The other four male compet.i.tors were a little envious and jealous of Liu Yang, as he was the only one who could take advantage of this situation. The two girls had different looks on their faces, one was indifferent while the other was curious.

But one thing was certain, everyone was paying attention to Liu Xia, who had her eyes closed peacefully. She was like a pure and spotless G.o.ddess.

…

The five minutes went by slowly ...

Tong… Tong…

The bell rang again when the rest time was over. The couple slowly opened their eyes and looked towards the arena. A board with eight names was placed in the center of the arena, the names were already separated by numbers.

"The rest time is over, now is the time to start the second stage of the Five High-Schools Compet.i.tion"

"The first fight will be number 1, Long Shui from Central School and number 2, Bai Chao from North School. Partic.i.p.ants must enter the arena "s.h.i.+ Wu appeared in the center of the arena and called the partic.i.p.ants.

Long Shui was a muscular young man with a fierce appearance and short hair, he didn't look like a mage because of his muscles. Bai Chao was a young man of average appearance, an arrogant and majestic aura could be felt around him, he looked like a young master of some powerful and influential clan.

"I will explain the rules."

"Rule number 1: It is not allowed to kill or mortally injure the opponent, if someone does that, that person will be disqualified and will be punished heavily.

Rule number 2: The use of magic equipment is allowed.

Rule number 3: To win the fight, you only need to push your opponent out of the arena, knockout or make him surrender.

Remember, these are the three rules. You have a minute to prepare "

Long Shui and Bai Chao moved away, the two were five meters apart, they were facing each other with a solemn face.

The two belong to different schools, as the East School has already won the first stage, they had to do as much as possible to guarantee the second stage. If Liu Yang or Liu Xia won the second stage too, that would be a big slap in the face of the big shots, as a person with a common background managed to defeat the most influential groups. This was something they would not allow to happen, even if they had to use unfair methods.

The most humiliating thing for them was that the first stage was won by two students from the East School, but the worst of all was that they were of common background. If Liu Yang and Liu Xia had a great background, these arrogant students would not be so annoyed by this, but as the two were of common background, it made it seem a great humiliation for these arrogant young masters.

A minute later ...

"Start !!" The fight started.

Long Shui stepped heavily on the ground and charged and shot like an arrow towards Bai Chao, he did not use any kind of magical energy, only physical strength.

Unlike conventional battles where mages use their spells over a long distance, Long Shui did the opposite, he charges on for a hand-to-hand fight.

"Silver Knight Armor" Bai Chao already expected his opponent to do this, he was prepared. A gray armor covered Bai Chao's body completely, he stood and waved his hand.

The armor was completely silver and appeared to be a single piece, a suit that fully covered Bai Chao's body. Seven jewels were placed on each part of the armor, arms, legs, head and two on the chest.

"Flaming Explosion" Bai Chao spoke, a huge sphere of fire started to form in front of him, that was the advanced spell of the fire element.

"Hmpf" Long Shui snorted with disdain and did not stop his charge, on the contrary, he accelerated.

"White Dragon Armor" Long Shui activated his protective armor, a white glow covered his body before transforming into a set of white armor. The armor was a set, crown, armor, gloves, breastplate, pants and boots. The armor was ornamented with jewels and was brilliant, it seemed to be made from the scales of some reptile.

Wearing the White Dragon Armor, Long Shui looked like an unstoppable knight as he charged towards Bao Chao, he didn't seem to be afraid of Bai Chao's Flaming Explosion.

"Protective Light" White light covered Long Shui's body like a ball and created a s.h.i.+ning s.h.i.+eld. This was the intermediate spell of the light element.

"Fissure !!" Bai Chao used another spell after seeing that he would not have time to complete the creation of the Flaming Explosion. A crack started to open in front of Bai Chao, it separated him from Long Shui, he was trying to buy time to finish the conjuring of the fire magic. Inside the fissures, sharp stone pillars appeared and formed a small barrier in front of Bai Chao.

