Both Lin Mishan and the Nine County Lords had only broken through to the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Middle Extreme Position in their martial arts cultivation in the last three months, so it could be said that their strengths were comparable.
The Nine County Mistress walked into the school ground first, holding a green-coloured True Martial Treasure Grade Battle Sword in her hands, with a slender figure and elegant temperament, she stood in the centre of the school ground, so beautiful that it was like a painting.
Subsequently, Lin Mishan also walked into the schoolyard.
The corner of the Ninth County Lord’s mouth hooked, revealing a hint of a smile, “Muddy Shanshan, it is said that you have already reached the realm of ‘Sword Follows the Heart’, this County Lord would like to learn how strong ‘Sword Follows the Heart’ really is? ”
“Clang!”
Her arm shook, and the scabbard immediately flew out.
“Blue water like waves!”
The Ninth County Mistress knew that Lin Mishan was a formidable foe, so she executed a Human Grade Mid-grade Sword Technique just as soon as she struck.
As soon as the sword move came out, seven sword shadows were immediately formed. The seven sword shadows, in turn, transformed into forty-nine.
The forty-nine sword shadows, connected into a turquoise-coloured water curtain, emitting a water-flow like sound, pressed towards Lin Mishan.
Lin Mishan stood steadily in place, not moving at all, her eyes staring tightly at the Nine County Lord’s hand holding the sword.
Just when that curtain of water had already pressed in front of Lin Mishan, she suddenly stabbed out a sword, pointing it at the centre of the curtain of water. All of the Ninth County Lord’s sword moves immediately collapsed.
“Wow!”
The Nine Sheriff Lord quickly changed her moves, her sword technique becoming sharper and sharper.
Lin Mishan always stood in place and did not move her feet.
As long as she stabbed out a sword, she would be able to break all of the Nine Sheriff Lord’s attacks.
Zhang Ruochen, who was standing outside the arena, gently shook his head and said in his heart, ”Lin Mishan’s comprehension of sword intent has already reached the realm of ‘the sword follows the heart’, but the Nine Sheriff Lord’s comprehension of sword intent is still stuck at the ‘see the move and use the move’ level. Although their martial arts realms were the same, when it came to a real fight, the Ninth Sheriff Master was definitely no match for Lin Mishan. Unsurprisingly, within ten moves, the Ninth County Mistress will lose!”
Right at this moment, the battle situation in the schoolyard had indeed changed drastically.
Lin Mishan took the initiative to attack, taking a step forward and flinging her arm, forming a huge sword flower in the air.
The Nine Sheriff Lord immediately retreated, as Lin Mishan pressed forward.
“Wow!”
When the sword stopped, the sharp tip of the sword was pointed right at the Nine County Lord’s heart.
“County Lord, you’ve lost!” Lin Mishan said.
The Ninth County Lord put away the Aqua Sword and walked down from the schoolyard, her heart was very hard to bear as she stood beside Zhang Ruochen and said, “Ninth Brother, my cultivation is clearly not weaker than hers, but why did I lose so quickly?”
“Sword intent! Your attainment above sword intent is too far from hers! When you also cultivate to the realm of ‘Sword Follows Heart’, you will naturally understand!” Zhang Ruochen said.
Immediately after, the second match began!
The two people standing in the schoolyard were Gu Li of the Gu Family, and Situ Linhai, the first expert of the younger generation of the Situ Family.
The difference in strength between the two sides was very obvious, Situ Linhai only used three moves to punch Gu Li out of the schoolyard.
“Fifth match, Ninth Prince Zhang Ruochen, Bai Wanli of the Bai Family.”
Zhang Ruochen and Bai Wanli walked into the schoolyard at the same time.
In the first two rounds of the examination, Zhang Ruochen had made a name for himself, causing quite a shock to the crowd.
Now, those martial artists who had come to participate in the end of the year examination wanted to know just how strong his true strength was.
Outside the schoolyard, Lin Mishan, the Nine County Lords, the Fifth Prince, and the Sixth Prince, all of them had their gazes fixed on Zhang Ruochen. They also wanted to know how a martial artist of the Minor Extreme Position could win against a martial artist of the Middle Extreme Position.
Bai Wanli, who had ranked eighth in the results of the King Mountain Hunting’s examination, with a cultivation of the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Middle Extreme Position, and who was even able to kill a savage bull with his bare hands, was definitely not a weakling.
“Your Highness the Ninth Prince, you said earlier that you are the best with swords, but I am not good with swords. For the sake of fairness, how about we compete with fists and feet?” Bai Wanli said.
“Then let’s compare fists and feet!” Zhang Ruochen looked indifferent and said.
Outside the schoolyard, many people frowned slightly as they knew that the Bai Clan was best at boxing.
The Ninth Prince’s cultivation was already a realm weaker than Bai Wanli’s, and now that he was giving up his specialised swordsmanship, he would definitely be even more disadvantaged.
“Kill!”
Bai Wanli mobilised all the true qi in his body, letting out a loud roar from his mouth as he executed the human grade mid-grade martial art “Killing Mighty Fist”.
“Boom!”
He stamped his foot on the ground, shattering a stone slab, and violently rushed out, striking Zhang Ruochen’s chest with a fist.
With the power of a Human Grade Medium Grade Martial Skill, Bai Wanli erupted with the strength of nine oxen, and a faint halo of light emanated from his fist.
