Liu Zhuang also discovered that his dragon blood ability was actually tempered and amplified during the fierce battle with Zhang Fei.
[Dragon Blood Talent·Double Pupils]: Spell checks, and perception skills such as Spot and Listen have their effects doubled; Perception replaces Strength/Agility to determine hits and dodges.
(Frenzy and Fighting): When you focus all your attention on one person, your perception dodge against him is doubled.
Chapter 83: Superman with a Halberd
"Huh? Can the power of dragon blood be amplified?"
After Liu Zhuang discovered the changes in his dragon blood, he immediately asked Lu Bu out of curiosity and got a positive answer.
"This is similar to physical development. Children who awaken their dragon blood early have talents, just like their bodies, that are not fully developed. Usually, their talents will not be completely stable and finalized until they are 23 or 24 years old. Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, and Zhao Yun are all children who awakened too early.
I've also been through this period. At first, it was just a two-fold increase in rage, but later in a bloody battle, some shackles were unlocked, giving me the ability to triple my rage as long as I lost life."
The second round ended and the first round began. These were all young men between the ages of 20 and 30. There were relatively many participants and the fighting was relatively fierce. There were also many relatively outstanding people among them. The four people in the final were Gongsun Zan, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Lu Bu. The four of them took turns to decide the top three.
Holding a fine steel halberd and wearing a black armor and a red robe, Lu Bu stepped into the arena majestically. Although no one knew him, everyone had heard of his bravery because of his exaggerated height and his previous record of killing enemies with one halberd.
Her opponent was Liu Bei, who possessed the image of both a real dragon and a succubus. He held two horse-slaying swords and adopted a Mo Fengliu starting stance. Facing Lu Bu, he felt as if he were facing a formidable enemy, and a drop of cold sweat unconsciously flowed from his temples.
Watching her defeating opponents in the arena didn't feel much, but when he faced this ferocious beast himself, Liu Bei found that every inch of his skin was trembling slightly in fear of the unknown. The sunlight cast Lu Bu's tall shadow on his body, making it difficult to breathe. Before the fight even started, cold sweat had already soaked his clothes.
What's even more terrifying is that Lu Bu snapped his fingers and opened a dark blue arcane door in the air, allowing his mount, a pure white Xianbei warhorse, to leap into the playground with a neigh. She turned over and jumped on the horse, her feet firmly on the stirrups, ready to charge into the battle!
The Cavalier's summon mount.
Liu Bei was facing Lu Bu charging on horseback. The pressure was off the charts. Lu Bu seemed to be hard to control, a cavalry general, right? So he had to kill the horse first. She blinked her eyes seductively, and an illusory pink heart flew out from her pupils and rushed straight towards the warhorse. She started with a [Domination] with the bonus of succubus bloodline, trying to take control of the warhorse.
Lu Bu was not in a hurry. He directly cast a [Protective Spell] on his warhorse. A layer of golden halo covered the limbs and bones of his mount. The pink heart immediately shattered into pieces after touching the golden shield.
[Protection] to resist mind control? This old man is a scholar of ancient literature? ? ?
"I've had enough of you spellcasters!"
Using the magic of the blasphemous priest to block the damn domination, after the charm, Lu Bu immediately rode his horse to launch a charge, his momentum shook the heavens and the earth, the long spear in his hand was like a long dragon emerging from the sea, relying on the acceleration of the warhorse's charge, his momentum would definitely make Zhang Fei even more terrifying!
Before Liu Bei could react, he felt the world spinning and a horrible feeling of weightlessness coming from his chest. The world in front of him was spinning madly like a top.
No, it wasn't the world that was spinning, it was me! I was actually lifted up into the sky by a halberd!
Liu Bei flapped his wings hurriedly to steady himself in mid-air. Only at this moment did he feel a sharp pain in his chest. He looked down and saw that Lu Bu's charge and halberd almost broke his sleeve armor and lifted him up to a height of five meters.
