Between activating his divine consciousness and achieving a conspicuously swift victory, he had immediately chosen the latter. At least no one could tell what ability he had used.
"Don't move, I'll heal you," Tang San said in a low voice. As he spoke, he moved his right hand from the Golden Mammoth's forehead to its shoulder, circulating his internal energy while activating the Blue Silver Emperor and Peacock Demon transformations simultaneously.
He had to do this! Without the Peacock Transformation, he couldn't affect the internal areas of the opponent's body.
The entangled yin and yang energies in the Golden Mammoth's heart were finally drawn out and returned to Tang San's body.
This wasn't because Tang San was particularly kind and felt like healing his opponent was a virtue. One reason was to retrieve his precious yin and yang energies to restore his Triple Transformation Palm. The other reason was to avoid leaving traces that could reveal his abilities.
Without the influence of the yin and yang energies, the Golden Mammoth's powerful body allowed it to recover almost instantly. Its heart pumped blood vigorously, restoring its mobility. Apart from being slightly weakened, it was now fine.
"Can you tell me what ability you used just now?" it asked, standing up and retrieving its pair of hammers.
Tang San shrugged and said, "No comment." Then he turned and walked off the stage.
He couldn't explain the attack he had just used, as it was something he had come up with on the spot. His greatest strength lay in having multiple bloodlines, and being able to combine these bloodline powers was crucial to enhancing his combat effectiveness. Moreover, in the competition, he couldn't let the observing experts see through him, nor let his opponents discover what had happened. It required a high level of concealment, so how could he explain it just because he was asked to?
The Golden Mammoth strode after him, its face once again showing a goofy smile. "My name is Mao Wenwu, what's your name?"
Before the match, it hadn't even asked Tang San's name. Now that it had lost, it felt that introductions were warranted.
Tang San obviously did not intend to be honest, but he did feel like the question warranted an answer, so he chose to reveal his alter ego. "I am Asura."
Only at this moment did the audience erupt in an uproar, with various boos rising and falling. This battle seemed too strange, and for a time, the roaring voices of hundreds of thousands of Ancestor Court citizens made the entire Ancestor Court Plaza extremely noisy.
Watching Tang San's quickly departing figure, Mao Wenwu's expression became quite interesting. It originally intended to play the role of a pig in order to eat a tiger, yet it had unexpectedly become a proper pig. Although it hadn't expected to get a top spot anyway, it had believed advancing from the group stage shouldn't be difficult. To its dismay, its journey to the top had ended before the first step was even taken.
The key point was that the loss seemed too inexplicable. Now that the yin and yang energies in its body had disappeared, it quickly returned to its normal state, as if it hadn't been attacked at all.
Even to the contender, the match seemed fixed! So how the hell was it supposed to explain this when it went back home?
Damn, won’t Grandpa beat me to death? This was a complete failure.
Tang San, of course, had greater concerns than what Mao Wenwu was thinking. After quickly leaving the competition stage, he immediately returned to the original waiting area to wait quietly.
In the waiting area where he was, only the matches on the first platform were visible. Therefore, despite the numerous boos in the arena, they didn't know what had happened on the third platform, nor did they know that Tang San had already defeated a strong opponent.
Big Cat approached Tang San and asked in a low voice, "How did it go?"
Tang San pulled him to an inconspicuous corner of the waiting area and then whispered, "I won."
He didn't elaborate on the nature of his opponent, still reflecting on the process of his own palm attack.
This was the first time he had tried to combine several bloodline abilities together, and he didn't expect the result to be so effective. However, without the dominating power of the yin-yang energy, relying solely on the Lion-Tiger Transformation and Peacock Transformation, it would have been difficult to break through the opponent's defense. The Golden Mammoth, Mao Wenwu, had a cultivation close to the peak of the ninth order, with plenty of combat experience and powerful techniques. Tang San’s victory could be considered rather surprising.
The boos from the stands quickly dissipated as the competition continued and the next contestants began their matches. The audience's attention naturally shifted.
Tang San fell into deep thought about the sudden issue with the Polar Luck Domain and the fusion of various bloodline abilities. These were important aspects he needed to consider for his future cultivation.
Breaking through to the god level was challenging and would inevitably take some time. Thus, before reaching the tenth order, he needed to find alternative methods to truly contend with god-level powerhouses, and those alternative methods would inevitably involve short and massive bursts of energy.
After watching Big Cat and Mei Gongzi's matches today, he planned to revisit the Sunborne Sacred Mountain and Earthshade Sacred Mountain. Condensing yin-yang energy in these two places would be much faster than cultivating on his own. If he could enhance the yin-yang energy to a certain extent, the power of his Blue Silver Emperor imprint would greatly increase.
More importantly, this yin-yang energy could be added to any other ability, serving as an auxiliary power. And what a formidable auxiliary power it was! Not even the tough physique of a Golden Mammoth could withstand it! This energy concentrated the core abilities of two top Nymph Emperors, and with the adjustment from the Polar Luck Domain, it could become a powerful trump card, almost on par with the domain itself.
Tang San had to restrain his own excitement at this thought.
No rush, take it slow!
In the process of cultivating this yin-yang energy, he couldn't let the two Nymph Emperors discover him, so he could only improve himself slowly and steadily.
The competition progressed quickly, with evenly matched situations being rather rare in the first round. In a knockout tournament , every contestant treated each match as if it were their last, because, well, it could be. They all fought at full power, resulting in quick battles.
At one point, Big Cat's voice interrupted Tang San's contemplation of his own abilities.
"Good luck," Tang San said, clenching his fist and waving it toward Big Cat.
"I will." Big Cat took a deep breath, his eyes instantly brightening, and strode out.
Compared to Tang San, Big Cat had experienced far more. From the time he was born, he was constantly told by his clan members that they were cursed. Among his peers, he was the strongest, displaying remarkable talent from a very young age; yet the Lion-Tiger clan was ostracized, and resources were extremely limited. Despite the elders' care, even basic sustenance was hard to come by.
As he grew older, his power increased day by day. Gradually, he began to feel the problems with his bloodline. Each time his bloodline powers clashed, he would experience unbearable pain. The elders scrimped and saved to buy natural treasures to supplement his life force, helping him endure and suppress the pain caused by the bloodline conflict.
Even so, his strength continued to grow rapidly. Later, by chance, the young Big Cat learned that he could earn money at the Great Beast Fighting Arena, so he resolutely went there.
The arena saw that he was a rare Lion-Tiger, which was a great selling point, and naturally, let him participate without hesitation, even offering him a good deal. With his formidable strength, Big Cat gradually made a name for himself in the arena.
The first time he killed an opponent, he was actually terrified, but thinking of the many people in his clan who needed money to live, he hardened his heart.
He didn't know how many times he had been through life-and-death situations, nor how many scars he had accumulated. His strength improved day by day, and he eventually became an invincible presence in Kali City’s Great Beast Fighting Arena.