Chapter 188 Cold-Blooded

As that speechless technique concluded, the two figures locked in combat transformed into white light, returning to their respective spectator spaces.

"Ha!" Seeing Oda Ai teleported back, Takeda Tomo, usually the one to bicker with her the most, chuckled dryly and said, "How many times have I told you not to be reckless... not to be reckless... You messed up again, didn't you? Heh..." She stuck out her tongue at the end, making a face.

Normally, after hearing such lines, Oda Ai would've immediately leaped forward, regardless of whether it was justified or not... to give the shorter Takeda a neck lock, and hiss in her ear, "Stop nagging, you midget!"

But today, Oda's reaction was...

"Ah..." She replied with a lifeless expression and a weak tone, "Yeah... messed up again..." Saying that, she walked alone to a corner, squatted down silently, and started drawing circles on the ground with her finger. "I'm just a useless strong woman... about the same as that idiot... just let me turn into dust in the corner..."

Seeing her in this state, Takeda Tomo felt unaccustomed to it: "Well... you don't have to say it so harshly..."

"Looks like she took a big hit this time..." Akechi Shin interjected, narrowing his eyes.

"Yeah... could it be because she died from a particularly embarrassing technique?" The blunt Uesugi Jin poked Oda's sore spot with precision, hitting the nail on the head.

"Ugh..." Hearing this, Oda lowered her head even further, her flushed face almost buried between her knees.

...

On the other hand, in the spectator space of the [Useless Alliance].

"Hahaha... everyone, I'm back!" Pegasus Sky still had that high-spirited look, no different from before the match.

"I really admire you, you know..." Honghu replied, "To be able to laugh at a time like this..."

"Huh?" Little Ma asked, "What's wrong? Aren't we at a huge advantage?"

"Advantage?" Qisha, who was standing closer to him, turned his head and asked suspiciously.

"Yeah." Little Ma still widened his innocent eyes and continued, "After I took out Oda, the other side only has Imagawa Yoshimoto from the second team left... With Bi Laoshi's legendary super strength, he should be able to easily win, right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the spectator space suddenly turned their heads, looking at him with different expressions, and all exclaimed in unison: "Huh?"

In the first two seconds, they genuinely thought they had misheard.

But after a few seconds, they gradually realized a shocking fact—Little Ma, who had been in the team for over a week and had queued up for many scripts with everyone, hadn't even noticed... that Bi Laoshi's true strength was actually very weak.

"I'm saying..." Qisha thought for a few seconds, then quickly walked to the others and lowered his voice, "Should we tell him..."

"No, no, no..." Honghu adjusted his glasses and interrupted, "I want to observe... how long it takes for him to figure it out on his own..."

...

At the same time, on the battlefield.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Imagawa Yoshimoto roared inwardly as he watched his teammate disappear in a flash of light, "Why did it turn into this situation!"

As he thought this, he turned his head numbly and looked towards the distant enemy...

At this moment, Bi Laoshi was still standing in the position he was in when the match started, striking the pose he struck when the match started, and maintaining the expression he maintained when the match started... frozen in place.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Bi Laoshi was also roaring inwardly as he watched his teammate disappear in a flash of light, "Why did it turn into this situation!"

At least on a psychological level, the two shared similar thoughts, both thinking that they had reached a dead end.

"Hmph..." After a few seconds, Imagawa Yoshimoto made a decision—feigning composure, bluffing, and provoking, "What a cold-blooded man, your teammate fought so hard, yet you can just stand there and watch coldly."

He snorted coldly as he spoke, trying his best to keep his voice from trembling; even so, his lines still revealed a feeling of lacking confidence.

"Watch coldly?" Bi Laoshi heard this, his gaze shifted slightly, he looked at his opponent and replied, "I wouldn't say that..." He paused for half a second, then added, "I didn't see anything..."

As soon as he said this, Imagawa Yoshimoto gasped in horror.

"Ba... bastard..." Imagawa Yoshimoto exclaimed in his heart, "Does this guy mean... that the previous battle was completely worthless in his eyes?

"Indeed... Oda's fighting style was reckless and lacked rationality; Pegasus Sky's tactics were also very simple... But in any case, the strength, speed, and combat intuition of these two were all top-notch, and the level of their offensive and defensive battle was also extremely rare...

"Even so... in the eyes of this man... everything just now was 'worthless' and therefore something he 'turned a blind eye' to..."

Imagawa had many thoughts at that moment, but Bi Laoshi's original intention was not as complicated as he thought—Lao Bi simply didn't see the two fight clearly from beginning to end, so he just said he didn't see anything.

"You... you bastard!" Suddenly, Imagawa Yoshimoto shouted out loud, as if to embolden himself, "Just because you're a little stronger, you think everyone else is an idiot, right!"

Bi Laoshi didn't know how to respond to this unfounded accusation, so he remained silent.

"Even if your strength is far superior to mine, I won't run away without a fight!" Seeing that Lao Bi didn't reply, Imagawa Yoshimoto took the opportunity to strike a posture ready to charge, and then shouted, "I will do everything I can to make your composure disappear!"

Although his opponent seemed to be ready to fight, Bi Laoshi was still expressionless, and after a while, he squeezed out a sentence: "Oh, is that so..."

Due to excessive tension, Lao Bi's body and face were not only stiff, but his reactions were also slow... but this scene, in the eyes of others, became the "kingly demeanor of not taking the other party seriously at all".

