Recaps

Qin Yu returned to the Chi Lineage’s camp after defeating Jiang Hanning, earning the other competitors’ admiration for exposing the flaw in her Sword Dao without destroying it. The final match of the second round began between Ju Miaoting and Shangguan Anyu, whose opposing inherited Daos reached a stalemate as Qin Yu studied their foundations.

• Qin Yu returned to the Chi Lineage’s camp, where Chi Boqian and the other competitors praised his victory over Jiang Hanning.
• Nangong Xingyun announced the final match of the second round between Ju Miaoting of the Ju Lineage and Shangguan Anyu of the Shangguan Lineage.
• Ju Miaoting unleashed Annihilation Structure Forbidden Light while Shangguan Anyu used Stillness Scroll Analysis to capture and dismantle her changing spatial laws.
• Ju Miaoting continually reshaped her Annihilation Structure, preventing Shangguan Anyu’s analysis from catching up and bringing their opposing Dao Paths to a stalemate.
• Qin Yu watched the battle and began assessing the core principles of Ju Miaoting’s Primordial Annihilation Structure.

Ju Miaoting and Shangguan Anyu pushed their contest between Primordial Annihilation Structure and Stillness Scroll analysis to a clash of their Lineages’ guardian treasures, gravely injuring each other. Neither admitted defeat, and they summoned their treasures again as the second round continued.

• Qin Yu explained the strengths and limitations of Ju Miaoting’s Annihilation Structure Dao and Shangguan Anyu’s Stillness Scroll analysis.
• Ju Miaoting and Shangguan Anyu fought to a deadlock as she created and reshaped phenomena while he recorded and analyzed their changing rules.
• Ju Miaoting summoned the Primordial Annihilation Structure Jade, and Shangguan Anyu revealed the Stillness Scroll Mystic Lotus.
• Ju Miaoting and Shangguan Anyu unleashed their treasures’ supreme powers, and their collision damaged the arena and grievously wounded them both.
• Ju Miaoting and Shangguan Anyu each declared that they had not lost, then summoned their treasures again and continued fighting.

Ju Miaoting and Shangguan Anyu exhausted their supreme Dao arts in a fierce struggle, neither able to gain the advantage. Ju Miaoting then revealed the Stillness Delusion Brush and began staking her Dao foundation and lifespan on a forbidden attack, while Shangguan Anyu prepared his own hidden trump card.

• Ju Miaoting and Shangguan Anyu clashed with their Primordial Annihilation Structure and Stillness Scroll Analysis, each adapting to the other's changing Dao principles.
• Ju Miaoting unleashed Reopening of Myriad Phenomena, and Shangguan Anyu answered with Myriad Forms Return to Stillness, leaving both gravely weakened.
• Ju Miaoting admitted Shangguan Anyu's strength had surprised her, then decided to use a forbidden method that burned her Dao foundation.
• Ju Miaoting drew the Stillness Delusion Brush from her own origin light and invoked Stillness Delusion Return to the Abyss, risking her existence and lifespan to erase Shangguan Anyu's right to exist.
• As Ju Miaoting's brushstroke neared its target, Qin Yu recognized the power she was wielding, and Shangguan Anyu began revealing his last-resort trump card.

Shangguan Anyu turned Ju Miaoting’s existence-erasing attack back on her with the Wuhen Ancient Mirror, winning their battle despite suffering damage to his Fate Soul. He advanced to the next round while Ju Miaoting was rescued and left with a new insight into the origin of existence.

• Shangguan Anyu summoned the Wuhen Ancient Mirror and merged it with his Fate Soul as Ju Miaoting unleashed Stillness Delusion Return to the Abyss.
• Shangguan Anyu used Wuhen Mirror Name to redirect Ju Miaoting’s attack and replace the targeted coordinates with her own.
• Ju Miaoting’s divine ability backfired, damaging her Fate Soul, and Shangguan Anyu gave her a Nine Revolutions Origin Returning Pill and helped stabilize her.
• Two elders of the Ju Lineage arrived to take Ju Miaoting, and one thanked Shangguan Anyu for showing mercy.
• Nangong Xingyun declared Shangguan Anyu the winner, advancing him while Ju Miaoting was eliminated.

