143: Genius White Ink

The slap came a bit too fast, and Li Zehao's face was a little grim.

Clutching his faintly aching abdomen, Bai Mo's kick was indeed quite heavy.

Moreover, the power of his spiritual energy seemed excessively strong.

What kind of monstrous spiritual energy intensity does this kid have?!

Wen Yu and the others were also surprised, “Did Bai Mo learn Bare Combat?!”

Don't let it seem like just a small side kick; it clearly showed traces of Bai Mo having undergone “systematic” training.

Everyone only paid attention to Bai Mo's growth in spiritual energy, but that's normal, after all, spiritual energy equals everything.

In this world, the foundation of all power is spiritual energy.

Even if your special ability is strong, facing someone with far too much spiritual energy than you, it's still useless; one can completely break all laws with sheer power.

This is also why spiritual energy talent is, in some sense, more important than Blade Spirit talent.

If it weren't for the Blade Spirit sublimation, which significantly boosts spiritual energy and spiritual energy intensity, and this being tied to Blade Spirit talent, perhaps the importance of Blade Spirit talent would fall several ranks lower.

Bai Mo's biggest improvement was the enhancement of his foundation; his basics became increasingly solid, and he learned martial arts with Yi Xin, mastering all methods through one.

He also learned “Bare Combat” from Yi Xin, combining it with his own blade techniques.

All these merged together, plus the daily sparring with Yi Xin and being abused by Clarissa.

Especially Clarissa's daily “life-and-death battle” in the “sparring space” where he literally died once every day!

This is also why Bai Mo had such a significant transformation.

When you die more often, your thoughts and insights are sublimated.

“Mere parlor tricks!” Li Zehao scoffed.

Bare Combat is just about catching people off guard!

Li Zehao formed a hand seal with his left hand: “Bind · Spirit Entrapment Array!”

A circle appeared under Bai Mo's feet, then a pillar of light erupted directly, forming a cylinder about two meters in diameter and three meters high, trapping Bai Mo within it.

“Let's see how you dodge now!” Li Zehao raised the blade in his hand, and flames gathered on the blade.

“Blazing Fire Burial!”

Terrifying flames were unleashed by Li Zehao's blade, striking towards the trapped Bai Mo.

“This little trick wants to trap me?” Bai Mo raised an eyebrow, shaking his head slightly.

Facing the opponent's attack, he raised his blade and thrust it forward.

“Dragon Hailstorm Stance!”

The tip of the blade pierced the light circle trapping him as easily as popping a bubble, and a burst of ice light erupted.

Boom!!!

The ice light and the raging flames collided.

In just an instant, the ice light pushed back the flames and surged towards Li Zehao.

“How could this be?!” Li Zehao watched the scene before him, utterly shocked.

This move could unleash more than five times his spiritual energy!

How could it be so easily counterattacked by the opponent!

Boom!!!

The cross-shaped ice layer exploded when it reached its peak.

Whoosh!

Li Zehao appeared on the other side, breathing slightly, looking at Bai Mo in horror.

In the nick of time, he managed to escape using “Spirit Shift Step.”

“Hoo~ Hoo~” The depletion of spiritual energy, coupled with his fear, made Li Zehao's breathing ragged.

“You're flustered, you're flustered,” Bai Mo said to Li Zehao.

Even now, he remained effortlessly at ease.

“Haaah!!! Blazing Assault!” Li Zehao roared, slashing out with his blade, unleashing seven or eight bursts of raging fire.

They attacked Bai Mo from all directions.

“Prism Ice Array.” Bai Mo held his blade and lightly drew a line in front of him.

A massive ice wall appeared.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Li Zehao's attacks landed on it, exploding into countless flames.

Subsequently, the perfectly intact ice wall remained there.

Crack!

The ice wall shattered directly, revealing Bai Mo behind it: “This is the end!”

Whoosh!

Bai Mo disappeared from his original spot with a “Spirit Shift Step.”

