"Hiss..."
Seeing Chen Tianhao, a fellow three-star fighter, being so easily knocked off the stage, the students and instructors alike gasped in unison.
"Is this the end?"
They watched Chen Tianhao, who had passed out after flying more than ten meters off the stage, his chest bloodied and bloodshot, and glanced at the stone wall in the distance, which was clearly scratched by the strong wind. Everyone was filled with disbelief. "Who, who said this Xiao Ping was on drugs? How could anyone on drugs be so powerful?"
Immediately, everyone began questioning the source and authenticity of the rumors about Xiao Ping's drug use. After all, he could knock out a warrior of the same level with just one move, and it didn't seem like he had to use much strength. Such strength was even greater than those monstrous geniuses.
"Who the hell spread those rumors? This is clearly a monstrous genius! How can he be on drugs?
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"This guy!"
In the instructors' booth, after witnessing Xiao Ping's impressive performance, Instructor Ruolin couldn't help but open her cherry-like mouth wide. Like everyone else, she had originally assumed Xiao Ping was just a three-star fighter who'd gotten high on drugs, but she hadn't expected Xiao Ping's true strength to be so formidable. With her experience, how could she not tell that Xiao Ping was a dark horse! And not just any dark horse!
"Teacher Ruolin!"
At this moment, several other instructors sitting in the instructor seat also looked at Teacher Ruolin with envy, "You are so unfair! You actually hid a monstrous genius for so long!"
Seeing that the other instructors were looking at herself, Teacher Ruolin's face was full of helplessness and a wry smile, "I really didn't know that this little guy's strength would be so strong!"
"No! I have to interrogate this guy!"
Muttering to herself, Teacher Ruolin hurriedly got down from the instructor seat. Just when Xiao Ping was about to leave the martial arts field, she grabbed him and asked harshly, "You guy! Did
you lie to me!" "Teacher Ruolin, don't be so forceful."
Looking at the woman in front of him, Xiao Ping shrugged helplessly, spread his hands and smiled, "I didn't lie to you, it's just that you misunderstood!"
"Did we misunderstand?"
Hearing Xiao Ping's reply, Teacher Ruolin narrowed her eyes, but still did not let go of the slender jade hand holding Xiao Ping, "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is,"
Xiao Ping pretended to cough a few times before continuing, "The reason why I'm so strong is entirely because I have a good foundation. Think about when I was at the eighth level of fighting spirit, I could defeat a first-level monster! Although I've taken a lot of drugs in the past year, the solid foundation I've built over the past decade cannot be destroyed by these few pills!"
"Are you serious?"
Listening to the explanation given by Xiao Ping, Instructor Ruolin still didn't quite believe it. After all, she had been cheated by this guy before, and who knew if he would lie again this time!
"It's true!"
Xiao Ping was also a little embarrassed, and said quickly, "It's absolutely true, even pearls are not that real! I am usually very low-key, but this time I had an adventure, and I also wanted to enter the inner courtyard as soon as possible to make up for my lack of qualifications, so I just showed it!"
"You guy, I don't know which of your words are true and which are false!"
Seeing Xiao Ping's face full of confidence, Teacher Ruolin also said coquettishly, and let go of her jade hand, "Forget it, forget it, you can go, just don't be late tomorrow!"
"Then I will go back and continue practicing."
Seeing that Teacher Ruolin let go of his hand, Xiao Ping smiled and waved to Teacher Ruolin, and then disappeared from her sight.
"What a strange guy."
Seeing Xiao Ping completely disappear from her sight, Teacher Ruolin pouted and returned to the teacher's seat in displeasure, continuing to watch the outer courtyard competition that had not yet ended. Of course, at this moment, Teacher Ruolin's whole mind was on Xiao Ping, and she had no interest in the rest of the competition.
At this moment, Xiao Ping had returned to the cave outside Heping Town. He began to refine some third and fourth grade pills so that he could exchange them for enough fire energy in the inner courtyard in the future. After all, selling pills was the most profitable business. He didn't want to challenge others every day and then get such a small amount of fire energy as a reward.
