Butterfly Darts flew in the air at differing speeds like butterflies with their wings spread open.
Funeral Needles brought with them the piercing sounds of ghosts crying and shrieking.
With six Boomerangs that flew in different trajectories, they instantly formed a cage that surrounded the area, and all of them went to Happy, who stood outside the pavilion.
Even Wei Zhentian, who was inside the pavilion, could not help but praise but give praise when he saw Class One Hall's attack for the first time.
Their timing was impeccable, it was at the moment when Happy bent his back and was full of openings.
Also, the movements from the two people were different from each other, but their attacks were incredibly vicious. Right from the start, they used Butterfly Darts, which moved in a manner that was difficult to grasp, to grab most of Happy's attention. Then, they used Boomerangs, to create a cage for their attack as well as build momentum. There was also their poisoned Funeral Needles, which helped conceal their real killing weapon with their piercing wails—six soundless needles which were as fine as hair and could break defenses.
Class One Hall had indeed decided to go all out to kill Mu Clan's greatest spiritual leader.
Everything might have seemed to have happened over a long period of time, but it actually happened in a flash.
Just when Wei Zhentian was prepared to watch how Happy will handle the situation, he saw Happy retain his pose of bending his back to pour wine, but an invisible momentum swept out from his body.
The Boomerangs that came from everywhere miraculously circled round Happy. Then, without even touching his sleeves, they shot even faster back toward the two people who tried to ambush Happy from Class One Hall's crowd.
At the same time, those Butterfly Darts, Funeral Needles, and the six needles as fine as hair that can pierce through defense also went back from whence they came.
"Shifting Stars… What a technique!" Wei Zhentian's pupils shrank.
Class One Hall naturally will not allow those hidden weapons to hurt their own people. The people with great skills in using hidden weapons will usually not be very good at avoiding hidden weapon attacks at the same level executed against them. The people nearby shouted at them to stop attacking.
Right when the people nearby were ready to attack, they suddenly grunted in pain at the same time, and they froze in the execution of their attacks simultaneously.
Thud thud thud!
Short cries of pain rose.
Those Funeral Needles, Butterfly Darts, Boomerangs, and needles as fine as hair all went back to the two hidden weapons elites. Their faces and bodies were covered in those hidden weapons, and they were too miserable a sight to bear.
Happy remained in his position of bending his back to pour wine as an offering. There was an indescribable grace about him.
Class One Hall's group instantly felt their hearts tremble. They stared at Happy in shock, and they s.u.c.k.e.d in cold breaths.
They had been paying attention to Happy's actions, but aside from the instantaneous outburst of qi just now, they did not even notice how Happy attacked them, much less how the Class One Hall elites were attacked.
"'I will deal with you the same way as you dealt with me'... Shifting Stars is indeed an ultimate technique of the world. That Joined Finger is also mysterious and soundless, it's very powerful indeed! When I see your attacks, I cannot help but feel my hands itch.
"Haha! Brother Happy, will you be willing to help me fulfill my wish?"
Even though he was asking for a fight, Wei Zhentian had already walked out of the pavilion.
At that moment, if Happy avoided the battle, he might not be able to avoid having people accuse him of being afraid of Wei Zhentian.
"I have many guests today. Even if one more joins, it won't matter."
Happy turned around slowly, and he faced the gentle Wei Zhentian with a calm air about him.
Wei Zhentian had always been Class One Hall's ally. This time, he came ahead of everyone else to test him. Even though he was not involved in Class One Hall's plans in attacking Happy, he will not allow Happy to casually massacre Class One Hall's elites in front of him.
One, it was because it will not do his reputation good. Two, he did indeed want to verify Happy's strength.
Wei Zhentian smiled and said, "Alright! If that's the case, take this!"
Once he finished speaking, he suddenly gained an illusory air about him.
But Wei Zhentian never stopped moving. He walked toward Happy and did not shout his attacks like other great players.
Even so, the gentle presence on Wei Zhentian completely disappeared. While he gained that unreal presence, an invisible wave of aggression burst out completely from him.
Even Happy frowned a little when he sensed this, but he immediately had the ghost of a smile appear on his lips.
The essence of Wandering Universal Eight Trigrams Souls Palm laid in close-quarters combat. In fact, it can even allow the user to fight against Myth Realm martial artists with ease. Clearly, Wei Zhentian had decided to engage him in melee combat.
His Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and Ten True Dragon Styles had reached the stage where he was nigh invincible when he fought against all those under Myth Realm.
*****
When they saw that Happy was getting closer to Wei Zhentian, the Class One Hall members held their breaths and watched the fight on the spot.
Right then, there were some people who decided to pay attention to the woman with the Bamboo Hat in the pavilion. They began to guess which Mu Clan lady it was that Happy decided to bring with him this time.
The more famous Mu Clan female players were Momo, Wind Chimes, and Phoenix Dances. All three of them had already showed up in different regions. They did not know where this lady came from and would actually dare to come with Happy to Shaolin Temple at this moment.
Xu Xin gently and calmly stood on the steps leading to the pavilion. While she watched the fight, she observed the actions of the Class One Hall members around her warily.
