192: Chapter 192 The Champion's Intimidation! The Moment of Reckoning!

"It's over."

On the arena, Lin Qi's voice was very soft, yet it clearly pierced through the dead silence.

After a few seconds, as if in response to his words, a melodious and long tolling of a bell resounded throughout the entire Cloud Top Palace.

Dong—!

This was the signal that the grand finals had ended.

After a brief silence, the entire Federation completely exploded.

"He won! He won! That Blank Slate! He actually knocked Thor down from the sky!"

"My god! What did I just see? Walking on Air with his Physical Body! He knocked an S-class class holder back to the ground with one punch! Is this something a human can do?"

"This is Martial Arts! This is true Martial Arts! What data! What Laws! They're all bullshit in front of this punch!"

"From today onwards, Lin Qi is my one and only father!"

The bullet chat in the live stream went crazy, and the spectator stands boiled over. The shock and fanaticism that had been accumulating for a long time turned into a mountain-shaking, sea-toppling wave of sound at this moment, nearly flipping over the entire Cloud Top Palace.

The commentator took off his headset, his face flushed with excitement, and screamed at the top of his lungs:

"A miracle! We have witnessed an unprecedented miracle! Lin Qi! He defended the dignity of Martial Arts in the most primitive and incomprehensible way! He is not a challenger of myths; he is the new myth!"

In the spectator stands, Zhang Wei was slumped in his chair, repeatedly muttering:

"Brother Qi is awesome... Brother Qi is awesome..."

Beside him, Old Mo supported his old back, trembling with excitement as he shouted:

"Record it! Everything must be recorded! Proving the Dao with Strength, Walking on Air—this is a feat enough to start a new era!"

Instructor Su Qing didn't speak. She just quietly watched that solitary figure standing on the arena, and in her icy eyes, something was quietly melting.

Amidst the clamor, a middle-aged man wearing an official uniform with a row of badges on his chest walked quickly onto the arena, accompanied by several staff members.

He was the chairman of this tournament's Organizing Committee, and at this moment, the smile on his face looked worse than a crying expression.

"Contestant Lin Qi! Congratulations! Congratulations on winning the championship of this Federal Prodigy Tournament!"

The chairman's voice spread throughout the venue via the loudspeaker. As he spoke, he gestured for the people behind him to bring forward a glittering championship trophy and a row of boxes filled with rare rewards.

This was the process, the rule, and the glory that the victor deserved.

However, Lin Qi didn't even give him a glance.

The cheers from the crowd gradually died down.

Everyone noticed this eerie scene.

Facing the trophy that symbolized the highest honor for the Federation's younger generation and the championship rewards that countless people dreamed of, Lin Qi had no reaction.

He rejected this grand award ceremony.

Under the puzzled gaze of tens of billions of people across the Federation, Lin Qi turned around and walked straight toward the edge of the alloy arena.

What did he want to do?

The chairman froze in place, at a loss.

The audience craned their necks, filled with confusion.

In the next second, Lin Qi made a move that caused everyone's brains to stall.

He took a step forward and jumped directly down from the tens of thousands of meters high Cloud Top Palace.

"Holy shit!"

"He jumped!"

"Is he crazy? He won the match and then decided to end it?"

The entire venue erupted in an overwhelming roar of exclamation.

Zhang Wei, who had just caught his breath, rolled his eyes and almost fainted again.

But immediately after, a scene that even more thoroughly subverted their understanding appeared.

During the descent, Lin Qi's body showed no sign of panic.

His feet lightly tapped the air at an extremely high frequency. With each tap, a small ring of Qi would ripple out beneath his feet, precisely controlling his descent speed and direction.

He wasn't falling.

He was using an inconceivable method to precisely descend toward a certain spot below the sea of clouds.

On the ground, in a green belt near the central plaza.

A massive, bottomless human-shaped crater over ten meters in diameter had ruined all the landscaping here.

At the bottom of the pit, Li Pojun lay there like a pile of mud.

Almost every bone in his body had been shattered by the overbearing force of that punch. His Thor-like body had long since dissipated, revealing the expensive combat suit underneath, which was now tattered and mixed with blood and dirt.

He wasn't dead.

The powerful vitality of an S-class class holder and several pieces of life-saving legendary equipment on his body allowed him to barely hang on to a breath of life.

But this kind of living was more painful than death.

He could clearly feel that his professional Foundation had developed irreparable cracks under that punch.

His path to becoming Thor was broken.

Just then, a shadow loomed over him.

Li Pojun struggled to turn his eyes and saw the figure he would never forget.

Lin Qi landed silently on the edge of the deep pit like a feather, looking down at him with eyes as calm as if he were looking at a stone.

Humiliation, resentment, and unwillingness—all sorts of emotions flooded his heart.

Li Pojun used all his strength to squeeze a few words out of his throat.

"You... you kill me..."

For a prodigy like him, being completely crushed by a Blank Slate in this manner, with all his dignity and future stripped away, death had become the best release.

Lin Qi didn't answer.

He jumped directly down from the edge of the pit and crouched beside Li Pojun.

Just when Li Pojun thought the other party was going to finish him off, Lin Qi reached out and began to search his body.

This action caused Li Pojun's last bit of sanity to snap completely.

"You... what are you doing! You bastard! Thief!"

Lin Qi completely ignored his cursing. Soon, he pulled a shimmering encrypted device out of a Storage Ring on Li Pojun's finger.

This was a special encrypted communicator from the Tianji Pavilion.

Right in front of Li Pojun, he gripped both ends of the device with two fingers.

His fingertips exerted force.

Crack!

The device's casing, made of a special alloy and claimed to be impossible to crack physically, was easily squeezed open like a walnut under his fingertips, revealing the core chip inside.

Lin Qi extracted the information from the chip, and a virtual light screen unfolded before his eyes.

On it was a crystal-clear electronic voucher.

[Authorization Directive: Per the application of the Kyoto Li Family, freeze all gambling funds of user 'Lin Qi' on the Tianji Pavilion platform in account number 7777777. Reason: Suspected illegal manipulation of the match. Authorizer: Li Qingcang.]

Evidence.

This was the most direct evidence of the Li Family defaulting on their debt.

Lin Qi put away the voucher and only then turned his gaze back to Li Pojun, who was writhing like a maggot beneath his feet.

He leaned down and spoke coldly in a voice only the two of them could hear.

"Kill you? That's too easy for you."

A hint of doubt and fear appeared in Li Pojun's resentful eyes.

Lin Qi continued, "I'm going to make your Li Family lose everything."

As his voice fell.

Lin Qi stood up, no longer giving him a single glance, turned around, and walked out of the deep pit step by step.

Lying at the bottom of the pit, listening to that cold declaration, the resentment and unwillingness in Li Pojun's eyes finally turned into endless fear and despair.

He knew that if this madman said it, he would do it.

Under the sunlight, Lin Qi's shadow was stretched very long.

The moment of reckoning had arrived.