The Platform of Life and Death was a white stone platform thirty metres high, nine feet square, and was built with a single polished and smooth ten-thousand jin boulder.
Underneath the Life and Death Platform, there were densely-packed sharp iron thorns inserted. Each iron spike was two metres long, and the tips of some of them seemed to still have traces of blood left on them.
If a martial artist fell from the life and death platform, even if they were not killed by the fall, they would be pierced through their body by the iron thorns.
Therefore, once one ascended the life and death platform, they had to be divided into life and death, and even if they wanted to escape, they couldn’t.
Feng Zhilin was very confident in his strength and had already ascended the life and death platform first.
He stood upright in the centre of the life and death platform, looking valiant, his gaze looking around, looking at the beautiful female trainees standing on the bleachers, revealing a subdued and dashing smile.
In this battle, he had the confidence that he would win.
“Ninth brother, you must be careful!” Zhang Shaochu held Zhang Ruochen’s hand tightly with a worried look in his eyes.
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “There’s no harm, it’s just a Feng Zhilin.”
“Zhang Ruochen!”
Zixi walked out from amongst the many trainees, wearing white martial arts clothes, a belt wrapped around her slender brute waist, outlining a slim and supple figure.
Those cadets in the surroundings, all of their eyes looked straight. They didn’t expect that there would be such a beautiful woman amongst the trainees of the Yunwu County Kingdom, even when compared to those three female devils.
The crowd couldn’t help but make a path, like stars surrounding the moon, surrounding Zixi in the centre.
Zi Xie walked up to Zhang Ruochen and stared Avray at her without revealing any emotional fluctuations as she said, ”Killing Feng Zhiyi, I also had a part to play. It’s better for me to go and duel Feng Zhi Lin instead of you!”
Zhang Ruochen looked at Zixi and felt a marvellous aura on her.
“You’ve reached the middle extreme level of the Xuanji Realm?” Zhang Ruochen’s eyes lit up.
Zixie nodded and said, “That’s right.”
Zhang Ruochen wasn’t surprised, after all, Zixi possessed a Saint bloodline, and with the fact that she had been rewarded with 2,000 Merit Values, she was completely capable of exchanging a large amount of high-level cultivation resources in the Martial City Palace of Learning.
With her natural talent, coupled with the large amount of cultivation resources, breaking through the bottleneck and breaking through to the Middle Extreme Position of the Xuan Extreme Realm within a month wasn’t too much of an exaggeration.
One must know that Zhang Ruochen had only taken spirit meat, did not deliberately cultivate techniques, and spent all of his time cultivating martial arts, and it had only taken him a little over a month to break through the realm.
Zhang Ruochen and Zixi’s biggest advantage was that there was no lack of cultivation resources.
“Congratulations!”
Zhang Ruochen added, “However, Feng Zhilin and I have already made an appointment to fight on the Life and Death Stage, so you’re late. You can make an appointment to fight with him next time!”
A trace of colour flashed in Zixie’s eyes as she once again said, “Zhang Ruochen, are you sure you can defeat Feng Zhilin?”
“It shouldn’t be difficult.” Zhang Ruochen laughed.
Hearing Zhang Ruochen’s words, all the martial artists from the Four Direction County Kingdom standing not far away secretly cursed, “Madman!”
“Wait and see! Zhang Ruochen thought that defeating Nie Xuan, Wang Lang, and Qing Hai Tian was something great, but he didn’t know that none of the three of them could defeat Feng Zhi Lin with a single move.”
“Zhang Ruochen is bound to regret it when he gets on the Life and Death Stage.”
……
In the distance, Elder Xie saw Zhang Ruochen ascending the Life and Death Stage step by step, his heart was a little anxious, and he was about to perform a body technique to catch up and stop Zhang Ruochen.
If Zhang Ruochen ascended the Life and Death Stage, it would be too late!
Right at this moment, a silver-coloured shadow flashed past Elder Xie and pressed its palm onto Elder Xie’s shoulder.
