Chapter 377: Surprising Instructor Tang

Yi Chen’s figure immediately retreated after making the first strike before rushing ahead from another side as the two maces tore through the air before colliding once again.

BOOM!

Tightly gripping his mace’s handle, Instructor Tang resisted the impact from Yi Chen’s strike while thinking to himself, ’He’s got more strength in his strikes than I thought...However, if that’s all he has, then there’s no need to further test him.’

The more he saw the way Yi Chen was handling the mace in his hand, the more frustrated and irritated he became.

’Such great strength, but in the end...his understanding is still limited.’

CLANG!

Blocking Yi Chen’s attack using his mace’s shaft, he pushed Yi Chen away, pushing him several steps backwards, but totally unaffected by this pushback, Yi Chen rushed forward again without a second thought.

However, Yi Chen’s eyes carried a decisive glint.

Meanwhile, after observing everything Yi Chen showed him so far, Instructor Tang’s gaze firmed. He had finally made a decision and was going to declare the result after their next exchange.

’Any more than this would only be a waste of my time...’

Letting out a disappointed sigh, he tightly grabbed onto the mace’s handle to block Yi Chen’s strike with its shaft, and with the intention of exploiting the gap he had found in Yi Chen’s attacks, he planned to shove the weapon out of his hands.

SIIIK!

However, the moment the two maces made contact, instead of a deafening sound, a grating sound entered his ears, and before Instructor Tang could make sense of any of it, he saw the top half of his mace’s shaft spiralling through the air before smashing on the ground.

BANG!

The next second, Instructor Tang’s eyes immediately went back to where Yi Chen was as he saw the mace in Yi Chen’s hands completely intact and pointing at his face.

"That should be my win, right?" Yi Chen asked with a subtle smirk on his face, which caused a deep frown to appear on Instructor Tang’s face.

It wasn’t just him alone, as almost everyone who witnessed this scene was unable to wrap their head around it.

"What’s going on? I thought he was about to lose???"

"D-Did he just break Instructor Tang’s mace?"

"...Wouldn’t that mean that he possesses far greater skills than Instructor Tang?"

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Not bothered at all by the discussion among the candidates, Instructor Tang’s mind was trying hard to make sense of what had just happened.

’...Just how?’

Looking down to glance at the point where his shaft was broken into two, Instructor Tang’s attention instantly went towards the clean cut that was responsible for everything.

’...Such a clean cut should only be possible with a blade. Could it be that the mace in my hands already had internal fractures?’ he thought in an attempt to justify what he had just witnessed.

However, seeing the confidence evident in Yi Chen’s gaze, a part of him told him that what he had witnessed just now wasn’t truly a coincidence but was a deliberate move done by the other party.

Therefore, in order to get confirmation, he asked Yi Chen the next moment with narrowed eyes.

"That move just now...if I asked you to do it again, would you be able to do it?"

"Sure!" Yi Chen answered without a second thought, as by now he was more than proficient with the concept of sharpness and dullness.

The only reason he had been exchanging so many moves with Instructor Tang before the final strike was so that he could gain some insights and familiarity with how to normally engage with an opponent who uses a mace, since this was his first time doing so.

Thanks to that, his Advance Macemanship successfully managed to rise by dozens of points.

[Advance Macemanship (Progress: 476-> 527 / 1000)]

Meanwhile, seeing how readily Yi Chen had answered his question, the possibility that it was indeed a move done by Yi Chen strengthened in Instructor Tang’s mind, causing him to grow more and more curious.

Taking out another mace from inside his storage ring, he instructed Yi Chen the next moment, "I’ll only be defending this time, so show it to me again. Do remember that whether you’re going to get selected does not depend on this very move, you understand?"

"Yes."

Hearing Instructor Tang’s words, Yi Chen nodded readily and, taking a few steps back so that there was ample distance between him and Instructor Tang, readied himself for the next strike.

’Looks like he wasn’t able to catch it properly...so I’ll go for something more obvious this time,’ Yi Chen thought to himself while waiting for Instructor Tang’s signal.

Seeing that Yi Chen was in a proper stance and ready to engage anytime, Instructor Tang nodded while placing his mace right in front of him in a defensive position.

"Come."

’Here I come then.’ Yi Chen thought with a firm expression as his figure instantly rushed forward in Instructor Tang’s direction.

WHOOOOSH!

The mace in his hand tore through the wind like a cannonball, but just a few moments before the head of his mace made contact with Instructor Tang’s mace, this loud sound changed to that of air being sharply ripped.

SSHHIEKKK!

It was at that instant that not only Instructor Tang but every single individual present in the crowd witnessed the head of Instructor Tang’s mace being cleanly cut in two by not a blade but another mace of identical shape!

"This..."

"What did I just witness???"

"Is that even possible?"

This was a natural response among the candidates, as a similar but more intense emotion was rushing past Zhou Mei and the rest who had been intensely watching each of Yi Chen’s moves all this while.

"So, this is why Brother Chen looked so confident..." Zhou Mei muttered with an astonished expression.

However, amongst everyone present in the underground chamber right now, the person who was most surprised was Instructor Tang.

’H-He cut it into two...’ Instructor Tang thought with bafflement evident on his face.

Despite decades of experience in handling all types of weapons, never in his life had Instructor Tang thought that he would use the word ’cut’ to describe an attack made with a mace.

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