Chapter 132 Hard Nut (2)
When Lin Shen saw this, he suddenly felt a little regretful. Maybe he should have kept a lower profile. Should he have hidden his strength first and tricked these people to go on stage so that he could get their merit points?
“Forget it, these people aren’t fools. I’ll only deceive a couple of them at most. It’s not worth that effort.”
At the deacon’s signal, Lin Shen turned around and left the platform.
“Bro, you’ve kept a secret from us again!”
As soon as he returned to the crowd, Yang Zhongyi punched Lin Shen in the shoulder.
!!
Lin Shen smiled and said, “I’ve always said that it won’t be a problem.”
Yang Zhongyi thought about it and agreed. Lin Shen seemed to have said that he wanted to shock everyone, and he had indeed done it.
“Congratulations, Lin Shen,” Su Nian said with a smile.
Lin Shen smiled. “Congratulate me later.”
Those words stunned Yang Zhongyi and Su Nian, and they both looked surprised.
However, Lin Shen didn’t explain further. He smiled and looked at the high platform.
The Black-rank disciple’s challenge continued.
At the same time.
On the north side of the square, in the area where Earth-rank disciples gathered.
Ai Jingting, Bai Xiaotong, and Zheng Weirong slowly came back to their senses.
“That’s amazing!”
Bai Xiaotong’s eyes sparkled.
“I didn’t expect Lin Shen to be able to withstand the Six Yang Talisman Sword head-on. He’s so strong!”
Zheng Weirong nodded in amazement.
“I heard that Lin Shen cultivated some kind of extremely powerful Physical Enhancement martial technique. From the looks of it, the rumors are true. He can even withstand the Six Yang Talisman Sword. This Physical Enhancement martial technique is much stronger than the Crimson Cloud Physical Enhancement!”
Even someone as elegant as Ai Jingting looked surprised.
She had been in the Nine Yang Academy for more than three years, but she had never seen someone as enigmatic as Lin Shen.
Yan Dao saw the change in Ai Jingting’s expression, and he sneered with jealousy.
“Lin Shen must have a defensive enchanted armament on him!
“Otherwise, how could he resist a middle-grade enchanted armament with his physical body? Even a Heaven-rank disciple can’t do that!”
Bai Xiaotong and Zheng Weirong were speechless. They looked at inwardly.
Just as someone had said just now, even if Lin Shen was wearing a each other and kept their mouths shut, but they were retorting inwardly.
Just as someone had said just now, even if Lin Shen was wearing a defensive enchanted armament like the Bind Yang Gown, it was already very impressive that he could block the Six Yang Talisman Sword unscathed!
If Yan Dao didn’t like it,
he could try to do that himself.
However, the two of them also knew that Yan Dao had a deep prejudice against Lin Shen, so nothing they said would change his mind. Hence, they simply kept quiet.
Ai Jingting glanced at Yan Dao and frowned slightly.
Although she didn’t have any feelings for Yan Dao, she at least felt that he was humble, calm, and magnanimous.
But now, it seemed that she had misjudged him.
The humility and magnanimity that Yan Dao had shown in the past were clearly built on the condescending sense of superiority brought about by his strength and family background.
Facing people who were inferior to him, he was naturally willing to appear humble and magnanimous to show his upbringing.
However, once he met someone who didn’t care about his family background and was more talented than him, his pretense of superiority would be torn off, and his narrow-minded nature would be exposed!
Such a person was obviously not worth socializing with!
“I’ve gathered almost all the materials needed to refine the Flame Spirit Pills. When I refine the Flame Spirit Pills, I’ll give one to Yan Dao to thank him for his help during this period of time. After that, I’ll keep a distance from him.”
Ai Jingting secretly made up her mind.
Yan Dao didn’t know that the girl he liked had already ruled him out. He went on to criticize Lin Shen.
“Cultivating Physical Enhancement martial arts techniques is the most arduous and unrewarding. Just a middle- or superior-grade defensive enchanted armament is enough to match many Physical Enhancement martial arts techniques. Moreover, no matter how well one cultivates such martial arts techniques, it’s useless. In the end, they can’t withstand a truly powerful enchanted armament!
“Lin Shen can block the Six Yang Talisman Sword, but can he block the Nine Yang Talisman Sword?”
Bai Xiaotong and Zheng Weirong rolled their eyes.
If that were the case, no one would need to cultivate martial arts anymore. Wouldn’t it be enough to compete on who had more enchanted armaments?