“Elder Situ, what are you doing?” A cold light shot out from Elder Xie’s eyes as he said with great annoyance.
Elder Situ still pressed his palm on Elder Xie’s shoulder, preventing Elder Xie from rushing over, and laughed, “Elder Xie, be at ease. It’s just two juniors dueling, why do you need to interfere in it, right?”
Elder Xie looked at Zhang Ruochen, who was about to ascend the Life and Death Stage in the distance, and his heart became even more anxious as he said, “Don’t you know that Zhang Ruochen is the fourth genius in the history of the Western Academy to break through the second level of the third floor of the Martial Tower? If he is killed by Feng Zhilin on the Life and Death Stage, what a great loss it would be for the Western Academy?”
Elder Situ put away the smile on his face and snorted coldly, “So what if he has high talent? During the first round of the Academy Palace Examination, he killed nearly a hundred candidates, how many talents did the Academy Palace lose? To be so murderous at such a young age, when he becomes a strong person, won’t he cause even more killings? Such a genius, it’s better not to have the Martial City School Palace.”
Elder Xie said, “Elder Situ, did you see Zhang Ruochen kill with your own eyes?”
“Naturally, someone saw it with their own eyes.”
Elder Situ’s eyes were cold and craggy as he added, “Besides, Zhang Ruochen killed Feng Zhilin’s own brother, can’t Feng Zhilin avenge his own brother?”
Another elder also rushed over, not wanting Elder Situ and Elder Xie to get into too much of a standoff, so he advised, “Elder Xie, howdy, we are only the elders of the Academy Palace, as long as we are in charge of giving them lessons. As for the grudges between the trainees, we should try not to get involved. If we need elders to help them out with everything, it will only cause these trainees to develop a dependent mindset, which will not be beneficial to them.”
Elder Situ laughed, “Elder Huo is right, since Zhang Ruochen is a genius, he should be honed more. If he can’t even pass the level of Feng Zhi Lin, it only means that he doesn’t have the destiny to become a strong person.”
If it were any other time, hearing these words from Elder Situ, Elder Xie might have believed them.
But now that Zhang Ruochen was about to duel with Feng Zhilin on the Life and Death Stage, it could be said that he was bound to die, so what was the point of honing?
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen had already ascended and stood opposite Feng Zhilin.
Elder Xie clenched his teeth and glared angrily at Elder Situ, but in the end, he didn’t explode his anger out. After all, Elder Situ’s cultivation was above him, and if he fought with Elder Situ, he would definitely lose.
Right now, he could only hope that Zhang Ruochen would be able to escape from death, although the hope was very slim.
Elder Situ looked at Elder Xie, who had flung his sleeves and walked up to the stands, a sneer appeared on his old face, and then, he fixed his gaze towards the Life and Death Stage, the smile on his face becoming even more unrestrained.
Whether Zhang Ruochen was a top genius or not did not have much to do with him, as Zhang Ruochen was neither introduced to the Western Academy by him, nor was he his personal disciple, so even if Zhang Ruochen died on the life and death stage, it could only be blamed on his thin fate.
“Many thanks to Elder Situ!”
Prince Huo Xing walked out of the night and bowed respectfully to Elder Situ.
Afterwards, he handed Elder Situ a purple-gold box and smiled, “This is a Heavenly Cloud Pill given to Elder by Father, I hope that it can help Elder’s cultivation rise to the next level.”
Elder Situ took the purple-gold box and opened it up a crack, and in the crack, a strong medicinal fragrance immediately escaped.
A hint of a smile appeared on Elder Situ’s face as he put the purple-gold box away and said, “It’s just a show of hands, the County King is too polite!”
Prince Huo Xing laughed, “Eradicating Zhang Ruochen is just a show of hands for Elder Situ, but for our Four Directions County Kingdom, it is a heavenly matter. The Yunwu County Kingdom has already given birth to a Zhang Tiangui, if another Zhang Ruochen is born, ten years from now, who else in the nine counties of Lingxi will be a rival to the Yunwu County Kingdom?”
