The Heavenly Road: God Hunters

Ch51 Second Phase

Seeing the persistence displayed by Fulan Bin made Asta unable to get excited to fight seriously even though the fight became unbalanced in the end. But that was Asta's own thinking.

"I wouldn't mind if I was defeated in the first round just doesn't mean you can beat me easily" Fulan Bin said while activating his spirit essence, as the temperature around the arena dropped drastically.

Behind his mask Asta scrunched his forehead aware of the temperature change.

"How about my Winter Wind essence have you felt it now..!!" Fulan Bin has launched more dangerous attacks than ever before.

Asta was no longer able to touch the sword Fulan Bin used even though he had a Thorn Claw after the blue radiant sword froze him.

"It seems that the boy only has high cultivation talent but his talent in fighting techniques is far below Fulan Bin,"

So many questions and talks that the audience threw against the true ability of Asta. Because it is clear that his fighting understanding is far below Fulan Bin who now looks to dominate the fight with his two swords technique.

"When did he use the sword...?" That's what Kenshin muttered from the beginning they fought continuously.

The speed of Fulan Bin's sword techniques continued to increase and grew sharper, his slash coated with a cold aura that froze his spirit.

Although Asta continued to try to resist his attacks with the sword but the cold Qi of his sword still penetrated through to hit him.

Asta was knocked back after his body was filled with sword wounds, through his wound his cold Qi froze some parts of his body from the inside making it more difficult to move.

Asta clenched his teeth grasping the handle of his sword tightly.

"Don't you want to seriously fight why you keep playing Asta!"

Fulan Bin crashing back to give an attack in the hope that he can defeat him, his premonition says not a long-term fight is not a good thing for him. He still felt an aura of emphasis from her.

Asta raised his sword high preparing to launch an attack. His spirit essence enveloped the black sword and he swung it very quickly.

"Spirit Techniques, Fires of Burning"

Fulan Bin was stopped for a moment as his heart almost stopped beating seeing the sword slash that had the power of the destructive force pointing rapidly towards him.

"Magic Heavenly Art, Winter Sword Dance,"

Fulan Bin's worries answered already feeling the intense attack from his sword spirit, his cold sword qi was destroyed so quickly that even his sword began to be eroded by the spirit of the attack.

There was nothing that could be done with the attack Fulan Bin jumped to the side avoiding him, while he jumped the fight ended with his defeat.

"Haha...!!! I was so focused on his attack that I didn't realize where my position was! Asta! Let's fight again next time..!!" Fulan Bin admits his defeat.

Asta nodded in agreement, answering that he will always be ready for the fight whenever Fulan Bin wants to fight again.

On top of the podium of the 7th Great Sect Leader Fujan Daru exhaled his breath slowly seeing his best representative had to be knocked out in the first round.

"I'm sorry, Sect Leader! Because of having to lose in the first round so as to humiliate the good name of our sect!!" Shouted Fulan while bowing to the podium where his sect head was.

Fujan Daru only replied with a friendly smile while nodding slowly. From his heart he felt that not being humiliated in the slightest defeat was not something to be troubled about in a fight. He only regretted that the luck of the best representative of his sect was bad because he met Asta in the first phase.

The fight was resumed after the host voted back the next eight participants.

The next few rounds of the fight went smoothly and briefly, after noticing Asta's fight with Fulan Bin the spectators felt the subsequent fights were more boring.

After the 30th round of fighting was over the host shouted the number of the last participant who qualified for the second phase without fighting. The figure was Tang San from the God Island Sect.

After the first phase, 121 participants who passed the second phase were given a break for one hour to rest.

"Finally it's also time to eat," muttered Asta slowly as he moved away from the fighting arena to the hawker market selling various foods that he had never tasted.

Asta's eyes opened wide to see along the streets so many food and beverage vendors lined up neatly showing off their sales.

