Chapter 2128 — Won't You Concede?
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The Fire Wolf Gang disciple, by contrast, had been one to watch for a while—yet in a match of this caliber he could gain no advantage at all! The Fire Wolf Gang disciples were not afraid of a beating, but Tang Yuyi hammered him until he could not even fight back. A puppet like him, with no real thought in his head, knew only to flail away wildly, utterly without method, so Tang Yuyi easily found his opening and kicked him clean off the platform!
Tang Yuyi had won!
Over on the other side, Yu Ba of the hidden Yu family fought a disciple of the hidden You family and won by a narrow margin.
Elsewhere, the Golden Bell Sect disciple Ma Dashen was locked in a hard-fought, inseparable battle with a disciple of the hidden Zhuang family! Ma Dashen did not fear blows—the Zhuang disciple's strikes landed on him as good as tickling—while he himself picked his moments to launch one sneak attack after another!
This was the difference between a thinking fighter and one without thought. Ma Dashen and the Fire Wolf Gang disciple were much the same in nature, yet their circumstances could not have been more different. In the end, while the Zhuang disciple was off guard, Ma Dashen drove his brute frame into him and knocked him off the platform, claiming the victory!
After a brief rest, the lots were drawn again—and this time Wei Zhao's opponent was Tang Yuyi!
"Grandfather, I have no chance of winning!" Tang Yuyi had once stood at the peak of the mid Mystic Rank; later, after the Tang family threw in with the You family and the Mystic Pill Sect, he had obtained no small number of wondrous elixirs, and his strength had climbed steadily, until now he stood at the peak of the mid Earth Rank!
Yet even at that strength, Tang Yuyi had no wish to fight Wei Zhao. For one thing, he did not think himself Wei Zhao's match; for another, if he clung on and fought dirty, it would surely sour the goodwill between them—and if Wei Zhao, out of regard for Tang Zhi or Aunt Xiaoming, chose to let him off, then even a win would be a hollow one.
Tang Yuyi was an upright man. A victory like that, he would rather do without!
Old Master Tang, of course, did not know what his grandson was thinking. Knowing only one side of things and not the other, he nodded and said, "That choice of Pi Zhitao of the hidden Pi family was a very wise one. We of the hidden Tang family cannot be the ones to stick our necks out either!"
"Right, so I was thinking of conceding too," Tang Yuyi said.
"Conserve your strength, and when the time comes, strive for second and hold third. Put the first place out of your mind. As I see it, only the Golden Bell Sect fellow and Wei Zhao are fit to trade blows!" said Old Master Tang. "And I doubt even he is Wei Zhao's match!"
"Fine, I understand!" Tang Yuyi nodded.
So in this match, Tang Yuyi did not even step onto the platform. He simply cupped his hands toward Wei Zhao and said, "Brother Lin, I freely admit I am no match for you. My little sister truly is blessed!"
"?" Wei Zhao was baffled by Tang Yuyi's words. Tang Yuyi's familiar manner of calling him brother had puzzled him already—were the two of them so well acquainted? Then the man went on, more and more outlandishly, until he brought up his little sister. And who on earth was Tang Yuyi's little sister?
First today there had been a Yu Dake, with a little sister named Yu Xiaoke. Surely Tang Yuyi was not about to produce yet another little sister whom Wei Zhao was supposed to know?
But before Wei Zhao could think it over, Old Master Zhao wearily announced the result: "The hidden Tang family concedes. The hidden Han family wins, and advances smoothly into the final two to contend for the championship!"
Tang Yuyi said no more. Though the hidden Tang family had fallen out with Tang Zhi and Aunt Xiaoming, he, Tang Yuyi, still counted that sister and that aunt as his own! Afraid that saying more would displease his grandfather, he turned and went back to Old Master Tang's side.