316: Chapter 310 Kai VS Ling

The moment the matchup list was finalized, the atmosphere in the entire venue was ignited once again.

Song Yang looked at his future opponent, that massive giant.

Taishan also happened to look at him, scratching the back of his head with his large hand, breaking into an honest, simple smile.

He seemed quite satisfied with this result, even vigorously waving his fist at Song Yang, as if saying, "Let's have a good fight."

Song Yang nodded slightly in response.

The feeling this giant gave him was very pure; he was simply a warrior born for battle.

However, he would not have any thoughts of holding back.

For Earth, for that supervisory power, he had to win.

"Alright! Since the matchups have been decided, I announce that the semifinals of this ranking tournament officially begin now!"

The Host's voice was full of incitement.

"First, let us use the most enthusiastic cheers to welcome the two contestants for the first match, Ling! And, Kai!"

As the words fell, a gentle beam of light and a sharp beam of light descended from the sky simultaneously, enveloping the girl Ling and Kai, respectively.

The next second, their figures disappeared from the spot.

Meanwhile, the image on the largest holographic screen in the center of the venue shifted, presenting a brand-new scene.

It was a city that had turned into ruins.

Raging flames burned among the broken walls and ruins, and black smoke shot straight into the sky, dyeing it a suffocating grayish-red.

Twisted steel skeletons protruded from collapsed buildings, the ground was covered with cracks, and wreckage of broken aircraft could be seen everywhere.

The entire world was permeated with an aura of destruction and finality.

Two figures appeared out of thin air in the heart of this ruin, confronting each other from a thousand meters away.

Kai remained as cold and stern as ever, slowly drawing the seemingly ordinary longsword from behind his back.

He looked at the girl opposite him, wearing a pink dress, completely out of place in this apocalyptic scene.

"If you are willing to concede, I can give you a quick end."

In the audience, countless supporters of Kai erupted into thunderous cheers.

"Lord Kai is mighty! Finish it quickly!"

"How could a little girl who plays with psychic power be a match for the Ultimate Sword!"

"Let her witness the true power of the Karl civilization!"

However, facing these words, the girl Ling was not scared at all.

Instead, she put her small hands behind her back, tilted her head, pouted, and had a look of innocent curiosity on her face.

"I've lived for several hundred years, and this is the first time I've seen someone as confident as you."

Her words were light and airy, yet they caused the clamor of the entire venue to stall.

Several hundred years?

This girl, who looked no more than fifteen or sixteen, actually said she had lived for hundreds of years?

Kai's face did not change at all, seemingly unsurprised by Ling's age.

To him, who the opponent was or how long they had lived did not matter.

He only needed to swing his sword.

"Talk is useless."

Kai stopped talking nonsense and slowly held his longsword horizontally in front of his chest.

Hum—

A slight sword hum resonated throughout the ruined battlefield.

Immediately after, the space beside him distorted slightly, and one, two, three... a full nine sword shadows, completely composed of energy, appeared out of thin air.

Each sword shadow emitted a heart-palpitating sharp aura, with its tip pointing directly at the girl a thousand meters away.

The ultimate sword intent instantly locked onto Ling, as if it would pierce her heart with ten thousand swords in the next moment.

The audience in front of the screens held their breath, and Song Yang's attention was also highly focused.

Is this Kai's strength?

Just the opening stance gave people a sense of irresistible oppression.

Those nine sword shadows were not illusory but condensed from energy and sword intent that were pure to the extreme; the power of each one was probably no less than a blast from a starship's main cannon.

However, facing this almost guaranteed-kill sword formation, the girl Ling's reaction once again exceeded everyone's expectations.

Not only did she not retreat or defend, but she raised her head, examining those sword shadows with great interest.

Then, she extended a fair, tender finger towards Kai's direction and beckoned gently.

Rumble—!!!

A loud noise came from the edge of the battlefield.

Everyone, through the wide-angle lens of the holographic screen, saw a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

At the edge of the city ruins, in a dried-up harbor, an ocean-going ship so huge it blotted out the sky was forcefully pulled up from its deep concrete foundation by an invisible force!

That was a true giant ship!

It was over a mile long, its hull covered in rust and the scars of war, with countless broken pipes and steel plates hanging down.

It just like that, violating all laws of physics, slowly rose into the sky amidst a sound of twisting metal.

"I... what am I seeing?"

"A ship? A sea ship is flying?"

"This is psychic power? Are you kidding me! This must be divine power!"

"She used an entire ship as a weapon?"

The audience was completely crazy.

If Kai's nine sword shadows were the pinnacle of technique and energy, then this move by Ling was a display of pure, unreasonable, crushing power!

Moving a pebble, a car, or even a small hill with psychic power were all within the capabilities of top-tier psychics.