"Fortunately I didn't use too much of my money before, now is a good time to use it,"

"Yep! Time to go for a walk and taste the whole snack..!! Go Asta, Go...!!!" His teacher woke up from his sleep.

Asta was surprised to see his teacher who appeared before him suddenly while shouting.

Asta also slouched lazily while exhaling his breath out, "waking teacher is not sleeping more comfortably who knows teacher can see flowers...."

Flares cut off his words by hitting him on the head.

"Go...!! Asta..!! Go...!!"

Asta followed what his teacher said to go to taste one by one food in each store without fear of running out of money. He still had thousands of pieces of gold in his ring, while one piece of gold was enough to buy almost the entire snack which only cost a few pieces of bronze.

One piece of gold is equivalent to one thousand pieces of silver and one thousand pieces of bronze is equal to one piece of silver.

After being full with all the snacks Asta was back in the dugout in the arena waiting for the second phase of the match will start in a dozen minutes.

'Teachers really only wake up when they eat and sleep when they are full. It turns out that the term just know eating and sleeping is a reality not a mere landing, ' Asta murmured in his heart to see the behavior of his teacher.

In the break room there is not only himself, other participants are also there to get ready for the second phase.

"Where have you been..?" Zaraki surprised him.

"On the morning I came here I saw a lot of shops selling good food and drinks, I just came back after tasting all the food on the street and it was really good," he answered with a smile behind his mask.

"Tasting food..? I think just training is enough to make you full" he said and laughed.

"Exercise and eating are two different things, Zara. You can't mix the two, eat to live and live to exercise that's life,"

"Pfft.. Hahaahaha. Whatever you say, at your current level of not sleeping and eating for a few days it will not endanger your life what is eating to live," he said, shaking slowly.

"Hey! That's your stomach not mine! What's not dangerous can I die if I don't eat a day," he said, rejecting the assumption that he can stay fine even if he doesn't eat and sleep for a few days.

"I'm serious! Do you think I'm kidding try if you don't believe me!" Said again.

"Ohh, not interested!" His ideal.

The tournament arena returned to its merry after an hour of rest. The audience has returned to cheerfully welcome every fight of the promising young geniuses.

Asta rubbed his head puzzledly seeing there were only two arena stages in front of him. The previous feeling he was sure there were four stages in use as arenas.

"Whether my memory is wrong or indeed the whereabouts are changing," Asta murmured softly while trying to recall.

"I'm sure there are four arenas why now only two...?" Mumbled confused.

"Oyy, Asta what are you thinking..?" Zaraki asked looking at Asta's slightly confused attitude.

"How many arenas did you think before..?"

"Four,"

"Four?! You're blind see how you can say it's four?!" Asta disagreed although he was also convinced that previously the arena they used was at least four but he remained more trusting of his current vision that there were clearly only two arenas now.

Without hesitation Zaraki hit his head hard.

"Are you stupid?! You're the blind one?! Of course now there are only two arenas in use but if you ask before there are four! Did you forget that we were given an hour's rest?!" He said a little annoyed.

"What happened to the other two arenas in that one hour do you think they fused into these two larger arenas?!" He said, hitting back at Zaraki's head.

"Of course it was the guards who changed the arrangement of the arena for the sake of the tournament!!" He was angry and upset and hit his head again.

"Aihh so yes," he said slowly while chuckling softly.

"Ohhh your eyes..!!!" Shouted Zaraki annoyed while hitting his head again.

As long as Asta and Zaraki were arguing the first round of fighting was already done. Although it did not last so long but was quite interesting to watch.

Unlike the fight in the first phase that runs fast enough even though there are 4 fights, in the second phase, although there are only 2 fights above the two arenas, but it runs a little slow because competition between participants is starting high.

This time it was Zaraki's turn to advance against one of the middle Sects, he jumped immediately into the arena with the axe he had already held.

"It's an honor for me to be the opponent of someone like you, brother Zaraki from the True Fire Flame Sect," he said.

