Chapter Thirty-Four: A Clash of Strengths

  "Roar!" The Tiger King saw that all his subordinates around him had been killed, felt the situation was unfavorable, and with a hard struggle resisted Dragon Tyrant's knife chop, wounded and fled.

  "Don't chase anymore!" Long Ba, the kid with the big knife, stopped the other team members from chasing after them. If they continued to chase, who knows what kind of powerful magical beast they would encounter.

  "Thank you!" Long Bao walked over and said to the Desert Eagle Squad.

  "No need to thank us, you can handle it even without our help!" Long Ge said with a smile.

  "Really? Well, thanks anyway!" Long Bao said, "Are you going to join our team?"

  "Are we invited?" Long Ge asked with a smile.

  "Yes, you see me, I've already received several people, now it's a team of ten." Long Ba said.

  "What's the benefit of having a small team with you?" Long Song asked.

  "Of course there are benefits. With us together, we can fight against stronger monsters, gain more experience and won't be in danger!" Long Ba explained.

  "Our four-man team is no exception." Long Ge declined tactfully.

  "I know that the four of you are very powerful, isn't it good for us to join forces?" Long Ba continued to encourage.

  "Sometimes it's too strong and loses its challenge!" Long Ge said with a smile.

  "Then can I have a fight with you?" Long Ba thought of changing his way to persuade Long Ge, sometimes strength is the best persuasion.

  "Haha!" Long Ge laughed loudly, "As the captain of the Desert Eagle Squad, I accept your challenge!"

  "Haha!" Long Ba laughed and said, "I! Captain of the Cheetah Squad, Long Ba. I'd love to have a battle with you!"

  "Hong!" Long Bao drew out his weapon, a golden-tiered large blade, and then an orange-red battle aura wrapped around the blade!

  "Ding!" Long Ge also took out his weapon, a golden-grade bow (there really weren't any other golden-grade weapons, or else he wouldn't have used one to fight!). Orange-yellow battle aura wrapped around the bow.

  One is holding a large knife with fire attribute Dou Qi.

  One has a bow and earth attribute Dou Qi.

  "No matter if the fight is fair or not, I will win!" Long Ba thought to himself, then charged towards Long Ge, while his teammates cheered him on from the side.

  "Captain Long Bao! Come on!"

  "He's good at close combat, I need to keep a distance from him!" Long Ge thought, while retreating and shooting arrows!

  Long Ba dodged one by one the flying arrows and looked for an opportunity to get close to Long Ge, but Long Ge didn't give Long Ba a chance, shooting arrows continuously and keeping his distance!

  "It won't work this way, if I don't defeat him, how can I absorb them into my team!" Long Ba thought, his pursuit speed getting faster and faster, but every time he had to dodge the arrows, so every time he was just a little short of closing in.

  "Hehe! As long as he can't win, that's all that matters. I don't need to reveal my true strength!" Long Ge thought to himself as he continued to fire away.

  "Hiss~~~~~~" Suddenly a hiss came from the Cheetah Squad, "What's the big deal about just running away? The real skill is to launch a direct counterattack!"

  "Haha!" Long Ge laughed and said, but he didn't take it seriously, because he wasn't as easily provoked as a child.

  Long Ba was also very depressed, never having the opportunity to attack Long Ge. Now that his teammate called him like this, he was in high spirits and hoped that Long Ge would not be able to withstand the provocation and engage in close combat with him!

  Actually, Longge can use the Nine Linked Rings' archery to quickly defeat Longba, but there's no need for that. It's just a test of skills, and it's not necessary for others to get hurt. Once they're injured, their team's strength will decrease.

  However, Jin Zi next to them couldn't bear their provocation and rushed over to fight those team members!

  "Halt!" Long Ge shouted, "This is a fight between me and Long Ba, you all shall not intervene!"

  "But Dragon Song, they're insulting you!" Jin Zi shouted.

  "Hehe! The way to make others stop humiliating you is to do better!" Long Ge said with a smile.

  Long Ge stopped in his tracks, laughing.

  "What? Admitting defeat?" Long Ba said with delight, being able to win without a fight was the best thing he could hope for! As he spoke, he also stopped his pursuit.

  "No, I just want to fight you in close combat!" Long Song said.

  "Close combat? You're holding a bow and I'm holding a large sword for close combat?" Long Ba felt surprised!

  "What did Longge say? He actually dares to engage in close combat with our captain?" The other team members nearby exclaimed in surprise.

  "Yes!" Long Ge laughed and said, "Let's begin!"

  "Alright! Granting your wish!" Long Ba said, then charged over with a swing of his orange-red greatsword.

  "Haha!" Long Ge laughed and charged forward with his orange-yellow bow.

  "Boom!" The fire-attributed great sword clashed with the earth-attributed bow. After infusing the fire-attributed battle spirit, Long Ba's Fire Seed Explosion had a massive power! And the earth-attributed array within the bow infused with the earth-attributed battle spirit took effect, completely blocking that overbearing attack.

