Chapter 246 Victorious!
The heat in the hot spring area rose in the air, creating a mist-like atmosphere. Although Sun Mo’s attitude was unyielding, he wasn’t careless at all. Since Chen Anfu could become a 4-star great teacher, he would definitely have many capabilities.
His students would naturally have extremely high talent. This was especially so for a disciple like Wei Jie whom he accepted after he became famous. He must have sifted through many students to find someone like him.
There was a saying called ‘knowledge obtained from paper will always be shallow’. If a cultivator wished to increase his strength, practical battles would always be the most simple and effective method.
A personal disciple of a 4-star great teacher would absolutely be a valuable opponent.
“If we lose, I will apologize. Anyway, I would have benefited by being able to let my students gain some combat experience.” Sun Mo was much calmer than how he looked on the surface. “Xuanyuan Po, Ying Baiwu, the two of you have to fight. Don’t just think about winning to vent your emotions. From now on, I want you all to observe your opponents and analyze them. Even if you are not his actual opponents, I want you all to imagine that you are the one fighting and think about how you would win.”
After Sun Mo spoke, he glanced at Li Ziqi and the other four. “You guys must be attentive
too!”
“Mn!”
Li Ziqi felt a little disappointed. But after that, she was filled with self-reproach. She was the eldest martial sister and should fight the first battle. However, she was simply too weak and simply lost face for her teacher!
“Baiwu, come over.”
Upon hearing Sun Mo’s words, Ying Baiwu immediately came over.
Sun Mo drew in a deep breath. In his mind, he ran through the Grand Universe Formless Divine Art as well as Jiang Leng’s cultivation art. After that, he sent the knowledge into the iron-headed girl’s mind.
Great teacher halo, Soul Imprint!
Ying Baiwu immediately closed her eyes and meticulously experienced the profoundness of these cultivation arts.
Sun Mo didn’t impart his experience into Ying Baiwu’s mind because he wanted the iron-headed girl to comprehend them herself. Only by doing so would the insights gained be imprinted deeper. “This is a great teacher halo?”
This was the first time Pei Yuanli saw Soul Imprint, he was a little astonished.
Jin Mujie was curious and stared at Sun Mo. However, Sun Mo didn’t have any intentions of explaining
Chen Anfu, who stood at the side, was frowning. (What’s this? Could it be a type of dark secret art? No matter what you use, my genius disciple will definitely not lose!) Once the fight was confirmed, Wei Jie impatiently jumped out.
“Wei Jie, fifth level of the body-refinement realm. Please guide me!”
Wei Jie stared at Xuanyuan Po, his eyes filled with provocation. As for Ying Baiwu, he basically ignored her. From his point of view, a woman wasn’t qualified to fight him. Even if he won, he would have nothing to feel proud about.
Xuanyuan Po initially wanted to report his name. But after hearing his cultivation base, he directly retreated and indicated to Ying Baiwu, “He is yours!” The iron-headed girl directly walked out. “Ying Baiwu, fourth level of the body-refinement realm. Please guide me!”
“If you are not at the spirit-refinement realm, don’t come over and fight against me!”
Wei Jie frowned and snarled. He then unsheathed his longsword and pointed it at Xuanyuan Po. He knew that the other party didn’t want to fight because he assumed that he would win for sure.
To ordinary people, this was the case. However, Wei Jie was a genius. Jumping levels to fight others was something very common to him.
Hua
Upon hearing this, a commotion occurred among the students of the Central Province Academy. Wasn’t this fellow a little too arrogant? What he meant was that he, who was at the fifth level, could securely fight against someone at the ninth level.
“I would never fight against low-level trash!”
Xuanyuan Po’s lips curled as he surveyed Wei Jie. “Also, you won’t be able to defeat Ying Baiwu!”
The combat addict’s personality might be incompatible with the iron-headed girl, but he still approved of her talent and strength.
