Soul Land 5: The Rebirth of Tang San

Chapter 501: Invincible on Land, The Behemoth

Chapter 501: Invincible on Land, The Behemoth

Mei Gongzi also informed them that fifteen contestants in the individual competition had chosen to withdraw before the matches began today.

This had never happened before in the history of the Ancestral Court Elite Competition. Even if they lost, they would lose in the arena. Surrendering was not something the demon and nymph clans would choose lightly.

However, this year was different. Besides the individual competition, there was also a doubles competition.

The rewards for the doubles competition were even more generous than those for the individual competition. Therefore, for those participating in both and advancing in both, they had to prioritize by this round. Not many could continue advancing smoothly in both competitions. After all, every match, on either side, would bring them strong opponents and tough challenges.

Thus, by this round, some contestants who believed they had a better chance of advancing in the doubles competition gave up the individual competition. Of course, there were also those whose partners were injured or whose pairs had issues, causing them to abandon the doubles and focus on the individual competition. But the former was more common, and thus today saw fifteen individual competitors withdraw.

In Tang San's group, one contestant also withdrew. Tang San only learned this when it was time for the third group to compete. This meant that his group had only four contestants left, and he only needed two more matches to advance to the finals. Having one less match to fight was certainly a good thing! And it finally gave him some time to rest.

On the doubles side, although there were more contestants, there were fewer matches because they were in pairs. It was confirmed that if they won the next two matches, they would advance to the final sixteen.

As long as one entered the finals, there would be rewards, and the chance to receive tokens of recognition from the emperors. As for higher rankings, luck played a lesser role; those who made it to the finals were undoubtedly the top elites among their own clans

In the waiting area, Tang San also saw the opponents he was about to face.

One of the three contestants from the third group looked familiar; he was the one Tang San had seen in the first round but hadn't faced yet. According to Tang San's guess, he probably wouldn't encounter this one in this round because he seemed to be the weakest among the remaining four contestants in the third group.

The other two contestants were a nymph and a demon. If Tang San could choose, he would prefer to face the nymph contestant first, as it would be beneficial for enhancing his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline imprint. With the current state of the Blue Silver Emperor and the addition of yin-yang energy, it should be capable of devouring a first-tier bloodline. Of course, the prerequisite was that it couldn't be of either the yin or the yang attribute.

And when he took the stage, it turned out that his luck... was still as bad as ever! He didn't get the chance to face the nymph he had been hoping to fight. Instead, he would be fighting another powerful member of a demon clan.

When Tang San saw his opponent earlier, he knew this match would be troublesome again. He suspected that the third group was a group of death, as each contestant in this group seemed stronger than the last. They were all from extremely powerful and difficult to deal with races, and that was not even mentioning their own individual strength.

On the competition stage, standing at a distance, was a demon contestant who looked human.

He was about two meters tall, with short, brown hair that looked like steel needles, dark and glossy skin, and no excess fat on his body. His bare arms sported massive, rock-like muscles. Based on appearance alone, he might as well have been a human who really enjoyed physical training.

However, Tang San knew all too well that someone who looked so human-like must possess a first-tier bloodline, just like the Scorching Sunflower he faced that day. And this one, purely based on aura and steadiness, brought him no less pressure than the Scorching Sunflower. He even seemed quite a bit stronger than the nymph in his group. In other words, of the two matches Tang San would have, this was going to be the more difficult one. Well, if he lost this one, then there would be no second match, so that was one less concern.

Although he didn't plan on applying good fortune to himself in the group stage, being this unlucky all the time didn't seem right either!

Tang San looked up at the sky, wondering if he had used up all his daily luck during the grand auction.

At this moment, the referee officially announced the start of the match.

"Begin!"

The burly male opposite shook both his arms simultaneously. Instantly, his fingernails elongated, turning into what looked like thirty-centimeter blades, and his skin turned completely dark golden. Though his physique didn't change, the explosive power radiating from him caused faint silver-black cracks to appear in the air around him.

Whoa...

Tang San, who had seen a lot, instantly understood what was going on. The opponent’s overwhelming power was causing cracks to appear in the surrounding space!

At this moment, he understood what the opponent was—an entity of unparalleled destructive force. The beast deemed invincible on land, the Behemoth! A descendant of the fourth-ranked Demon Emperor, the mighty Sky-Splitting Demon Emperor!

This could well be the strongest in this entire competition when it came regarding sheer combat power.

Among the Demon Emperors, the Sky-Splitting Demon Emperor ranked fourth. The only ones ahead of him were the Crystal Demon Emperor, the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor, and the Undying Demon Emperor, who were a Crystal Dragon, Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, and Immortal Flame Phoenix respectively.

In terms of sheer power, the Sky-Splitting Demon Emperor ranked higher than even the titanic Mammoth Demon Emperor. He could even rank in the top three, considering the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor's combat strength was just average at best.

The Behemoth clan had few members, but they were solidly among the top three in the Empyrean Dominion. They were a terrifying clan capable of challenging dragons and phoenixes, and the title of "invincible on land" was not given lightly. On land alone, even dragons and phoenixes were not their match.

In these three group stage matches, Tang San faced a Golden Mammoth, a Scorching Sunflower, and now a descendant of the Sky-Splitting Demon Emperor from the Behemoth clan. His luck was unparalleled and unprecedented, possibly in the entire history of this competition.

At this moment, his opponent, this powerful member of the Behemoth clan, did not appear relaxed either. He looked at Tang San with a serious expression, mixed with a hint of apprehension.

Both the Golden Mammoth clan and the Scorching Sunflower clan were of the same bloodline tier as him, and yet the human had prevailed. Moreover, that close-range fighting power had left a very deep impression on him.

The Golden Mammoth had to kneel under that seemingly light palm strike, and the Chrono Croc was directly smashed by a single slap. Although this Behemoth had great confidence in his own strength, he didn't believe his defense was higher than the Golden Mammoth's.

Tang San was holding the teleportation array disc, but he didn't activate it directly this time. The incandescent light reappeared, and at the same time, he took out Sky-Shatterer with his right hand.

The eyes of the Behemoth contestant suddenly ignited with intense fighting spirit. The next moment, he charged toward Tang San with large strides, a hazy yellow aura radiating from his entire body. His claws seemed to elongate again—this time not physically, but due to the meter-long energy blades extending from their tips.

At this moment, he was clearly not in an activated bloodline state. The Behemoth was called thus because of its extremely robust physique, after all. The top-tier members of the Behemoth clan could exceed twenty meters in height, and even normal adults were over ten meters tall. Their strength, speed, and explosive power were all extremely formidable.