Starting with Kengan beating up the Pirate King

Chapter 55 Grandmaster
"His fighting style is unconventional and unpredictable! No matter what kind of opponent he encounters, he can become stronger while defeating them! He is an unparalleled powerhouse, extraordinary and invincible!"

"Let the champion of the Kengan Tournament descend!"

"He is 201 cm tall and weighs 128 kg. He has a record of 181 wins and 0 losses in the Kengan Tournament! He has won a total of 9.536 billion yen! He is the fighter of the Dai Nippon Bank! The Fang of Destroyed Hall! Kano Aka!"

"Ow!"

As Katahara Sayaka explained, Kanao Kazuya, the Fang of Metsudo, is the champion of the Kengan Tournament.

His appearance was met with thunderous cheers, but at the same time, the cheers for Guan Yi were no less than those for him.

Guan Yi's continuous victories and all-around martial arts skills have attracted a large number of fans. By the time of the final match, Guan Yi had accumulated a reputation that he was no less than Kana E. Many people also believed that Guan Yi was the most powerful fighter who had the best chance of bringing Kana E to his first defeat!
In the stands, apart from the two deceased, all 28 other participants of the Kengan Tournament were present, their eyes focused on the arena.

"This feeling is truly suffocating."

Naoya Okubo, the MMA champion who lost to Gana in his first match, murmured.

No one understood better than him, someone who had personally fought against Gana, what kind of monsters the two people standing on the field were.

Most of the other contestants shared the same sentiment, so when the referee announced the start of the match, while the audience erupted in clamor, they remained so quiet that even their breathing was no longer heard.

The two people in the center of the arena moved simultaneously. The ring trembled heavily beneath their feet; without any probing, the battle seemed to have reached a fever pitch in an instant!

As they closed in, Guan Yi, following his own habit, took the lead and threw a powerful punch, aiming straight for Gana's center line. However, halfway through the punch, Gana's head had already turned slightly.

He was able to dodge Guan Yi's astonishing punch speed of over 18 m/s because he had already dodged the attack the instant Guan Yi threw the punch!

The fist grazed Gana's temple, and Gana retaliated.

His right hand, shaped like a venomous snake emerging from its hole, precisely stabbed at the opening in Guan Yi's ribs exposed by his punch. With a dull thud, it struck. But almost simultaneously, Guan Yi's muscles tensed and slightly rotated, using a bear-like technique to deflect the force, twisting and dodging, thus avoiding injury.

The two separated as soon as they touched, their feet moving quickly, like fierce beasts facing off, their eyes fixed on each other's every subtle muscle movement, breathing rhythm, and shift of weight.

At that moment, Gana's low sweeping leg lashed out like a steel whip, aiming at Guan Yi's supporting knee. Almost simultaneously, Guan Yi raised his knee to block, the shinbone and thigh muscle colliding violently, producing a dull thud that made one's teeth ache. Both of them swayed slightly, but neither lost their balance.

Snapped!
Guan Yi's move was swift and ghostly. Before his blocking leg even landed, his other leg shoveled out like an iron plow, aiming for Gana's ankle. Gana seemed to have anticipated this. At the moment the shovel struck, he cleverly twisted his heel to deflect most of the force, and at the same time, he used the momentum to twist his waist, delivering a heavy elbow strike to Guan Yi's face.

As the elbow lashed at his face, Guan Yi leaned back, letting the tip of his elbow graz his nose. At the same time, his right hand shot out like a nimble snake, reaching for Gana.

Thud! Thud! Smack—

Their collisions became increasingly rapid, often reacting to the next, or even several, steps ahead, before the opponent could even make a move!
In just a few seconds, they interacted with each other more than twenty times, dazzling the audience. The only sound between the contestants was inhaling, not exhaling.

"Is it the first of the first?!"

"Guan Yi actually knows it too! He still has this ability that he hasn't used until now!"

The samurai's feelings were indescribably complicated.

