Ding!

  Congratulations on obtaining one 10-year time emblem!”

  Upon hearing the notification, Sun Mo’s face immediately turned green as he felt pain in his heart. He couldn’t breathe.

  This was a goddamn golden treasure chest with the possibility of opening skill books worth several tens of thousands of favorable impression points. In the end, it opened a time emblem that could be purchased with 1,000 favorable impression points?

  (Is my auspicious item not giving me face?)

  Sun Mo stretched out his hands and wiped them on his pants forcefully, wanting to wipe the bad luck away. Maybe this was caused by him touching the little sunny egg earlier?

  Upon facing such a situation, Sun Mo didn’t dare to open the mysterious treasure chest. Luckily, he had two more treasure chests lining up. One of them was the mysterious treasure chest from Li Ziqi’s contribution, and he couldn’t bear to open it.

  The other one was from the prestige connection between him and Jin Mujie being upgraded. The reward was a golden treasure chest.

  “Let’s try once more!”

  Sun Mo patted the papaya girl on her head and roared in his heart. “OPEN!”

  At such a time, what was important was one’s aura. One had to have a mighty disposition to scare the bad luck away.

  The flowing golden light from the golden chest vanished, leaving behind an item suffused with a pink-colored glow.

  “This seems good!”

  Sun Mo’s spirits stirred. He wanted to cheer. He had never seen items with a pink glow before. Most probably, there was an 80 to 90% chance that this was an excellent item.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, you have obtained the lover protection medicine prescription.”

  “Perfect!”

  Sun Mo snapped his fingers in excitement. After that, his arm went over the papaya girl’s shoulder as he forcefully gave her a side-way hug.

  He had no intention to behave indecently, so this action was purely due to his agitated emotions that he couldn’t control, as well as a deep sense of gratitude. If Lu Zhiruo, his lucky mascot, didn’t exist, he would most probably open up more clumps of dark soil.

  “Hehe!”

  Lu Zhiruo smiled sweetly. Although she didn’t know what her teacher was happy about, it was fine. She would just be happy for him.

  Sun Mo really wanted to take out the medical prescription to properly admire it.

  This product was absolutely a top-grade one.

  He had used it before and its recovery effect was extremely excellent.

  Alright, even if its recovery effect was slightly weaker, just the beautiful woman with an excellent figure that would materialize when you drank the medicine, as well as the way she took the initiative to feed you by hugging your neck and using her mouth……was already worth its wonderful reputation.

  Sun Mo felt that even if this medicine was sold in the market for 100 spirit stones per packet, the supply wouldn’t be able to match the demand, right?

  To single dogs, this medicine was undoubtedly an extremely strong ‘killing weapon’. Even if one was not injured, during the late-night they could always take out and drink a bottle of this to seek consolation psychologically.

  As for what happened next, they could just spend the night with the materialized figure in ‘joy’!

  “Sun Mo, your thinking is very dangerous!”

  The system reminded him.

  “Keep it for me!”

  After Sun Mo finished instructing, the system notification rang out again.

  “Note: This prescription is the lower portion. You will only be able to use it once you obtain the upper portion and join the two together. If you rashly try to concoct it using the lower portion of the prescription, there might be unpredictable risks.”

  Sun Mo was startled for a while. After that, he felt like beating someone up.

  “Can you say everything in one go? I’ve already finished being happy and you only told me that the prescription I obtained was just one-half? How bad can your taste in pranks be?”

  Sun Mo howled in his heart. He was like a wild dog with its chains loosened.

  This was simply too infuriating.

  He had wanted to concoct some and bring the medicine with him as a precaution.

  “Do you still want to open the mysterious treasure chest?”

  The system automatically screened out the sounds of Sun Mo’s cursing.

  “Does the merchant store sell this prescription?”

  Sun Mo asked.

  “Because you obtained one-half of the prescription, this prescription is unlocked and has appeared in the merchant store.”

  The system explained.

  Swish~

  The merchant store appeared in Sun Mo’s vision. After that, he saw that on the second row from the top, there was a pink-colored piece of paper made from a mulberry tree’s bark.

  The prescription for the lover protection medicine was priced at 100,000 favorable impression points!

  “Why don’t you go to hell?”

  Sun Mo really wanted to point his middle finger at the system. Even if he could afford it, he wouldn’t waste all his favorable impression points on this recipe.

  “100,000? I could buy two great teacher halos with it!”

  Sun Mo felt his teeth aching. He could completely feel that he was truly poor.

  “Well, its range of usage is broader compared to a great teacher halo.”

