After Dean Tao announced the beginning of the graduation examination of Beilu Academy, he accompanied Zheng Zhicheng to leave the martial arts training ground, and the senior officials of the academy also followed.
More than 200 students from the Upper House suddenly dispersed, leaving in small groups to prepare individually.
The students who passed the strength appraisal were extremely excited, while those who failed the appraisal were dejected. The things that everyone talked about most passionately were undoubtedly Ma Ruyuan's arrogance and Ye Chen's miraculously passing the appraisal, as well as the heart-warming Cultivation Immortal.
A blood ring refined by a person.
Ye Chen was about to leave the martial arts school when he suddenly felt a pair of fierce eyes looking at him.
"Ma Ruyuan!"
Ye Chen suddenly turned around and looked over, and saw Ma Ruyuan, who was ten feet away and was wearing a warrior robe and had a strong figure.
"Ye Chen!"
Ma Ruyuan glared at Ye Chen resentfully, gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
There are more than 200 students in Beilu Academy. He, Ma Ruyuan, was born the best. He is a disciple of the five wealthy families in the Wu Kingdom and has the highest qualifications for martial arts. It took him eight months to pass the strength appraisal of the Upper Academy and he is expected to become the leader of the entire Beilu Academy.
The academy’s most dazzling sixth-level warrior in the body refining stage this year.
However, this honor was shattered by Ye Chen, a commoner who suddenly appeared. This incident became Ma Ruyuan's biggest shame and laughing stock in Beilu Academy. In the future, other warriors will laugh at him when they talk about today's incident.
The son of a great general is worse than a commoner.
"Wait and see how I deal with you!"
Ma Ruyuan left a harsh word and left with several of his younger brothers.
Ye Chen watched them leave with cold eyes, feeling disdainful in his heart.
When it comes to cultivation, he is the same as Ma Ruyuan. When it comes to martial arts, Ma Ruyuan is not as good as him at all.
It only took him two months to learn the third move of "Tiger Leap Sword Technique", "Tiger Leap Double Slash". In an instant, the force could explode to 1,200 kilograms, which was enough to defeat Ma Ruyuan's "Eight Gate Golden Lock Sword".
Moreover, he practiced hard in the mountains for three months, practicing his fourth move "Tiger Leap Three Continuous Slashes". On the basis of the second consecutive slash, he added one more sword slash, and the power was even more amazing. However, the success of his current move
The rate is low, there is a 50% chance of being used.
In this Beilu Academy's strength appraisal, Ye Chen did not display the more terrifying "Three consecutive cuts", but chose to hide his strength.
Although Ma Ruyuan's father is a first-class national protector general of the Wu Kingdom, it is not easy to work in Beilu Academy with a strong background. Even if Ma Bai is here in person, he would not dare to act recklessly. Moreover, he will graduate from the academy in another month.
, he went out to travel in search of treasures that could restore the power of ancient paintings. What could Ma Ruyuan do to him?!
Ye Chen is sure that if there is a student in Beilu Academy who has more powerful martial arts moves than him, it is Senior Brother Yan Han. Yan Han could occasionally perform the "Tiger Leap Triple Cut" four months ago.
After a few months, the chance of successfully performing this move should be higher than his.
A wisp of feminine fragrance floated.
Ye Chen suddenly shivered and turned his head to look aside. A girl wearing green clothes appeared silently beside him.
Ye Chen was startled, it was actually Wei Xuanyu.
Wei Xuanyu appeared next to Ye Chen and said with a casual smile, "Junior brother Ye, you have to be careful. Ma Ruyuan didn't dare to do anything to you in Beilu Academy, but it's hard to say after leaving the academy. This
For this hunting, it is best not to go alone to the mountains of the northern foothills, but to find a few accomplices to hunt gray wolves together, and try to avoid Ma Ruyuan."
Ye Chen looked stunned. He had no friendship with Wei Xuanyu. Wei Xuanyu was a descendant of the Wei family, one of the top ten aristocratic families in the Wu Kingdom. Logically speaking, he should be close to the descendants of other wealthy aristocratic families. Why should he be reminded?
"Thank you, Senior Sister Wei!"
Ye Chen still felt warm in his heart.
...
The next day, Ye Chen tied the ancient painting scroll close to his body under his clothes. This ancient painting scroll from the Immortal Mansion was indeed magical. He had tried it carefully before, and it could not even leave a mark when hit with a knife or a gun. If he tied it close to his body under his clothes, it would still work.
Use it as a top quality soft inner armor.
Ye Chen prepared a bag of dry food for the road, took a steel knife, and left the gate of Beilu Academy, preparing to enter the Beilu Mountains.
"The graduation assessment of Beilu Academy is one month long. You must kill an adult gray wolf and bring back the head as evidence... But killing the gray wolf is a bit troublesome!"
Ye Chen felt a little worried.
