Chapter 154: Sweeping the Invincible, Points Gained, Half a Year Later

Ten to five, the last game.

Shi Yong of the Tiger and Dragon Army fought against Feng Qi of the Lieyang Army.

Shi Yong is an upper-class genius of Tianshi Academy, while Feng Qi is only a lower-class genius of Taicang Academy.

Based on Shi Yong's always unbeatable impression, everyone thought that Feng Qi would lose to Shi Yong in this match.

After all, in the last test, Feng Qi's third place was squeezed out by Shi Yong.

But when the battle started, it was completely different from what everyone imagined!
Shi Yong was completely suppressed from the beginning!
Both of them were draftsmen. Shi Yong produced two types of nine-turn straw men! One was a mysterious soldier, and the other was a giant shield.

But Feng Qi actually produced two types of Nine-Turn Straw Men, one was brave and the other was flying!

The speed difference between the two drafters was very small, with Shi Yong being slightly faster.

But... Feng Qi took out the first one and started attacking!
Shi Yong also sent out straw men to attack.

The first two straw men fought against the brave and flying straw men, against the black soldier and giant shield straw men.

Since the Xuanbing Straw Man lacks weapons and belongs to the highly operational Straw Man Technique, it is slightly at a disadvantage when facing Shenyong's melee combat.

As for the Giant Shield Straw Man, facing the speed of the Flying Straw Man, he could only passively take the beating.

But overall, they are still on par, after all, the difference in a single method is not that big.

Feng Qi gained a slight advantage and continued to attack with a single magic grass man.

His speed was slightly slower than Shi Yong's by three breaths, but he was better at controlling the spells than Shi Yong. Coupled with the innate advantage of being a straw man, this advantage in casting speed was eliminated.

Faced with the fierce attacks from one enemy after another, Shi Yong could only defend passively.

Moreover, his spellcasting speed was not much faster than Feng Qi's, so he had no time to combine the two spells into one.

The two sides competed with single-magic grass men.

By the time he reached the fifth straw man, Shi Yong's casting speed slowed down and was caught up by Feng Qi.

When it came to the seventh straw man, Shi Yong was overtaken by Feng Qi. His seventh straw man came out five breaths slower than Feng Qi.

By the time it came to the tenth straw man, the combat effectiveness of all of Shi Yong's straw men suddenly declined.

This is because there are too many straw men to be controlled at the same time, and each straw man has nine transformations, which puts a heavy burden on the mind.

Feng Qi was less affected and still maintained his advantage in control methods.

He extended this advantage to the twelfth body.

Shi Yong was defeated.

"Fifth match, Feng Qi wins!"

When Liu Tianning's voice was heard, there was some commotion in the square.

"Shi Yong lost!"

"Both of his straw men have reached the ninth level, and they have combined their two magics into one, yet they still lost to Feng Qi?!"

“Feng Qi, he is also at the ninth level of Double Straw Man! Did he hide his strength in the previous level, or did he make a breakthrough in the past few days?!”

"I feel that Feng Qi's straw man is more flexible! Shi Yong's was not visible at the beginning, but became more and more clumsy as the fight went on."

"The battle was too intense. Shi Yong had no chance to combine his two skills. With this kind of fierce attack, Feng Qi has the advantage."

"In terms of spell level, the gap between the two is not big, but there is a gap in the control of the straw man!"

"I didn't expect Shi Yong to not even make it into the top five."

"Feng Qi, I didn't expect a dark horse to appear out of nowhere."

"Looking at his ability to control the straw man, I'm afraid the ranking will change this time."

Inside the main hall of Wanfa Palace.

"Feng Qi, I didn't realize that he has such a talent." Lu Pin was a little surprised.

"It's indeed a bit unexpected." Liu Tianning nodded. "His level of magic combination is a little lower than Shi Yong's. When he combined his two nine-turn straw men, the power of each item can only be exerted at the level of eight turns, but Shi Yong is very close to the nine turns."

"However, in terms of micro-manipulation of the straw men, he is more flexible than Shi Yong in controlling them, and can handle more straw men."

