Chapter 90

Kong Yinglei's voice was sonorous and powerful, and the gazes of everyone at the scene also fell upon her.

Among the commoners, including the students of the martial halls of various towns, they saw Kong Yinglei's hands clenched into fists, her knuckles slightly pale from the force, and her chest heaving violently, showing her extreme inner anger.

However, Kong Yinglei's gaze was incredibly firm, her body upright like a resilient white poplar, standing proudly in the field, which moved everyone.

The man from the Wuzheng Office in charge of the competition had his mouth twitching constantly, his gaze looking toward Su Lingchuan's side. When he saw Lord Su nod slightly, he knew what to do and said loudly:

"Vice Kong Kong Guanzhu Kong, do not misunderstand. The reason Jiang Qing is fighting Lin Chen is because this match between the two students of your martial hall is a fight for first and second place; the other three students knew they were no match and voluntarily gave up the fight for first place."

Kong Yinglei was satisfied, a smile appeared on her face, and she cupped her hands: "Sorry, it was my misunderstanding."

Misunderstanding?

Kong Yinglei, do you have any shame?

The vice hall masters of the other seven martial halls had faces as black as charcoal. Qihe's expression didn't change much, because his face had always been black and couldn't get any blacker.

"Chen'er joining the Jingshui Wu Tang is right. With such a hall master, Chen'er will not be wronged in the martial hall."

Lin Mu's gaze toward Kong Yinglei was full of gratitude, and Lin Fu on the side also nodded in agreement; he had the same thought.

The other commoners were shocked by the answer of the Wuzheng Office personnel at this moment.

The two students of the Jingshui Wu Tang had such super strength that they actually made students of other martial halls voluntarily give up.

Is the Jingshui Wu Tang that amazing?

In the hearts of many young boys and girls, a thought sprouted: practice martial arts, join the Jingshui Wu Tang!

Even those martial hall students with good family backgrounds were somewhat influenced at this moment. Who wouldn't want to go to a martial hall with a vice hall master who dared to argue with the Wuzheng Office for the sake of the students?

And the two on the stage had already proven the strength and foundation of the Jingshui Wu Tang.

On the ring, Lin Chen and Jiang Qing looked at each other and smiled, not affected by this wave of Kong Yinglei's operation.

"Lin Lin Shidi, Jiang Jiang Shijie thought this competition would be very boring, but I didn't expect Lin Lin Shidi to give me a surprise."

"I didn't expect to be able to reach this step either. Before the competition, Lin Lin Shidi didn't even think about being able to fight Jiang Jiang Shijie."

Lin Chen's words were heartfelt; he was still quite grateful to Jiang Jiang Shijie in his heart.

If it weren't for Jiang Jiang Shijie's action against Zhou San that day, making him understand the principle of cutting weeds and eliminating roots, he wouldn't have obtained the scroll engraved with the Martial Way will, the Qingfeng Palm couldn't have reached perfection, and he couldn't have opened the seventh acupuncture point.

Relying on the Qingfeng Palm at mastery and the sixth acupuncture point, he would at most be competing for the top five; even the top three would be somewhat dangerous.

"Lin Lin Shidi, Jiang Jiang Shijie will not show mercy."

"Lin Lin Shidi will also go all out."

Both expressed their attitude toward this battle: they would not show mercy just because they were from the same school.

The atmosphere at the scene was also pushed to the boiling point by this conversation between the two. Everyone's gaze was focused on the ring, on the duel between the two strongest geniuses among the new students of the eight major martial halls.

In the past, there would be disputes over the rankings in new student competitions, only because the gap between everyone, especially the top eight, was not too large, and the rankings contained a certain element of luck.

But in this session, even Gu Shan and the others had to admit that they had already widened the gap with Jiang Qing and Lin Chen.

Jiang Qing was in a green dress, her posture upright, and her whole body exuded a powerful aura.

"Lin Lin Shidi, be careful."

As the voice fell, Jiang Qing's figure was like lightning, instantly pressing forward. In an instant, she was before Lin Chen, her right hand forming a palm, the sound of water waves overlapping like surging waves sweeping toward Lin Chen.

Slap!

Lin Chen also struck out with the Qingfeng Palm. The perfection-level Qingfeng Palm had no sound when striking, but no one at the scene dared to look down on this palm from Lin Chen.

The two palms collided, and Lin Chen retreated half a body's length.

It seems that even with the perfection-level Qingfeng Palm bonus, it is difficult to take advantage of the Jiang Jiang Shijie in a head-on collision.

The ninth acupuncture point is not just leading by two acupuncture points, but crossing a small stage.

However, the Qingfeng Palm at perfection not only brought him an increase in strength but also combat techniques.

In martial arts duels, strength and speed are certainly very important, but the timing of the moves and the precision of the techniques are equally important.

