Chapter 618: Gathering of Geniuses
On the stage, when Ying Baiwu started fighting against the plant person, exclamations of shock soon rang out.
The arrows shot by the iron-headed girl hit the student in the green cloak and mantle, but it was as though the arrows had struck glass. They shattered into countless motes of light.
“What’s going on?”
“Not sure, but I guess it is a type of dark secret arts?”
“Hehe, this girl finally met her bane.”
The spectators discussed. Those examinees whose students had lost to Ying Baiwu actually rejoiced in the face of her misfortune.
Ying Baiwu executed the Wind King Divine Steps and furiously lengthened the distance between them. After that, she channeled force into her arm and started flicking her bowstring.
Swish~
Spirit qi gushed forth from her finger and imbued the bow, manifesting a semi-transparent arrow. In fact, because the fluctuations of spirit qi were too intense, thumb-sized tornados could be seen in the bow’s surroundings.
Wind King Roar!
BOOM!
The arrow whistled through the air. Everywhere it passed, it caused qi waves and clouds of dust to rise from the ground. In fact, a huge gorge actually opened up through the stone flooring from the force of the shot.
Although the gorge wasn’t too deep, the terrifying destructive prowess of the arrow was extremely immense.
Sadly, it was still useless!
BOOM!
The arrow slammed into the body of the plant person. After that, things seemed to be the same as before. The arrow shattered and vanished, causing no damage.
Ying Baiwu didn’t even frown. She placed her bow behind her shoulder and pulled out her sword as she lunged toward the plant person.
She wanted to fight in close combat.
Upon seeing this, Mei Ziyu started. After that, she couldn’t help but clap.
The major characters on the judging panel also started to applaud.
Since the archery she was most proficient in was useless against the enemy, normal people would definitely feel worried and become nervous. In fact, they might keep on thinking about how to break the situation. But this iron-headed girl didn’t do so. She directly switched to using her sword and lunged over.
Leaving aside whether this battle strategy was correct or not, just this action could already display her resolution, calmness, and decisiveness. It was truly worthy of admiration.
Naturally, the most important thing was courage.
The vast majority of people, when they encountered the unclear situation where their arrows vanished, would definitely choose to temporarily take an evasive stance.
Because the unknown was always the most terrifying. However, this young girl was truly iron-headed.
“This student of Sun Mo is so gusty!”
Liang Hongda marveled with a look of admiration on his face.
“Why? Is vice alliance leader Liang feeling a stir in your heart?”
A major character teased. This was because Liang Hongda was proficient in archery.
“Yeah, it’s rare to meet an unpolished jade!”
Liang Hongda sighed ruefully and looked at his assistant. “I heard that two years ago, this girl was still a swill transporter? She was discovered by Sun Mo?”
“Yup!”
The assistant had long since memorized the detailed history of these students because he was worried that things would be bad if he couldn’t answer when his boss was interested in one of the students.
“Zeze, Sun Mo’s judgment is truly outstanding!”
Liang Hongda praised Sun Mo as the notion of headhunting Sun Mo surfaced in his mind again.
In the great teacher world, there was no lack of great teachers with good judgment, but the vast majority of these teachers were aged ones. Their so-called judgment was actually accumulated experience gained through several years from seeing so many students.
For someone like Sun Mo who was so young yet had such sharp judgment……There truly weren’t many.
“God Hands is really impressive!”
A major character suddenly sighed in admiration.
“Hehe!”
Liang Hongda laughed. God Hands had nothing to do with this. Sun Mo couldn’t possibly be so idle to check the body of a swill-transporter for no reason, right?
Sun Mo must have seen this girl doing something that triggered his interest.
Ding!
Favorable impression points from Liang Hongda +20. Friendly (310/1,000).
One couldn’t help but say that this vice leader truly did have some capabilities.
“Vice Alliance Leader Liang, if you want some students, I will introduce a few next time!”
Mei Yazhi suddenly spoke.
“Alright!”
Liang Hongda had a smile on his face, but he was cursing in his heart. He knew Mei Yazhi was reminding him not to snatch Sun Mo’s student.
