Chapter 11: The power of one finger, the whole audience is silent

"Ring number one, first match, Ye Hua vs. Ye Li!"

The deacon's high-pitched voice pierced through the clamor and carried clearly throughout the entire training ground.

In an instant, almost everyone's attention was focused on Arena No. 1. The competitions going on in the other arenas seemed to have temporarily lost their appeal.

"Here it comes! The show is about to begin!"

"Look! Ye Hua is coming up! He's so aggressive!"

"What about that loser? He's not too scared to go up there, is he?"

Amidst the crowd's chatter and gazes, Ye Hua leaped and landed nimbly on the stage. His movements were fluid, brimming with the sense of superiority that comes with being a legitimate son. He twisted his neck, flexed his wrists, and with a cruel, cat-and-mouse grin on his face, he looked down at the figure slowly approaching from below the stage.

Ye Li's pace remained unhurried, even a little too calm. She walked up the stairs, step by step, onto the stage, forming a sharp contrast with Ye Hua's flamboyant demeanor.

"Both sides, take your positions!" The referee was a stern-faced middle-aged deacon, whose cultivation level was at the Condensed Veins Realm. He was responsible for maintaining order and determining the outcome.

Ye Hua chuckled and casually bowed to the referee, but his eyes were always fixed on Ye Li. He licked his lips and said, "Don't worry, Deacon, it will be over soon."

The referee frowned, said nothing, and just looked at Ye Li. Ye Li nodded slightly as a greeting.

"Hmph, just pretending!" Seeing her calm demeanor, Ye Hua felt a surge of anger in his heart. He lowered his voice and said viciously, "Wait and see how you can keep pretending! I'll make you kneel and beg for mercy!"

Ye Li seemed not to hear it, and looked at the referee calmly, indicating that she was ready.

"The game begins!" The referee swung his arm down!

Almost at the moment the words fell!

"Waste! Get down!" Ye Hua roared, and the spiritual energy of the middle level of the Spiritual Awakening Realm in his body burst out without reservation. His body was like an arrow shot from a bow, and he pounced towards Ye Li!

He had no intention of probing her at all. He unleashed his most powerful, Human-level, mid-grade martial art—the Stone-Splitting Palm! With a whistling wind and a brutal aura, he struck Ye Li squarely in the face! The speed was incredibly fast, and the angle was quite tricky. He clearly intended to crush her with one strike, crushing her to the ground and making a fool of herself in front of everyone!

There were even some exclamations from the audience, as if they had already seen the tragic scene of Ye Li being slapped away and falling to the ground, spitting blood. Ye Lang and the others even showed excited and cruel smiles on their faces.

On the high platform, Third Elder Ye Lang's lips curled up slightly. First Elder Ye Xiao's gaze narrowed slightly. Patriarch Ye Tian remained calm, though a faint wave of emotion seemed to flicker in the depths of his gaze.

Faced with this fierce and sharp palm that was powerful enough to break monuments and split rocks, Ye Li moved!

Her movements were so simple that it was unbelievable!

There was no display of fancy martial arts, no head-on collision, and not even any major dodges.

At the moment when the fierce palm wind was about to touch her body, her body slid slightly to the right at a seemingly impossible yet extremely natural angle, like a willow in the wind!

Just this step!

Just right, perfect!

Ye Hua's palm strike, which was determined to succeed, almost grazed the tip of her nose. The sharp wind from his palm blew her hair back, but he couldn't even touch the corner of her clothes!

"What?!" Ye Hua's attack, which he was determined to win, missed. His strength was insufficient and his body leaned forward slightly due to the inertia of the forward rush. He was suddenly shocked and secretly said, "Oh no!"

However, in this lightning-fast gap between his old strength and the new strength—

Ye Li’s counterattack has arrived!

There are still no complicated moves.

She simply raised her right hand, clenched her five fingers slightly, not as a fist, but together like a sword, with her index and middle fingers together, and a layer of imperceptible but extremely condensed icy aura lingering on her fingertips. With lightning speed, she pointed at the Tan Zhong point on Ye Hua's chest, which was exposed due to his forward leaning!

This finger, fast! accurate! ruthless!

It exceeds the limits of what the naked eyes of most people in the audience can capture!

What was even more terrifying was that the moment the finger extended, a cold, deadly, and terrifying mental pressure suddenly burst out from Ye Li's calm eyes, as if it contained a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood! This pressure condensed into a beam, like an invisible sharp needle, fiercely piercing Ye Hua's mind!

Ye Hua felt his eyes flash before his eyes, as if he saw a pair of supreme eyes that looked down indifferently upon all living things. Boundless fear and chill instantly gripped his soul! The blood in his body seemed to freeze at this moment, his thoughts stagnated, his movements stiffened, and he even forgot to perform the most basic defensive block!

