Infinite Fighting

Chapter 88: Chapter 79: Breaking the Rules

Zhang Ji’s reassurance was a potent one.

For a long while, Fu Tian and Chen Anhe couldn’t snap out of their daze.

It was baffling. ’We all train the same way, so how did you get like this?’

"With this level of strength, is it enough to win the championship?" Zhang Ji asked with a smile.

"More than enough!" Fu Tian was the first to speak. "Do you have any idea? In the entire World Fighter Association, there are only six publicly known Sublimation Level fighters. If you participate in this Spring Tournament, you’ll probably steamroll the entire thing."

He suddenly felt that losing to Zhang Ji wasn’t so bad after all.

It would have been strange if he had managed to win against such a monstrous talent.

"Zhang Ji, have you already mastered the Five Forms Union?" Chen Anhe asked.

"Yes," Zhang Ji nodded. "The day Teacher came back, he taught me everything he’d comprehended. Then, I figured it out during a fight and used that understanding to break through."

Chen Anhe felt a bit emotional.

They had spent the better part of their lives studying this, yet their results couldn’t compare to a few months of work by a genius like him.

"By the way, I’m a little curious. If you just want money, wouldn’t it be faster to show off your strength and apply for a position at the World Fighter Association?" Fu Tian asked.

"I don’t have the connections. Besides, I don’t really want to work for them," Zhang Ji replied.

The power behind the World Fighter Association was that Saint King named Elaven.

With Elaven’s tyrannical personality and his goal of world domination, if Zhang Ji joined, he would inevitably be coerced into doing things he didn’t want to do.

Furthermore, according to the background information Zhang Ji knew, this Saint King had personally killed more than one of the B-rank fighters under his command. The slightest disobedience would bring down divine punishment. He was definitely not an easy master to serve.

Zhang Ji only wanted to use the Association’s channels to make money, not join their inner circle and become one of them.

Besides, his target was the Saint King himself, so of course he needed to develop his own power base.

Hearing this, Fu Tian said no more.

He figured if he became a "terrestrial immortal" level figure, he probably wouldn’t want to work for the World Fighter Association either.

He was more interested in rebuilding his former sect and gathering all his martial brothers who had scattered across the world.

With Zhang Ji as their safety net, Fu Tian and Chen Anhe instantly felt much more relaxed.

When it came to strategizing, they didn’t even need to include Zhang Ji.

The two of them would go first to hone their skills and show off their style as much as possible.

If they couldn’t win, Zhang Ji would come out to clean things up.

This kind of tactic was common in many fighting tournaments.

After all, under normal circumstances, the final act was always the strongest.

The only difference was that Zhang Ji was an existence beyond all specifications.

.......

Time passed.

Thanks to Zhou Hao’s efforts, the Five Elements Gate Club had successfully registered for the Spring Tournament.

The tournament would be held on April 1st.

It would last for a total of fifteen days.

The Amateur, Professional, and Transcendent divisions would each have five days of competition.

It wasn’t that they couldn’t be held simultaneously.

The organizers’ consideration was that if they were held at the same time, the massive audience traffic would be drawn to the Transcendent Division, and no one would watch the Amateur and Professional divisions.

And that was indeed the case.

The World Fighter Association had held a tournament like that once.

The fights in the Amateur and Professional divisions were truly not as spectacular to watch as those in the Transcendent Division.

If the audience had to choose, they would definitely go for the Transcendent Division.

Before this, Zhang Ji had also gone to the World Fighter Association to get certified as a Transcendent Level fighter.

He took the test casually and got the certification.

However, his ranking points were only at five hundred. He would need to participate in relevant fighting tournaments to earn more.

April 1st.

Zhang Ji led a group of Five Elements Sect disciples and officially stepped into the World Fighter Association.

There was an exclusive area for the contestants and clubs.

After entering, Zhang Ji could see clearly that the surrounding area was already filled with spectators. Some held up banners for their respective clubs, while others held signs supporting a certain fighter. There were at least a hundred thousand of them.

Drones circled overhead, and countless high-speed cameras focused on the arena from every angle. In addition, four huge screens provided a live broadcast, ensuring no exciting moment was missed.

This tournament was on an even grander scale than the one previously held by the national martial arts association.

Over a hundred clubs were participating this time.

The screening for the Amateur Division wasn’t actually that strict.

Many professional fighters never bothered to get ranked, choosing to mess around in the amateur scene instead.

This led to a situation where fighters with the strength of a First or Second Rank professional often won the Amateur Division championship.

This was exactly the same game Zhang Ji was playing now.

It was all within the rules.

Of course, it was much rarer to see someone at a Third Rank or higher.

Because the prize money and such for the Professional Division tournaments were definitely much higher than in the Amateur Division.

Deliberately staying unranked was a meaningless endeavor in the long run.

Unless you were stuck at First or Second Rank and couldn’t advance any further, that is.

The disciples from the Five Elements Sect participating in the tournament this time had already been selected through internal competition.

To ensure victory, Zhang Ji had Jonas participate in the competition as well.

Meaning, the Five Elements Sect’s lineup consisted of two unranked Second Rank professionals, plus Jonas, a Sixth Rank professional expert whom Zhang Ji had brought from the Wind God Ruins Realm.

Having a Sixth Rank professional fight in the Amateur Division was nothing short of a complete stomp.

After some warm-up performances, the clubs drew their lots, and at around ten in the morning, the tournament officially began.

Unsurprisingly, although it was the Amateur Division, those who entered the ring were basically all professional fighters.

