Chapter 110: You Still Say You Don't Know Yin Wind? Wronged, I'm So Wronged!

The first hundred to reach the Agricultural Supervisor receive a large point reward.

With stakes this high, now is no time for pleasantries.

"Soul-Seizing Yin Wind!"

He thrust both hands downward, and Yin Wind swiftly surged up from beneath the ground, coiling around Zhao Xing's hands.

After Yin Wind Law reached Completion, the spell could be cast at will, its casting more covert, and the Yin Wind rose faster.

The Five Element Wind counters Thunder. Although this region was shrouded by Lei Chi, the ley lines must also be affected, yet the wind within the ley lines would certainly not be lacking.

"Go!"

At a thought from Zhao Xing, a wisp of Yin Wind at his fingertips split toward two directions, rushing at fifteen people in total.

Controlling fifteen wisps of Yin Wind at once made each portion smaller, but also more potent and more covert.

While casting Yin Wind, Zhao Xing didn't even turn his head, relying solely on the flow of the air to judge the positions of the fifteen.

He kept running forward himself.

"Whoosh~"

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The Yin Wind swirled once, then burrowed into the bodies of the fifteen people on both sides from different directions.

"Cough, cough…"

"Hiss, so cold!"

"Hm? Why am I seeing illusions before my eyes?"

"This is Yin Wind being blown? Who is it!"

The fifteen people's speed immediately slowed.

But there were differences between person and person.

Among them, four did not immediately judge that they were affected by Yin Wind, instead thinking it was caused by the pressure of Thunder.

Another six judged it to be Yin Wind, but thought the Yin Wind had naturally spread up from underground.

Only five people not only judged that what affected them was Yin Wind, but also immediately determined it was cast by a person, not natural Yin Wind.

"In a Ten-Thousand-Lei Chi, although Wind counters Thunder, with such a terrifying Lei Chi pressing down, Yin Wind would absolutely not naturally blow up from underground."

"Someone must have cast a spell!" Yu Chunwu stepped on Rising Clouds, slowing his pace while warily scanning the people running in different directions.

"The direction the Yin Wind blew just now was exactly toward him! Li Feng of the Tiger Jiao Army!"

Yu Chunwu looked at the tall figure running to his front-left, a flash of anger in his eyes: "Hmph, I didn't expect the ninth-ranked genius of the Tiger Jiao Army's selection to also play dirty."

Unlike other armies, the Tiger Jiao Army's selection method was to have the geniuses fight their way through one by one.

The Dragon Head Tower Ship circled around each prefecture, and wherever it stopped, it would find Agricultural Supervisors of similar age and rank from the local armies to spar with.

Fight after fight, and fame naturally came with it.

As the highest-ranked garrison of the Ten Sun Grotto-heaven, the Tiger Jiao Army naturally drew much attention, so Yu Chunwu recognized Li Feng at a glance.

Coincidentally, in another direction, He Yu, who had also recognized that the Yin Wind was cast by a person, likewise fixed his gaze on Li Feng.

"It must be Li Feng!"

"I see everyone else was affected, but only he and one other person were less affected."

"Hmph, I, He Yu, am not afraid of you! If you won't let me pass, you won't get off easy either!"

If these two were misled by the direction of Zhao Xing's Yin Wind into thinking it was Li Feng,

then the judgment of the other two was entirely influenced by Li Feng's fame.

"So insidious, actually using Yin Wind to harm people, and still pretending to know nothing, head down as he hurries along. Am I, Peng Ran, the sort to take a beating and not strike back? Take this!"

"His name is Li Feng, even his name has 'Wind' in it, this Yin Wind must be his doing. Forget it, I shouldn't bother with him… What? Three people are attacking Li Feng? Count me, Yang Yang, in!"

Thus, after Zhao Xing cast Yin Wind to affect these fifteen people, three groups of people reacted in entirely different ways.

Yu Chunwu, He Yu, Peng Ran, and Yang Yang all cast spells simultaneously to surround and attack Li Feng. The first three struck at nearly the same moment; Yang Yang was a bit slower.

But this had its advantage—he saw that the spells cast by Yu Chunwu, He Yu, and Peng Ran were all Heaven-Timing Laws, so he immediately supplemented them with a cooperative Earth-Law to block the enemy.

