Chapitre 79: Chapter 78: One more follower!
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Swishhh...
The dust had blocked everyone's view from being able to see the end result between the clash of the two monsters properly. But to the eyes of the nascent soul realm experts, with their soul sense, the scene that they had witnessed was as clear as day.
These were the senior teachers of the academy, and right now, most of them were shaking their heads.
Even Shen Long, the 10 star rank Combat veteran, had closed the both of his eyes. No one knew what he was currently thinking about.
Could it be that one of them had died from that clash?
The spectators were all waiting with full of anxiety for the dust to settle down. At this moment, no one dared to even make a single sound at all! Even their breathing was silent. It was as if they were afraid that any noise they make would attract everyone's ire.
"T-this! Impossible!"
"How can this be? To think that he lost?!"
"Damn it, my money!"
Right now, when the dust had finally settled down, they could see a man standing firm on his ground, as if a mountain that had endured the countless batterings of time.
With tattered clothing and his body riddled with numerous injuries, this man stood tall and looked extremely attractive under such a state.
Some of the women had even started to gasp in disbelief under such a charismatic sight before them!
If there was one word to describe this person at the moment, it would be..
Manly!
Extremely manly!
YEAAAAAA!!!!!
No one knew who started to cheer first, but soon, everyone followed suit as their cheers slowly rattled the ground beneath them!
To them, it didn't really matter who actually won during that final clash, because as far as they were concerned, the battle was unlike everything else that they had witnessed before!
It was truly satisfying!
There were some though, who cried emotionally. A part of these people that cried out was because of the manly battle between Duan Li and Shen Murong that had touched the very depths of their hearts and soul, while the majority that cried was also due to the emotional breakdown, not from the fight but because they lost in gambling.
To think that Duan Li had actually won!
Who would've thought that a junior student that just only recently rose in fame had won that monstrosity of a battle instead?
"Holy! Brother was actually this strong! If I hadn't witnessed it myself, I wouldn't have believed it at all! Just where did he hid such powers in that body of his before?" exclaimed Shen Lu feeling shock through and throughly.
"Formidable! Such fighting prowess could only be rarely seen between the duels of top ranked seniors before!" commented Wang Xiolun, suppressing his itchiness to fight.
And as usual, Xiahou Yu had already expected the outcome of this match. Right now, she was actually more worried that there were only three drumsticks of fried chicken left in her bucket, compared to what was going on inside that field.
...
Shen Murong kneeled on one knee as he used his left hand to support his right shoulder.
That final clash between him and Duan Li was way too intense that his right shoulder got dislocated from the impact!
Although his face had reverted to normal and the horns were already gone, there were no trace of bitterness on him from the fact that he had lost the battle. Instead, a wide smile could be seen from him amidst that bloodied look of his!
Right now, he was looking especially enigmatic towards the spectators!
"Hehe... HAHAHA! Very good! That was an excellent battle! From now on, consider me as one of your own!" Shen Murong said with a wide grin as he looked straight at Duan Li, whom had also returned to his normal state.
Duan Li nodded and replied "As you are now one of my followers, I am obligated to take care of you."
He then tossed out a grade 4 elixir to Shen Murong while drinking a grade 2 elixir himself. After all, Duan Li's injuries wasn't all that serious and his meridians was still holding out despite such a fierce battle.
With none skill arts used, he only had external injuries to recover from, which was not a big deal for him.
Catching the elixir with his left hand, Shen Murong swiftly uncorked it using his teeth and swallowed the contents of the elixir in one mouthful.
Bzzztt!
The injuries on his body began to heal up rapidly at a visible rate as vapours were coming out from his wounds.
"This young man has a grade 4 elixir?" thought Shen Long, feeling a little bit surprised.
Although a grade 4 elixir were rare in the empire, it could still be bought if one had enough money. But what actually surprised him was that Duan Li had just casually threw one of these astronomically expensive elixir to his idiot grandson like it was just a cabbage!
Even if it were him, his heart would palpitate a little bit by giving one away so casually, much less tossing it around like that!
The crowd had also gasped as they saw this, and at this moment, they were now thoroughly convinced that Duan Li was a profligate son!
First was that expensive residence court, and now the grade 4 elixir. Anyone who hadn't yet managed to caught what these actually implied was definitely a blind fool!
"HAHA! That elixir sure works like a charm!" said Shen Murong as he stood up. All his injuries were now healed, both external and internal.
Crack!
He pulled at his disjointed shoulder back to its socket with his left hand and made a few swings to test his fixed right arm.
Woongg!
The barrier was now lifted and Duan Li could finally see and hear the crowd cheering!
"I was too excited in that battle and made such a scene..." Duan Li scratched the back of his head, feeling a little bit embarrassed.
Ahem!
Shen Long's dry cough had once again silenced the whole area as he instructed the teachers behind him.
These teachers then deployed their spatial arts once more to fix the desolate field back to its default state before the battle.
Right now, all the junior students had already woken up from their incapacitated state before and returned back onto the field, lining up properly. In front of Shen Long, they dare not to be so casual at all.
