Li Mo had gained three more wins after Huo Tian and entered the yellow level 7th stage.
Li Mo made sure to show he had to work hard for every win. His breathing was ragged, his step uneasy, as if on the brink of collapse.
Li Mo’s display had many headhunters vying for his head.
But Li Mo pulled a fast one on them, winning every time, albeit difficult.
Compared to before, Li Mo no longer had it as easy. After thirty wins, the challenger level was no longer confined to being fair, but as long as they were in the yellow level, it was all by the rules.
After Huo Tian, Li Mo met with opponents belonging to the yellow level 8th and 9th stage. For any to reach such a stage one was by no means weak.
Li Mo had an easy time with Huo Ling’er and her brother because he knew Pyrokinesis. Regardless of how strong the siblings were, as long as he used Pyrokinesis, they’d be nothing more than common people.
Without Pyrokinesis, he would’ve had a lot harder time in a fith vs fith level match.
All those in the 8th and 9th stages had that level. But Li Mo’s advantage laid in his incredible body and a wide array of cultivation methods and martial arts.
When Li Mo scored his fiftieth win and entered the 9th stage, he was no longer faking. He really was gasping and staggering on his feet.
Li Mo decided to call it a day.
Achieving nine stages in a day, Li Mo already broke the record on the fastest fighter in the yellow ancient battleground over the last century.
He went back to the gang to see Du Fei clobbered in his way up the ranks. With Sacred Light Physique’s super fast recovery, despite being at a disadvantage in every match, he won through attrition.
Li Mo found Du Fei was in the 6th stage.
Ning Xin was in 5th, not at all slow, and Whitey in 6th. While having same stage as Du Fei, she wielded more strength and showed more promise. Just that her skills needed time to deploy and lowered her advancing speed.
Li Mo looked at the panda and cringed.
It was still in the zero stage after all this time!
A day went by, yet he didn’t get a single win.
‘Panda is a descendant of one of the ten sacred beasts. Master was definitely right about that. Does that make it my mistake?’
Li Mo was self-doubting.
With the panda, he invested far more effort than even in Du Fei. It ate demon cores every single day, and even that precious fifth level God Fruit.
‘At peak fifth level yet can’t win once?’
Li Mo observed its fight.
Whoosh~
The panda was facing some subspecies. This race was a category for thousands of other bug races, like Silver Armor race, humanoid races, like the Hexamand race, and many others.
The one before the panda was a white bug. Even if one would call it that, it was in fact a larva, the lowest even among the subspecies category.
Pff~
The fight started and the white bug spat green at the panda. It dodged everywhere but still got hit at some point. Its body began to smoke.
Then it all came down to it fleeing and fleeing, never attacking as he ultimately lost…
“Why aren’t you attacking?”
Li Mo asked as the panda came out of the light cover.
“I can’t win…”
The panda wrote.
“You’re peak fifth level, god damnit!”
Li Mo found the panda’s aura off.
While he won 50 times in row and gained cultivation, the panda lost splendidly, and cultivation to boot…
It had now dropped to peak fourth level.
‘This is ridiculous!’
Li Mo just couldn’t believe this.
“Keep going. No matter who comes before you, you just need to focus on using Hundred Beast King Fist and Dwarfstar. Don’t forget to use them when it counts!”
Li Mo threw the panda back to the wolves.
Whoosh~
The panda’s opponent was a fully armed man from the snow people race.
The man just saw the panda and nodded.
The snow people’s cultivation was the worst, unfit for this path. But even so, snow people’s leaders were all men of power. They sometimes let some newbie snow people fight in this battleground just for entertainment.
“Snow man, let’s see you win if you can!”
The panda used the Tiger King Fist as he charged.
The snow man warrior lifted his shield, making the panda retreat while covering itself with its paws.
“Don’t be scared and keep at it!” Li Mo shouted.
The panda roared, using Tiger King Fist on the snow warrior’s chest.
Clang!
The snow warrior’s armor withstood the blow without a scratch. He then pulled his sword and stabbed the panda’s eye.
Pff…
The panda held his eyes as blood kept flowing.
‘Eh?’ Li Mo stared blankly.
Then the snow warrior launched a full offensive on the panda, stabbing and cutting as it fled scared.
It wasn’t long before the panda lost again.
The snow warrior bowed at the panda’s corpse…
The panda covered its face, too ashamed to face Li Mo.
“All of your opponents were like him?”
It nodded.
Li Mo frowned.
He found the snow warrior in the 6th stage.
Snow people could hardly cultivate, but they compensated through learning. The tough armor and sharp sword made the snow warrior a force on the ancient battleground…
“Again.”
The panda was facing a black beetle this time.
The black beetle was an average race, but Li Mo saw it clearly how this beetle was in the 8th stage!
‘Zero stage vs 8th stage? Where did the fairness of the battleground go too?’
Li Mo was shell-shocked.
The black beetle wasn’t a renowned race, but to reach the 8th stage spoke volumes of its strength.
The panda’s loss came with no surprise…
The panda covered its face, too ashamed to face Li Mo.
“Continue!”
“Wu~!” The panda shook its head.
“Go, perhaps it’s not entirely your fault for loosing so many times.”
The panda was puzzled.
Whoosh~
The panda was now facing an orc.
This race was amongst the weakest race in the universe. It only knew to loaf. This made it so not even a strong individual could be found even among a hundred thousand of orcs.
‘9th stage?’
Li Mo was stunned at the orc’s stage in the ancient battleground.
