Zhao Yan clicked on the video sent by Nie Shouren:
This is a video of a mixed martial arts fight. The two men in the video are two white men in the Octagon.
One of them is very large, and one can tell at a glance that he is a heavyweight player, while the other one is much 'skinny', giving people a lean and powerful look.
When Zhao Yan saw this, he thought of the match between himself and Yuriko.
Is this being imitated?
Then he saw the strong white man in the video punching his opponent, and the two fists collided accurately.
Snapped! ! !
There was a crisp sound, and the tough man's opponent immediately showed a look of pain, and his right arm dropped.
What the powerful man did next was even more astonishing. He stepped forward, grabbed his opponent's neck, and then lifted his opponent up with one arm!
"oh--"
There was a burst of exclamations at the scene.
Lifting a person up with one hand requires extremely high arm strength, and you can usually only see this scene in movies.
And the strong man's opponent, who definitely weighed over 200 kilograms, was actually lifted up with one hand. It was really amazing!
The strong man who was grabbed by the neck and lifted up was unable to resist at all, and soon fell into a state of suffocation. The referee on the side quickly stepped forward to stop and announced that the strong man won the game.
The video ends here, and the scene freezes on the scene of a strong man looking up to the sky and screaming.
Zhao Yan sent a message to Nie Shouren:
"Senior Brother Nie, what is this?"
Nie Shouren: "This is a match that the UFC just finished yesterday. The winner is named Morgan Rhodes, a newcomer who has just joined the UFC. Like you, he also fights across levels. He only weighs middleweight, but he is He asked to challenge a heavyweight opponent, and as you can see, he won easily."
Zhao Yan frowned slightly.
Did you meet a genetic warrior? Is this Morgan Rhodes a player?
"I have checked. This Morgan Rhodes is a student of the Sacred Heart Stream, and his teacher is Andres Ferry, the founder of the Sacred Heart Stream."
Nie Shouren continued to send messages.
Sacred Heart Style?
Zhao Yan heard about this genre for the first time.
Seemingly aware of Zhao Yan's doubts, Nie Shouren quickly gave an explanation:
"Sacred Heart Style is a genre that only appeared three years ago. Its founder, Andres Ferry, was a professional boxer in the country when he was young. After winning all the championships he could, he chose to retire. Then he began to learn fighting techniques from various countries, such as Bajour, Sambo, Muay Thai, karate, and our country’s traditional martial arts. It took him more than 20 years to blend these fighting techniques together and create a new one. The fighting style is named Sacred Heart, which is what I call Sacred Heart style."
"I heard from the teacher that Andres is definitely a great master and the strongest fighter in Jian Country. He even challenged Senior Wu Li back then. Although he lost, Senior Wu Li also gave him a very high rating. Evaluation. As a student of Andres, Morgan Rhodes must have received the true inheritance, and he seems to be very strong. Next, you will have to fight in the UFC heavyweight competition, and it is very likely that he will fight against Morgan Rhodes. You have to be careful."
After Zhao Yan read the message from Nie Shouren, not only did he not feel worried, but he was pleasantly surprised.
His [Road to Glory] is currently (3286592/10000000), and 30% of the progress has been completed.
Although the number of people is still growing every day, if he wants to achieve his goal within a month, he still needs a few shocking enough games.
Therefore, Zhao Yan is not afraid that the opponent is too strong, but is worried that the opponent is too weak and will not be effective.
"Okay, I understand. I will pay attention. Thank you, Senior Brother Nie."
Zhao Yan replied.
On October 5, Zhao Yan was going to take an international flight to Jianguo with Nie Shouren and others.
The pre-match weighing ceremony arranged by the UFC is on October 7th, and the official match time is October 8th. Because Zhao Yan does not need to dehydrate and lose weight before the match, he can just go directly.
Before setting off, Zhao Yan reported the itinerary to captain Liao Yichao.
"The Longteng Association also has staff in Jian Country. This is the contact information of the staff in New City. Remember it. If you encounter any emergency and need help, just call this number."
Liao Yichao handed Zhao Yan a phone number.
"Captain, will someone be protecting me secretly?"
Zhao Yan asked curiously.
Liao Yichao shook his head: "I don't know about this, but your current identity has not been exposed. Others are not sure that you are a player, let alone the 'God of Chinese Martial Arts', so they arrange personnel to protect you with great fanfare. On the contrary, Exposing your identity."
"Um."
Zhao Yan nodded.
"There's one more thing."