Elder Situ said, “I am originally a member of the Four Directions County Kingdom, so I naturally have the obligation to help the County King clear these potential threats. Since Zhang Ruochen has come to the Western Courtyard, I naturally cannot let him grow up.”
Prince Huo Xing nodded, looked at the two on the life and death stage, and laughed, “After tonight, there will be no more Zhang Ruochen in the Western Academy!”
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“Boom Boom!”
The tops of the sixteen copper pillars surrounding the Life and Death Stage let out a series of popping sounds. Sixteen balls of fire, burning up in the fire pots at the top of the copper pillars, illuminated the night.
“You are bold enough to actually dare to ascend the Life and Death Stage.” Feng Zhilin stared at Zhang Ruochen, a hint of a smile on his face.
Obviously, it wasn’t praising Zhang Ruochen, but rather mocking him for his stupidity.
With his hands behind his back, Zhang Ruochen stood straight, his clothes like snow, and laughed, “What’s the point of talking so much? Fight!”
Feng Zhilin’s eyes turned cold as he said, “Good! Since you want to die early, then I will fulfil you!”
The gazes of the two men, at the same time, looked towards the weapon rack at the edge of the life and death stage.
Above the weapon rack, there were all kinds of weapons, swords, knives, bores, guns, whips, spears, sticks ……, a total of thirty one kinds of weapons.
Any martial artist who ascended the life and death platform could not bring their own blades, and could only use the weapons on the life and death platform.
It can be said that whoever captures the weapon first will have more of an advantage.
“Swish!”
Feng Zhilin moved first, turning into a white shadow and rushing towards the weapon rack on the life and death stage. He had his eye on an iron sword placed on the third level of the weapon rack, and was about to pick up that iron sword.
When he grabbed it with his five fingers, he grabbed an empty one.
Zhang Ruochen stood beside Feng Zhilin, cupped the iron sword in his hand, flicked it with his fingers, and said, ”There is no inscription engraved in the sword, it’s just an ordinary iron sword. However, the material used to refine the iron sword is good, it seems to have real iron added to it, it won’t be easily broken.”
“You ……”
Feng Zhilin stared at Zhang Ruochen who was close at hand, his face was filled with astonishment.
Just now, he was clearly the one who had moved to retrieve the sword first, but Zhang Ruochen, who had set out after him, had removed the sword first.
What did this mean?
It showed that Zhang Ruochen’s speed was above his!
Boom!
The trainees standing on the stands were all shocked when they saw this scene.
“Zhang Ruochen’s speed is even above Feng Zhilin?”
“Daring to ascend the Life and Death Stage, he really does have real skills after all.”
“Zhang Ruochen’s speed is so fast that he is almost invincible.”
“That’s not necessarily true, if it wasn’t on the Life and Death Stage, perhaps Feng Zhilin indeed wouldn’t be able to defeat Zhang Ruochen. However, the Life and Death Stage was only nine feet long after all, and although Zhang Ruochen had the advantage in speed, there was only so much range that he could dodge. It shouldn’t be difficult for Feng Zhilin to kill him.”
“You all overlooked the most important point, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation level is too much lower than Feng Zhilin’s, and his true qi reserves are definitely far inferior to Feng Zhilin’s. Even if his speed was faster, Feng Zhilin would still be able to use up his deep true qi and drain him to death.” Prince Huo Xing said in a cold voice.
Those other trainees also felt that it made sense and nodded their heads.
“A bunch of ignorant people!” Duanmu Xingling gently shook her head, her eyes looking over towards Huang Yichen and smiled, “Sister Dust, you personally said that if Zhang Ruochen defeats Feng Zhilin, you will spare his life.”
Huang Yichen stared in the direction of the Life and Death Stage and said, “Wait until he wins.”
