Chapter 156: The Dominance of Cross-Level Challenges! (Fifth Update)

Surveying the stone-faced countenances of everyone around him, Fang Qi gave a shrug and spoke up: "Surprised? Shocked?"

"Hahaha! Surprised? Shocked?"

"Old Song! That was absolute brilliance!"

"Usually we give our praise to the boss, but this time it goes to you!"

Inside the internet cafe, the disciples of the Lingyun Academy were frantically flooding the screen with bullet comments.

An Huwei spoke up as he wolfed down his Häagen-Dazs: "Sometimes watching these fellows get startled is actually quite amusing."

Nalan Hongwu stroked his beard: "The kid's sword-controlling technique is only so-so."

Jiang Xiaoyue wept bitter tears: "Why does everyone else know how to do it now!"

Xiao Yulv similarly wept bitter tears: "Boss, I want to learn it too... give me a chance!"

Dong Qingli had originally been watching with quite a lack of interest, but when she saw this scene, she could not help but cry out in surprise: "How did someone learn it so quickly!"

It would have been fine if it were only Fang Qi, but seeing that a player had learned it too, Dong Qingli suddenly felt a deep sense of imbalance in her heart.

"Because while others were practicing the sword-controlling technique, we were still suppressing this little shop," Zhang Wanyu murmured in a low voice, wanting to weep but finding no tears.

One strike! It was actually just one strike!

Huangfu Jing had not even managed to execute a martial technique before his shoulder was pierced straight through by a single sword! The long sword flew from his hand!

But how did this strike come to be?!

How could a sword fly out on its own?!

To think such a miraculous sword technique actually existed?!

Was this person a cultivator or a warrior?!

Question after question circled in the minds of the vast majority of people.

Only a tiny fraction of the crowd caught a faint glimpse of the truth.

"Old Xu!" On the master seats, the elderly man surnamed Yu said in fury, "You didn't use a cultivator disguised among the disciples to participate in the national examinations, did you?!"

Song Qingfeng only felt a blur before his eyes as Vice Palace Master Xu unexpectedly landed right in front of him: "Kid, extend your hand!"

Using a cultivator disguised among warriors was a blame he absolutely could not bear, for a cultivator at the same realm possessed an overwhelming advantage over a warrior in the early stages!

Yet just now, he had clearly felt that when this youth used that sword-controlling technique, there was only the aura of martial qi!

To be absolutely safe, he inspected once more.

Only then did he laugh heartily: "Old Yu, Old Ghost Jiang, this kid clearly has only martial qi on his body, so where would spiritual power come from?! If you don't believe it, try it yourselves?!"

"Only martial qi, no spiritual power?!" The two elderly men immediately leaped, landing before Song Qingfeng in the blink of an eye.

After a round of inspection, they indeed discovered that there was only martial qi and no spiritual power.

"If there are no issues, please step up, and the national examinations shall proceed!" Right at this moment, the Emperor spoke.

"..." Seeing that they could detect no problems, Vice Palace Master Yu and Vice Palace Master Jiang could only return to their seats with darkened faces.

Watching the situation of his own Lingyun Academy take a turn for the better, Vice Palace Master Xu could not help but laugh heartily: "The two vice palace masters are right, I must thank you both for your reminder, I didn't expect a turn for the better to truly occur!"

The faces of the two palace masters turned as black as charcoal in an instant!

"That sword technique just now..." At this moment, the Emperor sat high upon the platform, his brows tightly furrowed, for with his cultivation, he could naturally see a bit of the truth, "It seems to operate by controlling the martial qi that has left the body...? I wonder who created it, it truly is peculiar enough..."

In truth, Song Qingfeng had only thrust with the sword just now, which could not yet fully display the profound mysteries of the sword-controlling technique, so while he was surprised by the peculiarity of this sword technique at this time, he was not yet shocked to that extent.

