116: Bai Mo vs. Li Zhengcheng

The New and Old Student Exchange Competition will begin three days after the New Student Exchange Competition and the Old Student Exchange Competition conclude, spanning a total of 8 days.

During these eight days, the members of the Akatsuki Organization saw significant improvements in their strength, especially their spiritual power, which noticeably increased under the effects of the “Breathing Technique.”

Bai Mo and Wen Yu, who practiced the “original version,” showed the most remarkable improvements.

Bai Mo’s normal spiritual power had already reached 1088 points.

Wen Yu’s reached 1473 points, an especially terrifying progression.

Others also made some progress.

Bai Mo also gained a lot of source points; his source points had increased to 250,000.

Clearly, the changes brought by this Breathing Technique were immense; Wen Yu, Lin Qiaoqiao, and Zhang Ling had been fundamentally transformed by him.

As time passed, he would continue to acquire source points, which was excellent.

Wen Yu’s opponent was Zhang Qier, Zhang Ling’s opponent was Peng Jun, Lin Qiaoqiao’s opponent was Feng Jun, Yi Yun’s opponent was Chu Ling, and Bai Mo’s opponent was Li Zhengcheng.

Bai Mo recalled the opponent’s information he had reviewed before the match:

Li Zhengcheng (information updated two days ago)

Spiritual Power Talent: S

Spiritual Power: 2338

Blade Spirit Talent: A

Blade Spirit: Broken (Gold)

Number of Special Abilities: 2

Judging purely by spiritual power, his opponent was over a thousand points stronger than his normal state, truly worthy of being an old student, but...

Spiritual power was just one aspect; his own spiritual power intensity should be higher than others, as he already had Bankai and High Concentration Spiritual Power enhancing his spiritual power intensity.

Bai Mo’s current spiritual power intensity was 8. Although he didn’t know what this intensity of 8 represented, Bai Mo felt that before, he was not much different from Wen Yu, and now that he was stronger, he should be even stronger than Wen Yu.

And this Li Zhengcheng... he was also from Class 1, and although he was a second-year student, he was able to stand out and become one of the top five, so his strength was definitely top-notch.

It should be noted that there were three grades in total, with first-year new students competing separately, while second and third-year students competed together in the exchange competition.

In this way, being able to be one year younger than others yet still stand out truly showed remarkable strength.

Of course, the third-year batch was also slightly weaker; at least they weren't as strong as Zhang Qier’s batch, let alone Bai Mo’s batch.

Wen Yu, Bai Mo, and Yi Yun, any one of them would have been the pinnacle in the previous two batches, and now there were three such individuals in this batch.

It was precisely because of Wen Yu, Bai Mo, and Yi Yun that Beiling Academy’s “momentum was soaring,” and it remained to be seen whether they could dominate the national and even world academy competitions in the next two years!

Bai Mo stood on the arena, the match was about to begin.

He briefly observed his opponent.

Li Zhengcheng had long hair, like an ancient swordsman, tied into a ponytail, with a strand of hair hanging down between his temples.

“I heard your special ability is a rare sight in a century! Extremely unique, I really want to witness it today!” Li Zhengcheng said to Bai Mo, during the pre-match chat.

“Uh... you will!” The news that Bai Mo’s Spirit Language Department was even more special than ordinary Spirit Language Department was also well-known in Beiling Academy.

After all, this kind of thing couldn't be hidden unless you never used it.

But that was impossible, first Shi Jie, then Bankai.

Fortunately, only some people had heard that Bai Mo’s Spirit Language Department had undergone new changes, but they didn’t know it was Bankai.

Not to mention some other unknown bonuses, such as... the bonus from the High Concentration Spiritual Power talent.

Before the match, Bai Mo also gave himself a small boost.

After all, he still had 250,000 source points stored up.

He spent 10,000 source points to purchase a new ability: [Spirit Particle Cycle I]: Increases spiritual power recovery speed, and slightly increases spiritual power cultivation speed.

Then he spent another 100,000 source points to upgrade it to [Spirit Particle Cycle II].

With the remaining 140,000 source points, Bai Mo also upgraded High Concentration Spiritual Power to High Concentration Spiritual Power II, which also cost 100,000 source points.

He was left with only 40,000 source points.

His spiritual power intensity reached 9.

Bai Mo, who had given himself a small boost, grinned at Li Zhengcheng.

“???” Li Zhengcheng looked at Bai Mo, who suddenly smiled at him, with some confusion.

“Match start!” With a command.

Li Zhengcheng didn’t think much and summoned his “Broken.”

It was a sword somewhat like a katana, but thicker than a katana, with a slightly golden blade that shimmered with a cold light, making one’s hair stand on end just by looking at it.

Clearly, its sharpness was extremely terrifying.

The gold element itself belonged to the physical strong attack type, especially in terms of sharpness, which was an attribute extremely well-matched with weapons.

Li Zhengcheng’s attack power was clearly extremely high.

Bai Mo also immediately summoned his “Crystal Ice,” and then immediately performed the release: “Sit upon the frozen heavens! Hyōrinmaru!”

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With a three-fold spiritual power amplification, Bai Mo’s spiritual power broke through three thousand points.

The powerful spiritual pressure made Li Zhengcheng slightly frown: “This spiritual power amplification is truly a bit exaggerated!”

However, Li Zhengcheng showed no fear; spiritual power was only one aspect, and unless there was an extremely large gap, it would be impossible to form spiritual power suppression.

“Quick Draw!” Li Zhengcheng suddenly slashed out, and a flash of blade light appeared.

Bai Mo’s reaction was also extremely swift, even though “Quick Draw” was a surprise sword technique that was incredibly fast.

Prism Ice Array

An ice wall suddenly appeared.

Screech!

The teeth-grinding sound of metal scraping against ice rang out.

This thick ice wall was actually cut open by Li Zhengcheng with a single strike.

But Li Zhengcheng still frowned slightly, because he felt a very strong resistance, and he had to exert himself to forcibly cut through it.

Clearly, Bai Mo’s spiritual power and spiritual power intensity were not weak, and this defensive blade technique was very strong! It could defend against his attack.

This was incredible! How many people simply wouldn't face his attacks head-on?

Even some body-protecting blade techniques would be cut through, along with the person, by his blade technique.

Li Zhengcheng, relying on his terrifying attack power and the sharpness of his blade, coupled with an extremely skilled Quick Draw, had defeated countless people!

And today, he was faced head-on by someone a year younger than him!

“Ice Ring Slash!” Bai Mo, however, didn’t think too much. Although he inwardly marveled at Li Zhengcheng’s terrifying attack power, his movements didn’t stop at all, and he swept out a blade with a backhand.

An ice blade ring slashed out.

Li Zhengcheng’s spiritual power fluctuated beneath his feet, and he used Spirit Shift Step to leave his original position.

Bai Mo knew that his attack wouldn't be effective so easily, and the moment it missed, he followed up.

Swish! Swish!

The two of them continuously launched attacks in the arena, utilizing Spirit Shift Step.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Bai Mo and Li Zhengcheng competed in blade techniques.