  The system explained.

  If a poor pharmacist learned this prescription, it might be tough for them to become extremely wealthy and powerful. However, if they wanted just to be rich and have a big house with slaves and concubines, there wouldn’t be any problem.

  “Enough, let’s stop with this topic. Open the purple chest!”

  Sun Mo could only place his hope on Lu Zhiruo’s luck and wished that he could get the other half of the prescription.

  After the purple light faded, an extremely thick book was left behind. It shone with a green light and was like tender shoots sprouting out of Earth, brimming with the aura of life.

  “Is this the [Illustrated Handbook of Darkness Continent’s Plants]?”

  Sun Mo gulped down a mouthful of saliva.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, you have obtained [Elementary-grade Planting Techniques].

  The system congratulated him. Its robotic voice had no emotions.

  “.……”

  Sun Mo had no idea whether this could be considered a top-grade item?

  After all, his goal was to become a great teacher and educate others. In the end, he wanted to have disciples all over the world and not become a farmer.

  Besides, this was only the elementary-grade planting techniques. It felt a little weak!

  “Note: these planting techniques include the planting techniques of over a hundred thousand types of plants. After learning it, although you might have no way to get high yield for the plants, you can at the very least guarantee that the plants wouldn’t die.”

  “Simply speaking, no matter what plants you wish to plant, they will survive.”

  Sun Mo, who was originally disappointed, suddenly felt happy again when he heard this. 100,000 types of plants? This number was absolutely terrifying.

  The most crucial part of the sentence was that no matter what he planted, that plant would survive!

  Sun Mo had stayed in the Middle-Earth Nine Province for almost a year. He was already no longer that blur fellow who didn’t know anything.

  He knew that some herbs were sold at an extremely expensive price because they were too rare and could only be gathered from the wilds. Some great teachers wished to grow them through manpower, but it was too difficult.

  After all, this subject was considered pretty remote. The number of people who had expertise in this was just too little. Also, the amount of time needed for the plant to grow was simply too long, creating a vicious cycle. No young people were willing to learn this.

  Even in the modern era, students who applied for agricultural science were extremely few.

  Honestly speaking, this was human nature. Everyone naturally aspired to become someone working in a high-paying job, occupying a ‘higher position’ in society.

  Compared to tilling the land and becoming tanned from the sun, everyone would rather sit in a cool and clean office, drinking coffee as they tapped on their keyboards.

  “Planting techniques might not be considered high-end, but if one wanted to become a true grandmaster planter, they would require several tens of years of accumulated experience. After all, the plants wouldn’t grow by themselves if you just threw their seeds into the field.”

  The system explained, hoping that Sun Mo wouldn’t look down on this subject of knowledge.

  “I know it even without you saying!”

  Sun Mo was the most impressed by Academician Yuan Longping*. Without him, it was unknown how many people would have to continue to suffer from hunger.

  “It isn’t bad if I become a druid!”

  Sun Mo started to contemplate the value of planting techniques and how he should maximize their benefits.

  “In the Middle-Earth Nine Provinces, although there are several tens of subjects, and although it’s said that knowledge of all subjects is equal and there’s no such thing as disdain or contempt, reality doesn’t go like that. For example, the subject of alchemy is definitely one of the most popular subjects. Countless people would give anything to become an alchemist because an alchemist represents fame and benefits.”

  The system’s voice was filled with pain. Right now, in the great teacher world, things were no longer as pure. Everyone was pursuing benefits.

  Even slightly famous alchemists would have many students wanting to learn from them. But as for grandmaster planters, their doors were completely deserted.

  “There’s no need to introduce this to me. I won’t look at this subject with disdain!”

  Sun Mo had thought things through.

  There were very few people skilled in planting techniques. This meant that planters were considered an extremely rare occupation. Now that he possessed the planting techniques of 100,000 types of plants, it was an exceptionally great advantage!

  He could make sure every plant he planted would survive no matter what. This was absolutely an extremely powerful skill.

  “Alright then, I will be a druid in the future!”

  Sun Mo was very satisfied.

  Actually, as long as Sun Mo opened any skill books, it could be considered that he had benefited a lot. 100,000 types of plants. In that case, there should be at least 7 or 8 types in there that were extremely valuable, right?

  As long as he managed to plant them, he would only benefit.

  Sun Mo felt that the Central Province Academy needed to be upgraded. Many farmers could plant grains and vegetables, but those who could plant herbs were extremely few.

  Compared to buying medical herbs to concoct the giant medicine packets to sell, planting their own herbs would allow an academy to enjoy 1,000 years of prosperity.