The so-called "first move" is a martial arts technique similar to, but more sophisticated than, the "predictive reading" of the Red Man Style martial arts. It involves striking simultaneously with the opponent's intentions, either one step ahead or arriving at the same time as the opponent, and taking the initiative to counterattack or defend before the opponent attacks.

When two masters who have mastered the initiative clash, to martial artists with low skill levels, their actions may seem inexplicable. Only those who have participated in the Kengan's Deadly Elimination Tournament can see the subtlety of it!
Despite not participating in the competition, Himuro Ryo, who was mixed in with the contestants due to his considerable skill, focused intently, muttering to himself, "No, it's not just that! Although it was only a brief encounter three years ago, I'm certain that Seki Ikei mastered my Jeet Kune Do after that short sparring session! Jeet Kune Do combined with Saki... here it comes!"

In the center of the arena, the situation suddenly changed!
It seemed as if Guan Yi had overcalculated or carefully set a trap. Just as Gana was about to dodge again, Guan Yi's eagle claws intercepted Gana's movement trajectory first!

It was just a glancing blow, but the real target was the nerve plexus under Ghana's armpit exposed by his punch.

In an instant, the tingling and pain from her armpit slowed Gana's movements, and she gasped, revealing her weakness.

Guan Yi's offensive was like a volcanic eruption!
The first punch blasted away Kanaga's blocking arm, causing him to stagger backward! The second punch pierced through the gap in Kanaga's defense, striking his chest with a muffled thud like a drumbeat!

The third strike, a forward-moving punch, landed squarely on Gana's abdomen, causing him to spit out blood and acid from his mouth. The fourth strike, a horizontal punch, swept across his jaw!

In a battle between masters, a difference of just one point can be a chasm.

Guan Yi's offensive was like a storm, the essence of the Twelve Forms all incorporated into his fists, while Gana E became a human punching bag, only able to block one out of three attacks. He tried to counterattack, a powerful uppercut breaking through the fist shadows and slamming towards Guan Yi's chin, but it was easily dodged.

This weak counterattack exposed an even bigger opening, so Guan Yi, stepping aside and leaping forward with a tiger's roar, delivered a punch! It pierced his abdomen!
bang——

This punch seemed to pierce through the sandbag.

The fist embedded itself deeply into Gana's body, his robust frame seemingly folded in half by the punch! His eyes rolled back, his body lifted off the ground, and he crashed into the wall behind him with a loud thud!

The audience held their breath at the sight; the dull thud of the blow even shook the arena, making it hard to imagine how heavy it must have felt to hit a person.

Unlike yesterday, when Guan Yi and Ruoxi Warrior went back and forth, is the final about to end?
The undefeated champion of the Kengan Tournament, Metsudo no Kiba, was defeated so easily?!
No, he made a movement to release the force.

In the center of the arena, Guan Yi's punch didn't seem to hit the target completely. The instant his fist touched Gana's body, Gana seemed to dodge in a way that defied human logic.

Like the bear form in Xingyi, or the alligator form, he slid away a large part of the tiger form in Guanyi through the movement of his abdominal muscles!
Therefore, Guan Yi didn't pause for a moment. His second attack, a tiger-shaped strike with even greater momentum and power, followed after the flying Gana! *Bang!*

Just as it was about to strike, Gana, embedded in the wall, rolled haphazardly, narrowly avoiding the attack. He quickly created distance, panting and trying to ease the pain in his body.

Guan Yi's fist embedded itself in the wall, creating a bowl-shaped hole. When he pulled his fist out and looked at Gana again, Gana's condition was completely different!

The Gana's mouth was wide open in a shape that didn't resemble a human's, its hands hung slightly at its sides, and its body swayed naturally, like some kind of rare and exotic beast.

Here we go again, invisibly.

The Thai fighting god, Gaolang, who lost his second battle to Ganaa, said in a deep voice.

Ghanaian has two 'forms'.