In the cultivation realm, many geniuses were godly with using common weapons such as swords and sabers. But only a few were good in archery.
Just from looking at history, there were so many famous generals. But how many of them were divine archers? From this, one could already tell how rare this occupation was.
Moreover, even if all of them were good students, there were different tiers of strength. Someone like Ying Baiwu definitely belonged to the first tier.
No, most probably she was at the supreme unique tier, right?
Liang Hongda watched Ying Baiwu fighting in close combat and couldn’t help but want to speak out to guide her. He wanted to say that there was no need to fear, even if she used her bow, she could still win.
Sadly, he wasn’t able to do so because this was a personal student of Sun Mo.
“Damn, what dogshit luck does this Sun Mo have?!”
Liang Hongda’s emotions were chaotic. He felt that there was a need for him to properly discuss things with Ying Baiwu, or her talent in archery might be wasted by Sun Mo.
“Teacher Mei, what’s going on?”
Lu Zhiruo was dumbstruck and worry could be seen on her face. Her junior martial sister seemed about to lose!
“Zhiruo, don’t be rude!”
Sun Mo reminded. Asking another person about their secret was a great taboo in the great teacher world.
“Actually nothing much. It’s because of the body!”
Mei Ziyu felt a little embarrassed. Although the examiners wouldn’t be able to see through the secret of the plant person due to her dark secret arts, it was after all a violation of the rules.
“There’s a body that can cancel out spirit qi arrows?”
The papaya girl blinked her eyes and recalled the books she read. Hmm, there didn’t seem to be something like this. However, people like this were all rarely seen even in a hundred years. If they were discovered, they would definitely be protected by the Saint Gate.
Li Ziqi frowned, feeling that this student clad in the green mantle wasn’t normal.
“This is a student battle but there are no rules stating that only humans can participate.”
Sun Mo could see that Mei Ziyu was feeling conflict, hence, he spoke out. Actually, it could be considered a rare experience for Ying Baiwu to fight with a plant human.
“Ah?”
Mei Ziyu’s heart pounded, and she subconsciously looked at Sun Mo. (It can’t be, right? Did he actually see through it?)
(No, even my mother hasn’t discovered this during all this while. How can it be possible that Sun Mo…… Yes, he must have made that remark casually.)
After that, this girl with waist-long raven black hair saw Sun Mo looking at her eyes. There was no anger in his gaze that might arise from seeing an opponent breaking the rules. There was just tranquility as though he was trying to comfort her.
All of a sudden, Mei Ziyu panicked, feeling a heavy sense of self-reproach in her heart.
“Teacher, if the one participating isn’t a human, what can it be then?”
The papaya girl was amazed and a little afraid. She involuntarily hugged Sun Mo’s arm tightly. “Could it be a dead person?”
“I’ve not fought against a dead person before!”
Xuanyuan Po felt his battle desire rising.
At this moment, the plant person, who was originally equally matched with Ying Baiwu, suddenly suffered a kick and fell off the stage.
Hence, the entire arena turned quiet.
This ending was a little unexpected.
Sun Mo started. After that, he shook his head and smiled bitterly before lowering his voice to persuade Mei Ziyu. “Teacher Mei, you don’t have to do this!”
Sun Mo knew that the plant person’s ‘careless’ loss was because Mei Ziyu commanded it to do so.
“Sorry!”
Mei Ziyu mumbled in a small voice.
Actually, the reason why she came here was to take the examination together with Sun Mo, so she could have a beautiful memory. Since she had obtained the title of a 2-star great teacher, she didn’t mind losing now.
Gu Xiuxun’s lips twitched when she saw Sun Mo and Mei Ziyu whispering to each other, feeling a little disappointed.
“Ying Baiwu won this round!”
Tong Yiming announced and the matches continued.
It was time for the ‘C’ group. Zhang Yanzong went up the stage.
“Yanzong, I will be cheering you on!”
Gu Xiuxun shouted loudly. She originally still wanted to guide Zhang Yanzong to prove her ability. But who knew that two minutes later, Zhang Yanzong was knocked off the stage by a girl named Zhou Yao.