Giving up the head-on collision, Lin Chen fully utilized the advantages of the perfection-level Qingfeng Palm. The onlookers saw palm shadows flying all over the sky on the entire ring.

The two of them went back and forth, the rhythm of the battle was extremely fast, and the commoners couldn't even see the figures of the two sides clearly.

And martial hall students like Gu Shan were watching in a daze at this moment; the battle between these two was too brilliant.

The terror of Jiang Qing's speed and strength—from the Water Cloud Palm she struck out, even from several feet away from the ring, they could feel the amazing energy contained within it.

And Lin Chen's Qingfeng Palm, the palm technique was like a heavenly horse galloping through the sky without a trace, retracting and releasing freely; every palm was like a divine stroke of a dragon-painting.

"Watch this battle well; how much you can comprehend depends on yourselves."

On the Qingfeng Wu Tang side, even at this time, Chen Chunfeng still shouldered the responsibility of being an instructor, speaking out to remind the students behind him.

"Lin Lin Shidi, I have to admit, your perfection-level Qingfeng Palm puts a lot of pressure on me. Next, as long as Lin Lin Shidi can take these three moves from me, Jiang Jiang Shijie will voluntarily admit defeat."

Jiang Qing's voice sounded on the ring, and her figure also separated from Lin Chen. However, Lin Chen followed like a shadow, his figure sticking close, and the Qingfeng Palm continued to strike out.

Although he hadn't had many contacts with Jiang Jiang Shijie, Lin Chen believed he still had some understanding of Jiang Jiang Shijie's temperament.

Jiang Jiang Shijie saying this was definitely not to let him win, giving him a chance with three moves, and as long as he took them, he would win.

Jiang Jiang Shijie saying this, translated, meant: he couldn't take these three moves.

Since that was the case, he would not give Jiang Jiang Shijie the full time to perform these three moves.

Seeing Lin Chen stick close immediately, Jiang Qing's beautiful eyes revealed an incredible fluctuation of emotion for the first time. Lin Lin Shidi is really... really too steady.

Left viewing area.

Su Lingchuan and He Ruyun looked at each other. Both knew Jiang Qing's background and also roughly guessed which three moves Jiang Qing was going to perform next.

But how did Lin Chen guess it, actually knowing not to give Jiang Qing a chance.

If Lin Chen didn't know Jiang Qing's background, it could only be said that this child not only had outstanding comprehension of martial arts techniques but also had an extremely calm brain.

The two felt more and more satisfied the more they looked at Lin Chen.

On the ring, Jiang Qing tried several times to distance herself from Lin Chen, but Lin Chen was too cunning...

Yes, for the first time, Jiang Qing felt in her heart that Lin Chen was cunning...

Although she was at the ninth acupuncture point, the power of Lin Chen's Qingfeng Palm was so strong that even she dared not ignore it. The most critical thing was that although she was faster than Lin Chen in strength and speed.

But that was an overall transcendence; in terms of palm speed alone, she was even slower than Lin Chen.

This led to the fact that often just as she made a move, Lin Chen had already countered, forcing her to change her moves.

This style of fighting was too uncomfortable.

This was the first time Jiang Qing felt she could empathize with others; she could understand the feelings of that Hong from the Qingfeng Wu Tang at that time.

Every move was anticipated by the opponent, and she struck first but was countered by the opponent. If it weren't for Lin Chen not daring to fight head-on with her, she would have been defeated long ago.

Compared to Jiang Qing's depression, Lin Chen was having more fun the more he fought.

He now realized that the perfection-level Qingfeng Palm could only fully exert its power when facing an opponent stronger than himself.

As for Shao Hong... although he was one acupuncture point higher than himself, he couldn't be considered stronger than himself.

Facing Jiang Jiang Shijie, he could go all out without reservation to perform the Qingfeng Palm. Although reaching perfection in the Qingfeng Palm was the ultimate, this did not mean that his combat techniques for performing the Qingfeng Palm had reached the limit.

Jiang Jiang Shijie was his whetstone.

At this moment, Lin Chen had forgotten about the competition, the most important fight for first place in the three-month grand competition of the eight major martial halls.

Getting better and better!

This move should be performed like this!

If this palm could be struck three points lower, it would definitely succeed in one move.

The entire scene was silent at this moment.

The commoners were completely attracted by the brilliance of this battle and had forgotten to discuss and cheer.

And the practitioners present, including the students of the major martial halls, were shocked by the scene before them.

Jiang Qing, at the ninth acupuncture point, was actually being suppressed and beaten by Lin Chen.

Is a cultivation technique at perfection really that terrifying?

At this moment, many students felt hot in their hearts. In the past, they only pursued proficiency in cultivation techniques to avoid falling behind, but at this moment, many students secretly swore in their hearts that after returning, they would definitely practice hard.

In the first row of the left area, an old man frowned, his tone not very certain: "Just relying on the Qingfeng Palm at perfection, it shouldn't be enough to force Jiang Qing to this step."

