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After all, the strength levels of the others are either at the semi-final level or the championship level, and only he, due to his lack of strength, can only study the rules carefully.

Among these rules, Hikigaya is most concerned about the four decisive factors that the reincarnations need to obtain better rewards in this mission of the Death Match.

There is no need to explain much about the factors of defeating the players' strength and number. It is simply an option for those who are strong enough to rush through.

The last two items are worth mentioning. The first is this "Strength Positioning List". As long as the reincarnationists on the list can maintain their current ranking position by the end of the competition, they can directly obtain a reward equal to their own strength level.

This rule is actually mainly prepared for Kuroki Gensai. After all, other people, such as Jukiji and Kiryu Setsuna, can still challenge the champion to get higher ranking rewards.

But Kuroki, who has already stood at the top of the mountain, can only fight against the lower-level players at the top four level. The rewards and goals are limited, which is somewhat unfair to him.

So Xia Yan prepared a reward for him that was commensurate with the championship. As long as he could successfully defend his title by the end of the game and was not defeated by others, he would be able to get the championship award.

But for Hikigaya, the last factor is really useful: the final ranking of the "death match" can also get high rewards.

The so-called Kengan Fatal Tournament is actually a one-on-one fight between 32 fighters, and the winners will advance to the next round of ring matches.

This means that if the position chosen for the official competition is suitable enough, he may not have to face those powerful fighters.

As long as he encounters two rounds of weaker fighters, he will have a chance to advance to the quarterfinals.

Moreover, because the death match will be completed in just a few days, the fighters who are constantly fighting against strong people of the same level in the process will have no time to wait for him to recover from the injuries they suffer.

There was a glint in Hikigaya's eyes, something he might be able to use.

By then, if he meets a fighter who was beaten to a draw with other players in the previous round, he might even be able to fight for a place in the top four.

Just when Hikigaya was dreaming, Xia Yan, who had casually sent the edited list, gradually disappeared into the restaurant... and then he was grabbed by the arm by the quick-eyed and quick-handed Zouyuan Zhumei.

"…Okay, okay. It doesn't matter if you plan on coming along anyway."

Xia Yan glanced at Zou Ryuin Zhumei who was standing next to him with a serious expression. After a brief silence, he raised his hands as if surrendering to you.

"Ah."

Seeing this, Zouriuin Zhumei nodded slightly in satisfaction. Then she asked curiously, "But you're sneaking away now, what are you planning to do?"

"Didn't the old man above just say something about this?"

Now that the decision had been made, Xia Yan no longer hesitated. As he led Zouriuin Zhumei through the crowd of people dressed in suits and ties, he casually explained to her, "First and foremost, the representative fighter will be registered as a contestant only after arriving at the venue 27 hours later."

"This means that before this ship arrives at its destination, the current 32 representatives are not official contestants yet and can be replaced. But what if one or more of them are unable to participate for some reason?"

After raising a question, Xia Yan didn't wait for her to answer. Without even turning around, he raised his second finger towards Zouluyuan Zhumei behind him. "And secondly, the old man only said that the 32 fighters are not allowed to fight privately, but he didn't say that ordinary passengers are not allowed to fight privately with fighters."

"You're saying that anyone on this ship who hasn't qualified for the official competition can actually injure the representative fighter and force the company to replace him as a competitor?"

"There's no way President Katahara would have overlooked such a huge loophole. Does that mean this was his goal from the beginning?!"

Zouluyuan Zhumei was indeed smart enough. Xia Yan only gave her a slight hint and she reacted immediately.

She widened her eyes slightly, looking at Xia Yan in front of her with a bit of surprise, and said by analogy: "And you went to great lengths to get my sister to bring you on board, and this was your purpose from the beginning!"

"And my sister also knew your plan, so she rejected you at first. But after Mr. Kiryu Setsuna from my family showed that you had a certain level of ability, my sister turned around and agreed to you?"

"That's about it."

Xia Yan nodded in appreciation. At this point, the Kengan Fatal Tournament entered the second stage, which could perhaps be called the stage of "forced replacement of fighters."

And he was not the only one who had this idea. Hikigaya actually had the same idea at first.

What Hikigaya hadn't expected was that he could actually participate in the official competition in this form - after all, he originally only planned to take the opportunity to defeat a few players at this stage in order to get a chance to win the main god's reward.

Naturally, he didn't know that this was the reward rule for such a task that Xia Yan had specially set up after he knew the entire process of the death match.

"So if you want to compete, it would be best to challenge a few weaker fighters—oh, is that why you went to Garuda-san and asked for the list of contestants? So you could pick the right targets."