The cooperative instinct of military Agricultural Supervisors was truly bone-deep.

The second group only knew there was Yin Wind, but didn't know it was cast by a person.

Now that Yu Chunwu, He Yu, Peng Ran, and Yang Yang made their move and shouted, they immediately realized what was going on.

Acting on the idea of beating a drowning dog, they also tossed a spell in Li Feng's direction.

The third group didn't even know what had happened at all—neither that it was Yin Wind, nor had any intention to fight. Knowing their own strength was lacking, and having been injured by this sudden turn of events, they immediately distanced themselves, already straying from the straight path into the valley.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Xing simply let them go. Those injured by his wave of Yin Wind posed little threat; there was no need to bother with them further.

He just hadn't expected the other two groups to react so strongly.

Their judgments were also beyond Zhao Xing's expectations.

When he cast the Yin Wind, he made it swirl, so the direction of the Yin Wind each person received pointed toward one or two others.

But now, why were they all going after that youth with the protruding ears?

"Li Feng? From their shouting, it sounds like they know him—is he famous?" In a flash of thought, Zhao Xing couldn't afford to dwell on it.

He immediately switched from Yin Wind Law to Thunder Law, slashing it toward Li Feng's position.

At the same time, he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Li Feng, you've gone too far—take a Heavenly Thunder from me!"

In truth, Zhao Xing didn't even know him at all; it was purely a subconscious judgment that led him to make the choice most advantageous to himself.

Li Feng: "……"

At this moment, Li Feng's mother tongue was speechlessness.

He had done nothing, yet suddenly twelve people were shouting and trying to kill him.

And these were all first reactions—Li Feng didn't even have a chance to explain.

Li Feng was instantly thrown into a fluster; the soil beneath his feet arched upward, and just as he was about to rise on cloud, the ground split apart and a vine shot out from below, wrapping around both his feet.

Immediately after, six bolts of heavenly thunder crashed down from the sky, striking the top of his head. The third-rank upper-grade Hundred Flowers Conical Hat instantly went numb and began smoking, ruined on the spot.

Another seven wind cones came hurtling toward his chest, the backs of his knees, his lower abdomen, his groin, his throat, and his face.

"Whirlwind Shield!"

Li Feng hastily summoned a violent wind. The cyan wind took on a tangible form, swirling around him ceaselessly, then swiftly sliced away the entangling vines. He finally managed to withstand the second wave of attacks.

"So it really was you! Wind as solid as substance, mid-rank wind law perfected — none of us provoked you, you're simply bullying intolerably!" Zhao Xing shouted while continuing to run.

In reality, none of them had stopped either; everyone was casting spells on the move.

Hearing these words, Li Feng was so furious he could have smoked.

"Damn your mother! It wasn't me who did it!"

Who could understand his grievance?

He had even suspected Zhao Xing, but at this point he truly couldn't explain himself even if he had a mouth.

"Li Feng." Yu Chunwu's hands never stopped moving. "You still want to wriggle out of it? If it wasn't you, then who? Dare you say you don't practice Yin Wind Law?"

"Boom!" Li Feng blocked a lightning-draw strike, opened his mouth, and couldn't utter a single word.

Because he really did know Yin Wind!

It's just that compared to his Storm Law, his Yin Wind spells were only at the fourth-revolution level.

But would anyone believe him?

"Don't think that just because you made a name for yourself in the Tiger Flood Dragon Army's selection, I'm afraid of you!" He Yu hurled out the Cloud Rain Pearl; the raindrops on it suddenly shot forth, forming ice arrows in the air. "Take one of my arrow rains too!"

"Yin Wind Law is indeed hard to practice, but my Thunder Sword is no less sharp!" Peng Ran's brows and palms both flickered with Lei Ting as he brought out his signature move.

As for Yang Yang, he didn't make another move, because he specialized in earth law, which required time to cast.

In his original army, he had also mainly focused on coordinating with troop movements, unlike these others who each had a signature offensive spell.

For an offensive spell, speed above all else cannot be too slow.

Li Feng truly felt unbearably wronged.

What does it have to do with me whether your damn spells are strong or not!

"Enough!"

Li Feng was enraged.

"You want a fight? Fine, I'll keep you company to the very end!"

"None of you are getting out of here today!"

Boom!

