227: I'm not acting. I came from Daxia Academy!

"Purple-grade Void God Flame Dance Lotus!"

Jiang Yuan, who had just defeated his opponent and stepped down from the Martial Arts Arena, heard Mu Qianshan's smiling words and couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Although the Void God Flame Dance Lotus was an S-grade purple-grade heavenly material and earthly treasure, just like the Blazing Heart Violet Lotus he wanted.

However, in terms of rarity, the Void God Flame Dance Lotus was even more difficult to obtain.

But the acquisition or purchase of such heavenly material and earthly treasure depended on luck.

It was hard to say for sure.

Nevertheless, Mu Qianshan truly gave Jiang Yuan a huge surprise.

With this heavenly material and earthly treasure, Jiang Yuan could prepare to upgrade Nezha's quality.

Jiang Yuan was very excited, wishing he could go back and upgrade Nezha's quality right now.

But he couldn't rush; upgrading a card's quality also required choosing an auspicious day.

Before that, he should first raise his ranking to the top spot among fourth-year students.

Coincidentally, the guy ranked first among fourth-year students was at the Academy today.

Jiang Yuan had already calculated that if no one left the school today from his target list, then he would be able to challenge for the first place today.

"I'll find you later, my next challenger has arrived."

After happily patting Mu Qianshan's shoulder, Jiang Yuan looked towards the girl who had arrived beside him at some point.

"Directly to the stage or?"

"Let's go directly to the stage."

The girl's clear voice rang out. After curiously sizing up Jiang Yuan, she spoke to him.

At this moment, the audience seats were already packed. Everyone heard that a guy with Jiang Lou Initial Stage strength, who had just arrived in the fourth year, had challenged and won consecutively all the way to the top five hundred in the fourth-year rankings.

They were also curious who this person was, what kind of genius he was, to be able to challenge above his level and win consecutively.

"This guy isn't going to try to rush to first place today, is he?"

"Looking at this challenge speed, it doesn't seem impossible."

"Isn't this guy too fierce? Is there no one in our fourth year who can stop him?"

Some in the audience questioned, while others directly started live streaming.

"Fourth-year Newcomer Challenges for First Place, Currently Ranked 417!"

"[Coming here because of the hype, is he really that fierce?!]"

"[Newcomer? Fourth year? Jiang Lou Initial Stage? Challenging for first place? ]"

"[No way, is Zhongyuan Academy out of people? A Jiang Lou Initial Stage has already fought his way to over 400th place in the rankings? ]"

"[If he can rush to first place, I'll crawl from Da Xia Academy to Zhongyuan Academy! ]"

"[Above poster, awesome! ]"

"[Awesome! ]"

Qin Zhongmiao watched the surging number of viewers in his newly opened live stream, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his sharp-chinned, monkey-faced features.

"The higher he challenges, the better. The higher the topic's popularity, the more income I get!"

Qin Zhongmiao mumbled to himself, then cleared his throat: "Dear viewers, send some free Star Power, I'll live stream for everyone!"

In Qin Zhongmiao's live stream, Jiang Yuan and the girl had already activated the Martial Arts Arena and entered the Martial Arts Arena space.

As the battle began, Jiang Yuan didn't hesitate, and two cards, one blue and one purple, appeared in his hand simultaneously.

The next second, Nezha and Zhao Gongming appeared on the field.

The girl opposite Jiang Yuan also used a card at this moment.

Unexpectedly, this girl was a Beast Tamer Card Master, just like Tong Yuchang.

Both of the girl's summoned beasts were purple-grade: a large red turtle and a butterfly primarily purple with extremely vibrant colors on its body.

Purple-grade Summoned Beast: Flame Rock Giant Tortoise!

Purple-grade Summoned Beast: Illusory Dream Butterfly!

The Flame Rock Giant Tortoise was a fire and earth attribute summoned beast. It had a massive body covered in fiery red, hard rocks. Although its movement speed was slow due to the large amount of hard rock covering its body, its defense was extremely high.

Its attack method was to spray lava-like flame attacks.

The Illusory Dream Butterfly, on the other hand, was an attack-type summoned beast, a wind attribute summoned beast. Its attack methods included wind attribute Skill attacks and illusion-type attacks.

"Target that woman!"

The moment the opponent's two summoned beasts appeared, Jiang Yuan had already decided on his target.

Or rather, in this situation, most people would choose to attack the Illusory Dream Butterfly, which had strong attack power but low defense.

As for the Flame Rock Giant Tortoise with better defense?

Once the Illusory Dream Butterfly was dealt with, the Flame Rock Giant Tortoise would be easy.