Believing he had thoroughly understood Xia Yan's thoughts, Zoulyuin Zhumei hurriedly stepped forward, keeping pace with Xia Yan. She moved closer to him, acting like an advisor, offering him advice. "You should have a specific target by now, right? Which of those 32 fighters is it? Can you tell me?"

"If you say there is, then there is indeed... uh."

When Xia Yan heard what Zou Liuyuan Zhumei said, he knew that she had misunderstood him. His expression was already very subtle. But in the middle of his words, he paused, as if he remembered something and even forgot to put down the foot he had raised.

"what happened?"

As Zouriuin Zhumei's questioning voice rang out, Xia Yan awkwardly lowered his right foot from the air and said with a somewhat awkward smile, "I do have a target, but... why don't we ask the bottom lane first?"

He had considered the causes and consequences of all the tasks and competition procedures, but he forgot how he was going to find the location of the target fighter.

The Kengan cruise ship is worthy of its title as one of the largest cruise ships in the world.

There were countless floors of buildings and facilities, including restaurants, bars, observation decks, billiard courts, casinos, and so on. Xia Yan even passed by an open-air swimming pool...

Forget it, he should just go and ask for directions honestly.

"Hello, do you know where the boss of Guhai Pharmaceutical is now..."

……

……

"boom!"

"How fragile! Another punch ended the fight."

Inside a cabin of the cruise ship, accompanied by a rumbling sound that shook the entire body, a tall and thin figure, who had been bandaged all over his body, slammed into the steel wall of the cruise ship like a cannonball, creating a huge hole.

As he gradually slid down, blood splattered all over the pit that was taller than a person.

Opposite him was a burly figure who was in a punching stance, with short, light blonde hair and a short beard, and an angular face, as if emitting a heavy sense of oppression.

"Where did you get the youth version of One Punch Man?"

"Another assassin?"

Hearing an unfamiliar voice of complaint coming from the side, Wakatsuki Samurai put away his huge bloody fist with an indifferent expression. But when he looked in the direction of the voice, he saw the figure of the assassin walking out of the darkness.

He always felt like he had misunderstood something, because...

"Those muscles! Those biceps! Those trapezius, pectoralis major, latissimus dorsi, and rectus abdominis muscles, all showing their subtle beauty beneath the thin shirt..."

Samurai Wakatsuki quietly looked at the two newly appeared figures beside him. If it was only the man in front, then although he seemed too young, even younger than Xiao Yuzhou over there, he also had a certain possibility of being an assassin.

But no matter what, it is impossible for an assassin to bring a girl in a luxurious evening dress to assassinate the enemy, right?

Although... this girl is indeed a bit strange.

Samurai Wakatsuki was thinking this when he immediately heard the strange girl who was chattering as if she was ordering dishes say something that revealed key information.

"Senior, do you really want to challenge this gentleman? Those arms are as beautifully muscled and bulging as a python..."

Zou Liuyuan Zhu Mei wiped the corner of her mouth, which actually didn't have anything to say. Her sweet face finally put away the exaggerated expression that seriously damaged her aura of a young lady. She turned her head to look at Xia Yan, and her face became serious for the first time. She said: "Just from this point, I can tell that his muscle strength is at least over 500 points!"

"This is far beyond your reach, Senior, why don't we change our goal!"

"So what the hell is muscle strength?!"

Xia Yan felt like he was about to become a complainer. He had just finished complaining about Wakatsuki Samurai, and now he had to gently slap the head of this muscle-bound young lady with a knife, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Woo~"

As Zouruin Shumei sobbed with her head in her hands, Xia Yan, too embarrassed to do so, cupped his fists and said to the Wakatsuki warrior in front of him, "Mr. Wakatsuki, I'm sorry for making you witness such an embarrassing scene—please advise me!"

"Again, please advise."

Samurai Wakatsuki nodded with a relaxed expression. Unlike the previous assassin who was ignorant of his own life, he had a good impression of this young man.

He came to challenge him in an upright and polite manner. Even if his purpose was to seize his qualification for the death match, it was so open and aboveboard that it was difficult for him to feel any resentment.

Please be merciful later...

The Wakatsuki warrior took a respectful stance, and at the moment this thought arose.

"Om~"

He widened his eyes, and instantly overturned his extremely naive idea from the previous moment. He suddenly changed his posture, made a sudden move forward, and with the fastest punch in traditional karate, he met Xia Yan's punch head-on, which was coming at him with a terrifying momentum like a tidal wave.

"boom!"

"How is this power possible!"

The fists collided, and Wakatsuki Samurai, with a terrifying weight of nearly 200kg, staggered backwards for the first time.

