834 Strength Reversal
When he saw his opponent in the second round, Chu Nan was stunned for more than ten seconds before he carefully sized up his opponent and spoke with a strange expression.
“Maruk, it’s actually you…”
The equally young opponent opposite him smiled coldly.
“Heh, Chu Nan, we meet again.”
This guy was actually Maruk, who had fought Chu Nan in the West Cloud Planet’s martial arts competition last year and made him spend a lot of effort to heavily injure him before defeating him!
Chu Nan had never expected to encounter this old opponent in the Martial Arts Academy Alliance Competition.
He looked at Maruk seriously. From the aura he naturally emitted and the abnormal flow of spatial energy around him, he could easily determine that Maruk had clearly broken through the Cosmic Heaven’s Gate and become a Void Break Martial Artist.
In the West Cloud Planet’s martial arts competition last year, Maruk was only a third-stage Internal Breath Realm Martial Artist. Now, only a little more than a year had passed, but he had actually broken through to the Void Break Realm. His growth speed could be said to be extremely shocking.
Of course, it was not enough compared to Chu Nan.
Maruk looked at Chu Nan with a much more complicated gaze.
After being defeated by Chu Nan in the West Cloud Planet’s martial arts competition last year, Maruk returned to the Kingdom of Kexley and focused on cultivation. In the past year, he had ignored everything and focused on improving himself because he had the intention to take revenge.
With this belief, his improvement was extremely fast. In a short year, he went from the third-stage Internal Breath Realm to breaking through the Cosmic Heaven’s Gate in one go and becoming a powerful Void Break Martial Artist.
In the entire Kingdom of Kexley, there was definitely no other young martial artist who could advance faster than him.
Maruk originally thought that with such strength, he would definitely be able to easily defeat Chu Nan and wash away his previous humiliation when he saw him again. He did not expect the video of the battle between Chu Nan and the hundreds of Void Break Martial Artists of the United States of Melaita to erupt. Maruk immediately discovered that the speed at which Chu Nan had increased in the past year was actually faster than him, and it was even more than 1 or 2 realms higher!
He had originally thought that he could easily complete his revenge, but now, it seemed that… it had almost become impossible.
However, the more this was the case, the more it aroused the burning fighting spirit in Maruk’s heart.
He smiled at Chu Nan and when he heard the notification that the competition had officially begun, he immediately circulated all the Internal Breath in his body and mobilized all the spatial energy he could mobilize. A dark green aura appeared around his body and enveloped his body. From the outside, it became hazy and actually revealed a chill.
This was the new cultivation method inheritance he had obtained from his master in this year’s stealth cultivation. It was called “Green Wolf’s Shadow”. It was an extremely famous A-rank cultivation method in the Kingdom of Kexley. His master had relied on this cultivation method to make a name for himself in the country.
He firmly believed that as long as he used this cultivation method, even if Chu Nan’s strength had greatly increased compared to last year, it would definitely be extremely difficult to deal with.
However, just as this thought appeared in his mind, he suddenly felt the spatial energy circulating around him suddenly become extremely chaotic. In the next moment, it was as if it had completely collapsed and could no longer be controlled by him.
Maruk was shocked and wanted to react, but he discovered that the spatial energy around him was even more violent. In the next moment, he felt an extremely terrifying pressure. Then, a figure appeared in front of him. Before he could move, he felt a heavy kick to his chest and his body flew into the air. Before he landed, his vision turned black and he fainted.
Seeing Maruk fly dozens of meters away and faint on the ground with blood flowing out of his mouth, Chu Nan snorted softly.
Did this guy think that he would reminisce with him?
The cruel things this guy had done in the West Cloud Planet’s martial arts competition last year were still vivid in his mind. Chu Nan had even almost died because of him.
Although there was nothing serious later on and Chu Nan had even profited from a disaster and obtained a major breakthrough, he could not put down his hatred for this guy.
However, when he saw that he had actually easily dealt with the opponent he had spent so much effort and thought of all kinds of methods to barely defeat last year, Chu Nan more or less sighed.
In just more than a year, the strength of both sides had completely reversed.
Although the current Maruk had improved greatly, Chu Nan did not take a mere initial-stage Void Break Martial Artist seriously.
To be honest, only the cultivation method he had used earlier could make Chu Nan pay more attention.
The Internal Breath cultivation method that emitted green light was clearly an extraordinary cultivation method. Through his powerful perception of spatial energy, Chu Nan could clearly sense that the spatial energy structure condensed by this cultivation method was very outstanding and was not inferior to the few A-rank cultivation methods he knew.
From this point, Maruk’s strength was actually quite extraordinary. If he had not encountered Chu Nan in the second round, he should have been able to walk further in this competition.
However, now… it was only an additional reference for the spatial energy structure that Chu Nan needed to condense the star cloud.
After easily dealing with Maruk, Chu Nan once again had more time to rest than the other participating students. This time, he did not deal with the reporters’ pestering and directly returned to the lounge to continue studying the spatial energy structure.
To others, there were countless people and things worth paying attention to in this competition, but Chu Nan did not.
He had only come to participate in the competition to complete the contract with the Star Cloud Academy’s Martial Arts Branch after winning the championship and obtaining a spot to participate in the Garden Hunting Assembly next year. He did not mind anything else.
The reason for this mentality was that his current strength had actually far exceeded the expectations of others.
Before the second round of the competition, a reporter from the Earth Federation told him that in the analysis of the external strength of the participants in this competition, Chu Nan was seen as the strongest student among the participants of the Earth Federation who had the greatest hope of passing more rounds. Moreover, he was evaluated to be around the third-stage Void Break Realm and was only slightly inferior to the celebrity students from the three great countries of the Orion Arm.
This evaluation was enough to make Chu Nan the honor of the Earth Federation. He was the most valued young martial artist in the Earth Federation for so many years.
At that time, when he saw the proud expression of the reporter from the Earth Federation who said this, Chu Nan wanted to laugh.
Third-stage Void Break Realm? Compared to those celebrity students?
What a joke!
Chu Nan had personally defeated a true Heaven Control expert like Grek, so how could he take a mere Void Break Martial Artist seriously?
These participating students were all bragging, but their strength was only limited to the Void Break Realm. How could Chu Nan take it seriously?
Therefore, in his opinion, although participating in this competition was quite important, it was far inferior to studying his Star Cloud Condensation.
As long as he could find the most perfect plan to condense a star cloud, he would naturally break through to the Heaven Control Realm.
At that time, not to mention a Void Break Martial Artist, even ordinary Heaven Control Martial Artists would probably not be his match.
In that case, he naturally would not value participating in this competition like the other participating students.
In his opinion, if he had time to worry about the competition, he might as well hurry up and cultivate for a while.
Just as Chu Nan closed his eyes and seized the time to include the special spatial energy structure used by the cultivation method he had come into contact with Maruk in the data he had gathered and quickly analyze it, footsteps sounded. Then, the door of the lounge was pushed open and the footsteps did not stop. They actually stopped in front of Chu Nan.
“Sigh… can’t you give people some time to cultivate in peace?”
Chu Nan sighed deeply and helplessly opened his eyes.