Seeing that Liu Bei was able to fly even after being thrown into the air, Lu Bu did not panic. He inserted the halberd into the horse's back, pulled out the Three Stone Bow, drew the bow and arrows, and shot arrows at Liu Bei at a rapid speed. She was obviously using rapid shooting to increase the shooting speed and reduce the accuracy, but each arrow could still hit the vital point, and the shots were accurate and fierce, causing bursts of exclamations.
The newly recruited militiamen were just there to watch the fun, but among the five battalions of the Northern Army, the Changshui and Shesheng battalions, which were good at horseback archery and crossbows, were really amazing. At this exaggerated rate of fire, shooting at a target flying at high speed, and each arrow hitting the vital point? Even in our battalion, this technique was something that only the top elite could do!
Moreover, Lu Bu doesn't have any special items that can assist in shooting. If we put our equipment on this girl...
Liu Bei was now forced into a dilemma, as Lu Bu seemed to be his natural enemy, and his charm spells could not affect the man and horse protected by the [Protection Spell].
Stay away from it, or you'll be covered in wounds from the arrows.
She was too close. I didn’t even notice how I was knocked away by her halberd just now!
Liu Bei was in a dilemma and became angry. She knew she was no match for Lu Bu, but she was not afraid. She retracted her wings and swooped down from the sky. Her limbs were entangled with the bright and beautiful red lotus flames. She fell from the sky like a red meteor and landed on Lu Bu's head! The terrifying heat wave and wind pressure made the whole playground tremble.
"drink!!!"
Lü Bu shouted, discarded his bow and took up his halberd, fearlessly facing Liu Bei. With a flash of lightning, Lü Bu deflected the trajectory of the flaming meteor with his halberd, causing it to pass through a 90-degree right angle in the air, and for the second time, he sent Liu Bei flying! He threw her hard out of the playground.
The first time was when he used a warhorse to charge and knock the enemy away, and everyone could understand what was going on.
And the second time was when you stood in place and picked up a swooping flaming meteor. Everyone couldn't understand it - how did you do it?
"sure."
The cavalry captain Xu Rong who was watching the battle was amazed.
"She used pure violence to send Liu Bei flying while he was diving. She was so strong that bricks flew everywhere. It was that simple and brutal.
This person is a good candidate. You guys go over and investigate her background. If she is clean, you can write a report to His Majesty and make an exception to enroll her in the Northern Army's Fifth Battalion. This kind of cavalry general can be considered a brave and elite soldier even among the Northern Army's Five Battalions."
At this moment, Liu Bei also climbed up from the ground. He was not angry even though he lost. He bowed to Lu Bu with a sincere heart.
"The military commander is so powerful that I am ashamed of myself."
"Concession, concession."
Lu Bu also bowed politely, and Zhang Fei, who was standing aside, clenched his spear tightly.
Oh my god, there is such a brave general hidden in the White Horse Camp! Defeating the elder sister with two moves, I can't do such an exaggerated record. Her attention instantly shifted from Liu Zhuang to Lu Bu. Okay, okay, I will go find her tomorrow when I recover!
Seeing that his beloved disciple was defeated, Lu Zhi was a little shocked. He was full of praise for Lu Bu's physique and waist. I have lived for more than sixty years and have never seen such a talent in the world!
Her talent is the best he has ever seen in his life. It's a pity that she is a rough diamond that has not been polished. She is actually using the border army's quick-learning tactics. With such a talent, as long as he trains her a little, her martial arts will surely be the best in the world and no one will be able to surpass her.
On the other side, Guan Yu didn't even fight Gongsun Zan and gave up directly. Her idea was exactly the same as Tuoba Yun's. If my elder sister has learned it, then I have learned it too. What's the difference?
Besides, the purpose of General Beizhong's organizing this competition is to pave the way for my eldest sister and Magistrate Gongsun, to lay a solid foundation and pave the way for the two girls' future official careers. What should I compete with my two sisters for?
And the final decisive battle took place between Lu Bu and Gongsun Zan.
Chapter 84: Humanoid Dragon
The war drums were deafening, the flags were waving, and the Gongsun Zan and the Lu Bu had the final showdown. Before going on stage, she vowed to Liu Bei, "Senior sister will help you get revenge."
