Chapter 125: The Lonely Man Sings A Sad Song
Xiao Hongchen now gazed blankly at the azure blue sky above the Fighting Arena, the warm midday sun unable to penetrate his gloomy, overcast heart.
The blue sky and white clouds seemed to him covered in heavy filters, making the entire world appear dull and colorless.
He rarely read those wuxia novels; every time Meng Hongchen forced him to read them, he would complain about why the author always made it rain on the day the protagonist was defeated.
Now he somewhat understood. Xiao Hongchen now truly hoped the sky would pour down a torrential rain to wash away his shame, best if a bolt of lightning would strike him dead directly!
Just thinking about how he had a one-on-one fight with someone on the Heaven Soul Empire side and lost to a Second Ring Great Soul Master!
Xiao Hongchen now just wanted to carry Mingde Hall away overnight and flee the Douluo Continent.
If the people from Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy found out about this, he felt his career as a Soul Engineer would probably be over.
The only slight comfort for Xiao Hongchen right now was that this Fighting Arena had not used a Recording Soul Tool to record the match process.
He had barely preserved what little dignity he had left.
Obviously, he had forgotten that his own sister was carrying a Recording Soul Tool.
Meng Hongchen was gleefully recording the scene of Xiao Hongchen’s defeat.
She could tease Xiao Hongchen with this video for a lifetime!
In the future, when asking Xiao Hongchen for the latest model Soul Tools, if he refused, Meng Hongchen would pull out this video and say:
“Xiao, you wouldn’t want everyone at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy to know about this, right?”
Xiao Hongchen lay weakly in the soil, intense pain coming from all over his body.
Mademos had a good sense of control over his strength; every attack had not injured the opponent’s internal organs, just simple bruises and cuts.
After all, the two were just sparring in Soul Fighting; how could they possibly do something to ruin someone’s future or take a life?
“The sky isn’t raining.”
“Looks like I’m not the protagonist in a wuxia biography.”
“Sorry, Grandfather, it seems I’m not some first genius.”
Xiao Hongchen murmured in the soil, feeling like his life was flashing before his eyes soon.
Mademos rolled his shoulders; although the high-temperature Crimson Crystal condensed by “Blood Feud” had blocked most of the Soul Tool Rays.
Some still hit him, but those attacks were within the range of the Golden Lion King’s self-healing ability.
Then his golden lion pupils looked at Xiao Hongchen, who was doubting his life in the dirt pit, his gaze showing doubt.
He was sure he hadn’t injured the opponent’s internal organs earlier; why did this guy look like he was about to die.
“Hey, you okay?”
“Can you stand up?”
Xiao Hongchen didn’t respond, staring blankly at the sky.
He wasn’t afraid of losing, but he couldn’t accept losing to a Second Ring Great Soul Master.
Being defeated by someone twenty levels below him was indeed a bit too devastating for him.
“Hmph, get up!”
Mademos couldn’t stand watching this guy continue lying in the dirt pit pretending to be dead, so he reached out and forcibly pulled him up.
“If you’re fine, take a couple steps.”
“Showing this expression after one loss, pathetic!”
“Pull yourself together!”
Hearing Mademos’s cold words, Xiao Hongchen finally came back to his senses.
His blue-green heterochromatic pupils seriously looked at Mademos and said:
“Mademos, huh?”
“I’ve remembered this name!”
“I’ll challenge you again later! Until I defeat you!”
Hearing Xiao Hongchen’s declaration of war, Mademos crossed his arms, his golden eyes glanced at him and said:
“My dictionary has no word for cowardice.”
“Do whatever.”
“Come on, go fulfill your promise.”
Xiao Hongchen looked at Mademos’s back, imprinting this figure in his mind, then followed him to the backstage of the Fighting Arena.
He had to apologize to that red-haired little girl. Since it was a promise he had already made, even if it started as a demand for kowtow apology, he would honor it!
As the self-proclaimed number one genius of the Sun Moon Empire, he still had some pride and bottom line!
Actually, there were two heartbroken people in the Great Fighting Arena.
After Xiao Hongchen left, the referee slumped on the Fighting Platform, somewhat collapsed.
“Fighting Platform!!!”
“That’s all top-quality Heavy Rock! It cost a fortune!”
Although he was the referee, he was also the boss of this Fighting Arena!