  Not only would they earn a lot of money, but it was very stable because they would have a sturdy foundation.

  In the entire Jinling, even for the counties in the surroundings, they were all planting valuable crops. If all the other counties depended on the Central Province Academy for the growing of valuable crops in the future, they would become the soil where the large tree, the Central Province Academy, grew.

  “I need to rest for a while. Do not disturb me for two hours!”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  After obtaining the darkness illusion gemstone, if there were no unexpected accidents, they should be number one in the third round. Hence, there were already no areas for Sun Mo to ‘work hard’ on.

  They only had to wait for all the students to gather and return to the endpoint.

  After the papaya girl left, Sun Mo took out the skill book and crushed it.

  Pak!

  A green light immediately enveloped Sun Mo. Boundless knowledge rapidly flowed into his mind, germinating in his neurons.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, you have learned the elementary-grade planting techniques!”

  Sun Mo did his best and took the time to memorize it, wanting to have a deeper impression of it. ……

  The signal tube Sun Mo released was Central Province Academy’s method of communication. Hence, students who saw the smoke signal would rapidly gather toward the location.

  “Teacher Gu!”

  Qian Dun came over with an anxious look on his face. “Let’s quickly head out. I just saw a spire collapsing. If there’s no unexpected incident, that spire should be where the secret treasure is. We must not let others seize it.

  “The Mingshao Academy might be the one who caused that. Hence, we might have to prepare ourselves for a tough battle!

  “Where’s Teacher Sun? Isn’t he with you guys? Sigh, with him around, our chance of victory would be slightly higher. Gather everyone and let’s move out!”

  Although Qian Dun knew that there was an 80 to 90% chance of defeat if they headed there, he wanted to try and gamble. Besides, his request wasn’t high. It was enough if they could delay Mingshao Academy and wait for Sun Mo to arrive.

  “There’s no need to go anymore!”

  Gu Xiuxun smiled.

  “Why?”

  Qian Dun frowned. Mingshao was indeed strong, but they shouldn’t be so strong to the extent that people would be terror-stricken just by hearing their name, right?

  “Because, our school is the one who obtained the secret treasure of darkness. What you should be worried about is defending against the other schools that might come and seize it.”

  “.……”

  Qian Dun was astonished, not knowing what to say. After all, the happiness came too soon and he didn’t know how to react.

  A few minutes later, Qian Dun’s discus-shaped face revealed a look of wild joy.

  “How did you guys achieve that?”

  Qian Dun was curious. This was something that could only be accomplished by luck because he didn’t even manage to find the location of the darkness spire.

  [1] Yuan Longping is a chinese agronomist that’s known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s.

  Chapter 403: It’s Me Who Is Useless. I Lost to Sun Mo from the Central Province Academy!

  From the looks of things, those who failed to find the darkness spire were like people who couldn’t get the tickets for a concert. They didn’t even have the qualifications to snatch the darkness illusion gemstone.

  “Teacher Sun depended on himself to defeat Ming Xian and obtain the secret treasure.”

  Gu Xiuxun shrugged. Because she participated in the game, she understood how outstanding Ming Xian and Sun Mo were.

  Sadly, this man with such good qualifications already belonged to An Xinhui.

  “Ah?”

  Qian Dun was dumbstruck, finding it hard to process. After all, Gu Xiuxun’s words contained Ming Xian’s name.

  Who was Ming Xian?

  He was the strongest new teacher among all teachers who were participating in the newbie competition! He was publicly proclaimed as the new rising star that had a boundless future.

  “Sun Mo defeated Ming Xian?”

  Qian Dun’s voice was filled with some disbelief.

  The few students, who just arrived, had looks of shock on their faces when they learned of this news.

  “Teacher Qian, what do you mean? You don’t believe our teacher can do it?”

  Li Ziqi’s tone was filled with unhappiness.

  Who the hell was Ming Xian?

  From today onward, Sun Mo was then the most outstanding new teacher!

  “No……it’s just that……”

  Qian Dun stuttered but he didn’t manage to find an excuse. After all, he really didn’t expect Sun Mo to be so strong to such an extent.

  “What are you guys waiting for? I saw Mingshao and Weima Academy’s student groups. They must have obtained top-grade secret treasures. We should hurry up and seize the treasures from them!”

  Wang Chao also arrived. His tone was ferocious. “Whether we can become the champion or not, it will depend on this.”

  “Teacher Wang, you can sit down and rest now!”

  Qian Dun interrupted.

  “Why? Are we giving up?”

