Chapter 135 The Hidden Fourth Candidate for the Rookie King (6,000 Words)

The sky is not bright yet, the streets are crowded with people, and the North Campus of Canghai Pavilion is once again lively.

When Ying Yang, Meng Lina, Ren Wokuang, Li Jingming and others all appeared at the competition venue, at dawn, the top 36 finals of the freshman competition were held as scheduled.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"...

Thirty-six salutes burst into the sky.

Then there were instructors to add to the fun, and the contracted spirits kept spraying fireballs, water guns, wind blades and other skills. The sky just turned white when it was full of colorful colors.

"Please invite the contestants from Groups 1 to 6 to take the stage!"

Under the gorgeous light and shadow, Hu Taotao hung in the air, announcing the official start of the game.

In the first round, 36 advanced to 18.

Although the space is ample, it is more than enough to accommodate 36 people fighting at the same time.

But thinking about it, every game will be more exciting than yesterday's knockout round. In order to give the audience a better experience, the 18 groups of players will be divided into three small rounds one by one.

Then, what caught Ye Hanjun's eyes was Ren Wo Kuang, who was walking with his arms folded.

He walked across the battlefield with a stern pace, his unruly eyes sweeping around at will. No student of the same age dared to look at him, and they were all trying to find ways to resolve the oppressive force that was like no one else.

"Gulu..."

The players standing on the other side of Renwokuang seemed to have a small drum beating in their hearts.

His contracted spirit is the only four clay sculptures among the thirty-six strong ones.

Although he also has good strength, it is more of a matter of luck. He has never encountered a particularly restrained or powerful opponent.

Now... meet Renwo Kuang directly?

Cold sweat slid down his cheeks drop by drop.

I tried my best to rub my palms together and take deep breaths, but I still couldn't control the fear that had developed in my subconscious.

"What a bunch of cowards, one person can scare you like this!"

Diagonally across from Ren Wo Kuang, in another fighting area, there was a lean man in fancy clothes, also standing with his arms folded. While talking, he spat a mouthful of phlegm on the ground.

——Poisonous Tongue·Ying Yang!

He was actually among the 12 people in the first round!

In the audience, the tense atmosphere suddenly collapsed among the students who were holding their breath and concentrating.

Many people looked at Ren Wo Kuang and instinctively felt heart palpitations.

Looking at Ying Yang, they glared at each other, able to unite the front and reject them unanimously.

but……

There was not much scolding, and the atmosphere in the venue was once again stagnant!

Everyone stared with wide eyes, slightly surprised. The contestant standing on the other side of Yingyang, wearing a white warrior uniform, with a slender figure, a gentle face, and clean eyes... turned out to be the contestant who had blossomed yesterday and had already gained a lot of new things. Li Jingming for fans!

"E-class insect catcher vs. D-class poisonous tongue???"

"Damn it, Senior Li is in danger!!"

"36 goes into 18, is it such an exciting matchup from the beginning?"

"What to do, what to do, I don't want to see Xiao Li, who is so pretty and beautiful, being so excited by the power of language that he loses control..."

"Yes, anyone can win, but not Ying Yang. It would be great if I could beat Ying Yang wildly. I would like to see who is better between a madman and a troll..."

Ye Hanjun frowned slightly, then relaxed.

Li Jingming's luck was indeed not very good. He met one of the three strongest people as soon as he came up.

However, meeting Ying Yang is better than meeting Meng Lina and Ren Wo Kuang.

Meng Lina herself is an expert in the spiritual field, and she likes to work hard to create miracles.

Ying Yang, this person has poisonous palms and is characterized by a mean mouth.

But the Grimace Moth has the advantage of flying, and with the help of strong winds, it can crack the overwhelming spore poison powder as much as possible.

This game is not definitely going to be lost.

Just trying to seize the opportunity to win is undoubtedly more difficult than Wang Xinfei versus Xuan Xiaozhu.

"Xiao Li, come on!"

"Senior Li will win! If you lose to anyone, you can't lose to Ying Yang! Come on, come on!!"

The noisy crowd soon turned into a uniform cheer.