After the second round ended, Nangong Xingyun announced that the four Lineages’ guardian Ultimate Beast Huang would reveal their origin dharma forms before the final match. As the ancient beings approached, Qin Yu concealed his secret connection with Wanyan while Hua Yin vowed to kill him after the tournament.

• Nangong Xingyun announced that the four Ultimate Beast Huang would manifest their origin dharma forms before the final match and that lots would be drawn afterward.
• The four ancient presences approached from the east, south, west, and north as the contestants and Lineage heads watched.
• Qin Yu remembered his secret meeting and weighty agreement with Wanyan while Chi Mulin eagerly awaited the guardians’ arrival.
• Hua Yin blamed Qin Yu for ruining his schemes against the Ju and Chi Lineages and silently vowed to kill him after the tournament.
• The Myriad Worlds Graveyard shook as spatial barriers split open and the four Ultimate Beast Huang drew close to appearing.

Boundless Abyss Huang of the Ju Lineage and Wanyan Huang of the Chi Lineage descended into the Myriad Worlds Graveyard, revealing the opposing Source Daos of ultimate return to nothingness and the birth of all possibilities. As Qin Yu analyzed their Dao paths, the eastern and western skies began to rumble, signaling the arrival of the remaining two Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang.

• Boundless Abyss Huang emerged from a collapsing rift in the southern sky and manifested the Rift of Boundless Abyss as its origin dharma form.
• Hua Yin watched Boundless Abyss Huang with complicated feelings, while Qin Yu used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to analyze its existence.
• Wanyan descended from the northern sky amid silver threads representing countless possibilities and manifested its Source Dao string net.
• Nalan Yanqing, Xuanyuan Canglan, and Nangong Xingyun recognized Wanyan's Dao as the source of infinite possibility, while the gathered cultivators watched its many possible worlds and futures.
• Qin Yu understood that Boundless Abyss Huang represented the ultimate end of possibilities and Wanyan Huang their primordial beginning; both took their seats as rumbles announced the remaining two Huang.

Mystic Deconstruction Huang and Nameless Huang descended, completing the gathering of the four Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang in the Myriad Worlds Graveyard. After the four Lineages paid their respects, Nangong Xingyun announced the start of the final championship round draw.

• Mystic Deconstruction Huang appeared in the western sky, revealing a primordial manifestation that made cultivators doubt their understanding of reality.
• Qin Yu watched Mystic Deconstruction Huang and judged that the Void Emanation Realm had touched primordial logic.
• Nameless Huang appeared in the eastern sky, stripping away names and definitions as the Hua Lineage’s Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang.
• The four Huang gathered in their seats of honor, and their primordial Daos resonated, awakening projections of ancient worlds across the Myriad Worlds Graveyard.
• Ju Jinyu, Chi Boqian, Shangguan Lingxiao, and Hua Nongrui paid respect to their Lineages’ respective Huang.
• Nangong Xingyun announced the draw and official start of the prodigy tournament’s final championship round.

The final-round draw matched Ju Gongchen against Shangguan Anyu, Qin Yu against Ju Mohan, and gave Hua Jingmeng a bye into the final showdown. Ju Gongchen opened his battle against Shangguan Anyu with Primordial Annihilation Structure techniques that began freezing and erasing his opponent’s existence, leaving Shangguan Anyu on the brink of collapse.

• Nangong Xingyun announced the final-round draw: Ju Gongchen would face Shangguan Anyu, Qin Yu would face Ju Mohan, and Hua Jingmeng received a bye.
• Qin Yu and Ju Mohan exchanged respectful nods after learning they would meet in the second match.
• Ju Gongchen and Shangguan Anyu entered the arena to begin the first match of the final round.
• Ju Gongchen unleashed Silencing of All Sounds and Stranger's Gaze, suppressing sound and freezing motion around Shangguan Anyu.
• Ju Gongchen used Lonely Return to the Ruins and Seamless Trace to strike at Shangguan Anyu’s Fate Soul, freezing his timeline and stripping away his existence.
• As Shangguan Anyu began to dissolve, he shut his eyes and clenched his fist at the brink of life and death.