Once this young girl matured, she would surely be a very strong opponent! “Stop talking nonsense, come and fight!”
Ying Baiwu urged.
“Little Jie, there’s no need to delay this further. Finish the battle fast!”
Chen Anfu’s patience was already exhausted. Squabbling with a zero-star teacher would only damage his prestige. In addition, he had also guessed the reason why Sun Mo was so unyielding. Sun Mo wanted to use his disciples as the grindstones to sharpen his own disciples.
“Hmph, do you think it’s so easy to take advantage of me?”
Chen Anfu mocked silently. He then instructed in an ice-cold voice, “Don’t show mercy!’
“Roger that!”
Wei Jie immediately adjusted his mental state. He understood his teacher’s intention. He had to completely crush this girl, causing her to be ruined to the point of total collapse.
“Hmph, I will let you look at the difference between a mortal and a genius!”
Wei Jie’s eyes were filled with disdain. “You should attack first!”
Ying Baiwu’s lips curled. She wasn’t polite and directly sprinted forward.
Swish!
Skynet Sand!
Her sword, White Bird, was like a yellow oriole chirping melodiously as it stabbed toward Wei Jie. The sword arc appeared like an oriole flying up to the sky in the eyes of everyone.
Wei Jie’s pupils narrowed violently. He was indeed a genius; hence, he could tell with a single glance that this young girl’s cultivation art wasn’t simple. But after that, he grew excited.
(It’s even better if my opponent is a genius!) (Because I, Wei Jie, would only defeat geniuses!)
“Well done!”
Wei Jie didn’t block nor evade. His longsword slashed out as he faced Ying Baiwu’s attack head-on.
Chen Anfu stroked his beard and had a smile on his face. Wei Jie was his personal disciple. If he was afraid and decided to retreat right at the start, even if he won in the end, Chen Anfu would teach him a lesson.
Ding! The swords collided. When both parties stepped back, their wrists trembled. Their swords slashed out once more in beautiful arcs.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Fast against fast, the sound of metal colliding rang out constantly.
The spectating students had all fallen silent. Their eyes were wide open as they stared at the movements of the two combatants. They were afraid of missing out on any scene.
As the combat continued, shock appeared on the faces of the students. These two combatants were so powerful!
It was one thing for Wei Jie. He was recognized by a 4-stars great teacher after all and would surely have outstanding talent. But for Ying Baiwu……no one expected her to be so powerful to this extent.
She was one level weaker compared to her opponent, yet she was holding her own against him. Her aura wasn’t in any way inferior. “But she would still lose!”
The students discovered that after a wave of attacks, Ying Baiwu began to be suppressed. She was defending the majority of the time “What do you think?”
Gu Xiuxun asked her own complacent disciple.
“Very powerful!”
Zhang Yanzong was staring at Ying Baiwu. “Who are you talking about?” Gu Xiuxun continued to ask. “Teacher, are you asking despite already knowing the answer?”
Zhang Yanzong rolled his eyes. “I know you are testing my judgment ability, but there’s really no difficulty in discerning this!”
“You are not allowed to be complacent!”
Gu Xiuxun berated. However, a hint of doting love could be heard in her tone.
“That Wei Jie is a genius but that’s all to it. As for Ying Baiwu, she would make people feel despair, vexed, depressed, and disappointed. It was because she would make you feel like you are not a genius but a mortal instead.” After Zhang Yanzong said this, his tone felt a little disappointed.
“You shouldn’t undervalue yourself. You are not inferior to her in any way!”
Gu Xiuxun consoled.
She understood what her eldest disciple meant. It was like in the final exam, Wei Jie and Zhang Yanzong both scored full marks and were at the peak of their peers.
However, Zhang Yanzong had to work so hard to the point of almost dying before he could score the same and chase up to Wei Jia. As for Ying Baiwu, in the process of you working hard to score full marks, when you finally achieved it, she would show an even more terrifying result.
“There are many reasons why someone wishes to succeed. Talent is just a single aspect.”
