn it, isn't Ling Yi supposed to be unawakened? How come he's so powerful? Even if his parents left him a large number of crystal cores before they died, he couldn't possibly be this strong!"
Gao Jiaming and Gao Haoming were unaware of the Rule Seed, because Gao Lingyun was not, and dared not, tell them about it because of Song Qiming's orders.
In fact, very few people in the entire Ancient Country knew the root of the Rule Seed.
Most people only know that the Rule Seed is powerful, and that obtaining it will lead to Yifei success, like Song Qiming.
But the Rule Seed involve far more than Song Qiming imagined, directly impacting the future of Blue Star and the Exotic Beast Planet.
"Brother, Ling Yi definitely has some kind of treasure on him!"
"Well, knowing there's treasure is useless; if Young Master Song has his eye on it, there's no chance for us."
"Brother, how about we go find Uncle Six?"
"Stop it! Forget about this. If we offend the Song Family, we're all finished."
"Damn it, this is so frustrating," Gao Haoming, annoyed.
I don't know if she was upset because her baby was about to be taken by Song Qiming, or because she couldn't get revenge on Ling Yi.
Gao Haoming and his group could see this, then naturally everyone else could too.
Everyone knew that Ling Yi acting strangely, but no one dared to make a move easily.
Ling Yi's strength is a bit frightening.
Of course, only a few people in Baihai City knew how powerful Ling Yi was; most people didn't know that Ling Yi had fought against a Sixth Tier Demonic Beast in the Beast Arena.
His strength is comparable to the Pinnacle the Nine Apertures Realm.
A few minutes passed quickly, and the arena match officially began.
The military gymnasium is different from the Beast Arena. The Beast Arena is privately owned and has a nominal partnership with the government.
The military gymnasium belonged to the City Guard Army, which was officially owned.
Not every city has Beast Arena.
But every city must have a military gymnasium.
That is why, although the Awakened were making a lot of noise, no one dared to challenge the rules of the gymnasium.
At this moment, the first Awakened to pay the challenge fee had already jumped onto the arena.
This is a newly Awakened at the Spirit Absorption Realm.
He was about fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a black training uniform with the epaulets of " Dafeng Intermediate School " hanging on his shoulders.
Dafeng Intermediate School is the Dafeng City Municipal Intermediate Awakened School.
It's equivalent to a university in the previous life.
However, this is a university exclusively for the Awakened.
If all goes as expected, after successfully passing the Lesser Awakened Trial, Ling Yi will also go to Dafeng Intermediate School and become a student in the Dafeng Intermediate School Experimental Class.
Dafeng City is more than 200 kilometers away from Baihai City. This kid actually traveled that far just to beat me up, and he still managed to get ahead of everyone else in the queue.
How much does he want to beat Ling Yi up!
"Boy, the Awakened must not be insulted! The Awakened are the backbone of humanity's defense, and their future Glory will be on the battlefield. To insult the Awakened is to die!"
Ling Yi rolled his eyes. If this were fifty years ago, I might have taken what you said seriously.
At that time, there were many ordinary people and few Awakened. The Awakened did pay a considerable price to protect humanity and could indeed be called heroes.
But look at the situation now, how many Awakened, and how many are just ordinary people?
Now, the living space for ordinary people has been squeezed to almost nothing.
After high school, ordinary people can hardly find a decent job; any available positions are occupied by Awakened.
In fact, most organizations explicitly stipulate that they only recruit Awakened and not ordinary people.
Moreover, some places have regulations prohibiting ordinary people from dating or marrying Awakened.
In some public places, ordinary people are not allowed to enter.
Some more radical individuals even believe that ordinary people shouldn't exist at all.
Moreover, how many of the Awakened can actually go to the battlefield?
Do you really think that just because someone is an Awakened, they can go to the battlefield?
Do these so-called heroes, the Awakened, even deserve the title of "hero"? It's laughable.
Ling Yi naturally didn't bother wasting words with this extra.
Instead, she beckoned to him with her finger.
He's only at the Spirit Absorption Realm; he can't even unleash his innate skills. One slap and he'd be crying.
However, Ling Yi restrained his power and did not intend to use his full strength.
Of course, Spiritual Power and innate skills cannot be used, or rather, they cannot be revealed yet.
This is one of his trump cards.
Since everyone says they are ordinary people, then we are ordinary people now.
Although Spiritual Power skills cannot be used, it does not mean that the Qi and Blood Talent cannot be used.
This world has skills related to Qi and Blood, but I've never heard of anyone having Qi and Blood Talent.
When a person's physical constitution reaches a certain level, they can generate Power of Qi and Blood. Qi and Blood Skills are the means of releasing Power of Qi and Blood.
Of course, that's what Ling Yi found online, but the specifics are no longer verifiable.
Because in the past hundred years, only one person has generated the Power of Qi and Blood, and he was just an ordinary person.
He was ultimately killed for offending a powerful Awakened.
The concepts of Power of Qi and Blood and Qi and Qi and Blood Skills are now just a passed-down idea, and their authenticity can no longer be verified.
Ling Yi currently only possesses the Qi and Blood Talent, but lacks any skills related to Qi and Blood.
Therefore, he needs to create it himself.
For example, right now, Ling Yi directly circulated his Power of Qi and Blood to his feet, and instantly felt his body become much lighter.
He easily dodged the attack from the Xiao Longtao in front of him.
However, Ling Yi's face also darkened. This extra had actually attacked his temple directly, clearly intending to kill him.
If he were truly just an ordinary person, there would be no way he could dodge that punch; if he were hit, he would surely die.
Although those at the Spirit Absorption Realm are quite weak, their physical constitution is at least three to five times that of ordinary people.
This extra keeps saying that Awakened are heroes who protect humanity, but is this how they protect humanity?
No, perhaps in the mind of this Awakened, ordinary people are no longer considered human!
This guy is actually a radical!
"You actually managed to dodge my attack? No wonder you're so arrogant, you seem to have some skill. But no matter what, you're going to die."
Damn it, you're just throwing a bunch of random punches, and you act like you're some kind of genius.
This extra has way too many lines, damn it! I'm going to get out of here!
Ling Yi channeled his Power of Qi and Blood into his right hand, a crimson flame igniting on his fist, and then punched at the extra...