Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 102 Appetizers
Fortunately, the journey from Tianxia Minglu to Yisu Academy is not long, and Tang Zheng does not have to suffer Ban Yiluo's mental attack for too long.
The carriage was stopped by the guards at the entrance of the academy. Even though it was carrying the joint emblem of Tianxia Minglu and Zijin City, Yisu Academy still did not allow anyone to enter. It was not until Tang Zheng took out the exclusive nameplate of the academy teacher that he was allowed to pass.
In this way, the carriage drove straight to the martial arts training hall of the academy, but before it reached the door, Tang Zheng and his companions had to get off the carriage and walk in.
Because there were so many people, the carriage could not move anymore.
After Tang Zheng recovered from his injury yesterday, he asked someone to inform Leng Zhan, and the challenge went on as scheduled.
After so many days of preparation, basically all the students in Yisu Academy knew that Leng Zhan and Tang Zheng had an open challenge today.
One is a martial arts genius who has been famous for many years, the pride of the Changyuan Leng family, and now the representative blood student of the Yisu Academy.
One is a newcomer to the academy who scored full marks in all three subjects of the entrance examination and ranked first in every subject. He ignored the murderous attacks of powerful demons during the inscription ceremony and became famous recently.
The public challenge between these two people is definitely the most anticipated and talked-about event in Yisuli Academy in recent times, without a doubt.
Although, before the challenge, rumors suddenly spread throughout the academy that Tang Zheng was faking an injury to avoid the fight, but soon many people confirmed that Tang Zheng was indeed seriously injured.
For a moment, the plot of the entire public challenge suddenly became confusing, and no one knew whether this challenge would go on as scheduled.
However, no matter what the rumors were, neither Tang Zheng nor Leng Zhan had publicly expressed their intention to postpone the challenge before today, so as soon as today arrived, almost all students asked for leave from their instructors and teachers and flocked to the martial arts training hall's venue specifically for public challenges.
So, when Tang Zheng got off the carriage, he was immediately discovered by the students who had rushed to the martial arts training hall and were preparing to enter to watch the fight.
"Look, it's Tang Zheng!"
"He is injured, so why does he look so energetic and healthy?"
"Those are all rumors. The fake injury and postponement are all nonsense. Now, hasn't the real Tang Zheng appeared?"
"Yes, whether they are injured or not is not important at all. What is important is that the two of them can put on an exciting and fierce battle today!"
"Tang Zheng, come on!"
"It doesn't matter if you can't win the Cold War, just don't lose too badly!"
"I bet you can last ten moves!"
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When the students nearby saw Tang Zheng appear, they responded enthusiastically.
Most of the students at the Qianlong level had a favorable impression of Tang Zheng because of his speech at the freshman induction ceremony. They had long regarded him as the spokesperson for the Qianlong level warriors in the academy and they all cheered him on.
But more students are still fans of Leng Zhan. Although they did not mock Tang Zheng directly, they still did not think highly of him. They believed that Leng Zhan would continue his undefeated record and easily win this public challenge.
Listening to these friendly or not-so-friendly shouts, Tang Zheng kept smiling, waved to the students who supported him, and walked into the public challenge venue like a star.
Leng Zhan, as well as the witnesses of this open challenge, Li Xiaoren and the students on duty at the venue that day, were already waiting in the venue.
The entire venue was already filled with people. Even most of the teachers and instructors had arrived early, wanting to see the first clash between these two students who might have great achievements in the future of Yisu Academy.
As soon as Tang Zheng entered the venue, he went straight to the ring.
According to the procedure, before the public challenge begins, Li Xiaoren should step forward and use star power to check Tang Zheng and Leng Zhan to make sure that they have not taken any banned drugs that can stimulate potential and greatly increase combat effectiveness , so as to ensure the fairness of this public challenge.
Li Xiaoren was very dissatisfied when he learned yesterday that Tang Zheng insisted on carrying out the challenge as scheduled.
Before Tang Zheng entered the venue, he had a gloomy face, ready to scold Tang Zheng severely for his reckless behavior after Tang Zheng arrived.
He had even made up his mind that if he found that Tang Zheng's physical injuries had not healed, he would use the power of the witnesses in this public challenge to force the challenge to be postponed.
However, when he saw Tang Zheng walking into the venue carelessly, his expression slowly changed from anger to surprise.
Li Xiaoren knew how badly Tang Zheng was injured before, but looking at Tang Zheng's expression and movements now, there was no sign of injury at all. Li Xiaoren's first reaction was to wonder if Tang Zheng had used some forbidden method to stimulate life potential to speed up the recovery of injuries. Most of these forbidden methods were at the cost of damaging the warrior's star veins, which was definitely not worth the loss in the long run.
"It is absolutely stupid to do this for an open challenge!" Li Xiaoren was furious. While suppressing his anger at Tang Zheng's stupid behavior, he quickly stepped forward, grabbed Tang Zheng's wrist pulse, and began to examine him.
However, as soon as the star power probed into Tang Zheng's star veins, Li Xiaoren was surprised again - Tang Zheng did not use the forbidden method that would hurt his origin! So how did he recover from such a serious injury in just one day?
Li Xiaoren took a deep look at Tang Zheng and thought to himself, he is worthy of being a direct descendant of Yingshan, one of the top forces on the continent, and he actually possesses such a miraculous recovery secret method.
Tang Zheng never could have imagined that by using the miraculous recovery effect of the Flower King, he could make Li Xiaoren more convinced that he was born in Yingshan.
After Li Xiaoren checked Tang Zheng, he nodded to everyone watching the game below the stage, indicating that Tang Zheng was fine. He was about to announce that the challenge could begin.
Tang Zheng suddenly walked to the center of the ring and said loudly: "I know that everyone here is very interested in today's public challenge between me and Leng Zhan, but before the main course of this feast is served, I think it would make everyone happier to have some appetizers first."
Everyone in the venue was a little confused by Tang Zheng's sudden appearance.
Leng Zhan, who was rubbing his hands in anticipation for the fight to begin , frowned slightly, but still waited patiently to see what Tang Zheng was up to next.
Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, Tang Zheng smiled and continued, "In the past few days, in addition to Instructor Li Xiaoren, there is another instructor who has given me great help in my martial arts training. He has allowed me to walk between life and death more than once, and I have gained a lot!"
"But this instructor doesn't like to leave his name behind when doing good things, so many people don't know who he is. Now I'm going to find him out among the possible instructors and thank him properly!"
After hearing what Tang Zheng said, most of the audience were confused, and some even felt that Tang Zheng was a little weird.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with thanking the instructor who has helped you , but it would be more appropriate to thank him after you have finished the game and won.
The fight hasn't even started yet, what's the point of thanking me? If I lose in the end, wouldn't that be a slap in the face of the instructor and helping a loser?
Does this guy think he has already won the battle against the Cold War? Or is this a new psychological tactic? Thank you, instructor?
Unlike most people who were puzzled, those who knew the truth about Tang Zhen's injury immediately heard the hidden meaning in Tang Zheng's words - he was not trying to thank the instructor who "helped" him, but was clearly preparing to catch the person who assassinated him on the spot!
Leng Buchen, Ouyang Luoluo, Li Xiaoren and even Leng Zhan on the ring all showed concerned looks.
Could it be that Tang Zheng had figured out who the culprit behind the scenes was so quickly? ! After the incident, Leng Buchen and his team used a lot of strength and deduced that this person should be an instructor in the academy.
But Yisuli Academy has more than one hundred instructors, and within one day, they only eliminated more than twenty instructors who were not suspects. Finding the real culprit is a long way off!
How could Tang Zheng determine who the real murderer was within one day?
