170: Academy competition!

After Lu Chen returned to the academy, he first met with the Grand Elder.

Subsequently, after discussing the situation with the Old Dean, he rested for a few days.

Immediately after, early one morning, he received a request from the Old Dean.

It was still about the competition.

"You mean? The Western Knight Academy and the Tianzhu Academy have joined forces to challenge my Kunlun Academy?" Lu Chen asked, setting down his celadon teacup.

"Exactly." The Old Dean nodded and sighed, "They are coming on aggressively, so I would like to ask you, my little friend, to step in!"

"Fine, I understand." Lu Chen agreed.

Not to mention that Kunlun Academy was his base, the Old Dean was very obedient to his arrangements. Clearly, like the Grand Elder, he looked to him for guidance.

Not to mention, it was obvious that this time, they had joined forces specifically to challenge Kunlun Academy.

After all, the selection of personnel to confront the Heavenly Dao was originally hosted at the Kunlun Academy in China. This could be said to have caused dissatisfaction among many other academies in the world.

If he didn't establish his authority and hold up this beating stick, there would likely be a lot of trouble.

Seeing Lu Chen agree, the Old Dean's aged face immediately relaxed, and a kind smile appeared.

Then, he respectfully poured a cup of hot tea for Lu Chen.

"Little friend, this is thousand-year-old Longjing tea. Come, come, let me pour you some tea."

"Hey, you old man, you only brought this out after I agreed. The tea I was drinking just now was just ordinary West Lake Longjing!"

...

Three days later.

The rune array on the dome of the Kunlun Arena suddenly lit up, and the hexagonal energy barrier rippled with pale gold in the blizzard.

Lu Chen leaned against the obsidian seat in the viewing gallery, his knuckles tapping on the magic crystal embedded in the armrest. The magic screen floating in mid-air reflected the flickering blue Soul Fire in his eye sockets.

At this moment, the live stream chat was scrolling at a speed of three thousand messages per second, the magic screen as cold as the Siberian tundra.

"Does the Necromancer school dare to go head-to-head with Holy Light knights? Has Kunlun Academy gone crazy this year?"

"That young lady in the black robe is so cool! Necromancer school beauty vs. Holy Light Knight Commander, I bet on Goddess Ning drowning the lackeys of St. John's Cathedral with a sea of skeletons!"

When the twelve Holy Knights of the Western Knight Academy in silver armor stepped out of the light of the teleportation array, the bone sword in Ning Xiwei's hand had already stirred up a sinister wind.

The purple-gold skull emblem on her black mage robe suddenly opened a hundred scarlet pupils. The arena floor instantly split into three hundred abysses, and sixteen giant elephant skeletons wrapped in chains smashed the Holy Light Barrier into a spiderweb-like crack.

"In the name of the Nine Netherworlds." Ning Xiwei bit her fingertip and drew a totem of the eighteen levels of Hell in the Void Realm. Thirty thousand rotting crows burst out like black mist, blocking the sun and moon, directly covering the light of the Kunlun Mountains, "—Bone as the boat, Yellow Springs leads the way!"

At this moment, Lu Chen's throat bone emitted a slight trembling sound; he was silently reciting something that sounded like a spell.

On the viewing platform in front of him, seventy-two Soul Fire lamps ignited in response.

This was something he had Sun Feifei set up in advance to secretly look after the girls and do some small tricks.

Lu Chen raised his hand slightly and slowly wrote the ancient seal character "Decree" in the Void Realm in front of him. A blood rain mixed with the smell of sulfur suddenly descended over the arena. Those skeletons that had been purified by Holy Light were reborn in the rainwater as heavy cavalry covered in mysterious armor.

Seeing this, the corners of Lu Chen's mouth curled up slightly.

Isn't it normal to play some small tricks?

Besides, for this group of aggressive guys with unclean intentions, there was no need to follow the rules.

They were all seventh or eighth-rank experts, and none of them were weak.

The live stream chat suddenly fell into silence!

It entered a strange blank state until an ID with an official verification badge popped up in gold-red font: [All-Heavens Combat Power Ranking Analyst V] Real-time data update: Ning Xiwei's summon strength has broken through the eighth-rank Peak threshold, energy fluctuations suspected... Undead Monarch level blessing?

"Damn, one of the big shots must have made a move!"

"Which one?"

"Are you an idiot? Brother Lu Chen, who has lived for a hundred thousand years!"

"Σ(☉▽☉"a Holy crap!!! Almost forgot about Great God Lu Chen."

"Brother Lu Chen is awesome!"

The competition here was still very relaxed. Especially under Lu Chen's care.

The opponents' group of Elders who wanted to help secretly were no match for Lu Chen's power. It was a complete suppression, making them feel the gap in strength.

Lu Chen turned his gaze to Ignis's side.

When Ignis drew her crimson long blade from the magma pool, the Brahmin priest of Tianzhu Academy had just finished chanting three thousand Sanskrit mantras.

Exclamations erupted from the audience!

—Eighteen Shiva avatars holding thunder pestles descended to inflict divine punishment, but the moment they touched the tips of the Flame Demon Girl's hair, they were burned into stars filling the sky.

"Brahma's karmic fire?" She sneered and ripped open the leather waist belt embroidered with the Flame Demon emblem. Behind her, lava wings that covered the sky suddenly unfolded, "Let me show you what real... fire of world destruction is!"

Lu Chen flicked half of a golden compass emblem into the battlefield, and the purgatory fire ring bursting around Ignis was instantly stained with eerie ghost Qi.

When her flame long blade cleaved open the seventh layer of the Vajra Realm Mandala, the blade edge was actually wrapped with thousands of wailing resentful spirits, melting the Brahmin priest's glass prayer beads into molten red-gold iron.

The chat was now being flooded by a torrent of exclamations in various languages:

"Is this really eighth-rank? What happened to the Flame Demon Bloodline suppression?"

"Look at the Undead runes on the fire feathers! Brother Lu is buffing the whole team again!"

Lu Chen didn't pay much attention to the chat on the live stream. After all, this was a global broadcast, and he couldn't keep up with all the different platforms.

After a brief glance, Lu Chen focused his attention on Shelley's side.

They were all his girls, and he had to protect them all well!

Lu Chen's finger bones brushed over a frost rose that had condensed on the edge of the viewing platform. Just then, a flower like an ice crystal lotus behind Shelley suddenly turned into three hundred bone swords hovering behind her.

The Ice Princess of the Arctic Realm raised her staff embedded with eternal ice, and the entire arena instantly fell into a Domain of Absolute Zero, and even the live stream screen was covered in frost flowers.

"Arctic Realm Royalty—" Shelley shouted, her toes tapping on the ice, and a nine-hundred-foot-tall ice crystal Valkyrie phantom rose behind her, "—Freeze!"

When the Valkyrie's lance pierced through the last defensive barrier of Tianzhu Academy, the Soul Fire in Lu Chen's eye sockets suddenly flared up.

He raised his hand slightly, causing the Nine Nether Bone Flag inserted in the center of the arena to unfurl!

I saw that on this flag, four lines of blood-colored prophecy vaguely appeared:

Netherworld bone fire burns heaven and earth,

Yellow Springs rolls back into the human world.

Ten thousand years of heroic souls obey the command,

Nine Heavens Dragon roar sees my face.

This Nine Nether Bone Flag was a proud work that Lu Chen had recently refined.

Although it was derived from Sun Feifei's five elements flags, it was the most useful for absorbing rampaging power.

It kept the magic power of the competition venue from going wild.

This thing didn't just absorb power, it could also absorb souls!

Fellow Daoist, the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, provides room and board!