After seeing Zhang Ruochen’s powerful cultivation, those freshmen from the Yunwu County Kingdom weren’t too intimidated and rushed out, punching and kicking Wang Lang and Qing Haitian.
Even Zhang Shaochu rushed over and raised his foot to kick Wang Lang’s crotch.
This Severed Son Kick caused Wang Lang’s body to spasm and his legs to tremble in pain.
“You guys …… you want to rebel ……”
Wang Lang roared, enduring the pain coming from his crotch, running the true qi in his body, he was about to prepare for a revolt.
Liu Xifeng struck out with a palm, splitting at the top of Wang Lang’s head, knocking Wang Lang to the ground again, saying, “Not a small amount of guts, actually dare to resist. Break the legs of the two of them, strip them naked, and throw them to the centre of the West Courtyard’s martial arts arena. This young master would like to see, in the future, who dares to bully the cadets of our Yunwu County Kingdom.”
Qing Yu, who was lying not far away, had already woken up and saw Wang Lang and Qing Haitian who were surrounded and beaten up, so he honestly closed his eyes again and continued to pretend to be dizzy.
Liu Chengfeng walked over towards Zhang Ruochen, slightly arching his hand and smiling, saying, “Your Highness, the Ninth Prince, do you think that I’ve gone too far?”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t know what to say, if he was told to personally beat up Wang Lang and Qing Haitian, he was really embarrassed to do it. However, for the trainees of the Four Direction County Kingdom, they should indeed be taught some lessons.
Only by truly beating them up, in the future, when they tried to deal with the trainees of the Yunwu County Kingdom again, their minds would take into consideration.
When Liu Chengfeng saw that Zhang Ruochen did not say anything, he knew that Zhang Ruochen was tacitly approving of his behaviour.
In the crowd, there was a loud noise.
Feng Zhilin, with more than ten young trainees, walked out from the crowd and stood opposite Zhang Ruochen. Just now, someone had informed Feng Zhilin of the news, so Feng Zhilin immediately rushed over.
Feng Zhilin roared in a cold voice and said, “Enough!”
In his voice, it was mixed with true qi, as if a muffled thunder exploded.
Liu Xifeng, Zhang Shaochu, and those other trainees from the Yunwu County Kingdom were obviously more afraid of Feng Zhilin’s powerful cultivation. Therefore, when they saw Feng Zhilin arrive, they immediately stopped fighting and retreated behind Zhang Ruochen.
“Feng Shao, you ……you ……can ……must ……must ……must ……must ……must ……must for us …… “Qing Haitian was lying on the ground, his clothes were stripped bare, his face was red and swollen, his head was broken and bleeding, even his legs were broken by Zhang Shaochu with a huge stone, it was simply miserable.
When Feng Zhilin saw the injured person who was crushed under the boulder, he frowned slightly and said with some displeasure, “Who are you?”
“I am …… Qing …… Qinghai …… Tian …… “Qing Hai Tian’s voice was slurred, and even his speech was a bit indistinct.
“You are Qing Hai Tian?” Feng Zhilin walked over and carefully looked Qing Haitian, who was lying on the ground, over, finally determining Qing Haitian’s identity.
It couldn’t be helped that Liu Xifeng and Zhang Shaochu had hit too hard, beating Wang Lang and Qing Haitian beyond recognition, so that’s why Feng Zhilin didn’t recognise Qing Haitian.
“Boom!”
Feng Zhilin struck out with a palm, sending the boulder that was pressing on Qing Haitian’s legs flying, looking at Qing Haitian who was lying miserably on the ground with a cold sharp look in his gaze, he said, “Zhang Ruochen, we are all trainees of the Western Academy, you guys are too hard on them, aren’t you!”
Zhang Shaochu said, “We strike hate? A month ago, when you broke both of my arms, how come you didn’t feel that you had hit hard?”
