Chapter 48: Chapter 41: Even the Crown Prince Can’t!

Utter chaos!

The feeling that the world was going mad overwhelmed the Group Leader of the White Dragon Knight Order, realizing that Elsa should be brought back immediately. Not merely due to Elsa supporting Long Yi’s actions, but because, at the very moment Crown Prince Three drew his dragon-slaying sword. He sensed a chilling intent to kill sweep through the grandstand.

The source of this murderous intent was none other than Elsa itself!

The Group Leader was almost certain that had any mishap befallen Long Yi just now, Crown Prince Three would surely have been the first to die. He’d never seen Elsa unleash her full power. If she truly did, he doubted that anyone present, save for himself, would be capable of resisting her!

Eight Dragon Marks! At only sixteen! How grotesque is this!

However, the Group Leader didn’t move.

The fault in this matter lay not with Long Yi, nor with Elsa, but with Crown Prince Three.

The Imperial Knight Order, serving the Imperial family, was not subservient to them.

They had their standards for right and wrong, which might not necessarily align with the emperor’s will.

As far as the Imperial Knight Order was concerned, it wasn’t of great significance who the emperor was. Anyone could become the emperor. The Knight Order’s responsibility was to protect the kingdom, not any particular member of the imperial family.

Seeing Elsa standing up too made Crown Prince Three feel as if he was on the brink of death. He had originally thought that Elsa hadn’t yet realized his greatness. Given time, he was confident that he could convince Elsa of his worthiness.

But now, as Elsa stood beside Long Yi, supporting Long Yi’s challenge to a duel to death, he gathered that she not only disliked him, she completely detested him, even to death!

In truth, Crown Prince Three wrongly blamed Elsa.

Elsa’s attitude towards Crown Prince Three was no different from her attitude towards a puppy or kitten on the road. The Crown Prince’s mistake was that he dared to strike Long Yi.

Actually, if Long Yi had not immediately challenged him to a duel, Elsa might have beheaded Crown Prince Three in the next instant with her Sword of Frost Mourning. It was out of fear of this happening, that Long Yi quickly challenged him.

"Good, good, good! I approve of this challenge! One’s fate lies in one’s own hands, the price for their deeds must be paid!"

The emperor was livid, seething with anger as he sank heavily back into his seat. He had never imagined that someone would dare to attempt to kill his own son before his very eyes!

Moreover, there was so much support for it!

Not only was Ai Lin, the granddaughter of General Iron Blood, among them, but even the Guardian White Dragon, Elsa, too took his side!

The emperor’s gaze was constantly shifting, inquisitively eyeing the Group Leader of the Imperial Dragon Knight Order. He wanted to understand why he did not defend the honor of the royal family as the leader of the Imperial Knight Order. But the Group Leader’s focus was solely on Elsa, completely ignoring the emperor’s gaze.

With the emperor’s approval, Long Yi stepped onto the performance stage without hesitation. Behind him was naturally Bajie and the Shadow Dragon. Of course, the Fairy Dragon, who had been dozing off atop Bajie’s head, still hadn’t bothered to wake up.

Long Yi stood firm as he stared straight across at Crown Prince Three.

Crown Prince Three took the initiative to speak: "Long Yi, I’ve heard of you, I know you’re extraordinarily skilled in fighting techniques. Thus, this time I won’t use my dragon-slaying sword or any of my Fighting Aura techniques, but will compete with you purely on fighting prowess!"

Long Yi scoffed nonchalantly: "Rest assured, I promise to use only my fists. But let me tell you, are you so afraid you’ll die too slow?"

Yet Crown Prince Three sneered coldly: "Don’t worry, you’ll die quickly!"

With that, he completely unleashed his sixteen layers of Fighting Aura, charging straight at Long Yi with a punch aiming the middle of his face, devoid of any fancy tricks.

Long Yi appeared to have been frightened into stillness, standing absolutely motionless.

"Idiot!"

However, at that very moment, Crown Prince Three let out a sudden roar:

"Dragon Tooth Strangulation!"

A flash of light abruptly radiated from his punch, the brilliance blinding, all at once creating a vortex of Fighting Aura, sharp as razors across his punching surface. Instantly, Long Yi was entirely enveloped in the vortex!

"Wow! That’s cheating! Wasn’t there an agreement not to use Fighting Aura techniques?"

Wesley, on the side, started shouting loudly, causing the whole academy to fill with an uproar of complaints. It was clearly agreed that no Fighting Aura techniques would be used, but at the last moment, treachery was employed, behaving in a manner seriously inconsistent with the knight spirit, and to make matters worse, the perpetrator was Crown Prince Three.

Crown Prince Three, his face ferocious, didn’t care what the onlooking people were saying. In this world, history was written by the victors. As a prince, what difference did it make to him what others had to say? As long as he killed Long Yi, would anyone else dare to defy him?

Crown Prince Three looked up at Elsa, thinking to himself: "Watch, Elsa. I am the most powerful one here. Regardless of what this Long Yi has told you, he will eventually die by my hand! Only I am the one worthy of you!"

Yet, Elsa’s expression remained unchanged, as though Crown Prince Three was merely attacking thin air.

