Liu Ning pinched a golden hilt on his waist and pulled out a three-foot-long soft sword.
The sword light flashed and knocked down all the silver needles.
"Ding Ding!"
Zi Qian used a speed-like martial art. Bu Ruoqingfeng kept changing directions, punching out silver needles, turning them into waves of needle rain.
Liu Ning frowned and wanted to attack Zi Qian, but was forced back by Yi Shi Yu. She could only keep swinging her sword to defend, causing the true energy in her body to be consumed rapidly.
There was a stalemate on the challenge stage.
"Is she... a hedgehog? Why are there so many needles hidden on her body?" Duanju's star spirit looked at Zhang Ruochen and asked with a smile.
"How do I know?" Zhang Ruochen said.
"You don't know?" Duanju Xingling was very surprised.
Zhang Ruochen shook his head gently and continued to stare at the challenge platform. He had already seen Zi Qian's tactics. She knew that she was not Liu Ning's opponent, so she used the silver needle to consume Liu Ning's true energy.
If Liu Ning cannot break Zi Qian's silver needle flying rain, then Liu Ning will definitely lose.
Without Zhang Ruochen's expectations, a quarter of an hour later, Liu Ning's true energy was consumed in large quantities and was attacked by Zi Qian from behind.
When Liu Ning realized it, Zi Qian's sword was already on her neck.
Challenge and win.
"She is so fast in the sword-drawing speed. Without hundreds of thousands of practices, the sword-drawing speed cannot be so fast. Why do I feel like a professionally trained killer?" Duanju Xingling narrowed his eyes, and felt that Zi Qian's way of drawing the sword was somewhat similar to that of the killer at the Underworld Gate.
Although Zi Qian had deliberately hidden herself, she still left traces, allowing Duanju to see some clues.
Zhang Ruochen's heart moved and he smiled and said, "If she were really a killer, wouldn't I have been killed by her long ago?"
"That's right." Duanju Xingling nodded.
Zi Qian's last sword was indeed very stunning, and it was simply invisible. Only the Xuanbang warrior could see the trajectory of her sword, and none of the other warriors could see clearly.
Zi Qian defeated Liu Ning and naturally became the ninth master of the new West Courtyard.
Liu Ning automatically dropped one place and became the tenth place.
Mo Qinglong was squeezed out of the top ten and became the eleventh.
Next, many people went to challenge the top ten warriors. The most people challenged Zi Qian, and everyone thought she was the weakest.
But none of the people who went to challenge her succeeded.
Many people are actually stronger than Zi Qian, but they lose to her in a daze. When they reacted, Zi Qian's sword was already pointed at their necks, making them afraid to move.
A senior sister ranked seventeenth in the West Courtyard, after losing to Zi Qian's sword, walked off the challenge stage in anger: "How could this happen? My strength is obviously stronger than her, how could she lose to her?"
Only the Xuanbang warrior can see Zi Qian’s power:
First of all, her speed is the biggest advantage, and her weird way of drawing swords makes people unable to defend themselves.
Secondly, her eyesight and ears are far superior to ordinary people. She can detect danger in advance, hear the other party's attacks in advance, and then, in the shortest time, make the most correct response strategy.
Third, she has a lot of combat experience, and in this regard, she is much better than other students.
Zhang Ruochen nodded, Zi Qian also had weaknesses, that is, her physique was weaker than those top geniuses.
In the past three months, she has refined five drops of half-saint true liquid to make up for this shortcoming. Her strength has also improved by leaps and bounds.
Under the gaze of everyone, Zi Qian walked towards the challenge platform and stood to Zhang Ruochen's right. The scholars Duanju Xingling and Zhang Ruochen looked like, hugged their hands in front of their chests and said, "Don't you go to challenge?"
"The time is almost done!"
Zhang Ruochen walked towards the challenge platform, stood on the stage, and said, "I want to challenge the seventh place."
The seventh-ranked student in the West Academy is named Sikong Shu.
He was an old student from the West Courtyard eight years ago. His martial arts cultivation reached the peak of the Xuanji Realm’s Great Perfection four years ago. It was also because he wanted to enter the intermediate ruins, so he never broke through the realm.
With Zhang Ruochen's current cultivation level, even if he challenges Ju Hailan, who ranks fifth, he will have a great confidence in winning.
However, Zhang Ruochen didn't want to be so high-profile. He just needed to be qualified to enter the intermediate ruins. There was no need to push himself to the forefront.
Challenging the seventh place is considered relatively conservative.
Although he wanted to be low-key, challenging Sikong Tech as a freshman still caused a lot of sensation. Many people rushed over and wanted to watch this battle.
"Do you think Zhang Ruochen is likely to succeed in the challenge?" said a senior student in the top 50.
Another student who reached the Great Perfection of Xuanji Realm said: "If Zi Qian had taken action, I might not believe it. But even Zi Qian could defeat Liu Ning, who was ranked eighth, and Zhang Ruochen's strength was above Zi Qian, so he might not have no chance to defeat Sikong Shu."
"Yes! The newborns are very talented, and their strength cannot be measured by simple martial arts cultivation."
