236: Sasaki taunts, Mu Qianshan draws his sword!

“Oh?”

Mu Qianshan was a little surprised: “Is their timing that good?”

“Who knows? But it’s said they’ve been in the Human Race World for several days already, but they haven’t come to challenge us until now.”

The Student spread his hands, clearly annoyed by the Yamato Race’s “taking advantage of the situation” today.

Jiang Yuan looked at the arena at this moment, not paying much attention to what the Student had just said.

After all, how could the Yamato Race possibly predict the eruption of a dongtian secret treasure?

Even First Sequence Race like the Human Race and Mechanical Race couldn't foresee such things.

However, taking advantage of the situation was probably true.

Perhaps they were planning to wait a while before challenging, but then this incident suddenly occurred. Most of the top-ranked fourth-year Students of Zhongyuan Academy were not in the academy, so they rushed to challenge, perhaps.

He remembered his teacher telling him that the Yamato Race would be coming soon after that, and now, how much time had passed?

Jiang Yuan looked at the field. The venue was not in the Martial Arts Arena, but in the academy's plaza.

The people of Zhongyuan Academy were very confident in themselves.

A mere Second-Sequence Race, and a subordinate race at that.

It was a good opportunity to show their strength to the other Students of the academy.

However, those who decided to put the challenge here didn't expect that, as the challenge approached, most of the fourth-year Students had left.

Jiang Yuan looked at the field. The person currently challenging was an acquaintance of Jiang Yuan's.

Bu Qiuyuan, who had enrolled with him.

He didn't expect her to be in the top three hundred of the second-year Student rankings.

Bu Qiuyuan had already been approached by a Yamato Race youth.

After all, she was an archer, and facing an archer, most people's first reaction would be to get close, right?

However, the Yamato Race youth clearly didn't expect that Bu Qiuyuan's close-combat ability seemed even stronger than her long-range attack ability.

With her longbow and short dagger, she slit the opponent's throat in just a moment.

As the blood fell, Bu Qiuyuan quickly withdrew the short sword in her hand.

Jiang Yuan tilted his head slightly and glanced at the short sword in Bu Qiuyuan's hand. If he remembered correctly, this short sword was made by him for Bu Qiuyuan.

A blue-quality equipment card, 【Azure Shadow Blade】!

However, this short sword was just a failed product in Jiang Yuan's eyes.

Although this short sword was stronger than other short swords of the same level, it did not meet Jiang Yuan's requirements.

After all, Jiang Yuan's idea was to fuse the White Tiger, representing killing in myths, or the powerful Azure Dragon, into the blade.

But it didn't succeed.

Aside from the dragon head on the blade and the Azure Dragon phantom produced when swinging, the three skills of 【Azure Shadow Blade】 had no connection with the Azure Dragon clan.

For Jiang Yuan, this was naturally a failed product.

However, for Bu Qiuyuan, it was a short sword better than all her previous weapons.

At that time, Jiang Yuan was preparing to go to the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield, so he didn't pay much attention and directly gave this failed product to Bu Qiuyuan.

Although Bu Qiuyuan said that even if Jiang Yuan didn't want money, she would still repay Jiang Yuan.

But Jiang Yuan was very busy at that time, so he didn't pay much attention.

But looking at the current situation, Bu Qiuyuan's strength has already reached the Xuan Xiao Late Stage of the Second Realm.

The speed of her strength improvement feels even faster than Mu Qianshan's.

At the very least, without the 【Gathering Star Array】, Mu Qianshan's strength improvement speed should not be as fast as Bu Qiuyuan's.

After winning, Bu Qiuyuan in the arena did not leave but waited for other Yamato Race people to come up and continue the challenge.

However, the Yamato Race people frowned slightly. The youth who had just been defeated by Bu Qiuyuan was already the strongest Xuanxiao Stage strength person of the Yamato Race.

Or rather, the strongest Xuanxiao Stage person they brought this time.

The chubby Yamato Race leader, wearing round-rimmed glasses, frowned slightly, then waved his hand, signaling that he had lost this match.

He didn't expect that a girl ranked two hundred and seventeenth in Zhongyuan Academy could defeat their strongest Xuanxiao Stage Student this time.

Should he say it's worthy of the Human Race, worthy of Zhongyuan Academy?

After the chubby middle-aged man waved his hand, the third-year Students' matches began.

Jiang Yuan also saw acquaintances; Hu Qingwei and Tong Yuchang were both there.

However, both were only at the Zouzi Initial Stage of the Third Realm. After cross-level challenging and defeating several Zouzi Mid Stage Yamato Race members, they eventually fell to those with Zouzi (Late Stage) strength.

However, the Yamato Race with Zouzi Stage strength did not challenge too far; they still lost to someone ranked around two hundred and thirty in the second-year Student rankings.

