142: violent...

The deafening music in the arena came to an abrupt halt, and all the lights focused on the central octagon cage.

The host jumped onto the ring, holding a microphone, and roared in an extremely inflammatory voice, "Ladies and gentlemen... all you tough guys... Welcome back! Yesterday's blood hasn't even cooled yet; are you ready for today's bones to break?! Tell me, are you ready?!"

"Roar—!"

The audience responded with even more frenzied shouting.

"Very good! No more nonsense! Let me see... who will be the first to fire the opening shot tonight and ignite this night..."

Before the host could finish speaking, on Li Zhan's side, Big Ox, who had long been unable to restrain himself, suddenly looked at Li Zhan, his eyes boiling with fighting spirit.

Li Zhan nodded slightly.

After receiving the nod, Big Ox let out a low roar, like a crazed bull, and slammed open the door of the octagon cage, diving inside...

His terrifying height of over two meters and his knotted, rock-like muscles brought a suffocating sense of oppression just by standing there, and the originally noisy venue actually fell silent for a moment...

Only he knew how much suffering he had endured and how much sweat he had shed during his special training for this moment...

All the factions involuntarily turned their gazes toward Li Zhan's booth, not expecting him to be the first to make a move today by sending out this human-shaped beast...

Seeing this, Young Master Liu was not alarmed but happy, a grimace appearing on his face as he immediately signaled the spokesperson of the Town beside him.

The Town spokesperson nodded and waved at Thana, who had been eager to try.

Thana leaped onto the ring like a cheetah. The momentum of his three consecutive victories yesterday still lingered. He stared fiercely at the menacing Big Ox and provoked him in broken Chinese mixed with Thai, "Big guy... here to die? I'll break your bones and make soup!"

Big Ox grinned, revealing his stark white teeth, his voice like muffled thunder, "The Thai Guy! That little bit of kung fu you have is all stuff your ancestor here played with and discarded. Today, I'll let you acknowledge your roots..."

"Clang—!"

The bell rang, and the slaughter began...

Thana was fearless and launched the first attack...

His low sweep was as fast as lightning, whistling through the air as it slammed toward Big Ox's supporting leg. Big Ox didn't dodge or evade, instead meeting it with a powerful, heavy sweep of his own.

"Bang!"

A dull sound like wooden clubs striking each other exploded. Their shinbones collided head-on, a sound that set one's teeth on edge...

Both men groaned simultaneously and took half a step back, clearly having suffered a bit.

Thana's eyes narrowed; he put away his contempt and used flexible footwork to keep moving, launching fierce elbows and knees like raindrops at Big Ox's vital points.

Although Big Ox was huge, his movements were not clumsy; his blocks and dodges were surprisingly methodical, and he occasionally forced Thana back with heavy counterattacks.

The battle instantly reached a fever pitch...

Both were of a fierce and violent style, elbows and knees flying, the sound of body collisions ringing incessantly.

Thana landed a tricky elbow strike that cut Big Ox's eyebrow, and blood immediately smeared half his face...

Big Ox seized the opportunity and slammed a heavy haymaker into Thana's ribs. The distinct sound of cracking bones caused the audience below to gasp in shock...

Blood and pain completely ignited the ferocity of both sides!

Big Ox seemed to have completely forgotten the "technique" and "control" that Li Zhan had instructed him to use, and the savagery in his bones was completely ignited...

He abandoned defense and began to trade injury for injury, life for life!

Thana also fought with bloodshot eyes, unleashing all kinds of lethal moves...

The scene became extremely tragic and primitive!

However...

Big Ox's innate divine strength and endurance took the absolute upper hand in this pure contest of power and will.

He withstood a heavy knee from Thana, grabbed the opponent's waist, and slammed him onto the ground like a savage bear...

Thana tried to struggle, but Big Ox was already mounted on top, his sandbag-sized fists hammering his face like heavy mallets!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sound of bones shattering was hair-raising...

Thana was able to block a few times at first, but soon fell silent.

But Big Ox seemed to have gone mad, still pounding frantically until his opponent's skull was almost deformed, blood and brains splattering, staining his entire chest and face...

The referee didn't even dare to step forward!

Finally, Big Ox stopped, panting heavily.

He swayed as he stood up, covered in blood, like a demon god crawling out of hell!

He tilted his head back and let out a deafening roar at the spotlights above...

"ROAR—!!!"

This inhuman roar seemed to carry a tangible shockwave, piercing through the entire venue...

After a brief silence, unprecedented frenzied shouting erupted from below...

The audience's emotions were completely ignited by this extreme violence!

Li Zhan watched from the booth with his mouth agape, eventually smiling bitterly and shaking his head at Old Zhou beside him, "Sigh... this guy... I told him to hold back, but I didn't expect him to just let himself go... Forget it, it seems this nature of his cannot be suppressed."

Old Zhou also smiled rarely, "He's good material, just a bit too murderous."

In the other booths, the spokespersons of the various factions were filled with horror.

"This... this is simply the reincarnation of Lu Bu!"

