Who are you calling a stable boy?!

"Hey, Rin, if you don't change your personality, you'll suffer when you meet a boy you like in the future."

Zheng Jing chuckled and squatted down.

After punching Zheng Jing on the shoulder, Rin stood up with her feet firmly planted on the ground and put her hands on her hips.

"None of your business? Who knows, maybe I'll like a girl in the future?"

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Jing scratched his head and paced around Xiao Xiao Lin.

"Hiss... Who did you learn all this from? Hmm? Does Tokiomi know?"

As he spoke, he leaned close to Xueqing's ear, pretending to whisper, but actually making no attempt to hide his voice: "Hey, I say, Lady Cao, at Lin's age, how would we know about this... Lady Cao, why are you looking at me like that?"

With her arms crossed, Xueqing glanced at Zheng Jing sideways, causing him to shrink back, wipe his face, and then raise his hand to smell his armpit.

"No way! With Lao Lan's method, how could I possibly have any strange smell on me?"

Hearing him mutter like that, Xueqing sighed silently.

"You've had it tough too."

Walking up to Xueqing, Lin tilted her little head and looked at Xueqing with a look of emotion.

"You two have gotten along really fast, so fast that I can't keep up. That's great."

Zheng Jing grinned, then stopped smiling and said with a slightly serious expression, "We've said our piece. Now, I, Old Zheng, am going to say something less pleasant."

"Xueqing, Lin, we've already secured the top three spots. Your tournament is over, understand?"

He gave himself a thumbs-up and said, "Now, just watch my performance!"

Xueqing and Lin exchanged a glance and laughed simultaneously.

"Hey? What are you laughing at? Be serious! We're talking about serious matters!"

"Row."

Xueqing reached out and patted Zheng Jing's arm: "Then I'll be waiting for you to unleash your full power?"

"understood."

Rin shook her head in annoyance: "You really haven't changed at all."

"That's right! Now, everyone sit up straight! Otherwise, you'll regret it if you miss my amazing moment!"

Zheng Jing pulled two bottles of carbonated drinks from his backpack and handed them to the two girls, one big and one small. He then pulled out a golden cudgel from behind his ear, tore it in half, and carried it on his shoulder before swaying as he stepped onto the arena.

"Has he been like this since he was a child?"

Looking at Zheng Jing's back, Rin, who had just sat down, suddenly asked Xue Qing a question.

Upon being asked this question, Xueqing seemed to remember something and burst out laughing.

-

"Well--"

Stretching and picking at his ears, Zheng Jing squinted as he watched YOYO, fully armed, walk onto the stage.

He was completely focused.

Feeling utterly bored.

The big-nosed referee looked around, asked a question, and then waved to signal the start of the match.

However, the ringing of the bell did not make the two people on the stage move even half a step.

After standing facing each other for four or five seconds, Zheng Jing yawned, glanced at YOYO, and spoke.

"Young man, I'm in a bad mood today, so I might go too far. But you're lucky, so before I do anything, I'll give you a chance. Go ahead and finish it off."

He gestured with his chin toward the big-nosed referee.

"It's not shameful to admit defeat to me."

"...I know you are very strong."

YOYO raised her greatsword: "To be honest, even now, I'm not confident I can defeat you. But even so, I will never give up so easily!"

"Oh? What, are you going to avenge that coward?"

YOYO shook her head.

He seemed unwilling to say more on this matter, but simply stared intently at Zheng Jing with a resolute gaze.

"I won't make excuses for this; this is my own challenge!"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Jing raised an eyebrow and scrutinized YOYO.

"Ah, I remember now."

He slapped his thigh and pointed at YOYO: "It's you, kid! The slick-haired guy I met the first time I played in the arena."

Upon hearing Zheng Jing's words, YOYO, who now sports a buzz cut and has a hideous scar on her face, laughed.

"I see, um, hmm..."

Scratching his cheek, Zheng Jing nodded.

"Boy."

He carried the golden cudgel, looked directly at YOYO, and beckoned with his hand.

"Come."

In an instant, the overwhelming and domineering fighting spirit that swept over her made YOYO look dazed.

This cannot be blamed on YOYO's weak will.

After all, even among the contestants below the arena who only experienced the aftershocks of this battle aura, some lost their senses as a result.

Fortunately, YOYO's consciousness did not disappear.

The holy emblems on her arms radiated golden light at this moment, and the warm power, like a comrade-in-arms blowing a horn, forcefully pulled YOYO's consciousness back from its near-disappearance.

"Huff, huff..."

After taking a few quick breaths, YOYO managed to stop her hands from trembling by gripping the sword hilt even tighter.

In that instant, he realized that Komilia really understood him.

He is indeed a very optimistic person.

—Yes, he has become stronger. What logic is there that someone who was stronger than him before wouldn't become stronger?

"Huff... hiss..."