He lost so badly to the extent where he couldn’t even retaliate.
“Teacher, I’m sorry!”
Zhang Yanzong had a dispirited look on his face.
“You are only 15, just continue to work hard!’
Gu Xiuxun encouraged.
“Xuanyuan Po, that Zhou Yao is very strong. She is most probably more powerful than you!”
Zhang Yanzong warned. If Xuanyuan Po got the first place of the ‘D’ group, he would be clashing against Zhou Yao.
“Watch as I crush her head and avenge you!”
Xuanyuan Po slammed his fists together.
“.……”
Zhang Yanzong silently mused that he was warning him out of good will and had no intention of asking Xuanyuan Po to take revenge for him. (Forget it, it’s too tiring to speak to this combat addict.)
Very soon, the matches of the ‘D’ group began.
“Xuanyuan Po, Ding Yi. Get up on stage!”
Tong Yiming announced.
“Did I exterminate the Ding Clan in my past life?”
Xuanyuan Po scratched his head. “Why is my opponent another person with the surname ‘Ding’?”
“Xuanyuan, be careful!”
Jiang Leng had a heavy look as he warned. Xuanyuan Po’s opponent’s name was Ding Yi, and Jiang Leng could sense that he was a formidable opponent with just a glance.
The two students then got up the stage.
Tong Yiming surveyed Ding Yi. He felt better after not seeing spirit runes on the exposed parts of Ding Yi’s body. If not, he would really suspect whether these people with the name ‘Ding’ were here intentionally to make trouble.
Actually, the naming convention behind the names ‘Ding Yi, Er, San, Si, Wu (1,2,3,4,5)’ was something very common. This was because the parents of many students weren’t educated nor cultured. Tong Yiming had seen many students with the name of Da Niu (Big Bull) or Gou Dan (Dog Testicle).
Ding Yi’s weapon was a three-meter-long halberd. From the looks of it, it weighed at least 100 kg. It was unknown how a 15-year-old could wield it.
“Xuanyuan Po, Spirit-refinement realm. Please guide me!”
“Ding Yi, Spirit-refinement realm. Please guide me!”
After the two of them exchanged greetings, Xuanyuan Po acted like how he usually did and charged straight for Ding Yi. Observing the situation? (This daddy’s style is charging blindly ahead!)
Ding Yi stepped back with his right leg and brandished his halberd with a single hand.
Dang!
The spear clashed against the halberd as an intense clanging sound of metal against metal resounded through the entire battle arena, causing the teeth of the audience to ache as they subconsciously covered their ears.
Dang! Dang! Dang!
The two of them continued clashing their weapons, neither were moved back a single jot.
What was known as a fierce general?
This was it!
A person blocking the pass against 10,000 enemies!
Xuanyuan Po and Ding Yi didn’t use any martial moves. This was a direct clash of strength. The weaker one would be sent flying.
“It can’t be, right? The combat addict actually loses in terms of strength?”
Zhang Yanzong was shocked. Among his peers, he could be considered a strong man. But when he played arm wrestling with Xuanyuan Po, he couldn’t even last for three breaths. Since Ding Yi’s figure was half-a-head shorter than him and he wasn’t muscular, how was it possible for his strength to be so great?
“The boost from his spirit runes is actually so great?”
Sun Mo frowned and surveyed Ding Yi. If there were no negative side effects, wouldn’t spirit runes be able to create a large batch of experts easily?
Through Divine Sight, Sun Mo actually couldn’t see any hidden dangers on Ding Yi’s body.
(Doesn’t that mean that this was a perfect experimental body?)
Chapter 619: Xuanyuan Po, Your Acting Skills Are So Exaggerated!
Both Xuanyuan Po and Ding Yi were intoxicated as they fought wildly.
The cheers of the audience came in waves because this was the most explosive and fascinating match they had ever seen in the entire student battle.
The ordinary audience didn’t know how to see the profound aspects of techniques. They preferred watching a head-on clash where fists met flesh.
Honestly speaking, it was like some major action films from the United States. There was no need to waste time thinking too much. One could simply eat popcorn, drink soda, and get high.
