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Their battle continued for hours.

However, the pace of the battle was gradually increasing because both sides are starting to heat up.

Kyle knew that controlling the pace of the battle won't last for long since the child dragon wasn't an idiot and will slowly caught on their strategy.

"Hohoho... Do you really think I won't notice? You think of me as a fool?!" The Child dragon shouted; clearly angered.

As expected, the child got enraged when he noticed their actions.

The child had been battling Feng Yexue for a couple of times already, so he already knew of her personality.

As they said 'you get to know a person better once you engaged blows against each other.'

Such, when he noticed that Feng Yexue was holding back on their battle, he had deduced that the two of them are trying to control the pace.

This made the child felt as if he was being manipulated, so he got angered and initiated to attack.

Kyle had already knew that this was the problem in manipulating the pace of the battle because the other side might felt underestimated and get pissed off.

However, they took the risk.

Thankfully... It bought them a few hours of time.

Now that the child initiated the attack, their plan to control the pace was now out of the equation, so they could only go all-out and battled the child seriously.

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The child had shouted and was clearly enraged, but truthfully... This was just nothijg for him.

Trying to slow down the pace was the normal solution to delay the battle, but daring to do this, and especially against him?

He just can't let it go, can't he?

Such as, he decided to act angry and initiated the attack.

He had already known from their encounters that Kyle was the weakest link in the team, so, he decided to aim for him first since defeating the weakest was the common sense in fighting against multiple enemies.

....

The child flickered and he arrived in front of Kyle.

Azure scales sprouted on his arms and claws grew on his hands as he swiped his claws towards Kyle's body.

The claw of the child hit his body and a huge claw mark appeared; followed by his blood gushing out from the wound.

*ZIIING...* (sounds of Kyle seeing the future with his haki)

He saw this dangerous scene.

The child's sudden strike was too fast for him if he waited any longer, so he reacted immediately before the child even arrived and evaded the pathway of the claw strike.

True to his instincts, The child suddenly appeared before him, with his claw ready to strike for his body.

*swoosh...*

Thankfully... He successfully dodged it and he retreated.

Even when he already knew this from his Haki, it still gave him a fright since the sudden burst of speed was really too fast for him.

When Feng Yexue saw the child arrived before Kyle, she grew worried; especially when she saw the claw of the child swiping towards Kyle.

Fortunately... He escaped.

She got worried for him, so she directly attacked the child immediately.

She had her soul weapon out already and prepared to stab the child while activated some truths behind it.

*Ding!*

Her soul weapon and the child's scales collide and it created a solid impact on both sides.

The impact threw both of them away, creating some distance between each other.

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"Hohoho, Nice reflex... didn't expect someone at the 3rd stage Xiantian could react that fast." The child praised while looking towards Kyle.

"I still lacked some training your excellency, before you; my reflex could barely react," Kyle replied humbly.

Their goal is to delay the battle, so, if the child wanted to converse; then, he was willing to drag it out.

"Oh really? Haha of course you do." The child laughed arrogantly. Forgetting that he was just angered a while ago.

He might be already a senior, however, his mentality was just like a child, hence he had the child looks.

Such as, praises and flattery could easily get inside his head.

Seeing the child calmed down... Kyle and Feng Yexue escaped a sigh of relief.

They didn't want an all-out battle, so relaxing conversations like this was something what they want.

However, the child did not give them any time and immediately attack again.

Despite Kyle's amazing reflex, he was still the weaker from the two, so the child attacked him again.

However, this wasn't the only reason.

The child had sensed his master's bloodline inside him, hence he deduced that Kyle was his master's offspring or descendant.

He wanted to see his battle prowess, such, he wanted to engage and aimed for him.

Kyle was now prepared than before, so he had already sense and reacted quickly.

The child suddenly appeared above him and he swiped his foot downwards towards Kyle as if he was doing a lariat kick.

Kyle was now prepared for this, so he did not dodge and tried to block his attack.

"Busoshoku!" He muttered as his arms hardened while he places it above his head to block the incoming foot of the child.

*BOOOM!*

An explosion occurred and dust started to blow up while a crater was formed below Kyle.

The child's attack successfully hit the hardened arms of Kyle, however, it did not deal any serious damages against him.

No matter how strong his body, or how high his understandings is; the child's attack only had the strength of a 5th stage Xiantian, so Kyle successfully blocked it with his hardening.

A 5th stage Xiantian attack was very strong, but the strength of his hardening was not something to be underestimated.

Kyle did not stop there and tried to grab the child's foot above him.

The child reacted fast, so he escaped before Kyle successfully grabbed him, but not before Kyle's hand grazed his foot.

Then, the child jumped away.

However, when he landed on the ground, the foot that he used to kick Kyle suddenly got disabled and he stumbled to the ground.

