Chapter Thirty-Five: A Narrow Victory? Heh
As night gradually fell, time slipped away amidst the anxiety. Just as everyone thought they would fight to a standstill.
“Is all you can do is use force against force? Mighty Fist!” Luko’s right arm suddenly bulged with muscles, resembling gnarled old tree roots. Panting heavily, he struck fiercely towards Su Jiu’s face.
“A minor success in Mighty Fist combined with the Divine Ape Bloodline, this punch must carry a force of four thousand jin. Su Jiu…”
Lu Nan watched from about ten meters away, realizing there was no time to rescue Su Jiu. Only two words remained in his heart: “It’s over.”
“Doesn’t this already feel like the strength of an Intermediate Stage Warrior?”
“Su Jiu is strong, but Luko is terrifyingly strong.”
The surrounding students also lamented silently. Although they had already acknowledged Su Jiu’s strength, this seemed like a lost cause.
Facing the lack of confidence from all around, Su Jiu smiled indifferently. Four thousand jin? She could achieve that standard without even transforming.
Is that all? It’s hard to even put on a show with this.
“Go down for me!”
Accompanied by Luko’s roar, a “bang!” with a duller, heavier sound than before spread out – the sound of their clash.
“Sizz! Sizz! Sizz!”
Amidst the earth-shattering noise, a massive wave of steam gushed out like ten thousand galloping horses, accompanied by a booming roar, surging out like a tide from the center point where the two clashed!
At this moment, the surroundings began to shake violently. Leaves on nearby trees were shaken loose, and cracks as thick as an arm spread out from the school’s already unimpressive floor.
Those watching from the teaching building immediately cursed, thinking that the third-year students were getting away with everything since the first-year students didn’t have to clean up.
However, the heat generated by the ice and fire clash wouldn’t stop because of their curses; the hot air continuously spread outwards.
Seeing that this scorching air was about to affect the surrounding students, Mr. Huang, with a faint smile, waved his hand. A white protective barrier spread out from his palm, blocking the surroundings and preventing the high-temperature steam from encroaching.
“Is this really a third-year student like us?”
“So strong…”
Under Mr. Huang’s protection, countless students trembled, their lips quivering as they gazed at the scorching steam sweeping towards them and striking the white shield, their eyes filled with horror.
“Big Sister… she can actually clash with Luko who has a strength bloodline? Am I dreaming?”
Su Xiao Yu muttered to herself, feeling that her “trash” Big Sister had suddenly become distant, leaving her as the same unlucky child.
Regardless of the outcome of this battle, Su Jiu’s reputation as a good-for-nothing would likely be completely washed away. Cute and powerful would be her new descriptors.
The most astonished was Su Jiu’s homeroom teacher – Mr. Lu Nan. He stared blankly at the petite figure confronting the giant body amidst the dust.
She hid this deeply?
…
At the scene, Luko felt as if her usually invincible Mighty Fist had failed. Her arm felt like it had struck concrete, and she couldn’t pull it out.
“Su Jiu must have been injured a little too, right?”
She consoled herself and looked down at Su Jiu, only to find that Su Jiu’s pair of pale blue vertical pupils were also looking at her, and a slight smile played on her lips.
“Bad!”
Luko’s pupils contracted slightly. She tried to break free and create distance, but unexpectedly, with a “bang,” she felt a heavy blow to her chest.
Before she could react, another wave of searing pain hit her. She looked at the source of the pain and saw a fair arm, like a lotus root segment, carrying a gust of fist wind, strike her abdomen again.
Her vision gradually began to blur…
“Hey, hey… you’re going to sleep at this age? Wake up…”
Su Jiu looked at Luko, whose eyes were slowly closing. Her mouth twitched slightly, and she quickly shook Luko’s shoulder, trying to wake her.
Oh dear, how am I supposed to fight to a draw now?
An idea flashed through her mind, and Su Jiu quickly grabbed Luko’s fist, which was the size of a basketball, and pressed it against herself. She then feigned being blown away, landing in a disheveled state a few meters away.
