Chapter 158: Designated Candidate

  Designated player

  Zhou Yuan's gaze was fixed on Ren Bu Xie, who was also looking at him.

  "This person is also very powerful, although not as good as Lijing, but it's not much worse. In the Xianyao realm, he can be considered a mid-level expert. I want to defeat him, and it will be a bit difficult, but I just grasped the will of the war god, my soul has been sublimated, and my strength has improved again. Plus the state of no thoughts and no distractions that I previously grasped, defeating him is not impossible." Zhou Yuan secretly calculated in his heart, comparing himself with Ren Bu Xie, to see what the chances of winning would be.

  Finally, Zhou Yuan concluded that he had a 60% chance of winning.

  Ren Bu Xie nodded at Zhou Yuan, then lowered his head, eyes looking at his nose, nose looking at his mouth, mouth looking at his heart, as if he had fallen into deep thought.

  "Liu Yuanzhu, I have an idea. Tomorrow, our two colleges will exchange, each limited to twenty people, and we'll go to Youlan in a continuous knockout style. One by one, the loser will be eliminated until only one person remains on the stage, and that person will be the ultimate winner." said Yuan Ji.

  Liu Taibai suppressed his anger and coldly snorted, "Fine, let's do it your way. However, this matter doesn't have a good outcome. We'll each take out a top-grade artifact, how about that?"

  Yuan Ji's eyes widened in anger, "Are you saying that if I'm afraid of you, then it can't be a top-grade artifact? My Law King Academy still has a few of those."

  As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Ji's hand flashed with a brilliant light, and a cyan-colored light shield appeared in his palm, slowly rotating, its brilliance flowing and changing, looking extremely beautiful.

  "This is the Azure Flame Crystal Cover, a treasure I found in one of my ancient footprints. It's an authentic top-grade artifact, surely Elder Taibai recognizes it?"

  Liu Taibai smiled and said, "Your innate magical instrument, I naturally recognize it. I really didn't expect that you would be willing to take out your own heavenly-grade magical instrument as a gift."

  Generally, a Taoist priest, even if he is betting on a fight, will use an unrefined magical instrument as a stake, and would never use his own life-bound magical instrument as a bargaining chip. This is because one's life-bound magical instrument has undergone long-term refinement and has become inseparable from oneself, like one's own hands, and would never be given away.

  Yuan Ji took out his own life-bound artifact as a stake, and it was indeed astonishing.

  Yuan Ji smiled and said, "Not bad, this heavenly-grade artifact is indeed my life-bound artifact. I'll take it out, and there's nothing wrong with that. Let's just consider it a gift from me to you, my disciple."

  Ren Bu's destruction stood beside him and said to Yuan Ji, "Thank you, Master, for your kindness."

  Liu Taibai smiled and said, "Brother Yuanji, you and your disciples are really amusing. It seems like you've already become the ultimate winners. Are you so sure that your disciple Ren Buming will achieve the final victory?"

  Yuan Ji said, "That's natural, of course. Our Fahua Academy only brought one Unextinguished Realm cultivator this time. However, I believe that even if you mobilize Chen Qishan and Wang Daocun, the two disciples, it would still be impossible to defeat the Unextinguished."

  Liu Taibai smiled and said, "Oh, then I'll take a look. Ren Buming, just how strong are you? Tomorrow, I will naturally select twenty disciples to come and fight against you. Don't say that I'm bullying you, I will only use one Carefree Boundary stage cultivator."

  Yuan Ji clapped his hands and said, "Brother Taibai is indeed a straightforward person, but I don't know if you will let Chen Qishan or Wang Daocun win?"

  "This is the secret of my true martial arts. It's still not convenient for me to let you know."

  Yuan Ji then talked with Liu Taibai and others for a long time, during which Liu Taibai even took out a heavenly-grade artifact, the Tian Gong's Hammer, as the prize for this exchange of magical techniques.

  The next morning, the main martial arts arena of Zhenwu Academy was extremely lively. The usual crowd of cultivators had already packed the place, and today there were even more, almost a sea of black-robed practitioners, making it difficult to move around.

