Chapter 82

The first battle lasted for less than 10 minutes.

At this moment, the large arena, spanning over a thousand square meters, was empty, with only 5 people standing on it.

Without exception, those standing had all defeated more than 10 opponents.

Ye Chen, with his long sword on his back, was among them.

"Brother Chen, you're amazing!" Li Feng said excitedly to the people around him, "Look, I was right, Brother Chen won!"

The surrounding audience naturally saw Ye Chen's performance.

It must be said that anyone who could stay until the end was definitely an outstanding talent in this round of arena battles.

Ye Chen's Profound Ice Sword Art was extremely sharp, with every move lethal; he defeated a full twelve contestants in the first round of the arena and stood firmly until the end.

"This guy named Ye Chen is indeed very strong; he definitely counts as excellent among the nine great academies of the same period!"

"Too amazing! Is this a Sword Servant? He's clearly only at Qi Refinement Level 7, yet he seemed to have killed a Qi Refinement Level 8 just now?"

"Sword cultivators are indeed the profession with the strongest killing power. And this isn't even a true sword cultivator yet, yet he can already fight above his level!"

"..."

Many audience members witnessed with their own eyes just how exaggerated the killing power of a sword cultivator was, and they also recognized Ye Chen's strength.

Hearing the praise from the crowd, the look of pride on Li Feng's face was beyond words, and he even deliberately looked provocatively at Zhu Hongyuan's table, saying:

"Brother Chen comes from humble beginnings yet has been able to counterattack all the way up. All those damn immortal second-generations have been trampled under his feet. Now, he is even an immortal seedling with high hopes placed on him by the Qingshan Sect!"

Old Hu and the others, who could originally endure it, were immediately displeased.

Sun Zi slapped the table, stood up, pointed at him, and said:

"Li Feng, what do you mean? No matter how impressive Ye Chen is, what does it have to do with you?"

Old Hu also snorted coldly and said:

"Exactly! Besides, when did the immortal seedling with high hopes from the Qingshan Sect become Ye Chen? Isn't it Chu Wange and Lin Mo?"

Perhaps because the voice was relatively loud, the freshmen of the surrounding academies cast curious glances one after another.

The headline "Nanshan Immortal Couple" had already been on the trending searches in Qinzhou several times.

To say that the names of Chu Wange and Lin Mo resounded throughout all of Qinzhou was a slight exaggeration, but among the freshmen on the nine levels of the Enlightenment Cliff this year, they were definitely existences that no one did not know.

Now everyone knew that Nanshan No. 4 Middle School in Xichuan Province had produced a pair of "immortal lovers" who not only passed into the top ten of the Immortal List together but also entered the Qingshan Sect together.

Hearing this, Li Feng showed an expression of disdain:

"Chu Wange is one thing, but Lin Mo, a man who lives off a woman, is also worthy of being called a top-tier genius!?"

As soon as these words were spoken, there was an uproar all around.

One must know that the students of the nine great academies had a natural status gap with them, not to mention that Lin Mo was in the top ten of the Immortal List and belonged to that batch of top-tier geniuses among the freshmen of the nine great academies.

Now someone actually dared to publicly slander him; were they not afraid of forming karma with the other party?

They looked at Li Feng one after another, all wanting to know why the other party was so bold!

At this time, Zhu Hongyuan, who had been silent, frowned and said: "Li Feng, if you don't understand, don't talk!"

"I have been a classmate with Lin Mo for three years, and I don't understand?"

Li Feng sneered, not caring about his warning, and continued:

"He is nothing more than a five-element mixed spiritual root! If he hadn't climbed onto Chu Wange's thigh, let alone passing into the top ten of the Immortal List, he wouldn't even have the qualifications to participate in the Heavenly Dao Immortal Examination!"

Hearing this, the surrounding audience was stunned.

"Five-element mixed spiritual root? That can't be, right?"

"Are you kidding? My aptitude is better than that!"

"This guy must be confused; how could someone in the top ten of the Immortal List be a five-element mixed spiritual root!"

"Stop bragging, buddy. If you accidentally let Lin Mo hear this, you'd better be careful. He is an immortal seedling of the Qingshan Sect!"

"..."