Before his words had even faded, a sheet of fiery-red cloud instantly unfurled above Li Feng's head.

"Blood Cloud Law is the most bizarre — it can backlash against the caster through the cloud qi. Once wrapped in blood cloud, one cannot break free in a short time; both blood qi and cloud qi will be consumed excessively. Winning the cloud contest deals the greatest damage to the enemy himself."

"Nine rolls of cloud — though it lacks a touch of perfect roundness, a nine-revolution Blood Cloud Law cannot be underestimated. Li Feng is going all out now."

Zhao Xing took one look at the cloud layer above Li Feng's head and instantly recognized the mid-rank cloud law the other practiced.

At the same time, he also knew that Li Feng had truly flared up.

If it were merely a sparring match and he didn't intend to go all out, a Si Nong generally wouldn't summon clouds.

To deploy cloud law meant fighting to determine a winner and a loser — to the death.

But then again, if it were himself, he'd feel wronged too, and would have to be angry.

"Time to run."

Zhao Xing glanced over and immediately retreated.

He was currently closest to the valley mouth, and farthest from Li Feng.

The water was already muddied, so he had to pull himself out.

Zhao Xing had never yet served as a Si Nong official; many spells he hadn't yet fully cultivated. He hadn't even practiced the Solar Terms Command, the Myriad Things Growth Chart, or the Yin-Yang Origin Self Scripture.

If it really came to a fight against so many people, he might not come out unscathed.

"Yin Wind, go!"

Zhao Xing seized the chance to cast a Yin Wind, mixed in among beginner-level Wind-Rising spells, to attack Li Feng.

This caused Li Feng to briefly lose focus, losing his lock on Zhao Xing's position.

"Retreat!"

Zhao Xing seized the opportunity, immediately stepping on rising cloud, and charged toward the valley mouth ahead.

He quickly vanished into the valley mouth, already entering the Lei Ting zone.

Li Feng's Blood Cloud Law completely lost its sense of Zhao Xing.

"It's him!"

"You bastard! Just you wait!"

Li Feng had discovered the true culprit behind the mischief, staring fixedly in Zhao Xing's direction.

But for now, he still had to deal with the few people before him.

Since he'd truly flared up and the fight was on, any explanation would have to wait until he'd won afterward — otherwise it would be showing weakness and timidity.

Whether in the right or wrong, people will still step on you three parts more!

"This wasn't my doing. But…" Li Feng stared fixedly at the few people. "You've truly enraged me."

"Come on then, didn't you want to fight?!"

"All of you, come at me together!"

Li Feng roared.

"You think I'm afraid of you?!"

"Today I'm going to take you down a notch!"

"Go!"

The Supervisor of Agriculture, Taicang Court.

There were more people in front of the Earth Mirror Instrument at Taicang Court; after all, so many reserve Supervisors of Agriculture needed to be taught, and the instructors and trainers wouldn't be few.

Although the new recruits' reporting and assignment was Lu Bang's responsibility, some among them held higher status and were stronger than Lu Bang. These powerful figures would occasionally come to Taicang Court to take a look.

"Lu Bang, the military Supervisors of Agriculture begin entering the Ten Sun Grotto-heaven for training today. You've been watching for several hours now—any good seedlings to recommend?" A white-bearded but spry old man walked into the Earth Mirror Hall and asked Lu Bang.

"There are a few. What kind of seedling does Tian Hou want?" Lu Bang asked.

"I'm from the Dili Sect, so of course I'm looking for talent in that area. Watch the Suspended Territory, the Heavy Water River, and the Earth Fire Plain regions for me. If you spot any good seedlings, let me know in advance." The old man said with a smile.

"No problem, you can rest assured." Lu Bang smiled and saw the old man off.

In truth, he said the same thing to anyone who came, but what he actually did still had to follow the rules in the end.

After seeing the old man off, Lu Bang returned to the mirror: "Let's see where that kid has gotten to."

He was watching Zhao Xing.

Ever since Zhao Xing cast a spell and threw the Earth Fire Plain into chaos, causing tremendous suffering for the many who came after, Zuo Zizhi and Lu Bang had been keeping a close eye on Zhao Xing.

"After leaving the Earth Fire Plain, he headed for the Ten Thousand Li Lei Chi." Zuo Zizhi pointed and said, "But his luck was bad—he ran into Li Feng and the others."

