He figured it out: Mu Kang looked at this with indifference.
"No worries, this will serve as a lesson for Jun Haru. He was using it recklessly instead of keeping it as a trump card. You can't win by relying on just one thing, especially when he's fighting his opponent with a method he's not even skilled at." Mu Kang shook his head and continued to watch, ready to intervene and pull Jun Haru out if any complications arose.
Jun Haru stood up, shaking.
"Bu…but… how…" Blood spilled from his mouth as he clutched his abdomen with his left hand.
He was thrown again but to his left. He stood up from the ground again but had just stood up when he was hit from behind and was sent flying towards Yang Zhai.
"Jun Haru, first lesson, never let excitement get over you in a fight. As I am leaving today, I will teach you a few things so that you don't make mistakes like this ever again in the future."
Yang Zhai punched Jun Haru on the left side of the face and slammed him to the ground heavily.
He was purposely holding his strength back on every attack.
"I can see that this kid is not only good at the mastery path, but also the body path, but it won't take him far if he keeps on cultivating two paths." Mu Kang was looking at Yang Zhai and observing him.
"Second lesson, even though I am holding back, you shouldn't, especially if the one you are fighting is stronger than you. You should have used the wind path as well even if you wanted to test your new strength out of excitement."
Jun Haru had just been slammed into the ground when the ground below disappeared, and a loud sound came from below, and he was sent flying upward into the air.
"Third lesson, you should have saved your trump card for the last. Even if you are fighting against a stronger opponent and you do need to use your trump card right from the start, do not use your own body to take such a big risk, and you should have used an Ire to defend or at least a Ka."
Jun Haru had just flown into the air a few meters when a loud sound came again and he was slammed into the ground.
His whole body shook, and blood started to spill out of his facial orifices.
"Stand up, I am still not using my full strength, yet you are already lying down. This might be our last fight, give it your all. After today, you will need to train terrifyingly hard if you ever hope to defeat me."
Yang Zhai came to a stop and waited for Jun Haru to stand up on his feet.
"Tzu Yu is teaching Jun Haru some valuable lessons. I think it was the right decision to let Jun Haru have a final fight with his friend before he leaves. Jun Haru can learn a lot from this fight." Mu Kang said nonchalantly to a person standing next to him.
That person was wearing a cloak, and his face wasn't visible because of it. He nodded when he heard Mu Kang.
"Jun Haru, stand up, we are just starting. Believe me, after this fight, you will have a new perspective on this world."
"Do you know what you did wrong?"
BOOM!
Yang Zhai snapped his fingers, and another thunderous sound erupted, slamming Jun Haru forcefully into the ground.
When he saw that Jun Haru was unable to even stand, Yang Zhai went close to him and grabbed him by the neck before picking him up and punching him in the face heavily.
"Your biggest mistake was underestimating me, your opponent." Yang Zhai said this and gave him another punch.
"B…but…I…I didn...under…estim…ate…" Jun Haru was stuttering, he couldn't even speak properly.
"You didn't? You did, even though you were confident in your new defense method and your new strength, you ended up getting beaten up. The reason is that you forgot that if your opponent realizes your method's weakness, you are done for."
Yang Zhai punched Jun Haru in the abdomen. He still didn't let go of Jun Haru and continued beating him while keeping him in the air.
Jun Haru didn't realize that Tzu Yu's first powerful attack of round spheres wasn't meant to injure him but to observe what was happening. Tzu Yu wanted to see if his attacks were having any effect on Jun Haru. I'm sure Tzu Yu noticed the force being transferred to the Earth when he used the spheres to attack.
Because the force of that attack was so powerful, there was a visible disturbance on the earth's surface where Jun Haru stood as he transferred the force into the ground. I am sure the second attack of those spheres was meant to confirm Tzu Yu's doubts.
This is why Tzu Yu always makes the earth below Jun Haru disappear before attacking with an aura sphere. I can also see that Tzu Yu is holding back on every one of his attacks. His strength should be around thirty or so bulls.
These were Mu Kang's thoughts. Even though he wasn't directly involved in the fight, he understood what was happening. He wasn't an ordinary cultivator; he could clearly see what was going on, to the point that he could tell how much force was behind each of Yang Zhai's attacks. This was how he figured out that Tzu Yu wasn't just a mastery path cultivator but also a body path cultivator.
"You were transferring the damage and force behind each of my attacks into the ground, right?" Yang Zhai asked Jun Haru, shocking him.
He stopped attacking and stepped back.
"Heal up and let's continue. This is our last battle—learn as much as possible, I will stop using the aura balls," he said.
He waited for Jun Haru to heal.
