The hundred training students charged excitedly into Sword Mountain Spirit Ruins.
At the same time, the scenes inside the ruins were live-streamed on Kyoto Spirit University’s official website.
It was the weekend, and students holed up in their dormitories had long been eager to open their phones and watch the broadcast.
News of the training competition spread like wildfire.
On Weibo, Nan God’s fans who followed Jiang Nan had gone half a year without any updates from him. They were starving for content.
They flooded the official website like mad dogs, nearly crashing the servers.
“Oh my dear lord, I’ve missed my Nan God so much!”
“He’s finally appeared? It’s been killing me!”
“Fairy wand ready! Nan God? I want to see my Nan God!”
Xing Da was stunned. What kind of explosive popularity was this?
The stream had just started and already over four million people had poured in?
This wave alone was equivalent to a massive advertisement for Kyoto Spirit University.
He had originally worried that giving away so many vouchers would bankrupt him.
Instead, he had struck gold.
…
At the top of a stone pillar mountain, the hundred students surged in. The moment they entered, they spotted a crimson griffin lying on the peak and jumped in fright.
What was going on?
Jiang Nan’s spirit pet? Why was it lying here?
Xiao Jiuwo lifted her wings, revealing Jiang Nan sleeping sweetly in her embrace.
“Master. Time to get up. They’re all here!”
Everyone looked horrified.
Good heavens!
It spoke? How could it speak?
Was this really a spirit beast?
Jiang Nan burrowed deeper into Xiao Jiuwo’s embrace.
“No. I don’t want to! Let me sleep a bit more, just a little!”
Xiang Zu and the others darkened their faces.
Wasn’t this supposed to be a boss fight?
You entered the ruins this afternoon, did nothing, didn’t even hide, and just slept at the entrance all afternoon?
And you have bed-head temper?
This is exactly what slacking off looks like.
[Resentment value from Xiang Zu +1000!]
[From Wang Zhan…]
Xiao Jiuwo: !!!
“Master. They’re baring their teeth. If you don’t get up, they’ll hit you!”
Jiang Nan: (｡⁼̴ࡇก̀｡)
He reluctantly sat up, rubbing his sleepy eyes with a completely groggy expression.
“Ah… the training competition, right. I forgot!”
He stretched vigorously, then looked at the crowd. “No way? You’re all this obedient? Just standing there watching?”
“While I was sleeping, what a perfect chance for a sneak attack. I gave you the opportunity and you didn’t take it!”
Blue veins popped on the foreheads of the students.
Wang Zhan slowly unwound the bandages on his hands and sneered. “Sneak attack? I, Wang Zhan, disdain such things!”
“Are you ready? I’ve never experienced spatial abilities before!”
Jiang Nan shook his head with a wry smile. “Disdain? You’re all so adorably naive!”
He raised his hand, pulled out a paralysis ring, and slipped it onto his right middle finger.
Ye Xingxuan’s expression turned grave. “Everyone spread out!”
In an instant, the hundred students scattered, surrounding Jiang Nan in a 360-degree ring with no blind spots.
Xiao Jiuwo asked nervously, “Master. Do you need my help?”
Jiang Nan flashed a brilliant smile. His right middle finger turned gold as he pointed directly at the crowd.
The letters MB on it stood out boldly.
“No need! A bunch of little darlings. One finger from me is enough!”
At this moment, the students completely exploded. Blood rushed to their heads, eyes turning red.
They felt their very dignity had been insulted.
No one looks down on people like this!
“Everyone charge! Teach him how to behave!”
Explosions erupted across the field in an instant. Dozens of figures shot towards Jiang Nan like arrows.
The live stream chat went wild.
“What’s going on? What kind of competition is this? Why are a hundred golds ganging up on my Nan God right from the start?”
“Haha! After so long, Nan God is still as infuriatingly arrogant!”
“Isn’t this supposed to be a boss fight? Blocking the door right away? What kind of flashy move is that?”
“It won’t end right at the beginning, will it?”
Xing Da, watching the stream, felt his heart go half cold. These foolish kids!
Jiang Nan was deliberately provoking them.
When people get angry, they lose the big picture and keep making mistakes.
Now all they probably had in their minds was taking Jiang Nan down at any cost.
All the tactics they discussed for an entire afternoon were forgotten.
With one sentence, he effortlessly rendered all their preparations useless.
How could Xing Da’s heart not turn cold?
Jiang Nan was young, but this level of experience was far too seasoned.
Looking at the charging crowd, Jiang Nan grinned. “The first lesson I want to teach you!”
“People who cannot control their emotions also cannot control their lives!”
The instant seven or eight fireballs rained down, Jiang Nan teleported and vanished.
Boom!
The spot where he had stood was blasted into a crater over a hundred metres wide.
Jiang Nan reappeared in the crowd and thrust out one finger.
Pfft!
The finger, hard as iron, stabbed deep into the shoulder of a golden-7 student.
“Whoa!”
A high-pitched scream echoed through the mountains. The guy’s face twisted as he froze in place, experiencing the extreme tingling bliss of paralysis.
Behind him, a lion-beast transformation burly man seized the chance, raising his broad axe high and swinging down with earth-splitting force.
“Spirit skill: Mountain Cleave!”
Jiang Nan didn’t dodge. He raised his middle finger to meet it head-on.
Clang!
Sparks flew. The axe blade cracked, the head snapped off, spinning over a hundred metres away.