"Could it be a newly developed martial technique of the Song Family? Ah well, once the martial examination concludes, I shall ask..." Though he was somewhat curious, it was naturally unseemly to keep questioning a student relentlessly under the watchful eyes of the crowd.

Once the national examinations were over, everything would become clear!

At this time, the Grand Princess and the Second Prince sitting beside Fang Qi, as well as the elderly man next to Mu Donglai, were all beginning to understand what Fang Qi meant by "high energy ahead" earlier!

This motherfucker truly was high energy enough!

The sixth rank of the Lingyun List had actually thrashed the top rank of the Shengjing Academy, and had even used such a peculiar sword technique!

He had been suspected of being a cultivator just moments ago, yet in the end, he did not possess a single shred of spiritual power!

"Boss... Fang?!" The Second Prince over there could not help but fall into a bout of confusion, for how did this kid seem to know everything in advance?

The Grand Princess also cast a suspicious glance at Fang Qi: "Could it be... this matter is related to him?"

Not just the two of them, but the other people around them also fell more or less into deep thought as they looked at Fang Qi.

And at this time, at the Shengjing Academy.

"Why is it the sword-controlling technique again?" Xiao Lengyu gripped her spear, sitting in her seat with some incomprehension.

Yesterday outside the imperial capital, the scene of that youth using the sword-controlling technique to leave them so far behind that they could not even taste his dust was still vivid in her mind.

Now, she was actually witnessing the sword-controlling technique for the second time!

"What is there to panic about?" A young man dressed in golden attire stepped forward, "It is merely the Huang Academy that is a bit outstanding, the other three academies are completely not worth mentioning!"

"We only need to take the points of the three academies, a mere tiny Huang Academy cannot affect anything!"

"Senior Brother Ji is right!"

...

Over at the Lingyun Academy.

The disciples brought out by Qin Bing had by this time turned from shocked to terrified!

A disciple who had only entered the academy not long ago, a fellow who had previously been deemed an inferior disciple, had actually instantly defeated Huangfu Jing with a single sword?!

"We still have challenges remaining, we will win back the points in a moment!" Qin Jiang's face was dark, for though Ji Yang was strong enough, he could not repeatedly challenge after all, and Qin Jiang would not turn into a point-farming machine.

After another period of time, people like Ji Yang, Huangfu Jing, and Qin Jiang finally exhausted their challenge opportunities and entered the point-defending stage.

"If this continues, it looks like the Lingyun Academy is still in a rather bad spot..." The Grand Princess beside him shook her head, "The Xiyi Academy and Shengjing Academy are clearly growing their points steadily, and though the Lingyun Academy is also growing, its strength lies right there, so it simply cannot catch up."

"Under normal circumstances, that is indeed the case," Fang Qi smiled, "But who knows if those with high points are piglets, and once they are fattened up, they will be slaughtered with a single blade, which is quite delightful."

"Piglets?" Hearing this, the Grand Princess immediately sneered, "Shengjing Academy's Xiao Lengyu and Ji Yang have both exceeded our academy by a whole rank, what will you use to slaughter them?"

Only, before her voice could even fall, she heard a voice ring out.

"Lingyun Academy, Huang List Top Rank Nalan Mingxue, challenges Shengjing Academy, Xuan List Top Rank Xiao Lengyu!"

The Grand Princess's face twitched: "What?!"

Fang Qi covered his forehead: "Let us mourn for three seconds for the passerby girl! Why are you so fat?"

Inside the internet cafe at this moment, the place erupted on the spot!

"Hahaha! Passerby girl, you are too fat! It would be doing you an injustice not to slaughter you!"

"66666!"

"Challenging the top rank across an academy grade! Domineering!"

"Brilliant! In this internet cafe, aside from the boss, you count as the second most brilliant!"

Fang Qi: "This wave gets a wild call!"

Grand Princess: "!!??"

Everyone in the national examination hall: "!!??"

Stunned once more!

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