Zhang Ruochen stood still, his legs sinking slightly, the muscles of his legs, the spine of his back, the muscles of his arms, the strength of every part of his body mobilised at the same time.
“Boom!”
He fiercely struck out with his palm, colliding with the “Killing Might Fist” that Bai Wanli had struck out.
“Ka-ching!”
A sound of bones breaking rang out!
“You’ve lost!” Zhang Ruochen straightened his body again and said indifferently.
Bai Wanli held his arm, feeling that his entire arm had lost its strength, and took more than ten steps backward, staring at Zhang Ruochen with some horror, “How did you …… how did your strength get so strong?”
Not to mention that Bai Wanli couldn’t figure it out, those young martial artists standing outside the arena couldn’t understand it at all.
One must know that the explosive force of Bai Wanli’s punch just now was the force of nine oxen. However, the Ninth Prince didn’t use any martial arts techniques, and surprisingly shattered Bai Wanli’s arm bones with a single palm.
For a martial artist of the Lesser Extreme Realm, this was simply impossible to do!
Only those old generation martial artists with strong martial arts cultivation could see something.
“Young Master Bai’s arm wasn’t shattered, but twisted.” That one general in silver scale armour said.
“Twisted off? How is that possible? I clearly saw that the Ninth Prince only struck out a palm, how could it be possible to twist off Young Master Bai’s arm?” A young martial artist said.
That one general in silver-scaled armour said, “His Highness the Ninth Prince’s control of power is exquisite to the extreme, exploding the power of every inch of his body’s muscles and bones, and furthermore, when he struck out with a palm, the power of the palm originally carried a twisting force.”
“In just an instant, that wave of torsion disappeared, so you guys naturally couldn’t see it. Not to mention you guys, even at my current realm, I cannot control my power to such a subtle degree.”
Knowing that the person who had spoken these words was the Yunwu County King’s personal guard, Chang Ge Qian, naturally no one doubted the truthfulness of his words.
“The Ninth Prince is surprisingly so powerful! Gosh, he’s only been cultivating for three months! Even the Seventh Prince doesn’t have such heaven-defying talent, right?”
“After this end of the year examination, the Ninth Prince’s name will surely resonate through the royal city, becoming the man of the hour for the younger generation.”
In the midst of the crowd’s marvelling, Zhang Ruochen walked out of the schoolyard.
Three more martial arts fights were held, and the top eight were finally decided.
The top eight were: the Fifth Prince, Situ Linjiang, Xue Kai, Zhang Ruochen, Lin Mishan, Luo Cheng, Lin Tianwu and the Sixth Prince.
The next step was to compete for the top four.
In other words, as long as they won the next battle, they would be able to secure a place in the top five and obtain the opportunity to enter the Barbarian God Pool for cultivation.
“First match, Ninth Prince Zhang Ruochen, Lin Mushan of the Lin Family.”
Hearing his opponent’s name, Zhang Ruochen raised his head slightly and said to himself, “It’s too coincidental! ”
He glanced in Lin Mishan’s direction.
At this moment, Lin Mishan also looked over and stared at Zhang Ruochen’s body.
The Ninth County Lord stood beside Zhang Ruochen with a few smiles at the corners of her mouth as she said, “Ninth Brother, Sister knows that you like Muddy Shan, but Muddy Shan doesn’t like you at all. You mustn’t take pity on her, you must use your full strength, Sister is still waiting for you to avenge me!”
Zhang Ruochen’s face was calm as he walked into the schoolyard.
“Cousin, I didn’t expect that even at the age of sixteen when you only opened the Divine Martial Mark, which is already past your optimal age for martial arts cultivation, your cultivation speed could be so fast. It’s really unthinkable!” Lin Mishan said softly, a light smile on that delicate face.
Her red lips were gently pursed, and she stood opposite Zhang Ruochen in a beautiful and elegant manner, giving off a refreshing beauty.
After seeing the battle between Zhang Ruochen and Bai Wanli, Lin Mishan naturally didn’t dare to underestimate Zhang Ruochen anymore. She knew that the teenager standing opposite was no longer the waste of space he once was, but a martial arts prodigy.
She had no confidence that she could defeat Zhang Ruochen, and she even felt that Zhang Ruochen was even more terrifying than the Five Princes, Situ Linhai, and Xue Kai, and made her feel even more uneasy.
Of course, she didn’t believe that Zhang Ruochen would really use his sword on her because, she was very clear that Zhang Ruochen had always loved her Avray.
For her sake, Zhang Ruochen had once waited for her for a full night outside the Lin Mansion in the coldest winter without complaint.
When she went to wake Zhang Ruochen up the next morning, Zhang Ruochen’s entire body was frozen. After that, Zhang Ruochen’s already weak physique became even worse, and he was bedridden for years.
At one time, she did look down on Zhang Ruochen, even if Zhang Ruochen waited for her all night in the cold winter, she only thought Zhang Ruochen was stupid and didn’t think he was infatuated at all.
However, it was different now. The current Zhang Ruochen was a martial arts prodigy, and with such a martial arts prodigy Avray in love with her, she naturally developed an inexplicable vanity.
“Cousin, do we still need a battle between us? You should know that the top four, to me, is really important.” Lin Mishan softly said.
Her pair of crystal beautiful eyes carried a few tantalising moments of tenderness as she stared miserably at Zhang Ruochen, who was standing opposite.
