"I am Sun Hu, here to challenge!"
Sun Hu, upon hearing this, roared loudly and then leaped up from where he stood, like a fierce tiger, directly jumping onto the platform that was at least ten feet high.
This leap was full of momentum.
"Brother Hu, you must set a good example for us!"
Sun Hu's several comrades cheered loudly, excited.
In their view, Sun Hu passing this round of the competition was a sure thing.
"Xu Taiping, where are you?"
At this moment, the examiner called out Xu Taiping's name again.
Xu Taiping, who was just about to step onto the platform, raised his hand in response.
"Why are you walking that way?"
The examiner was taken aback.
Xu Taiping was a bit puzzled, thinking to himself that if this path couldn't be taken, you shouldn't have set up the stairs.
The examiner waved his hand impatiently.
Of course, the stairs could be used, but since the start of the competition, no one had properly walked up the stairs. Now, suddenly encountering such an honest person, the examiner was somewhat unaccustomed.
The group of Sun Hu's comrades below the platform burst into laughter at this scene.
"Little kid, be careful when you climb the stairs, don't fall!"
The living environment of the outer disciples in the mountains had shaped their personalities to bully the weak and admire the strong. Seeing Xu Taiping climb the platform in such an ordinary way, how could they not mock him?
"Is it necessary to be so particular about getting on the platform?"
Xu Taiping was very puzzled.
In his view, those who jumped onto the platform from the side were like eating with their feet instead of chopsticks.
"Little kid, are you tired? Why don't we rest and catch our breath?"
Seeing Xu Taiping step onto the platform, Sun Hu crossed his arms and grinned.
Although his tone wasn't deliberately mocking, the disdain and arrogance in his eyes were quite obvious.
Xu Taiping shook his head solemnly.
He wasn't angry because of Sun Hu's disdain, nor did he look down on Sun Hu.
Because before coming here, he had already warned himself that before he climbed the seven peaks and became a formal disciple, every match was a life-and-death battle, and he must give it his all.
After saying this, Xu Taiping, amidst Sun Hu's disdainful smile and the laughter from below the platform, seriously assumed the stance of the Blue Ox Fist.
"Hey, is the little guy taking it seriously now?"
Although Sun Hu still had a playful smile on his face, his eyes were clearly more serious.
Although he didn't want to admit it, after the young man assumed the stance, he felt an inexplicable pressure.
"Pressure? A mere little kid can give me pressure? Sun Hu, you should change your name to Sun Cat."
Sun Hu immediately found it somewhat amusing and mocked himself, thinking it was just an illusion.
However, if Sun Hu knew that this young man had once killed a ghost and slain a demon tiger with his bare hands, he probably wouldn't think it was an illusion.
At this moment, the examiner on the platform loudly asked the two.
Xu Taiping immediately responded, his eyes still fixed on Sun Hu in front of him.
Sun Hu shook his arm, which was thicker than Xu Taiping's thigh, and grinned at the examiner.
"Since that's the case, let the match begin!"
Seeing that both were ready, the examiner immediately struck the copper gong beside him with a "clang."
"Little kid, come on, let me take your first punch!"
Sun Hu took a step forward with a "slap" and stood firmly in the center of the platform, then waved at Xu Taiping.
"Then I'll have to be rude."
The moment he spoke, Xu Taiping took a step forward, and as he activated the Wind Shadow Step, his body moved with a sonic boom, like a fierce wind, suddenly rushing from one end of the platform to the other where Sun Hu stood.
Before Sun Hu could react, Xu Taiping's fist was already in front of him.
Although Sun Hu's protective aura had already been activated, it couldn't withstand Xu Taiping's Mountain-Crushing Horn Strike.
After the protective aura shattered, Xu Taiping's punch, without losing momentum, struck Sun Hu's arms that he instinctively raised to block.
With the sound of bones breaking, Sun Hu's massive body flew straight backward.
He didn't stop until he landed heavily more than ten feet outside the platform.
The entire venue fell silent.
No one paid attention to Sun Hu, who lay on the ground, possibly unconscious. All eyes were on the young man on the platform.
With just one punch, he had defeated the somewhat famous Sun Hu, and everyone's faces were filled with disbelief.
Facing everyone's gaze, the young man's face remained calm.
After bowing to the direction where Sun Hu had fallen, he walked straight to the examiner on the side.
"Sir, my opponent has fallen off the platform. Have I won this round?"
Xu Taiping politely asked the examiner.
The examiner was taken aback, then nodded and announced loudly:
"In this round, Xu Taiping has defeated Sun Hu, advancing to the top one hundred and twelfth place."
Upon hearing this, the crowd below the platform erupted in noise, and the few cultivators who were close to Sun Hu looked at each other, seemingly unable to believe their eyes.
"Brother Hu? Defeated just like that?"
The commotion on the platform also caught the attention of the West Wind Pavilion.
"What's going on? Why is that platform so noisy?"
Zuo Ke and Zhou Gu, who were patrolling, looked very surprised at the Xu platform.
The two had been transferred from the lucrative position in the Fierce Wind Hall due to offending Uncle Nine last time and returned to the West Wind Pavilion as ordinary guards. They had begged the Pavilion Master for a long time to get the duty of patrolling the Four Mountains Assembly.
"Brothers Zuo and Zhou, you don't know yet."
At this moment, a familiar patrol officer walked up.
"Just now, a dark horse appeared on the Xu platform. A fifteen-year-old young man actually knocked Sun Hu of Red Rock Manor off the platform with one punch, and he was seriously injured and had to be carried away."
He vividly described it to the two.
"One punch seriously injured Sun Hu of Red Rock Manor?"
Zuo Ke and Zhou Gu looked at each other in surprise.
Sun Hu of Red Rock Manor was somewhat famous among the outer disciples, and Zuo Ke and Zhou Gu had naturally heard of him. So, hearing that someone could seriously injure him with one punch, and that it was a fifteen-year-old young man, they found it hard to accept.
"Didn't Sun Hu break through to the Opening Gate Realm last year?"
"That's right." Zhou Gu frowned, "Although Sun Hu is only a White Spirit Bone, his physical training is quite remarkable, already reaching the Copper Skin Iron Bone stage. To be defeated by that young man with one punch, could it be that a genius has appeared among the outer disciples of the West Wind Pavilion?"
"Brother Liu, what's the young man's name?"
Zuo Ke quickly asked the patrol officer.
"Seems to be... seems to be called Xu Taiping."
The patrol officer thought for a moment and then answered.