The Heavenly Road: God Hunters

Ch55 Headed for Top 16

The next day the martial arts tournament arena was again crowded with spectators who were impatient to watch the fourth phase of the Martial Arts Tournament.

Participants who had previously qualified for the fourth phase again filled around the arena preparing to fight for the top position in the Martial Arts Tournament.

In the first game Cang Hue advanced to the arena against Zaraki, the spectators hoped to see Cang Hue's strength revealed in the fight.

The moment the referee started the match Zaraki immediately activated his spirit essence and instantly gave the first strike.

Cang Hue caught Zaraki's axe with his bare hands like it wasn't something dangerous at all for him.

He then unleashed a powerful shockwave that caused Zaraki to collapse. Again and again Cang Hue ended the match quickly.

"That Hue is why until now no one has been able to reveal his true strength, how strong he really is" Asta murmured softly.

Next Gao Li fought Kenshin, they both climbed the arena, Gao Li greeted Kenshin for a moment.

"Get out all your strength, I won't hold back if my opponent is you, Gao," Kenshin said.

"I just wanted to admit defeat since I saw that you were my opponent, Ken," Gao Li said.

Gao Li released his fighting aura on the other side Kenshin also released an equally powerful fighting aura. The battle began with both of them giving powerful attacks.

Asta opened his eyes surprised to see the understanding of Gao Li's sword turned out to be as powerful as Kenshin's.

Kenshin unleashed a series of intangible sword techniques but Gao Li seemed to have no trouble at all dealing with it as if he could read it.

The battle was so fierce, the arena of battle seemed to have been damaged again by the slash of their swords, Gao Li's River Stream Sword technique was very calm and flowed beautifully over Kenshin's technique of the Unmanifested Sword.

"It was unexpected that there was someone who was able to make it more serious. Their strength is balanced!"

"I thought this fight would just be like a typical fight that ended quickly!"

Cheers ran through the air from the bleachers, the fight was getting fiercer, Gao Li's River Stream technique was very strong and could face Kenshin easily.

Kenshin slashed his sword continuously with a relaxed Gao Li raised his sword to fend off all those slashes. Not only that even Gao Li also had time to give an attack on Kenshin to make him get injured, on the other hand Gao Li looks still fine.

Kenshin was seen spewing out his blood, from a long time ago in the True Fire Flame Sect among the young disciples only Gao Li had his sword science comprehension on par with him.

Kenshin attacked again this time he also managed to make him vomit blood, Gao Li immediately raised his hands high.

"I'm giving up..!!" Shouted Gao Li.

"Gao Li what do you mean?!!" Shouted Kenshin did not accept if he won just because Gao Li gave up just like that.

"This is the limit of my ability to fight with you, if this is continued to only endanger my life, your attack is very dangerous and leads to vital," gao Li said while showing Kenshin's sword slash wound that had indeed hit his vital point, while the wound that Gao Li had left on him did not hit his vital point at all.

"From there it seems that your abilities are higher than mine, so why would I embarrass myself even further" Gao Li continued with a smile.

Hearing that Kenshin just sighed softly while letting him down from the arena.

The next fight was Tang San's turn to go up to the arena. The thing that was very much awaited by him is finally now accomplished.

"I finally got a show of strength too,"

Tang San climbed onto the arena, smiling Yan Fushu greeted him warmly.

"No need to talk anymore. Devote the entire might of the Blue Lake Sect. I am Tang San the disciple of the God Island Sect will not hesitate to defeat you," he said full of confident smiles.

"It seems like brother Tang is full of confidence," Yan Fushu timpal said.

The fight began, Tang San threw the hammer to attack first, deftly Yan tried to brush him off with his greatsword.

"Down!!"

Yan looked overwhelmed with the hammer, he could not believe that Tang San's hammer had a heavy weight that was not inferior to his great sword.

"Is my hammer so surprising to you? Then I'll give you that attack again,"

Tang San withdrew his hand then the hammer voluntarily returned to his hand. Deftly Tang San again threw and pulled his hammer continuously every time Yan brushed him off.

In just a short time Yan was made to be out of breath with Tang San's attack. Tang San was not only able to throw and pull it, but he could also use his hammer from a distance.

Every time the sword clashed with his hammer, Yan felt the pressure inside his body. Because after all the sword was his own spirit essence.

Tang San was just sitting cross-legged on the arena while controlling his hammer, on the other hand Yan dabbled trying to brush it off which turned out the more he patted the hammer was exerting increasingly stronger pressure on his internal organs.

Tang San then slapped his hammer into the arena, Yan fell down unable to balance himself. Tang San quickly disappeared from sight then appeared before him with his hammer.

Yan Fushu acknowledged his defeat of Tang San, who would have thought his abilities were far above him.

The next fight is also no less interesting, the tournament went smoothly without problems. Asta quickly ended his fourth phase match was finished, this time someone who qualified for the fifth phase without fighting was Yin Fushu, the twin brother of Yan Fushu.

Of the 31 participants who faced off in the fourth phase remaining to 16 people, the tournament was delayed for a moment and the participants of the last 16 were given time to rest as much as one hour.

In the dugout Asta is trying to fall asleep for a while, instead of training or preparing for the fight in the fifth phase.

"Teacher really seriously responded to my words last night, now instead I am very sleepy because I lost my sleep," Asta muttered in his heart and closed his eyes.

Back to last night's events after Asta returned from the Red Dawn Association to retrieve the Twin Dragon Medicinal Furnace.

Flares smiled and immediately taught him the technique of concocting, he showed a process of making medicinal pills starting from Melting, Unification and then Pill Formation.