Liao Yichao handed Zhao Yan a photo.
He took it and took a look and found that the man looked familiar:
"Morgan Rhodes?"
This man was exactly the tough man in the video that Nie Shouren sent him two days ago.
"It seems that you have also paid attention in advance."
Liao Yichao said to Zhao Yan, "This person is most likely from the Star Alliance."
The Star Alliance is the official organization of the top country and one of the strongest player forces in the world.
"I got it."
Zhao Yan nodded.
The other party was only 23 years old and had no reputation before. Suddenly he had great power. He was either cheating like himself, or he was injected with genetic enhancement drugs.
Only players who are backed by powerful forces dare to show up like this without worrying about exposing their identity.
Therefore, Zhao Yan guessed that Morgan Rhodes was most likely from the Star Alliance.
"This Morgan Rhodes is a student of the Sacred Heart style of fighting. He suddenly joined the UFC and made a lot of noise. Immediately afterwards, major media in the country began to vigorously promote the Sacred Heart style. This is obviously purposeful. "
Liao Yichao continued.
"What's the purpose?"
Zhao Yan asked.
Liao Yichao: "Sacred Heart Style mainly focuses on meditation and breathing methods, and refers to ancient martial arts schools in many countries, including our traditional martial arts. We speculate that there should be a new breakthrough in the martial arts of Holy Heart Style, and it can have It helps genetically enhanced warriors control their body and mind and strengthen their willpower, thereby reducing the risk of genetic collapse and mutation."
Zhao Yan was startled: "So powerful?"
Liao Yichao smiled and said: "This is actually nothing. Our traditional martial arts and some Taoist health-preserving Kung Fu also have such effects. Instructor Han and his senior brother Wu Li and Instructor Wu once specially summed up a series of Kung Fu that all members of the Longteng Society know. Study. In addition, the two instructors also promoted multiple sets of pile exercises in the army, and I still practice one of them to this day, which can improve my control over my body."
Zhao Yan nodded: "The history of Jian Country is too short and it does not have its own ancient martial arts culture, so there has been no practice content in this area before. Now that there has been a breakthrough, it has begun to vigorously promote the Sacred Heart Style."
"Right, that is it."
Liao Yichao looked at him, "That's why I remind you that if you confront the opponent next, you will not only block the way of Morgan Rhodes, but also block the way of the entire Star Alliance!"
"Could it be that if I defeat Morgan Rhodes, the Star Alliance will send someone to deal with me?"
Zhao Yan smiled.
Liao Yichao looked serious: "If the Star Alliance confirms that Morgan Rhodes is not your opponent, then you may not even have a chance to fight him!"
When Zhao Yan heard this, he stopped smiling and frowned slightly.
This is indeed a problem.
Fortunately, the opponent he was going to fight in the country this time was not Morgan Rhodes, and he still had time to think and prepare.
"I see."
Zhao Yan nodded to Liao Yichao.
"Be careful yourself."
Liao Yichao warned.
Then Zhao Yan left the training base and took a car to the airport.
Next, he, Coach Sun, Nie Shouren, his team and Lu Yuan got on the plane to Jian Country.
The reason why Lu Yuan also came was because Zhao Yan was representing his club to fight in the UFC, and he, the boss, had reason to go and take a look.
The second is because he really likes fighting. Now that one of his own players is going to fight in the UFC, he will definitely go to witness it.
There was no words all the way, and fifteen hours later, the plane arrived in New York City, the capital of the country.
Everyone checked into the hotel and rested for a day.
On October 7, Zhao Yan participated in the UFC’s pre-match weigh-in ceremony.
This weighing ceremony can also be regarded as a traditional program of the UFC. The players participating in the competition get on the scale and weigh themselves under the witness of the referee and the audience.
Then there will be a session where the two players who are going to compete on the next day will talk harshly to each other. Some players will deliberately mess up, such as trash-talking in public, insulting their opponents, shouting loudly, or even rushing over to beat their opponents.
Of course, most of these are staged, and may even be specially arranged by UFC officials. Because this can intensify the excitement and drama of the game and increase the attention of the game.
The fact that the UFC has become the highest-level and most watched mixed martial arts competition in the world is inseparable from its successful business operation model.
Why does Nie Shouren strongly hope that Zhao Yan can stand up and promote national martial arts? It's because after carefully studying the UFC's business model, he realized one thing very clearly: strength alone is not enough.
