sinovels 41. Are you trying to challenge me?
41. Are you trying to challenge me?
The martial arts arena is located underground in the track and field stadium.
This place has been transformed into a huge air-raid shelter at some point, with a ring in the center that is illuminated by lights. The ring itself is almost the size of a football field.
The senior students in grades 11 and 12 are currently taking turns stepping onto the stage, forming square formations, and undergoing Wu Peng's flashing tests.
Yes, this martial arts arena can't possibly allow everyone to fight one-on-one. There are nearly 2,500 students across the three grades of the school, and all of the second and third-year students are at the Sha Body Realm. If they were to fight one by one, how long would it take?
Therefore, such martial arts competitions are usually conducted by the school's strongest physical education teacher, who will carry out a relatively comprehensive "quality check" to screen the students from each class and obtain initial ranking data, which will then be handed over to the class teachers.
If a student has objections to the ranking, they can apply to the homeroom teacher to designate a student in the class to have a private duel, and then conduct the competition.
However, such a competition would obviously not take place on a large arena, but rather in small, palm-sized "rooms" hanging around the arena.
Therefore, the rankings will fluctuate a bit more frequently, but the differences are not significant.
That large arena was mainly for the top three from each class, selected by Wu Peng in the first round, to compete against each other.
The arena was divided into ten zones, with faculty and staff releasing their inner energy to form barriers that separated the zones. Of course, the main component was Wu Peng's strobe clones...
That's normal, since according to Bai Hui's current understanding, a physical education teacher like Wu Peng is actually equivalent to a "Scripture Pavilion Elder" + "Power Transmission Elder" + "Martial Arts Representative" + "Core Component of the Sect's Grand Formation" in some fantasy novels...
It's even rumored that a large portion of the tuition and fees paid by all students actually goes towards the salaries of physical education teachers...
Bai Hui learned this news from the long-tongued parrots. After all, after using "Alien Form and Intent - Long-tongued Parrot", Bai Hui seemed to be temporarily regarded as one of their own by the long-tongued parrots, and it was normal for them to gossip with each other.
In addition, Bai Hui also heard that even so, Wu Peng's financial situation didn't seem to be very good, and he was very frugal at school... You know, Liu Shuyan, as the grade leader of the second year of high school, was able to embezzle 20 yuan to speculate in stocks behind his wife's back!
Despite being theoretically the highest-paid student on campus, Wu Peng was struggling financially...
Could it be that martial artists at the Martial Meridian Realm have more places to spend money?
Bai Hui wasn't quite sure yet, after all, those long-tongued parrots were only at the high school level—the above information was basically based on the students' daily observations, and given the level of the long-tongued parrots in Yuncheng No. 1 High School, they couldn't possibly get close to Wu Peng!
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Bai Hui leaned on the railing of the stands, using "Simple Lines" to observe his seniors activating "Heartbeat Shaping Technique" with shouts of "Ahhhhh!", causing their bodies to swell, their strength and resilience to increase dramatically. He then unleashed all his skills at Wu Peng, who was flashing before him.
Meanwhile, he recalled the scene he had witnessed when he entered the underground arena—due to the relatively enclosed environment and the intense concentration of malevolent energy, the circling long-tongued parrots had difficulty entering, and thus had no idea what had happened inside.
But the more this is the case, the more curious they become, and the more they can't contain themselves!
So they would try to hide on the students entering the underground arena, and in the dimly lit passageways, they would be attracted by pre-recorded whispers, and then be eliminated by the school authorities...
As a result, Bai Hui finally learned about the complete management system for "The Ghost Story: The Long-Tongued Parrot" within the university.
To be honest, it's really good.
But in Bai Hui's opinion, it seems there's still room for development... With the improvement of his Xingyi Quan skills and his experience of using the long-tongued parrot to assist in exams many times, this thing can definitely be used to assist in learning!
However, considering that the rules of the long-tongued parrot's ghost story had already been discovered, imitating the ghost story using the principles of Xingyi Quan... didn't seem to be too difficult. Since the school stopped using the ghost story there, Bai Hui figured there must be some deeper considerations, so he didn't mention it to the outside world.
He plans to wait until after the midterm exams, when his skill in Xingyi Quan has improved further, before trying it out.
If it is indeed feasible, then it wouldn't be a bad idea to implement it within one's own study group...
Thinking this, Bai Hui had already observed a large number of uses of the "Heartbeat Formation Technique".
He understood the principles of martial arts, but he couldn't use them yet... This martial art required a special and intense emotion as 'fuel' to be used.
It can be considered a kind of "dual cultivation martial art"...
Moreover, the explosive increase in size and strength seems to be only in its initial form.
Once you're past that age and the intense emotions of adolescence are gone, it's difficult to express them in the same way as before.
In addition, Bai Hui also proved what he had learned to a certain extent.
As he observed the senior students using the "Heartbeat Form Technique" and then unleashing their martial arts moves, he gradually grasped the essential relationship between martial arts and the mind's energy in this world through the flow of his inner energy in his "stick figure" state!
According to Bai Hui's understanding, martial arts, martial skills, and other such techniques can actually be considered a kind of "framework." The reason why precision is required is to restrain one's personal emotions.
In other words, those martial arts skills are not actually "magical"; they are just techniques that, through repeated practice and refinement, can restrain the scattered desires of the human heart.
The Heart Fiend, on the other hand, can directly imbue techniques with 'magical' power!
Because it is born from pain, it possesses a strong uniqueness and can be considered a 'identity mark' exclusive to martial artists.
The so-called "Demon Body Realm" is the process of tempering the body with mental demons, forging strength through desire and pain!
"Bai Hui? You're here pretty early!"
As Bai Hui was thinking, a slightly familiar voice suddenly came from the side.
He turned his head and looked—
Name: Sun Shuo
[Realm: Fiend Body Realm]
[Heart-Slaying Star: 0.6]
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This student from Class 1 of the first year of high school, who had once been defeated by Bai Hui, now had almost no secrets in Bai Hui's eyes, even with the simple lines of the graphics.
If Bai Hui looked more closely, he could even see clearly how many martial arts skills Sun Shuo had mastered and what their respective levels were!
After all, martial arts are just a framework, and after practicing for a long time, it will inevitably be reflected in one's physical condition or personal habits to some extent.
However, this manifestation was too subtle, and Bai Hui had difficulty noticing or distinguishing it before.
But Bai Hui is no longer the same as before; if you look closely, you can see some differences.
"How did your academic exams go?"
Sun Shuo didn't immediately confront Bai Hui because of his previous failure. Instead, he asked questions casually, like an ordinary friend.
"It's alright," Bai Hui said calmly.
"It seems you did well on the exam."
Sun Shuo smiled and said, "I did quite well on the exam this time too... After losing to you last week, I practiced like crazy!"
Thanks to the pressure you brought and the shame and anger I felt as a result, my spirit has been significantly boosted!
"Oh?"
Bai Hui straightened up: "So, are you going to challenge me in this martial arts arena?"
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