  Wang Chao sighed. It was also good if they gave up. After all, their opponent was Ming Xian. Rather than suffering casualties on both sides, they might as well take a step back and choose a weaker opponent.

  “No, we have won the championship!”

  Qian Dun smiled. After that, he grew happier as he thought about it and involuntarily started laughing out loud. “After the competition is over, we will be a ‘C’ grade school!”

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Qian Dun +200. Friendly (1,500/10,000).

  “Is it because of Teacher Sun?”

  Wang Chao soon guessed the answer. ……

  The various schools all had methods of urgent communication. In the past, because the illusion realm existed, everyone couldn’t see it. But now that the darkness illusion gemstone had been obtained by Sun Mo, the illusion realm covering this ancient castle was gone. Hence, everyone was rapidly gathering.

  Everyone felt extremely anxious in their hearts. From the looks of things, it was evident that the secret treasure had been seized by someone else.

  When Chen Liqi rushed over, he discovered that the members of his student group had almost all arrived. However, they were lacking two teachers.

  “What’s going on?”

  Chen Liqi felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere. This was especially so for Nangong Dao. He looked a little listless.

  “Liqi, you are here?”

  Wei Xueli asked in concern. He was very fond of this youth from a poor family because he was also someone who had climbed up from the bottom-most level.

  “Teacher!”

  Chen Liqi came over. “Earlier when I rushed over, I met those from the Central Province Academy. They seemed to have found some good battle spoils. Should we go and finish them off?”

  “Given our Mingshao Academy’s status, it’s an absolute humiliation if we are unable to get five secret treasures of darkness!”

  Chen Liqi stated his views fervently, wanting a battle against the Central Province Academy.

  Actually, his words contained a lie.

  Chen Liqi did see the students from the Central Province Academy, but he didn’t see any battle spoils. By saying this, he only wanted to lend Ming Xian’s aid to crush Sun Mo.

  Who asked Sun Mo to humiliate him?

  Naturally, Chen Liqi wouldn’t simply stand aside to watch. He would kill Sun Mo’s students before his eyes and make Sun Mo understand the consequences of offending a genius like him!

  “The Central Province Academy?”

  After hearing this name, Wei Xueli felt a headache and a feeling of awkwardness. After all, he roughly knew about everything that had happened in the darkness spire earlier.

  “Right, for their first two rounds, they are merely in the top five. We would definitely be able to crush them and we can show the rest of the schools our strength.”

  Chen Liqi did his best to urge Wei Xueli.

  “This……” Wei Xueli glanced at Ming Xian before replying. “We will consider it first!”

  Chen Liqi frowned. In order to live better, he had learned how to read the facial expressions of others from a young age.

  Teacher Wei was someone who loved to be in the limelight, yet he actually rejected his suggestion. This meant that an unexpected situation must have occurred.

  Chen Liqi was very sensible and no longer tried to persuade Ming Xian. If Ming Xian agreed now, it would cause Wei Xueli to lose face. Hence, Chen Liqi tried to persuade the other students.

  Once the students went over, the teachers definitely had to follow them. At that time, as long as he stirred the flames, Sun Mo should just wait to be beaten up!

  “In any case, since we are idling, we might as well go and exterminate the Central Province Academy!”

  Chen Liqi’s tone was relaxed. His attitude was as though the student group from the Central Province Academy was a newbie that could be crushed by anyone.

  The students exchanged mutual glances, feeling their interests stirring somewhat.

  “Let’s go. I will lead the way!”

  Chen Liqi urged.

  “Can you stop talking about it? You are so annoying!”

  Jia Wendong was unhappy. He always disliked Chen Liqi because this fellow was extremely arrogant just because he had outstanding talent.

  “Wendong, I’m also only saying this for the sake of our group!”

  Chen Liqi waved his hands and revealed a helpless expression. He immediately made it seem as though it was Jia Wendong who failed to grasp the big picture.

  “What do you mean? You are trying to say that I’m not thinking for the sake of the group?”

  Jia Wendong spoke.

  “No, no. You’ve misunderstood.

  Chen Liqi hurriedly sought to clear the air and revealed a wronged expression.

  “Wendong, Liqi merely wants to win. Your attitude is a little over-the-top!”

  “Yeah, let us all talk nicely. Stop trying to sound mystifying!”

  “I feel we can fight them!”

  The students were persuaded but clearly, they were on Chen Liqi’s side.

  “Hmph!”

  Chen Liqi smiled coldly in his heart. If it wasn’t for Jia Wendong being strong and being one of the top three in terms of strength in the group, he would have long since shredded all pretense of cordiality.

