Chapter 476: Tens of Thousands Watching the Livestream as a Fiancée Beats Up Her Fiancé

Dai Mubai was about to slam his hand on the table and stand up when a calm voice suppressed him.

"Mubai, concede," Yu Xiaogang said, his expression unchanged.

Flender turned his head sharply: "Xiaogang?!"

Zhao Wuji’s eyes nearly popped out, his face full of confusion: "Concede? What are you saying?"

Ma Hongjun opened his mouth: "Grandmaster, are you... serious?"

Yu Tianheng and the others also wore expressions of confusion. Conceding without a fight, what is he trying to do?

Dai Mubai, in particular, froze in place. He stared fixedly at Yu Xiaogang, his eyes roiling with disbelief and uncontrollable fury.

"The results of the ranking tournament only determine the matchup order and seeding positions for the finals; they have no substantial impact on the final results," Yu Xiaogang explained unhurriedly. "The Imperial Team has unfathomable strength. A head-on collision right now would only expose our trump cards and drain our stamina."

His gaze swept over everyone from Shrek present. "Our true battlefield is in the semifinals and the finals. The wisest course of action now is to hide our full strength, preserve all our trump cards, and catch them off guard at the critical moment."

Was the logic correct? Yes. It was impeccable, watertight, and as perfect as a textbook answer. But logic is logic, and human feelings are human feelings.

Zhao Wuji snorted coldly: "Cowardly behavior!" The disgust in his eyes was undisguised. In his view, Yu Xiaogang was just a coward who could only talk big on paper, a shrinking turtle who spoke better than anyone else.

Flender sighed, neither agreeing nor refuting. He understood Yu Xiaogang’s line of thinking. It was just too cowardly.

Ma Hongjun punched the armrest of his seat and said sullenly: "I understand the logic, but..."

"But I just can’t swallow this anger." Oscar finished the second half of the sentence for him.

Yu Xiaogang’s judgment was not wrong. From a purely tactical perspective, this was arguably the only correct choice. But what he didn’t realize was that for Dai Mubai, this wasn’t a tactical issue. Some battles have nothing to do with winning or losing. It’s just that they have to be fought.

On the arena stage, Zhu Zhuqing waited for over ten seconds. When no one came up, she wasn’t anxious. Instead, the corners of her mouth curled slightly as she spat out three words: "Coward."

The three words were light and airy. Yet, they precisely ignited Dai Mubai’s powder keg. Dai Mubai’s pupils contracted sharply. In that instant, every voice in his mind regarding "tactics," "endurance," and "the big picture" was blown into fragments.

Coward. She called him a coward. The prince of the Dai Family of the Star Luo Empire, the Evil Eyes White TigerDai Mubai, was called a coward by his former fiancée in front of tens of thousands of people.

"Mubai!" Flender shouted sternly. "Dai Mubai! Sit down!" Yu Xiaogang also called out to him in a deep voice. But by now, their words were useless.

Dai Mubai violently shook off the hand Ma Hongjun had reached out toward him, his action of rising filled with an unquestionable ferocity. "Don’t stop me." There were only three words, his voice carrying a hoarseness suppressed to the extreme.

He had to go up there. He had to prove that without the Dai Family, without him, Zhu Zhuqing was nothing. He had to prove that throwing away this engagement was the stupidest decision she had ever made in her life.

Ma Hongjun stumbled from the shove, opened his mouth, but ultimately didn’t try to stop him again. He just yelled toward the arena: "Boss Dai! Beat her!"

Oscar stood up right after, cupping his hands around his mouth: "Let her know the power of the Evil Eyes White Tiger!" Who cares about strategy, who cares about the big picture. His brother was on the arena stage; even if he had to scream until his throat split, he had to support him.

Yu Xiaogang’s face was ashen to the extreme. His hands were behind his back, fingers interlocked, the knuckles turning a glaring white from excessive force. As the commander of the Shrek Team, his orders were ignored in public. Every word he said was correct. Every judgment could withstand scrutiny. But his own people simply wouldn’t listen to this correctness and scrutiny!

Yu Xiaogang was silent, not saying another word. But everyone could feel the low-pressure chill radiating from him. Flender glanced at him and finally let out a long sigh.

"Let him go." He rubbed his brow, his voice full of exhaustion and helplessness. "Between Mubai and Zhuqing... the Dai Family of Star Luo and the Zhu Family, the White Tiger and the Spirit Cat, born partners, fated bonds. But precisely because they were tied so tightly, once it snapped, it became an unsolvable dead knot."

He shook his head: "Some things, in the end, must be faced by Mubai himself. I can’t stop him, and I shouldn’t stop him."

Dai Mubai climbed onto the arena stage. The clamor of the entire venue suddenly quieted down after he stepped onto the last step. He stood opposite Zhu Zhuqing, separated by no more than a few dozen paces. The wind blew between them. Under the gaze of tens of thousands, the two stood facing each other just like that.

Dai Mubai’s expression was complex. The monstrous rage he felt when he first stepped onto the stage seemed to be forcefully suppressed by something the moment he truly faced her. The anger was still there, the unwillingness was still there, and the trampled pride was still burning. His gaze fell on her face.

Zhu Zhuqing had lost some weight. The arc of her chin was sharper, and the coldness in the corners of her eyes and brows was heavier than before. She had changed a lot.

Dai Mubai took a deep breath and spoke in a strained voice: "Zhuqing." "Between us... is there really no room left at all?" When he said this, there was a trace of imperceptible trembling in his voice.

Zhu Zhuqing didn’t answer that question at all. Her slender figure slowly lowered its center of gravity, her arms slightly extended, fingertips slightly curved like cat claws. That was her standard starting stance.

Her body, wrapped in a tight battle suit, was taut, forming a smooth and dangerous arc, like a thin blade about to be drawn from its sheath. spirit power surged around her, and a cold, ghostly aura spread from her body. She only said two words: "Come fight."

Dai Mubai stared at her with trembling eyes and slowly closed them. When he opened them again, those heterochromatic eyes, the Evil Eyes with one gold and one purple, were already burning with a cold light.

"Roar!!!" The roar of the Evil Eyes White Tiger surged up from within him. "As you wish."

Two beastly auras collided in the center of the arena for a full three seconds. The front-row audience was forced to lean back repeatedly by the shockwave.

"Spirit Fight start!!" As soon as the referee’s voice rang out, Zhu Zhuqing moved. Her figure seemed to evaporate from where she stood, not even leaving a shadow behind.

Dai Mubai opened his eyes as wide as possible. Too fast! It was at least twice as fast as the speed he had seen from the audience during the preliminaries! His instincts were warning him frantically. Left? No, right? Also no. Where is she? Where is she?! He couldn’t lock onto Zhu Zhuqing’s position at all.

A black afterimage moved around him at high speed, too fast for the naked eye to track, leaving only circle after circle of phantom images.

"Damn it!" Dai Mubai gritted his teeth and swung his tiger claws to intercept an afterimage that flashed past on the left. He missed. The claw wind only tore through the air.

Zhu Zhuqing had secretly activated her external Spirit Bone, Black Shadow Claw, the moment the fight started; her speed instantly doubled, and all her attacks carried a piercing attribute. This was one of her trump cards. But to deal with Dai Mubai, there was no need to hide anything.

(End of Chapter)

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