“This Ding Yi seems to look down on Xuanyuan Po!”
Tantai Yutang teased.
“Ah?”
Lu Zhiruo opened her eyes wide and asked in puzzlement, “How can you tell?”
“His muscles clearly state that he isn’t someone that focuses on the path of strength, yet he chose to clash with Xuanyuan Po head-on instead of using techniques. Clearly, he is planning to use his body constitution to suppress Xuanyuan Po.”
Li Ziqi explained.
“Isn’t this a little too brazen?”
The papaya girl pouted her lips. After that, she started to shout loudly, “Xuanyuan, you can do it!”
“It’s a little brazen, but he does have the capital to do so!”
Zhang Yanzong’s lips twitched.
Dang!
After the long spear and halberd collided again, Xuanyuan Po suddenly punched out, aiming for Ding Yi’s face.
Ding Yi smiled malevolently and punched out as well.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The fists met, and the qi waves from the impact caused the dust in their surroundings to be blown away. Also, fresh blood could be seen dripping from their fists, but the two of them didn’t frown at all.
“Xuanyuan, don’t charge in blindly. Pay attention to your opponent and search for his flaws and weaknesses!”
Sun Mo called out.
Xuanyuan Po didn’t respond. He stared at Ding Yi, his mind was filled with the thoughts of blasting Ding Yi apart.
Sun Mo frowned and shouted again, “Xuanyuan Po, calm down. Don’t fight head-on in such a blind manner anymore!”
This time around, a great teacher halo was activated. Its light shone onto Xuanyuan Po.
Profound Words!
Xuanyuan Po was as though he got hit by a baseball bat and swiftly calmed down.
Hua~
Those great teachers spectating immediately exclaimed in shock and surprise.
“Isn’t this ‘Profound Words’?”
“The effects are similar but isn’t Profound Words something only high-ranking great teachers can comprehend? How old is Sun Mo? Why was he able to comprehend this halo now?”
“Hence, I loathe those geniuses. They are so strong that they are inhumane!”
The great teachers discussed. As Xuanyuan Po’s personal teacher, Sun Mo had the qualifications to provide on-the-spot guidance. Using a great teacher halo wasn’t against the rules.
Profound Words would forcibly control the student to act according to their teacher’s instruction. Hence, even if Xuanyuan Po wanted to charge in blindly and fight head-on, he wasn’t able to do so now. He was forced to observe Ding Yi.
“Why? You can’t take it anymore?”
Ding Yi mocked.
Xuanyuan Po didn’t say anything. His life maxim was that when one fought, one should just fight instead of blabbering.
However, because he was forced to be calm, he did discover some crucial points. After all, Xuanyuan Po was a genius overflowing with combat talent.
“What would you guys do if you were in his shoes?”
Sun Mo used the opportunity to ask a question.
The papaya girl whom Sun Mo originally looked at immediately dodged to the side. She prayed in her heart that her teacher wouldn’t call her name.
After that, her hand involuntarily stretched toward her bag. (I really feel like eating a melon to calm my nerves.)
Li Ziqi had many thoughts but because her motor skill was too bad and her combat experience was too little, she couldn’t really tell.
“Tantai?”
Sun Mo called out. He knew that Jiang Leng understood for sure.
“Although I cannot see anything on this Ding Yi’s body, I feel that there are definitely spirit runes hidden beneath his robes. In any case, spirit runes will definitely absorb spirit qi when they are activated. So, Xuanyuan Po just has to attack the parts of Ding Yi’s body where he can sense a large quantity of spirit qi being absorbed. All will be good if he can damage those spirit runes.”
Tantai Yutang’s line of thoughts was very clear.
Jiang Leng nodded and raised his opinion of the sickly invalid.
“Your answer isn’t bad!”
Sun Mo praised.
“Eh? In that case, we should quickly tell Xuanyuan Po!”
Lu Zhiruo urged.
“Teacher is waiting for Xuanyuan Po to discover this himself so he can gain some comprehension. This is why he didn’t tell it to him directly.”
