"Your strength is too weak." After sending Liu Hai flying with a single strike, Di Yano didn't pursue the attack. Instead, he spoke.

Victory wasn't his main concern. It was Liu Hai, his opponent!

He had waited too long for this battle! But to be completely overwhelmed in strength from the start? Di Yano couldn't help but feel disappointed.

"Is this the so-called world number one?" Di Yano scoffed, transforming into a blur once more, tearing through the air and creating visible airwaves. With a clear advantage in speed, Di Yano once again closed in on Liu Hai, delivering another bizarre, spinning thrust.

"Bang."

Liu Hai still used his left-hand shield to block the thrust, retreating three steps backward.

"Bang." After the thrust, Di Yano followed up with a sweeping attack! Striking Liu Hai's shield as he just regained his footing, Liu Hai, who was obviously on guard, was once again sent flying backward.

Impacts echoed incessantly.

Di Yano's movement speed exceeded the speed of sound, and his staff techniques were even more ferocious: chops, sweeps, points, thrusts... constantly assaulting Liu Hai, who was completely suppressed, repeatedly sent flying and retreating, looking disheveled.

"What?"

"How could this be?"

The official live broadcast had a record-breaking audience of over six billion people, all watching the clash between two of the strongest players in the world. They expected a closely matched, exciting battle, but what they were seeing was a one-sided beatdown!

Di Yano clearly had the upper hand in every aspect, forcing Liu Hai to constantly fly backward and retreat, barely managing to hold on with his shield.

"Senior Liu Hai is only slightly at a disadvantage," Haru Singh, one of the three commentators, said. "Don't be fooled by the fact that Senior Liu Hai is being knocked back repeatedly, even sent flying. Have you noticed something? Senior Liu Hai hasn't coughed up any blood."

"Huh?"

"That's right."

"Liu Hai flew back dozens of meters, but didn't cough up blood."

"Not a single drop of blood."

Many viewers gradually understood.

"Yes," Haru Singh nodded. "If Senior Liu Hai were to be hit by a staff and stand his ground! Then his body would have to bear and dissipate all the impact force. That would put a lot of strain on his body! But with each strike from Di Yano... Liu Hai is either retreating or flying backward. The impact of the staff is converted into Liu Hai's kinetic energy of flying backward. The impact on Liu Hai's body itself isn't that strong."

"This is also a way to redirect force, and it's a way of feigning weakness," Haru Singh said.

He had seen Liu Hai's battle with Madeline Logan and witnessed Liu Hai's techniques of using an opponent's strength against them. Haru Singh was certain that even if Liu Hai stood still, he would have a way to redirect the force.

"Master Liu Hai is observing his opponent and gathering information," Tu Ling said. "The way of Tai Chi is to control the enemy. The more you know about the enemy, the better. Knowing yourself and your enemy... gives you a greater chance of controlling the enemy."

Tu Ling himself was skilled in Tai Chi and understood Liu Hai's tactics.

"My master is indeed trying to understand his opponent's details in order to control him," Xu Jingming also confirmed.

...

At first, Di Yano was somewhat disappointed by Liu Hai's weak strength, but after a series of attacks, Di Yano became somewhat excited.

"No matter how I attack, I can't break him. No matter how he's bombarded, he won't get hurt." Di Yano's eyes burned with passion. "That's more like it. This is the battle I've truly been waiting for."

"Liu Hai, are you just going to keep taking a beating?" Di Yano asked.

Liu Hai stood still, looked at his opponent, and nodded with a smile, "Alright, I'll start counterattacking now."

"Come."

Di Yano's body tore through the air with a boom, waves of air rolling, already rushing close.

"Bang." Another heavy and terrifying staff strike landed on the shield. This time, however, Liu Hai naturally borrowed the force when the shield blocked, his body like water, the force quickly transmitted to his right arm, and his right-hand saber naturally unleashed a fierce strike.

Clang—

Di Yano raised the end of his staff, immediately blocking the saber. That was the nature of the staff. The tip and end could be switched at will, making it unpredictable.

