Chapter 732: Probing Long Meng
The entire duel was marvelous, and the cheers didn’t stop as they filled the entire arena.
In the last duel, Mi Fang was defensive, now he was going on the offensive, using dazzling attacks.
Long Fu was also mainly on the offensive, defense was auxiliary.
Through Long Meng’s tutelage, he learned Gravity Force, and for defense he possessed Tempering Force and Tenacity Force.
In this battle, he was constantly using these forces.
With the help of Mi Fang’s pressure, he quickly grasped these three forces in real combat.
He didn’t use battle skills, instead focusing on using basic combat techniques to deal with Mi Fang’s various battle skills.
This caused the audience to exclaim in astonishment.
“Did you notice? Long Fu isn’t using his full strength.”
“His battle style has greatly changed; he’s not using any battle skills.”
“But his fist-work and footwork have been improved immensely, heavens, how has it improved so much?!”
Finally, the dragonman youngster used a battle skill.
Battle skill – Dragon Pearl, Exploding Flame
Exploding Flame battle qi filled the dragon pearls, imbuing each one with the property of explosiveness.
The dragonman youngster used three exploding dragon pearls against Mi Fang, causing the latter to cough up blood and fall to the ground, losing his battle strength.
He accepted it wholeheartedly.
In the previous battle, his repeated battle skills were all unable to produce the desired result. The dragon scales and armor was one reason, while the two great forces amplifying defense was a second.
The dragonman youngster’s basic combat skills overwhelmed him. Finally, Mi Fang had a high battle qi depletion rate, while the dragonman youngster’s basic combat skills used battle qi frugally.
Seeing Mi Fang was running out of battle qi, the dragonman youngster used [Dragon Pearl] to win in one final move.
“This was a marvelous duel!”
“That’s right, both sides fought gracefully and without regret.”
“Older Brother Mi Fang fought with all he had, squeezing out every last bit of battle qi. Defeat doesn’t matter; he is still our older brother!”
Losing was not important in this case.
So long as there was a duel that was decided, there would be a winner and a loser.
What was important was that the defeat was not unsightly. In the last duel, Mi Fang’s defeat was too ugly, too shameful, and he hadn’t displayed one bit of battle will and courage.
But in this fight, it was much better, much more daring and risky, that caused the masses’ evaluation of Mi Fang to universally go back up.
And the crucial thing that changed his style was one simple sentence from the dragonman youngster, he promised that he “wouldn’t kill him”.
This to Mi Fang was priceless.
He could attack with all of his strength yet felt he was no match for the dragonman youngster, this solidified his submission to the dragonman youngster more.
“In just a few days, how did Long Fu improve his combat skills so much?”
“Was this from Long Meng’s advice? Nonsense!”
“Only through the Dueling Divine Domain’s experience inheritance can this be possible. But according to the reports, Long Fu hasn’t spent much time in the Dueling Divine Domain.”
“Therefore, he is just pretending in everything, he is inherently powerful, and is only constrained by circumstance, he is only showing off a part of it, that is the reasonable take!”
The dragonman youngster’s fighting gifts were too insane, to the extent that Mi Fang made the wrong conclusion. This wrong collusion was also in accordance with popular sentiment.
However, in reality…
“He really made a lot of progress, if I hadn’t personally witnessed it, I could never have imagined it to be so.” Long Meng sighed to himself, admiring the dragonman youngster even more.
To the extent that he was more motivated to teach after this duel.
The dragonman youngster sensed that Long Meng was getting closer to him.
“Why?” The dragonman youngster pondered the cause of this change.
He thought of his saint level qualifications, of his immense progress, that he was a dragonman just like him, and also of Shuang Lian and of the concealed story Long Meng had with her.
“You can master many more forces. Your combat talent is rare, one of a kind unlike what I’ve seen before.”
“Your progress can almost be counted as miraculous.”
After Long Meng’s instruction ended, he reminded the dragonman youngster, “You have become a duelist, but haven’t been in the divine domain for very long.”
“Every duelist that enters the divine domain is imbued with a divine spell contract.”
“After the divine spell agreement is placed, we can leave the Dueling Divine Domain.”
The dragonman youngster nodded, already sensing the divine spell contract on him.
It was not a big problem for him.