  “What are you guys doing? Are you all condemning me?”

  Jia Wendong felt anger erupting in his heart when he saw so many people targeting him, as well as that face of Chen Liqi that seemed as though it was asking for a beating.

  “A bunch of fools. I’m only stopping you all for your own good. You all want to find trouble with the Central Province Academy? I’m afraid all of you would die there!”

  Jia Wendong revealed his thoughts due to carelessness. After speaking, his expression changed and he cursed himself for being too negligent.

  As expected, the students were unhappy. They directly retorted with anger.

  “Jia Wendong, you better speak properly!”

  “Are you defeated by someone from the Central Province Academy?”

  “By saying this, those who don’t know you would think that you are a student from the Central Province Academy!”

  Jia Wendong’s lips twitched. He felt an unbearable sensation as though his feet were stabbed. If it wasn’t for Teacher Sun rejecting his request, he would have really become a student of the Central Province Academy.

  Wei Xueli didn’t stop the others from denouncing Jia Wendong because he had also seen the scene whereby this fellow knelt and asked Sun Mo to take him as a personal student. At that time, he was almost angered to death.

  A student wanting to take a teacher from another school as their master. Although this was not expressly stipulated as forbidden, students wouldn’t usually do this. Even if they did so, they would do it privately.

  After all, by doing so, your actions would make others feel that the teachers of your current school weren’t worth anything.

  Jia Wendong was a freshman and was only 12. He didn’t know the ways of the world and hence, he had unwittingly offended Ming Xian and Wei Xueli.

  Ming Xuan was magnanimous enough so he didn’t mind this, but Wei Xueli was very unhappy. He didn’t berate Jia Wendong, but this didn’t mean that he had no wish to see Jia Wendong being down on his luck.

  “Wendong, if you are afraid. You can just stay here!”

  Chen Liqi sneered.

  “Alright, you guys go on then. Later on, don’t flee when you guys get crushed!”

  Jia Wendong couldn’t be bothered to persuade them anymore. (Since you guys want to court death, just go then. Although Li Ziqi is useless in close combat, she has the fireball technique, windwave bullet, and Wind King Protection. She alone is enough to turn all of you into ashes.)

  Moreover, Xuanyuan Po had climbed more floors than Nangong Dao, so he could most probably finish off half of the students from Mingshao’s student group.

  However, the most terrifying one was still Tantai Yutang. Although he was very sickly, his methods of using poison were too terrifying.

  A poison master was loathed by most of the people in the cultivation world.

  “You have truly lost face for our Mingshao Academy!”

  Chen Liqi scolded. After that, he turned to Nangong Dao. “Group leader, let’s move out!”

  “Just use the time we have to rest. No one is allowed to go!”

  Nangong Dao spoke.

  “Ah?”

  All the students were stunned.

  “We won’t be able to win against the new student group from the Central Province Academy!”

  When Nangong Dao said this, he felt a little embarrassed. However, he still said it. He wanted to take this setback as something that would motivate him to work even harder.

  After leaving the darkness spire, Ming Xian inspected Nangong Dao’s condition and also spoke to him about Xuanyuan Po. He wanted to let Nangong Dao understand that in this world, there would always be someone better. One must never slack off and be complacent.

  “Group leader, are you sick?” Chen Liqi was astonished.

  “Alright, stop arguing about this. We lost to them in the seizure of the secret treasure of darkness this time around!”

  Ming Xian didn’t want Nangong Dao to be embarrassed. Hence, he spoke out.

  “It’s me that’s useless. I lost to Teacher Sun from the Central Province Academy!’

  Ming Xian looked at the students and dipped into a deep bow.

  “What?”

  “How is this possible?”

  “Sun Mo? Who is this person?”

  The students were astonished and had looks of shock and disbelief on their faces.

  Ming Xian was like an idol to them, a target that they were working hard to pursue. But now, he actually admitted that he had lost to a teacher from another school.

  For an instant, the students felt as though their idol just died.

  “I’m a human, I would lose too!”

  As Ming Xian spoke, his gaze surveyed the entire place. “But wherever I lost at, I will climb back up from the same location.”

  The students fell silent.

  “Teacher Wei and all the students here, please be witnesses for me. If I can’t defeat Sun Mo in the 1-star great teacher qualification exam next year, I will stop being a great teacher!”

  Ming Xian was determined to cut off his means of retreat.

  Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked and hurriedly wanted to persuade him.

  “Teacher!”

  Ming Xian lifted his hand and indicated that there was no need for them to continue speaking.