This Great Fighting Arena didn’t belong to him before; the previous boss had incited bloody gladiatorial combats and liked slave trading, so he was taken by Enthusiasm to the dragon ranch to reflect.
The other party had long become a D-level personnel, awaiting Huo Yuhao’s personal attention.
He had been the referee here for a long time and had some feelings for the place, so he spent all his savings to redeem the Fighting Arena from Enthusiasm.
He even personally went to Enthusiasm Headquarters and promised Huo Yuhao repeatedly that bloody gladiatorial combats would never happen again.
At this moment, his heart was bleeding; repairing the Heavy Rock would be another considerable expense.
He didn’t have much money on hand to begin with.
He too hoped at this moment that the sky would pour down a heavy rain to wash away his sorrow.
“Alright, stop kneeling there.”
“The money for the Fighting Platform, go to Enthusiasm Headquarters and get it reimbursed from finance.”
A voice transmitted into the referee’s Sea of Consciousness via Spiritual Power.
He immediately became alert, then felt an unmasked gaze fixed on him.
The referee looked toward the rear audience stands and saw a man in a black trench coat looking at him with black eyes.
“Boss!”
He recognized at a glance that this extremely distinctive big guy was the boss of Enthusiasm!
He was also the king of Xilu City, the underworld emperor of Heaven Dou Plain, the fast food king of Douluo Three Kingdoms, and the largest Soul Tool dealer on Heaven Dou Plain!
Truly a big shot among big shots!
Since the other party had spoken, the money for his Fighting Platform was definitely no problem; Enthusiasm was always generous.
No one knew exactly how much money Enthusiasm had now; just fast food alone had made an unknown fortune.
Not to mention their Soul Tool sales business; they had sold up to Level Eight Soul Tools and were the largest Soul Tool dealer on Heaven Dou Plain.
Enthusiasm’s cadres often appeared at major auctions, spending extravagantly! They loved rare and strange items the most.
For example, a while ago, an Enthusiasm cadre at an auction in Star Luo City directly spent one million Gold Soul Coins to buy the famous Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife.
The auction house’s estimated price was only one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and they paid ten times that.
Because Enthusiasm spent generously, many large auctions invited Enthusiasm to participate, placing them on the same level as the major sects.
This was mainly because the outside world generally believed that Enthusiasm’s biggest backer was Gluttonous Douluo Xuan Zi.
After all, he often acted for Enthusiasm to clear obstacles, and some even said Gluttonous Douluo was Enthusiasm’s Supreme Elder—they were family.
Regarding this, Huo Yuhao really wanted to clarify that this was absolutely a rumor! His Enthusiasm couldn’t accommodate a big shot like Chicken Leg Douluo!
Even the Son of Destiny had frequent accidents next to him; who knows what the other’s birth chart was like!
That referee saluted Huo Yuhao and then left the stands.
Huo Yuhao said to Su Tong beside him:
“Disciple, did you see that golden-red haired boy just now?”
Su Tong nodded, her ice-blue eyes somewhat shocked, her cold voice reaching Huo Yuhao’s ears:
“Extreme Martial Soul!”
“To defeat an enemy twenty levels higher! And the opponent was a divine beast Martial Soul, Three-legged Golden Toad!”
“But the Three-legged Golden Toad seems to be from the Sun Moon side.”
Huo Yuhao ruffled her hair and said:
“That child is my junior, and there’s another Extreme Martial Soul I’ll show you later.”
“The one with the Three-legged Golden Toad Martial Soul is called Xiao Hongchen; you should have seen him on the billboard in Snow King Ice City.”
“His grandfather is Mingde Hall Hall Master Jing Hongchen, who currently has a good relationship with our Enthusiasm.”
“He sent him here to learn and also to avoid the internal turmoil in the Sun Moon Empire.”
“Jing Hongchen even sold Level Nine Soul Tools to Enthusiasm a while ago; who knows what he’s thinking.”
“Those Level Nine Soul Tools are in the experimental grounds behind Enthusiasm.”
“I’ll give you some access later and teach you some new things.”
“Come on, I’ll take you to meet my cute juniors!”
With that, Huo Yuhao took Su Tong to the backstage of the Fighting Arena, following the guidance of Spiritual Power to find Mademos and Ti Bao’s location.
At the same time, Bai E and Roman arrived late in their jeep, which attracted quite a bit of attention from passersby.
“Sigh, looks like it’s already over.”