*****
There were quite a number of people in Class One Hall's crowd who had already witnessed the fight between Hanago and Do Jin.
They originally thought that the fights between top-class elites would be like Hanago and Do Jin's. They will begin by testing waters, and while they attacked with the force of lightning, they will also be careful while they advanced with caution.
But Wei Zhentian and Happy's performance completely destroyed this thought in their heads.
Wei Zhentian did not show any intention to stop moving. He had an illusory air about him, and he exercised restraint on the aggressive air about him while he walked straight toward Happy.
Happy's expression remained calm, as if he did not have any intention to attack to test Wei Zhentian's skills or to hurt him.
By the looks of it, both had unshakeable and great confidence in themselves.
One of them had an endless, sharp wave of aggression hidden under that illusory, unreal presence, and the other was acc.u.mulating great strength under his calm facade.
Now, both were five steps away from each other.
And Happy finally moved.
Right when Wei Zhentian raised his foot again and moved into the area where he was five feet away from Happy, which was also the area where a fight to the life and death could happen, Happy attacked at last.
His expression tensed up. Dragon-shaped vortices instantly surrounded his arms, and they brought with a faint as well as awe-inspiring dragon roars.
However, Wei Zhentian smiled at that moment. At the moment he raised his foot, he immediately changed his movement!
Boom!
He delivered a stomp that crushed stones and caused the world to be shocked to attack ahead of Happy.
He changed his move too suddenly, and he was so fast with the circulation of his qi that he even caught Happy a little off guard. For the first time, Happy's Nine Yang Divine Skill did not manage
to react in time.
Petite Dragon.
Boom!
He kicked upward, and there was a powerful and fierce force in that kick. It created a muffled but clear sonic boom in the air.
Before the force of the kick passed, the second Heart Drilling Kick almost slammed into Happy's c.h.e.s.t, who had appeared in the air after the effects of Petite Dragon wore off.
'So fast! They're too fast!'
The Class One Hall members watching by the side did not even manage to see how Wei Zhentian did all that. It should not have been possible to connect that angle of attack and the attacks, but Wei Zhentian had managed to do it perfectly, and each move contained the full essence of the martial art.
In fact, he had even managed to predict the position where Happy will appear...
Chapter 902 - At Equal Grounds
For the first time ever, Happy was forced to use Petite Dragon as his first move when he fought against a human player.
Similarly, for the first time ever, right at the moment he exchanged blows with a player, that same player managed to locate him when he appeared from Petite Dragon, and he can only fend against his attacks.
'He's good.' Happy was shocked, but he did not slack in his movements at all.
At the moment the fierce wave of qi locked on his c.h.e.s.t, Happy swung his left hand, formed the shape of a claw with it, and seized Wei Zhentian's calf when he was about to pull his leg back.
But what surprised Happy was that when he used Dragon Capture to catch Wei Zhentian's calf, a hidden force suddenly surged out of the man's body, and it coincidentally gathered at his calf.
Bang!
He had been confident in his attack, but it was repelled.
Even so, he did not freeze for even a second.
Happy did not even have the time to be surprised by how the man managed to control his qi in such an ingenious and subtle fashion. However, he knew that an elite who knew how to use hidden force was definitely not someone he can control with a normal Dragon Capture.
At the same time Wei Zhentian broke Happy's Dragon Capture, his kick, which had the power to pierce through the c.h.e.s.t, had its power instantly weaken by a large degree.
Happy parried with his right hand and used the dragon shaped vortex to easily block Wei Zhentian's weakened kick.
A hidden force exploded forth.
Bang!
Both sides retreated.
"What a high-end move to block acupressure points, and as expected of Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, it's indeed amazing."
Happy knew that the high-end move used to block acupressure points Wei Zhentian mentioned was his Dragon Capture. It can interrupt the circulation of true qi and instantly suppress an enemy's qi. He smiled faintly. "You use your hidden force well too."
If it were not for the unique trait in Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms that can allow him to weaken attacks as well as deliver fierce and peerless offenses, he might have suffered a setback from the hidden force just now.
"That was just a warmup. You won't be so lucky next. Again!"
Right when Wei Zhentian finished speaking, he stomped against the ground.
A powerful hidden force exploded forth and surged at Happy from the ground.
At the same time, Wei Zhentian moved forward with gentle movements.
This was a strategy that allowed him to deliver two attacks at the same time, and it was much fiercer than the attack from Dragon Sect's vice sect master. There were also multiple hidden forces in Wei Zhentian's attack. By the looks of it, Wei Zhentian also knew that Happy understood some of the ways to use hidden forces, and he had made a lot of preparations, he even prepared a lot of moves for it.
When Happy abruptly encountered such a powerful enemy, he gained a solemn air, and the techniques that he only used in his previous life began to flow out of the memories he had not used for a long time.
'You're fighting against me using hidden forces and skills? Alright! Two can play this game!'
In his previous life, when he did not have Nine Yang Divine Skill, he made it to the sixteen best in the Sword Among Us tournament, and he had even made the cut for the eight best, so his starting point in this life was much higher than his previous life.
