Chapter 1927 — The Challenge, Part Two
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"Hm?" Purple Hair was taken aback. Chen Yuxuan was plainly only at the peak of the early Profound rank, yet he showed no fear at the sight of a mid Profound opponent—and was even inviting him to strike first. Had he lost his mind? A higher-ranked fighter attacking a lower-ranked one would be nothing but a one-sided slaughter.
"Hurry up. Don't waste everyone's time!" Chen Yuxuan said, a note of impatience in his voice.
"Hmph!" Purple Hair was furious. With a cold snort, he drove a kick straight at Chen Yuxuan. Since Chen Yuxuan was a skilled fighter at the peak of the early Profound rank, Purple Hair no longer held back. A full-power blow to injure him would do—after all, a man at the peak of the early Profound rank would not die from it. Purple Hair meant to make Chen Yuxuan suffer in silence.
Chen Yuxuan had been the one to invite the attack. Even if he were injured, he would have no choice but to swallow his grievance and bear it—he had personally agreed to those terms of victory.
But when Purple Hair's kick came flying at him, Chen Yuxuan met it with a military-boxing move—and what made Purple Hair's blood run cold was this: Chen Yuxuan was no peak early-Profound fighter at all. He was at the peak of the late Profound rank!
Purple Hair cursed his own folly—but it was too late. The instant his foot met Chen Yuxuan's fist, his whole body was sent flying backward, far farther than Huang Mao had gone, all the way to the edge of the training ground, where he crashed heavily to the earth and let out a miserable howl: "Awooo—"
Even this was Chen Yuxuan holding back. Otherwise, given his strength, snuffing out Purple Hair's life would have been child's play.
"Whoa—" The students gasped in astonishment, and then thunderous applause broke out.
Chen Yuxuan's move had been utterly magnificent—an ordinary-looking blow that carried such tremendous force, just like a stunt sequence from a martial-arts film. After all, when an ordinary person threw a punch, the most they could do was knock someone down. A punch that could send a man flying—and flying so far—was something ordinary people almost never saw; it belonged only to the movies.
And now it had happened right before their eyes! So those scenes in films were not merely tricks to dazzle the audience—there really were people in this world powerful enough to do such things!
"Huang Mao, Purple Hair, You Panhu—breaking discipline. Go run a hundred laps around the barracks, or you get no lunch!" Chen Yuxuan glanced at You Panhu in the ranks. He had noticed earlier that these three were in league together. If Huang Mao and Purple Hair were no ordinary men, then You Panhu was likely a cultivator as well. A hundred laps was nothing—he would take them for a little spin.
"Yes..." Huang Mao, Purple Hair, and You Panhu burned with resentment, but at this point they dared not make trouble. This instructor was actually a skilled fighter at the peak of the late Profound rank—before such a man, they had no room to resist.
Watching the three of them set off to run their laps, the students in the assembly ground broke into wave upon wave of laughter.