Feng Zhilin’s eyes shrunk as a cold aura flashed through his pupils, “Zhang Shao Pig, do you really think that Zhang Ruochen can shelter you? When he dies on the life and death stage, this young master will slowly clean you up.”
When Zhang Shaochu thought of Feng Zhilin’s sinister tactics, his heart went slightly cold and he couldn’t help but take two steps back.
Zhang Ruochen took two steps forward and said, “Feng Zhilin, you are too arrogant and c*cky, do you really think you can surely win against me?”
The two of them were five steps apart, their eyes staring at each other, their auras rising.
Feng Zhilin stared into Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, and suddenly, a hint of a smile appeared on his face as he said, “It seems that the Ninth Prince is full of confidence in himself, since that’s the case, then don’t wait for tomorrow, let’s go to the Life and Death Stage tonight, and fight to the death.”
Afterwards, he laughed slowly and said, “I just don’t know, Ninth Prince, do you dare?”
Zhang Ruochen also revealed a faint smile and said, “Alright! Tonight then.”
Liu Xifeng was still relatively intelligent and said, “Your Highness the Ninth Prince, don’t fall for Feng Zhilin’s scheme. You just fought three experts of the middle extreme level of the Xuan Extreme Realm in a row, and now you’re dueling with him on the Life and Death Stage, so you’re bound to suffer a loss.”
That’s right, Feng Zhilin was playing this idea.
The moment Feng Zhilin saw Nie Xuan, Wang Lang, and Qing Haitian lying on the ground, he knew that Zhang Ruochen must have greatly improved his cultivation and was a strong opponent.
He firmly believed that Zhang Ruochen’s physical strength and true qi must have been heavily depleted after he had fought three strong martial arts practitioners in a row. That was why he proposed to go to the Life and Death Stage for a duel tonight, wanting to maximise his advantage.
Feng Zhilin wasn’t a brainless berserker, instead, he was very smart.
Zhang Ruochen, however, didn’t care that much because, by defeating Nie Xuan, Wang Lang, and Qing Haitian, he hadn’t wasted much of his strength.
Since, Feng Zhilin offered to go to the Life and Death Stage for a duel tonight, Zhang Ruochen also wanted to settle his troubles earlier, so he agreed.
The news of Zhang Ruochen and Feng Zhilin’s early duel quickly spread in the Western Courtyard.
Many of the students who were originally in closed-door cultivation also came out and rushed to the Life and Death Stage, ready to watch the fun.
In the Western Academy, although fights often occurred between trainees, very few people dared to go to the Life and Death Stage to duel. After all, in the academy, no matter how big the fuss is, they don’t dare to cause a fatality, as long as they strive to be strong and learn from their shame, there is still a chance to take revenge.
The life and death platform is different.
Basically there is a great hatred, two martial artists will only go to the life and death platform duel. Once a student ascends the stage of life and death, it’s either you die or I live.
Every year, it was estimated that there would only be one or two duels on the life and death platform in the West Courtyard, and most of them were conflicts between two male cadets in order to gain the favour of a certain female cadet, or, two female cadets competing for a male cadet.
Never underestimate female cadets, especially those in the Western Academy. Once they fight, they are even more terrifying than the male cadets.
Tonight’s duel on the life and death stage was especially concerning because one of them was this year’s number one freshman with extremely high natural talent.
Everyone was very curious, if such a talented cadet was defeated on the life and death stage, would the elders of the academy intervene?
This matter, too, did reach the ears of the elders of the Western Academy.
When Elder Xie, who was quite fond of Zhang Ruochen, heard the news, his brows tightened as he muttered to himself, ”Why didn’t this little fellow tell Old Master about this matter, and had to go to the Life and Death Stage to duel with Feng Zhilin? With his cultivation, he is able to defeat Feng Zhilin?”
Elder Xie was also aware of Zhang Ruochen’s grudge against Feng Zhilin, and had originally thought that if Zhang Ruochen had taken the initiative to tell him about the matter and ask for his help, he would definitely help Zhang Ruochen to resolve this conflict.