Zhang Yanzong spoke while bootlicking a little, “Besides, I have an extremely outstanding teacher. I will be better than her!”
“Hehe!”
Gu Xiuxun smiled. It could be considered that she agreed tacitly. But in truth, her eyes were fixed at Sun Mo. She wanted to tell Zhang Yanzong that Ying Baiwu’s teacher was also not bad.
There was no way to doubt Sun Mo’s luck. He saved a girl and it turned out that he picked up a gem.
In the combat, Wei Jie was suppressing Ying Baiwu. He unleashed all sorts of attacks to his heart’s content, allowing the students to be stunned and amazed. Even the students from the Central Province Academy couldn’t help but admit that this arrogant fellow was truly strong
But Chen Anfu’s expression turned heavy. If one still couldn’t take their opponent down after a long duration of attacks, a change would surely occur. What was more troubling was that this scene seemed to be intentionally created by the girl student.
BOOM!
Wei Jie’s heavy punches crashed against Ying Baiwu’s single palm. Upon collision, the impact caused qi waves to radiate out, dispersing the dust in the surroundings.
Wei Jie felt a little short of breath. But when he saw Ying Baiwu breathing normally, he forcefully suppressed his intention of panting. He didn’t wish to be inferior.
“Do you have any new moves?” Ying Baiwu asked. The attacks of her opponent started to become boring. “Talk again if you can withstand this.”
Wei Jie seized the initiative to attack.
“I’ve already blocked ‘this’ before!” Ying Baiwu’s figure flashed and unleashed Beauty Yu. She lunged toward Wei Jie as her sword poked out. Eighteen Words Order!
Pak, pak, pak!
Wei Jie barely blocked them. After that, he grew so nervous that he started perspiring cold sweat. (This can’t continue on, the attacks of this girl are too terrifying. I mustn’t allow her to attack or I might really lose here!)
Upon thinking of this, Wei Jie also unleashed his ultimate move. Moonbreaking Cloud!
Swish-Swish
A clone actually emerged from Wei Jie’. The clone coordinated with its original body and pierced out with their sword. It felt like they pierced through the boundary of space and appeared directly before Ying Baiwu.
Honestly speaking, using such a move to defeat a lower-leveled opponent would show that he was not that skilled. However, Wei Jie didn’t dare to underestimate her.
“Sigh, if I win like this, I would surely be punished by Teacher when I return!”
Wei Jie was distracted. After that, a ‘ding’ sound appeared. The clear metallic sound made him feel as though he was bitten by a poisonous snake. After that, he involuntarily shivered.
I missed?
His ultimate move should cause the sound of a sword entering flesh to ring out. Wei Jie glanced over and saw Ying Baiwu somehow manage to block his ultimate move. In fact, she even retaliated.
Swish! Swish!
A clone also emerged from Ying Baiwu……
“This……”
Chen Anfu was stunned. All the students behind him had dumbstruck looks on their faces. Wasn’t this a personal ultimate move of their teacher? Why did this girl know it?
Sizzle
White Bird pierced into Wei Jie’s shoulder. After that, Ying Baiwu pulled it out, and Wei Jie fell onto the ground, causing his body to be covered in dirt.
“Moonbreaking Cloud?”
A look of intense disbelief appeared on Wei Jie’s face. He subconsciously turned to his teacher. (Could this girl be your illegitimate daughter? If not, why would she know the ultimate art passed down in your family?) “You’ve lost!”
After Ying Baiwu spoke, she didn’t even glance at Wei Jie. Her longsword pointed in the distance as her gaze swept across the other students of Chen Anfu. “Who’s next?”
“Arrogant!” All of them stood out at the same time, wanting to teach Ying Baiwu a lesson.
“Oi, it’s my turn!”
Xuanyuan Po stepped out. “If you continue acting like this, I won’t even leave an opponent for you in the future!”