“Over here!” Li Zehao caught Bai Mo's movement and slashed his blade to the side: “Blazing Slash!”

However, Bai Mo reached his other side even faster.

Not good!

Li Zehao was shocked; by the time he wanted to turn around, it was already too late.

Bai Mo didn't use his blade but swept out with a kick.

Bang!

This kick, imbued with powerful spiritual energy, landed heavily on Li Zehao's side waist.

“Ah!” Li Zehao cried out in pain, kicked tens of meters away by Bai Mo.

He fell to the ground, rolling a few times, and judging by his pained expression, he was clearly unable to continue fighting.

There was nothing he could do; Bai Mo's strength had improved too quickly, and his spiritual energy intensity was too terrifying!

Coupled with his immense spiritual energy, Bai Mo's overall improvement was enormous!

Why does spiritual energy represent everything? Because spiritual energy encompasses attack, defense, speed, strength...

And spiritual energy intensity represents the degree of amplification.

So, the power of just this one kick from Bai Mo was enough that the opponent not dying instantly meant their spiritual energy was not weak.

After all, this kick was the “Bone-Shattering Kick” learned from Yi Xin.

“We forfeit this match!” To prevent Li Zehao from sustaining more serious injuries, and with the situation clear, the captain of Nanhua Academy immediately signaled their surrender.

Li Zehao was defeated, and Bai Mo beautifully won the third match!

“Wow!!! Well done! Go, Bai Mo!!!” Watching Bai Mo effortlessly secure victory, Zhang Ling excitedly shouted in the Akatsuki Organization's meeting room.

Lin Qiaoqiao clapped with a smile beside her.

“Bai Mo's strength... is so formidable!” Wen Yu looked at Bai Mo, who seemed to be glowing on the field.

Unbeknownst to her, Bai Mo's strength had already surpassed hers by so much...

Li Zehao was carried away.

Next to enter the arena was the fourth person from Nanhua Academy.

He was still wearing the Nanhua Academy uniform and had blue hair.

Li Zeyu, Li Zehao's older brother, though he was only older because he was born earlier than Li Zehao.

Bai Mo remembered that his talent was stronger than Li Zehao's.

Spiritual energy talent SS, Blade Spirit talent S, his Blade Spirit was lightning-elemental, with three special abilities.

It seemed Li Zehao didn't use any special abilities earlier? It seemed he only used blade techniques.

Could Li Zehao's special ability be passive?

After all, special abilities have many effects, including passive, enhancement, blade technique-based, and so on.

But it didn't matter anymore; the opponent was a bit overconfident from the start and got hit twice by him, clearly not expecting his attacks to be so “heavy.”

He was instantly defeated.

“That was my younger brother just now,” Li Zeyu said to Bai Mo.

“Oh~ I see! Don't worry, you'll be able to join him soon.

You're welcome, you're welcome!” Bai Mo nodded in realization.

“……” Was I talking about going to accompany my brother?! And “you're welcome”!

Am I bothering you?!

Li Zeyu's face darkened.

“I didn't expect Beiling Academy to hide such a genius like you.

Our intelligence work wasn't thorough enough!

You've always been inconspicuous...” Li Zeyu said to Bai Mo.

“Then it's probably your intelligence personnel who have a problem.

I suggest you investigate them thoroughly!” Bai Mo also nodded seriously, then said with an earnest expression.

The real mole: Big brother! You're my biological brother!

Of course, there wasn't really any mole or not mole situation, after all, many things were actually visible to everyone online, including various recordings and such.

“……” Li Zeyu took a deep breath.

Forget it, he wouldn't waste more words with this guy.

“Match start!” The referee gave the command.

As the referee spoke, Li Zeyu's eyes suddenly became extremely sharp.

A blade appeared in Li Zeyu's hand.

The tsuba (blade guard, handguard) was octagonal, with a lightning mark inside.

The blade itself was the normal silver-white of an iron weapon, but the edge had a faint purple hue.

This was Li Zeyu's Blade Spirit: Nine Thunder Shakes Heaven.