But that was not enough to stop the charge of Long Shui.

When Long Shui approached the fissure, he took a big leap and stepped over the pointed pillars. But to Long Shui's surprise, spikes appear on stone spikes, it looked like a stone tree.

This event surprised Long Shui, but he soon recovered, as he was already in the air, and it was impossible to dodge. Long Shui strengthened his s.h.i.+eld and went in front of the stone spikes.

Crack !! Crack !! Crack !! Crack !!

The stone spikes broke easily when the protective sphere hit the spikes.

Bai Chao was surprised to see that this scene, he tried to speed up the process of conjuring the Flaming Explosion. The moment Ling Shui fall on the floor, Bai Chao had finished casting his magic.

"Hold this !!! Flaming Explosion !!! "Bai Chao couldn't help himself and threw the big fireball at Long Shui, who was ten feet away.

"Explode!!!!"

Boooom !!!!

When the fireball reached half a meter from Long Shui, Bai Chao motioned for it to explode. A gigantic explosion occurred, the fire started to completely cover the arena like a flaming tide, the two partic.i.p.ants were swallowed by the fire. The flames were several meters high.

Bai Chao did not hold back in his attack, he wanted to beat his opponent quickly because he knew that in an attrition fight, he would lose in the end. For his magic used up a lot of magical energy.

The other partic.i.p.ants and the spectators were curious to know the result of this exchange. Everyone could see how powerful the explosion was, and realized that Bai Chao was fighting with all his might to defeat Long Shui.

The flames went out slowly and the arena was shown at the same time.

A few seconds later ...

When the flames were completely extinguished, the figure of Bai Chao was seen in the same place as before, he remained standing while staring straight ahead. A few meters ahead, there was a big crater and Long Shui was standing, but his protective s.h.i.+eld was broken because of the big explosion, his hair was also messy and burned.

"Bai Chao, it looks like you don't intend to fight in a friendly way in the compet.i.tion" Long Shui spoke heavily, if it weren't for the protection of his s.h.i.+eld and armor, he would be very hurt from the Flaming Explosion.

"Long Shui, this is a compet.i.tion between the young generation, the winner will have great prestige while the loser will only be a loser. What matters is victory and nothing more. Besides, my real goal is not you, but those two. As a member of one of the five clans, I cannot allow ordinary people to win the compet.i.tion, that would be a slap in my face "Bai Chao spoke fairly, but internally, he was just laughing. He didn't mind using shameful methods to win.

For Bai Chao, victory was everything while defeat was nothing. The shame of using despicable methods to achieve his goal was no greater than the pleasure of victory.

"I see… It seems that I don't have to hold on either. Against someone like you, using full power is the best thing to do "Long Shui knew Bai Chao's fame, he was known among young masters as a vile and despicable person who used all possible methods to get what they wanted. But that only happened when the other side was weaker than him, if it were stronger, he wouldn't even do something like that.

After closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Long Shui opened his eyes again, a solemn look could be seen on his face, he would not hold on any longer.

"Ahhh !!!!" Long Shui entered the battle position, as he was a martial arts pract.i.tioner, he entered the fighting position. Then he screamed and his body's magical energy exploded. The power of an advanced mage has been unleashed. The actual cultivation of Long Shui was advanced to level 2.

"Long Shui, did you make a breakthrough ?? Did you get a breakthrough to advanced level 2 ?? "Bai Chao was surprised when he felt the real powers of Long Shui. He did not know that Long Shui had made a breakthrough.

Before the compet.i.tion started, Bai Chao knew that Long Shui was at advanced level 1, but how would he know that in less than a month, Long Shui would breakthrough to advanced 2. That was an unpleasant surprise for him, as Bai Chao was just an advanced level 1 mage.

In a fight between opponents with similar powers, the minimum difference between the two sides can decide the victory.

(I can't lose to him !!!) Bai Chao shouted in his mind when he thought about losing to Long Shui.