  Obviously, Zhenwu and Fawang had a magical exchange between colleges that has been completely passed down.

  Many students were excitedly talking to each other, although they didn't participate in this competition, but being able to witness the highest-level magic duel between two colleges was indeed an exhilarating experience.

  "This time, the Fahwang Academy actually brought 20 masters over for an exchange, this has never happened before. I remember in the past, there were at most only ten people participating in the trial, how come there are so many this time?"

  "Yes, and there is also a Dharma Master from the Carefree Realm, and I heard that he is also a direct disciple of Yuan Ji, the head of the Fa Wang Academy, who has inherited his mantle and has unfathomable abilities."

  "I just don't know how he compares to Chen Qishan and Wang Daocun from our college in terms of strength."

  "No need to rush, this time's trial will allow us to fully satisfy our curiosity and see their true strength. I think the winner of this round is among these three people."

  "No, it should be two. In the style of our college, if they send out one carefree boundary cultivator, we will also send out one. It should be Chen Qishan, the first student of the first door."

  "Yes, the final winner is either Chen Qishan or Ren Bumie. Moreover, I also heard that the prize for the competition is a pair of top-grade artifacts."

  "What? A Heaven-grade artifact?"

  At that moment, the disciples around them were all shocked. What is the concept of a heavenly-grade artifact? They all knew that one heavenly-grade artifact could dominate the rise and fall of a sect, and it could be the treasure of a large sect. Unexpectedly, just one exchange of techniques allowed both deans to take out a heavenly-grade artifact each, which was really unbelievable.

  "Alright, don't say anymore, look quickly, Master and the others have all arrived!!!"

  At this moment, everyone's eyes were fixed on the entrance of the main arena. Liu Taibai, Long Daoshan and Ying Ling had already arrived, followed by Zhou Yuan and Dong Xuan, the strongest instructor.

  Next came Yuan Ji, the head of Fawang College, leading twenty monks, closely following behind.

  Liu Taibai walked to the center of the main martial arts arena and pressed his hands together, saying to the many disciples.

  "Today's events, I think all of you students and disciples already know about it. Today is the day when our two academies exchange in spellcasting techniques. This time, the scale is much larger than before, with each academy having twenty people competing against each other. The final winner will receive a pair of Heaven-grade magical artifacts."

  Although I had already known the news, hearing it from Liu Taibai's mouth still caused a considerable stir below. After all, the temptation of two top-grade artifacts was too great.

  Liu Taibai raised his hand to calm the crowd and continued, "Alright, now I will select the twenty mages from this academy who will participate in the magic exchange."

  "Chen Qishan, Zhou Yuan, come out!"

  "Yes!"

  "Yes!"

  Chen Qishan and Zhou Yuan exchanged a glance, both of them walked out. These two were the strongest among the top scorers in the academy, Liu Taibai chose them, and everyone was expecting this.

  "Zhou Chaofan, come out!!!"

  "Yes!"

  Zhou Chaofan let out a sound, pushed through the crowd and walked to Zhou Yuan's side. His expression was complex as he looked at Zhou Yuan, his eyes filled with hatred and resentment, but ultimately, all of these emotions were thoroughly concealed.

  At this point, other disciples got up. Zhou Chaofan's name was previously unknown to many people, although he was a Lingkong Xudao boundary monk, but he had been quietly cultivating all along, so not many people knew him.

  "When did Zhou Chao become so great? I hadn't even heard of him before!"

  "Not bad, it seems that I really haven't heard of such a person before. Look at him, he's actually in the realm of Ling Kong Xū Dù (a high level of martial arts). Such an expert, and we've never even heard of him."

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  Liu Taibai didn't care about their differing opinions and continued to speak.

  "You, you, you... come out!!" Liu Taibai then pointed to some of his disciples as participants in the magic exchange, which shocked everyone even more, and even Yuan Ji was shocked to stand up, feeling unbelievable.

  "Taibai brother, you're so casual about it, just designating the magic exchange representative like that. Don't you hold our Law King Academy in higher regard?"