To the outside world, students and teachers with lower cultivation levels could only see Su Jiu being grabbed by the shoulders and shaken violently by Luko, and then being punched away. She looked a bit unsteady.
Just as everyone thought Su Jiu, the little frail one, was about to be instantly defeated, Bai Qianyu also watched the mist-shrouded Su Jiu inside with sudden tension.
Sister Jiu…
“I almost lost, thankfully I made a clever move.”
Su Jiu’s figure, bent slightly, seemed to stabilize herself. She clutched her chest and staggered out of the mist. Apart from her hair being slightly disheveled, a trace of crimson could be seen at the corner of her mouth.
“Rumble!”
At the same time, Luko on the other side collapsed like a giant ancient pine tree.
The next moment, who knows who started it, but thunderous applause echoed throughout the entire field. This was the most intense battle of the day. After all, even Bai Qianyu, the strongest on the surface, only produced slight collisions when they fought.
“Su Jiu!!” Only this name was left in the field, accompanied by sighs of admiration.
The exhilarating feeling of punches landing with solid impact actually erupted between two girls. Moreover, one of them was a super cute girl in a JK uniform. Passion and excitement instantly ignited the atmosphere.
Dragon Country people are inherently passionate and enthusiastic. When this erupted, even the exorcist squad maintaining order on the field couldn’t handle it.
Unlike others on the field, Bai Qianyu pushed through the crowd and ran lightly to Su Jiu’s side, asking in a low voice, “Is there any serious problem?”
“Don’t you believe me? I’m fine. Help me back to the dorm.” Seeing the worry on the girl’s pretty face, Su Jiu smiled, gently stood on her tiptoes, patted her head, and said softly.
“Mhm.”
Although Bai Qianyu agreed verbally, she was very serious about everything she did. She directly carried Su Jiu on her back to the healing teacher and quietly waited for the Spring Bloom Technique to be used.
However, that teacher had no time to care about Su Jiu. He quickly called for someone to treat Luko. Luko’s backing was also a Big Shot, and these commoners couldn’t afford to offend them.
Bai Qianyu could only wait quietly…
Maintaining order, Huang Sisi seemed to understand Bai Qianyu’s thoughts. She walked in front of her, waved her hand with a green spell towards Su Jiu, and whispered into Su Jiu’s ear, “Sister Liu made fifty thousand. I’ll give you thirty thousand tonight.”
“Twenty… cough cough”
Upon hearing this, Su Jiu couldn’t help but tremble slightly with excitement. But fearing that she might be exposed, she quickly coughed.
The violent coughing made Bai Qianyu’s heart ache. Looking at Luko, who had fallen into a sleep as deep as an infant, she couldn’t help but clench her fist, which faintly produced the sound of cracking bones.
“So, you’re the one who used some despicable method to injure my pillow… Jiu-jie, right?”
…
Meanwhile, in the spectator stands, Mr. Huang leaned back in his chair, glanced at Liu Hong, who was smiling like a 200-pound child, and then looked at the rather miserable Su Jiu behind Bai Qianyu. He couldn’t help but roll his eyes: “A narrow victory, heh…”
An Intermediate Stage Warrior fighting a newly awakened Low-Rank Warrior, and it’s a narrow victory? Is she treating everyone like an idiot?
She really knows how to act.
He was now certain that Su Jiu and this exorcist captain had some sort of private relationship, speculating that it might be private combat training.
But the reality was something Mr. Huang could never have imagined – they were colleagues.
“Could she be the one draining the Awakening Stone? But Mayor Su’s family doesn’t have any powerful bloodline…”
At the next moment, Mr. Huang’s eyes deepened slightly. He rhythmically tapped his fingers on the table, scanned the entire campus, and then slowly retracted his gaze:
“With Su Jiu in this training, they shouldn’t look down on us from other cities anymore, right? They’ve always been so weak, which makes me get mocked by those old guys.”