But after getting on the ring, she fully experienced the oppression and terror that Liu Bei felt at that time. The tall shadow was like a dark cloud, pressing her to the point of suffocating her. Her hair stood on end before the fight even started. Her intuition from having been through many battles told her that the man in front of her was extremely terrifying.
The last time I had this feeling was when I was a child and there was a period of time when I valued military affairs over literature. Lu Zhi was so angry that he threw himself on the training ground and wanted to practice actual combat with him personally.
Lu Zhi was also a little unsure at the moment. There should be no problem for Liu Bei to be third, but who would be the first, this big guy who came out of Bingzhou, or his beloved disciple Gongsun Zan?
Forget it, it doesn't matter. After the fight, all three of them are his disciples. The one called Lu Bu is a good seedling, but it's not a good idea. He's addicted to taking in disciples.
Facing Gongsun Zan, Lu Bu also felt some pressure. She did not use the three-stone bow this time. Instead, in front of Liu Zhuang, she took out a practice bow that she usually used to train her arm strength. The pulling force was as high as five stones, which is 150 kilograms. Even Lu Bu could not use this thing in actual combat. But today, she took this bow into the battlefield to deal with Gongsun Zan's two-headed dragon.
Accompanied by the sound of horns, two tall and sexy beauties simultaneously used the cavalry general's [Summon Mount] skill. Lu Bu summoned the Xianbei warhorse given to him by Tuoba Yun, while Gongsun Zan summoned the Frost Dragon raised by the Gongsun family of Liaoxi. The dragon had a slender body that was three meters tall and ten meters long, covered with a layer of pale dragon scales that were as sharp as frost. Its two hideous heads let out a creepy and bloodthirsty dragon roar!
In an instant, the terrifying dragon power spread in all directions like a tide. Some timid ones were frightened by the young frost dragon and cried out in fear. Even the warhorse under Lu Bu's crotch, facing the dragon power of the two-headed dragon, was frightened and neighed and trembled.
Seeing that Lü Bu's warhorse was frightened by the two-headed dragon, Gongsun Zan immediately ordered the dragon to charge forward! The two-headed monster was four meters long in the trunk alone, three meters long in the neck and tail respectively, and sixteen meters wide when its wings were fully spread out. It was like a frost monster that swallowed the world and came crashing down. The entire playground was shaking slightly as the frost dragon ran and charged.
Lü Bu frowned, and immediately jumped off his horse, holding a halberd, and took a standard counter-charge posture. The force was mutual, and the more fiercely the demon dragon rushed, the more damage it received from the halberd. Lü Bu took advantage of the distance and stabbed the demon dragon's left head with the halberd! The monster screamed in pain, and half of its face was torn by the halberd's horizontal branch, exposing its scarlet gums, and the broken scales and dragon blood were scattered everywhere.
Not only that, the tip of the halberd was stuck tightly on the dragon's scales and skull. Lu Bu held the halberd tightly with both hands and only took two steps back, but he was able to curb the dragon's charge, making it impossible for her to move forward even one step!
The entire audience fell silent and gasped. Not only did Lu Bu injure the demon dragon on foot, he even blocked the demon dragon's full-force charge?
At this time, the right side of the dragon's head opened its bloody mouth, and two rows of fangs as sharp as razors bit Lu Bu's waist fiercely. Since it couldn't rush this man, it would bite him in half!
Lu Bu was not in a hurry. He directly entered a state of violence, allowing the rolling blood mist to form the shape of a dragon and a lion in front of him.
Then, she loosened her halberd with both hands, and at the moment the dragon bit her waist, she propped up the dragon's upper jaw with one hand, and pressed down the dragon's tongue and lower jaw with the other hand. With her mortal body, she tried to withstand the dragon's bite force of several tons. The Frost Dragon felt like it had bitten into a mountain, but was supported by Lu Bu's arms, and it could not bite any further.