Just as he had this incredible thought, the next moment, Xia Yan's fists rained down on him.

The Wakatsuki warrior protected his head with his strong arms, but in the blink of an eye, this veteran fighter known for his strength was forced to go on the defensive in a head-on confrontation.

Moreover, he felt the opponent's fists landing on his arms and torso, which brought not only the severe pain of his muscles being dented, but also the blood spurting out of his mouth.

There was also the embarrassing situation where his heavy body was forced to retreat step by step.

Until this time, Wakatsuki Samurai, a natural muscle monster with a muscle fiber density about 52 times that of an ordinary person, experienced for the first time the feelings of those enemies who had been suppressed by his terrifying power.

In fact, this is normal. Under the gradual nourishment and strengthening of the mental energy that is like a dimensionality reduction attack, Xia Yan's body, which does not seem to be very strong, has actually reached a level of physical fitness that is not inferior to that of a muscular monster like Wakatsuki Bushi.

In addition, with the blessing of the body's surface thoughts covering his entire body, even if Xia Yan did not use any thoughts or even martial arts skills, just by swinging his turtle fist, his strength was already far superior to that of the Wakatsuki warrior.

The tiger is not weak, it just did not encounter the right enemy at the right time, and now it does not have a better opportunity to embark on the path of evolution.

"boom!"

Chapter 141 Sanda = Fusion of Physical and Mind Power

It felt like breaking into a kindergarten and beating and kicking the kids.

Although it was a bit unfair to the Wakatsuki warrior to say this, Xia Yan did have this boring thought when he swung his punches quickly and casually to the left and right, hitting the tiger's arms and torso muscles in a defensive posture.

However, even though the gap was clearly visible, Wakatsuki's steps were forced back and forth, with blood spurting from his mouth, his eyes were still shining, as if telling of his determination not to give up.

Then suddenly, with his waist as the center point, the Wakatsuki warrior curled up his extremely strong body to the extreme like a baby - even he himself did not expect that this was a trump card killer move he prepared for the Kengankai champion, Metō no Ya, who had defeated him before.

The official competition hadn't even started yet, but he was forced to use it by a young man who appeared out of nowhere.

Like a spring compressed to the limit, Wakatsuki's muscles pulsed. The moment his curled-up body expanded, all his strength erupted and converged into one explosive punch. This was called:

"Core explosion!"

Facing this huge fist that was roaring like a tiger and seemed to be infinitely magnified in momentum, Xia Yan just said to himself, "It's finally here", and raised his left arm, slightly tightening and hardening the muscles on it, and used it like a shield to block the punch.

"boom!"

"Zi La~"

The soles of Xia Yan's shoes rubbed against each other, sparks flying as he slid back several meters, and his left arm felt slightly numb.

This move created by the tiger can bring out the advantage of his already strong physical strength to the extreme. The punch that bursts out after the pure flesh/body is compressed to the extreme is so powerful that it is indeed worthy of the title of "ace".

Unfortunately……

The moves are not bad, but there are still too many things lacking. The gap between Xia Yan and Menghu has long been too huge.

"Ha ha!"

The Wakatsuki warrior retracted his fist and exhaled twice as if taking a breath. Then he looked at the young man in front of him with a serious expression.

He could vaguely feel that this young man was different from Ge and Chu Jian, who had defeated him with their skills in the past. This young man seemed to be emitting something special and dreamy.

In his senses, which he didn't know if it was an illusion, that "thing" was like a shadow wrapped around the young man, as if unconsciously emitting an astonishing sense of oppression and invading him.

He and I are not in the same dimension at all!

——This thought subconsciously flashed through the mind of the fierce tiger warrior Wakatsuki. After the young man took his strongest punch with an extremely easy posture, his chances of winning were gone.

and so……

"Whoo~"

Menghu exhaled slowly again, and then he assumed a basic fighting stance with his right fist clenched and naturally upright in front of him, and his left fist stretched upward near his waist.

Unlike the spirit of never giving up after fighting for a long time just now, he has already realized it at this time.

Time to end.

Xia Yan looked at the two fragments floating from the tiger opposite and thought the same thing.

[Fragment: Wakatsuki Samurai's Explosive Core (Blue) +1]

[Fragment: Wakatsuki Samurai's Super Muscle Body (Blue) +1]

The repressed emotions that had been painstakingly suppressed and gradually accumulated were all vented out with a full-strength punch, and the enlightenment that followed made Wakatsuki Samurai like a double yolk, bringing Xia Yan an unexpected surprise beyond the original goal.

Now that he got what he wanted, Xia Yan immediately turned sideways, with his right fist forward, as if ready to throw a punch - he wanted to test out his new understanding at the same time.