The 30 minute break ended quite quickly. As the white door appeared once again, everyone quickly entered and came back to the arena.
The first fight was between the holder of token 1 and the holder of token 3. Those two were Bai Hun, the nine colored divine phoenix, and Ying Xiong.
They both got on the stage as the countdown began. This time, Ying Xiong was more nervous than before. Although he had gotten a bit used to fighting in his first fight, he was now fighting against a much stronger opponent.
The worst part was, Bai Hun did not underestimate him like the last person.
'If I want to win, then I must not make any mistakes.' Ying Xiong thought to himself.
Meanwhile, Bai Hun just reminded himself to be careful.
As the numbers turned into the word fight, both Ying Xiong and Bai Hun launched towards each other.
Ying Xiong didn't use the body protection technique he used in the first round since he wasn't planning on being passive, and simply used the bell technique from before.
Along with the bell, a golden light covered his body. This was the basic technique of using Buddhist Qi to enhance his body.
Buddhist Qi was usually best used this way.
On the other side, Bai Hun covered himself in his nine-colored flame and ran even faster towards Ying Xiong.
As they reached each other, Ying Xiong stopped and punched out with all his strength. From behind him, a phantom of a buddha with his legs crossed appeared and punched as well. The buddha phantoms fist seemed to perfectly encase his own.
At the same time, Bai Hun sensed the danger of his opponent's attack and stopped holding back immediately, transforming into his phoenix form. Unlike before, he didn't limit his size.
Bai Hun's true form immediately appeared in all its glory. A hundred feet tall nine-colored phoenix with a wingspan of multiple hundreds of feet soared towards Ying Xiong.
The similarly sized buddha phantom was similarly imposing.
The buddha's fist and the nine colored phoenix's beak collided. In an instant, the nine colored flame on the phoenix spread across the buddha phantom's entire body.
At the same time, an incredible force pushed back the force from the beak and punched the nine colored phoenix in the face, sending it flying away.
Although Ying Xiong seemed to be the winner, the nine colored flame was rapidly injuring the buddha phantom.
Ying Xiong thought about dispersing it, but that would cause the flames to get off of the buddha phantom's body and directly attack to his body.
Ying Xiong stood inside the buddha phantom, his mind rapidly moving, as Bai Hun shook off the pain from the punch and flew back towards the buddha phantom.
As Ying Xiong saw Bai Hun coming back, he made a split second decision and hoped it would work out.
Instead of trying to disperse the flame, which would be extremely troubling, Ying Xiong decided to defeat Bai Hun before the flames destroyed the buddha phantom and killed him.
Ying Xiong pushed off of the ground and ran towards Bai Hun at his full speed, the buddha phantom following as he stayed in the middle of it.
As he was about to reach Ying Xiong, Bai Hun took a page from the book of dragons and let out a breath of the nine colored divine flame.
Ying Xiong saw it and decided to try his unfinished technique. While the buddha phantom was just a highly advanced buddhist Qi technique, Ying Xiong, in all his talent, managed to partially make his own technique.
Ying Xiong jumped in the air and arrived at the true center of the buddha phantom, not just inside its crossed legs.
As he reached the center, the buddhist aura that the giant buddha gave off increased greatly.
The buddha phantom's eyes snapped open wide and its legs uncrossed. It jumped up from its sitting position and copied the position of Ying Xiongs body. Now, every move that Ying Xiong made would be made by the buddha phantom.
Ying Xiong unfurled his fist and met the nine colored flame breath with his palm. As the palm met with the flame, some of the flame dispersed, while the rest attached to the buddha phantom's body, speeding up the process of its burning.
With the addition of more flames, Ying Xiong inwardly calculated that the buddha phantom would last three more seconds before collapsing.
After breaking through the flame breath, only the rapidly approaching Bai Hun was left. In the three seconds remaining, Ying Xiong decided to use all of his Qi to make three moves.
In the first second, the buddha phantom's hand grabbed at Bai Hun and grabbed his neck. Bai Hun scoffed and tried to break out using his immense force, but was surprised to feel that the density of Buddhist Qi in the grabbing motion was far too strong for him to break out of without multiple seconds.
In the second second, Ying Xiong moved the buddha phantom's arm and slammed Bai Hun to the ground.
Bai Hun was helplessly pushed down as his face slammed into the arena's hard floor. The floor did not even crack.
In the third and final second, the buddha phantom lifted its hand high and balled it into a fist. Then, it came smashing down onto Bai Hun's face.
As soon as the fist hit Bai Hun, the buddha phantom collapsed from the flames. Bai Hun's face was knocked into the ground and heavily bleeding.
Instinctually, Bai Hun transformed into humanoid form and fell on the arena ground. He laid on the floor, his face bloody. After a second had passed, he realized that he had not been teleported out and smiled.
That, along with the burning mass on the ground the size of a human not far from him, made him believe that victory was his.
'He is fighting the flames' power right now. He can't last too much longer.' He thought to himself as he struggled to get up from the arena ground.
He was in immense pain, but his willpower had always been high. He slowly limped over to the burning mass a few feet away from him.
Ying Xiong was feeling immense pain from the constant burning. Every second that passed, he felt like he would die.
He barely had any will to resist as he was slowly and painfully burned.
Suddenly, through his nearly destroyed eyes, he saw a blur limping towards him.