After the battle between Ning Cheng and Meng Yu Jing, there were only the last six people left who still had points.
Situ Yu had accumulated 60 points after he had killed Thunder Academy’s Go Ye with a strong beheading, and had been in first place until now. However, he did not continue to go down to challenge others, and no one came out to challenge him.
Ning Cheng had also reached 50 points after his victory over Meng Yu Jing. At this time, no one thought that Ning Cheng was a fluke or a dark horse anymore. In two bouts, Ning Cheng had already proved his might.
Ning Cheng had just gotten off the stage when Thunder Academy’s Lian Hao flew onto the stage once again. The rest of the people didn’t even need to think about it, they knew that Lian Hao was going to challenge Ning Cheng who had just gone down.
Lian Hao’s triangular eyes swept diagonally from the few people who still had points, and when he swept to Fang Xin, a hint of disdain appeared in the corner of his eyes.
Fang Xin was instantly furious, he knew that Lian Hao was going to challenge that Ning Xiaocheng, but when he saw this disdainful look from Lian Hao, he was upset in his heart.
Without even waiting for Lian Hao to say anything, he flew and landed on top of the stage, “Fang Xin from Luo Throat Academy has come with 50 points to meet you, let’s see if your hands are as sharp as your triangle eyes underneath.”
For Fang Xin, sooner or later he would have to fight Lian Hao, and since his opponent was so disdainful, he might as well fight now. He likewise wanted to let Lian Hao know that he, Fang Xin, was not the Gu Hong and Chu Yongxin of Divine Wind Academy.
A fierce smile appeared at the corner of Lian Hao’s mouth, “Since you want to die early and reincarnate, then I will make it happen for you. Originally, I was going to kill that trash Ning Xiaocheng first. I didn’t expect you to deliver your death. Like you. A fellow who can’t even kill a woman. There is indeed no need to live.”
Only then did Fang Xin understand why Lian Hao was sneering at him, it turned out that this guy sneered at him for not being able to kill Meng Jingxiu. In fact, Fang Xin still didn’t understand Lian Hao’s meaning, Lian Hao was because Fang Xin had defeated Meng Jingxiu in battle and he didn’t have the chance to kill Meng Jingxiu.
Ning Cheng also didn’t expect that Lian Hao would end up fighting with Fang Xin, he knew that Lian Hao was challenging him when he saw him on stage. He just didn’t know why Fang Xin, who seemed so calm and collected, wanted to get into this mess.
By this point in the third round, there were already too many personal grudges mixed in with the fight.
Lian Hao was extremely hostile, and after Fang Xin finished his words. He directly offered up his own Rakshasa Seal and blasted out. Neither Chu Yongxin nor Gu Hong were able to make Lian Hao exert ten percent of his skills. Although Lian Hao despised Fang Xin, he knew that Fang Xin was far from being comparable to Chu Yongxin. So when he struck, he was at full strength, or at least what appeared to be full strength.
The Rakshasa Seal had already brought up a distance of more than a square foot, completely locking the space around Fang Xin.
Fang Xin had seen Lian Hao do it before, and unlike Chu Yongxin, his true essence cultivation was not inferior to Lian Hao’s. At the same time as Lian Hao offered the Rakshasa Seal at full strength, his ice sword also stabbed out.
It was still an ordinary sword, but after this sword was thrust out. The surrounding area that was controlled by Lian Hao seemed to blur. This blurring was as if it was driven by Fang Xin’s blurred sword shadow.
“Boom. Ka ka ka ……” The Rakshasa seal that suppressed the space of the tournament stage and Fang Xin’s ordinary ice sword blasted together and exploded.
Both Lian Hao and Fang Xin were blown away at the same time, the blurred sword shadow brought up by the ice sword dissipated into thin air, and the Rakshasa Seal shrunk and fell into Lian Hao’s hand.
At the first glance, the two were evenly matched.
