Li Yunxian had just managed to get through dealing with those teachers and was finally able to relax when she noticed someone standing up in the front row of the auditorium.
The person’s gaze swept across the entire hall before finally resting on Li Yunxian.
It was Shen Bofeng.
Watching Shen Bofeng stride over aggressively, Li Yunxian looked at him with curious eyes and spoke up directly, “Weren’t you done before me? Why are you only coming out now?”
Shen Bofeng’s original words were immediately blocked by that sudden question.
After a brief flicker of change in his expression, Shen Bofeng replied with a face full of grievance, “When you get eliminated, you can choose to follow your teammate’s perspective or switch to a god’s-eye view to continue watching the match.”
Shen Bofeng’s death caught him completely off guard; it took him a long while to decide to keep watching.
At first, he wanted to see what the person who killed him was doing, but after searching for a long time, he couldn’t find them.
In the end, from the god’s-eye view, he heard Qu Yingzi explain with a bitter smile that after Li Yunxian had ended the match early, she had already logged out.
He was unwilling to accept this and wanted to face Li Yunxian again.
Uninterested in anyone else, Shen Bofeng ended his match immediately and logged off.
***
Lowering his eyes to look at Li Yunxian’s real-world state, Shen Bofeng felt even more aggrieved and bit his teeth, “Why do you look even worse than when you were on the field?”
Li Yunxian held her thermos cup filled with goji berries and looked at Shen Bofeng innocently.
Shen Bofeng snorted coldly, “With your style, it’s no surprise you’ve ended up like this.”
Then he directly asked Li Yunxian, “Which academy are you planning to go to?”
There was no harm in answering this. When the teachers from the Four Great Academies “surrounded” her, Li Yunxian had already made her choice.
“Tiantong,” Li Yunxian replied.
The Four Great Academies were no different to her, but she had a slightly better overall impression of Tiantong.
Duan Qiu had helped her twice, so Li Yunxian didn’t want to completely ignore Duan Qiu’s enthusiastic invitation.
Shen Bofeng’s eyes lit up, and he said without hesitation, “Good, then I’ll go there too!”
Hearing this, the Jifa teacher couldn’t sit still and hurriedly said, “Xiaofeng, don’t forget what your grandfather said!”
And Li Yunxian was one thing.
From the look of her, it was clear she was a sword-wielding martial cultivator, so it was perfectly normal for her to choose Tiantong or Pingnan. It indeed suited martial cultivators better.
But Shen Bofeng was a magic cultivator!
Just by their Jifa name, you could tell that they were the real home of magic cultivators!!
Ridiculous!
Shen Bofeng looked at the Jifa teacher with an expression full of gratitude for his concern, “Don’t worry, I’ll tell my grandfather!”
Li Yunxian:
She felt the Jifa teacher’s words were not so much a reminder to Shen Bofeng as something else.
Shen Bofeng didn’t notice Li Yunxian’s silent ridicule and maintained his arrogant posture, telling her plainly, “Once your cultivation level catches up to mine, we’ll have another fight.”
Li Yunxian chuckled at this.
With her experience, she saw all the students present as little kids. So Shen Bofeng’s arrogant attitude didn’t make her feel annoyed, but rather quite amused.
Especially since his words clearly implied he took it for granted that her cultivation would eventually catch up to his.
Li Yunxian smiled, “Alright, I’ll wait until your skills improve, then we’ll have a match.”
Shen Bofeng’s casting speed was fast, his power great, and his strength high—no doubt he was formidable.
But his overall physical condition was really lacking.
That Qi stage six martial cultivator from Pingling Province had taken one of her sword strikes head-on with no effect and had gone on to coordinate with teammates to chase her with weapons.
But after Shen Bofeng took one sword strike from her, his hand was trembling right there, revealing his weakness to Li Yunxian.
He couldn’t even maintain the appearance of being unscathed—it was pathetic.
Later, Li Yunxian was able to avoid the most deadly parts of his wind blade attacks, but Shen Bofeng could do nothing besides blocking, which was even more frustrating to watch.
His close-quarters combat skills were really poor.
In the literal sense, he was somewhat ‘undercooked.’
This blunt truth instantly made Shen Bofeng scowl, looking like he was about to stomp his foot in anger.
He was definitely a step behind Li Yunxian.
But ordinary martial cultivators didn’t have attacks as fierce as hers!
Ying Qian was also a martial cultivator, yet he was completely unable to break through Shen Bofeng’s magic suppression.
However, explaining this to Li Yunxian was pointless.
Humiliation could only be overturned by victory!
“Just you wait!” Shen Bofeng sneered coldly and tossed out this threat before turning to leave.
“Wait.” Li Yunxian called out to the departing Shen Bofeng, “You said you kept watching the match? What happened afterward? Can you tell me?”
Shen Bofeng looked at Li Yunxian in disbelief.
Weren’t they supposed to be ‘enemies’ now? Who asks an ‘enemy’ that kind of question?!
He thought Li Yunxian was a little crazy.
But Shen Bofeng still answered.
He twisted his mouth into a mocking smile and said, “After the most threatening ones were taken out, your alliance naturally fell apart and started fighting among themselves.”
He glanced at the name on the back of Li Yunxian’s chair and continued, “Your Yuehai team only had 22 people. I guess there weren’t many left after a short while.”
Li Yunxian sighed after hearing this, “Yeah, it would’ve been better if you from Shoudu Province had lasted a little longer.”
Shen Bofeng:
Speechless!!!
On the podium, the leaders and teachers who could clearly hear the conversation below exchanged looks:
Aside from the attitude he put on, Shen Bofeng was truly outclassed by Li Yunxian both on and off the field.
“Test Director… I think maybe we really need to pay more attention to the importance of cultural scores,” one leader said.
The trial had lasted more than ten hours, and in the end, the last survivors were from Victory Hua Province—only three remained.
When the Qingteng Ranking was finalized, Qu Yingzi did not manage to surpass Li Yunxian to claim first place, as Li Yunxian had predicted.
After Li Yunxian, Shen Bofeng, and Ying Qian all withdrew, Qu Yingzi became the prime target for the remaining contestants.
She survived for about two more hours before being eliminated as well.
—Aside from Li Yunxian and Shen Bofeng, the skill gap among the top-tier candidates was not that large.
Final rankings:
- Li Yunxian, Jincheng, 152
- Qu Yingzi, Xia City, 67
- Shen Bofeng, Capital City, 59
- Ying Qian, Capital City, 31
Li Yunxian glanced at the top hundred list displayed on the screen and recognized several names.
Jiang Yuan from Yuehai was ranked 91st.
Lin Xiufeng and Yu Qiyao from Qingdao were also on the list, placed 27th and 76th respectively.
Ying Shi and Ying Hu from Pingling Province were both in the fifties, along with several other names she had encountered before when she took their heads in battle.
But it seemed they were all ‘enemies.’
Li Yunxian smiled as she watched these people peeking around the auditorium after the match, seemingly searching for someone.
Finally, when their gazes settled on her, Li Yunxian put on a pure and gentle expression and waved at them.
The students in the auditorium:
Who is this?
This frail and innocent-looking porcelain doll—who could she be?
How come she has the face of that arrogant Heavenly Blade, Li Yunxian?!