THE LIGHTNING EMPEROR

Challenging Fang An

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The prospective new disciples who had already escaped the match at the Yu Zao stage were as many as fifteen disciples, and at the Yu Zhe stage were also fifteen. Right now the round of matches had already entered the Yu Zhi stage, and this was the last and also the strongest stage.

The match between Yu Zhe lasted up to a third of the night, and one of the winners was Yan Hang, who won the match, and now has come the last moments of the match to look for talented prospective students and will have the opportunity to enter the second round.

"Everything, now has arrived for prospective students who have the ability of Yu Zhi to compete, in this match we will call the names of the selected students, he said, and before that I Fa Ling would like to ask one of the disciples we have been waiting for these three years to enter first into the arena!" said a middle-aged man who stopped his sentence while staring at all the audience seats.

All the prospective students looked at each other and were also very curious about who the prospective students were meant to be, as well as Yan Hang who was looking over and over, too, but his gaze instead discovered the whereabouts of Tang Chin and his entourage who were already in the stone chair not far from him.

Tang Chin smiled kindly at Yan Hang as Yan Hang looked towards him, his attitude completely changed from that of the originally unconcerned to a friendly smile instead, and Yan Hang was sure all of that was caused by his defeat against Fang An.

Yan Hang returned Tang Chin's smile and then he spoke to Fang An. "About who was the disciple that Chairman Fa Ling meant?" asked Yan Hang.

Fang An was only speechless, his little heart slightly moved and looked at Fa Ling who was still standing at the top with her gaze sweeping across the new prospective disciples, he said, he was sure that the disciple Fa Ling was referring to was him.

"I ask Fang's disciple to come down to the arena, as you are a late student and your current ability is not suitable to compete with the prospective disciples here!" fa Ling said.

"Murid Fang? What does Chairman Fa mean is you?" asked Yan Hang who was surprised to hear it.

Let alone Yan Hang, even Tang Chin and his entourage were similarly shocked even though they already knew Fang An's abilities, after all Fang An's abilities were indeed not suitable to compete with the new disciples, either, because Fang An's abilities were already much higher than all the prospective students.

Yan Hang and Tang Chin were with his entourage alone who knew Fang An, whereas the others had absolutely no idea what the name of Fang's disciple was.

"Murid Fang, I once again ask you to descend into the arena!" fa Ling said.

Fang An who originally wanted to refuse to get up finally had no other choice, he got up from his seat so all eyes were on the white-haired young man.

"That's the kid you mean?" said one of the disciples who was two years older than Fang An.

"It's only three years late, why did the Fa chief say that the boy's abilities are not suitable for competing with us?"

Talks began to be heard in every student who had the ability of Yu Zhi, in addition to Fang An's age also still looked like he was only 15 to 16 years old.

Fang An who was followed by the Ice Lion stepped down into the arena without caring about the disciples who were talking about him, and of all the disciples who had Yu Zhi's abilities, only Tang Chin was silent.

Fang An immediately entered the arena of the match and then he faced towards the leaders while cupping his hands saluting them, while Fa Ling's gaze was fixed on the Ice Lion.

"Murid Fang, you should have been a disciple since three years ago, and we continued to wait for your arrival, had it not been for the request of the Ice Phoenix Goddess, we might have already rejected you," Fa Ling said.

"Sorry for my late chairman, there is a problem within my Clan that I have to resolve first, that's why I postponed my trip!" replied Fang An.

"Sorry Chairman Fa, why is this child not allowed to compete with us? Don't tell me the chairman's gonna let this kid go without a game?" asked one of the young men dressed in black and green with long hair tied back.

"It is true that Disciple Lang, he will be passed without competing with anyone and this has been agreed upon by the elders" Fa Ling replied.

"We reject and disagree with the decision! Either way Fang's disciple must remain in contention, otherwise we will all challenge him to see if he deserves to qualify or not!" one of the 15-year-old girls.

"Listen to my explanation, Disciple Fang's ability is indeed not suitable for you, I ask you not to act recklessly!" fa Ling said that again reminded all the would-be disciples who protested.

Fa Ling did not intend to inform the prospective disciples if Fang An's abilities were at the Yu Zha stage, otherwise there would be a lot of jealousy from the disciples, he said, moreover, the disciples who had the peak ability of Yu Zhi would definitely challenge Fang An by hand, as they would consider Fang An a threat.

"Sorry Chairman and friends! My arrival to this place is not to seek enmity with you, if indeed the decision of the elders makes you unhappy, I personally want to apologize," Fang An said.

"Chairman! I'm sorry if I'm presumptuous, but I want to challenge that Disciple Fang, if I lose, I'm ready to be eliminated and will be in next week!" said one of the youths to Fa Ling.

"Are you sure and not sorry?" ask Fa Ling.

"Very sure, Chief!" answer the young man.

"My boss wants to challenge him too!"

"Me too!"

One by one the Yu Zhi-enabled disciples started volunteering to challenge Fang An, making Fa Ling and the elders only shake their heads.

They deliberately passed Fang An so that things like this did not happen now, but it turned out that the thing that was worried actually made the prospective students feel envious to feel challenged, he said, and currently there were already over twenty Yu Zhi-capable student candidates who had already challenged Fang An.

Fa Ling turned her head towards the three Elders sitting in their seats, the three elders nodded slowly, they were forced to agree to the wishes of the prospective disciples, if they were to refuse, fear that the situation will get more chaotic.

"Murid Fang, how did you respond, did you accept their challenge?" ask Fa Ling.

"If the Elders allow it, then I have no more reason to reject their challenge!" replied Fang An.