In Ning Cheng’s opinion, Fang Xin and Lian Hao’s cultivation levels were indeed similar, but Ning Cheng thought that Fang Xin was no match for Lian Hao. It was not a matter of cultivation level, but rather that Lian Hao was more than several times more cunning than Fang Xin. When two evenly matched people fought, the one who was cunning definitely had the advantage.
While Ning Cheng did not know if Fang Xin still had a killer weapon, he knew that Lian Hao still had a black triangular streamer that he had not taken out.
Seemingly sensing the strength of the other side, neither side held back any longer, and as Fang Xin and Lian Hao battled together again, true essence exploded, and the entire stage was filled with crackling and booming sounds.
The third round of the fight was now a truly evenly matched battle. At this point, either the Great Seal of Rakshasa had rolled around Fang Xin or the blurred sword shadow had split the Great Seal. Whichever side had the upper hand, in a matter of moments, the other side would counter-attack back.
Ning Cheng reckoned that it would be impossible to tell the outcome of this match for a moment, so he turned back to Liu Xian and said, “Deacon Liu, do you want to get a better ranking, or do you want Divine Wind Academy to advance to a six-star academy?”
Liu Xian opened his mouth to say, “Of course, it would be best if we were to be promoted to a six-star academy. However, when the words reached his mouth, he swallowed what he wanted to say. There must be a reason for Ning Cheng to say that, and he subconsciously asked, “Ning Cheng, could it be that you can help my Divine Wind Academy to get the first place? Let Divine Wind Academy advance to a six-star academy?”
After a brief pause, Ning Cheng said with certainty, “I’ve met all the participants this time, except for that Ling Naixin. If Deacon Liu must get first place and have Divine Wind Academy advance to a six-star academy, I think I can help Deacon Liu do that.”
When Liu Xian heard Ning Cheng’s words, he looked at Ning Cheng in a dumbfounded manner for a long time before he said in a trembling voice, “Ning Cheng, you can really make Divine Wind Academy get the first place?”
He had already tried to think of the result of the competition as optimistic as possible, but he had not expected Ning Cheng to give such an answer. This answer was no longer a matter of being more optimistic about the result of the competition, but was completely beyond his imagination.
The Divine Wind Academy could get first place and finally advance to the Six Star Academy?
This would have been simply impossible, but when Liu Xian thought of how easily Ning Cheng had defeated Meng Yu Jing earlier, he immediately felt that this did not seem impossible.
Liu Xian rose in excitement, but then he thought about what Ning Cheng meant by asking that. He was a core disciple of the Divine Wind Academy, and since he could help the Divine Wind Academy to advance to a six-star academy, then of course it was only right to go all out to fight, so why did he have to ask for his opinion?
Thinking of this, Liu Xian forced himself to calm down and asked in a gruff voice, “Ning Cheng, you are now also a core disciple of my Divine Wind Academy, in your case. What do you think?”
Ning Cheng said in a deep voice. “Deacon Liu. I feel that this promotion to the Six Star Academy does not seem to be simple. Of course what I can think of, I think you should be able to think of it as well ……”
Liu Xian had already understood Ning Cheng’s meaning at this point, and he nodded and said, “Ning Cheng, you are right, in fact we did think of all of it as well. The reason why that side wants our Lower Continent to form a six-star academy by itself is to oversee the entire Lower Continent’s academies and sects, as well as countless loose cultivators. To control an absolute right to speak. This right of discourse, in the end, has to serve that side. But no matter which one becomes a six-star academy, it is still serving that side, so it is better to hold this power in one’s own hands and at least get more benefits than being under someone else.”
What Ning Cheng had originally meant was that these first and second rounds were both targeted competitions, and it was not like the third round was purely for the purpose of choosing a six-star academy out of which to train. Since Liu Xian had said so, he didn’t refute it and just explained, “This time, the Angry Axe Valley opened. I think those seniors from the Intermediate Continent will definitely not remain in the Chemical Continent, they probably chose a Six Star Academy. Then they will let the Six Star Academy build itself. They are either taking the twenty disciples who entered the Furious Axe Valley to leave first.”