Ju Gongchen and Shangguan Anyu pushed their opposing Dao foundations to their limits in a contest that threatened both their Fate Souls. Ju Gongchen awakened the Ju Lineage’s Silent Origin Ancestral Seal and unleashed Beginningless Empty Chapter, while Shangguan Anyu began drawing out his own origin foundation.

• Shangguan Anyu used Sound of the Absolute Truth to question the origin of Ju Gongchen’s existence, but Ju Gongchen’s Dao recovered and strengthened.
• Ju Gongchen and Shangguan Anyu’s Ultimate Origin divine abilities clashed, gravely injuring both and leaving the outcome undecided.
• Ju Gongchen and Shangguan Anyu agreed that inherited divine abilities could no longer break their deadlock and prepared to draw on their deepest origin foundations.
• Ju Gongchen awakened the Silent Origin Ancestral Seal and used Beginningless Empty Chapter to return his Dao foundation to an undefined, formless state.
• Shangguan Anyu recognized that his analysis could find no structure to examine and began releasing a strand of deep black origin light from his Fate Soul.

Shangguan Anyu and Ju Gongchen pushed their opposing Dao inheritances to the brink in a duel that Qin Yu recognized as a contest over the authority to explain existence. As both prepared their final attacks, Ju Gongchen opened the Eternal Silence Abyss and unleashed a domain of annihilation across the arena.

• Shangguan Anyu used the Xuanji Fate-Unraveling Sword to attack Ju Gongchen’s Beginningless Origin with the power of analysis.
• Qin Yu used his Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to understand that the Ju Lineage traced existence to its beginning while the Shangguan Lineage questioned its foundations.
• Ju Gongchen and Shangguan Anyu endured severe backlash as their clash remained unresolved and both neared their limits.
• Nalan Yanqing, Xuanyuan Canglan, Murong Yunche, and Nangong Xingyun watched as the judges recognized the danger of the impending final strike.
• Ju Gongchen revealed the Primordial Silent Abyss Jade entrusted to him by Ju Jinyu and released all the reserves of his great Dao.
• Ju Gongchen cracked the jade talisman, opened the Eternal Silence Abyss, and spread a vast gray-white domain of annihilation through the Myriad Worlds Graveyard.

Ju Gongchen defeated Shangguan Anyu with the Eternal Silence Abyss, advancing to the final showdown. Qin Yu and Ju Mohan then entered the arena for the next match, which Hua Jingmeng believed Qin Yu would win.

• Shangguan Anyu used the Eternal Trace-Preserving Bell to halt time and strike at Ju Gongchen, but the Eternal Silence Abyss erased the time barrier and overwhelmed him.
• Ju Gongchen stood victorious while Shangguan Anyu collapsed, and Nangong Xingyun announced Ju Gongchen's win and advancement.
• Ju Gongchen helped Shangguan Anyu to his feet, and the two acknowledged each other's Dao before the crowd erupted.
• Hua Jingmeng watched Ju Gongchen and Qin Yu, judging that Ju Mohan was certain to lose to Qin Yu.
• Nangong Xingyun announced Qin Yu's match against Ju Mohan, and both geniuses entered the arena ready to fight.

Qin Yu and Ju Mohan began their arena battle, and Ju Mohan unleashed Reverse Annihilation Returning to Dust, a technique that rewrote cause and effect to erase the outcomes of actions. Qin Yu analyzed its principles and tried a sword strike, but Ju Mohan erased it before it could take effect.

• Qin Yu and Ju Mohan exchanged respectful greetings and agreed to fight with their full strength.
• Ju Mohan compressed his Primordial Origin and began Reverse Annihilation Returning to Dust, withdrawing his presence from the battle’s predetermined outcome.
• Nalan Yanqing and Xuanyuan Canglan explained that Ju Mohan’s technique altered the results of actions rather than attacking or defending directly.
• Qin Yu used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to analyze the cause-and-effect principles surrounding him.
• Ju Mohan closed in and used Return to Dust to erase Qin Yu’s newly formed sword intent as though it had never existed.

Qin Yu analyzed Ju Mohan’s Reverse Annihilation Returning to Dust and used the Realm-Severing Origin Brush to redefine the principle it relied on. His fate law began recording the erased processes in the arena, cracking Ju Mohan’s control over outcomes.

