Chapter 334: Instant Movement Great Method and the Passive Show-Off Great Method

The evening breeze rustled, teasing the falling leaves.

A group of people stood at the entrance of the Military Academy; under the dim streetlights, only Zhang Suannai's voice could be heard: "I can't tell, you look pretty average, but your girlfriend is quite pretty!"

Chen Shu pressed his lips together tightly, pretending not to hear.

Since this afternoon, she had already repeated this sentence several times.

The group members also wore subtle expressions.

Chen Shu guessed that at this moment, they were likely all remembering his declaration from three years ago when he had just joined the group, claiming his looks were invincible under heaven.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt sentimental—

So that was already three years ago?

Time truly passes easily, and youth is indeed fleeting.

The group leader's voice roused him:

"Then we will be leaving first."

"Oh, okay..."

"See you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow."

A series of farewells followed.

The geniuses from outside the borders each had their own accommodations. Meng Chunqiu was returning to the Imperial Palace with the group leader. The Buddhist and Daoist duo had already graduated from their respective schools and were returning to their temples and monasteries. Wu Eiwei had not yet graduated, so he remained at the Military Academy. Yan Keling and Jiang Lai had both sustained some injuries that afternoon, and unlike the Buddhist and Daoist duo, they had no support in Yujing, so they stayed at the Military Academy along with several other severely injured foreign geniuses to receive free treatment.

The few of them talked in low voices, walking together across the road. They needed to turn left, but there was another traffic light, so they stood in place waiting, all glancing toward their previous position.

Chen Shu, Ning Qing, Ning Qing's younger sister, and the pet were standing together with Zhang Suannai.

They only needed to walk straight along this road to the right to return to their respective schools.

At this moment, Ning Qing was pushing a tiny, miniature motorcycle out of the non-motorized vehicle parking area, with the three people and one cat waiting nearby.

Just then, a bus drove over.

The green light turned on almost simultaneously.

The bus drove past without slowing down.

"Whoosh!"

When the group looked back again, the others on the opposite side of the road were all there, except for Zhang Suannai.

"?"

The group leader and the Buddhist and Daoist duo stopped in their tracks in tacit understanding.

Meng Chunqiu had already walked a few steps, but seeing that the people beside him hadn't followed, he was confused and had to retreat, following them to look over there. He saw that Brother Chen seemed to have discovered something interesting and was staring fixedly at one spot.

Right, that Sword Cultivator surnamed Zhang was gone.

Chen Shu maintained his turned-head posture, staring behind the fountain.

There, Zhang Suannai was crouching and hiding, looking anxious and constantly gesturing at him, telling him not to keep staring at her.

Chen Shu didn't understand, still staring straight at her.

Zhang Suannai waved her hands vigorously—

Hurry up and leave! You idiot!

Don't look! What are you looking at? What's so good to look at? And you're staring without blinking, damn it!

Are you sick?

Eh, Xiaoxiao, why are you also...

Don't you learn from him!

You've exposed my Instant Movement Great Method!

Actually, Zhang Suannai had regretted it the moment she used the Instant Movement Great Method. Now that there were people around, and some who weren't even human, she really shouldn't have used it. But there was no help for it; using the Instant Movement Great Method when parting with people across a road, just as a vehicle happened to drive between them, had become her instinct, and she simply couldn't control herself.

Now she could only pray that those silly group members had already crossed the intersection and wouldn't look back this way again.

Ning Qing wouldn't care about these things. She didn't know if Xiaoxiao would care, but Xiaoxiao spoke very little in daily life, so whether she cared or not made little difference; if she treated it as if Xiaoxiao didn't care, then it was effectively the same as her not caring. Taozi couldn't speak.

As for this silly vegetable...

It wouldn't be a big problem if he discovered it.

Zhang Suannai thought this as she continued to hide herself.

Until the other three silly group members and the group leader's androgynous younger brother appeared in her line of sight, all tilting their heads and staring in her direction.

"..."

The scene was somewhat awkward for a moment.

Zhang Suannai pretended to tie her shoelaces, then learned from Xiaoxiao, kept a straight face, stood up, and walked back to the group.

Not long after—

Ning Qing got on the small motorcycle, Chen Shu squeezed on behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist, and the two left like the wind.

Zhang Suannai exchanged a glance with Xiaoxiao and Taozi, and they walked toward the school in silence.

That night, she didn't say another word.

The next morning.

Chen Shu again wrapped his arms around Ning Qing's slender waist and arrived at the Military Academy.

The Imperial Exchange Meeting was still continuing today.

Perhaps stimulated, Zhang Suannai began challenging the young geniuses of various countries one after another, fighting from the Night People to the Barbarians, from the Demon Race to the Spirit People, without a moment's rest. As a Sixth Stage Peak, she indeed displayed extremely strong combat power, and the other geniuses rarely had the strength to fight back against her.

However, she had a good sense of propriety and stopped at the point of contact.

Except for the Night Person and other Lanya people.

After she had fought everyone once, Brother Jiang finally entered the arena again; this time he had learned his lesson, finding a Northern Continent Barbarian to receive a solid beating.

Although he lost, there were gains to be had after all.

After watching for two days, Chen Shu had a preliminary understanding of everyone's strength—

Zhang Suannai was the only Sixth Stage Peak among the participating contestants, and due to her rank advantage and the Sword Sect system bonus, her combat power was in a league of its own.

Following her was the "hacked" Yan Keling, and due to an older eagle demon whose cultivation was close to Sixth Stage Peak and a Northern Continent Barbarian, it was difficult to determine the winner among these three.

Master Xuanzhen's performance was rather unstable.

