Chapter 152: Chapter 149: Duel

Bai Pu stared at Crazy Zen.

“Relax, I’m not your enemy.” Crazy Zen shrugged, “I’m not necessarily here to fight you. Just testing your potential to see if you’re qualified to join forces with me, that’s all.”

“Did you also apply to Xicheng University of Technology?” Bai Pu thought it seemed unlikely.

Crazy Zen grinned: “You’ve got it wrong, I applied to Jiangnan University. I’m not talking about teaming up on the university tournament stage.”

Bai Pu squinted his eyes slightly and nodded: “Alright, let’s have a match.”

The Awakened use their exclusive character cards in the Virtual Spirit Realm, where the battles are almost indistinguishable from those in reality.

The only difference is the injuries after the battle. In the Virtual Spirit Realm, you generally won’t get actually hurt unless it’s through attacks targeting the soul.

Seeing Bai Pu agree, Crazy Zen showed an excited expression and immediately sent Bai Pu a duel invitation.

Amidst the rumbling sounds of drums, a battle banner with crossed swords and knives fell to the ground.

Bai Pu reached out and gripped the battle banner, inch by inch pulling it up, triggering a blood-colored light curtain, and the two entered the Duel Space together!

…

Crazy Zen turned on privacy mode, so the duel between them wouldn’t be broadcast in Bai Pu’s livestream room.

Therefore, the audience in the livestream room could only watch anxiously as the blood-colored light gate appeared and the two of them entered together, then waited eagerly!

“Is Crazy Zen challenging Gangxin to a duel?”

“Why aren’t we allowed to watch! Who turned on privacy mode?”

“I guess it was Gangxin. Crazy Zen doesn’t submit to Gangxin, and this challenge is a great opportunity to prove the strength difference between the two. How could it be in privacy mode? Only Gangxin would activate it!”

The last barrage was sent in several parts by [Stubborn Boy]. He wanted to send a long comment but wasn’t willing to spend money to increase his comment privileges in the livestream room.

Thus, a strange scene appeared where a large group of viewers patiently waited in an “empty” livestream room.

New viewers kept entering, feeling puzzled by the seemingly empty content until they learned through the explanation in the comments that the latest top scholar Gangxin and Crazy Zen were dueling, so they stayed as well.

Thus, even without an active broadcast, the number of viewers in Gangxin’s livestream room increased instead of decreased.

A few female streamers from the gaming section, who focus on a sultry style, found their rankings usurped by [Gangxin’s Livestream Room]. When they clicked to view, discovering that there was no livestream, it made their busts enlarge with anger.

Finally, with everyone eagerly anticipating, the blood-colored light gate slowly opened.

Bai Pu and Crazy Zen walked out side by side from the light gate. Their appearance didn’t resemble someone who just experienced a life-or-death battle but rather like two people who went on an outing in the countryside.

“Finally over, who won, who won?”

The comment section flooded with such inquiries.

Some even sent gifts to ask questions.

Hearing the alert for gifts, Bai Pu glanced at the comment section and said: “I didn’t win.”

Crazy Zen, hearing Bai Pu interact with the comments, responded cheerfully: “There was no winner this time. But I know Gangxin still has a trump card that’s not suitable to use in a duel scenario. If it were a Spirit Realm exploration, I’d probably be the one losing.”

Crazy Zen’s candid response caused the comment section to pause bizarrely for a second or two.

Then, wow!

A group of viewers intensely started asking for details in the comments section.

Some praised Bai Pu, saying the top scholar is indeed different; some suspected insider collusion, claiming Crazy Zen came too conveniently, looking like a stooge hired by Bai Pu.

Bai Pu did not continue responding to the viewers, simply said: “Today’s livestream is long enough. Goodbye everyone.”

Then logged off swiftly, leaving a screen full of “???”

“Phew, finally peace and quiet.”

Bai Pu exhaled a sigh of relief.

The battle he just had with Crazy Zen was indeed a tough fight for both.