  “That Sun Mo is actually so impressive?”

  Chen Liqi was completely stunned. (Am I dreaming?) He also worshipped Ming Xian and took him as his goal. But now when he looked at Ming Xian again, he felt a sense of disgust.

  “Newbie!”

  Chen Liqi felt disdain. As expected, it was better to crush the enemies with your own hands. (Sun Mo, just you wait. The humiliation you gave me will be repaid 10 times back to you sooner or later!) ……

  On a street, Ying Baiwu and Jiang Leng were sprinting. Over ten students from Huanian Academy were chasing after them.

  “Bast*rds, I will definitely kill you two!”

  A guy with a crew-cut just cursed as an arrow shot past his face. This caused him to pespire cold sweat.

  “Stop talking nonsense, quickly chase!”

  The group leader who was gnawing his teeth from anger howled in rage. (You two actually dared to snatch our battle spoils? I must definitely chop you all into eight pieces.)

  After turning the corner, Ying Baiwu and Jiang Leng suddenly stopped. They exchanged a mutual glance and turned, looking at the students from Huanian.

  “Something’s wrong!”

  The guy with the crew-cut frowned. “Have the other students from the Central Province Academy arrived?”

  “Who cares? Let’s snatch our secret treasure back first!”

  The group leader almost went mad from anxiousness. He felt that they had more people, so no matter how wrong the situation felt, they would still be able to win. Besides, they had four teachers here as well.

  Chapter 404: Sun Mo of the Central Province Academy, First-Level of the Divine Force Realm, Please Guide Me!

  Ying Baiwu prepared to fire.

  Swish!

  After the arrow was shot out, it directly manifested into 30 arrows and fell onto the student group from Huanian Academy.

  Ding! Ding! Ding!

  The students from Huanian blocked the arrows. Although no one was injured, their running speed was clearly slower.

  “What did you guys do?” Shi Qiao was curious. “These people are so angry. It seems like they want to chop you guys into a thousand pieces.”

  “Why should we care so much? Just kill them all and the matter will be settled!”

  Xuanyuan Po charged toward the student group from Huanian, taking the lead.

  “Nothing much, we just snatched a dagger they had picked up!”

  Ying Baiwu’s tone was calm, but when the others heard this, they couldn’t help but gasp.

  “Just the two of you?”

  Lu Qi asked in shock.

  Jiang Leng didn’t like to speak much. As for Ying Baiwu, she didn’t wish to answer such a retarded question.

  “You guys are awesome!”

  Lu Qi flashed a thumbs up. From the looks of things, Ying Baiwu and Jiang Leng had fought against many people with just the two of them. This was just too tyrannical.

  In truth, it was a case of twenty against two. This was why the group leader of Huanian Academy had almost gone mad from anger. If the news of this incident were to spread, it would be a great humiliation to them.

  “Stop chatting idly. Finish them off first!”

  Li Ziqi urged and tore a flame explosion rune paper.

  Seeing Xuanyuan Po charge alone, the group leader from Huanian was so angry that his eyes widened from rage. (You really treat us as puppets made from clay!)

  “CHARGE! CHARGE! CHARGE!”

  Just when the group leader from Huanian finished shouting, a large fireball blasted over.

  If this was normal times, he would have evaded it. But now, when enemies meet, what they were competing in was their morale. In order to gain the upper hand by a show of strength, he directly brandished his long blade and leaped, slashing at the fireball.

  Bang!

  The fireball was slashed into two. The impact dissipated in all directions and the sparks fell onto the face of the Huanian’s group leader.

  Cough! Cough!

  The group leader landed on the ground. Although he wasn’t injured, his head and face were filthy with ashes. Their morale dipped greatly.

  “If you are capable, why don’t you try blocking one more?”

  Li Ziqi shouted.

  The Huanian’s group leader pursed his lips. He looked at the fireball blasting over and wisely chose to evade.

  When the other students saw how miserable their group leader looked, they naturally didn’t dare to block the fireball head-on. By doing so, their own formation would be in chaos.

  Xuanyuan Po took the chance to rush over.

  Spear Rain Pearflower!

  Chi! Chi! Chi!

  The silver spear created sonic booms and instantly manifested tens of thousands of spear flowers that enveloped the six people in front.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  Three of them were directly sent flying.

  “How strong!”

  The Huanian’s group leader blocked a strike and his right hand instantly turned numb from the impact. There was a lingering pain that hurt so badly that he almost could no longer grab hold of his weapon.

  “You are the group leader?”