The enormous force even cracked the ground beneath Jiang Nan’s feet like a spiderweb.
Yet Jiang Nan was completely unharmed. Not even a mark on his finger.
Jiang Nan raised an eyebrow.
“(๑◔ට◔ิ๑) Mountain Cleave? That’s it? Did you come to trim my nails?”
The lion man was stunned! All the students were dumbfounded!
What kind of finger was this? The axe couldn’t even break the skin?
You said one finger, and you really meant it?
The lion man glared. “What did you say? I just… Aargh!”
Before he could finish, Jiang Nan’s finger had already stabbed into his shoulder. Another one paralysed!
Jiang Nan wasted no time. His body flickered at blinding speed through the crowd. The naked eye could not keep up.
No one knew where he would appear next.
A string of screams rang out. In moments, fourteen people were paralysed in place.
As the classic double-standard king, Jiang Nan poked men’s shoulders and girls’ nose tips.
The students were now in complete chaos. They had no idea why one poke from Jiang Nan left them immobile.
They could only desperately unleash skills to keep him away, but the peak was small to begin with. This only made the scene more chaotic, even causing friendly fire.
Fear filled everyone’s eyes.
How could Jiang Nan be this strong?
They had all studied the information, yet nothing Jiang Nan was using was listed in it!
Wang Zhan shouted urgently, “Don’t panic! Everyone calm down! Spread out, use spirit skills to shield your whole body. Don’t let Jiang Nan’s middle finger touch you!”
As he spoke, he slapped his hand onto a nearby golden-6 wood-element spirit warrior.
“Brother! Lend me your ability!”
Wang Zhan’s ability was the extremely rare Copy.
His innate spirit skill was Copy-Paste.
He could copy the abilities of spirit warriors at the same level as himself, even their spirit skills.
Though he could only use it for ten minutes and could not save it.
After the time limit, he had to touch again to recopy.
Even so, it was already monstrous.
He could even copy Jiang Nan’s spatial ability and skills.
That was exactly his plan.
He slammed his hand to the ground. “Tree Armour!”
Hard ironwood burst from the soil, growing rapidly until thick ironwood armour covered his body.
“Vine Whip!”
Several supple vines shot from his palm, burrowing deep into rock crevices before contracting violently.
They yanked him forward at terrifying speed straight towards Jiang Nan.
By now Jiang Nan had paralysed twenty-one people. Seeing Wang Zhan charge, he didn’t dodge. His finger shot out with a sonic boom, aiming straight for him.
“Thousand Pine Needles!”
Countless iron-hard pine needles flew towards Jiang Nan.
Jiang Nan’s finger danced into afterimages, blocking every needle.
Wang Zhan’s eyes lit up. “Chance!”
He reached out to grab Jiang Nan.
Jiang Nan thrust his middle finger. Wang Zhan hastily retracted his hand and blocked with his arm.
Boom!
The paralysing middle finger stabbed deep into the ironwood, but did not reach Wang Zhan’s body.
In an instant, the ironwood tightened, trapping Jiang Nan’s finger so he could not pull it free.
Wang Zhan smiled triumphantly. “You’ve fallen for it!”
His other hand was already sweeping low, about to touch Jiang Nan.
But at that moment, Wang Zhan’s heart sank. Jiang Nan’s eyes held no panic, not even surprise.
Calm to a terrifying degree.
Wang Zhan watched in horror as his entire arm sank into Jiang Nan’s body.
“Damn! Spatial wormhole!”
His hand emerged three hundred metres away, pressing onto a water-element ability user.
All the ironwood armour on his body instantly dissolved into motes of spirit light.
His wood ability vanished, overwritten by water.
Jiang Nan’s finger stabbed hard into Wang Zhan’s chest.
“Hiss.”
The paralysing bliss nearly made Wang Zhan explode. His face was full of shock.
Everything had been within Jiang Nan’s prediction?
He predicted my prediction?
In such a short time, how could he react?
How could he know the weakness of my ability?
The paralysed Wang Zhan glared red-eyed and forced out a sentence. “How did you know my copy ability requires touching the opponent with my hand…”
Jiang Nan said calmly, “You told me yourself. Bandages wrapped around your hands! You unwrapped them before fighting!”
“Afraid others wouldn’t know there’s something special about your hands?”
“Just now you kept aiming for vital points, desperately trying to touch me with your hand. If I still didn’t realise something was up with your hands, I’d be an idiot!”
Wang Zhan stared hard at Jiang Nan, nearly grinding his teeth to powder.
Jiang Nan had noticed even that detail?
Jiang Nan: “You’ve got some brains! But not enough. Your ability is interesting! Don’t waste your talent!”
With that, he raised his leg and slammed it down, stomping Wang Zhan’s entire head into the ground.
[Resentment value from Wang Zhan +1000!]
The smile in Jiang Nan’s eyes grew even brighter. “Is that all you’ve got?”
“Very good! Next I’ll use three fingers! Are you little darlings ready?”
At this moment, the expressions on the students atop the peak had shifted from shock to outright terror.
One finger had taken down twenty-two!
Three fingers? What kind of boss was this?
It was far too despair-inducing.
Utterly overpowered!
The strongest boss in history, anyone?
Jiang Nan reached into his left pocket and snapped his fingers three times in quick succession.
“Void Black Hole! Hole! Hole!”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