Crazy Zen’s Hero Profession specializes in high agility, with its basic attributes already high, combined with luxurious equipment, bringing his main attribute Agility to over 70!

While Bai Pu’s Agility was only 21 points.

A gap of over three times implies an absolute agility suppression.

What does that mean?

In terms of movement speed (body technique), Crazy Zen could circle halfway around Bai Pu and reach his back before Bai Pu could even turn his head.

In terms of attack speed, Crazy Zen could strike twice while Bai Pu might not even have the chance to strike once.

This gave Bai Pu a reminiscent feeling of suppression he last experienced during the Three Kingdoms: Chibi scene when facing the Blood Spider.

However, Bai Pu is not what he used to be. With the Heart Demon: Oath World and various gains from the Demon Abyss Border Land, his strength significantly increased!

Once the Flesh Armor activated, under the support of a high 64 points of Endurance, the [Gravity Ball] special effect’s pull effect directly reduced Crazy Zen’s movement speed bonus from his 32 points of Agility!

The Spider Demon Tower Shield, with its large area coverage, could fend off most of Crazy Zen’s attack intents.

The small portion of Crazy Zen’s attacks that remained would come from the corners and gaps of the shield at odd angles. Bai Pu would block where he could, and rely on his great toughness to take the hits when he couldn’t.

Generally speaking, against such high Agility opponents, Bai Pu would play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, fully leveraging his Endurance and high Power confrontation advantages to tank the opponent’s damage, trading injuries.

But those opponents usually wielded swords, knives, or long-handled weapons, and when their weapon pierced forth, Bai Pu would clamp down on the blade edge with his muscles and step forward for a fatal attack on his opponent.

Crazy Zen, however, was different. His profession “Cyan Dragon Monk” was a rare unarmed combat profession!

Unarmed combat’s biggest advantage is the swift retreat after contact, while the attacking posture rigidness is very minimal.

Hence, Bai Pu could only be slightly harassed by Crazy Zen’s fists without the ability to make effective counterattacks.

The damage from these harassments wasn’t high, and Crazy Zen naturally wanted to expand his battle achievements. But after an aggressive advance, he suffered heavily when Bai Pu activated the [Fluid Skeleton] to halve the damage and seized the opportunity for a furious counterattack, directly draining a third of Crazy Zen’s Life Value!

If it weren’t for Crazy Zen’s rare equipment instant teleportation ability, which allowed timely disengagement from Bai Pu’s [Unstable Shield] explosion area, the battle might have reached a conclusion.

Having suffered a significant loss once, Crazy Zen could only carefully advance, adopting a nibbling tactic, slowly eroding Bai Pu’s Life Value.

But Bai Pu’s Life Value was extraordinarily high, reaching 1380 points, meaning his life recovery speed was also fast, keeping up with Crazy Zen’s nibbling speed, plus Bai Pu had a chance every two minutes to activate the [Unstable Shield] to maintain his health line.

After sparring for over ten minutes, both realized the impasses posed by each other; unless mistakes were made, it was basically impossible to determine a winner, so they shook hands and agreed to a draw.

Crazy Zen even admitted he lost because, in the Three Kingdoms: Chibi scene, he witnessed Bai Pu manipulate native slaves, just being unable to use them due to the constraints of the dueling environment.

If Bai Pu had two native elite slaves encircle him, Crazy Zen felt he would definitely lose.

If it were the prideful Overlord, he would certainly not accept such a result, but Crazy Zen didn’t possess such a strong desire to win, and his coming this time had a genuine purpose beyond probing Bai Pu’s strength!

Thus Crazy Zen candidly admitted not reaching a verdict for victory, and even thoughtfully added an “if in Spirit Realm exploration” note where he would lose, giving Bai Pu enough face.

Bai Pu was somewhat alert. Crazy Zen’s indifference to mere reputation made him feel Crazy Zen was more fearsome than the Overlord.

He also knew Crazy Zen had a tendency to incite native followers with abilities seemingly related to religion, so even in the Spirit Realm exploration, Crazy Zen was a formidable opponent.

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