After adjusting her breathing, YOYO looked at Zheng Jing, who seemed to be taking no action and was just leisurely waiting for her to make a move, and then she boldly activated the blessing of the Holy Emblem.

The Yul family's sacred emblem possesses two extremely powerful blessings.

Firstly, it allows the Holy Warrior, as the recipient of the blessing, to double the number of times they can perform the Evil-Repelling Slash or Chaos-Repelling Slash each day.

Secondly, it allows the recipient to have the effects of multiple Evil-Repelling Slashes or Chaos-Repelling Slashes applied to a single target simultaneously.

In layman's terms, YOYO can now use Evil Slash or Chaos Slash 4 times a day. With the boost from the Holy Emblem, he can actually use Evil Slash or Chaos Slash 8 times a day, and he can use all 8 times on the same target at the same time.

In other words, theoretically, until the target dies, every attack he makes that hits the target will be a Piercing Slash or Piercing Chaos Slash that deals 8 times the damage!

YOYO once single-handedly killed a notorious Tyrant Demon, a demon warlord infamous in the abyss, with a 4x power of the Evil-Repelling Slash.

Now, he is going to use eight times the power on Zheng Jing!

With a thought, the Holy Emblem sensed YOYO's thoughts, and the power of Aiomeda stirred up a strong energy of order, which was poured into the greatsword in YOYO's hand.

This put YOYO's mind at ease.

He was right.

If the Evil-Repelling Slash is used against Zheng Jing, YOYO will probably fail, because Zheng Jing doesn't seem like a scoundrel who would stray onto the path of evil.

Now that the power of order in the multiverse has responded to his Chaos-Dispelling Slash, it means that Zheng Jing has indeed been identified by the power of order as an existence walking on the path of chaos.

can win!

The surging power gave YOYO confidence again.

The radiance of the power of order converged on his greatsword, and even the light of day seemed to be dimmed at this moment.

"For honor! For belief! For Iomede!"

With a shout, YOYO leaped into the air and unleashed the strongest sword strike of his life at Zheng Jing—

"when!!"

Accompanied by the clang of metal, an even hotter and more dazzling golden light suddenly exploded on the arena.

The golden light instantly overshadowed the azure of the power of order.

In that instant, a brand new sun seemed to rise on the arena of the World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament!

Looking at her heavy sword, which was stuck on Zheng Jing's shoulder and unable to advance, YOYO stared blankly, her expression bewildered.

He stood there, seemingly oblivious to even the golden cudgel Zheng Jing had casually raised.

With a flick of the wrist, the stick swept across.

The power of order protected YOYO at that moment, drawing his sword to shield him and block the incoming divine iron.

"Boom!!"

The sword of order is shattered.

The man wielding the sword was sent flying backward.

With a sweeping motion, the surging heat waves generated by the fighting spirit tore apart the last trace of order on the arena.

"hey-hey."

Holding the Ruyi Cudgel upside down, Zheng Jing shaded his eyes with his hand, looked through the large hole smashed into the arena wall, and pointed in that direction with a grin.

"You're not dead, that's good! Go back to your hometown and brag about it!"

Chapter 241: You'll trigger Mortal Kombat if you do that in the arcade.

Since Zheng Jing has made his move, victory is inevitable.

However, as the loser, YOYO still left a deep impression on everyone.

He has undoubtedly become stronger than he was at the previous conference.

Especially his final sword strike; no contestant at this tournament dared to boast that they could withstand it head-on without being injured.

But Zheng Jing did it.

This made many people who already believed that Zheng Jing was hiding his strength even more convinced that their guess was correct.

But just how much strength is this man hiding?

Many contestants wanted to know the answer.

But for Ranma, what he cares about more is—

"So it was you who taught them!"

Grabbing Zheng Jing, Ranma leaned closer and whispered, "Who did you learn from? Did you used to be in the Women's Clan? Ah! Could it be that Cao Xueqing is also from the Women's Clan? You, you couldn't possibly be..."

"With such a wild imagination, why don't you write a novel? Write a book about your cultivation experiences, and it'll be a hit, Ranma! 'Once-in-a-century genius beautiful girl writer, Saotome Ranko,' what do you think of that title?"

"Hey!"

"Look at you, getting impatient again. You just want to know why Lao Qing can use the Flying Dragon Break. It's simple, I taught you."

"So who did you learn from?"

"You."

"what?"

“I learned it from you. Didn’t you use it on Master Ken once?”

"...Can you please stop playing pranks every time we're talking about serious matters? This is very serious. The Flying Dragon Break is a secret technique of the Heroine Clan. I'm trying to find a way to explain this properly to Shampoo! Be serious!"

"Alright, actually there have always been two schools of the Flying Dragon Break technique. The one you learned is from the Heroine Clan, which flies with a female dragon, while the one I learned is from the Hero Clan, which flies with a male dragon. If you don't believe me, come and test your skills against mine. Your female technique won't work against my male technique."

"Really, really?"