  Xuanyuan Po glanced at the Huanian’s group leader. His silver spear was like a flood dragon emerging from the sea and directly stabbed toward the group leader’s head.

  Dang! Dang! Dang!

  The group leader blocked three strikes and retreated seven steps. There was a student who couldn’t evade in time and even knocked into his back.

  “Group leader, let me help you out!”

  Just as the guy spoke, his neck suffered a backhand strike. Then, his eyes rolled over as he sank into unconsciousness.

  Equipped with a dagger, Jiang Leng moved like an apparition and shuttled through the group of enemies, causing people to faint with every strike he made. A chaotic battle like this was the most suitable environment for him to display his abilities.

  As someone in the spirit-refinement realm, Jiang Leng had an overwhelming advantage when he fought against these students one on one.

  Swish~

  An arrow razed past Xu Jialiang’s shoulder, scaring him badly. He couldn’t help but yell, “Be more careful!”

  “Don’t worry, you won’t die!”

  With Ying Baiwu’s suppression fire, the students of Huanian had their movements controlled. Since their formation was already disrupted, they had no way to group together and depend on their superiority in numbers.

  Xu Jialiang had still wanted to curse out a few more times, but he quickly shut his mouth. He discovered that Ying Baiwu’s arrows would also zoom past Jiang Leng and Xuanyuan Po, but the two of them didn’t show any signs of panic. Such guts were truly extraordinary.

  Xu Jialiang held his longbow and aimed for a long time, but he didn’t fire a single arrow. He wasn’t confident that his arrows wouldn’t accidentally harm his teammates.

  “You are really a gifted archer!”

  Xu Dingjiang felt envy and some disappointment.

  His father told him that he also had outstanding talent in archery, but when compared to Ying Baiwu, he was nothing but trash. He knew that Ying Baiwu had only learned archery for about half a year. As for himself, he had been practicing by going hunting with his father ever since he was young.

  Meanwhile, the four teachers from Huanian were completely stunned after they saw this scene. Why did their student group crumble the moment they fought face-to-face with the students from Central Province Academy? Was it because the Central Province Academy was too strong? Or was it because they were too weak?

  “Don’t panic!”

  After a teacher shouted, the student group leader of Huanian who wanted nothing more than to kill Ying Baiwu and Jiang Leng also shouted out.

  “Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!”

  If they didn’t start running, their group would surely be annihilated!

  At this moment, seven people were already lying on the ground, wailing in agony. It was all done by Xuanyuan Po as well as the youth with the word ‘crippled’ on his forehead.

  “Too impressive!”

  Qian Dun looked at the performances of Xuanyuan Po and the others. He felt so envious that he was drooling. Sun Mo’s judgment in choosing students was truly exceptional.

  “Ai, I have no choice even if I don’t want to be convinced.”

  Wang Chao sighed. Even if he had a strong enough judgment ability to discover a few students with extraordinary aptitude, he wouldn’t be able to convince these students if he didn’t have true capabilities.

  Then again, even if he had such students, he wouldn’t dare to accept them. If he wasn’t able to teach them well, he would only delay their progress.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Wang Chao +100. Friendly (600/1,000).

  “Alright, everyone stop!”

  Sun Mo shouted at the students, especially toward Xuanyuan Po. This fellow didn’t know how to hold back when fighting and would injure the students from the other school easily.

  In any case, they had already won. There was no need for them to be so fierce.

  The battle started and ended all of a sudden.

  People from both sides gathered up once more.

  As the victorious side, the student group from the Central Province Academy wasn’t in a hurry to leave. As for the students from Huanian, they were all filled with unwillingness. After all, they failed to seize the dagger back.

  “Teacher, I heard that this is a spirit weapon!”

  Ying Baiwu passed a dagger with both hands to Sun Mo.

  The students from Huanian immediately stirred, wanting to snatch it but didn’t dare to do so.

  “That’s ours!”

  The guy with the crew-cut scolded.

  “Eh, I think the rules of the competition permit plundering?”

  Li Ziqi feigned ignorance.

  “Oi, earlier if it wasn’t for Teacher Sun asking us to stop, your entire group would have been annihilated!”

  Shi Qiao spoke in contempt.

  All the students of Huanian had ugly expressions on their faces.

  “You and Jiang Leng should decide who will take it!”

  Sun Mo didn’t even glance at the dagger.

  Upon hearing this, a commotion broke out among the students from Huanian. (What does he mean? Is he looking down on this weapon?)

  “That’s a spirit weapon!”

  That guy with a crew-cut spoke out indignantly.