Li Ziqi explained. For such an experience, if one discovered it themselves, it would be imprinted deeper in their memories compared to others telling them.
Gu Xiuxun and Mei Ziyu glanced at Sun Mo, feeling even more admiration for him. Logically speaking, the higher Xuanyuan Po’s ranking, the greater Sun Mo’s fame would be. However, he didn’t care about this. The thing that matters most to him would always be whether his student could grow or not.
“Damn, this fellow is so sharp!”
Ding Yi was no longer as relaxed as before because Xuanyuan Po started to attack his spirit runes furiously. This caused Ding Yi to be fully focused on the defensive end.
Hence, his attacking momentum naturally weakened.
In the spectator stands, Bai Wenzhang felt increasingly covetous about Xuanyuan Po.
“He is truly a perfect experimental body!”
Bai Wenzhang silently praised. But at the same time, he frowned. If the spirit runes on Ding Yi were discovered, those would become his weakness. It seemed that he had to do more research on how to conceal the spirit qi fluctuations.
Actually, when Ding Yi absorbed spirit qi, the fluctuations were very weak. Only an opponent like Xuanyuan Po with such sharp senses would be able to discover them.
To put it unpleasantly, students who weren’t in the top 64 would just be free points to Ding Yi.
Sun Mo observed the battle while feeling admiration for the designer of these spirit runes.
The spirit runes were very perfect. There were problems before this because the experimental bodies were too weak. Now that the person was Ding Yi, he was able to maximize the effects of these spirit runes completely.
For example, these spirit runes were like an engine while the experimental body was like the materials. For people like Ding Wu, they were considered trash material. Although they could ignite the engine, they would be damaged very swiftly as the probability of wear and tear on them was much higher.
But if the materials were Ding Yi, that would be relatively perfect.
Bluntly speaking, it still depended on the individual. The better one’s aptitude was, the greater the boost brought by those spirit runes would be.
“In that case, it should be possible to create a type of spirit rune that can be tattooed even on ‘trash’ quality students, and it can generate a huge boosting effect.”
Sun Mo sank into contemplation, thinking that this research direction wasn’t bad.
Upon seeing this scene, the system felt very gratified.
Sun Mo wasn’t complacent because he had reached the ancestor-level comprehension in spirit runes. He actually started to take a deeper step to probe the profound mysteries of this field further.
For any subject, when someone stood in the lead, they would become the pioneer, giving the later generations a direction.
For any subject, the domain of knowledge was slowly explored step by step, gradually expanding, becoming substantial and perfect.
Ding!
“Congratulations on starting to think about how to advance the field of spirit runes. Reward: 1 silver treasure chest. I hope you will be able to have some achievements in the future!”
The system congratulated him.
Sun Mo started. There was such an unexpected surprise too?
“Sun Mo, I hope that you will become the number one in the field of spirit runes sooner or later!’
The system sincerely wished him well from the bottom of its heart.
“Thanks!”
Sun Mo smiled. However, he had never thought of becoming the best.
On the stage, although Xuanyuan Po was suppressing Ding Yi, the battle situation was quite worrisome.
Ding Yi’s strength was truly too immense. Besides, his recovery rate was fast. Although he had two broken ribs, they didn’t seem to affect his combat prowess at all.
“Xuanyuan, sometimes if you can’t find a path, you should make your own!”
Sun Mo guided.
It was just like before. Sun Mo wouldn’t directly tell his students what to do. He wanted them to think the problem through themselves, making thinking a habit for them, or even evolving this habit to the instinctive level.
“What path? I don’t know what you are talking about!”
Xuanyuan Po casually replied. He wasn’t able to defeat Ding Yi despite fighting for such a long time. Was he discouraged? Sorry, that didn’t exist. The combat addict actually wanted nothing more than for Ding Yi to persist longer.
However, as the battle entered an impasse, after Xuanyuan Po used his leftover energy to think, he suddenly felt that Sun Mo’s words seemed to be not bad.
Didn’t he really look like a headless fly charging in stupidly?
“Make a path?”