These people in the first row were all Ranked practitioners, and they had all practiced a cultivation technique to perfection, but when they practiced their techniques to perfection, they had all reached the Organ Cultivation stage.

Therefore, whether a cultivation technique at perfection could fight the ninth acupuncture point at the seventh acupuncture point could only be guessed based on their own experience; they could not draw a certain conclusion.

Among the crowd, Yan He'an stood among the commoners, a sharp light in his eyes: "Could Lin Chen be the one the Elder mentioned, a natural person with subtle five senses?"

Among practitioners, there is a group of people whose five senses are relatively keen. This keenness is not the keenness brought by the improvement of the practitioner's own strength, but is born that way.

This type of person, in battle, can detect some subtle movements of the opponent, thereby anticipating the opponent's moves, predicting the enemy's moves, and countering.

"This girl from the Jiang family is going to lose."

Yan He'an already knew the result and turned to walk out of the crowd. And just the next moment after Yan He'an walked out of the crowd, Jiang Qing's crisp voice came from the ring.

"Stop fighting!"

Lin Chen, who was fighting to his heart's content, heard this, his pupils contracted, but his movements did not stop; he subconsciously feared that Jiang Jiang Shijie was using a trick.

However, when he saw Jiang Qing's resentful gaze, Lin Chen also suddenly realized that this was not a life-and-death struggle, and in the public eye, Jiang Qing couldn't be using a trick after saying this.

Lin Chen stopped, only then noticing that the broken hair in front of Jiang Jiang Shijie's forehead was already sticking to her forehead, with visible dense sweat.

Jiang Qing looked at Lin Chen somewhat helplessly. It wasn't that she couldn't persist, but if they continued to fight, unless one side ran out of strength, there would be no winner.

This kind of victory was not what she wanted.

Ninth acupuncture point, two points higher than Lin Lin Shidi, and still having to rely on waiting until Lin Lin Shidi ran out of physical strength—as proud as she was, she couldn't accept it.

"Thank you, Jiang Jiang Shijie, for letting me win."

Lin Chen immediately cupped his hands and saluted, and at the scene, at the moment Lin Chen cupped his hands, a cheer that shook the clouds erupted.

Lin Chen won!

The commoners present, after chatting during the few rounds of watching the battle, already knew that Lin Chen was the only student from the town, or more accurately, from the village.

The victory of a student with this same status and position gave them a kind of excitement of sharing the honor.

"Chen'er won!"

Lin Mu excitedly hugged Lin Fu. Lin Fu carefully supported his body to avoid being knocked down by his wife, and his face was also full of smiles.

"Chen'er won, worthy of being the seed of my Lin Jiang!"

In his excitement, Lin Fu also said a presumptuous sentence.

However, Lin Mu was too lazy to refute it at this moment. The entire area where the villagers of Linhu Village were located fell into a cheer.

"Tomorrow, have Lin Chen come to the Wuzheng Office. As for today, let him celebrate well." Su Lingchuan stood up and ordered his subordinates beside him.

Su Lingchuan knew that it was not appropriate for him to summon Lin Chen at this time; this competition watched by the commoners of the whole city needed the final cheer.

Su Lingchuan and He Ruyun left, and those martial arts dignitaries behind them also left.

Although these people did not greet Lin Chen, they all had their own thoughts. The first thing they had to do after leaving now was to investigate Lin Chen's background clearly.

The students of the major martial halls also began to disperse. Today's competition would inevitably be remembered in their hearts.

"Lin Chen, you don't need to return to the martial hall today; go back with your father and mother."

Kong Yinglei saw Lin Chen's gaze looking toward Linhu Village and gave a thoughtful order, then took the students of the Jingshui Wu Tang and left swaggeringly.

As the crowd dispersed, the government runners and soldiers maintaining order also left, but Lin Xiuyong was frowning tightly at this moment.

Young Lin Shi's victory shocked him, but what he was more anxious about now was that the two letters had not been found.

This was something Young Lin Shi had entrusted to him; if he couldn't find these two letters, how could he explain it to Young Lin Shi?

"Constable You, this subordinate has something to report to you."

After thinking about it, Lin Xiuyong finally walked up to You Siqi, who was preparing to leave, and carefully told him about the matter.

"No need to look for those two letters."

You Siqi saw Lin Xiuyong's confused gaze and said meaningfully: "Not long ago, someone found the government runners and said they picked up two letters, but these two letters have already been taken away by people from the Wuzheng Office. You just need to inform Young Lin Shi about this."

"Taken away by the Wuzheng Office?"

Although Lin Xiuyong was confused, he was not stupid. Seeing Constable You's expression, he knew there was likely an inside story involved. Involving the Wuzheng Office and Young Lin Shi, it was not something a small person like him could intervene in.

(End of chapter)