The chubby middle-aged leader's frown deepened, but fortunately, the Jiang Lou strength team members he brought this time were confident they could defeat the fourth-year Students of Zhongyuan Academy.

After all, he had received accurate information that the fourth-year Students of Zhongyuan Academy, or rather, the Late Stage strength Students among the fourth-year Students, had all gone to that Jiang Lou Stage secret realm to compete for the dongtian secret treasure.

And for his future status within the Yamato Race and the greater resources he could obtain, along with Sasaki Kawasaki, he also chose this time to challenge Zhongyuan Academy.

After all, compared to the dongtian secret treasures that erupted in the dongtian, which he wasn't sure he could even get, coming to Zhongyuan Academy was clearly better.

After gaining the title of “successfully defeating the fourth-year Students of Zhongyuan Academy and reaching the top,” the Emperor's royal family would surely allocate more resources to Sasaki Kawasaki, right?

After all, the Sasaki Family is also a first-class family in the Yamato Race world.

Compared to the resource rewards he was about to receive, the dongtian secret treasure was just a trifle.

Especially since almost all of the Late Stage strength people among Zhongyuan Academy's fourth-year Students were in that secret realm, even if Sasaki Kawasaki went, he might not be able to get anything.

Just look at the previous Xuanxiao Stage and Zouzi Stage battles.

Their Yamato Race geniuses' strength in Zhongyuan Academy was probably only around the 200th rank.

These were the strongest geniuses of that realm in their Yamato Race's world.

The Human Race World is truly a land of outstanding people and abundant resources.

The chubby leader's greedy gaze swept around, then quickly hid itself.

Sasaki Kawasaki began his challenge.

Jiang Yuan watched the stage with interest, arms crossed. He couldn't use his Star Power now, so watching a battle to pass the time when bored was not bad.

After all, his Star Power conversion still had almost an hour left.

Sasaki Kawasaki's height was only about 1.6 meters, not even as tall as Nezha.

Of course, purple card Nezha.

Purple card Nezha's height was almost 1.7 meters, and this was without using 【Power Release】.

After using 【Power Release】, Nezha's height would be at least three meters.

Even Shi Ji's height was over 1.7 meters.

This Yamato Race guy really is...

Jiang Yuan shook his head slightly, perhaps he was so short to cooperate with his tactics.

Sasaki Kawasaki's profession was an assassin, or in their words, a Ninja.

At the start of the battle, he first threw out a string of shurikens, then blue light cards flashed, a burst of purple smoke appeared in the field, and as the smoke dissipated, Sasaki Kawasaki's figure also disappeared.

His opponent was a fourth-year Student from Zhongyuan Academy, a Skill Card Master.

After Sasaki Kawasaki used unknown means to block the Skill Card Master's 【Resist Fire Ring】, he cleanly and decisively took down his opponent.

Jiang Yuan frowned slightly, feeling that the card he had just used looked somewhat familiar.

But soon, the second match began, and Jiang Yuan didn't pay too much attention to his feeling just now.

Time passed quickly, and in no time, the number of people challenging Sasaki Kawasaki dwindled.

Sasaki Kawasaki was, after all, a Late Stage strength. Even though he was from a Second-Sequence Race, Sasaki Kawasaki's strength was indeed good.

His strength was probably equivalent to that of an ordinary genius-level in a First Sequence Race.

Similar to the former Mu Qianshan.

There were many genius-level Students in Zhongyuan Academy, but the problem was that not many were still in the academy now.

As one Jiang Lou Mid Stage Student after another was defeated, Sasaki Kawasaki shed his previous humility and began to act arrogantly.

“Is this all the level Zhongyuan Academy has? I've already reached the 400th rank in your Zhongyuan Academy, and there are no more challengers?”

According to the rules, whether it was Zhongyuan Academy or the challenging Yamato Race, as long as they won the battle, they could become the arena master and accept challenges from the other side.

Clearly, the current situation was that those who could defeat Sasaki Kawasaki were not present, and those who couldn't defeat him naturally wouldn't go up directly.

But under Sasaki Kawasaki's provocation, some people still went up.

However, these were all Students who lacked the strength and therefore didn't join the commotion in the dongtian.

Naturally, they were no match for Sasaki Kawasaki.

Even Zhu Zhenzhong, who had once lost to Jiang Yuan, went up, but he was also defeated.

Most importantly, Sasaki Kawasaki's mockery.

“Someone ranked over 2000 in the fourth-year class dares to challenge me? Overestimating yourself!”

Seeing the disdainful expression on Sasaki Kawasaki's face, Zhu Zhenzhong also exploded.

But he had indeed failed just now.