He felt a numbing sensation on his paralyzed foot as he wondered why this happened.

Seconds later... The effect of Kyle's Tremor Fist did not last for long and the numbing sensation was released, but this few seconds gave Feng Yexue an opening to attack.

*Lightning Strike Array* she stabbed her spear-like umbrella as she activated her skill and arrived before him.

The child that was kneeling the ground was caught unguarded, so he was forced to activate his *Heavenly Shield* hurriedly.

However, Feng Yexue's attacks were already before him, so his shield did not have any time to maintain and got broken easily.

He could only grit his teeth and forcefully released all of his scales from his body.

This wasn't enough to block her, but it could at least lighten the blow of the attack from Feng Yexue.

Feng Yexue's strike hit the scales of the child and he got blown away with his broken scales.

While the child was flying through the air, a shadow appeared beside him while he was still in mid-air.

This shadow was Kyle. He intercepted the child as it was getting blown through the air. He was now holding his WorldShaker on his hand as he struck down from above.

His WorldShaker contained some white essence around it as it hits the scales of the child.

*crack*

The child was still comprehending against the blow he received from Feng Yexue, so this attack of Kyle got him unguarded.

As Kyle's attack hit his body, he felt a huge tremor going inside his body, trying to damage him internally.

Such as,he spouted some blood when he landed on the ground.

Kyle wanted to continue to bombard the injured child on the groud, but then he felt a dangerous feeling.

*Ziiing...*

He saw something dreadful, so he retreated immediately after attacking the child with his WorldShaker.

Kyle attack him with his WorldShaker that has properties similar to his *Atomic Fist*, however, the force that was contained was applied to his soul weapon, hence the child felt some damages internally.

But due to the child's strong body, he manages to successfully take it and only spouted some blood.

Needless to say... The child had finally taken some serious damage after a couple of hours of fighting against each other, so this was an improvement for the both of them.

Kyle wanted to continue attacking, to deal more damage towards the child, however, he saw the child counter-attacking him and this counter-attack would let him suffer some serious damages.

Such as, he retreated and went back to Feng Yexue.

Due to the both of their teamwork, they successfully dealt serious damage against the child, so they were already content with that and followed through another plan of theirs.

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"Aaaaah... That hurts..." The child stood up as dusted himself.

He walked slowly as if the injuries that he got were miraculously healed. His broken scales that was dripping with blood was also slowly recovering.

This surprised both of them since they didn't expect the child to have such a fast recovery.

They had hoped to at least weaken the child slowly, but seeing the speed of his self-recovery; they dreaded.

But, they didn't lose hope and followed through their plan.

Kyle's full body then started to hardened along with his halberd as he charged towards the child.

Earth then started to coat his world breaker since this was gonna be a battle of resilience.

Then, Kyle and the child went into another face off in close quarters, while Feng Yexue backs him up.

This was their follow-up plan to battle the child.

Kyle could handle close quarters easily; due to his Haki while Feng Yexue attacks from the sides to disrupt the child from making a huge move.

This continued for a few more hours...

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The battle was getting fiercer by the second, however, Kyle could still hold against the child; due to his perfect synchronization with Feng Yexue, Successfully preventing the child to use his deadly martial skills.

This continued until, only half an hour was left before the one day limit.

"I didn't expect, that both of you could last this long." The child muttered as he looked at Kyle and Feng Yexue in front of him.

He then looked at Kyle and said:

"Why don't show me all you got?" Then, he roared and used his soul attack.

Now that Kyle had information about this, he wasn't ignorant by his actions.

Following the roar was the soul attack and it headed directly towards them.

They had their charms and ate the soul tempering pill beforehand, so they were confident in defending against it.

Kyle also activated his Haoshoku, however, the soul attack bypassed him, and it directly heads for Feng Yexue.

"Aaaah!!," Feng Yexue omitted a loud shriek as she fell to the ground.

When Kyle heard her shriek, he looked at her and saw her falling unconsciously, so he immediately dashed towards her and caught her falling body.

He inspected her and saw that her charm got broken.

"..."

He was shocked by the sudden turn of events.

Seeing this made him thought: "fuck this! He really is just faking it, what should I do?"

"Fight me with all you got. If you can last for half an hour then the both of you can pass this trial." The child spoke while observing them.

Kyle had now finally realized his situation. He could only grit his teeth since there was nothing else he could do but fight him.

He wasn't completely hopeless since he still had some tricks under his sleeves, but he wasn't sure if he could last for half an hour without Feng Yexue's back up.

But he can't run away this time. He could only face forward and brave the danger ahead of him.

Such as, he carefully placed Feng Yexue on the ground as he stood up and muttered:

"LET'S GO!"