Early the next morning, Xiao Ping put away the refined pills and rushed back to the martial arts field. However, this time, Xiao Ping was very lucky and actually drew a bye, which means that he can directly advance to the next round of the finals without participating in the battle. This kind of good luck made the other students who lost in the battle full of envy. Of
course, with Xiao Ping's performance yesterday, The kind of powerful strength shown, nowadays, not many people dare to underestimate this seemingly harmless guy. You know, this guy defeated Chen Tianhao, who was ranked in the top 50, with one move. Although their strengths vary, as long as they can be ranked in the top 50, the gap in strength between each other is definitely not so big that they can be easily killed in one move. Remember, it is one move, and it is an easy one, not using all your strength. Just looking at Xiao Ping's proficiency in the use of fighting skills, you can know that this guy is definitely not as easy to kill as he seems. The kneaded little lamb said
, "Go back and continue refining pills."
Since the byes were announced at the beginning, Xiao Ping returned directly to his own training place and continued to refine all the remaining herbs in the ring into pills. Anyway, with his current cultivation level, these low-level herbs are no longer of much use. It would be better to refine them all into pills and resell them to the students in the inner courtyard, and then purchase new high-level herbs. It would be best if he could get a few more fifth-level or sixth-level beast fires to improve the level of the blue beast fire.
"Hehe! I don't know what level of cultivation Xiao Yan has reached."
Although Xiao Ping possessed a special ability to detect Xiao Yan's position, he could not sense the other party's cultivation level at such a long distance. However, at this moment, Xiao Yan, without the assistance of the Purple Fire and the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire, was afraid that his strength would not improve as quickly as in the original novel.
Without thinking too much, after pulling his thoughts back, Xiao Ping summoned the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire and the Phantom Blue Beast Fire again and began to refine various kinds of elixirs. With his current alchemy skills, he could easily refine several elixirs of low grade at the same time. In this way, another whole day passed, and with the arrival of dawn again, Xiao Ping finally used up the last herb in the ring.
"Done!"
Looking at the results in his ring, thirty... Many fourth-grade pills, nearly a hundred third-grade pills, and several hundred second-grade pills, all together, were enough to exchange for many days' worth of fire energy in the inner courtyard. During the several days of pill refining, Xiao Ping also felt that his soul realm had made considerable progress. If he could only be considered to have just entered the middle stage of the Mortal Realm before, then now he was already in the middle stage of the Mortal Realm, and not far from the late stage of the Mortal Realm .
"I don't know if I can enter the late Mortal Realm soul realm within two years."
Shaking his head and sighing, Xiao Ping put away the Green Lotus Platform, strode out, and walked back to the finals venue in the outer courtyard without haste. Anyway, today's final would not be held until around noon, so there was still quite a while from now
...
"Teacher Ruolin, it seems that the biggest dark horse this year is Xiao Ping from your class."
In the finals, several instructors who had already taken their positions were all sitting around Teacher Ruolin. With envy in their voices, they kept complaining to her, "If our class also had such a dark horse, I would be so happy!"
"That's right, in the entire Canaan Academy, I'm afraid that Teacher Ruolin is the only one who can send freshmen to the inner courtyard in the first year. Then you will be so proud of yourself!"
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Just as these instructors were complimenting and joking with each other, the elders' seats and the referees' seats were already filled with elders and referees who participated in the outer courtyard finals. At the same time, the 77 students who made it to the finals also stepped onto the finals circle with confidence. Before the finals officially started, they had already picked up their weapons and burst into a strong desire to fight.
"Fortunately, there is still time!"
At this time, Xiao Ping had just returned to the finals venue before the start of the finals, and then, under the gazes of everyone, he slowly walked into the finals circle.
"Are you Xiao Ping?"
As soon as he stepped into the finals competition circle, several voices rang out simultaneously, all directed at Xiao Ping, the latest rising dark horse. "Fight me!"
A tall and strong man with a five-star fighting master level, holding a silver spear in his hand, walked towards Xiao Ping. Judging from his age, he was probably twenty-four, if not twenty-five.
"Let's talk about it after the finals start."
Looking at the students who surrounded him, Xiao Ping simply shrugged and said with a chuckle, "Actually, sometimes, too much fighting spirit is not necessarily a good thing."