• Ju Mohan layered Reverse Annihilation principles across the arena, erasing Qin Yu’s attacks and actions as they formed.
• Qin Yu realized that Ju Mohan’s technique returned outcomes to a blank state while depositing their traces and backlash within Ju Mohan’s origin and Fate Soul.
• Qin Yu activated the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram and used the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Ring to analyze the principles of Reverse Annihilation Returning to Dust.
• Qin Yu explained that an outcome’s failure to form did not mean the process had never existed, exposing the central proposition behind Ju Mohan’s Dao.
• Qin Yu summoned the Book of Fate Law · Realm-Severing Source Pen and rewrote the principle so that a result proved its process had existed.
• Qin Yu’s fate law cracked Ju Mohan’s invisible laws and recorded the erased attacks and traces anew in the origin.

Ju Mohan fully opened the Primordial Annihilation Structure Original Source Realm, exposing Qin Yu to endless cycles of creation, destruction, and shifting possibilities. Qin Yu answered by unfurling the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to redefine the laws underlying the realm, and began explaining how all change depended on things having definitions.

• Qin Yu explained that his Book of Fate Law rewrote the rules governing established things, while Ju Mohan's Primordial Annihilation Structure traced them back to their origin.
• Ju Mohan unleashed the full Primordial Annihilation Structure Original Source Realm, where all things were constantly dismantled and reformed.
• The four Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang watched the duel and remarked on the opposing Dao Paths of Qin Yu and Ju Mohan.
• Ju Mohan sent countless versions and possibilities of Qin Yu crashing toward him to challenge the definition of his existence.
• Qin Yu opened the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter, freezing the realm's transformations and manifesting the eight great original sources on its pages.
• Qin Yu told Ju Mohan that change depended on things first possessing definitions, then turned the scroll's first page.

Qin Yu shattered Ju Mohan’s Primordial Annihilation Structure Origin Realm, but Ju Mohan continued the battle by summoning his Fate Soul origin divine weapon, the Radiance-Shaking Phoenix Mountain Sword. Ju Mohan’s sword severed Qin Yu’s temporal continuity, yet Qin Yu restored himself and prepared to answer with the sword Dao.

• Qin Yu used the Primordial Hongmeng · Great Luo Heavenly Chapter to dismantle Ju Mohan’s Primordial Annihilation Structure Origin Realm.
• Ju Mohan acknowledged Qin Yu’s Dao, then summoned the Radiance-Shaking Phoenix Mountain Sword and declared that he would show his true Dao.
• Ju Mohan performed the Phoenix Fall · Radiance Ember Sword Form, cutting apart the temporal coordinates linking Qin Yu’s past, present, and future.
• Qin Yu’s Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram and Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel stabilized the severed fragments, and he restored his continuous existence.
• Qin Yu explained that time could be severed but a proposition of existence could not, then said he would spar with Ju Mohan using the sword Dao.

Qin Yu used the Silent Origin Stainless Sword to break Ju Mohan’s Phoenix Fall · Radiance Ember by erasing the principle behind its temporal severance. Ju Mohan acknowledged the gap in their understanding of the great Dao, then prepared to unleash the second of the Three Forms of Radiance-Shaking Phoenix Mountain as their duel continued.

• Qin Yu drew the Silent Origin Stainless Sword and faced Ju Mohan’s temporal sword Dao.
• Ju Mohan unleashed Phoenix Fall · Radiance Ember, filling the arena with temporal fragments that severed the continuity of existence.
• Qin Yu explained that existence did not depend on time and used No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to collapse the foundation of Ju Mohan’s technique.
• Ju Mohan realized Qin Yu had broken his sword Dao at its root, then expressed admiration and renewed his fighting spirit.
• Ju Mohan announced the second form of Radiance-Shaking Phoenix Mountain, and Qin Yu readied himself to meet it.

Ju Mohan unleashed the second form of his Radiance-Shaking Phoenix Mountain Sword, using the Primordial Annihilation Structure to make the accumulated weight of existence crush Qin Yu. Qin Yu saw through the sword’s principle but had not yet revealed how he would respond as the mountains descended.