"That's because they don't know yet, if the young master doesn't know like them either, the young master will challenge him as he did in Hundi Village" said one of his teachers.

"Teacher Yang, I told you not to call me Young master, I am your disciple, so just call my name directly!" tang Chin said.

Ever since he was defeated by Fang An and gained some enlightenment from Fang An, Tang Chin realized that all this time his attitude had crossed the line, even Tang Chin who had come to his senses directly called out his three protectors with the teacher's call and asked them to no longer call him Young Master.

Of course the three teachers were delighted that Tang Chin had already changed and acknowledged the three of them as his teachers, it was just that their habit of calling Tang Chin with the call of the young master was very difficult to change and it took time for the three of them to be able to call Tang Chin by name or call him by disciple call.

Yan Hang just shook his head, he naturally had the same thoughts as Tang Chin so Yan Hang deeply regretted their carelessness.

"Then let me face it first!" said a 17-year-old man.

Regardless of the other disciples protesting against him, the young man immediately jumped out of his seat and then his body landed extremely hard in the match arena, not to mention that, several cracks instantly widened after the young man fell standing on the arena stone floor.

The young man smiled sinisterly at Fang An then he turned around and cupped his hands to the elders, after which he turned around as well as took out a piece of his Spiritual Sword that was shaped as a wooden Sword.

"My name is Jian Kang, I will defeat you so that the elders know who really deserves to escape without competing with anyone!" jian Kang said.

"Ice Sings, go back to where Yan Hang is," Fang An said to his Ice Lion.

After the Ice Lion returned to where Yan Hang was, Fang An turned around while cupping his hand. "My name is Fang An, I didn't expect any of this either, but if you insist on wanting to fight me, I gladly accept it!" replied Fang An.

"Squeals! You arrogant brat, I will embarrass you in front of the Elders and other prospective disciples," said Jian Kang then he attached the Ling Magic Spell Paper to his sword after which he drained the energy from his Spirit Root then darted forward attacking Fang An.

"Spirit Root Ground Element yes!" said Fang An who noticed Jian Kang's sword started to be covered by dust so the sword looked like an earth sword.

"The Sword of a Thousand Dusts."

Jian Kang who darted out using a running ability supported by his earth element instantly unleashed an attack towards Fang An, who was at his disposal, where in each attack will release dust that is able to make large scratches on the stone floor.

All able to sense Jian Kang's level of ability which was already at the Yu Zhi Level 8 stage, it made Tang Chin pat his own eel.

Tang Chin who was at the peak stage of Yu Zhi alone was unable to attack Fang An, instead he could be defeated so easily by the blue-clothed and white-haired young man.

Fang An himself very easily dodged every single extremely deadly attack when it came to hitting him, only that the attack could not only be read, even Fang An could see the weakness of Jian Kang's attack.

All who saw Fang An's movements dodging every attack of Jian Kang could only be stunned, for Fang An's body looked like it was very light and his body was like cotton moving gently dodging every attack of Jian Kang.

Fang An used the technique he had learned from Wang Lao Yi, that is, the swordless attack technique, that technique was one of the martial arts that supported the body lightening technique, which was, so Fang An would be able to move like a light cotton swab floating like it was lifted by the wind.

Jian Kang who was getting annoyed that his every attack was completely unable to touch Fang An's body now took out his Ling Magic Spell Paper back, instead, this time he added energy to his sword in order to injure Fang An.

Jian Kang's attacks were again increased to their limits, each of his attacks were getting stronger and able to make cracks in the arena, only that all of his attacks remained unable to touch Fang An's body.

"I'm sorry senior!"

Said Fang An who suddenly caught Jian Kang's sword with his bare hands, it made Jian Kang surprised and also could not believe that Fang An could catch his sword so easily.

Even all the students were similarly shocked except for Tang Chin and his group, whereas Yan Hang instantly got up while exclaiming loudly, "Give him Fang An's lesson!" yan Hang exclaimed so as to make all the gazes fixed on him.

Jian Kang tried to pull back his sword, but it could not be released from Fang An's hand, and Fang An slowly pulled his clenched left hand and quickly pushed forward toward Jian Kang's stomach.

When he almost touched Jian Kang's stomach, Fang An turned his clenched hand into a tread and then smoothly hit Jian Kang's stomach so that Jian Kang's body was thrown far out of the arena.

Everything became quiet as he looked at Jian Kang who had already walked out of the arena, Jian Kang only felt a slight pain in his abdomen, and he stood staring at Fang An who was still standing inside the arena, and he stood there, even Jian Kang's sword was still in Fang An's hands.

Fang An deliberately changed his hand because he did not want to injure Jian Kang, which was why Jian Kang did not suffer any serious injuries after being hit by his palm strike.

Yan Hang immediately cheered joyfully breaking the silence in that place, whereas the others who had absolutely no enmity with Fang An instantly clapped their hands including Tang Chin.

"It doesn't make sense! How could such an attack throw him out of the arena?"

The prospective Yu Zhi students who were still in disbelief spoke to each other because they felt strange to Fang An, just like that, while Fa Ling who wanted to announce Fang An's victory suddenly came to a halt when a young man first called out to Fang An.

"Now it's my turn to fight it!" said the young man and then he jumped up and landed right in front of Fang An.

Fang An threw Jian Kang's sword back at Jian Kang, while Jian Kang with a face of embarrassment for losing walked up to his chair, and Jian Kang could only remain silent under the disappointed gazes of the prospective disciples supporting him.

"My name is Ying Huo from Peiwe Village, I want to challenge you!" said the young man who introduced himself named Ying Huo.