Ying Yang was still too unpopular. The students who originally had a wait-and-see attitude towards Li Jingming also hoped that he could persevere and never wanted to see Ying Yang's face after winning.

"Game start!"

"Hoola!!"

In an instant, the storm surged, and fierce battles broke out in six battlefields at the same time.

Among them, Ren Wo Kuang is the fastest and fiercest. He summons muscle zombies. The muscle zombies rush forward, and the muscle zombies punch... the battle is over.

The whole process took about twenty seconds.

Most people glanced at it and were already a little surprised.

Nervous and expectant eyes continued to fall on Li Jingming, looking forward to his performance.

"Shua——"

Li Jingming summoned the Grimace Moth and condensed two extremely short insect threads at the same time. While blocking the ear holes, he hid in the woods without saying a word.

"Hey, little bitches, don't run away. You're so tender-skinned and tender, give me another look!"

Ying Yang's duck-like voice was very rough.

But Li Jingming, who was covering his ears, had disappeared into the shadows and ignored him no matter how he called.

"Sususususu——"

The Grimace Moth flapped its wings and quickly raised its altitude.

It does not use skills such as "Frightening Powder".

This kind of poisonous powder that corrodes the flesh and attacks the spirit, whether it acts on the poisonous tongue or the mushroom bullfrog, may not produce even one-tenth of the effect, so there is no need to try.

The Grimace Moth made a strange movement. A pair of wings merged suddenly. When they opened again, a crescent-shaped translucent weapon, like a thrown hidden weapon, spun and slashed towards Ying Yang's body.

"Huh?" Ye Hanjun raised his eyebrows in slight surprise.

This is "Wind Blade", an elemental skill with about 40-60 lines. It is weak in power and fast in speed. It can strike at medium and long distances.

Before yesterday, Grimace Moth did not understand this skill.

Is it that after the advanced clay sculpture is completed, it is useless to hide it all the time, or is it a small surprise during one night's rest?

Ye Hanjun didn't know it, but the audience was very encouraged.

"It's the Wind Blade! The Grimace Moth has mastered a new long-distance attack spell!"

"Haha! I was worried about losing the fright fans. Li Jingming couldn't hurt Ying Yang just with skills like strong wind and wing attack. I didn't expect that he had a new attack method!"

Some people laughed, some beat drums and shouted. It seemed that Li Jingming's becoming stronger was a great thing for them.

"You are such an ugly moth. You only dare to stay in the sky. If you have the ability, you will fall to the ground. Grandpa will tell you that you can't eat it and carry it around!"

Ying Yang reacted quickly and rolled to avoid it. His sleeve was cut open by the wind blade, leaving a blood mark on his arm. The injury was not serious.

He patted the dust, snorted coldly, looked up at the grimacing moths flying around, and never stopped when he opened his mouth, changing his tricks to ridicule them.

——The "yin and yang" of the poisonous tongue is of course not only aimed at humans.

As long as they are intelligent creatures, they can understand some human languages.

It is possible that it will give up its original offensive rhythm and combat strategy because of the power contained in Ying Yang's words.

Instead, he blindly and impulsively performs the wrong skills.

It's even possible to go straight to Ying Yang and attack him without using a single skill.

Until then, you are just letting yourself be slaughtered and teased.

"Sususususu!"

The grimace moth rises and falls, hovering in the sky in a strange way.

It seemed not to be affected by the sound, and calmly observed the situation on the ground while waiting for the wind blade to cool down.

"What's going on, isn't the Grimace Moth able to understand some human languages? It doesn't seem to be under any verbal stress?"

Some students in the audience raised doubts, and some instructors clicked their tongues and explained in due course:

"This is Dawn's strategy."

"The grimace moth's hearing organ grows on its abdomen and mainly identifies sound sources through a series of vibrations."

"In the process of high-speed flight, the flapping of the wings will inevitably drive strong wind currents. These wind currents can attenuate the sound and attenuate the provocative effect in disguise, so that it will not become angry with just a few words."

"Is this still possible?" The new student was stunned for a moment.