Then Flares taught him to control fire with the same strength of his soul as when he forged artifacts, but with different temperatures and of course stability.

While teaching him the Forging process he also explained that in compounding there is also a technique of concocting without a furnace which is also a high-level technique of a compounder. Flares also showed him the technique, Asta was amazed to see it.

Then Asta was told to make a set of level 1 pills based on the recipe that his teacher gave him. In his first experiment Asta directly blew up the medicinal furnace.

"What are you doing! Already the teacher said do not equal the process of melting pills with artifacts..!!" The teacher shouted while hitting him.

"Ahaha, sorry teacher I forgot," he said with an awkward laugh.

The difference in the smelting process between concocting and forging was when controlling the flames. If forging must increase the temperature of the fire from the lowest to the most appropriate temperature then control the fire to stay at that temperature. Inversely proportional to the smelting process, the temperature of the fire when first smelting the material must remain the same until it enters the next process.

Again and again Asta's experiment failed for the number of times, several times he blew up the twin dragon furnace.

Then there is the process of Unification, the process of unification of all medicinal ingredients that have been melted, often Asta also thwart compounding in this process. The next process is pill formation, the process after combining all the pill ingredients then enters the formation process.

After doing many failures and mistakes that he did Asta finally managed to create one level one pill, although the efficacy of the pill can only display 10 percent of the efficacy of the pill completely.

Under the guidance and teachings of Flares Asta continued to practice making the medicinal pill until he was able to create a tier one medicinal pill with perfect efficacy, as his own desire would not sleep until it became a level one compounder.

Every time Asta's soul force was depleted benefiting the medicinal ingredients present in his ring Flares instantly made a soul nourishing medicinal pill as a supply of soul power if he ran out of soul power due to constantly using it.

Over time not only did Asta manage to raise his medicinal properties his soul power also continued to increase as he exhausted his soul power, each time he restored it again his soul power increased a lot. So that the previous Asta exhausted only after trying to make 2-3 pills, then he could survive until he could make 5-8 pills with his soul power.

Last night Flares really kept watching who knew Asta would fall asleep in the middle of training. After being able to create one medicinal pill with efficacy above 90 percent then Flares let him rest.

They both trained until dawn, when the next morning Flares woke him up again to get ready to go to the tournament location. If without wearing the mask maybe the other participants can see that from the beginning entered the arena continues to evaporate. He tried to stay conscious not to fall asleep around the arena and do something embarrassing like yesterday.

An hour passed quickly, the 16 participants who had qualified for the fifth phase began to prepare to return to the arena. Seeing Asta who was still lying in the dugout when the sound of a call rang Moegi came to him. Seen from the eye hole of his mask Asta closed his eyes, Moegi smiled he pulled Asta to make him fall to the floor.

Asta rubbed his eyes while trying to see who made him fall to the floor. A moment later his gaze was clearly staring that the figure was none other than Moegi.

"What's? Are you not satisfied with sleep, quickly wake up this is stupid time," said Moegi.

Asta also woke up vaguely heard the sound of bells that are still ringing. He also followed Moegi back to the arena where he competed.

"The feeling I just closed my eyes why so fast. Moegi, aren't we being given a break..?" Ask Asta.

Moegi was silent for a moment while looking at his mask, "did you stay up all night? Obviously you've been asleep for an hour and you still don't feel enough? All right, I'll help you realize,"

Asta nodded his head and Moegi suddenly hit him hard.

"Isn't that enough?" Ask Moegi.

"Enough, that's enough" Asta said while holding his stomach.

The two of them reached the arena just as the host was announcing that starting from this phase all opponents had been determined, there was no number draw like before.

The host also mentioned the names of those who qualified for the fifth phase and the opponents of each participant who will compete to advance to the sixth phase, the top 8.

Ye Juan slightly gasped when he heard his name mentioned in the first fight against Asta. He glanced at her, why should she think so.

After the host finished, Ye Juan and Asta went up to the arena to start the first match in the sixth phase.

"Brother Ye, I hope you don't hesitate to me," Asta said.

"of course. I hope you too" he replied.

Deftly Ye Juan instantly activated his spirit essence, 7 Sword Spirits for the sake of following Asta's strength which was beyond reason to him.

Activation of the essence of the 7 Sword Spirits made him able to control 7 Swords at once, in other words Ye Juan had the talent of flying sword techniques from birth.

During the tournament Ye Juan continued to pay attention to Asta's ability, his ability was no weaker than Kenshin who defeated Yami Tiandu. He understands Yami's strength and greatness but seeing him immediately lost in the first phase against Kenshin he believes that Asta also has at least a power that is not less great with him.

Fighting Ye Juan coupled with 7 Flying Swords at once made Asta a little overwhelmed, although his ability is higher than it is still not easy if he is pressed in this way.

"Ye's brother's technique is impressive I can't fight him" Asta praised.

"Brother Asta, you still haven't shown your full ability whereas I've shown it to you from the beginning of the match. So who should be impressive" Ye Juan praised back.

After brushing off Ye Juan Asta's sword leaped backwards instantly emerging from it an extremely powerful fighting spirit aura. Coupled with the bloodthirsty aura of the Dark Sky sword made him become even crazier fighting.

"Spirit Techniques, Fire Fires of War,"

"My brother Ye hopes you won't let me down after I use this technique of my spirit,"

"It...!!! You're very attractive...!!!" Ye Juan opened his eyes surprised to see the change in aura that happened to him.

Not to be outdone Ye Juan also gave off an aura of fighting spirit that was also strong.

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Heavenly Note

The Process of Compounding Medicines into three processes, smelting, unification, and pill formation.