A very small number of people would directly choose to deal with the opponent's Beast Tamer Card Master first.

Those who chose this usually had confidence in their powerful attack power.

After all, Beast Tamer Card Masters, like Amplification Card Masters, were occupations that protected themselves very well.

The ponytail girl was no exception.

Upon seeing Nezha's full set of weapons, when the golden bracelet on her wrist smashed towards her, a blue-grade card instantly appeared in the ponytail girl's hand.

"Beast Transfer!"

It could swap the positions of two summoned beasts, or one summoned beast and oneself.

The moment the blue light flashed, the ponytail girl appeared in the position where the Flame Rock Giant Tortoise had just been, while the Flame Rock Giant Tortoise took the ponytail girl's place.

The Universe Throw hit. It must be said that the Flame Rock Giant Tortoise's strength was still good.

It was actually able to withstand Nezha's Qiankun Circle attack with its Late Stage strength without falling down, even though Nezha was only at the Jiang Lou Initial Stage.

I, Jiang Yuan, acknowledge your defense!

While Nezha was attacking, the Illusory Dream Butterfly also launched an attack towards Jiang Yuan.

However, the Illusory Dream Butterfly's wind attribute attacks, with the Linglong Pagoda and Star Power Futon present, basically found it very difficult to cause any harm to Jiang Yuan.

Another card appeared in the ponytail girl's hand, but her heart suddenly jolted.

A strong gust of wind came from behind her head. The ponytail girl instinctively wanted to do a front roll to dodge this attack.

But how could Zhao Gongming give her this chance? The moment the girl lowered her head, the Steel Whip struck her head.

A phantom armor appeared on the ponytail girl's body, and within the phantom, there was also a grayish-white helmet phantom.

However, these two phantoms only briefly hindered the Steel Whip before shattering under the Steel Whip's powerful attack.

The Steel Whip in Zhao Gongming's hand was a purple-grade equipment card, on the same level as the two defenses on the girl's body.

However, because of the 50% increase in power against Energy-based defenses provided by [Heaven-Breaking Gang], the defenses on the girl's body were completely unable to block it and were broken through in an instant.

"Bang!"

A crisp sound came. The Fire Tipped Spear in Nezha's hand was only a spearhead's distance from the Flame Rock Giant Tortoise.

The next second, the scene changed. The Martial Arts Arena space disappeared, and Jiang Yuan and the pale-faced ponytail girl appeared on the Martial Arts Arena stage.

"This..."

The ponytail girl looked at Jiang Yuan with an unreadable expression.

On the way here, she had already watched Jiang Yuan's recent battle videos.

Before going on stage, she was still very confident. Although Jiang Yuan's strength was strong, she was not weak either.

It definitely wouldn't be easy for him to defeat her!

But what she didn't expect was that the martial arts battle had just begun, and not long after, she was defeated.

Jiang Lou Initial Stage challenging above their level to Late Stage, ending the battle in less than ten seconds, Late Stage instantly killed!

This was something that few people would believe if told, yet she became the protagonist?

And the one who was instantly killed.

She became a stepping stone!

The ponytail girl quietly looked at Jiang Yuan for a few seconds, until Jiang Yuan tilted his head in confusion, looking back at the ponytail girl.

"Sigh..."

Only then did the ponytail girl sigh and jump off the Martial Arts Arena stage.

After the ponytail girl jumped off the Martial Arts Arena stage, the audience finally reacted.

The battle was over?

The ponytail girl's strength was not weak, and her popularity among fourth-year students was relatively high.

After all, she was a beautiful girl, and a very strong beautiful girl.

Yet, in Jiang Yuan's hands, she didn't even last a few seconds before being defeated.

And the ponytail girl's defeat made many people in the audience and in the live stream look displeased.

Especially Beast Tamer Card Masters and Amplification Card Masters.

Including a portion of Skill Card Masters who advocated strong attacks.

Did they feel like Jiang Yuan was slaughtering them like chickens?

Look at that ponytail girl just now; she was defeated by Jiang Yuan without any ability to resist.

How could they stand up to him?

Especially Amplification Card Masters; they didn't have the ability to swap positions with their summoned beasts.

But even if they did, did they see that ponytail girl just now?

She still wouldn't last more than a few seconds.

"[No way, this is fake, right? ]"

"[It's an act, definitely an actor! ]"

"[I'd believe a Jiang Lou Initial Stage challenging a Late Stage, but a Jiang Lou Initial Stage instantly killing a Late Stage? Do you take me for a fool? ]"

"[Am I the only one curious about what card allows him to summon two people? ]"

"[Yeah, why is it one-on-one for everyone else, but he can summon two other people to gang up? ]"

"[Beast... Beast Tamer Card Master? ]"

Qin Zhongmiao looked at the bullet comments in the live stream and didn't know what to say.