"Too brutal! Where did Chang'an find this kind of monster?!"

...

They looked toward Li Zhan's direction again, their eyes filled with deeper fear and a reassessment of him.

On Young Master Liu's side...

Everyone was dumbfounded, their faces so gloomy that they were almost dripping water.

Thana, in whom he had placed such high hopes, had actually been so cruelly beaten to death in public...

Even the usually arrogant AHao from Chashan now had his mouth agape and fell into silence, a trace of imperceptible fear flashing deep in his eyes for the first time.

Yang Yuying was even more scared, her face pale. She held Li Zhan's arm tightly, her delicate body trembling slightly, almost burying herself in his arms, not daring to look at the ring again.

Just then, Su Ziqing hurried to the booth. As soon as she sat down, she witnessed the entire process of Big Ox's violent victory and his roar to the sky.

She froze instantly, her eyes behind her sunglasses widening, looking at Li Zhan's direction in disbelief—that giant, as terrifying as a demon god, was actually this man's subordinate?

The extreme impact of violence and intense curiosity instantly seized her, her heart rate accelerating suddenly...

Big Ox stood in the center of the arena, bathed in blood and frenzied cheers, like a true beast...

Announcing that the battle of the second night had entered its climax from the very beginning!

...

Big Ox stood like a blood-bathed demon god in the center of the octagon cage, his heavy panting faintly audible through the microphone.

After a brief silence below, there was even more frenzied cheering and cursing; the audience's emotions were completely detonated by his extreme display of violence.

Several staff members in black uniforms endured their discomfort and quickly went up to clean.

They struggled to lift Thana's almost unrecognizable, limp corpse onto a stretcher and quickly left the arena.

Others carried buckets and mops, scrubbing hard at the glaring, viscous pool of blood and brain matter on the platform, but the heavy smell of blood could not dissipate for a short time.

The host carefully avoided the bloodstains and walked to the center of the stage. Looking at Big Ox, who was still in a state of excitement with fierce eyes, he swallowed and shouted, "Ladies and gentlemen! Let us once again cheer for Chang'an's fierce general—Big Ox! Next, is there any hero brave enough to come up and challenge him?!"

The clamor below continued, but when the gaze swept toward the booths of the participating factions, an awkward silence appeared.

The various spokespersons either lowered their heads to drink tea or spoke in low voices with their subordinates, their eyes flickering; no one responded immediately.

The scene of Big Ox tearing Thana apart like an ancient beast just now was too intimidating, and no one was willing to send their own people up to court disaster at this time.

The host waited for a few minutes. Seeing that no one came up, he immediately exchanged glances with the referee group and the organizer representatives below.

He then picked up the microphone again: "According to the rules! If there is no challenger within ten minutes, this Chang'an Big Ox will be considered to have successfully defended the ring, directly earning points for three consecutive victories, and can choose to leave the ring to rest!"

After another agonizing few minutes, only the background music and the whispering of the audience remained in the venue, and still no one answered the challenge.

Seeing this, the host immediately announced loudly, "Time is up! Congratulations to Chang'an's Big Ox for successfully defending the ring and earning points for three consecutive victories! Congratulations!"

Upon hearing this, Big Ox muttered dissatisfiedly, "Damn, are they all so spineless? I just finished warming up..."

But he still followed the host's instructions, swaying off the ring like a lion that still had energy to spare.

Wherever he passed, the crowd subconsciously stepped back to make way, their eyes filled with awe and fear.

He returned to Li Zhan's booth, and the bloodstains all over his body and his sky-high murderous aura seemed to lower the temperature around the booth by a few degrees.

He scratched his head sheepishly at Li Zhan, "Senior brother... I'm sorry, I got so excited just now that I... I forgot the techniques you instructed..."

Li Zhan stood up, not only not blaming him but laughing out loud a few times, patting his solid arm hard, "It's okay! Good fight! It seems that our style might really not be suitable for you. You, this human-shaped beast, should not be restrained. Letting go and fighting is your path..."

He pointed to the bloodstains on Big Ox that had already solidified and darkened, and instructed Big Courage and AZu beside him, "Big Courage, AZu... take Big Ox to the back to take a shower, get this blood off, and change his clothes. It's too conspicuous like this."

He paused, his tone becoming more serious, "Remember, guard him well, just take a shower and come back, lest some people who can't afford to lose want to play dirty."

"Understood, Brother Zhan!"

Big Courage and AZu immediately stood up, guarding the massive Big Ox on the left and right, and walked toward the backstage.

After they left, the octagon cage was quickly cleaned up. The host took the stage again, trying hard to stir up the atmosphere.

Soon, new challengers and ring holders went up, and the bloody fighting began again...

The sound of metal collisions, body strikes, and the audience's roaring filled the venue again.

But after Big Ox's earth-shattering opening, although the subsequent matches were still brutal, they always made people feel as if something extreme was missing.

In everyone's hearts, the roar of that human-shaped beast and that blood-stained figure still echoed...