"Some of you might have already knew the purpose behind that previous battle, but for those that didn't know yet, it was for these teachers behind me to spot where your talent actually lies in!" Shen Long spoke out.
"When one fights with nothing but their body alone, their reflexes would indicate whether they were more suitable for a short, middle or long distance fight! Their stamina would showcased their attributes for either a soft or hard style and in some cases could be both! And finally, one's tenacity would denote that they were more suitable to either attacking or defensive style!"
"One has to know that a person could only do so much with our limited lifetime in this world. If one were to practice everything, then they would never be able to reach the peak in something!"
"Thus, in order to help you narrow down among these clutters, we have identified three most suitable weapons for you to master during your lifetime!"
As Shen Long spoke this, above the field, there could be seen many light orbs floating with specific characters on them. There were, swords, sabers, spear, greatswords and a dozen more.
These orbs then multiplied indefinitely as they reached out to the junior students below.
After a while, every single students now had their own three characters. For Duan Li, it was a Sword, an Axe and a Spear character respectively. Meanwhile, Shen Murong has a Saber, an Axe and a Greatsword character!
Shen Long nodded and continued, "These three weapon characters should be your main focus alongside your cultivation. Furthermore, the academy will spare the resources required to nurture your talents on these three weapons as well!"
"However, the academy does not forbid you to practice weapon styles other than those three! In fact, we encourage diversity! Just remember that the academy will not be able to spare additional resources for those and you would have to depend on yourselves!"
"In the next class, go towards each department around the academy. They have a more specialized manual books compared to the general purpose that you may found in the library!"
"That is all for today, class dismissed!"
Whooshh!
As soon as Shen Long finished his sentence, with a tap of his cane stick to the ground, he and the rest of the teachers behind him immediately disappeared like phantoms.
...
On their way back to the residence court..
"Brother! I have never thought that you were so strong! I have misjudged you!" Shen Lu spoke out.
"Indeed, your martial prowess is already comparable to us seniors and might be even better than some!" Wang Xiolun added.
"HAHA! That was truly the most exciting battle I had with someone else so far! We should spar again next time!" Shen Murong laughed out as he joined them with his arms crossed together on his chest.
When they heard him, Shen Lu and the rest couldn't help but to imagine what the outcome would be if another super battle like that were to occur unsupervised by the teachers.
They would probably had to live on the streets by then as their residence court would definitely be reduced to rubbles.
Coughing dryly, Duan Li decided to steer the topic away from battles or spars.
"Shen Murong, I'm guessing you must be related with Senior teacher Shen Long?" Duan Li asked.
"En! Shen Long is my grandfather! We trained often together but with him, it was so boring. I got instantly beat with a single chop of his everytime and he said that was a good battle!" Shen Murong replied with a little bit of dissatisfaction in his tone.
Even Duan Li and the rest nodded in agreement. Such a thing should not even be called a battle at all!
Unexpectedly, Shen Murong's grandfather has such a low standard of what a good battle means!
"We are here!" Duan Li said after they reached the residence court.
Since it was the first time that Shen Murong saw where he would be living from now on, he was quite flabbergasted for a moment with the sheer size of the residence court and all the available amenities around it.
"HAHA! Not only is your strength quite formidable, even your pocket is quite something else! I've truly benefitted this time around! HAHA!" Shen Murong said out loud.
Compared to Shen Lu, Shen Murong was more of a straight forward person in the way he talked.
"Eh, now that I think about it, Shen Lu, are you actually related with Shen Murong?" Duan Li asked as he turned around.
"Hmm? Definitely not! It was a coincidence that my first name was Shen as well!" Shen Lu shrugged as he dismissed it.
Hearing Shen Lu's replies, Duan Li contemplated for awhile, "Is that so? Anyway, wait for me in the meeting room, I will change my tattered uniform first!"
...
Inside the meeting room was a big round table that could fit exactly ten people, but right now, there were only five of them.
"As you all might realize, we are still lacking five more people to complete our party, and with the monster stampede coming in the next following week, our time is running a little bit short I guess." Duan Li spoke out.
"Therefore, taking into account our three-staged plan, we need to quickly boost our strength in order to attract more people!" he continued.
At this point, Shen Murong rose his hand up and asked, "What is this three-staged plan you were talking about?"
Duan Li turned towards Shen Lu as the latter nodded and explained it to Shen Murong.
"So that's how it actually is! Brilliant! HAHA!" Shen Murong commented.
"But how do you propose we increase our strength in such a short time? Cultivating normally wouldn't yield that fast result even with the dense amount of spiritual Qi here, and taking in strength potions would definitely counts as a bad idea to do this." he continued with crossed-arms.
Hearing this, Duan Li smiled.
"Don't worry, I've got a good idea!" he said as he whipped out four bottles filled with red liquid from his spatial ring.
When the rest of them saw these four bottles, they couldn't help but to quickly realize that these bottles contained blood in them!
But at this moment, only Shen Lu seemed to be thoroughly shocked as he suddenly stood up and pointed towards the four bottles.
"T-those.. are they what I think it is?" exclaimed Shen Lu, stuttered as he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
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