As the students of No. 60 High made their approach through the thick jungle, the noise up ahead got even louder. As Gu Shunzhi had thought, two different school delegations were battling it out. They traded punches and kicks, and while it looked very dangerous, there was in fact a clear division of labor.
The two teams clashed, but didnât go all out. They still had to consider the follow-up, and wanted to conserve strength. This sudden encounter was at most just testing each other out.
It was a fight between Foundation Establishment students. To Wang Ling, there wasnât really anything worth watching. Their kung fu skills were too weak; he might as well watch Ip Man at twice the speed
âOne side has a cute pink school uniform and the other has a purple school uniform. What schools are these?â Super Chen watched the fight from where he was hiding in the underbrush.
âIâm not sureâ¦â Hero Guo shook his head. There were too many schools in the competition this time, and many of them were from other cities. Even he, the gossip expert, had a hard time recognizing all the schools.
As the two of them chatted quietly, the main forces of both teams decided to stop at that moment, and calm returned briefly to the noisy jungle.
A boy from the main force in the cute pink school uniform stepped forward. âBrother! Both our teams arenât fighting with all our strength here; this is just a waste of strength and makes no sense at all! If two dogs fight over a bone, a third might run away with it â if some other team hears us and runs over to take advantage, weâll both lose out. How about we stop first?â
Hearing this suggestion, the captain of the team in purple also stepped forward. âGood! I think you have a point. But since weâve both decided to stop, how about we form an alliance here? Weâll help each other out and stick together for the first few days. If weâre separated after that, weâll go back to fighting for our own teams.â
âI think thatâs a good suggestion!â
âThen shall we form an alliance?â
âAlright!â
âMay I ask, brother, this cute pink school uniform of yours â which school are you from?â
âI am from No. 8 West City High in Guangxi city!â
âYouâre students from Guangxi, too? So are we! We are Purple Garden High School!â
âSo you are comrades from Purple Garden High School! Your headmistress Zi Yan is a well-known goddess in the headmaster circle!â
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â???â Watching the two schools that had been fighting fiercely earlier actually start to discuss an alliance, Super Chen couldnât make sense of this plot development. They had been waiting here for so long to take advantage of the situation, but in the end, the two schools were about to form an alliance, which would be bad for them.
âIâll do it.â Xia Ming let out a sinister laugh. Wang Ling sensed the evil spirit qi that gathered on Xia Mingâs fingertips. To everyone else, this spirit energy might look very pure, but in Wang Lingâs eyes, it was simply unbearably foul. Although he did feel that Xia Ming was very strong, Wang Ling was well aware that this power didnât belong to Xia Ming.
Wang Ling had been thinking about helping Xia Ming undo the curse. But the evil spirit qi that had taken root in Xia Mingâs body seemed even stronger than Wang Ling had thought. If it had only been on the surface before, it was now starting to eat away at Xia Mingâs insides, like he was a rotten fruit. If even his inner core started to rot, things would get really messy.
Xia Ming skillfully wielded this spirit qi that didnât belong to him and it carelessly hooked around the ankle of a student from Purple Garden High School up ahead. Then, as if he was being controlled, he threw a punch at a No. 8 West City High girl in that cute pink uniform!n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Bang!
The girl was sent flying as the punch, and she smashed through several trees before she stopped and was actually sent out by the protective golden talisman.
The boy who had been manipulated was dumbstruck. His punch was so extraordinarily powerful that even he himself found it unexpected. Usually, no matter how much strength he put into his blow, it wouldnât have this sort of explosive force!
âWhat are you doing? Didnât we say that we would form an allianceâ¦â The captain of No. 8 West City High School was furious. He never thought that Purple Garden High School would go back on its word.
âIt wasnât me. I couldnât control my body. There has to be some misunderstanding!â The boy who had thrown the punch had a wretched, helpless expression on his face.
After that, because of Xia Mingâs instigation, the two schools who had initially decided to form an alliance started fighting again. Xia Ming, the culprit, smiled wickedly, as if he was very satisfied with his work.
Super Chen and Hero Guo were utterly horrified by this operation. Xia Ming didnât usually give them the impression that he was strong⦠Why did it seem like he had been injected with chicken blood today?
âXia Ming, youâre so strong!â Super Chen couldnât help but say.
âOf course!â Xia Ming was immensely pleased with himself.
The feeling of having obtained power was so wonderful, and the fact that he had just put on such a good show in front of Lotus Sun made him feel especially satisfied.
As long as he had this powerâ¦
Yes! As long as he had this power, he could even help No. 60 High win first place!
As long as he used this power well and continued to put on a good show in front of Classmate Lotus Sun, Wang Ling was nobody!
Xia Ming had wild thoughts of the future, and his confidence had never been greater.
But Super Chen still stubbornly asked, âAre you high on drugs?â
âNo.â Xia Ming denied it flatly. âCanât you think better of me? This is for the sake of winning honor for our school.â
âOf course I want to think better of you, but youâre so strong now⦠Itâs incomprehensible! So, I feel that there can only be two possibilities. Either youâre hiding something, or youâve been possessed by the Holy Devil.â When Super Chen said that, Xia Ming couldnât help the cold sweat that broke out on his forehead. He had long heard of Super Chenâs famous enlightened mouth. Now that the truth had inadvertently come out, all of Xia Mingâs hair stood on end.
It wasnât just Xia Ming, but Wang Ling also couldnât help sweating a littleâ¦
Super Chen was indeed spot on, especially when he was making random guesses.
As long as it wasnât âprized milk,â Super Chen would almost always hit the nail on the head.
No. 60 High, who had been lying in wait for a long time, saw that both sides had pretty much exhausted all their physical strength after a fierce battle. Lotus Sun immediately opened her sword spirit space and gave them the spirit swords that had been hidden inside it.
And so, while the students of No. 8 City West High School and Purple Garden High School were duking it out intensely, everyone from No. 60 High charged out of the underbrush with spirit swords in hand.
âF**k! Isnât this a body technique exchange meet? How can you bring in spirit swords?!â The captains of both schools were stunned.
Holding his spirit sword Ghost Tooth, Hero Guo smiled sheepishly. âIf I said that we forged these swords just now, would you believe me?â
âLike hell!â the captains shouted practically in unison.
âThen thereâs no choice.â Hero Guo sighed. âItâs because weâre skilled that we were able to bring our swords in; this canât be considered cheating⦠Also, let me give the both of you a reminder.â
â???â
âTimes have changed, Your Excellencies.â
With that, Hero Guo threw out Ghost Tooth. When the hooked blade was flung out, it flew past the two captains like a powerful boomerang to slice through a big tree behind them.
The two captains laughed at him. âBrother, you missed your mark.â
Master of Dopey recalled Ghost Tooth and gently wagged his finger at the two individuals, before he pointed to the tree.
The tree, whose trunk was so thick that it would take five or six people to hold hands around it, fell onto the heads of the two captainsâ¦
Both of them were sent out by the protective golden talismans at the same time.