Chapter 1113 — Er Goudan Punches Out Master Li, Part Two

The green-hatted fighter could not help but frown. He could not get the measure of Er Goudan. The lad had flung a grown man clear through the air in one go — plainly no small strength there. So the green-hatted fighter did not dare rush forward rashly. He only shook his head.

"You there, boy — looking for me?" Master Li had gotten word long ago from the two big men at the door: someone had forced his way into the arena, and it looked like he was coming. As the arena's champion fighter, Master Li was naturally obliged to come out and see what the trouble was. And so it happened that he saw with his own eyes the moment Er Goudan threw the red-hatted fighter out.

"You Master Li?" Er Goudan lifted his head and saw Master Li standing on the second-floor viewing stand, above the ring of the underground arena.

"Boy, what business have you here? If it's a fight you want, you've come to the wrong place! State your purpose, and I may spare your life!" Master Li gave a cold laugh, though in his heart he had already begun to think of killing. A raw brat of a boy, and here he was, mouthing off about beating him to death — Master Li had always been a petty man. How could he stomach that?

"I've come to beat you to death!" Er Goudan frowned, and said with some impatience, "What are you doing up there? Hurry up and come down, so I can beat you to death!"

"Ha!" Master Li laughed instead of growing angry. Was this Er Goudan pig-brained or what? To come out with such witless words? Telling him to come down and be beaten to death? That was a fine joke indeed! Still, Master Li asked, "I do not even know you, and yet you mean to beat me to death?"

The crowd below the ring burst into waves of mocking laughter too. The fighting itself was thrilling enough, but the occasional unexpected interlude like this was good sport as well — all the more so with Er Goudan crying "beat you to death" over and over at Master Li!

"Are you the Master Li who's trying to take Yu Yuanyuan away?" Er Goudan frowned, though he thought it best to make sure. He did not want to beat up the wrong man.

"Oh? So you've come to stand up for Yu Yuanyuan, have you? Very good — you've got gall, all right, daring to swagger before Iron Fist Li. Today you're not leaving!" A flicker of anger passed through Master Li's eyes. Could this Er Goudan be Yu Yuanyuan's lover? Otherwise, what was this business to him? At that thought, murder rose in Master Li's heart, and he made ready to keep Er Goudan here for good.

"You said it. I've come to stand up for Yu Yuanyuan, all right. Your Grandpa Goudan here punches road rollers and kicks atom bombs, and even I'd hardly call myself Iron Fist Goudan — and you, you filthy, scurvy knave, you pile of dung, you go calling yourself Iron Fist Li! Pah!" Hearing the man's absurd boasting, Er Goudan spat a thick gob of phlegm in contempt, and that gob flew clean up to the second-floor stand and landed smack on Master Li's forehead!

"Wah yah yah yah — I'll do you in!" Master Li wiped his brow and sprang down from the viewing stand above, landing solidly on the ring! As a mid-stage Mystic-rank external expert, he could do all this with ease! But no sooner had he steadied himself on the ring than one hand shot out at Er Goudan! He was in a towering fury, and meant to kill Er Goudan outright with his fist.

Er Goudan neither dodged nor flinched. He raised his fist and met Master Li's incoming blow head-on!

"Crack!" "Bang!"

One sharp report, one dull thud — and Master Li's body went flying backward off the ring, one arm already bent at an unnatural angle. Plainly that "crack" had been the sound of the arm breaking!

A streak of blood arced through the air — Master Li's, spat out as he flew, spewing blood all the way. With a "bang" he landed hard on the ground, red and white and everything else spilling out in a mess across the floor, and then he went still. Plainly he would not live.

"Ah!" A gasp of shock ran through the spectators at once! In this underground arena, a man beaten to death was nothing strange — but a man sent flying through the air, spewing blood as he flew, that had never been seen before! This was the sort of scene you only saw in the movies!

And so the spectators broke into cheers once more!

Of course, no one present knew who Master Li really was. No one knew he was the man who had done away with Red Dragon. They all took him for a fighter of very low rank even now!

Seeing that Master Li was dead, Er Goudan did not linger. True, a death in this underground arena was common enough, but Er Goudan also feared that the arena's people might be driven to desperation and call the police. So before anyone could react, he leaped down from the ring and fled out of the underground arena like a puff of smoke, and was gone.

But just as he came out the arena door, a taxi happened to pull up not far away, and the two who stepped out of it were none other than Yunhai Shuku and his daughter Yu Yuanyuan!

The moment the two got out, they too caught sight of Er Goudan running out, and hurried to meet him. Yu Yuanyuan spoke first: "How are you? Did you see Master Li?"

"Run — I've beaten him to death!" Er Goudan said in a low voice.

"What? Beaten to death?" Yu Yuanyuan's eyes went wide, and she stared at Er Goudan in disbelief.

"Beaten to death!" Er Goudan nodded.

"The taxi…" Yu Yuanyuan suddenly remembered — they had already paid the taxi that brought them, and had not asked the driver to wait. She turned her head, and sure enough, the taxi was already far away!

Er Goudan scratched at his scalp, then reached out with both hands and scooped up Yu Yuanyuan and Yunhai Shuku, one on each side, and took off at a sprint.

Yu Yuanyuan was badly startled. She had never imagined that Er Goudan could run so fast while carrying two people. Was this fellow even human?

Yunhai Shuku was also somewhat stunned. He had never imagined a person could run this fast!

Er Goudan ran more than a kilometer without stopping before he finally came to a halt. To him, the weight of Yu Yuanyuan and Yunhai Shuku was nothing at all; he had carried wild boars weighing hundreds of jin and still moved as briskly as if flying.

"How do you run so fast? Are you even human?" Yu Yuanyuan, set down on the ground, was frightened badly. Clutching her chest, she pointed at Er Goudan, her face full of shock.

"I'm used to running in the mountains," Er Goudan said. "All right, I beat that fellow to death. He won't bother you anymore!"

"You really beat him to death? Aren't you afraid of getting sued?" Yu Yuanyuan had not expected Er Goudan to actually go and kill the man. At first she had not quite believed it, but seeing the speed with which Er Goudan moved like the wind, she believed it somewhat now. This man was no simple character!

"Didn't you say people dying in the underground boxing arena is common? Would they even call the police?" Er Goudan was startled too. "Will the cops come arrest me?"

"I... I don't know. Ai!" Yu Yuanyuan sighed. Although Er Goudan had not been hurt, in the end she had still dragged him into this mess! Though deaths from beatings were routine at the underground boxing arena and those people might not call the police, Yu Yuanyuan feared that Er Goudan had stirred up trouble and that the other side's people would come to take revenge on him!