He could only watch helplessly as those two slender fingers, which seemed to be able to see through everything, touched his chest.

"puff!"

An extremely slight, yet clear, muffled sound reached the ears of several people nearby.

Ye Hua's forward movement suddenly froze, as if he had been cast into a spell. The grim smile and cruelty on his face instantly froze, transformed into extreme horror and disbelief.

Next second!

“Ugh—!”

He uttered a muffled groan of agony, his entire body slamming into him like an invisible giant elephant, his feet leaving the ground and sending him flying backwards! Uncontrollably, a small spurt of blood spurted out of his mouth, drawing a blinding arc in the air!

Bang!

His body fell heavily on the edge of the ring several meters away, rolled twice before stopping, and then fainted and lost consciousness.

Where the chest was hit, the clothes were torn, and a clear fingerprint was sunken, covered with a thin layer of white frost, emitting a hint of coldness.

silence!

Deathly silence!

The entire training ground seemed to have been muted.

Everyone's eyes widened, their mouths opened, their faces frozen in a moment of astonishment, confusion, and disbelief.

The wind seemed to have stopped blowing.

Time seemed to have stopped.

One move?

No! It's not even a move!

Ye Li simply dodged to the side, and then... pointed a finger?

Ye Hua, a mid-level Qiling Realm cultivator, a relatively well-known figure among his direct descendants, and the most arrogant and conceited of all, was just… defeated? Did he faint?

How is this possible? !

Is it an illusion?

Countless people rubbed their eyes subconsciously, wondering if they had seen it wrong.

In the audience, the smile on Yelang's face completely froze, transforming into a look of horror and bewilderment, as if he had seen a ghost. Yeming, Yeliang, and the others around him were even more stunned, as if struck by lightning.

On the podium, Third Elder Ye Lang, who had been sitting so calmly, suddenly saw his teacup tremble, unaware of the spilled tea, his face filled with astonishment. First Elder Ye Xiao's piercing eyes suddenly gleamed, and he leaned forward slightly. Fourth Elder Ye Yun covered her lips, her beautiful eyes filled with shock. Even Patriarch Ye Tian, ​​who usually kept his composure, raised his eyebrows noticeably. His gaze instantly sharpened, locked onto the calm young woman on the stage, her fingers tucked in.

The referee was stunned for several seconds before he suddenly reacted. He quickly stepped forward to check on Ye Hua's condition. After confirming that he was only stunned and had some internal injuries and was not in danger of death, he took a deep breath and announced loudly in a voice trembling with disbelief:

"One, Arena Number One, First Match, Winner - Ye Li!"

Wow——!

It was not until this moment that the dead silence was completely broken. Like a flood bursting through a dam, a huge uproar rose into the sky, almost overturning the entire training ground!

"Won...won? Ye Li won?"

"One move?! Just one move?! I didn't even see what happened!"

"Ye Hua is at the middle stage of the Spiritual Awakening Realm! How is it possible that he can't even take a single blow?"

"What kind of fingering is that? So... so scary!"

"Isn't she useless? What kind of strength is this?!"

Exclamations, questions, and discussions swept in like a tsunami. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the calm young woman standing on the stage, as if they were truly getting to know her for the first time.

Useless? Waste?

If this is trash, then what about Ye Hua who was killed in one move? What about those who are not as good as Ye Hua?

The huge contrast has had a strong impact on everyone's cognition!

Ye Li had struck back! She made her debut with an absolutely powerful and overwhelming attitude!

She stood on the ring, calming her breathing slightly. That finger move, seemingly simple, actually condensed the vast majority of her currently available spiritual energy, and even contained a hint of the mental intimidation she had wielded against her enemies in her past life, striving for a single strike that would kill and shock the entire crowd. The effect was clearly even better than she had anticipated.

She could feel countless eyes falling on her, filled with shock, inquiry, disbelief, and... deep fear.

She walked down the ring with an expressionless face, ignoring the discussions around her that almost drowned her out, and returned to the quiet corner again, closing her eyes and regulating her breathing, as if the earth-shattering blow just now had nothing to do with her.

But the atmosphere of the entire martial arts arena has completely changed because of her.

The elders' attitudes were obviously different. The looks they gave her were no longer indifferent or curious, but scrutinizing and solemn.

The other contestants who hadn't yet competed, especially those considered top seed players, all had serious expressions, looking at Ye Li with vigilance and scrutiny. They were beginning to truly regard this name as an opponent they needed to take seriously.

Ye Li, this name, like cold water thrown into boiling oil, completely exploded in the Ye family.

The sensational effect of the loser's counterattack began to ferment at an alarming speed.

And all this has just begun.

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