Even though the chain reactions due to his actions had caused a lot of elites to appear ahead of time, Happy was still absolutely confident with himself.
Hence, he resolutely cast aside Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, which was a fierce but not gentle martial art, and switched to the palm technique as well as Spiral Force he learned from Xu Zhiling.
Xu Zhiling's palm technique might not be fast, but its advantage laid in the fact that it was steady and could cover all areas in a fight.
Besides, Spiral Force was a skill that can produce two different kinds of different hidden forces in an instant, and with it serving as a support skill, Happy's attacks became much more difficult to deal with compared to normal hidden forces, and they were also much sharper and fiercer.
Right when they exchanged blows, Wei Zhentian, who had been confident, noticed the change in Happy's attack, along with the amazing aspect in the hidden force within his palm strikes.
However, it was clear that he had never met Xu Zhiling before, and he did not have a deep as well as detailed understanding to Twin of Brothers' Spiral Force.
When he sensed the unique, sharp, and fierce hidden force in Happy's palm technique, he could not help but have an astonished look appear on his face.
His attacks came to a halt. Wei Zhentian immediately switched from offense to defense and was prepared to observe the details of Happy's hidden force.
Each attack was fierce, and killing intent was hidden with each move. Sometimes, they will exchange seven to eight moves in an instant, and all of their attacks were connected, causing all those who saw the fight to be dazzling to the eye.
Aside from Wei Zhentian and Happy themselves, all Class One Hall members and Xu Xin were unable to follow the rhythm of the fight at all. They only saw two blurry figures forming multiple afterimages.
Those afterimages gradually faded away and scattered among the sonic booms, but at the same time, more afterimages flashed past their eyes and intersected with each other.
In an instant, they exchanged more than one hundred moves!
As time passed, Wei Zhentian became more and more shocked.
He had initially thought that Happy might have obtained a rather unique execution method for hidden forces from some elite, which caused him to suffer a slight setback. Hence, later on, he focused on using speed and skill to counter and suppress Happy.
However, what he did not expect was that Happy, who had extraordinary sword technique as well as multiple ultimate techniques, will have such solid skill with his b.a.r.e hands as well. Even if he fought against Wei Zhentian head on, he did not suffer from a disadvantage at all. In fact, he relied on Spiral Force and slowly seized control of the fight back into his hands.
'How can this be?' There were only a handful of Myth Realm martial artists who can do this.
"Sect Master Wei, why don't you use your full strength? If we continue like this, it'll be really boring." While Happy attacked, he even spoke, and his relaxed attitude made Wei Zhentian freeze again, and his expression finally turned from a stern look to a somber expression.
Wei Zhentian said loudly, "Alright. Today, I will let you witness the real Wandering Universal Eight Trigrams Souls Palm!"
Before his voice faded away, an astonishing momentum instantly spread out of his body.
"HAH!"
He moved in the Eight Trigrams Steps and swiftly rushed in front of Happy.
His speed turned from fast to abstruse, and he gave off a feeling as if he could shrink the earth.
A fierce palm-generated wind sliced through the air and went straight to Happy!
Happy's expression tensed. He did not dare remain idle. He brought one hand up in a steady motion and executed Spiral Force, making his qi contract into himself
before it spilled out. Then, his qi went up against Wei Zhentian's knifehand strike.
However, this time, the hidden force he expected did not appear.
'Oh no.'
Happy's expression changed. He quickly discovered that there was no hidden force in Wei Zhentian's hand, but an incredibly powerful impact suddenly came from his feet.
Happy immediately decided to not even use Petite Dragon. He activated Golden Bell Cocoon and charged forward instead of retreating. He flipped his hand around to seize Wei Zhentian's arm, which had not managed to leave Happy's area of control.
Wei Zhentian smiled mysteriously.
"Tremble!"
The power that came from beneath the ground viciously crashed into the golden bell that rose from Happy's body.
The golden light buzzed and shuddered madly. It was as if a small scale explosion appeared in the air, and the sudden qi wave violently sent Happy tumbling backward. He lost his balance.
"Ah!" Xu Xin, who had been paying attention to the fight all along in the pavilion, could not help but cry out in surprise.
The Class One Hall elites who were watching by the side had crazed delight appear on their faces.
This was the first time they saw Happy suffering a setback.
However, their smiles did not last for long, because they saw Happy's body twisted like a swimming dragon. He turned his body upside down, and he used an even faster speed to kick Wei Zhentian, who had chased after him while he had the upper hand.
Thud thud thud!
The momentum in his chase was instantly destroyed, and after he took a few staggering steps back, he finally stopped, but he was not injured.
Happy did not chase after him.
Wei Zhentian's strange palm technique and the power that appeared without any sign made him slightly surprised. Even though it did not shatter Golden Bell Cocoon profound skill, if that attack attacked Wei Zhentian's enemy suddenly during battle, it will be very difficult for Wei Zhentian's enemy to fend against it. Even Happy had nearly suffered a setback just now, and he was lucky that he had activated Dragon Swings Its Tail in time to turn the tides.
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