"No... no..." Imagawa Yoshimoto, who had originally planned to rush up, suppressed the urge to risk his life when he saw Bi Laoshi so calm. "Hoo..." He quickly adjusted his breathing and thought to himself, "That was close, I almost made the same mistake as Oda... getting caught up in the opponent's rhythm. At times like this, I should calmly consider the strategy of attack..."

"Hmm?" Bi Laoshi saw that Imagawa Yoshimoto was about to come up but didn't, so he asked, "What's wrong? Weren't you going to come over?"

"As expected! He's waiting for me to take the bait!" Imagawa Yoshimoto thought with lingering fear, thinking he had escaped a disaster, "Come to think of it... there's almost no information about Bi Laoshi from the outside world, his fighting style, his good at specialization types, skills and equipment, etc... are all unknown, the only thing that is certain is that he has 'incredible power'... Heaven knows what secrets he has hidden on his body, if I go up without considering anything, the end will definitely be that I don't even know how I died."

"Heh..." Thinking of this, Imagawa Yoshimoto replied with a sneer, "I almost fell for your trick..." As he spoke, he had imperceptibly changed his stance and quietly prepared for a remote sneak attack.

What Imagawa Yoshimoto was going to use was none other than the two *shuriken* he had previously thrown at Pegasus Sky's back.

Only the people of [Warring States] knew that his two hidden weapons were not ordinary consumables, but reusable [Chakra Control Shuriken] with power at least comparable to a B-grade skill.

Now, because Little Ma had transformed into light and teleported away, the two *shuriken* that were originally stuck in his back had fallen to the ground in the distance, mixed with a pile of broken soil and rubble crushed by the [Pegasus Revolving Shattering Invincible Fire Wheel]; even the audience who could observe the battlefield from various angles would not pay attention to these two flying props that had already been "used", let alone the players on the field.

Imagawa Yoshimoto was planning to use this, while attracting Bi Laoshi's attention with his own strength, he would silently use "qi" to control the "sword", launching a remote surprise attack from an angle that the enemy would never expect.

Unexpectedly!

"So..." Just as Imagawa Yoshimoto was about to take action, Bi Laoshi spoke again, "You want me to go over?"

"Wha... what!" Imagawa Yoshimoto was shocked when he heard this, and his thoughts flashed rapidly in his mind, "This... no way! He actually saw through my intentions in an instant?

"The subtext of the sentence 'You want me to go over?' is... 'I've already noticed that you're going to use flying props to sneak attack me, so save your boring tricks, it's easy for me to get close to you directly with my speed, it's impossible for you to hit me with your half-baked remote ability'.

"This man... his tentacles have extended to every corner of the battlefield, even the tremors of a small stone on the ground in the extreme distance... are all under his control...

"Even when faced with an ability he sees for the first time, he can strike before the enemy takes action... It seems that the moment I established a connection between my 'qi' and the *shuriken*, he discovered it...

"No... wait! It's not the 'first time' anymore!

"I see... when I attacked Pegasus Sky just now, he already saw that my method of using the *shuriken* was not ordinary 'throwing', but using qi to 'control' it.

"Heh... hehe... even as an opponent, one has to admire you... Bi Laoshi, a man worthy of the word 'legend', now I understand why you said you 'didn't see anything', because in the realm you are in... the scenery you see is completely different from what we see...

"No wonder even the arrogant Oda would show that kind of almost fearful expression... people of my level don't even have the right to feel that fear..."

Imagawa Yoshimoto's inner monologue continued, while Bi Laoshi had already moved.

Lao Bi kept his word, he "went over"—at a "strolling" pace, he "walked over".

It wasn't that he didn't want to walk faster, it was really because his body was too stiff... it was already good enough that he could muster up the courage and make up his mind to approach the enemy.

"The opponent looks pretty strong..." As he moved forward, Bi Laoshi was also muttering in his heart, "But then again... even if he's not very strong, I can't win... I, who barely made it into the competition thanks to the average score of my teammates, might not even be able to beat a non-professional player. Sigh... if the system hadn't prompted me that I would be considered a passive game if I didn't move, I wouldn't want to go up!"

He walked forward unhurriedly, no matter what he thought, in the eyes of others... this scene was like the king of beasts slowly approaching a prey that had already run out of road—it was more like an execution than an attack.

"Is he coming..." Looking at the approaching majestic figure, Imagawa Yoshimoto's face was covered in cold sweat, and even his vision had begun to blur, but at this moment, his heart calmed down. "In the end... I still can't shake your composure..." He took another deep breath, made his final decision, and thought to himself, "Hmph... there's no way... I admit, you are a true overlord, but because of this... you are the one who will die today!"

Thinking of this, Imagawa Yoshimoto's hand had reached into his bag.

"The forbidden trump card—[Killing Intent Ripple Sealing Scroll]...

"Although the secret weapon was planned to be used on Gui Xiao, no one can say anything if it's used on you...

"No matter how powerful you are, you can't possibly guess that this item would be with me, the 'weakest in the team'.

"After all, even I didn't expect the team to arrange for me to carry this... but that's exactly where the brilliance of this strange strategy lies.

"The released [Killing Intent Ripple Sealing Scroll] will sense and capture the target with the strongest killing intent and aura nearby, and instantly devour it completely...

"Hehe... you can only underestimate me now, the moment you attack me is the day you die!"