There are many powerful champions in the UFC, but only a few are truly famous. These few have more attention and income than all the other UFC champions combined!
So Nie Shouren knows that only with good publicity methods and business models, coupled with his own strong strength, can he possibly promote Chinese martial arts to the world!
The scene of the weighing ceremony.
As the pairs of players were weighed, it was finally Zhao Yan's turn.
"The following is a player from Dragon Kingdom. He is only 19 years old. He has incredibly crossed three levels in "Elite Road", defeated the "Elite Road" heavyweight champion, and won a ticket to the UFC. Now he still needs to The Kung Fu Dragon who competes across levels—Zhao! Yan!!!!"
Following the host's introduction, Zhao Yan walked out of the contestant tunnel, and the spotlight shone on him.
The nickname 'Kung Fu Dragon' was given to him by Nie Shouren and submitted to UFC officials for them to use this title for promotion and introduction.
The word "Kung Fu" is known to many foreigners, and "Dragon" is the symbol and representative of the Dragon Kingdom, so the nickname "Kung Fu Dragon" is very appropriate.
Today, Zhao Yan wore a white martial arts uniform with a black dragon embroidered on it, soaring into the clouds and riding the mist, which looked very imposing.
After he appeared on the stage, he did not deliberately restrain his momentum, but opened up his aura and attracted everyone's attention at once!
There was applause and cheers.
The UFC promoted Zhao Yan in advance and also played the video of the match where he defeated Yuriko. The most important thing is that Morgan Rhodes also did the same thing, and the UFC's promotion of Morgan Rhodes was huge, which also made Zhao Yan's popularity rise.
"Zhao Yan!"
"Zhao Yan!"
When Zhao Yan entered the venue, he heard someone calling him loudly in Chinese.
He turned around and saw some international students from the Dragon Kingdom holding his posters high and cheering him on.
He smiled and waved to them, then stood on the weighing platform:
80.2kg.
This number is displayed on the big screen at the scene.
A few days ago, when he reached level 2 of his flawless golden body, and his diamond and evergreen attributes were +1 each, his weight suddenly increased by several kilograms, exceeding the upper limit of the welterweight class and entering the middleweight class. .
But this doesn't matter because he is a heavyweight fighter across different levels.
"The following is the 'Blood General' Juo Nelson, who has a UFC record of 12 wins and 2 losses and is ranked fourth in the heavyweight class!!!!"
The host asked Zhao Yan's opponent to appear.
The opponent is a 2.07-meter-tall black man. He is a retired soldier of the Marine Corps. He often breaks the corners of his opponent's eyes, nose, lips, and even face during games, causing the opponent to bleed. Therefore, he is nicknamed 'Blood General'.
Juao Nelson appeared on the stage and won even warmer applause and cheers than Zhao Yan.
He walked up to the weighing platform step by step:
119.5kg!
This value is close to the upper limit of the heavyweight class of 120kg, which means that Juao Nelson is nearly 80kg heavier than Zhao Yan!
This exaggerated numerical comparison caused a burst of exclamations from the scene.
After the weighing is completed, it is time to enter the conversation.
The host first handed the microphone to Zhao Yan.
Zhao Yan simply said:
"See you on the field."
Naturally, there was nothing explosive about this, so the host expectedly handed the microphone to Hu Ao who was standing aside.
As the party being challenged across levels, Hu Ao must have a lot to say.
In fact, Hu Ao's team did prepare a whole set of trash talk for him in advance, asking him to provoke Zhao Yan before the game.
However, just when Hu Ao pointed his finger at Zhao Yan and was about to spray, Zhao Yan suddenly turned his head and glanced at him.
It was this look that stunned Hu Ao.
He has never seen such a cold and terrifying look!
At this moment, he felt that Zhao Yan was like a tiger that was occupying the mountains and forests, ready to choose and devour anyone at any time, and that he was just a little ant under the claws of the tiger.
A terrible trembling feeling arose spontaneously, making Huao's scalp tingle, and he stopped talking when he reached his mouth.
Hu Ao froze on the spot, looking at Zhao Yan blankly, his face a little pale.
This scene made everyone at the scene very puzzled and didn't understand what was happening.
Hu Ao's team was even more anxious below: You're just swearing!
"Huao? Huao?"
The host on the side shouted twice before Hu Ao came back to his senses.
He looked at Zhao Yan with horrified eyes, and then said weakly:
".See you on the field."
"Um."
Zhao Yan on the side nodded with satisfaction.
(End of chapter)