After confirming the strength of the Frost Dragon, Lu Bu took a deep breath and pushed hard with both hands. With a crisp sound of bones breaking, he opened the big mouth that was about to bite again. Not only that, he also dislocated the dragon's jaw! The fang-covered jaw hung loosely under the dragon's skull and could no longer be closed.
But at this moment, Gongsun Zan also launched an attack in surprise. The double-headed spear, which was wrapped in red lotus fire and extremely cold ice, danced and spun in the air like a windmill, sweeping across Lu Bu's chest. The hot tip of the spear had ignited and even melted through Lu Bu's sleeve armor, leaving a horrible wound extending from Lu Bu's left shoulder to his right chest.
In the next moment, the hot gun tip slashed across Lu Bu's chest, and the icy gun tip on the other end swept across Lu Bu's chest again, burning the wound with high temperature and then freezing it with ice.
In the next moment, the high-temperature spear tip turned back! The tips of the two spears, intertwined with ice and fire, were like rotating windmills, constantly sweeping across Lu Bu's body, using two completely different properties to make Lu Bu switch back and forth between the high temperature and the icy hell.
The double dragon heads charging and biting, plus the double-headed spear spinning attack, this is Gongsun Zan's complete combo.
"clang!!!"
Lu Bu looked at the double-headed spear that was spinning madly like a windmill, and suddenly thrust his left arm into the vortex of the storm of ice and fire. He used his forearm to block the endless rotation of the double-headed spear. After the tip of the spear hit the counterattack wrist guard on her left arm, the strange object directly burst out an extremely powerful shock wave, which passed through the spear shaft and instead caused Gongsun Zan to lose his balance on the dragon's back. The offensive suddenly stopped for a moment.
Lu Bu seized this moment of hesitation, suddenly grasped the spear shaft with both hands, and pulled hard, actually pulling Gongsun Zan on the other side of the spear shaft off the dragon's back!
"Roar!!!"
One of the two-headed dragon's heads had its jaw dislocated, but the other head only had its cheek scratched by a long spear and was able to continue fighting. Seeing Gongsun Zan being pulled off the dragon's back, the other head immediately came forward to protect its master.
Lu Bu didn't waste any words. He pulled out the spear suddenly. Although he didn't get the double-headed spear back from Gongsun Zan, he lifted up both the spear and the man. Lu Bu took a look and simply swung up both the spear and the man, smashing them hard on the other head of the demon dragon, knocking both the man and the dragon back repeatedly!
Gongsun Zan, who was repeatedly pulled off the dragon's back and swung his spear into the air, was a little confused when he saw the fierce Lu Bu in front of him. "When you were drinking and chatting with me a few days ago, you weren't so fierce, right?!"
Gongsun Zan was a little bit skeptical. Seeing that his dragon was beaten a little dazed and lying on the ground without getting up, he took the lead in launching a fierce infantry charge to buy time for her. The double-headed spear was entangled with Mo Fengliu's red lotus fire and the winter ice of the spear. The ice and fire intertwined to form a chaotic storm, sweeping in like a storm!
Lu Bu was not polite either. He rushed forward with a large steel halberd in his hand. After just three moves, Gongsun Zan's arms were so sore from the shock. Every time the spear and halberd collided, he had to take a few steps back to relieve the huge force from the spear.
This person is not a human, but a real dragon in human form! Her power is even more terrifying than that of her own frost dragon!
"white!"
Gongsun Zan saw that he could not win in a head-on battle, so he immediately exchanged the names of the giant dragons. The dragon was stunned by Lu Bu's two hits, one of its heads was severely hit twice in a row, and the other's jaw was dislocated. It was only at this moment that it barely recovered, and with just one head, it spewed out frost dragon breath that covered the sky and the sun, drowning Gongsun Zan and Lu Bu together.
Lü Bu had not expected this move. She had been fighting Gongsun Zan in close combat to guard against the dragon's breath, but she had never expected that Gongsun Zan would actually order his dragon to launch an indiscriminate breath attack, killing herself as well? She was immediately beaten back by the frost storm.