"When Feng Qi controlled nine straw men at the same time, his combat effectiveness only dropped by 10%, but when Shi Yong controlled nine straw men, his combat effectiveness dropped by 20%."

"By the tenth level, Feng Qi's straw man's combat effectiveness had dropped by 20%, and Shi Yong's by 40%."

Lupin nodded, "When Shi Yong casts his own spells, they are all very powerful, but the Straw Man method, he can't get used to this kind of spell casting."

"Well, when I heard you mention the performance of [Untrainable], and Shi Yong was the first, but the leader was Zhao Xing, I knew he was not suitable for studying the Straw Man Technique."

"Judging from this method, Shi Yong is an excellent general, but not a commander." Liu Tianning commented, "If he were to lead an army, unless he had other opportunities and underwent a transformation, ten thousand would be his limit."

Shi Yong left immediately after his defeat, but the others did not leave. With the emergence of the dark horse Feng Qi, they all wanted to see who would be the final winner.

"Lao Zhuang, Lao Cai, you two are not hiding your abilities, are you?" Cao Shuang asked, "Damn, why do I feel like Zhao Xing's first place is unstable?"

"Guess." Zhuang Ziqing smiled.

"Cai Jin, is this Feng Qi's full strength?" Han Bing asked.

"Feng Qi is quite low-key. Although we have the same teacher in Taicang Academy, I have never communicated with him much." Cai Jin shook his head.

"You can't blame him for being low-key. You're already in this state, how can you have time to communicate?" Han Bing pointed at the jade pendant around Cai Jin's neck.

"..."

After Shi Yong was defeated, the sixth to tenth places were determined.

This level can earn you 8,000 points.

The fourth and fifth places still need to be determined.

It’s still 8,000 points.

There were only five people left in the competition: Zhao Xing, Zhuang Ziqing, Cai Jin, Feng Qi, and Yu Hao.

Liu Tianning gave Zhao Xing a bye based on his previous performance. This meant that Zhao Xing would definitely be among the top three in points.

No one had any objection to this arrangement. After all, Zhao Xing's previous performance was worthy of this bye.

The other four people were relieved instead. At least they didn't have to worry about running into Zhao Xing in the first round and falling to fourth.

The remaining four.

Zhuang Ziqing is paired with Yu Hao, and Cai Jin is paired with Feng Qi.

The loser doesn't have to fight anymore, and the fourth and fifth place will receive points rewards of the same level.

In the first match, Cai Jin faced Feng Qi.

This battle lasted a long time. Cai Jin and Feng Qi fought until the fifteenth straw man appeared without a clear winner.

Finally, the two brothers chose to make a straw man together.

In the end, Cai Jin lost to Feng Qi with a slight disadvantage.

What he synthesized was a giant shield exploding straw man, while what Feng Qi synthesized was a flying and brave straw man.

Before the giant shield exploded and could blow Feng Qi away, the flying and brave straw man kicked Cai Jin away.

In the second game, Zhuang Ziqing faced Yu Hao.

Zhuang Ziqing, defeated!
The situation in which he was defeated was similar to Shi Yong's.

They were all under extreme pressure and could not beat Yu Hao of Taicangyuan.

Although Zhuang Ziqing's performance is very strong when studying a single straw man method or even when studying two methods in one.

But in actual combat, since both single and double methods were only slightly stronger than Yu Hao and failed to form an advantage, his defect of not being able to control multiple straw men would be infinitely magnified.

The higher the battle level, the more the special features of the Straw Man Technique become apparent.

This also made everyone watching the game in the square realize that it was not that he was strong in other aspects, but that he was strong in the straw man technique.

Even people as talented as Shi Yong and Zhuang Ziqing can't do it. The Straw Man Method seems to calculate talent separately. If you want to choose to go deeper into this path, you still have to be cautious.

So, can Zhao Xing deal with these two geniuses in Taicangyuan?
The remaining three people are Zhao Xing, Feng Qi and Yu Hao.