He knew Jiang Yuan was very strong.

But he really hadn't expected this guy's strength to be so formidable!

He had also fought the ponytail girl who just battled Jiang Yuan.

He had spent a lot of effort to defeat her, but with Jiang Yuan, this ponytail girl didn't even last ten seconds before being defeated.

This...

Qin Zhongmiao didn't think too much, and soon Jiang Yuan's second match began.

Jiang Yuan's opponent this time was a young man, also with a ponytail, ranked 322nd.

Although this young man was a melee combat class, wielding dual swords, he was still quickly defeated by Jiang Yuan.

To their surprise, Nezha was not only powerful in attack, but also equally powerful in combat skills.

Nezha, wielding the Fire Tipped Spear, seemed to be toying with his opponent, effortlessly blocking his attacks and counterattacking.

Nezha's counterattack had barely begun when one of the long swords in the ponytail youth's hands was knocked away.

The dual-wielding youth now became single-wielding, and in an unfamiliar domain, he was even less of a match for Nezha.

Ultimately, this ponytail youth was defeated by Nezha before Zhao Gongming even made a move.

Zhao Gongming still stood elegantly to the side, not even holding his Steel Whip.

Clearly, he had great confidence in Nezha's strength.

However, while Zhao Gongming didn't hold it, Jiang Yuan was somewhat curiously stroking the Steel Whip in his hand.

It was indeed good.

He just wondered what effect it would have when he used it.

Jiang Yuan had barely stroked it twice when Nezha's spear pierced through the opponent's defensive equipment and broke through the ponytail youth's throat.

Jiang Yuan froze for a moment, then reacted.

Most characters who wield swords seem to have high attack and low defense.

They are the attack-only, no-defense type.

However, he really didn't expect that ponytail youth's defensive equipment was only blue-grade.

But to reach this ranking relying solely on a blue-grade defensive equipment, he truly lived up to his attack power.

But unfortunately, to compare swordsmanship with an old monster like Nezha, who had extraordinary talent?

One could only say he took the wrong path from the start.

"[Powerful attack, high skill, now I'm even more convinced this is a script. ]"

"[Heh, absolutely fake. I didn't expect you Zhongyuan Academy to act with a Jiang Lou Initial Stage guy for fame? ]"

"[Do you guess if I believe it? ]"

"[Still the same saying, if this is true, I'll crawl from Da Xia Academy to Zhongyuan Academy! ]"

"This is indeed true," Qin Zhongmiao explained helplessly, but the rolling bullet comments in the live stream continued to question, completely ignoring his explanation.

Until...

"Since you say it's fake, then I, the streamer, will show you my full strength."

Qin Zhongmiao's expression was a little grim. He was ranked 280th; theoretically, it shouldn't be his turn.

Based on a ranking increment of fifty, Jiang Yuan's challenge range was still eight people away from him!

Unless those eight people were all not in school!

But that shouldn't be the case. With the Four School Joint Examination approaching, most students should have returned to the Academy.

How could it be such a coincidence?

Although Qin Zhongmiao was puzzled, he still walked down from the audience seats.

"Other than that, if this is a fixed match, may my mother die!"

Before stepping onto the stage, Qin Zhongmiao handed his live streaming equipment to a friend nearby, said his last words to the people in the live stream, and then stepped onto the stage.

Qin Zhongmiao's attitude made the people in the live stream also start to doubt.

Could it be that this really wasn't a script?

Otherwise, who would joke about their own mother?

Qin Zhongmiao took the stage, nodded to Jiang Yuan, and soon the battle began.

If classified by profession, he should be considered a heavy armored warrior.

Clad in full armor, he wielded a large saber.

Jiang Yuan truly hadn't expected Qin Zhongmiao's profession; a thin, shifty-eyed guy was actually a heavy armored warrior?

But it wasn't a big problem. After the battle began, Qin Zhongmiao was still quickly defeated by Zhao Gongming.

The Steel Whip in Zhao Gongming's hand had a penetrating effect.

Qin Zhongmiao's armor defense was indeed good, a full set of purple-grade armor.

However, he hadn't reached Sixth Realm Shi Shen yet and hadn't reshaped his body, so his body's defense wasn't very good.

The final result was that the armor blocked Zhao Gongming's attack, but after the penetrating attack hit him, he still lost to Jiang Yuan.

He died a baffling death.

This was Qin Zhongmiao's first thought after emerging from the Martial Arts Arena space.