Although there were differences in the combat power of most of the others, they were not far apart and could be considered the same level, including Wu Eiwei and the two Night Persons. As for Brother Jiang, because he had only recently fused with the Founding Spiritual Power and had not yet fully digested and mastered this power, there was still a significant gap between him and them for the time being.

After a day of fighting like this, it was another day where everyone was shocked by the geniuses of Yiguo.

A total of five people from Yiguo entered the arena; needless to say, Zhang Suannai knocked down ten with one, Yan Keling was also incredibly strong, Master Xuanzhen also won two out of two, and Wu Eiwei challenged Night Persons in both of her consecutive matches—the referees did not dare let them decide a winner in either, but the fighting process demonstrated her strength.

The only one who lost two out of two matches was Jiang Lai.

But damn it, he is a Martial Artist...

When Zhang Suannai was resting on the spectator stand, she pricked up her ears and heard a few demons talking not far away:

"Xia Kingdom really is full of hidden talents..."

"Indeed, even a Martial Artist is this strong!"

"Especially that Zhang Suannai..."

"Yes! I heard she hasn't even graduated from university yet, only twenty-four years old, and she has actually managed to cultivate to the Sixth Stage Peak, even surpassing Senior Sister Jin; I wonder how strong her talent must be..."

"..."

Zhang Suannai remained expressionless, pretending to be as cold as a Sword, but inside she was blooming with joy.

Say more, say more!

But just at this moment, the conversation on that side took a turn—

"I heard that the Xia Kingdom Imperial grandson, the direct descendant of the Imperial Family, advanced to the Sixth Stage more than two years ago, but he was in a coma for some time before; it's fortunate he was injured and comatose, and fortunate he didn't enter the arena... If he hadn't been in a coma, what level would he be at now?"

"Probably even stronger than Zhang Suannai, right?"

Bullshit!

It is impossible for anyone to be stronger than Zhang Suannai.

Zhang Suannai was a bit displeased.

However, she could barely accept these words.

It wouldn't do to go and argue with them immediately; that would not only expose the fact that she was eavesdropping, but also make her look petty—the Sword Sect might not care about face, but she, Zhang Suannai, and the Dayi nation still needed face and couldn't afford to lose it like that.

Yet at this moment, she heard that demon say:

"Xia Kingdom is the world hegemon of five thousand years with a profound foundation; I'm afraid there are even more geniuses who haven't entered the arena, such as that descendant of the Buddhist Sect over there, and that Daoist Chen who is acquainted with Hu Daoyou, along with his partner... You Daoist friends can tell just by looking at this Martial Arts Arena; which ordinary school would spend such a vast amount of land in the capital, where every inch of land is worth gold, to specifically build a Martial Arts Arena for Sixth Stage Cultivators?"

"Daoist Shu, you don't know about this."

That fox demon with a bushy beard and squinting eyes whispered: "I heard from Daoist Yan and Daoist Jiang that this Martial Arts Arena hasn't always been here; rather, several of the world's top academies in Xia Kingdom hold a competition between geniuses every two years, called the Martial Body Gathering. The last Martial Body Gathering was just a few months ago, and this school specially combined several of the largest martial arts arenas into this one to accommodate their battles."

"So that's how it is..."

Hearing this, Zhang Suannai already had an ominous premonition.

But she only heard the fox demon's gentle and thick voice continue, making her feel completely uncomfortable: "Daoist Shu, Hu Daoyou, Daoist Ying... Senior Sister Jin, who do you guess was the final winner of that Martial Body Gathering?"

"It must be Zhang Suannai!" the eagle demon said with certainty.

"Who else could it be besides Zhang Suannai?" the rat demon said, "Zhang Suannai is so strong; among her peers in the world, I'm afraid there is no one who can beat her in the short term!"

"I have great confidence in Daoist Chen!" Hu Daoyou said.

"Hu Daoyou guessed right!"

"Really?"

"Impossible, right? Someone among her peers can beat Zhang Suannai?"

"I knew it."

"That is exactly it..."

The fox demon looked at them calmly, paused, and added: "When I first heard it, I didn't know that Zhang Suannai was this strong, so I wasn't surprised. Having witnessed Zhang Suannai's combat power these two days, I find it even more unimaginable just how strong that Daoist Chen is."

"Everyone, what are you chatting about?"

Two Northern Continent Barbarians also gathered around.

Zhang Suannai listened to their subsequent conversation, wanting to cover her ears, but she couldn't resist the curiosity to hear how they would make things up.

The more she listened, the angrier and more annoyed she became.

This silly fox demon really has a big mouth!

Gradually, even those two idiots, the Night Persons, knew that the Zhang Suannai who had been tormenting them to death today was actually not the strongest; just over three months ago, in this very place, she had lost to another person who hadn't entered the arena and had been watching the battles all along.

"Ahhh, I'm so pissed off!"

Zhang Suannai wanted to go and beat them all again one by one, and after finishing, pull their ears and tell them that her loss to that silly vegetable last time was purely a coincidence!

The most powerful one is always Zhang Suannai!

And what she couldn't understand even more was—

Clearly, it was she who had been fighting tirelessly for these two days, beating everyone into submission and demonstrating her powerful strength; that silly vegetable hadn't done anything, so why was it that in the end, the "cool" he pulled off was even greater than hers?

"Hey! You fox demon! Come and fight!"

"Huh? Didn't we just finish fighting?"

"Come again, come again!"

"But my injuries haven't healed yet, why not wait..."

"Cut the crap!"

In her anger, Zhang Suannai raised her Sword and pointed it at the fox demon.

The fox demon looked at her, a look of bewilderment on its face.