Chapter 963: Stunning the Audience! (Part 1)
Lee Bufan's footsteps suddenly stopped, he turned around and glanced at the young man in blue, bluntly spitting out, "Not interested!"
The expression on the young man in blue's face froze immediately.
This guy actually dares to disregard him!
"Just because you defeated Shen Yidao, do you really think you're invincible?"
The young man in blue flicked his finger, sending a black and white chess piece shooting out like a powerful crossbow. With a "whoosh" sound cutting through the air, a massive tree, requiring several people to encircle it, was directly pierced through, and with a loud "bang," the entire tree was severed at the waist, reduced to splinters by that single flick of power.
"Hiss!"
The students from various academies present were all staring wide-eyed at this impressive display of skill!
"How about that!"
Seeing the astonished expressions of the audience below, the young man in blue grinned and said, "Now, will you fight me?"
"Still not interested."
Lee Bufan jumped off the stage, completely ignoring the young man in blue.
This hidden weapon skill was indeed impressive, but unfortunately, given his speed, this person would never have the chance to act.
This was a battle without suspense, naturally of no interest to him.
"Haha, Bufan, if you won't fight, then let me!"
Jiang Xiaofan was quite interested in the young man in blue's technique, laughed, and shouted towards the stage, "I'll fight you!"
"Hmph!"
The young man in blue on the stage saw that Jiang Xiaofan was a companion of Lee Bufan's, although displeased, he still said in a deep voice, "Fine, I'll give you a chance! A chance for a crushing defeat!"
Jiang Xiaofan didn't rush onto the stage immediately, instead, he picked up a handful of pebbles from the ground, and with a grip of his hand, turned them into ten perfectly round stone beads.
He had been training at Flame Valley for two months, and it seemed his control over power had reached an extraordinary level.
Even Ling Feng would feel ashamed of himself in terms of precise power control.
"Hmph!"
The young man in blue on the stage frowned, displeased, and asked, "Kid, what do you intend to do?"
Jiang Xiaofan chuckled as he walked onto the stage, slowly saying, "Your pebble flicking skill, Master taught me that too, hehe."
"Flicking pebbles?"
The young man in blue's eyebrows knit together, "You dare to call my Situ Lei's hidden weapon skill mere pebble flicking!"
"It is just pebble flicking." Jiang Xiaofan scratched the back of his head, grinning slyly.
"Playing dumb, huh? I'll make sure you die to a rhythm!"
Situ Lei snorted, pulled out a black and white chess piece from somewhere, flicked his finger, and the piece shot straight towards Jiang Xiaofan's face.
"Then here I come."
Jiang Xiaofan's gaze turned serious, and as he engaged in battle, his aura instantly changed, picking up a stone and flicked it out, with power and speed even slightly superior to Situ Lei's.
"So you're an expert too, but your finger technique is awful, lacking in variation, indeed just simple pebble flicking!"
Situ Lei laughed loudly, his figure flickered, and then his hands shot out chess pieces like a rapid-fire cannon, the pieces could even arc and accelerate on the stage. In an instant, the entire stage was filled with his pieces, forming a powerful black and white chess formation.
If each piece contained the power to penetrate that tree, the simultaneous explosion of these pieces was unimaginable.
"This..."
Li Yunting couldn't help but wipe his forehead for Jiang Xiaofan, turned to Ling Feng, and said seriously, "Ling... Young Master Ling, is there really no issue?"
Ling Feng shrugged, saying nothing.
Even if all those pieces exploded on Jiang Xiaofan, with his abnormal defense, he wouldn't suffer any injuries.
However, he was quite interested in seeing how Jiang Xiaofan would solve this.
It was also an opportunity to see the results of Xiao Fan's training in Flame Valley.
Lee Bufan likewise kept his gaze fixed on the stage. He wasn't interested in Situ Lei's hidden weapon techniques; if it were him, with his Wind and Thunder Hundred Transformations, Situ Lei wouldn't even touch his clothes.
However, Jiang Xiaofan's speed was always his weak point, so how would he counter Situ Lei's chess pieces?
"Turns out, pebbles can be flicked like this!"
Seeing Situ Lei's black and white chess formation, Jiang Xiaofan showed a trace of surprise, "This Master did not teach me."
"Hmph, if you don't want to get hurt, surrender obediently!"
Situ Lei laughed broadly.
The army is quite different from the academy; in the academy, students spar more with each other, while the army is bloodier and more brutal.
It's a place for killing!
And his hidden weapon skill could instantly wipe out large swathes of enemies, though not especially remarkable at True Dragon Academy, he absolutely stood to make his mark in the army.
He even fantasized that he might become the rookie king of the Southern Army, gaining fame through the war with the Demon Clan, and rise to prominence within the Empire, advancing quickly in rank, marrying the princess, and reaching the peak of his life.
"Surrender? Why surrender?"
Jiang Xiaofan's words pulled him from his fantasy, and Situ Lei snorted coldly, a hint of ferocity in his eyes, "Fine, if you won't surrender, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
"Explode!"
Swish! Swish! Swish!
In an instant, all those suspended chess pieces shot out, targeting Jiang Xiaofan, their terrifying power sending shudders through the onlooking crowd.
"Goodness, isn't he trying to cause a fatal incident?"
"Damn, why is that kid standing there not dodging, not even opening a True Qi Barrier?"
"Is this guy here to commit suicide?"
The moment those pieces shot out, Situ Lei also sensed things were getting out of hand; that kid might not make it!
But the pieces were already in motion, and with his Spiritual Power, he could no longer stop them.
"This situation, Master taught me!"
At this critical moment, Jiang Xiaofan actually closed his eyes, pinched a stone with his right hand, and flicked!
Whoosh!
A sound of breaking through the air rang out, then that stone, at an unbelievable angle, started rotating around him.
As the stone spun rapidly, those black and white chess pieces were knocked down by his stone, intercepted midway.
In the blink of an eye, Jiang Xiaofan's single stone had knocked down all of Situ Lei's hundreds of chess pieces. With the sounds of "crash, crash" reverberating, Situ Lei's chess pieces fell onto the stage like rain, one after another, astonishing everyone and completely shattering Situ Lei's illusions.
It turned out, compared to Jiang Xiaofan, his hidden weapon techniques were no more than a child stumbling between steps, utterly worthless!
Silence, the entire crowd fell into a mysterious quietness; Jiang Xiaofan's delayed counterattack was absolutely dazzling!
"Good kid!"
Ling Feng also praised inwardly, the Sword Obsession is indeed an awe-inspiring, veteran Human Emperor, specifically targeting Jiang Xiaofan's weaknesses, making this brute of a man who only knew brute force capable of such beautiful technique.
Now, Jiang Xiaofan could definitely be considered a top-tier Heavenly Pride!