He had practiced on the outskirts of the Beilu Mountains for three months before, and was familiar with the roads and knew the conditions inside the mountains.
Traces of gray wolves are rarely seen in the hundreds of miles outside the mountains. You have to go deep into the mountains to find their traces. Gray wolves almost never act alone, and there are as few as ten or as many as dozens.
Guys are out.
There are also a very small number of isolated lone wolves, which are easier to deal with, but it is too difficult to find a lone wolf in the deep mountains thousands of miles north.
The rare seventh-grade and above high-grade herbs in the deep mountains of the Beilu Mountains are extremely valuable. However, because of the existence of the gray wolves, few warriors in the middle stage of body refining dare to enter the deep mountains.
The reason why Ye Chen chose to go up the mountain alone was because he couldn't find any familiar accomplices.
It's very helpless to say that since Ye Chen was promoted to the Upper House and got the ancient painting scroll, in order to avoid exposing the ancient paintings he carried with him, he had been avoiding getting too close to other students. As a result, during the graduation examination, others had already joined forces to hunt down Hui Cang.
Wolf, but he had no familiar accomplices, so he could only go up the mountain alone to find a way.
Ye Chen walked out of the gate and saw two young warriors sitting on the stone steps at the gate. One was not carrying a long soldier, and the other was carrying a long bow.
The two people couldn't help but be happy when they saw Ye Chen appearing with a knife.
"Junior brother Ye Chen, you went into the mountain alone and didn't make an appointment with any other accomplices?!"
The two people stood up one after another.
"Senior Brother Wei Zhen, Senior Brother Zou Yi, I am preparing to go up the mountain. Who are you waiting for?!"
Ye Chen looked at them strangely.
Ye Chen recognized them. Wei Zhen and Zou Yi were also common people. They were promoted to the upper academy very early. It took them three or four years to reach the sixth level of the body refining stage and passed the academy's strength appraisal.
There are not many civilian disciples who can pass the appraisal of strength, only a dozen or so, and they have all been trained hard.
Because they were both from civilian backgrounds, they would say hello when they met in the academy on weekdays.
Wei Zhen smiled straightforwardly and said, "The two of us are discussing how to kill the gray wolf. The strength of an adult gray wolf is similar to that of a fourth- and fifth-level warrior in the body refining stage. In fact, it is not too powerful, but the problem is that they
They appear in groups. Even a small group of more than ten gray wolves will chew us up until our bones are left. Originally, we wanted to find more brothers and sisters to go into the mountains with us, but no one was willing to team up with us.
"
"Oh, why is that?"
Ye Chen was surprised.
"I am short in stature, weak in strength, and agile in my steps. I learned the "Spiritual Monkey Body Technique". I focus on body training and supplement it with short-edged daggers. I am suitable for sneak attacks and assassinations. Zou Yi learned the archery "Cloud-Piercing Arrow"
.These two martial arts are not suitable for head-on combat. Someone must be in front to contain the enemy so that we can easily succeed. In this way, if we team up with other brothers, we will only take advantage of other brothers. And graduation
Only the top three in the assessment will be rewarded with high-grade weapons, and the first place will even receive a blood weapon refined by an immortal. It’s so tempting. Who is willing to let us take advantage of it! Isn’t this worrying!”
Wei Zhen smiled bitterly, slipped a dagger glowing with black light from his right sleeve, and played with it a bit.
Zou Yi stood aside with an ox tendon bow on his back, glanced at Ye Chen, and nodded.
"That's it... I practice swordsmanship, and with the help of the terrain, I can fight one or two gray wolves head-on. Let's go up the mountain together to kill a few gray wolves and find small groups of gray wolves, so that we can easily succeed.
But I took a big risk, and the head of the gray wolf that I get first belongs to me. The rest will be divided in turn, one for each person."
Ye Chen pondered for a moment.
"no problem!"
Wei Zhen and Zou Yi looked at each other with great joy.
When Beilu Academy conducts strength appraisals, the content of the appraisal is different based on the martial arts practiced by each student.
Sword skills need to be judged on speed and strength, and they need to cut off copper stakes that can withstand a thousand kilograms of force to prove the power of their sword skills. But Wei Zhen is practicing body skills, and speed and flexibility are judged. Zou Yi's bow skills are judged on speed.
Accurate and long-distance archery targets do not require the strength required to chop copper stakes.
"The two of them are not suitable for frontal killing. But with the gray wolf in check, they can show good strength. Specifically how to hunt the gray wolf, we have to go deep into the mountains of the northern foothills to see the situation and then think of a solution."
Ye Chen thought in his heart.
In any case, three sixth-level warriors in the body refining stage will definitely have a much better chance of winning against a small group of gray wolves. The only question is whether they can become the top three in this graduation assessment and receive high-grade treasure-level weapons rewarded by the academy, or even the third
One gets the Blood Ring Magical Artifact. This is the real difficulty.