This had already become common knowledge in the fighting world.

Many people simply didn’t get ranked and just went to beat up on the "kids."

Then they ruined the whole atmosphere. Everyone started playing this game, each trying to be more ruthless than the last. Now, it was almost impossible to see a true amateur-level fighter in the Amateur Division.

The tournament format had a time limit. Each round was only five minutes long. Within those five minutes, you could win by scoring as many points as possible, knocking down your opponent, or knocking them out of the ring.

There were almost no restrictions on attacking weak points. Aside from groin kicks and eye pokes, anything went.

In less than half an hour, Zhang Ji finished watching two sets of matches.

The fights were quite exciting. It wasn’t all about winning through raw power here. If both sides were evenly matched in strength, someone with a better Body Technique could also win by skillfully scoring points.

The calculation for scoring points with effective strikes was also very simple.

Fists, palms, claws, elbows, legs—different attacks hitting different parts of the body were worth different points.

Leg attacks scored the most points.

In martial arts, kicking techniques were inherently the most powerful attacks.

As the common saying goes, "Ten punches are no match for one kick."

Hitting an opponent with ten punches was less effective than landing a single kick.

However, while they were highly damaging, their drawbacks were also significant if used poorly.

Kicking techniques often left a fighter wide open, making it easy for an opponent to exploit the weakness.

Missing a kick was even more awkward. You could easily be attacked by your opponent, lose your balance, and the rest would be you getting pinned to the ground and beaten to a pulp.

That was how Zhang Ji had won against the woman from the Tashi Sect on Shanli Island back then.

Therefore, one needed to be extremely cautious when using kicks in a fight.

Either don’t use them, or if you do, make sure they count.

Either force a retreat or inflict an injury.

The Valentine Club also participated in this tournament, but their Amateur Division team was average and got eliminated on the first day.

The matches continued until the lunch break.

The organizers provided a meal. After lunch, it would be the Five Elements Sect’s turn to compete.

Zhang Ji heated up the roast duck rice he had brought and started eating.

Fu Tian was a little curious. He had already seen Zhang Ji eat roast duck rice for several meals now.

’Is that stuff really that good?’

’Could this be the secret to him becoming a "terrestrial immortal" at such a young age?’

’Is that duck special? Some kind of exotic fowl raised by the Five Elements Sect?’

"Do you mind if I try some?" Fu Tian asked.

"You really don’t stand on ceremony, do you," Zhang Ji said with a sigh.

As he spoke, he picked up a piece of roast duck with his chopsticks and gave it to Fu Tian.

Fu Tian put it in his mouth and chewed. The seasoning was heavy with oil and salt, the duck was fatty, and the layer of grease was thick. It felt like the kind of duck produced on an industrial scale. The taste wasn’t much different from canned food from the supermarket. It wasn’t bad, but eating it for two meals in a row would definitely make one sick. How could Zhang Ji eat it with such relish?

Seeing the puzzled look on Fu Tian’s face, Zhang Ji teased, "So? It’s good, right?"

"You have strange taste," Fu Tian shook his head and lamented.

Zhang Ji had no intention of arguing with Fu Tian.

During his time on the run, he had eaten raw meat and chewed wild vegetables in the mountains, eaten raw fish and bones in the sea. Back then, his mind was filled with nothing but thoughts of roast duck rice.

He just wanted to eat a few more meals of it now to make up for it.

The Five Elements Sect’s match in the afternoon went off without a hitch.

Before Jonas even had a chance to fight, the first two disciples from the Five Elements Sect had already taken down all three of the opposing team’s members.

After all, they were disciples who had been through the Five Elements Sect’s internal selection process; their strength was naturally sufficient.

「April 2nd.」

The promotion matches.

Jonas finally made his move.

He dispatched his opponent with ease.

Many people cheered, but the expressions on the faces of people from many other clubs turned ugly.

They could all tell that Jonas had the strength of at least a Fourth Rank professional.

To use this level of strength in the amateur tournament was simply shameless!

They didn’t stop to think that they were the ones who had started exploiting the loophole in the rules in the first place.

The organizers, for their part, were also a bit speechless.

Having someone around the Third Rank professional level was already considered way beyond the norm.

But this year, the Five Elements Gate Club had brought someone of *this* caliber to fight in the amateur tournament.

The organizers began an investigation behind the scenes.

"Are you sure he hasn’t been ranked before this?"

"No. He’s likely a fighter invited from abroad. This is his first time appearing in the Association’s fighting ring."

Clearly, the results of the investigation were hard for them to accept.

"It seems we’ll need to revise the rules after this tournament. I’m thinking that in the future, if you don’t have enough tournament points and haven’t participated in lower-tier competitions, you can’t compete directly..."

Zhang Ji was unaware that he had broken the game with the rules.

Even if he knew, he wouldn’t care, because he was planning on being even more shameless later.

Using his Sublimation Level strength to drop down and fight in the Transcendent Division tournament.

The tournament proceeded smoothly.

For the Five Elements Sect, because of Jonas, even if the first two disciples couldn’t beat their opponents, they could always rely on Jonas as their backstop.

On the day of the finals, after their three fighters had finished off the first two disciples from the Five Elements Sect, the opposing team actually chose to raise their hands and surrender.

It was clearly an alternative way of rebuking Zhang Ji and his team for breaking the rules.

However, their team was also full of professional fighters competing in the Amateur Division. Relatively speaking, they were the ones who broke the rules first.

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