Chen Anfu’s students were about to explode from anger. (What do you guys treat us as? A salted fish that you guys can cook?)
“My name is Wu Ziyou, ninth level of the body-refinement realm. Please guide me!”
A male student stood out!
Chapter 247 Loaches Are So Adorable, We Have to Add More Salt Then!
“Teacher, I’m fortunate enough that I didn’t fail to obey your order!”
Ying Baiwu reported.
“Well done!”
Sun Mo was very satisfied.
“Hehe!”
Ying Baiwu grinned.
“Junior sister is very beautiful when she smiles!”
Lu Zhiruo felt a little envious.
The iron-headed girl was very beautiful. As she was nourished, her weak body began to become fitter. Her pale face also had some color to it now.
In the past, because Ying Baiwu’s life was filled with heavy pressure and she was so busy every day that she had no time to rest, she didn’t smile much. But once she smiled, she actually exuded exceptional charm.
If one said that Lu Zhiruo’s smile was very pure and flawless, Ying Baiwu’s smile would be like the sunshine after the wind and snow. It exuded a refreshing feeling!
“I know you wish to look at more of his moves, but you don’t have to be so passive to the point where you took his attacks, countering it only after he used a move. You could intentionally ‘guide’ him to use other moves. By doing so, you will be safer.”
Sun Mo guided.
“Mn!”
Ying Baiwu nodded. She knew of her own shortcomings. Her combat experience was too little, and she had to fight more!
“Teacher Sun, congratulations.” Xia Yuan was filled with envy. Who wouldn’t want a student like Ying Baiwu who had outstanding talent? Even Pei Yuanli’s eyes were glowing brightly. “Don’t be jealous of him, you will definitely find a disciple that’s better than her!”
Zhang Qianlin mumbled, telling himself not to feel envy. However, it was basically useless because he understood a student like Yuan Baiwu was simply like a precious gem. She was simply too rare.
Chen Anfu frowned as he surveyed Ying Baiwu. As the fight progressed, he could already tell that Wei Jie would be defeated. However, he didn’t expect that the girl would actually use his own ultimate art to defeat his disciple.
“Interesting!”
Chen Anfu instantly thought of the Grand Universe Formless Divine Art, the ultimate divine art of the Skyraise Academy. It had the miraculous ability to ‘copy’ the opponent’s techniques.
However, he shook his head after that because even extremely outstanding students wouldn’t be qualified to learn that cultivation art.
Only their headmaster’s candidate would be qualified for it.
(It should be some type of dark secret arts, I guess?)
(Well, there are two more rounds. My students would win for sure!) Just when this notion appeared in his mind, he heard a scream of pain. He subconsciously turned his head and saw Wu Ziyou falling onto the ground like a broken sack, covered in dust. There was even a large hole on his shoulder that was bleeding profusely. “Next!”
Xuanyuan Po held his spear horizontal to himself. An intense will to battle was shining in his eyes as he swept his gaze across the remaining students of Chen Anfu.
Upon hearing this, the students from the Central Province Academy, who were initially surveying Ying Baiwu after her victory, turned their heads in astonishment and immediately saw Wu Ziyou’s pathetic state.
“What the hell? It ended just like that?”
The students exchanged gazes and started to suspect whether that fellow was a personal disciple of a 4-star great teacher. Could he have entered through the back-door? If not, why would he be so weak?
“Too strong!”
“This eruption power, the coordination of his body, his cultivation art……everything is so perfect that he can only be described as someone that would only appear once in a hundred years!”
“If I have such a disciple, I would be willing to die now.”
The teachers mumbled as looks of envy appeared on their faces, while they exhibited their feelings in speech.
An outstanding student could allow one to become a great teacher.
In the great teacher qualification exam, one of the strict requirements to become a 2-star great teacher was that one of their students must ascend to the Greencloud Rankings. As for 4-star great teachers, one of their students must ascend to the Hero Rankings.
