Lan Waihu used her Water Wall power to block any attacks in the form of Fire and Gold elements. When the opponent attacked with the Earth element, Qian Lingyu countered the attack by launching his tendrils of vines.
Qian Lingyu's spiritual power was close to level eight now. His attacks were simple but powerful. His every move was able to halt the opponent's attack.
Lan Waihu's spiritual power was good, too. As long as she launched her attacks in the correct sequence, she would be hard to deal with.
Gu Xijiu's spiritual power was the weakest of the lot, but she knew how to manipulate the rarely seen Wind Power. She was able to utilize the wind in time for every fight by strengthening the fire into a sea of flames or turning the water into a series of giant waves. Her every move was able to double the strength of her teammates' attacks.
In every fight, it is essential to predict the opponent's next move to win. And, Gu Xijiu was able to do that to perfection. She could always see what the opponent was about to do before they actually did it and coordinated with her teammates to counter the attack with suitable tactics.
Their strategy was part of their strength. The three of them complemented each others' strengths and abilities. Their formation was better than the average team's, and it was indeed an eye-opening fight for all the onlookers in the arena.
Even though the three of them were great together, their opponents were no pushover. This made the entire fight even more exciting. The onlookers were dazzled by their many moves.
After plenty of back and forth attacks, in the very end, the trio won the fight by a narrow margin. The arena was lifted with an outburst of cheers. No matter which class they were from, be it Ziyun class or Liuyun class, the people there had certainly enjoyed themselves to the fullest. The students from Liuyun class was extremely contented with their performance.
When the result was finally released, all of the students rushed forward to the stage and held all three winners high up in the sky!
Gu Canmo was seemingly very pleased. He turned around and asked the teachers, "After witnessing the entire fight, what do you think?"
"Gu Xijiu is extraordinary!" Teacher A exclaimed.
"She has got great eyes! Moreover, she is obviously familiar with all the general tactics of different spiritual powers and strategizes her tactics in time!" Teacher B commented.
Teacher C said, "She is capable of turning rotten things into gold. She managed to turn Lan Waihu into a killing machine!"
"She is also capable of simplifying the steps. All the tactics from the three of them were not complicated at all, but together, they worked in perfect synchronization!" Said Teacher D.
"I do not understand. Why did she keep on counting during the fight? Was it some kind of weird curse?" Asked Teacher E.
"I bet you do not know. Haha, didn't you see Lan Waihu fight according to the number that she had called out to her? She had given Lan Waihu the numbers for her every tactic that served as a reminder for her to change strategy. That is why Lan Waihu could fight precisely and accurately," explained Teacher A.
Teacher C clenched his fists, "Unfortunately, she read it too fast, or else I could jot down the numbers to see which number was a match for which tactic."
Silently, Teacher E smiled. He had memorized them all, as he had a really good memory.
He passed it down to his students, as it would be their turn to fight the next fight.
He let his students match the numbers to Lan Waihu's tactics, and they finally came up with the solutions to break their formation. They were in full confidence to rise to the fight. However, to his surprise, this time Gu Xijiu had converted all the numbers into alphabets.
Through the many fights, the trio became completely well known in Tianju Hall. Gu Canmo immediately decided that the trio would have to fight a team from the Ziyun class once every 10 days.
The entire Tianju Hall was filled with fighting spirits, and the students from the Ziyun class were afraid of losing, so they trained very hard to prepare themselves.
The students in the Liuyun class felt very proud and confident, as they were able to prove that they were not all completely useless. They had their first dark horse now. They would then have the second and the third in time. Any one of them might emerge as the next one.
They started to study the trio's tactics and found their own partners to practice with. They occasionally sparred against one another to improve themselves.
Time flew by quickly. It had already been three months. It was now early autumn. Clouds were floating in the skies next to the crescent moon, setting each other off.
Gu Xijiu was not the kind of person who would convey a sense of melancholy in the winds or under the moonlight. The melancholy was for the poets who preferred romantic themes. She was only there to reflect on herself.
She felt that her attention towards something had always been undivided. For instance, she liked a celebrity at the age of 12, and she had been feeling the same way for him ever since.
No matter how he looked like, a handsome youth in his springtime or an uncle in his middle age, she still liked him, even after she had entered the training camp for assassins.
She would collect a few of his posters each year. She never ceased to like him from when he was 26 with a clean, smooth face until he was 36 with the face full of hair after going through thick and thin in his life.
She had been fond of Long Xi ever since she was 18. She felt that he was the kind of person that she liked and was the one whom she would be spending her life with. Therefore, she started to gradually seek for his attention. She even had a solid plan in mind for her to follow through accordingly.
The plan had been ongoing for five years, and she almost did it. Only when she was about to die did she finally realize that Long Xi had another plan for her as well.
The difference was that she planned to make him her husband and he planned to take her perfect heart instead.
When she came to this world, she was determined to make a clean break with her past. She would never have thought she was going to find another man named Long Siye who had a different appearance and personality but possessed the same memory as Long Xi. He even became entangled with her.
He was, after all, someone whom she had been fond of for so long and had been so undivided in her affection for him. She thought she would never be able to forget him.
She did not know when the feeling started to fade away, but she had somehow let him go, as she no longer thought about him so often. Even when she did, she did not feel so angry anymore.
She did not know when she started to have feelings for Di Fuyi. She liked to hear news about him. Her heart pounded in her chest every time someone mentioned his name. But just when she thought that she might have liked Di Fuyi, she met The Lord.
To her surprise, she started to feel something for The Lord, too. It was not as much as what she had felt for Di Fuyi, but whenever someone mentioned The Lord, her heartbeat hastened.
Gu Xijiu rubbed the little space between her eyebrows. She was not someone who was unfaithful, how could she like two different men at the same time? Was there something wrong with this body?
Or was she someone whose actually unfaithful deep down inside? At the thought of Di Fuyi, she could not help to think of the dream that she had last night. The dream was absurd and weird.
Surprisingly, she dreamed that The Lord had called Di Fuyi over. The Lord then told him that he allowed Gu Xijiu to marry him, but she needed to have his flagon as her engagement gift.
However, the Di Fuyi in her dream seemed to refuse to obey and held onto the flagon tightly. He even said that he would guard the flagon with his life and that he would rather hold on to the flagon than a bride. She finally woke up after he struck her with lightning.
Honestly, it had been months since she last saw Di Fuyi. She had only heard occasional news from her classmates about him.