"Brother Tzu, you taught me a lot today, I won't hold back now and use the wind path as well as proper defensive methods. I will make sure to win!"
After Jun Haru healed up, the fight continued. Yang Zhai abandoned the long-range and began a close-range battle again with Jun Haru, even though Jun Haru was now trying to keep a distance between himself and Yang Zhai.
After half an hour,
With a loud sound, Jun Haru vomited a lot of blood and suddenly separated from the torus. The torus fell to the side.
When Yang Zhai saw this, he activated the green lines, and his aura disappeared. He activated Earth Capture Ka, and the ground below Jun Haru and the torus disappeared suddenly. A hand came and grabbed the torus before pulling it down and disappearing.
On the other hand, the ground had also disappeared below Yang Zhai, Zul Zil appeared and kicked Yang Zhai heavily downward before disappearing.
He shot the damnation snake towards Jun Haru right after Jun Haru and the torus separated.
What?!!!!
As for Mu Kang and others, this change was too sudden, so they couldn't react to it right away and were flabbergasted, but it didn't take them much longer before they acted.
One of the guards jumped and approached Jun Haru at an astonishing speed. Jun Haru was just falling when he was grabbed by the guard. The guard's other hand hurriedly grabbed the snake and a blue smoke came out and shattered the snake.
He tried to grab the torus as well, but the torus had already disappeared.
It was visible that he was the fastest among them as he had already reached Jun Haru when the others were still in the air, trying to reach Jun Haru.
"Damn it, what happened here?! Where did that kid and the torus disappear to?!"
Mu Kang shouted, losing his temper.
"Master, I saw a gate a few meters below me for a second. The torus was pulled into that door…" Jun Haru said with disbelief, still held by the guard.
Even though… I knew Brother Yang was dangerous and might be scheming something… I still… but that was exciting. Maybe it's because I had expected something like this was going to happen the moment I saw Brother Yang back on the inheritance ground: Jun Haru thought, in utter disbelief, but unknowingly excited for some reason.
"A gate? Why couldn't we sense it? Did you guys not use the observation method to sense the Earth deep below?!!"
Mu Kang shouted at the guards.
"No, master. We didn't think something like this would happen, especially below the surface. Even then we still did a quick check below the earth with our methods, but… couldn't sense anything?" a guard replied.
"He played with us. He was just trying to lower our guard so that we would let the fight continue as well as drop our worries about him. I am sure he wasn't teaching Jun Haru but just acting so that we would think he truly wanted to help Jun Haru. He knew if we didn't let our guard down, he wouldn't succeed."
"Now that I think about it, he might have been purposely fighting a close-range battle, and we thought he was holding back. No wonder I thought that he was weak for a body cultivator at rank 5. He was just taking a risk of fighting a close-range battle to get us."
"That bastard was really meticulous! I thought he was just a powerless kid who couldn't do anything. Even if he attacked, he could only attack head-on, and we only guarded the area in front of us. We let our pride get the better of us. And you! Why didn't you help the torus?!!" Mu Kang asked the guard who helped Jun Haru.
"...master… it's… because the snake he shot was shot from a very short distance and if I hadn't grabbed the snake, I am sure it would have hit Jun Haru… so… I couldn't help the torus in time… I think Tzu Yu did it purposely so that we would try to defend Jun Haru before the Torus, after all, our teachings don't allow us to let our companions die… besides, I think even if I did go for the Torus, I wouldn't be able to reach it and the snake would have also hit Jun Haru."
"Besides that, his aura disappeared suddenly right before he took action, so I couldn't sense what method was activated around Jun Haru. If I did, I would have reacted sooner…"
Mu Kang went silent and thought
How did that kid know that we would try to defend Jun Haru first in that situation? On top of that, where did the door disappear to? Even if he didn't shoot a snake towards Jun Haru, the way things went, we wouldn't have been able to save the torus. Did he want to be cautious?
"It's terrifying to even think about… how did he stay calm during all this…"
He was in utter disbelief.
"Forget it, everyone, stay calm and get ready. Spread the cultivators around the mountain and the areas surrounding it, be ready. We can't let him get away, we must capture him… as he is only a rank 5 cultivator, send out rank 6 cultivators." Mu Kang ordered.
A rank 6 cultivator is far stronger than any rank 5 cultivator. It's at this stage that a first body modification is achieved, making a first physique that a cultivator achieves. As Tzu Yu is only rank 5, he will die with a single strike from a rank 6 cultivator, no wonder this rank is also called False Immortal rank.
He was indeed an expert; he calmed down, analyzed the whole situation in a few moments, and acted accordingly.
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