While furious, Zhu Zhenzhong also felt a bit strange. The card Sasaki Kawasaki had used to dodge his fatal attack, which he called a 'Ninja Art', how was it so similar to 【Seventy-Two Transformations - False Form】?

Zhu Zhenzhong frowned, but as he left the stage, he suddenly saw Mu Qianshan.

As for the person next to him, with his head down and wearing a hat, he didn't pay too much attention.

But soon, Zhu Zhenzhong shook his head slightly and, amidst Sasaki Kawasaki's frantic taunts, walked off the stage dejectedly.

What if Mu Qianshan was here? He was only Jiang Lou Initial Stage. Although he had been following Jiang Yuan for a long time, only Jiang Yuan could fight a Late Stage with Jiang Lou Initial Stage strength, right?

If Jiang Yuan were here, it would be great. If Jiang Yuan were here, he definitely wouldn't let him be so arrogant.

However, Jiang Yuan must have also gone to the dongtian to compete for the dongtian secret treasure, right?

After all, there had been recent news that Jiang Yuan was relatively short on money.

But then again, a Card Creator is indeed a money-burning profession.

Especially since the cards Jiang Yuan created were all new types of cards that had never appeared on the market.

The research and development of such new types of cards consume even more resources.

Zhu Zhenzhong gave a self-deprecating smile, looked back at Sasaki Kawasaki's arrogant face on the stage, and clenched his fists.

He wanted to climb the rankings, he wanted to improve his strength!

All for the sake of being strong enough to defeat the enemy when they reached his doorstep.

“How much more time do you need? I might not be able to beat him.”

Sasaki Kawasaki on stage continued to mock, spewing endless words like Zhongyuan Academy having no one, and the Human Race being at this level now.

Occasionally, someone would retort, saying that the strong ones had all gone out, but Kawasaki would retort with, “Then I came at such a good time. Weak is weak, those excuses are useless.”

The crowd below was furious, but the few who went up again were still defeated by Sasaki Kawasaki.

Sasaki Kawasaki became even more arrogant, and the chubby leader's face also showed a triumphant smile.

Mu Qianshan couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked Jiang Yuan beside him.

He knew his own strength; it would be very difficult to defeat Late Stage Sasaki Kawasaki with Jiang Lou Initial Stage strength.

But he had Jiang Yuan by his side, and as long as Jiang Yuan was there, he had confidence!

“I probably need ten more minutes.”

Jiang Yuan glanced at his Star Power reshaping progress, then spoke.

To be honest, Jiang Yuan was also very angry, but it was just as Mu Qianshan had said, he still needed some time to reshape his Star Power.

During this period of Star Power reshaping, he was completely without combat power.

He was even worse than an ordinary person, because an ordinary person could still run and jump, but he was a myasthenia patient.

“Ten minutes, I should be able to hold on.”

Mu Qianshan glanced around and, seeing that no one else was going up to challenge, then spoke to Jiang Yuan.

“Mm.”

Jiang Yuan pursed his lips, only Mu Qianshan could go up first to buy some time.

After all, he couldn't mobilize his Star Power now, not even to give Mu Qianshan a card as help.

If he could just open his Backpack Card, then the purple-quality formation card 【Fiery Flame Formation】 he had previously made but hadn't used yet could be given to Mu Qianshan first.

With Mu Qianshan's strength, combined with the 【Fiery Flame Formation】, there would be a 60% chance of defeating the opponent.

“Okay, then I’m going up. I’ll try my best to buy you ten minutes.”

Mu Qianshan said, then walked directly towards the stage.

“Does your Zhongyuan Academy have no one left? How can someone with Jiang Lou Initial Stage strength dare to challenge me, a Late Stage?”

“Whether I can defeat you, don't you have to fight to find out?”

What Sasaki Kawasaki used could also be considered a Ninja Art.

The Art of Rage among the Five Arts of the Wheel, its purpose was to provoke the opponent, making them lose their composure, and thus find an opportunity to defeat them.

However, Mu Qianshan had followed Jiang Yuan for a long time, and like Jiang Yuan, he automatically entered a calm state once in battle.

Therefore, Mu Qianshan was completely unmoved by Sasaki Kawasaki's provocation at this moment, his mind entirely focused on how to defeat the opponent.

It's a pity Jiang Yuan's Star Power couldn't be mobilized, otherwise, if Zhao Gongming gave me some luck, I might be able to defeat this guy just by myself.

Mu Qianshan entered the arena. His luck was indeed a problem, and his 【Xuan Du Purple Mansion Sword】 relatively needed luck to trigger its skills.

If he had a luck bonus, then with the Zifu Sword in hand, challenging two levels higher might not be impossible!

Mu Qianshan sneered at Sasaki Kawasaki, and a purple-quality card appeared in the air.

Purple light dazzling!

Draw the sword!