Some great teachers were overflowing with talent and had strong guidance ability. However, their students were all rotten wood in terms of quality. Hence, they were unqualified when they wanted to upgrade their star-rank.
“Teacher Sun would become a 2-star great teacher in the future for sure!”
Xia Yuan was filled with envy. She wasn’t able to rise to 2 stars because the aptitude of her students was too inferior. Similarly, Jin Mujie wasn’t able to rise to 4 stars because none of her students were able to ascend to the Hero Rankings.
Some great teachers felt that such requirements were too harsh. If they weren’t able to find genius students their entire lives, wouldn’t that mean that they wouldn’t be able to rise in ranks even if they worked hard their entire lives?
In the great teacher world back then, over half the population of great teachers had signed a petition with their blood, hoping for the Saint Gate to revise their rules and requirements. However, the Saint Gate’s sect lord had rejected it.
He had said a single sentence, “What is a great teacher?”
“A great teacher is someone who can turn the impossible into the possible, transforming a mediocre student into someone not mediocre, allowing them to succeed. If everyone is a genius, why would the world still need great teachers?”
Although Xuanyuan Po had just defeated his student, Wu Ziyou, Chen Anfu was looking at the combat addict with a look of admiration in his eyes.
It was a gaze that appeared when a teacher saw a great student. He wanted to guide him and nurture him into a talent. The satisfaction of nurturing a student who became world-famous was simply too awesome. “Let me fight in the third round!”
Another male student stepped out.
“Forget it!” Chen Anfu stopped his student. One had to be willing to admit defeat when one lost the gamble. “Teacher Sun, I’ve lost. We will leave!”
Chen Anfu led his students away after his apology If it wasn’t for his sense of honor as a great teacher, Chen Anfu would have tried to poach away Xuanyuan Po. As for that Ying Baiwu, the gaze that she used to look at Sun Mo was one filled with worship and admiration. After seeing this, Chen Anfu understood that no matter who it was, they wouldn’t be able to poach this girl away from Sun Mo.
“You guys better not feel complacent. The most competent students of our teacher are all at……”
Wei Jie was very unhappy as he wanted to explain. He didn’t want to lose face. “Little Jie!”
Chen Anfu berated. “No matter what the reason, a defeat is a defeat. Finding excuses is the most embarrassing behavior!”
“Understood, teacher!”
Wei Jie lowered his head.
Chen Anfu’s group left. Since they no longer had access to the best hot spring, they could only find another normal hot spring, making use of the time to rest.
As long as their seniors could find that mysterious species of darkness, once there was any news, all of them would have to move out immediately. Hence, time was tight.
“What’s wrong with you?”
Li Ziqi discovered that the papaya girl started to glance at the surroundings again.
“That thing has finally gone!”
Lu Zhiruo patted her chest and heaved a sigh of relief.
“I will tell Teacher!”
A hint of worry could be seen on Li Ziqi’s face.
Du Xiao walked to Sun Mo’s side and patted his shoulder as she smiled. “Why are you frowning? Your students won two rounds against students taught by a 4-star great teacher. Shouldn’t you be satisfied with their performances?” “No!”
Sun Mo pondered. “Something is wrong!”
“Indeed.”
Gu Xiuxun interjected as she looked at the direction Chen Anfu left in.
“What’s going on?”
Yi Jiamin had a dumbfounded look on his face.
“The Spiritwind Canyon is a training ground suitable for students who have just entered the Darkness Continent. It is a great venue to acclimatize them to the spirit qi tides. Wei Jie was the youngest among Chen Anfu’s students, but from the looks of things, he already came to the Darkness Continent a few times before. Why would he need to come to a training ground for newbies?”
Zhang Qianlin analyzed. His brain was actually not bad.
“The students of Chen Anfu are all injured and covered with dust from a long period of traveling. Evidently, they have stayed for a long time in the Darkness Continent. Also, they are lugging around a lot of luggage. It’s clear that there are more people with them, but where did those people go?”
