Chapter 254: The Husband-Show-Off Maniac

"You!"

Wang Wang Yufeng's face was ashen. Clearly, Li Luo's words had stung him badly, and he was also a little embarrassed into anger. After all, in their contest, he was clearly the one who held an absolute advantage in every respect.

With his speed, snatching a Dark Spirit Leaf should have been no trouble at all, but he never expected that Li Luo had no intention of competing with him on speed at all. He simply stood there without moving, and used an extremely clever method to snatch the Dark Spirit Leaf into his hands.

Li Luo's side of three had completed a remarkably precise coordination, whereas on his side, because he had been overly confident at the start, he had never intended to let Song Song Qiuyu and Di Fa Jingming step in to help.

Of course, with their speed, they truly could not keep up with his rhythm.

Regardless, the final result was out: the Dark Spirit Leaf had fallen into Li Luo's hands, and many people had just witnessed the lightning-fast contest between him and Li Luo.

His speed had been broken by Li Luo's Light Arrow.

This result was clearly somewhat unexpected.

Facing the strange gazes cast from all around, Wang Wang Yufeng wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into. After all, in their earlier clash, he had practically been led around by the nose by Li Luo.

But no matter how furious he was inside, he did not dare to simply strike out and seize it by force.

Not to mention it would break the rules, but just the three people standing nearby—Jiang Jiang Qinge and the others—could directly beat him until he was unrecognizable.

In the end, he could only keep his face ashen, leap back dejectedly onto his black lotus leaf, then brace himself and say to Song Song Qiuyu: "I'm truly sorry, I slipped up."

Song Song Qiuyu was slightly dazed. She gazed at Li Luo not far away; the smile at the corner of his mouth seemed to be mocking her, which made a surge of foul anger rise in her heart—she wished she could directly curse out the incompetent Wang Wang Yufeng before her.

How stupid must one be? Clearly possessing the strength of the fourth pattern of the Birth-Pattern Stage, one of the fastest in the Two-Star House, and yet he lost a snatch like this to Li Luo of the One-Star House?!

But in the end she still forcibly suppressed her anger, forced a smile and comforted him: "This has nothing to do with you. No one expected Li Luo to be this cunning."

"It's fine. We didn't get it this time, we can wait for the next one."

Wang Wang Yufeng nodded bitterly. This time he had originally wanted to curry favor with Song Song Qiuyu, but instead he had lost face completely and become a laughingstock.

Meanwhile, the contests for the other two Dark Spirit Leaves also quickly produced results. The two squads became the objects of everyone's envy, overjoyed beyond measure.

And at this moment, everyone only then realized that in the contest between Li Luo and Wang Wang Yufeng, it was the former who had won. Immediately, every face took on a strange expression.

After all, Wang Wang Yufeng was, at the very least, one of the top ten in the Two-Star House, and yet he had lost here to Li Luo's squad. Although this was not a direct clash, the loss truly was rather embarrassing for the Two-Star House.

Facing those gazes, Wang Wang Yufeng's expression grew even uglier.

On a tree trunk not far away, Jiang Jiang Qinge extended her slender jade hand. The heavy sword that had been planted in front of Li Luo's group flew back out and landed in her grasp.

"How was that?" A smile curved her lips as she asked.

Naturally, she was asking Senior Qiu Bai and Tian Tian. The two of them exchanged glances and said, somewhat surprised: "You can snatch it like that?"

Li Luo's three had never moved a step from start to finish, yet in the end the Dark Spirit Leaf had fallen into their hands.

And the brilliant coordination and tactics Li Luo's three had displayed earlier gave the two of them a sense of having their eyes opened to a whole new world. On the contrary, Wang Wang Yufeng had been too eager to show off and too arrogant, and as a result had gotten it smeared right in his face, losing face to the extreme.

"Li Luo is a very excellent captain." Tian Tian's pretty eyes fixed on Li Luo's figure as she gave a very fair assessment.

Senior Qiu Bai had no objection to this either. With the opponent's strength far ahead, to still be able to snatch the Dark Spirit Leaf so composed and unhurried—if one were to call this luck, even a fool wouldn't believe it.

Li Luo's squad truly kept making them see it in a new light again and again.

To their praise, Jiang Jiang Qinge said nothing, but the smile in her golden eyes could not be hidden. This made Tian Tian unable to help but say: "Captain, it's just a little praise for Li Luo, do you have to be like this?"

