342 Top 8 - Luo Mei

"That— That was incredible. I did not expect brother Wan Li to be that strong," Alex said in shock. He was simply blindsided by this win.

"That kid— He hid his abilities quite well. Just the fact that he had to compliment dual spiritual roots, those are actually just as strong as Superior roots if used correctly. He definitely deserved this win," Wen Cheng said with approval. While his own sect's disciple had lost, he couldn't help but compliment Wan Li.

"Do you know who taught him how to fight?" Wen Cheng asked.

"No. I don't think anyone taught him that," Alex said. "He… probably learned that on his own."

"I see. I could tell he didn't have much experience with actual fights. If he was, he could have ended the fight long ago," Wen Cheng said.

The next battle on the stage was starting. It was between the 3rd Mind Tempering realm disciple of the Honor sect who could use Spear Intent, and the 6th Mind Tempering realm disciple of Royal Fu Academy.

Spear Intent was strong and could help the disciple from the Honor sect produce attacks that could damage a 4th Mind Tempering realm cultivator. However, it wasn't enough to fight this opponent.

The Royal Fu Academy's disciple overwhelmed the Honor Sect disciple with his massive Metal attacks with his superior Metal elemental roots behind it.

The next match was between the Thousand Hand sect disciple and the girl with the saber intent. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to show the same level of prowess as Du Yuhan did and in the end succumbed to the barrage of attacks from the multiple puppets.

The next match involved the Myriad sect disciple with the crow. However, his opponent was Chu Xiang, the strongest participant in terms of cultivation base.

No matter what attack the master or the beast threw at him, nothing was able to phase him and in the end, he had an overwhelming victory.

And thus, the Top 16 battles came to an end as well.

However, it was already close to 3 PM, so Fu Zhen wasted no time and started the Top 8. The quarterfinals were now beginning.

Alex looked at the match-ups and frowned a little. The next match was between his senior sister and the disciple from Royal Fu Academy who had the 5th Mind Tempering realm cultivation base. It was not his cultivation that worried him, however; it was the fact that he could use Sword Intent as well.

In fact, even Du Yuhan would have to face against a sword Intent user in the next match. Wen Cheng was worried about this very much too.

Luo Mei walked up to the stage with her blue rapier-like sword and looked at her opponent who was standing on the other side.

His sword look quite fancy and she guessed it was at least a Common Earth grade, if not Heaven grade sword. 'This is going to be troublesome,' she thought.

"Begin!"

Luo Mei suddenly attacked her opponent with a blue slash. The man didn't seem phased and attacked with his own slash as well.

The man's attack had Sword Intent behind it, so he was able to match up with her attacks. Luo Mei sent out more attacks, but each of them was stopped by the man.

She frowned. It seemed long-range attacks weren't the way to go. In a battle of the sword, he would lose for sure. She kept her sword in her storage bag and started fighting with water instead.

Water pooled around her feet and tendrils started forming from it. With her command, the tendrils of water started shooting out sharp slashes of water.

Her opponent did his best to block the attacks and was able to. But when the attacks started pouring out from multiple directions. His sword alone wasn't able to stop it.

He used his movement technique and disappeared from where he stood and appeared a dozen meters to the side. The water attacks ended up landing on an empty spot.

Before Luo Mei could even turn her head to check where he had gone, the man used his movement technique another few times and appeared behind her.

With her not knowing where he was, he could attack her freely. His sword glowed bright yellow as he prepared a metal attack with Sword Intent behind it.

However, before he could launch the attack, all of the tendrils of water suddenly attacked him. Multiple water slashes left the tendrils.

The man decided to stop his attack and move away, but it was then he realized that his feet couldn't move anymore. At some point, water had caught up to him and had frozen his legs.

"How?" he couldn't understand what was happening. He had managed to appear on his opponent's blind spot, but the one at a disadvantage was him.

He made the instant decision to go forward with his attack and used the most Sword Intent he could to slash directly at the incoming attacks.

BOOM

A massive explosion sent the water flying everywhere. The man had managed to block most of the damage, but not all of it. He lied on the ground as his frozen feet did not let him get pushed back.

He tried to stand up, but suddenly, he felt weightless. When he realized what was happening, he was already inside a massive ball of water and was floating in the air.

He tried to attack and destroy the ball of water or swim out of it, but Luo Mei kept on adding more water and controlling it to move in the direction he tried to move.

Given the fact that he did not get to take a breath before he was put inside the ball, he was going to be out of breath in a very short time and drown.

He struggled and struggled, but Luo Mei's proficiency with water was too high for him to possibly escape his current situation.

Slowly, the ball of water started to freeze and he could no longer move.

CRACK

The ball of ice fell onto the ground in a million pieces and the man fell out of it and started gasping for breath.

Huff Huff

He quickly searched and reached out for the sword he had just dropped to take advantage of Luo Mei's mistake. Just as he was about to grab it, he saw a foot that did not belong to Luo Mei in front of him.

He looked up to see a dark-robed individual standing in front of him. "Oh," he said and stopped reaching for the sword.

It was the referee that had helped him escape from the ball of ice, not Luo Mei's incompetence. He understood what had happened and fully accepted his loss. His opponent had fully beat him without question.

The referee looked towards Luo Mei and said, "You Win."

Luo Mei bowed a little towards the referee and walked out of the stage. She had managed to enter the Semi-Finals.

Du Yuhan walked out from the waiting area and walked to the stage that was being cleared quickly and didn't even look at her.

He went straight to the end of the stage and waited for his opponent to arrive.