Gu Xiuxun questioned.
“To pursue a mysterious species of darkness?”
Xia Yuan subconsciously answered.
What was the most valuable thing on the Darkness Continent? It was the mysterious species of darkness!
The time of a 4-star great teacher was simply too precious. Even if Chen Anfu had nothing to do, he wouldn’t personally lead his students to the Darkness Continent to train themselves.
“A mysterious species of darkness?”
Upon hearing this term, all the students started panting. As long as they could capture one, they would be rich
“Are they here to catch the spirit qi roaming dragon?”
Yi Jiamin recalled the rumors they had heard when they first came to the Spiritwind City. Someone had said that a spirit qi roaming dragon had been discovered in the Coldwave Pool. Maybe, that was a distraction. The true location of that mysterious species of darkness might be on the Spiritwind Canyon!
After thinking of this, Yi Jiamin’s heart heated
up!
That was a rare species ranked #36 on the mysterious species list. Due to it being innately sensitive to spirit qi, it could always avoid spirit qi tides promptly. Once a cultivator possessed it, they would be able to run rampant in the Darkness Continent. They didn’t need to worry about running into the terrifying spirit qi tides anymore.
Listing an example…… If Yi Jiamin had a spirit qi roaming dragon, he would be able to enter and exit this Spiritwind Valley freely, perfectly avoiding the spirit qi tides. This also meant that he wouldn’t encounter the impact brought along by the change in spirit pressure. Naturally, there wouldn’t be problems of spirit pressure allergies.
Of course, the greatest value of spirit qi roaming dragons was that they loved to build their nests in a place of dense spirit qi. They would usually choose to reside near the spirit stone veins. Hence, if someone managed to capture one, it would mean that they would also possess a spirit stone mine.
Spirit stones were the hard currency of the Darkness Continent. Hence, even a fool who used his bum to think would know how abundant this amount of wealth was.
“That’s for sure. Two of his students are heavily injured. Why didn’t he send them away for recovery? There must be some reasons leading to them not being able to leave now!”
Zhou Shanyi grew agitated. He looked at Jin Mujie. “Should we stay behind and secretly follow Chen Anfu?”
“Can you win against him?”
Jin Mujie counter-asked.
“Eh!”
Zhou Shanyi became a mute. That’s right, even if they encountered a spirit qi roaming dragon, it was useless if they couldn’t defeat Chen Anfu. Leaving aside his personal strength, since he was a 4-star great teacher, it meant that he had at least a personal student who was ranked on the Hero Rankings. That student would be extremely strong! “Stop dreaming and go and rest!” Jin Mujie reminded them repeatedly. “Our mission is to protect the students, letting them complete their training.”
Although she said this, who wouldn’t want such a valuable mysterious species of darkness?
Sun Mo led his students back to the hot spring. However, just when he removed his clothes and entered the pool, he suddenly felt something wrong. Through the white-colored steam, he saw a black shadow on the water’s surface.
“Damn, what the hell?”
He didn’t have a weapon at hand. Hence, he grabbed a stone and tossed it over.
Putong!
Water splashed everywhere.
Ji~
A shrill cry rang out as a water arrow shot over, grazing past Sun Mo’s skin.
“F***!”
(I just want to soak myself in a bath. Yet, there’s a danger of losing my life?)
“Teacher, be careful!”
Jiang Leng ran over. Xuanyuan Po was the gustiest and directly jumped into the pool.
“Do you have a hole in your brain? Quickly come up!”
Sun Mo was almost angered to death. (You don’t even know what creature is in there, but you jumped in like that? Do you not want your life anymore?)
“Teacher!”
The girls who heard the commotion ran over.
Huala
The water splashed again in four directions.
“It’s a loach!”
Xuanyuan Po wiped away the water on his face. “We can have a good meal later on!”
“Loaches are so adorable!” Tantai Yutang licked his lips. “We should add more salt then!”
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