One must know that in daily life Jiang Jiang Qinge was very cold and proud; even if others praised her to the skies, she would show not the slightest ripple of emotion. Yet here they had only casually said a few kind words about Li Luo, and Jiang Jiang Qinge was already showing such a reaction—it truly was a little hard for Tian Tian to understand.

Jiang Jiang Qinge smiled and said frankly: "The thing you treasure most is being recognized by others—is that not worth being happy about?"

Tian Tian swallowed. Jiang Jiang Qinge's words were so direct that for a moment she didn't know how to respond. But she could tell that Jiang Jiang Qinge truly regarded Li Luo as extremely important.

The relationship between the two was deeper than anyone imagined.

A single paper betrothal, the so-called fiancée and fiancé—could it really reach this extent?

At this moment, even though Tian Tian was a girl herself, she couldn't help feeling a twinge of sourness. This Li Luo—truly, what virtue or ability does he have?

And while they were sighing on their side, the people in the field were also a mix of joy and worry.

Li Luo, meanwhile, did his utmost to divide the Dark Spirit Leaf in his hand into three portions, and handed them to Bai Bai Mengmeng and Student Xin Fu.

"Do we really have to hold this in our mouths?" Bai Bai Mengmeng stared with conflicted eyes at the hard, ugly leaf in her hand, which had a faint, strange mucus on it. The somewhat fastidious girl felt a certain psychological resistance to holding such a strange thing in her mouth.

"Bear with it."

To this, Li Luo and Student Xin Fu could only offer that comfort, then, with little psychological burden, stuffed the leaf into their mouths. It was slightly bitter going in, but at that instant they could clearly feel that the energy pressure emanating ceaselessly from the Dark Spirit Pool seemed to have vanished entirely.

"It really works." The two exclaimed in admiration.

Seeing this, Bai Bai Mengmeng could only clench her teeth in grievance, then force herself to stuff this black leaf into her mouth, pressing her lips tightly together for fear she would spit out this hard-won thing.

And just as they had finished these preparations on their side, the other two squads that had obtained Dark Spirit Leaves had already stepped forward impatiently, and amid many envious gazes, strode into the Dark Spirit Pool.

"Let's go too."

Li Luo said to the two of them, then turned his head to look in the direction where Jiang Jiang Qinge was, flashed her a smile, and only then turned his somewhat expectant gaze toward the Dark Spirit Pool, which kept surging with torrents of energy.

He leapt down from the black lotus leaf first, walking step by step toward the Dark Spirit Pool.

In the Dark Spirit Pool at this moment, because the world's energy was roiling, faint energy mists drifted about. And Li Luo's three, sheltered by the Dark Spirit Leaves, stepped into the Dark Spirit Pool.

Watching the three of them vanish into the energy mist, Jiang Jiang Qinge withdrew her gaze.

"Captain, inside the Dark Spirit Pool there are thirty-eight steps. Each step down brings a surge of energy into the body, which can cause some growth in the phase force within. The deeper you go, the better the infusion effect, but the energy pressure you must endure is also stronger. How many steps do you think Li Luo can reach?" Tian Tian suddenly asked.

Senior Qiu Bai smiled and said: "I remember the captain also set a record back then, didn't she? Reaching the thirty-eighth step, completing a breakthrough on the spot, leaping two grades in one go. That caused an absolute sensation. In the history of the academy, the number of people who have reached that step can be counted on one hand."

Jiang Jiang Qinge paused slightly in thought, then slowly uttered a sentence: "I think Li Luo can also reach the thirty-eighth step."

Tian Tian and Senior Qiu Bai both widened their eyes.

In the end Tian Tian couldn't help but press a hand to her forehead. Forget it, pretend I never asked. Jiang Jiang Qinge was able to reach the thirty-eighth step by virtue of the purity of her Nine-Rank Light Phase. Although Li Luo possessed dual phases, neither of his phases was of a particularly high grade; even with the bonus, it was absolutely impossible to compare with a Nine-Rank Light Phase.

So they truly could not understand why Jiang Jiang Qinge held Li Luo in such high regard...

But given Li Luo's repeated astonishing performances before, neither of them spoke up to mock, and could only exchange a glance, half-believing, half-doubting.

And they noticed that Jiang Jiang Qinge seemed to have a bit of a "husband-show-off" attribute.