  “I know. Its name is Flying Whistle and it’s a superior spirit weapon. It can be sold for roughly hundreds of thousands of spirit stones.”

  Sun Mo chortled. Scanning it with Divine Sight would reveal all its information.

  “Eh!”

  After hearing this, the guy with the crew-cut felt like a heavy hammer just smashed heavily into his chest. His heart felt so painful that he couldn’t breathe.

  It was actually a superior spirit weapon?

  Damn!

  This weapon was something he had discovered.

  The other students had similar expressions, feeling so unbearable that it was like dying.

  They held their weapons tightly and felt emotions stirring in them. However, when they saw the students of the Central Province Academy having a look of ‘that’s right, quickly attack us’ on their faces, the students from Huanian felt as though a bucket of cold water was poured over their heads.

  If they fought again, the fight would only end when one side died.

  After all, this Teacher Sun might not be so kind as to shout for his students to stop again.

  “This teacher, might I be so impudent as to ask you a question? Are you a treasure appraiser?”

  Wei Ze, one of the participating teachers for Huanian, asked the question. He was hinting for his students not to be swindled. If that weapon was really a superior-graded one, how could that teacher casually give it to a student?

  In any case, Wei Ze would surely feel reluctant to do so.

  “Nope!”

  Sun Mo shook his head.

  Everyone heaved a sigh of relief. The feeling of having a brick seized and not a gemstone was absolutely different.

  If the dagger wasn’t worth a lot of money, everyone wouldn’t feel so much pain in their hearts.

  “My teacher isn’t a treasure appraiser, but since he said it’s a superior spirit weapon, it must be it!”

  Ying Baiwu didn’t want to see Sun Mo being doubted by others.

  “Why is there a need to explain so much to them? In any case, the dagger is yours!”

  Li Ziqi’s lips curled. It was impossible to talk to people with limited experience. She couldn’t be bothered to argue.

  The guy with the crew-cut realized that the other students in the Central Province Academy had looks of envy on their faces when they looked at the dagger in Ying Baiwu’s hands. This meant that they believed this Teacher Sun’s judgment.

  This also indicated that in the past, Sun Mo must have identified treasures correctly before all these students.

  Hence, the crew-cut guy’s heart that stopped hurting earlier started to hurt again.

  At this moment, he felt that he wanted to be a little stupider so he wouldn’t be able to notice these clues.

  “Let’s go!”

  Sun Mo informed everyone.

  “Wait a minute!”

  Wei Ze called out. “Teacher Sun, I wonder if I can ask you for some pointers?”

  Their students had been defeated but not their teachers. If they let Sun Mo leave like that, Wei Ze’s prestige would be greatly impacted. Hence, even if they couldn’t take back the dagger, they had to win a round.

  Sun Mo cocked his head slightly. “Are you sure?”

  Wei Ze frowned, feeling that this fellow was very arrogant. But after that, he saw the students and teachers of the Central Province Academy started to laugh.

  Their smiles were filled with extreme confidence!

  “This teacher, it’s best for you to give up!”

  Gu Xiuxun persuaded.

  Fighting against Sun Mo?

  Even if you had ten lives, it wouldn’t be enough!

  “It can’t be that you are scared, right?”

  Wei Ze looked at Sun Mo. Earlier, he had already secretly cast a glance at this beautiful teacher and had some favorable impression about her. But now, he only felt loathing.

  (Hmph, she is just a female simp! Just wait for me to crush the head of this Sun Mo. I want to see if you would feel awkward or not!)

  “Teacher Wei, you can do it!”

  The students started cheering and placed their hopes on Wei Ze.

  “Alright then!”

  Sun Mo shrugged. “But I have a suggestion. The four of you should attack me together!”

  “Arrogant!”

  Wei Ze shouted. He then spoke, “Weize from Huanian, fifth level of the blood-ignition realm. Please guide me!”

  As he said this, his expression didn’t change, but his heart was filled with a sense of superiority. Such a cultivation base was absolutely enough for him to be proud of.

  “Wow, fifth level of the blood-ignition realm. How terrifying!”

  Li Ziqi covered her mouth with her hands and stared at Wei Ze in ‘fear’.

  “Yes, go ahead and be scared!”

  Wei Ze’s eyes glanced over. He wanted to see what expression the beautiful teacher had now.

  (She must be very shocked, right?)

  Wei Ze’s lips curled up. However, a moment later, his expression stiffened because Sun Mo started to speak.

  “Sun Mo from the Central Province Academy, first level of the divine force realm. Please guide me!”

  Everyone on the long street instantly fell into silence!