The light vanished, and the Dragon Tooth Strangulation dissipated. Just as Crown Prince Three was about to retreat, a large hand suddenly emerged from the dust and smoke, grabbing onto Crown Prince Three like an iron vice. A figure, while coughing violently, walked out.

"I’m nothing like you, Crown Prince, *cough* *cough*. What I say, I abide by!"

Then, there was a stir among the spectators.

Because at that moment, Long Yi’s school uniform had been completely torn into strips by the Dragon Tooth Strangulation, the shape of his underpants even vaguely visible. His body was marked with shallow bloody scratches, but he didn’t have any serious injuries. No! Long Yi’s hand had become bloody due to the Dragon Tooth Strangulation! However, these were merely superficial wounds!

But, the spectators were not surprised at his current state. Instead, they were astounded that Long Yi, after enduring a solid hit from the Dragon Tooth Strangulation, didn’t even sustain a serious injury!

What they didn’t know was that Long Yi had completely mastered the Giant bloodline by now, making his body much more resistant to fighting aura techniques than humans. Besides, he himself also possessed seven layers of Fighting Aura. Under the dual defense, the Dragon Tooth Strangulation wouldn’t cause him much damage!

Moreover, there’s another thing that everyone was oblivious to.

That Long Yi was not only a Dragon Fighter but also a Dragon Mage!

The moment the Dragon Tooth Strangulation touched Long Yi, a basic mana defense enveloped him completely. Although Long Yi’s magic casting wasn’t skilled, and he merely used pure mana to resist, it still managed to consume most of the force from Dragon Tooth Strangulation before he ran out of mana. The residual force, although still substantial, was no longer enough to harm Long Yi.

Regrettably, Long Yi’s bare hand wasn’t as robust

The third prince had no time to mock Long Yi’s ragged clothes. Seeing his fist being grabbed, his first reaction was to withdraw quickly — but he didn’t seem to be any match for Long Yi’s brute strength! Long Yi had even managed to deform his clenched fist!

"You little brat! Let Brother Long teach you what real fighting looks like!"

Boom!

The seven-layered Fighting Aura burst open, ripping his tattered uniform to shreds so that only his underpants remained intact. The muscular body, tough as steel, cast a huge shadow in front of the third prince!

"Humph, Dragon Tooth Strangulation!"

The third prince found that he couldn’t free his hand, but he wasn’t flustered. He directly deployed the Dragon Tooth Strangulation, a sixteen-layer fighting aura, against Long Yi’s hand. The fist in Long Yi’s hand lit up again, but Long Yi aggressively stepped up and punched the prince’s arm at the armpit, causing the whole arm to go limp. The once radiant fist dimmed, flickered a few times, and with a bang, the fist exploded in Long Yi’s hand!

Backlash!

The backlash was caused by the forceful termination of the fighting aura technique!

It should be known that humans don’t inherently produce fighting aura, it always comes from the transformation of Dragon Power. This power can be utilized by humans, but they cannot control it. One misstep can lead to a backlash.

The third prince was stunned. Intense pain surged from his hand, which had already burst open, with blood incessantly flowing out.

Even so, Long Yi didn’t let go of him.

"Trying to escape?"

Long Yi smirked while raising his fist.

"We’re not done yet!"

Now, having lost one hand and suffering from the backlash of the Dragon Aura, the third prince had completely collapsed. He previously thought that with his high level of sixteen-layer Dragon Aura, overpowering Long Yi wouldn’t be a problem, right?

But reality told him otherwise.

Even though he possessed a Dragon Aura of sixteen layers, which was nine layers higher than Long Yi.

However, his experience was too basic. Or rather, he was too presumptuous.

If one doesn’t take the level of fighting aura into account, Long Yi’s fighting ability is among the best in the whole academy. It was a rookie mistake for the third prince to try and take him down close-up instead of using long-range fighting aura techniques to wear him down.

And Long Yi decisively seized this blunder.

On the martial arts stage, every punch rained down on flesh.

Long Yi’s fists kept raining down, and the third prince kept crying out in agony. The intense pain and humiliation made him unable to concentrate any fighting aura. As for Long Yi, he wasn’t using any fighting aura at all, merely relying on his brute strength to power his punches.

Unsurprisingly, this was a one-sided torment.

Everyone had assumed that although Long Yi was strong, when facing an expert with a sixteen-layer fighting aura, he would at most persist for a while, but the eventual outcome would still be defeat.

But they never expected, this fight would turn out so peculiarly, so utterly devoid of entertainment. Yet at the same time, it was heart-stoppingly intense.

The whole place was silent. All they could hear were the thudding sounds of fists colliding against flesh from the martial arts stage and the weak cries of the third prince.

Long Yi showed no intention of stopping. His half-naked body was smeared in blood, almost all of it from the third prince. At this moment, Long Yi was like a demon hunting in the wild, striking fear in everyone’s hearts.

Those who had fought Long Yi before felt their hearts pounding in sync with his punches. Once, twice, this terrifying rhythm made people feel suffocated.

Tang Ze looked at Long Yi, then at the third prince. At this moment, he had completely lost the desire to fight Long Yi again. This Long Yi was too terrifying. He was not a human at all. He was a monster! He showed no mercy even against the third prince, even against the Emperor himself!

Could it be that he truly intends to beat the third prince to death?!