Of course, they wouldn’t say it out loud.
Like Ai Jingting, the two of them realized Yan Dao’s narrow-minded nature hidden under the surface.
No matter what, Yan Dao was an Earth-rank disciple who was one level higher than them and came from an influential family. They didn’t want to offend this Senior Brother who wasn’t to be trifled with.
Seeing that Bai Xiaotong and Zheng Weirong were silent, Yan Dao thought that the two of them had been rendered speechless by his words. He immediately became even more smug.
On the high platform.
One by one, the disciples went up and came down.
Those who had won the challenge smiled brightly, unable to contain their joy.
Those who failed the challenge, or lost their rank would look dejected.
In the afternoon, the Black-rank disciple challenge finally ended.
More than 50 Black-rank disciples were challenged.
More than two-thirds of them held their positions.
The remaining dozen or so people lost their spots as Black-rank disciples and fell back to becoming Yellow-rank disciples.
Among the disciples who succeeded in the challenge were Duan Hao and Cheng Xipeng.
There was no pause in the middle of the level challenge. The people here were all strong cultivators. Missing a meal wouldn’t affect them. Therefore, as soon as the Black-rank disciple challenge ended, the Earth-rank disciple challenge immediately began.
Compared to the previous two ranks, the number of people participating in the Earth-rank disciple challenge was much fewer.
After all, there were only two hundred Black-rank disciples.
Those who had just advanced were secretly rejoicing,
Those who had finally managed to keep their Black-rank disciple spots felt lucky and had no intention of challenging anyone at all.
There were also those who felt that they weren’t strong enough to challenge higher-ups.
There were only a dozen or so people who truly had the courage and strength to challenge an Earth-rank disciple.
These people often had to fight for a long time before there was a winner.
By the time the fourteenth challenge ended, the sky was already faintly yellow.
The deacon in charge looked at the sky and raised his voice.
“Anyone else wants to challenge other disciples?”
As he said this, the deacon was already prepared to announce the end of today’s rank challenge.
According to his experience, the challengers should be almost up.
Unexpectedly, a calm voice spoke.
“Me.”
In the next moment, a figure appeared on the high platform as if he emerged from thin air.
The moment the audience saw who it was, they fell silent, and there was an uproar right on the heels of that.
“Lin Shen?”
“He wants to challenge an Earth-rank disciple?”
“Is he crazy? How long has he been a Black-rank disciple?”
The square instantly became noisy. Everyone was shocked by Lin Shen’s sudden action and discussed it animatedly.
It was already very shocking that Lin Shen had defeated Yan Xing in an instant and displayed unimaginable strength, successfully protecting his spot as a Black-rank disciple.
Who would have thought that he wasn’t satisfied and even wanted to challenge an Earth-rank disciple?
Wasn’t he too confident?
After all, Lin Shen had only been in the academy for three months!
For a moment, many disciples looked at Lin Shen in shock and confusion.
Yang Zhongyi and Su Nian were also stunned.
Before the two of them could react, Lin Shen had already ascended the platform.
It was only then that they understood what Lin Shen meant by “congratulate me later”.
It turned out that he was already prepared to challenge an Earth-rank disciple!
“That’s Lin. He scares us to death every time. Incredible!” Yang Zhongyi sighed.
Su Nian was silent for a long time before he finally said something.
was speechless for a long time.
This young man really had unexpected actions every time.
“You’ll get used to it.”
On the other side.
The tutors were also shocked.
They also didn’t expect Lin Shen to do this.
Ke Ya looked at Lin Shen on the stage with a strange expression and was speechless for a long time.
This young man really had unexpected actions every time.
Looking at Lin Shen, who was already on stage for the second time, the deacon was a little surprised. He was stunned for a moment before he hesitated and said,
“Are you sure you want to challenge an Earth-rank disciple?”
“Yes.” Lin Shen nodded slightly.
“So who are you going to challenge?”
Lin Shen smiled faintly and turned to look at the north side of the square.
“Black-rank disciple, Lin Shen, wants to challenge Earth-rank disciple, Yan Dao!”
His clear voice instantly spread throughout the entire square, and the square fell silent.
Zheng Weirong and Bai Xiaotong were dumbfounded. They stood rooted to the ground with their mouths agape.
After a moment, the two of them came back to their senses and turned to look at Yan Dao. They realized that Senior Brother Yan was already gritting his teeth, and his expression was so dark that it seemed like water was about to drip down.