Lu Bu felt the temperature around him drop suddenly, his body heat was rapidly lost, the frost storm made his bones cold, the strong wind seemed to cut his limbs like a blunt knife, his skin was instantly covered with a layer of deathly white frost, his joints were frozen by the frost, and he could hardly move.
However, Gongsun Zan's flesh and blood body was transformed into ice element. She bathed in the frost dragon's breath, like a fish entering the sea or a bird returning to the sky, swimming freely in the sea of dragon's breath. When Lu Bu was fighting desperately against the frost dragon's breath, she once again rotated her double-headed spear and used Mo Fengliu's starting gesture. At the same time, she used the winter ice and red lotus fire to beat Lu Bu, making him spit blood and retreat repeatedly!
"Captain, who do you think will win this battle? Lu Bu, whom you want to recruit into the Tunqi Battalion? Or that kid from the Gongsun family?"
Several armored cavalrymen from the cavalry camp watched the battle with great interest.
"It's hard to say. Gongsun Zan is quite capable. He has a top-notch mount, top-notch equipment, and is taught by a top-notch teacher. Even his dragon blood talent is top-notch. He can actually transform his flesh and blood into ice. And you can tell from his hard work since he was a child. Not only is he gifted and well-resourced, but he is also hardworking. The Gongsun family has really produced a good talent."
Xu Rong stroked his carefully groomed beard and commented on the two juniors on the playground.
"But the sense of oppression she gives me is still not as strong as that of Lu Bu who has nothing."
Chapter 85: Become a disciple of Lu Zhi
On the battlefield, Lu Bu was once caught in a tough fight. After using all his strength, Gongsun Zan was indeed very terrifying, but she no longer dared to fight against him. She adopted a desperate fighting style of only defending and not attacking, allowing the halberd to hit her, breaking her body forged from ice into pieces, and then pieced together again. Her own halberd was now covered with a thick layer of ice.
The frost dragon had some psychological trauma from being beaten, and it didn't even dare to appear within Lu Bu's attack range. It flapped its wings and flew into the sky, only using the frost dragon breath to assist in the battle: Gongsun Zan was immune to frost anyway.
After several battles, Lu Bu figured out Gongsun Zan's abilities - she was very similar to Zhang Liao's kid, in that their flesh and blood turned into elements, their attacks were attached with elements, and they could not be hit by physical attacks, so they had to use magic and elemental attributes to attack.
The difference is that after Zhang Liao transformed into a thunder tribulation, he could move at the speed of thunder, while after Gongsun Zan transformed into an ice being, his speed did not increase, but he could freeze anything he touched. His left leg was only kicked by Gongsun Zan, and now it was still frozen in the ice, unable to break free. The biting cold spread from his left leg to his whole body.
What's even more terrible is that his own frenzy had come to an end and he was forced to exit his frenzy state, allowing Gongsun Zan to launch an even more swift and fierce terrorist attack!
Lu Bu held the halberd in his right hand to parry, and with his left hand he once again performed the magic of the blasphemous priest. With the help of Huang Tian's divine power, he wrapped the halberd with beams of golden thunder and enchanted his weapon with thunder to fight against the icy body that could not be touched by physical force.
Afterwards, she once again blasted out the magic she had picked from the Confucian sacred tree, turning her arms into a pair of beautiful jades. Flying in the jade were two Chinese characters for "Virtue". Her strength soared from 24 to 30, and she entered a violent state for the second time!
This time, the blood mist wrapped around her was no longer in the shape of a lion totem, but a phoenix, soaring into the sky. Two phoenix feathers danced wildly above her head, making Liu Zhuang's eyes twitch. Her strength, with a three-fold increase at the cost of her life, directly increased from 30 to a terrifying 42.
Facing Lu Bu in phoenix form, Gongsun Zan broke out in a cold sweat. However, Lu Bu was not finished yet and directly activated the acceleration function of the enchanted sleeve armor, causing four azure Confucianism fires to burn on his wrists and ankles, making his already exaggerated speed even faster. Even Liu Zhuang's double pupils could not see clearly at this moment.
