Chapter 4: Slaughter in The Coliseum

The Coliseum belonged to the underworld of Luoshi City. It was an exceptionally popular place controlled by the Zhang family that attracted numerous plutocrats and aristocrats. Many people even in the entire Qingyun Province knew about it.

This was the place for those plutocrats and aristocrats to kill time, enjoy getting excited and seek blood and gore when they were too bored.

Despite being called the Coliseum [lit. Animal Battlefield in Chinese], it was not really a place where animals fought each other. The ones who engaged in killing here, were humans!

Bai Yunfei’s eyes popped out of his head, his mouth slightly open in astonishment, his body quivering unceasingly — he had never thought that people could fight each other so brutally.

In the Coliseum outside, two red silhouettes were engaging in hand-to-hand combat. In order to increase fighting time, weapons were generally not allowed in the Coliseum. If you wanted to survive, you would have to use your arms, legs, head and even teeth. Only by making it impossible for the opponent to stand up again would you be permitted to survive. And if you were defeated, this would usually mean death for you.

Those people were called red silhouettes because their bodies seemed to be sprinkled with blood! Their own blood, and also each other’s blood.

A man with a strong bearlike body, thick eyebrows and big eyes was panting. One of his eyes had become a bloody mess. His left ear had even been ripped off and his body was trembling slightly. But his remaining eye was still showing madness. Letting out a beastly yell, waving his huge fist, he attacked a middle-aged man much smaller than him in stature in front of him.

There were many injuries on the middle-aged man’s body too, but they looked much less severe than the opponent’s. When the big man’s fist arrived, he unexpectedly did not dodge. Instead, he also raised his fist, wanting to clash with the big man head-on!

The moment his right arm struck out, it seemed to swell up all of a sudden. After the fists collided, that big man let out a miserable cry and retreated several steps continuously. The fingers of his right hand had bent into strange shapes, and his blood was spurting out. Several broken finger bones even stuck out through his skin!

That middle-aged man flung blood off his hand — his opponent’s blood. He even licked it with some enjoyment as his eyes glittered frighteningly. He simply looked more like a beast that was slaughtering its prey than a human.

The ‘audience’ outside the field screamed in excitement for a while. These plutocrats and aristocrats had completely lost that graceful, distinguished posture they had had outside. All of their faces were red and full of excitement. Their eyes were wide open, afraid of missing any of this exciting scene.

They were also trembling nonstop like Bai Yunfei. But the difference was that they were trembling because of excitement whereas Bai Yunfei was trembling because of fear.

Around the two people in the field, there were various bloodstains, either red or dark. Some of these bloodstains belonged to these two and some others had been left behind by the people in the several previous fights.

On the ‘stand’, there were similarly several luxurious chairs above Bai Yunfei and the others. At this moment, three people were sitting in these chairs, watching the fighting below them.

The one of the left was none other than Zhang Yang!

Acting like an elegant young nobleman, he was pointing to that middle-aged man and saying to the person beside him: “Second young master Zheng, what do you think about this Coliseum of mine? A place that makes people’s blood boil, isn’t it? That’s none other than the most ferocious man in this Coliseum. He’s called Direwolf…”

Beside him, there was a youngster dressed in splendid purple clothes with a face even more handsome than Zhang Yang’s, who was watching the fighting in the field expressionlessly. He slightly nodded, saying: “Not bad. This man is already in the half-awakened state. With just some more time, his soulforce will fully awaken and he’ll be able to set foot in the Soul Apprentice stage.”Despite those words of praise, his expression showed slight disapproval, making him appear somewhat perfunctory as he talked.

Zhang Yang, however, did not mind. He said with an ingratiating smile: “A mere Soul Apprentice of course isn’t worthy of your approval, second young master Zheng. The Zheng family has a lot of talents and experts. How can small families like ours possibly compare with it…”He knew that this second young master Zheng, who was from the capital, basically looked down upon his own family. This time, out of curiosity, this young master had come to the Coliseum in Luoshi City and he only needed to serve him nicely enough not to offend him.

The person on the right was covered from head to toe in a black cloak. His face could not be seen clearly. At the moment, his arms were crossed over his chest, his head slightly lowered. It looked like he was sleeping… Now the fighting in the field was already approaching the end. That big man was simply no match for the middle-aged man. His movements became slower and slower as there were more and more injuries on his body. The spectators’ excited cries were also getting louder and louder.

In the end, the middle-aged man took the big man down to the ground with a sweep kick. Trampling on his chest with his right foot, he lifted one of his arms up with his hands then pulled with force!

That arm of the big man was unexpectedly torn off!

The audience gave an unprecedented cheer. Seemingly because this scene was too bloody, some female spectators turned their heads away one by one. However, they were still secretly glancing into the field through the corners of their eyes, their cheeks very red with excitement.

Eventually, the middle-aged man crushed the opponent’s head like a watermelon with a foot stomp… Seeing the splattering of the red and white stuff, Bai Yunfei finally could not bear it anymore. Groveling in the corner of the wall, he began to vomit. Uncle Wu also trembled all over and clutched Yunfei.

Now, even those several ferocious-looking men in front of them had a fearful expression in their eyes as well.

At this moment, the wooden door of the prison cell was knocked open. Ten something people with weapons in their hands appeared outside the door. The man who had brought steamed buns to them before shouted: “Everybody get out! Take your weapons! And prepare to fight for your freedom!”

That group of men looked at each other but in the end they still walked out one by one. Uncle Wu and Bai Yunfei were the last to come out.

Whenever a person got out, the man who had opened the door took a weapon out from the chest behind him, gave it to him then let him walk into the field.

Bai Yunfei walked somewhat absently at the back of the group. In just a while, he and Uncle Wu walked up to the door. Uncle Wu received a broken hatchet.

Bai Yunfei stood in bewilderment at the door, waiting for that man to give him a weapon. But that man seemed to have been instructed earlier. He looked at Yunfei with an ambiguous smile and did not give him any weapon.

“Why… Why don’t you give me a weapon?”

“Ha ha, isn’t your hand holding a weapon? What do you still want? Cut the crap. Quickly go into the field!”That man jokingly cast a look at the brick in his hand — Bai Yunfei had been holding it all along, as if doing this could help him feel a little bit safer.

With no trace of politeness, that man then gave Bai Yunfei a kick, hurrying him into the field.

Bai Yunfei caught up with Uncle Wu. He still had a nonplussed expression. Seeing those luxuriously dressed spectators who were sizing up himself and his cellmates with curious and puzzled looks, a thought suddenly sprung to his mind.