However, a month had passed and Zhang Ruochen hadn’t even come to him, so he thought that Zhang Ruochen had already told the other Elders about the matter and didn’t ask any more questions.
It was only at this moment, when the news came, that Elder Xie realised that the incident had actually developed to such a bad level.
“It was not easy for the Yunwu County Kingdom to give birth to a genius student in the Martial City Academic Palace, he must not die on the Life and Death Stage just like that, I’d better go and persuade him!” Elder Xie said.
Xie Nantian was originally a martial artist from the Yunwu County Kingdom, so naturally, he was quite partial to Zhang Ruochen, hoping that Zhang Ruochen would grow up and become a senior member of the Martial City Academic Palace and the Martial City Money Bank.
At the same time, the news also reached the Dragon Martial Palace.
“A life and death duel tonight, interesting, I’d like to go and see how far his cultivation has reached in the past half a month?” After Duanmu Xingling learnt of the news, a playful smile appeared on her face as she transformed into a green-coloured slender shadow and swept through the night sky, rushing towards the direction of the life and death stage.
Duanmu Xingling wasn’t worried in the slightest that Zhang Ruochen would lose, she was just curious about the results of Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation in the last half a month.
When Duanmu Xingling rushed to the Life and Death Stage, she found that on the distant stands, there stood a beautiful woman who was a country of her own, the bright moonlight sprinkled on her body, as if it had covered her with a layer of holy light, every inch of her skin was crystal clear, indescribably stunning.
Her back, carrying an ancient sword, stayed treasure blue waist-length hair, body curve beautiful, temperament cold, like from a moon palace fairy from the sky. The other ones those trainees, did not dare to approach her at all.
This woman who was like a fairy descending to earth was none other than Huang Yichen. To know, she was one of the three female devils of the Western Academy, who dared to get close to her?
“Sister Dust, you actually arrived before me.” Duanmu Xingling’s eyes narrowed as she transformed into a long string of residual shadows and swept over to Huang Yichen’s side.
Huang Yichen looked at Zhang Ruochen in the distance, an icy chill in her starry eyes as she said, “I came to see how he was killed by Feng Zhilin.”
Duanmu Xingling smiled mysteriously and said, “He is our Dragon Martial Hall’s Huang Zi No.1, his natural talent is superb, you have to have faith in him, maybe he will defeat Feng Zhilin by accident?”
“A martial artist in the middle Xuanji realm defeating a martial artist in the Xuanji realm’s great pole position, is there such a genius in the history of the Martial City Academy?” Huang Yichen gently shook his head, not very optimistic about Zhang Ruochen.
“But I heard that he has already reached the late Xuan Extreme Realm and his cultivation has advanced greatly.” Duanmu Xingling laughed.
Huang Yichen said, “Even if he reaches the late Xuanji Realm, so what, there is still a difference of three realms.”
Huang Yichen herself was a top genius, so she was well aware of the abilities of geniuses.
There were geniuses that were invincible in the same realm. There were geniuses that were able to cross a realm, or even two realms, and defeat their opponents.
However, it was too difficult to cross three realms to defeat an opponent, and geniuses like that were extremely rare.
Not to mention, Feng Zhilin was also a student of the Western Academy.
Which of the trainees recruited by the Western Academy were not geniuses? Feng Zhilin definitely belonged to the top amongst Xuanji realm great extremity level martial artists, and was even able to deal with three or five Xuanji realm great extremity level martial artists at the same time.
Therefore, if Zhang Ruochen wanted to defeat Feng Zhilin, it was basically impossible.
It wasn’t just Huang Yichen who thought so, many of the trainees present, almost all of them didn’t think favourably of Zhang Ruochen, feeling that this was a battle without suspense.
Even if Zhang Ruochen defeated three Xuanji Realm Middle Extreme Position martial artists, so what? Middle Extreme Position martial artists and Great Extreme Position martial artists were simply not on the same level.