He could use deception divine spells to deceive the Main Earth Elemental God and the divine artifact [Truth Slate], so naturally he could deceive an incomplete Dueling Godhead’s divine spell contract, allowing it to mistakenly believe that he was always complying within the scope of the contract.
Of course, he didn’t need to expended divine power or Pearl Bubbles right now to deceive the Dueling God contract.
He was still willing to abide by it.
Long Meng continued, “In fact, new duelists also get a benefit in kind that you haven’t received yet.”
“By staying in the divine domain, you will automatically be instilled with some fighting experience.”
“These experiences come from the divine domain’s accumulation, originating from the participants of countless duels in years past. To some extent, they had faith in duels, therefore after death, their experience was left behind here.”
“You can inherit a portion of this experience.”
“Obtaining this experience can allow you to effortlessly and quickly learn many new battle skills, far more efficiently than you can learn on your own…”
“Hic, perhaps with you, that isn’t the case.” Long Meng looked at the dragonman youngster, quickly changing his remark.
The main thing was that the dragonman youngster’s learning rate was too fast, too outstanding!
The dragonman youngster appeared delighted, “So, it turns out there is another great thing.”
Long Meng smiled, and nodded, “Just this once. Afterwards, if you want to have that kind of experience again, you’ll have to exchange divine favor for it.”
“Your situation is different from the other duelists.”
“I suggest that you continue to train diligently for a time. Your potential for forces is immense, and currently you grasp three of them, that is far from your limit.”
“Perhaps, when you can’t advance anymore or no longer see clear progress, you can receive the Dueling God’s blessing, that would increase the cost-performance ratio.”
The dragonman youngster nodded repeatedly, looking like a good student behaving modestly.
This caused Long Meng to have a better opinion of him.
Actually, the dragonman youngster was thinking, “Can’t advance? With the Bloodcore, there won’t be a day where I can’t advance forward.”
“The Dueling God is far more stingy than Charming Blue Goddess. Divine favor doesn’t automatically go up, instead I have to make contributions.”
“But it doesn’t matter.”
“So long as I conduct blasphemous prayers, I believe I can obtain much more. After all, the Dueling God doesn’t exist, and the Godhead is incomplete.”
The dragonman youngster was completely able to give the other duelists a small shock, through blasphemous sacrifices.
But after careful deliberations, he let it be.
Actually, doing this would provoke the other duelists too much.
If the image of the dragonman youngster being favored by the Dueling Godhead was formed, in the eyes of others, he’d become the most powerful competitor in the Dueling Godhead contest!
At that time, the Ice Sculpture Royal Family and the White Dragon King’s faction would want to sort out the dragonman youngster.
Long Meng would also turn from friend to foe!
Becoming a duelist was already dancing on the edge of a perilous precipice. Doing more would be jumping and falling off the cliff.
“So long as I can seize it, the entire Dueling Godhead will be mine, there is no need to do blasphemous sacrifices for a bit of divine favor.” The dragonman youngster thought.
Outwardly, he told Long Meng he wanted to return the Axe Gang Leader’s and the other gold levels’ bodies.
Long Meng was extremely grateful, “You have come to realize this, that’s great. Helping return duelists who died in battle to Tranquil Hill is the consensus of all of us.”
Long Fu then asked, “I am considering this, but should I demand some spoils of war?”
Long Meng chuckled, “You can do as you see fit.”
The young man’s eyes vaguely flashed with sharp light.
He recalled Cang Xu’s guidance, “If Long Meng didn’t agree to this demand for spoils of war, then it would prove he has a close relationship with the military faction.”
“If Long Meng agreed, then it is indirect evidence of the competitive relationship between the high class.”
“If Long Meng is indifferent, then he is an intermediary between them.”
Returning the three dead gold levels was the plan the dragonman youngster, Cang Xu, and Zi Di had discussed and agreed to. Now the dragonman youngster said it specifically for Long Meng to hear, cleverly probing the latter.
At the same time, he asking Long Meng for his guidance also could deepen his relationship with Long Meng, further weakening the domineering feeling of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
As expected, after the three gold level bodies were buried on Tranquil Hill, the royal family immediately responded, expressing they were pleased.
The dragonman youngster decided to return them without asking for any spoils of war, greatly allaying the relationship and tension between them and the duelists.