Xuanyuan Po worked hard to think. After that, because he was distracted, the large halberd smashed into his shoulder and the sound of bone cracking rang out.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Ding Yi took the opportunity to press the attack.
Xuanyuan Po repeatedly retreated. He almost could no longer hold on to Silver Paste.
“Eh?”
Xuanyuan Po sharply discovered that Ding Yi seemed to be focusing on attacking the silver spear in his hands. (He couldn’t possibly be thinking of knocking my spear away from my hands, right?)
(Ze, what a foolish dream!)
As he thought of this, Xuanyuan Po fiercely clutched his spear tightly. (Even if I die, I won’t be seperated from my Silver Paste.)
(Eh? Wait a minute?)
(There seems to be a strategy named ‘beating someone at their own game’?)
(I see now!)
Xuanyuan Po was a single-celled organism and did whatever he thought of. He basically had never considered what he should do if his battle strategy failed. Hence, he borrowed the great impact from Ding Yi’s next halberd attack and allowed his spear to fly out of his hand.
“Oh noooooo!”
Xuanyuan Po shouted loudly. He took a large step forward and stretched out his arm to catch the spear.
Pak! Pak! Pak!
Jiang Leng, Li Ziqi, and the sickly invalid directly lifted their hands to cover their eyes, no longer wanting to watch.
(Combat addict, your acting skills are so exaggerated!)
“Ah!”
Lu Zhiruo was frightened and screamed. She opened her eyes and looked at the silver spear.
“Chance!”
When Ding Yi saw the spear leaving Xuanyuan Po’s hands, joy appeared on his face. After that, when Xuanyuan Po tried to reach out to grab his long spear, his attack that was originally aimed at Xuanyuan Po shifted to the silver spear instead.
At this moment, Xuanyuan Po unleashed one of his ultimate techniques.
Presenting Borrowed Flowers to Buddha!
Boom!
Xuanyuan Po had a solemn look on his face as both his palms blasted toward Ding Yi.
“Oh no!”
Ding Yi was badly startled, and he quickly pulled his halberd back, wanting to block Xuanyuan Po’s attack. However, it was too late.
Bang!
The palms of the combat addict solidly smashed into Ding Yi’s chest. After that, Ding Yi was flung through the air and landed outside the stage with a loud bang.
Pak!
Xuanyuan Po grabbed hold of Silver Paste. After that, he lowered his head in astonishment and looked at his hands. This was the first time he had defeated an opponent using his palms instead of his spear.
This feeling felt so strange and so fresh!
“Oh yay, he won!”
The papaya girl cheered.
“I……cough, cough!”
Ding Yi coughed up a large mouthful of blood and had a depressed look on his face. He felt reluctant to accept this. Actually, he guessed that it might be a trick when Xuanyuan Po had allowed his spear to leave his hands, but he had felt that there was no way he would lose to a single attack. He just had to send Xuanyuan Po’s spear flying further and he would be able to fight with his halberd against a bare-handed opponent. It would definitely be advantageous for him.
“Damn, what the hell was the palm strike? Why was it so fierce?”
Ding Yi wanted to cry but no tears were coming out.
“Well done!”
Sun Mo clapped and praised.
“T……teacher, is this victory something that is derived from my superiority in intelligence? I seem to have understood something.”
Xuanyuan Po had a pensive look on his face.
“Superiority in intelligence, your head!”
Ding Yi roared in fury and climbed up to again. (I’m inferior to you? What a joke, fight again with me!)
“Xuanyuan Po is the victor for this round!”
After Tong Yiming spoke, he looked at Ding Yi. “Please mind your words and behavior!”
Xuanyuan Po jumped off the stage and ran back. After that, he saw Jiang Leng and the sickly invalid looking up at the sky.
“What’s the matter?”
Xuanyuan Po also glanced at the sky.
“Something is strange, even the combat addict knows how to use his brain now. I’m checking to see if the sun rose from the west today!”
Tantai Yutang laughed.
“Mn!”
Jiang Leng nodded.
“Don’t talk nonsense!”
Li Ziqi glared at the sickly invalid before sending her congratulations. “Xuanyuan, congratulations on obtaining another victory!”
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