The instructor shook his head and continued:

"This is just a stop-gap measure. Keeping the wing beat frequency too high will require the Grimace Moth to consume several times its physical strength."

"But Ying Yang has never shown any embarrassment in his verbal battles with other heroes before. Considering his 'taunting' that consumes body fluids and mental strength, his battery life is even more amazing."

"It's unreasonable. How can a troll who keeps outputting output win?"

Everyone lamented, and the pessimistic atmosphere became more and more intense.

"Whoosh——"

The second wind blade was shot out, still aimed at Ying Yang.

Ying Yang, who was taunting, was forced to shut up and rolled again.

But this time, his thigh was cut open, and the blood seemed to flow out even more than the first time.

"Mushroom! Plate it!"

"Quack quack quack!"

The mushroom bullfrog lying on the heel responds to its owner's anger.

It took a breath and its whole mouth bulged.

When it was blown out with force, a miniature whirlwind rotated above its head. The colorful spores merged into the wind and turned into a diffuse poisonous cloud that enveloped the sky above its head.

"Huh-huh-"

The Grimace Moth uses "Gust Wind" to shake the branches and leaves of rows of big trees, and the leaves rustle down.

After a stalemate for more than ten seconds, the poisonous cloud failed to spread to the Grimace Moth and overflowed from both sides of it.

"Don't waste time with it, let's go to the jungle to catch that brat!"

Ying Yang, who glanced coldly, rushed into the depths of the woods with the mushroom bullfrog.

Just as he turned around, the Grimace Moth dived in pursuit, and the Mushroom Bullfrog suddenly jumped up and launched a counterattack.

It jumped more than ten meters high, and its colorful tongues shot out like lightning. The Grimace Moth hurriedly dodged, but it still scraped the corner of its wing, leaving a small gap.

"Hey, poor thing! Be careful!"

Ying Yang sneered and jumped into the woods.

The mushroom bullfrog croaked twice and jumped behind, guarding the safety of its owner.

"The battle situation is so anxious..."

"The Grimace Moth has the advantage of flying, but there is still no good way to defeat Ying Yang."

"If you delay it, Li Jingming will suffer a loss no matter what. Is there really a chance for a comeback?"

The buzz never stops.

Ye Hanjun's eyes could no longer penetrate the dense forest and see the battle deeper.

However, there are a large number of "viewing flowers" planted in the venue. These demon spirits are divided into male and female. Once the pairing is successful, they will be a lifelong couple.

At a distance of three to five miles, the male movie-viewing flower can synchronize the scene seen by the female movie-viewing flower and display the picture in the form of projection.

After a few glances, Ye Hanjun saw Ying Yang entering the woods at a shadow-viewing flower.

He was holding a small dagger, and he looked like he was taking a leap of faith, but in fact he was extremely cautious.

From time to time, he would stop and use a dagger to cut through the insect net traps he observed to prevent himself from falling into a passive situation.

"brush--"

A huge energy insect net fell from the sky, and Ying Yang had no time to avoid it.

The mushroom bullfrog bounced upwards, curled its tongue, and actually pierced the insect net, and threw the whole thing into the grass.

"Got you!"

Ying Yang's eyes narrowed, and he began to curse in the loudest voice.

At that time, the mushroom bullfrog shook the mushroom on its head, and the overwhelming rainbow spores turned into a poisonous miasma, floating hazily in a large area around it.

With a muffled groan, Li Jingming covered his mouth and reluctantly jumped to another tree.

It could be faintly seen that his arms were stained with some rainbow spores. These highly toxic substances were seeping deep into his flesh at an alarming speed.

"It's over! The area covered by the poisonous miasma is too big! Li Jingming is poisoned!"

"The Grimace Moth should have good poison resistance and can fight with mushroom bullfrogs several times. However, as an insect catcher, Li Jingming doesn't seem to have similar powers and cannot deal with highly toxic substances!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a sudden change occurred.

The mushroom bullfrog realized that there was a chance to defeat the enemy, and unconsciously jumped forward at a faster speed, slightly putting a certain distance away from its owner.