"The freshmen this year are so strong. They defeated the top ten masters in the academy just three months after entering the school. How can we be in love with the old people who have been in the academy for a few years?"
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There were more and more students in the challenge stage, and even the deputy directors and the heads of the West College of the three major colleges rushed over, standing not far away, looking at the direction of the challenge stage. Obviously, they were also looking forward to this battle.
The better Zhang Ruochen performed, the better it was for Wushi Academy.
Genius is the most important resource for any force.
Sikong Shu has a tiger-back and a bear-back waist, a body like an iron tower, and has strong muscles all over his body. Although he is only twenty-five years old, his face is covered with beards, like a big man with green beard.
He held a black iron rod in his hand and climbed the stairs and stood ten steps away from Zhang Ruochen.
"boom!"
He put the iron rod towards the ground, and the ground immediately made a loud noise, trembling violently.
Sikong Shu smiled and said, "Zhang Ruochen, I know that you have strong cultivation and high talent. You helped the West Academy win the first place in the fourth Academy. Senior brother, I admire you. However, you are also arrogant and dare to challenge me. How confident do you think you can win?"
"Tenths." Zhang Ruochen said.
"Tenths? Do you look down on your senior brother too much?" Sikong Shu was a little unhappy.
Zhang Ruochen said unapologetically: "For a warrior, since he has chosen to challenge his opponent, he must have the confidence to win. If he doesn't even have the confidence to win, then he will lose half of his loss before he even fights."
"Well said it well. If you don't challenge, you must have the belief of winning once you challenge."
Sikong Shu smiled mysteriously and said, "But you chose the wrong person today, and you are destined to be defeated by your senior brother. Come on! Let your senior brother see how strong the first genius in our West Courtyard is?"
Zhang Ruochen felt a powerful fluctuation of power in Sikong Shu, so he did not dare to underestimate the enemy and was more cautious.
If you can enter the top ten in the West Courtyard, each of you has real skills. If you are not careful, you may lose on the challenge stage.
Pinch the Soul Flashing Sword and inject the Yujing true energy into the sword. All fourteen inscriptions in the sword are activated.
Four "force" are inscriptions, four "ice" are inscriptions, four "electricity" are inscriptions, and two "light" are inscriptions.
This is the first time that Zhang Ruochen has activated all the inscriptions of the Soul Flashing Sword and reached the strongest state.
The originally 53 kilograms of Soul Sword reached a weight of 453 kilograms under the blessing of the four power-type inscriptions.
At the same time, cold air, sword light, and electric current shuttled through the sword body, and sword energy flowed around Zhang Ruochen's body, as if it was completely integrated with him.
"Is this the sword going to the higher level with your heart?"
Sikong Shu knew that Zhang Ruochen had reached the advanced level of swords walking with his heart, and his face became serious, and he injected his true energy into the tungsten star cold iron rod in his hand.
The Tungsten Star Cold Iron Stick is a fifth-level real martial arts treasure, and the grade is one level higher than the Soul Sword in Zhang Ruochen's hand.
There are twenty-one inscriptions engraved in the stick, of which fifteen are "force"-based inscriptions and six are "ice"-based inscriptions.
The more pure the inscriptions of the Zhenwu treasure weapon are, the stronger the power.
The Tungsten Star Cold Iron Stick has only two inscriptions engraved, which can be regarded as very pure. Therefore, it is also a top-level warrior among the fifth-level real martial arts treasures.
Activate the twenty-one inscriptions, and the weight of the Tungsten Star Cold Iron Rod reaches 1,608 kilograms, which is extremely heavy. It is placed on the ground, as if it can fracturing the ground.
Sikong Shu waved the Tungsten Star Cold Iron Stick with one hand, and a biting cold air emanated from the stick. On the challenge platform, snowflakes appeared, and a layer of white frost condensed on the ground, and the temperature in the entire air was dropping rapidly.
It seems a random stick, but it contains exquisite martial arts skills.
"Oh no, Sikong Technique actually hides its strength." Duanju Star Spirit began to worry about Zhang Ruochen and said, "The strength shown by Sikong Technique is no longer weaker than Ju Hailan, who ranks fifth, and may even be stronger than Ju Hailan."
The head of the West Courtyard also shrank slightly, showing a smile, and said, "I didn't expect that Sikong Shu would actually practice "Tai A Han Bing Gong" to the eighth level. With his strength, he can already compete with the warriors who rank at the bottom on "Xuan Ban".
The deputy director of the South Courtyard smiled and said, "Congratulations to the head of the West Courtyard, there is another student of the Xuanbang Warrior level."
"Oh! It's a pity that Zhang Ruochen, if Sikong Technique had not broken through to the eighth level of "Tai Ahan Bing Gong", he would still have a chance to win. As for now, he would have no chance at all." The deputy director of the East Court said regretfully.
It seemed that he was regretting, but in fact he was sneering in his heart.
It is because of Zhang Ruochen that the East Court is ranked third this year, so the deputy head of the East Court naturally hates Zhang Ruochen very much. Seeing that Zhang Ruochen was about to fail to challenge, he couldn't help but say a sarcastic word.
The head of the West Courtyard smiled faintly and said, "It doesn't matter if the challenge fails. He still has a chance to challenge anyway."