Liu Xian had vaguely understood Ning Cheng’s meaning and still asked, “Ning Cheng, what do you mean?”
Ning Cheng said dryly, “Deacon Liu, I feel that our Divine Wind Academy is limited in strength, and we don’t have any Xuan Dan cultivators sitting in it yet, so once we get a spot in the Six Star Academy, we will immediately become a target. I think that when the great powers from the Intermediate Continent come to help Divine Wind Academy establish a six-star academy, it will definitely be after the opening of the Angry Axe Valley. During this time, who can say what will happen in the Chemical Continent?”
Liu Xian was only bent on helping the Divine Wind Academy rise, and the Middle Continent had also promised to send someone to help the first place in the Five Star Grand Competition to build a Six Star Academy. Because of the sudden opening of the Angry Axe Valley, the people sent over from the Intermediate Continent had not yet been chosen out. Even if they were to be chosen out, it would be after the Raging Axe Valley had closed.
Ning Cheng’s meaning was completely clear to him at this point, what would happen in between? If the Divine Wind Academy was exterminated by someone on various excuses, would the middle level continent still be angry and help the Divine Wind Academy take revenge? At most, they would just choose another one to become a six-star academy.
“Thanks to you, I can’t believe I just thought of it. No wonder you were able to have such an achievement at the third level of True Condensation ……” Liu Xian said with some emotion after thanking Ning Cheng. Liu Xian thought that he was a fan of the authorities.
Ning Cheng was certainly not thinking more than Liu Xian, he was because once he entered the Angry Axe Valley, then Ji Luofei would stay at the Divine Wind Academy, and he absolutely could not let Ji Luofei be on the receiving end of the storm.
Whether or not Divine Wind Academy could become a six-star academy, Ning Cheng would not care half as much, but if Ji Luofei lost a single hair, he would not be willing to do so.
It was inevitable that he did not have a little bit of selfishness in him when he made this comment. However, Ning Cheng thought that his deduction was definitely not wrong, an empty-frame six-star academy was here, and if something happened in the future, who would know who did it?
“Boom boom ……” Several violent explosions caused Ning Cheng and Liu Xian to focus their attention on the stage once again, while Fang Xin on the stage had fallen to the edge, blood spilling from the corners of his mouth and his true essence dissipating, clearly losing beyond all hope.
Even though Lian Hao was a bit far away from Fang Xin, he still used the Rakshasa Seal, trying to finish him off completely.
“I concede defeat ……” Fang Xin spat out three words with immense difficulty, his expression shriveled up.
A hint of chagrin flashed in the corner of Lian Hao’s eyes, he was a little bit too slow, if he could have been faster, or if he could have been closer to Fang Xin, he could definitely have finished him off before Fang Xin said he conceded defeat. Unfortunately, since Fang Xin had already conceded defeat, he couldn’t do it again.
“Losing so quickly?” Ning Cheng also asked with some confusion, as he and Liu Xian had just been talking and had not paid attention to the situation on the tournament stage.
“After Lian Hao’s Rakshasa Seal and Fang Xin’s Ice Sword magic weapon stalemated, Lian Hao pretended that his true essence was not good enough to retreat. Fang Xin suddenly pushed up his true essence and tried to break the Rakshasa Seal with his ice sword, but to his surprise, Lian Hao’s hidden triangular streamer rolled out and the shadow of Fang Xin’s ice sword suddenly dissipated. In order to break free from the triangular streamer, Fang Xin forcibly self-destructed his ice sword magic weapon and was seriously injured by Lian Hao ……,” Meng Jingxiu took the initiative to explain from the side.
Ever since Ning Cheng had defeated Meng Yu Jing, she had known that she had overestimated herself and underestimated Ning Cheng, whose cultivation level should be a little higher than hers.