• Ju Mohan abandoned restraint and summoned the Primordial Annihilation Structure, causing the space of the Myriad Worlds Graveyard to sink under its weight.
• Ju Mohan named his strike Mountain Tilts, Abyss Falls, and formed countless gray mountains from the accumulated history, karma, and existence of the worlds.
• The descending mountains collapsed the arena into a deep pit and weighed upon Qin Yu, while spectators felt their Fate Souls grow sluggish.
• Wanyan, Nameless, and Mystic Deconstruction observed the clash as Wanyan recognized both fighters’ Dao Paths as rare supreme Dao Fruits.
• Qin Yu calmly analyzed how Ju Mohan’s second form suppressed existence at its source, while Ju Mohan asked what he thought of the strike.
• The first gray mountain cracked the arena’s divine-stone foundation, and Qin Yu remained standing beneath the ten thousand descending mountains.

Qin Yu analyzed Ju Mohan’s Mountain Tilts, Abyss Falls and questioned the premise that existence must bear the weight of its past, prompting Ju Mohan to gain a deeper insight into his sword Dao. Ju Mohan then unveiled the third form, Slash of the Unborn, opening a fissure into the Emptiness before existence began.

• Qin Yu used No-Thought Absolute Silence Sword to dismantle the principles behind Ju Mohan’s Mountain Tilts, Abyss Falls without destroying the technique by force.
• Qin Yu’s final strike questioned why existence must forever bear its past, causing the gray mountains to dissolve and Ju Mohan to recognize a deeper path for his primordial annihilation structure.
• Ju Mohan admitted he had lost by half a move, while Qin Yu said Ju Mohan’s sword Dao had not been defeated.
• Ju Mohan awakened the third phoenix pattern on the Radiance-Shaking Phoenix Mountain Sword and announced he would show its true ultimate form.
• Ju Mohan unleashed the third form, Slash of the Unborn, opening a silent fissure into a pure Emptiness where the myriad laws had yet to awaken.

Ju Mohan used the Radiance-Shaking Phoenix Mountain Sword to open a rift to the Eternal Silence Realm and struck Qin Yu with the Slash of the Unborn, aiming to erase the source of his existence. Qin Yu answered with the Causeless Disillusionment Sword, making his existence no longer depend on a first cause and causing Ju Mohan’s strike to lose its target.

• The judges recognized that Ju Mohan had torn open a rift to the Eternal Silence Realm by sacrificing his own existence.
• Ju Mohan unleashed the Slash of the Unborn, sending Eternal Silence Qi toward the origin of Qin Yu’s existence.
• Qin Yu analyzed the technique’s governing principles rather than blocking the attack, then raised the Silent Origin Stainless Sword.
• Qin Yu used the Causeless Disillusionment Sword to reject the premise that existence needed a first cause.
• The two sword Daos collided, and Qin Yu’s existence proved impossible for Ju Mohan’s strike to trace back to a beginning.
• The Eternal Silence Qi dispersed, and the rift Ju Mohan had opened began to crack.

Qin Yu defeated Ju Mohan by revealing the deeper principles behind their opposing Great Daos, and Ju Mohan accepted the loss with newfound insight. The second round ended, and the final was set to begin with Hua Jingmeng defending against Ju Gongchen before Qin Yu challenged the last undefeated fighter.

• Qin Yu explained how his Silent Origin Stainless Obliteration Great Dao contrasted with Ju Mohan’s Primordial Annihilation Structure Creation Great Dao, leaving Ju Mohan enlightened.
• The judges and lineage heads praised the depth of the duel, and Ju Mohan admitted defeat and thanked Qin Yu for the lesson.
• Nangong Xingyun declared Qin Yu the winner over Ju Mohan and announced that the second round had concluded.
• Nangong Xingyun announced that Hua Jingmeng had received a bye and would defend the arena first against Ju Gongchen.
• Nangong Xingyun stated that Qin Yu would challenge the final defender and that the last undefeated fighter would take first place.

Hua Jingmeng and Ju Gongchen began their final-stage battle after the ancient arena was formed, and Ju Gongchen opened with his Azure Nether Dao-Adjudicating Seal. Hua Jingmeng stood firm as the seal approached, invoking the Nameless Great Dao and leaving the outcome of their first clash unresolved.

