185: Shocking, instant!
“Confirmed, stop spouting nonsense and get in there!”
Although Wang Shuai felt Li Ziyu’s smile was a bit off, he just thought Li Ziyu was bluffing.
“Alright! Then I’ll go first for the test!”
“Seeing you all smiling so happily, I hope you can still smile later.”
Li Ziyu took a deep look at those gloating people, said no more, and directly stepped into the passage.
Letting him test first was truly great; he was going to give these people a surprise later.
“What do you mean by that, kid? Are you trying to show off in front of me?”
Wang Shuai was first stunned, then reacted and prepared to grab Li Ziyu to ask for clarification.
However, at this moment, a dozen figures suddenly appeared out of thin air in the previously empty passage.
Each figure exuded surging vital energy and blood, and they held alloy clubs in their hands, looking at them with ill intent.
“Holy crap! Level 6 Martial Artistss!? And sixteen of them? I knew this assessment wouldn’t be that simple.”
“Damn, sixteen Level 6 Martial Artistss, do we have to defeat all of them to pass? No way, is the first assessment really that hard? Who can pass it?!”
Liu Huan and the others from Beyond Martial Hall felt the aura emanating from the shadowy figures. After realizing what was happening, their eyes widened, and they complained endlessly.
“Phew, this assessment should be passed by everyone in the team working together. Luckily, I didn’t rush into the passage just now, or I would have been eliminated by now.”
“Let Li Ziyu try out these people’s Battle Skills first.”
Wang Shuai, who was about to grab Li Ziyu’s shoulder, quickly withdrew his hand upon seeing the appearance of the people in the passage.
He looked at Li Ziyu’s back, who had already fully entered the passage, with a relieved expression.
At this moment, Liu Huan also said:
“Fellow disciples, you’ve seen the strength of the Martial Artists in the passage; none of us can pass it alone. This is a team mission; all of us must unite to have a chance of passing!”
“After Li Ziyu is eliminated, Wang Shuai and I will lead the way, and everyone will work together to pass this assessment!”
After glancing at Li Ziyu, who had entered the passage, Liu Huan withdrew his gaze.
Sixteen Level 6 Martial Artistss in the passage meant that anyone who went in would be instantly eliminated.
Instead of wasting attention on Li Ziyu, it was better to think about how to unite everyone and pass the assessment together.
With that, Liu Huan turned his gaze to Wang Shuai beside him:
“Wang Shuai, you don’t have any objections to what I just said, do you?
Although we didn’t get assigned to Senior Brother Sun’s group this time, if the two of us can lead the entire team to pass the assessment, then in the Seed Training Camp, we will definitely gain Senior Brother Sun’s favor, hmm? What’s wrong with you?”
Liu Huan spoke to Wang Shuai, but saw that Wang Shuai didn’t respond to him. Instead, his mouth and eyes were wide open, staring intently in the direction of the passage, looking as if he had seen a ghost.
“What are you looking at? Why that expression?”
Liu Huan, puzzled, also turned his gaze towards the passage.
His eyes instantly widened!
“Holy crap! What happened?!”
Only to see in the passage.
The sixteen Level 6 Martial Artistss, who were originally holding alloy clubs and exuding surging vital energy and blood, were now lying sprawled on the ground, groaning while clutching their chests, as if they had just been hit by a high-speed train.
And in their center, only Li Ziyu stood there alone.
“What the heck, what’s going on? How did all sixteen Level 6 Martial Artistss responsible for the assessment suddenly fall to the ground?!”
“No… could it be that Li Ziyu knocked them all down??”
Liu Huan rubbed his eyes hard, then turned his head in disbelief to the equally dumbfounded Wang Shuai, asking urgently as if seeking confirmation:
“Wang Shuai! Did you see it just now?! What happened just now?! Was it Li Ziyu?!”
“I… gulp, I didn’t see clearly either.”
Wang Shuai swallowed hard, his expression stiff. The burly, one-point-nine-meter-tall man was now as awkward as a younger brother, pointing at Li Ziyu and saying with difficulty:
“I just saw a flash in the passage, and then this scene appeared.”
Liu Huan was somewhat stunned, as if listening to a ghost story. Just a flash and sixteen Martial Artists were knocked down? Wasn’t that a fantasy?
“I also saw a flash and then these people fell down.”
“Good heavens, was that flash just now Li Ziyu’s Battle Skill? Did Li Ziyu knock all these people down?”
The others were also shocked, but no one saw clearly what had just happened, so they couldn’t explain it.
Liu Huan looked at Li Ziyu with some uncertainty, unable to figure out the situation for a moment.
Even though all the Martial Artists in the passage had fallen, no one dared to make a move at this moment.
Li Ziyu just stood quietly in the center of the passage, neither moving forward nor retreating, just looking at Wang Shuai, Liu Huan, and the others from Beyond Martial Hall.
“Haha, I know! I know what happened just now!”
After a moment of stalemate, Liu Huan suddenly pointed at the passage and burst into laughter.
“I know, the aura on those sixteen Martial Artists just now was fake!
This test is just to gauge our courage. As long as we can take the first step alone, then these Martial Artists will count as having passed the assessment!”
Everyone looked at Liu Huan, who was laughing with his head tilted back, with stunned expressions.
“Then how did these Martial Artists fall down?”
Wang Shuai quietly pointed at the sprawled Martial Artists on the ground in the passage and said hesitantly.
To say that this assessment was to test their courage made sense.
But Wang Shuai felt that the aura on the sixteen Martial Artists on the ground didn’t seem fake at all.
Moreover, that flash of light in the passage just now was also real.
“Hmph! That was just a little trick Li Ziyu used to confuse people.
He must have seen through the truth of this assessment beforehand, which is why he dared to walk into the passage alone with such confidence just now.
I guess that flash of light just now was merely a trick he performed to intimidate us, making us believe that the Martial Artists on the ground were all defeated by him.
“But how is that possible? If the Martial Artists lying on the ground were truly that strong, how could anyone defeat them all in the blink of an eye?”
“If you don’t believe me, I’ll show you. I’ll just walk over there, and nothing will happen.”
Liu Huan shrugged, looking at everyone’s still stunned eyes, shook his head, and scoffed.
“What a bunch of idiotic teammates. Forget it, I’m not waiting for you all. I’m passing the assessment first.”
With that, Liu Huan walked unhurriedly into the passage with his hands behind his back.
Seeing Li Ziyu standing in the center of the passage, Liu Huan impatiently waved his hand:
“Get out of the way, don’t block…!”
Boom!
But before Liu Huan could finish speaking, Li Ziyu’s figure instantly appeared in front of him and delivered a fierce punch to his chest.
Liu Huan didn’t even have time to react before he was sent flying backward, spitting blood from the punch, crashing against the wall dozens of meters away with a thud, and collapsing to the ground, still spitting blood.
“Excuse me, everyone, the examiner has changed now.”
“If you want to pass through this passage, either kill me, or be killed by me.”
Li Ziyu said to them indifferently.