"You are really good at stringing together the words of brother Tian Ling, even though the Sky God Sect is only a medium Sect, yet your abilities are not something that can be underestimated," he replied.

The referee started the fight the spectators who watched the fight cheered enthusiastically for going to watch the exciting show again.

Because Tian Ling of the Sky God Sect was a genius who was famous for his throwing hammer technique, the Sky Hammer itself was his Spirit Essence.

On the other hand Zaraki was the successor of the Pentagram Sect of True Fire Flame which at least always contained the genius youth of the True Fire Flame Sect.

The clash between the axe and the Tian Ling hammer created a powerful shockwave, the twang of a fierce fight happening on all sides of the arena.

No hesitation Zaraki attacked Tian Ling with all his strength and vice versa what Tian Ling did.

Not only did Zaraki fight relying on his fighting abilities alone, he occasionally also activated his Spirit Essence to disrupt Tian Ling's movements. Yet Tian Ling quickly smashed his hammer into the ground to damage Zaraki's spirit essence attack.

Zaraki Spirit Essence itself is the Spirit of the Universe, the Earth Spirit. At that time Zaraki was able to control gravity within his range area, while the Tian Ling Heavenly Hammer was a Spirit Tool.

Tian Ling's patience had long since been played with by Zaraki who could control gravity at his own will.

When Zaraki removed the gravity on his footing Tian Ling took advantage of the opportunity to throw his hammer up into the sky so that he was carried flying upwards.

Zaraki scrunched his forehead and saw him even fly up.

While feeling high enough Tian Ling pulled back his hammer and smacked it into the air leading to the arena below.

From the hammer blow was created the wind cannon that rained down on the wind cannon arena even had a width of ten times that of the hammer that Tian Ling was holding.

Zaraki glared in surprise unexpectedly it turned out that Tian Ling was able to utilize his techniques to attack him. Closing his eyes slowly Zaraki turned his axe rapidly splitting every rain of wind cannons that pointed at him.

The attacks did not stop there. The wind cannon rain really hit the surrounding arena, but the attack was not enough to make it fall over the arena.

Zaraki not only destroyed the wind cannon to avoid its attack, he also learned the tempo and strength in order to find a gap to counterattack.

For a moment he knew the tempo of his attack Zaraki threw the axe at him, with his spirit essence he removed the gravity on the axe so that it shot faster.

Zaraki's throw right about it he fell out of the arena.

On the other side of the Arena, Kiena Saki from the Hell Earth Sect of Immortality against Huang Zhong was quite fierce. However, the fight was eventually won by Kiena Saki after she again won the match after her opponent surrendered due to the poison from her spirit essence.

The fight continued after the host announced the next participants. This time it was Asta's turn to advance first to the top of the arena and in the other arena Hao Chen was also the one to the top.

The opponents from Hao Chen and Asta who were from the Intermediate Sect both gave up. Since their numbers were met with him they already knew for sure the outcome of his fight.

As their opponents gave up, Asta and Hao Chen went back down the arena and just watched the next fight.

After several rounds of similar events reoccur when Kenshin and Cang Hue climb the Arena their opponents agree to surrender.

The audience at least knew why Kenshin's opponent had given up without fighting, but what puzzled them was why the opponent of the half-elf human figure had also given up was still a question.

"What is this why again there are participants who just give up,"

"Indeed the best option is to give up if you encounter an opponent that is impossible to face,"

The audience was a little lost enthusiasm why the participants did not want to fight even one bit and instead chose to give up immediately.

In the next fight there was Zhang Rou Zi of the Blood Rose Sect against Harumi Ayano of the Sky God Sect in Arena A making the enthusiastic spirit of the audience rise again.

The bet between the girls really captivates the eyes of the audience who are bored will sit waiting for an interesting fight to be seen again.

On the other side of the Arena was Sang Ryun from the Sky Realm Sect against Wen Han from the Han Family was also fierce, Sang Ryun's skill in playing the technique of his two axes was still so impregnated by the spectators.