At this time, the wind was strong, and the Grimace Moth rushed into the Rainbow Miasma, and a wind blade came up.

Ying Yang narrowly avoided it, but before he could stand firm, a cold air poured into Tianling Gai from the soles of his feet, making his hair stand on end all of a sudden.

He turned his head and saw in shock that the two tentacles of the Grimace Moth suddenly came together, and a bright, spike-like energy substance hit his temple straight away, not too fast, but too late to react.

There was a pop, as if his head was pierced by a needle, his vision went black, and his limbs began to twitch uncontrollably.

"call--"

The Grimace Moth grabbed Ying Yang, like an eagle grabbing a rabbit, and glided over its head in the face of the mushroom bullfrog's astonished eyes.

"Bang!"

Ying Yang, whose mind was in chaos and whose limbs were in disorder, was like a puddle of mud thrown in front of Li Jingming.

Li Jingming quickly raised the blade in his right hand and pointed the tip at Ying Yang's neck. His eyes, slightly glowing with colored light, looked coldly at the mushroom bullfrog who paused and did not dare to approach again, and then looked at him again. The distant sky.

"Li Jingming wins!"

Hu Taotao hammered down, and the crisp sound echoed in the venue. Countless people were still confused and unable to recover from the shock.

"this……"

"Did Li Jingming win?"

"How did he win? What did Grimace Moth just do?"

"It seems that Ying Yang was subdued in one fell swoop without giving him any chance to react?"

This time, the assistant professors and tutors were also talking to each other, exploring the possibilities with each other.

"It should be a very powerful skill..."

"Is this to lure the enemy deeper and seize the opportunity to counterattack? What a good boy..."

At the referee's seat, Tong Xuan's eyes shimmered, as if he had some enlightenment:

"It's been a while, I haven't seen you for a while. This guy Li Jingming has grown up amazingly..."

"He was poisoned, that's true."

"Although I won the competition, it was too risky to test the poison myself."

"If this is a fight between two people in the wild, they might end up dying together..."

"咻咻——"

The medical team arrived and immediately supported Li Jingming and purified and detoxified his body.

There were also people on the other side checking Ying Yang's status.

After a therapist sang a song to him, his trembling limbs finally calmed down, and his absent-minded eyes gradually regained their composure.

"You lost."

The eldest sister from the medical team looked at Ying Yang with a regretful look.

Ying Yang was stunned for a moment, his confused mind spinning wildly. He couldn't help but tilt his head and murmured to Li Jingming:

"I...I lost?"

"Um."

The young man's voice was as light as smoke, without joy or pride, as if he was responding to a very simple question.

Then, watching him leave, Ying Yang seemed to be falling into the clouds and mist, and his face was completely filled with astonishment.

"Ying Yang is defeated!"

"The top 36 advanced to the top 18, and Li Jingming actually defeated Ying Yang. He is one of the candidates for the Newcomer King!"

"My dear, does this mean that Li Jingming is the fourth hidden candidate for the Newcomer King? He is a super dark horse! Are all of us mistaken?"

The auditorium, which was the first to recover, exploded with explosions.

Countless people jumped up and looked at the black spots in the distance in disbelief, their piercing eyes unable to help themselves.

this…

How can it be!

Although everyone was looking forward to this scene before it started, subconsciously they all tended to think that this was an unrealistic fantasy and could not happen in the real world.

No matter how much people dislike Ying Yang, he is still the senior who was admitted to the hospital eleven months ago.

That's eleven months. Whether it's honing combat skills or learning various knowledge, there are so many things that can be accumulated.

As for Li Jingming, it took two months and close to three months.

Three months ago he was nothing, just a mortal.

This is just the beginning of his practice, he has just embarked on the road of controlling spirits, and he has achieved such results.

The students who witnessed this scene felt their hearts tremble.

Amidst the excitement and envy, there is also the feeling of witnessing the pride of the academy rising like a star.

"Oops, it's my heartbeat!"

"Why, a person of such age can still be full of love?"

"Pooh!"

An old woman glared at Hong Li and said aggressively:

"I don't believe it. Aren't you moved when you see such a seedling?"