  A powerful gust of air burst forth from between the two people, sending sand swirling wildly into the air beside them.

  "What? He actually blocked the big knife with just a bow?" The faces of the surrounding leopard team members were full of shock, and at this time their mouths that had been speaking nonsense finally shut up involuntarily.

  "Clang! Clang! Clang!" Although Long Ba was also surprised, his large knife still swiftly chopped towards Long Ge, and each time Long Ge cleverly used his bow to block the knife.

  While blocking the attack, Long Ge's bow always attacked Long Ba's empty space in a very strange way. Long Ba was indeed a master of close combat and blocked every attack!

  As the battle continued, all the team members around looked at each other with mouths agape. Such a brilliant fight, such an intense counterattack, was truly beneficial to them!

  Such fighting lasted for an hour, and Long Ba was the first to withdraw his hand.

  "What? Not fighting anymore?" Long Ge asked.

  "It's no use fighting anymore, neither of us can win!" Long Ba admitted.

  "So we will continue on our own path of tribulation, and you will continue on your own path of tribulation," Long Ge said.

  "Hmm, it's all right then. With a master like you on their team, they're already equipped to handle any danger that comes their way!" Long Ba said with a smile.

  "Hehe, you guys aren't bad either!" Long Ge said.

  "I just want to tell you one thing!" Long Bao said solemnly.

  "Speak!" Long Ge said curtly.

  "Our cheetah squad and your desert eagle squad are not the strongest squads!" Long Ba said.

  "Which is the strongest team?" Long Ge also asked.

  "He's a three-attribute guy, almost reaching the eighth level of Qi Infancy. This was his information when he signed up, and after going through training, I believe he'll become even more formidable!" Long Ba said carefully.

  "What's his name?" Long Ge asked, after all, knowing a master would be helpful for future sparring.

  "It's also our Jinling family's, called Long Di," said Long Ba.

  "It's my brother!" Long Di explained to Long Ge, "It's not that I didn't tell you beforehand, but he's very proud and talented, and doesn't even consider me, his younger brother, in his eyes, so I didn't have the chance to talk to you about it."

  "Haha! Whatever name he's called, he's still our Dragon Brother's younger brother," Jin Zi said with a smile.

  "Haha!" The people around also burst out laughing, although they couldn't beat Long Ti, but they still had the courage to laugh behind his back!

  "Then let's part ways like this!" Long Ge said, "Thank you very much for giving us such precious information, I'll be on the lookout if I run into him!"

  "I hope you don't encounter them, if you do, your team might be annihilated." Long Ba said.

  "Haha!" Long Ge didn't explain, for him, a three-attribute master of the eighth level of Qi Infancy was not worth mentioning. Even if their Qi shape levels were the same, as long as he burst out with all his strength, the Qi shape level would be like delivering food!

  "We're off, going on our own training!" Long Ge shouted to the members of the Desert Eagle Squad before taking the lead and flying away.

  "Cheers!" Long Di also shouted and followed closely behind.

  Jin Yu and Mei Gui also unfolded their bodies and followed them.

  The Desert Eagle squad follows not just one person, but continuous fighting, continuous progress, continuous challenges, continuously exploring their own potential, continuously feeling the wonders of the world, and continuously advancing towards the heavens.

  Maybe they are not at a very high level now, but they have ideals, they have aspirations, they have good leaders - Long Song, and they have indomitable fighting spirit.

  They! Will be the strongest team in the future!

  Long Ba gazed at the back of the Desert Eagle squad, and was also moved by their fighting spirit. Then he said: "We will continue our training, we must become stronger!"

  "Yes! Captain!" The team members shouted, their captain was also their spiritual pillar.

  The remaining four months, the small teams that still lingered in the desert continued to temper themselves and cope with various hardships. Some teams were taken back to the college by teachers on airships after using up two chances of help.

  Generally, after using up two chances of help, all freshmen in the college have reached the level of Qiying, that is to say, the Deserted Sea is a bridge for freshmen to upgrade to the level above Qiying. In these days of the Deserted Sea, whether they successfully passed six months or were eliminated within two months, they all tempered their character and ground away the pampered air of being rich family children, which provided great help for future college management.

  The college got a batch of new students who were tempered and mature in character, while the new students gained improved grades and strength, most importantly, they gained combat experience and understanding of the importance of teamwork.

  The college did a survey: among 987 freshmen, there were originally 200 small teams, and in the end merged into 100 small teams!

  There are ten teams that have survived the six-month training with their own strength or a one-time help from the old birth, and five of these teams did not use any help at all. These five small teams are:

  Longti-led Dragon King Squad

  Dragon Song leads - Desert Eagle Squad

  Dragon Overlord-led - Cheetah Squad

  Dragon-led - Wolf Butcher Squad

  Dragon Young leads - Tiger Slaying Squad

  The captains of these five teams all have the surname Long, so when the teachers at the academies saw this list, they sighed in admiration at the greatness of the Jinling family. However, what they didn't know was that Long Ge wasn't actually from the Jinling family!

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