There is no such thing as drawing lots or not, everyone needs to play with another person once.

First, Zhao Xing faced off against Yu Hao.

The ways in which Yu Hao and Feng Qi eliminated Zhuang Ziqing and Shi Yong were very similar.

They all adopt a fierce attack method, so that those who have reached a high level of enlightenment have no time to integrate multiple methods into one.

But this time, Yu Hao obviously chose the wrong opponent.

He practiced hard on practical control, but Zhao Xing's main focus from the fourth level onwards was also on practical control.

In terms of combat experience? The upper limit of the opponents Zhao Xing had seen was much higher than that of Yu Hao and his group. Starting from the fourth level, Zhao Xing's experience in his previous life gradually merged with this life.

In terms of the limit of mental burden, Zhao Xingxiu's Dream of Spring and Autumn was praised by Liu Tianning himself, who even told Zhao Xing to come to him if he had any problems. All this showed that Zhao Xing's talent in the Straw Man Technique was unique.

So Yu Hao was at a disadvantage from the beginning of the battle.

And Zhao Xing was suppressing them using the method he was good at!
"The tenth one!"

Yu Hao gritted his teeth and raised the tenth straw man, but he felt extremely tired and the combat effectiveness of his straw man decreased a lot.

Until now, Yu Hao has not been able to give accurate commands to the straw man to control it.

After all, the speed of the straw man is only 30% to 40% of the speed of sound!
At this point, every combat move must be reacted to within seconds!
One or two straw men are fine, but more than a dozen, each of which needs to be operated within milliseconds? Too difficult!

"I don't have an advantage in terms of straw man types. He knows everything I know, and he's stronger. He has perfected flying, perfected exploding, and nine levels of Divine Courage, Divine Shield, and Transfiguration."

"In terms of quantity... is there no limit to his ability?"

Yu Hao actually already knew that he was going to lose, because the nine straw men in front of him had all suffered varying degrees of damage, while his opponent, apart from killing one straw man that was killed in the explosion, had almost no damage to the others.

But Yu Hao would not allow himself to surrender. He would rather be beaten out than surrender. Not surrendering is the most basic belief of a soldier!
"Blast the straw man to death, charge!"

Yu Hao gritted his teeth and dug out the straw man who was meant to be used for sacrificial explosions, but the straw man he dug out was only six turns old.

There was no way. Unlike the battle with Zhuang Ziqing, the pressure from Zhao Xing was too great. By the tenth body, he could only cast a straw man below the seventh level!
"go with!"

Zhao Xing stretched out his hand and pointed, causing the giant shield straw man to hug the other straw man.

He now has fourteen straw men on the field and has a complete advantage, but Yu Hao has refused to surrender and is barely holding on.

"Boom!" Before the sacrificial straw man could rush over, Yu Hao was knocked out of the field. The sacrificial straw man rushed over in vain and exploded in the air halfway.

"Zhao Xing wins!"

Yu Hao was carried away for treatment and rest.

When Feng Qi saw this scene, his heart sank.

Zhao Xing is extraordinarily strong in both his magic and skills.

Feng Qi knew that he could only get second place in this course.

Because he is not much stronger than Yu Hao, his victory over Cai Jin was a narrow one.

Zhao Xing beat Yu Hao so lightly.

He also knew how to perfectly combine two spells into one. He didn't summon the perfectly combined straw man to deal with Yu Hao right away because he was giving him face and didn't want him to lose too badly.

"I thought that after defeating Shi Yong, I could finally win the first place, but I didn't expect that after climbing one mountain, there is another mountain."

Feng Qi took a deep breath and jumped onto the square.

A quarter of an hour later, Feng Qi was knocked to the square.

At this point, Zhao Xing won both games, secured first place, and earned 5 points.

After recovering, Feng Qi and Yu Hao fought again. Feng Qi won, ranked second, and obtained 30,000 points.

Yu Hao obtained 10,000 points.

It was a very ordinary elective training class, but it caused quite a stir.

Because Zhao Xing's dominance in the straw man method even surpassed the genius of Taicangyuan.