"Oh?" Lu Bang immediately looked toward the Earth Mirror Instrument. Li Feng—he knew him. Among the first batch selected by the Tiger Jiao Army, Li Feng was one of the more outstanding ones.

Having arrived in the first batch, Li Feng had waited outside the grotto-heaven for over a month.

Magical sparring between Supervisors of Agriculture always caused quite a stir. Outside, Li Feng also accepted challenges from the later batches.

Li Feng won many bouts, losing only five.

Ultimately, among the new recruits within the Tiger Jiao Army, Li Feng ranked sixth.

"There are three others who are also not bad." Zuo Zizhi held a booklet and said, "Yu Chunwu selected by the Blazing Sun Army, He Yu and Peng Ran selected by the Xuanjia Army."

"Mm." Lu Bang nodded slightly, but in his eyes, the three Zuo Zizhi mentioned were merely "not bad." The ones he could somewhat take a liking to were Li Feng, and now another—Zhao Xing.

"What's going on? Their speed has slowed down." Zuo Zizhi suddenly looked at the image. "They seem to be shouting something."

"Let me adjust the sound." Lu Bang was also quite curious. Soon, with his adjustments, sound came through from the Earth Mirror Instrument.

"Li Feng, you've gone too far!"

"Li Feng, and you still say you don't know Yin Wind techniques?"

"..."

Lu Bang listened to the voices and watched Zhao Xing in the image, his face immediately becoming extremely colorful.

He had naturally noticed Zhao Xing's little tricks earlier. At first they were fairly subtle, but once an observer looked closely, he immediately understood the whole story.

Because Zhao Xing didn't know Li Feng at all—he hadn't even been at the outer camp for two hours—so everything Zhao Xing said was entirely deliberate, goading Yu Chunwu and the other three into attacking Li Feng.

"That's quite underhanded." Zuo Zizhi laughed; he had also seen that the Yin Wind was cast by Zhao Xing. "If he fought fair and square, he'd probably have trouble even handling Yu Chunwu—after all, he has no experience as a military Supervisor of Agriculture."

"But with this stirring up, he ended up in the most advantageous position."

"How can you call that underhanded?" Lu Bang said. "Fifteen people, and under such circumstances, he could gain the upper hand—that's called clever."

"He is quite clever." Zuo Zizhi nodded. "It's just that Li Feng is a bit unlucky, falling into Zhao Xing's trap for no reason at all, unable to explain himself even if he had a mouth."

"Hahaha, he really is unlucky." Lu Bang burst out laughing after watching. "If it were me, I'd want to hack that kid Zhao Xing to pieces too."

"Look, Li Feng has also figured out who's playing tricks, but that kid has already slipped away."

In the mountain valley, hearing the roars behind him, Zhao Xing ran even faster.

"I wonder what sin Li Feng committed in a past life—just a little push and so many people ganged up on him."

Zhao Xing had arrived at the Ten Sun Grotto-heaven camp relatively late. He knew that military selections mostly started much earlier.

After all, civil officials had to wait until spring for appointments, but the military, academies, Daoist institutes... they all began before the new year.

"Maybe he came early and made a name for himself at the outer camp?" Zhao Xing mulled over what those people ahead had said and thought it very likely.

"He was too flashy, inviting jealousy."

"But being too low-key doesn't work either. The military is combative—being too low-key gives people the impression of a weakling, and everyone wants to step on you."

Military officials weren't like civil officials. Back in Gucheng, people like Tang Wanchun, Gao Li, and Pang Yuan had all taken a dislike to him at one point, and would also make snide remarks at Xue Wenzhong.

But they were civil officials after all, and the overall atmosphere was comparatively courteous and restrained. The military was different.

"Be flashy when you should be flashy—for instance, when there are points and rewards to be had. In ordinary times, keep a lower profile and don't keep showing your face in front of people."

"Compete only when there's profit and benefit to be gained, and when you do compete, try to ambush like this time. Blind contention and fights over pride are both to be avoided." Zhao Xing set principles for his conduct in the Ten Sun Grotto-heaven.

"Boom—crack!"

A sudden thunderbolt jolted Zhao Xing awake. He immediately stopped thinking about Li Feng and focused on traversing the Ten Thousand Li Lei Chi.