Hearing the admonitions from the surroundings, Li Feng was even more disdainful and said directly:

"I can't be bothered to talk nonsense with you. You have no idea how strong Brother Chen is! I'll just tell you one thing: in the three years at Nanshan Middle School, Lin Mo never won against him!"

Speaking of this, he looked at Ye Chen in the Mirror Flower Water Moon, his eyes revealing a look of worship:

"Moreover, Brother Chen has already told me that he will choose to challenge Lin Mo in the second stage. If you don't believe it, just wait and see!"

Seeing his determined tone, those who had originally refuted him suddenly showed expressions of hesitation.

Could it be that what he said was true?

Everyone muttered in their hearts, and for a moment, they were stunned by Li Feng's performance.

Soon, some people started flipping through news on their Spirit Machines.

"Damn, this guy named Lin Mo is so handsome!"

With an exclamation, everyone's attention was diverted.

"Let me see, hiss~! He really does have some looks, not even inferior to me!"

"Pfft! Buddy, stop bragging. If you were half as handsome as him, you wouldn't still be on the lower six levels."

"Hahaha, exactly! If you have the confidence, go and latch onto an Immortal List Top Graduate."

"You don't know anything. I rely on strength to eat, not on my face."

"..."

As everyone discussed, the topic quickly changed from "Is Lin Mo living off a woman?" to "How did Lin Mo manage to live off a woman?" and "The 108 techniques of living off a woman"...

As for Zhu Hongyuan, he frowned slightly, but he didn't know how to defend him.

Honestly, whether it was him or Old Hu and the others, they weren't actually familiar with Lin Mo.

And it was indeed as Li Feng said; one month before the Immortal Examination, they hadn't heard of such an immortal seedling in Nanshan.

The other party suddenly appeared, also because of some rumors about Chu Wange.

Immediately after, it was revealed that Lin Mo participated in the Heavenly Dao Immortal Examination and even achieved the good result of being in the top ten of the Immortal List...

All of this came too suddenly; let alone them, even Lin Mo's homeroom teacher, Old Li, might not know what was going on.

Li Feng was so confident; could it be that he really grasped some secret they didn't know?

Zhu Hongyuan sighed; no matter what, this matter was not something he could manage.

"The first round is over. Successful qualifiers: Tang Lei, Ye Chen, Qi Tianlei, Li Yuankai, You Mengfei!"

With the host's announcement, the first battle also came to an end.

The few who successfully qualified sat on the waiting seats beside the arena, temporarily becoming spectators.

"Next, please have the second-round contestants take the stage!"

The Mirror Flower Water Moon quickly flickered with new talisman light, and new contestants appeared on the arena one after another, starting a new round of fighting...

In the bamboo building courtyard on the ninth level of the Enlightenment Platform, the Mirror Flower Water Moon was on the wall in the center of the courtyard.

The team leaders of the nine great academies also gathered in a courtyard, watching this freshman competition with great interest.

After Brother Li of the Ghost Sect finished announcing the opening of the second match with one hand against his throat and the other pinching a Dao talisman, his spiritual sense withdrew from the space.

He looked at the scene of the Mirror Flower Water Moon in front of him and smiled at Brother He, who was sitting beside him:

"Brother He has selected a good seedling. This Ye Chen was able to break out of the encirclement from a hundred people with the cultivation of Qi Refinement Level 7; it is truly extraordinary!"

Brother He smiled while modestly saying:

"This kid Ye Chen is indeed okay. Although his aptitude is a bit ordinary, carrying luck can be considered to make up for the shortcoming of insufficient aptitude. It's just that he is a bit unrestrained in his speech."

"As a Sword Servant for Brother He Lian, he is barely qualified."

If Li Feng and the others heard this, they would probably be surprised. It turned out that Ye Chen was not Brother He's Sword Servant; his Sword Master was someone else.

However, the surrounding team leaders were not surprised by this.

For almost every sword cultivator, it was common to have three or five Sword Servants, and some even had ten or twenty.

And Brother He himself was actually also a Sword Servant.

Although the killing power of a Sword Servant was slightly inferior to that of a true sword cultivator, it was much stronger than most magic-cultivating professions.

Therefore, becoming a Sword Servant had become one of the best choices for many cultivators who possessed a Metal Spiritual Root but lacked sufficient purity, which was not a rare thing in the Qingshan Sect, famous for its sword cultivators.