"Of course I'm excited."

Hong Li, who has rosacea, picked his nostrils and said plausibly:

"But I don't know much about insect-type spirits. If you ask me to teach this kid, I might be mistaken for someone else's disciple."

"I understand!" the old woman scolded, "Although I am only an F-level "insect farmer", I have been studying insects all my life. "

"This kid is very popular with me. Come back and help me, and take him down with me!"

"Help? How?"

Hong Li snorted, "Look at the tutor table over there. At least one-third of the tutors are interested."

"You are already buried in the grave. If you don't come out with some treasures, who is such a young and handsome guy? Who will care about you..."

"Old boy, what do you think?"

Zhu Zixin's eyes fell on Tong Xuan and asked directly:

"Did he also participate in the survival trial before? Have you observed it?"

"How about this kid? Is it worth spending all your money and focusing on cultivating him?"

Tong Xuan smiled and said softly:

"This boy is quick-thinking and calm. He is indeed a good prospect."

"I guess it's because after experiencing life-and-death oppression from the Four Ghosts Mercenary Group, I have gained a lot these days."

"Not only did Grimace Moth advance on the spot, he also learned very powerful skills. He is very likely to become one of the top ten in the future."

"If you are interested, I can help you connect."

"As for whether they are willing to find a dedicated master, I don't know. You can expect it, but you can't force it."

"Okay!" Zhu Zixin nodded heavily, "When the game is over, let's go talk to him!"

"Okay." Tong Xuan waved his hand and agreed.

…

Amid the roar of people, Lord Yehan, half of his body wrapped in a cloak, closed his eyes.

He was taking deep breaths, once, twice... in a continuous cycle.

The power experience in the body has expanded to the limit, and dense spider web cracks continue to spread.

As long as he wants to, he can break through this fragile film like paper and be promoted to the second level of coach smoothly.

But Ye Hanjun held back.

When the candles were signed, there was a terrifying vision accompanying it, which was eye-catching and attracted all kinds of wonders from the onlookers.

At this place where tens of thousands of people gather, if he breaks through here, there's no telling what kind of new situation will happen.

Just in case you were marveling at Li Jingming a second ago, you were in high spirits.

Suddenly, a towering stone door split through the clouds and descended straight to the venue.

By coincidence, this stone door was suspended behind Lord Ye Han. Everyone turned their gazes, and no one made a sound, only a pair of widened eyes.

This seems... too high-profile?

When the vision ends, can he still stay in the academy peacefully and do some low-key developmental tasks? It's impossible even if you think about it...

Ye Hanjun tried his best to suppress his restlessness.

In fact, everyone can do this kind of breakthrough, but short-term suppression method.

Except for the discomfort of "swelling", "expansion" and "fullness", there will not be much impact.

But... if you deliberately stay for too long and increase the burden on your body, there will be various disadvantages.

In history, there were some favored masters who strived for excellence and paid a small price for it. Later generations learned this truth by referring to their experiences.

"Please invite groups 7 to 12 to compete on stage!"

Under the guidance of Hu Taotao, 36 advanced to 18, and the second round began.

Meng Lina is among these 12 people.

Her opponent is very strong. Xiong Chulan, the combination of E-class police officer and "Wild Bear Dog", is unanimously recognized as the top ten contestants in this freshman competition.

She might even be in the top five.

With desperate skills such as "Excitement Burning", Wild Bear Dog can gain explosive combat power and can often leapfrog and kill its opponents.

After perfecting the clay sculpture, this advantage is maximized.

In every battle so far, although it was impossible to sweep through as violently as Ren Wo Kuang, Xiong Chulan also worked hard and won consecutive victories like a broken bamboo.

"The wild bear dog is trapped in the dual control of nightmare and hypnosis! There is no way to break free!"

"The winner is Meng Lina! Congratulations!"

"Now, please let groups 13 to 18 take the stage to compete!"

After a game, Xiong Chulan's strength was restrained by Meng Lina.

She was expected to break into the top five list, but like many players, she unfortunately stopped at the top 36 and left the competition as a loser.