Relying on her brute strength, she kicked the ice that was trapped on her left leg and charged forward again!
Gongsun Zan subconsciously took a defensive stance, but before she could react, the bloody storm came upon her, and Lü Bu chopped her in half, armor included! The broken parts of her upper and lower waist quickly turned into ice and snow to avoid damage, but Lü Bu's halberd was wrapped in rolling thunder. Even though she had transformed into an elemental form, the thunder in the sky still made her limbs twitch.
Gongsun Zan widened his eyes in surprise and finally understood how Liu Bei felt. Liu Bei could not see Lu Bu's attack movements at all, and was knocked away twice in a row before he could even fight.
She could actually keep up with Lu Bu in her violent state, but when her violent state upgraded from the form of a dragon and lion to the even more terrifying shadow of a phoenix, even she could not see clearly Lu Bu's every move.
Gongsun Zan wanted to fight back, but found a sharp pain in his shoulders. His two arms had been chopped off by the halberd without him knowing. Lu Bu just charged forward and used the thunder-attached halberd in his hand to cut his icy body into eight pieces. Each broken piece of ice was wrapped in golden thunder, and fell all over the ground with a crash. The broken ice debris covered the entire training ground.
If I didn't have the ice talent, I would have been turned into a pool of minced meat after this round of charge and combo.
Half of Gongsun Zan's head was lying on the ground twitching wildly. She wanted to mobilize the power of ice to put her shattered ice body back together, but the damn thunder was still flashing arcs of death on every piece of ice, shocking her whole body and making her twitch. Only then could she barely put the ice on her head and chest together, but her limbs were still broken all over the ground.
Lu Bu strode towards him with great force like a ghost, and every step seemed to step on his heart, shaking his heart.
"Roar!!!"
At the critical moment, it was the Frost Dragon that came to the rescue. It swooped down from the sky and saved Gongsun Zan, who had recovered half of his body. It then flew back into the sky, trying to buy time for its master to recover.
Lu Bu, whose strength was as high as 42, stuck his halberd into the ground, pulled out the five-stone longbow and shot quickly. The first arrow pierced the dragon's right neck, the second arrow hit the dragon's chest, and the third arrow went through the dragon's right hand, and by the way, shot through Gongsun Zan who was in an ice state in the dragon's claws!
Even the dragon scales of a young dragon could not block the pulling force of a bow of this strength. The man and the dragon screamed and fell from the sky, landing heavily on the training ground, splashing dust all over the sky.
At this point, the winner has been decided. The overwhelming victory left the entire army stunned. My goodness, is this guy named Lu Bu still a normal human being?
Lu Zhi was very happy at this moment. It was not shameful for his two apprentices to lose to such a monster. He immediately stepped down and comforted the frustrated Gongsun Zan first. Just as he was about to ask who Lu Bu was from and why he was so brave, he found that she had returned to the White Horse Camp with the glory of victory, cheering and celebrating with Liu Zhuang and a group of brothers and sisters, as if his brothers and sisters were more important than visiting a famous teacher.
After several rounds of fighting between losers, the top three were Lu Bu, Gongsun Zan, and Liu Bei.
As for the battle, there is nothing much to say. They are all old monsters from the Five Battalions of the Northern Army. They don't care about what Lu Zhi taught them at all. What they care about are the rewards of rare items and the promotion promised by the General of the North.
After promoting and rewarding the last three people who fought, Lu Zhi turned his attention to the sixth person.
Among them, Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei were already his disciples, but they made their reputations through martial arts competitions in the parade grounds. Zhang Fei also learned almost the same thing as Liu Bei. His only real disciples were Lu Bu, Liu Zhuang, and Zhang Liao, all of whom were generals of the White Horse Camp.
As a modern Confucian scholar, Lu Zhi attached great importance to the ritual of becoming an apprentice. He carefully organized a very grand and solemn ceremony, commending the nine winners in front of the entire army. He promoted three of them, accepted four as disciples, and marked Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei as among his most outstanding students. This greatly improved the reputation of the nine people and made their names well-known throughout the Han Central Army!