But moving a giant sea ship with a displacement of tens of millions of tons, like a steel mountain?

This had already exceeded the limits of everyone's imagination!

In the battlefield ruins.

The girl Ling still maintained that beckoning gesture, with a sweet smile on her face.

She looked up at the steel behemoth hovering above her head, casting endless shadows, as if admiring a perfect work of art.

"Big guy, catch this."

She said softly.

The next moment, that giant ship, so vast it induced despair, smashed down towards that figure who was as small as an ant!

The speed was so fast, the momentum so fierce, it was like a meteorite falling from the sky!

The entire holographic screen image was shaking violently.

Everyone felt as if they could sense that world-destroying power, that absolute weight capable of crushing everything into powder!

Facing this attack that covered the entire sky, like an apocalyptic divine punishment, Kai's nine sword shadows seemed so insignificant.

He was completely shrouded in the shadow of the giant ship.

Time seemed to slow down at this moment.

Countless people stood up in shock, staring fixedly at the screen, wanting to see how Kai would deal with this certain-death situation.

However, Kai did not dodge.

The moment the giant ship smashed down with the force of ten thousand tons, he just calmly raised the sword in his hand.

The instant that steel mountain, smashing down like a meteorite from beyond the sky, was about to touch the top of Kai's head, time seemed to be stripped away.

The sword he raised moved upwards and swung.

Immediately after, that suffocatingly large ocean-going ship, that moving steel mountain, began to split silently from the middle, creating a straight crack.

Then a second one, a third, a tenth, a hundredth...

As if instantly processed by the most skilled chef, the entire giant ship, in the process of falling, was cut into thousands of pieces of varying sizes by countless crisscrossing invisible blades!

Boom—!!!

Only then did the deafening roar arrive late.

That was not the sound of an impact, but the sound of the giant ship completely disintegrating, with countless steel fragments rubbing, tearing, and collapsing!

A rainstorm of steel poured down.

Each fragment carried the force of ten thousand tons, enough to smash deep pits into the ground.

However, this steel rainstorm, capable of destroying a city block, eerily bypassed one point.

At the center of the rainstorm, Kai still maintained the posture of swinging his sword, his clothes not even moved by the fierce wind.

Countless tons of steel wreckage just brushed past the invisible boundary around him, falling, rolling, and smashing into the ruins behind him, kicking up dust that filled the sky.

With one man and one sword, he carved out an absolutely safe domain for himself.

In the audience, the spectators who had just regained their senses from their madness once again fell into a state of speechlessness.

If Ling lifting the giant ship was a miracle, an unreasonable great power.

Then this sword strike of Kai's was a law, an irrefutable truth.

In the face of truth, miracles must bow down.

Song Yang understood.

That was not a simple slash; the sword intent contained in that strike instantly analyzed the structure and stress points of the entire ship, and then, in the most precise and efficient way, completely disintegrated it.

On the battlefield, the dust had not yet settled, and a figure had already turned into an arrow shot from a bow, rushing straight towards the girl a thousand meters away.

Without the slightest pause, without a shred of showing off.

Break the move, then kill the enemy.

This was Kai's logic.

"..."

The sweet smile on the girl Ling's face froze for the first time.

"Interesting..."

She whispered softly, her voice so low that only she could hear it.

Seeing the killing intent approaching straight towards her, she no longer underestimated her opponent, and gently brushed her fair, tender palm in front of her.

Hum hum hum—

Twenty-four streams of light shot out from the void behind her, like a disturbed swarm of bees, flying rapidly around her.

Those were twenty-four throwing knives with various shapes.

Some were slender like needles, some were broad like willow leaves, and some had ferocious barbs.

Kai's charging figure came to an abrupt halt, and the longsword in his hand collided fiercely with three throwing knives that crossed to block him.

Sparks flew!

Just as Kai's figure stopped, the remaining twenty-one throwing knives turned into twenty-one silver bolts of lightning, stabbing towards all his vital points from all directions—up, down, left, and right—at various tricky and strange angles!

Without that world-destroying grand scene, what replaced it was close-quarters combat that was fast to the extreme and dangerous to the extreme!

Kai's expression remained unchanged, he vibrated his longsword, deflected the three throwing knives in front of him, spun his body around, and the sword light instantly turned into an impenetrable silver wheel of light.

Ding ding ding ding ding—!!!

A series of collisions, so dense they almost merged into one sound, resonated throughout the venue.

The audience in front of the screens could only see, in the center of the battlefield, a storm of silver sword light frantically entangling and colliding with twenty-four deadly streams of light that wove through flowers and trees.

Every collision erupted with blinding sparks and energy ripples capable of tearing steel apart.

The battle had only just begun.