Even Shi Yong and Zhuang Ziqing failed to make it into the top three, but Zhao Xing stood out from the crowd and took home the first place with 50,000 points.

For a time, the straw man training class became a hot topic in the Sino-Agricultural Supervisory Office, and many people came to study in the Wanfa Palace.

Zhao Xing, the real boss, quietly returned to his Huailiu Courtyard.

"Da da da~"

The familiar sound of bamboo horses rang out and paused in the Huailiu Courtyard.

"what!"

"Da da da~" Then the childhood sweetheart went away again.

shuh~
Zhao Xing appeared at the gate of the courtyard and took the box into the practice room.

"The first level of secret technique in the dripping field."

Zhao Xing opened the box, and inside was a fifth-level preaching painting.

It costs 5 points to buy it, but he can get a 3.5% discount and only needs to spend points.

"Improving the Raindrop Method can help me better understand the Solar Terms Order."

He took the painting out and put it aside. There were two other scrolls in the box.

"The preaching painting of the Divine Underground Palace and the Mysterious Earth Guardian is worth 2 points."

Zhao Xing originally had 10,000 points. After obtaining points for the elective training course, he bought the [Rain Drop Field], as well as the [Divine Underground Palace] and [Mysterious Earth Guardian] missionary paintings in one go.

"Divine Movement Guardian is also a high-level technique. After reaching the tenth level, it will help me comprehend the Secret Canon of Hou Tu Gui Yuan. By learning this technique, I can understand the way of earth veins."

The most important secret book of the Dili School is Hou Tu Gui Yuan. The grain of sand in the Dantian will continue to grow with enlightenment and eventually form 'pure Yuan soil'.

As for the spells of the Self School? Zhao Xing could only put 20% of his energy on them, and he didn't need to buy any extra treasures. He could go to Taicangyuan to comprehend the [Original Dojo] and improve the 'Four Self Methods', or go to the Wanfa Palace to find Liu Tianning and use the straw man method to comprehend the Self School's "Yin Yang Self Sutra".

"It is already mid-August, and the training volume of the military agriculture troops is getting heavier. In the last half year, it will be real combat." Zhao Xing said secretly.

In the last six months, we will not train in Shiyang Cave, but go out for actual combat, because Datong Prefecture is the border.

As usual, actual combat training is necessary!

"The last six months of military agriculture is equivalent to internship. Once you have completed your training, whether you can directly become a seventh-rank official depends on these last six months."

Zhao Xing closed the door and, based on the information provided by Tian Hou and Lao Chen, had already arranged various optional and compulsory training courses for Sinongjian, and began to make adjustments to his own planning.

"The three secret books are still the main subjects, and even various theoretical books must be read. This is the Tao."

"The two high-level spells of Raindrops and Divine Guardian, as well as the three schools of magic, are still based on the right time and right place, supplemented by the self. There is no need to expand the breadth of the spells, but to start studying them in depth."

"Spells are the skills and experience of casting spells. As I practice spells, my experience from my previous life has a greater and greater influence on them. However, I also need to constantly experience the differences and gain a thorough understanding of them."

"Try to get as many resources as possible, cooperate with the sleepy bug, and sleep for one hour a day."

"We can't waste this opportunity to pacify the barbarians during the reign of Emperor Jing." Zhao Xing thought to himself. During the reign of Emperor Jing, large-scale wars took place during the Jingxinli period.

There were not many military achievements to be made afterwards. Just look at the reign titles after that, they were "Dazhi" and "Yongzhi". They were both "Dazhi" and "Yongzhi", which clearly meant that there were not many battles to be fought.

"Start practicing!"

Time passed, and the days and months passed by. In the Shiyang Cave, the training of the military agriculture department was in full swing. Zhao Xing was like a blade of grass, taking root in the Shiyang Cave, trying his best to absorb every resource and nutrient.

In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.

　There is more! In addition, a group was created, the group number is in the introduction.

　　Brothers who are interested in urging for updates and supervising can join the group.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)