In his normal state, he uses the 'Martial' form, which allows him to use the initiative and display superb martial arts skills to defeat his enemies. However, when he is unable to gain the upper hand in terms of skill, he enters a second state—the Formless!
He is not limited to a specific stance, making his movements unpredictable. He fights his opponents solely based on his beast-like talent and physical instincts!
"Pfft... Hehe." He spat out a mouthful of blood and let out a strange laugh, then charged back towards Guan Yi along a bizarre trajectory.

It's not a straight line, but an arc.

He was like a drunkard, staggering and erratically approaching Guan Yi, but his attacks were so unpredictable that Guan Yi could no longer anticipate them.

Even Ghana himself didn't know what his next move would be!
bang bang bang-

The two engaged in a normal exchange of blows, with Guan Yi relying on his solid fundamentals to steadily counterattack, quickly adapting to Gana's rhythm and seeking opportunities to inflict further damage on his opponent.

But after taking several attacks from Gana, he suddenly felt an abnormal stinging pain in the muscles of his arm.

"Acupoint attack? No... it's a destructive attack that precisely targets the muscle junction!"

Guan Yi analyzed the situation, then his expression suddenly hardened.

Without warning, amidst the usual attacks, Gana suddenly leaped up like a flying dragon, delivering a powerful knee strike aimed at Guan Yi's chin.

Leaving both feet off the ground is a major taboo in martial arts competitions.

However, the timing that Gana's choice, or rather, his instincts led him to choose, was too perfect. It was exactly the 0.01 seconds that Guan Yi noticed the muscle pain and was analyzing the cause in his mind, which prevented Guan Yi from planning a counterattack and even put him on the defensive!
Faced with such a sudden and heavy knee strike, he could only raise his hands to block it, and with a muffled thud, he was struck by the force and forced to stagger backward.

He still takes each step very steadily. His years of standing meditation have made the Three-Body Stance an instinct of his body.

But just like with Gana Ae just now, in a contest between strong people, if you fall short by even one move, it's hard to make up for it.

He could only fight and retreat, and as Kanaga's attacks and parries became more and more difficult, he was finally hit in the abdomen by Kanaga's heavy punch and fell down!

—This is how Ghana saw the process and the outcome.

Seeing Guan Yi vomiting blood, he revealed a ferocious smile like a beast, but in the next instant, Guan Yi, whom he had struck, vanished like a phantom!

'What happened? It disappeared?! No!'

His wild instincts told him something was wrong, but it was only enough time to tense all his muscles.

The reappearing Guan Yi used the same attack method as before, leaping high and delivering a knee strike that landed squarely on his chin with a loud thud!

His consciousness was almost shattered in an instant. Gana was thrown backward and flew backward, crashing heavily to the ground!
The audience erupted in cheers.

The contestants were all speechless with astonishment.

"That's...that looks like..."

"Imai's cosmic domain?!"

Imai Kosuke found it most unbelievable. As the master of the 'domain' himself, he was certain that what Guan Yi had just used was his domain!

In the split second before being hit, he completed the dodge, even giving his opponent the illusion that he had been hit, deceiving Gana's instincts and allowing him to launch a counterattack.

This is even more skillful than his own!
Gensai Kuroki saw even more.

'Did you start planning this counterattack the moment you fell into a disadvantageous position? Did you absorb the essence of your opponent's techniques from previous encounters, using your solid Xingyi Quan foundation to lure them into a trap, and then deliver a decisive blow at the last moment?'

In that final attack, he must have combined the dragon, eagle, and rooster forms of Xingyi Quan, and even more. It was not a simple counterattack, but the condensation of the essence of martial arts!
Kuroki Gensai was already sitting upright.

As expected, this young Chinese man absorbed knowledge and skills from the Kengan Fighting Tournament, integrating everything he learned and gradually stepping into the realm of martial arts master!

His expression was excited and expectant, and his gaze fell on Gana, who was lying on the ground.

Is that the end of the story for the other one?
(End of this chapter)