• Nangong Xingyun activated the ancient finals arena, built upon the Dao foundations of the four great lineages.
• Hua Jingmeng took the principal defender's position, and Ju Gongchen entered the arena to challenge him.
• Ju Gongchen greeted Hua Jingmeng, who dismissed him as unqualified to be his opponent.
• Ju Gongchen unleashed the Azure Nether Dao-Adjudicating Seal, a technique that judged the foundations of an opponent's Dao.
• Hua Jingmeng rejected Ju Gongchen's authority to judge his Dao and awakened the Nameless Great Dao as the seal descended.

Hua Jingmeng used the Grand Void Dao Transformation Art to shatter Ju Gongchen’s Azure Nether Dao-Adjudicating Seal by changing beyond its ability to define him. Ju Gongchen then unleashed his Primordial Annihilation Structure Domain and awakened an ancient weapon of slaughter, leaving their final battle poised to escalate.

• Hua Jingmeng transformed his existence into endless possibilities, causing the Azure Nether Dao-Adjudicating Seal to lose its target and shatter.
• Ju Gongchen acknowledged the power of Hua Jingmeng’s Dao and vowed to reveal his full foundation.
• Ju Gongchen expanded his Primordial Annihilation Structure Domain, reshaping the final arena into a world governed by his Dao.
• Ju Gongchen formed a silent fissure in his palm, prompting the four Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang to sense an ancient weapon of slaughter awakening.

Ju Gongchen unleashed the Desolate Slaughter Calamity-Delivering Halberd against Hua Jingmeng, whose ultimate Grand Void Dao Transformation Art turned his existence into endless flux. Hua Jingmeng reversed the halberd’s killing force against Ju Gongchen and declared that his time to die had come.

• Ju Gongchen summoned the Desolate Slaughter Calamity-Delivering Halberd and transformed his Dao into pure destruction.
• Ju Gongchen struck at the foundations of heaven and earth with Desolate-Slaughter-Dao-Slaying, shattering Hua Jingmeng’s changing forms.
• Hua Jingmeng used the ultimate form of the Grand Void Dao Transformation Art, declaring “I Am Flux” and scattering his existence across countless possibilities.
• Hua Jingmeng recognized that the halberd needed a definite target, while his own existence remained undetermined and in constant flux.
• Hua Jingmeng turned the halberd’s killing forces back on Ju Gongchen, causing the weapon to devour its wielder and leaving Ju Gongchen bleeding.
• Hua Jingmeng advanced on Ju Gongchen and said that his time to die had come.

Hua Jingmeng defeated Ju Gongchen with the Dao-Devouring Abyss, forcing him to use Ju Jinyu’s soul talisman before he conceded. Qin Yu entered the arena to challenge Hua Jingmeng, and their final battle began.

• Hua Jingmeng unleashed the Dao-Devouring Abyss, devoured Ju Gongchen’s slaughter power, and turned it against him.
• Ju Gongchen’s soul talisman protected him from the deathlight, but he was badly injured and conceded.
• Nangong Xingyun declared that Hua Jingmeng would continue defending the arena and called Qin Yu to challenge him.
• Qin Yu left the Chi Lineage’s seats, entered the arena, and exchanged pointed remarks with Hua Jingmeng.
• Nangong Xingyun sealed the arena and announced the final battle between Qin Yu and Hua Jingmeng.

Hua Jingmeng unleashed the Grand Void Dao Transformation Art’s Myriad Phenomena Impermanence Tribulation, filling the arena with ever-changing attacks. Qin Yu used the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram to discern the transformations’ shared origin, then fought Hua Jingmeng in close combat and forced him to retreat farther.

• Hua Jingmeng filled the arena with shifting phantoms and unleashed the Myriad Phenomena Impermanence Tribulation against Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu studied the changing attacks with the Silent Beginning · Ring Master Soul Diagram and realized they all relied on the same strand of Grand Void origin power.
• Qin Yu passed through a gap in the Grand Void tide and attacked Hua Jingmeng, who countered with shifting forms and close-range strikes.
• Qin Yu used his insight and solid Dao foundation to meet Hua Jingmeng’s attacks head-on as they traded blows across the arena.
• Qin Yu and Hua Jingmeng clashed knee and elbow, then sprang apart, with Qin Yu steady after three steps and Hua Jingmeng needing five to regain his footing.