Chapter 29: Death Match
Young Master Lu, Lu Genggeng?
Chen Ming immediately thought of the little fatty standing beside Hate Douluo, the one who shared the same Martial Soul as him, was not much older than him, yet had a completely different personality.
The Evil Spirit Master who had jumped out pressed closer and closer to Chen Ming, his eyes filled with viciousness.
Watching this scene, Chen Ming considered 2 questions.
First, did this person know that he was now the Disciple of the 6th Consecrated Elder? The status of 6th Consecrated Elder Zhang Peng was higher than that of 6th Elder Hate Douluo.
Second, he had jumped out just because of a single sentence from him. What if he chose not to go to the fighting arena?
"I only bluffed, and you still came out. If I had stayed on guard and not gone to the fighting arena, or if I hadn't been alone, would you still have dared to kill me in broad daylight?" Chen Ming asked the question that had formed in his heart.
Then he saw the young Evil Spirit Master freeze for a moment, a look of disbelief appearing on his face.
"You... you're actually this despicable! Damn it, I really got tricked out! Kid, just you wait. Don't let me catch you taking the wrong path!"
The young Evil Spirit Master, who seemed to be missing a screw in his head, trembled as he pointed at Chen Ming, his whole body radiating fury.
Most Evil Spirit Masters had psychological problems. Some were caused by their environment after awakening their Martial Souls, some came from the Martial Soul itself, and some were developed during cultivation.
The Evil Spirit Masters Chen Ming had encountered before had not been simple characters. Most of them could still maintain their rationality, which had caused Chen Ming to misunderstand the overall condition of ordinary Evil Spirit Masters and think that all Evil Spirit Masters had brains.
In reality, Evil Spirit Masters with brains were truly the minority. Most Evil Spirit Masters were just high-level cannon fodder who relied on the ferocity of their Martial Souls to act wildly. It was just that this cannon fodder was still much stronger than ordinary low-level Spirit Masters.
"What is your cultivation level?"
"I... my name is Bao Ting. My Martial Soul is the Corrosive Poison Scorpion. I'm a Spirit Grandmaster. Are you scared? If you're scared, kowtow to me! Maybe your grandpa here will let you off!"
The arrogant Evil Spirit Master shamelessly revealed both his identity and his Martial Soul without the slightest hesitation or thought.
"An intermediate-grade Corrosive Poison Scorpion, that's all?" Chen Ming had spent several months reading books and had long memorized the traits of common Evil Martial Souls and Evil Spirit Masters.
The Corrosive Poison Scorpion belonged to the category of mutated scorpion-type Martial Souls. It could increase cultivation and condense poison by devouring rotten corpses. The poison it produced had strong corrosive properties, making wounds difficult to heal and causing flesh to rot rapidly. Among Evil Martial Souls, it was considered neither top-tier nor bottom-tier.
But this Martial Soul... every one of its traits was perfectly countered by Chen Ming's Abomination Martial Soul.
Not to mention now, even when Chen Ming had first arrived at the Holy Spirit Cult, his win rate in a one-on-one fight against this Spirit Grandmaster would have exceeded 70 percent. Of the remaining 30 percent, 25 percent would involve the opponent escaping, while the final 5 percent of failure would only occur if the opponent was especially proficient with Spirit Tools.
Chen Ming raised his thumb, then slowly turned it downward and spat a mouthful of phlegm onto the ground.
"If you've got the guts, follow me."
Chen Ming gave a provocation. Bao Ting was instantly enraged and started cursing loudly, but because of the rules, he did not dare attack directly. Instead, he followed closely behind Chen Ming into the fighting arena.
The person in charge of the fighting arena was a very strange Spirit Master.
The left half of the body was a tall and beautiful young girl, while the right half was a dark-skinned, muscular man. A seam ran down the exact middle of the body from head to toe. The left and right sides were performing 2 entirely different actions at the same time, and even the eyes moved independently, making the whole person look extremely bizarre.
Watching the 2 Spirit Masters storm into the fighting arena, the person in charge showed no surprise. The female half put down the book in her hand and turned half of her smiling face toward them.
"Oh my, 2 more people came to throw their lives away? Death Match or Live Fight, Wager or No Wager? There's a new face too. Big Sister thinks you look pretty handsome."
The female half smiled as she spoke, a seductive woman's voice coming from those lips. If one only looked at that side, the whole person really did seem like an alluring beauty.
"Senior, may I ask what Death Match and Live Fight mean, and what Wager or No Wager means?" Chen Ming felt a little uneasy inside, but outwardly he calmly cupped his hands and asked.
"Hmph. You dare come here without even knowing that? If I weren't in charge of this place, I would've twisted your head off already to teach you some sense."
The rotating chair turned, and the male half of the body came into view. A rough and powerful voice came from those same lips, and the whole person instantly became fierce and oppressive.
"Death Match means 2 or more people go in, and in the end only 1 living person can walk out. If there are too many people, or if you don't want to fight anymore, then I will personally kill all of you."
"Live Fight means you can surrender, but if you get beaten to death, that won't count as anything."
"For a Wager, both sides can place bets. Each puts up something, and the winner takes everything. A Wager is not limited to physical combat. It can also be a contest of speed, strength, or even evil arts. But the rule is the same, if you get beaten to death, that won't count."
"Death Match, I choose Death Match! I must devour this little beast!"
Veins bulging, Bao Ting aggressively pulled out his waist token from his chest and slammed it onto the table, shouting viciously. Just as he turned to continue provoking Chen Ming, he saw Chen Ming respectfully cupping his hands toward the strange person, then calmly placing his own waist token onto the table.
"Senior, I choose Death Match."
"Good, good, good. Someone is going to die again. I like dead people the most."
The rotating chair turned again, and the strange person finally faced both of them head on, both the male and female halves speaking at the same time, producing a layered dual voice.
Then the person slammed a button on the table. Instantly, a large iron door nearby opened with a loud bang, releasing a bloody stench from within.
"2 people came for a Death Match. The last pair died in there, and I haven't had time to clean it up yet. Feel free to go in."
The strange person gave them no time to react. With a wave of one hand, a hidden yet solid stream of Spirit Power transformed into an invisible giant hand and threw both Chen Ming and Bao Ting through the door.
"I will only open the door once only 1 living person remains inside. Otherwise, you can all die in there."
That dual voice echoed out, and then the heavy door slammed shut, sealing Chen Ming and Bao Ting inside the room.
The room was extremely large, a circular space with a diameter of about 150 meters. A not particularly bright light shone from the exact center of the room, illuminating only a very small core area, while the remaining large portion stayed shrouded in darkness.
At the center of the room was a shattered skeleton, broken cleanly in half at the waist. Many of its bones were fractured, making it obvious that it had suffered extremely brutal abuse.
Near the door lay a relatively fresh corpse. There was a bloody hole through its abdomen, its right hand stretched forward, and its face was full of disbelief, as though it had never expected to die in this room together with its enemy despite holding the upper hand.
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