Invincibility Begins with Mastery of Fist Techniques

Chapter 720: Chapter 713: Resound

Where did Rock Jim go?!! Where is he?!

The spectators looked on in astonishment at the battlefield, where only Zhou Yuanjue remained.

Then, a message from the Dream Realm system quickly entered everyone’s consciousness.

"The battle is over. The victor is Zhou Yuanjue."

As the message was announced, the entire Dream Simulation battlefield began to rapidly collapse. A beam of white light descended from the sky, enveloping Zhou Yuanjue. His body then quickly blurred and vanished completely from the battlefield.

It’s over?

So Rock Jim hadn’t just vanished from everyone’s sight—he had been completely erased from the Dream Realm battlefield by Zhou Yuanjue?

Only then did the crowd begin to process what had happened, though they still didn’t understand what had just transpired.

Rock Jim’s powerful artillery barrage hadn’t even ended, so how was he suddenly and completely erased by Zhou Yuanjue?

To do it so fast that no one even had time to react must mean that Zhou Yuanjue had, in all likelihood, defeated Rock Jim with a single move.

’Just how strong is this guy, this so-called secret weapon of the Sacred Lotus Civilization?’

A similar question arose in everyone’s mind.

In fact, it wasn’t just the spectators; even Modin and Si Enli, the ones in charge of the Sacred Lotus Civilization’s candidates, were slightly stunned.

"That kid... What did he just do?"

Si Enli asked Modin beside her, a hint of surprise in her voice.

"I... I’m not too sure either..."

"All I know is that his Transformation Level reached sixty-five percent. As for the specifics, I’m really not sure..."

Modin shook his head, a helpless look on his face.

"Aren’t you in charge of his training? How could you not know?"

Si Enli asked, puzzled.

"Uh..."

"I just gave him access to the relevant data libraries."

"I never said it out loud, but I’d honestly already resigned myself to our fate, just trying to make whatever preparations I could. I never thought the kid would give me such a huge surprise."

"I’m afraid his improvement isn’t just about reaching a sixty-five percent Transformation Level."

Modin said with a hearty laugh.

"Why don’t you go back and feel this guy out? Maybe he actually has a chance against Anke from the Holy Descendant Civilization."

Si Enli asked.

"Forget it. Since he’s managed to get this far on his own, we shouldn’t interfere too much. He’ll give it his all for a spot in the Primordial Star Organization. We just need to watch."

Modin shook his head.

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By defeating Rock Jim—the candidate from the Holy Descendant Civilization known as the "Living Cannon," second only to Anke—in a single blow, Zhou Yuanjue’s name instantly became famous among the True Land Residents and other candidates following the selection tournament.

There was no other reason than the fact that Zhou Yuanjue had won too quickly. Even most of the spectators present hadn’t figured out what had happened inside that fog.

This overwhelming advantage, displayed against a seeded player who had gone straight to the elimination rounds, reminded everyone of one person: the acknowledged genius of this batch of candidates, the one with the highest Transformation Level.

Anke Daludoroni of the Holy Descendant Civilization.

In his first match of the elimination tournament, facing the seeded candidate from the Red Moon Civilization, he, like Zhou Yuanjue, had also displayed an overwhelming advantage, defeating his opponent in a single blow.

The battle was over.

「Holy Descendant Civilization—the Magic-Energy Megacity, Jiaoxing Institute, Dream Simulation Chamber.」

Unlike the Dream Simulation Chamber of the Sacred Lotus Civilization, this was a massive room, over a hundred meters high and several thousand square meters in area.

It wasn’t just this room; the other buildings in the Magic-Energy Megacity were also towering and immense.

This was unavoidable. As a civilization focused on biological modification, the Holy Descendant Civilization was home to a wide variety of bizarre life forms, some with enormous bodies. To accommodate this, the city’s buildings and facilities were also incredibly large.

Inside the Dream Simulation Chamber, the five participating candidates from the Holy Descendant Civilization were each enveloped in neural tendrils that shot out from all directions, connecting them to the Dream Realm system.

A strange being with the head and upper body of a humanoid, but a lower body like a centipede with countless limbs squirming slowly, stood before the five contestants with its arms crossed.

He was the handler in charge of this batch of candidates for the Holy Descendant Civilization.

SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!

With the conclusion of the match, the neural tendrils connecting their minds automatically detached, and the five of them gradually awakened.

The handler’s gaze fell first on the massive, three-headed figure of Rock Jim.

"You lost. What exactly did your opponent do? I need a detailed description."

the handler asked Rock Jim, his voice low and serious.

Hearing the handler’s words, three of the other contestants instantly shot Rock Jim looks of astonishment.

’This guy actually lost in the first round of the elimination tournament?’

They were well aware of Rock Jim’s strength. They had originally thought that, aside from Anke, no one in this batch of candidates could defeat him.

"One attack. It was just one attack."

"In my vacuum fog, he withstood the explosive attacks of my ’Star River Chaos,’ used the moment the fog dispersed to find my position, got close to me, and threw a punch. Then it was over."

"A vast amount of energy, carrying a strange vibration, tore through my Guardian Force Field and annihilated my body. I don’t know what that move means for him, but in the moment before I vanished, I felt like he probably wasn’t even using his full strength. He was still holding back."

Rock Jim fell silent for a moment before speaking slowly.

Hearing this, the other three contestants’ expressions changed, and they exchanged glances. Only one person’s expression remained unchanged from beginning to end.

’Rock Jim was defeated, and his opponent only used a single strike?!’

’Since when was there a guy like that in this batch of candidates?’

They had always thought that was something only Anke could do.

Then, all of them turned their gazes to the figure standing to the side, the one who had shown no emotional reaction.

The terrifyingly-shaped handler also turned his gaze to this person.

"Anke, it seems you’ll need to be more careful in the upcoming matches. This secret weapon from the Sacred Lotus Civilization is formidable. He’s very likely to become your opponent."

This was a humanoid life form, about three to four meters tall. Its entire body was crimson-black, covered in dense, sharp scales that glinted coldly. Horns grew from its head, and its face was shrouded by an armor-like carapace, leaving only a pair of pale violet eyes exposed. Those eyes held a bone-deep indifference and frostiness, like that of a Demon King from legend.

This person was the legendary Anke, the strongest of the Holy Descendant Civilization’s current candidates, and the one considered to be the predetermined winner of a spot in the Primordial Star Organization.

Hearing the handler’s words, Anke’s expression didn’t change in the slightest. He slowly opened his mouth and said:

"My rival is not here."