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Chapter 457: Failure is the Mother of Success

The second group also had two competitors with a pair of wins under their belts; the Phar Yuan They would also determine ould proceed to the finals after to defeat of the Wolf King, things stayed quiet and straightforward for the other fights

Of course, gamblers who’d placed their hard-earned cash on Qi Mu were less than pleased All of it, down the drain There was nothing in the universe less reliable than ga

The audience had had their appetite wet by the first two fights Noas time for the next two, the main course

Group Three TheThe Driver would be facing Yan Ningya, while Cao Shuiqin would square off against Jun Yongye

The Epochrion’s disciple was determined not to lose a second time However, the Driver had shown some considerable power His case may not have been as hopeless as it seee fine! Just don’t lose too terribly”

“Shit!” The Driver flipped hiya ithout her veil today Her status had been revealed yesterday so there was no further need for it The Driver looked as his often did, ell-kept short hair and a cunning glint in his eye He looked ready to go

Yan Ningya nodded at him He inclined is head in response

In terya was h, for some unexplicable reason the Driver did not appear the least bit interested On the contrary, he had eyes only for Cao Shuiqin, otherwise he wouldn’t be watching her like he was

“Three, two, one Begin!”

There was a flash of silver right away The Driver would not hesitate like he had for Shuiqin With the speed of lightning he raced right for her However, as he drew in for the strike, he could feel hiish All around were ripples of prisya The Driver’s explosive charge was turn to a crawl

The time Adept lazily stepped to the side, and suddenly tiet and struck the ground with a jarring blast

The Driver had put his whole strength behind the strike, and silver lightning crackled violently all around where he’d stopped It enveloped hiya’s own counter attack

It looked as though the Driver anticipated that his attacks wouldn’t be precise, so he spread his power to cover a larger area All of this while keeping his defenses pri her bloonificent kaleidoscope of color She floated away fro this way and that as she did so “In the North there lives a wondrous beauty, peerless and independent One laugh and cities fall! Another laugh razes countries In her steps co the lines ht that cohter The host of colors in her eyes sparkled enigmatically

By her second stanza, the Driver could feel soht The waves of power that swept from her seren’t directed at him, but instead focused on herself He couldn’t stop her if he wanted to, though, since her ti He also needed a moment to recover from his first blitz

He spun around and launched hi spat out all around hi her final stanza

A beah the electricity The piercing force washed over Driver

A red aura sprang into being around the Driver, appearing without warning His ht several feet away

“Leniency!” the Gourya dropped her sword and turned her eyes to the VIP platforave the She only stopped when she reached the waiting area, while passing the White Blademaster