However, the power of this saber strike startled Di Yano, shaking him back a step, a step that took him several meters away.

Liu Hai didn't retreat. The force of the saber strike that he received was transferred to his left-hand shield, which he directly smashed forward.

"Hmm?" Di Yano immediately thrust his staff forward. Just as the fierce strike landed on the shield, Liu Hai's saber was already cleaving down.

Yin and Yang revolve, never ceasing!

This was Reincarnation!

The force from the exchanges was constantly being borrowed. Shield and saber formed a Yin-Yang cycle, allowing for continuous attacks! Borrowing the enemy's strength, gathering one's own strength, and attacking the enemy with even greater force!

Boom boom boom—

In an instant, the air roared as Liu Hai kept advancing and attacking, shield strikes and saber light whistling incessantly, forcing Di Yano to retreat continuously. He also counterattacked frantically! The staff flipped, chopped, swept, and struck, fiercely and wantonly. But all of the fierce attacks were borrowed by Liu Hai and countered back.

"Although his strength is at least twice as high as mine, it's still within my tolerance."

"Using force against force, according to the tests in the training ground, I can barely borrow force even if the force is 3.9 times my own, but at that time, I can only borrow nearly half of the force," Liu Hai thought. "As for his level of force, it's completely within my control."

In the stands.

Xu Jingming didn't need to watch replays to see every detail of the battle and understand the key to their fight.

"Di Yano's strength is terrifying. I estimate it's above mine. Master can still use force against force?" Xu Jingming frowned. "Borrowing the force to continue attacking? The counter-shock force from the attack can also be used? How can such a strong master be defeated?"

"Even if the attack is a lot stronger, it will still be redirected and won't threaten Master at all," Xu Jingming thought. "How can there be such a powerful move?"

He didn't know.

This wasn't a move from the lineage that Liu Hai had learned. Liu Hai had also practiced the ultimate moves from the lineage, but he wasn't too satisfied with them.

Over the years, Liu Hai had always believed that what suited him best was the best. He practiced the lineage, absorbed the experience, and integrated it into his own Tai Chi, then created two ultimate moves. These two ultimate moves... were especially powerful in Liu Hai's hands.

"My strength and speed are clearly so much stronger, yet I'm completely suppressed?" Di Yano was also shocked and enraged.

After dozens of consecutive attacks, Liu Hai stopped.

"You're very impressive. You withstood dozens of my attacks even when I got serious," Liu Hai praised. He truly admired this Di Yano. The power of the moves he unleashed by using force against force was very strong. Moreover, the shield and saber rotated, and the attacks came one after another, making it difficult for the enemy to catch their breath. But Di Yano still defended against them, proving his solid foundation and the great strength that allowed him to hold on.

"As expected of Liu Hai." Di Yano also looked at Xu Jingming.

"Battle is not just about strength and speed," Liu Hai said. "Next, I'll go all out."

"Go all out?" Di Yano was stunned.

Whoosh.

Liu Hai charged forward in one step, his shield crushing down with a much fiercer power. Di Yano's eyes turned cold as he swept his staff ferociously.

Boom~~~

With the collision of terrifying forces, Liu Hai's shield was still at a disadvantage, shaking as it borrowed force, the force naturally transmitting to his right hand through his body.

"One saber, divide Yin and Yang!"

Killing intent flashed in Liu Hai's eyes.

Whoosh!

A dazzling saber light flashed past! Causing Di Yano to be greatly alarmed!

This was an ultimate move that Liu Hai had never used before.

He had created two ultimate moves by integrating the lineage, 'Reincarnation' was mainly defensive, while 'Saber Divide Yin and Yang' was purely offensive! Simply using 'Saber Divide Yin and Yang' was terrifying enough, but if combined, borrowing force before unleashing 'Saber Divide Yin and Yang' would be even more terrifying.

Liu Hai was doing just that at the moment, combining the two ultimate moves, borrowing force before unleashing a terrifying saber strike.

This saber strike amazed countless people around the world.

Di Yano's eyes widened as he desperately raised his staff to try to block it, but he was still a fraction of a second too slow. The saber light swept across his chest first!