Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 73 I Win
Although they didn't know why, they could see that Li Xiaoren seemed to be targeting Tang Zheng since the beginning of the school year.
If I fail to pass the assessment the first time, my future life in the academy will probably be very difficult.
At this time, Tang Zheng on the field seemed to have realized that he could not wait until Li Xiaoren was exhausted, and seemed ready to make a desperate move. He held Han Jiangxue's right hand, circulated the star power, and a pressurized vortex emerged. While trying to dodge, he slowly increased the pressure of the star vein in his palm.
With Li Xiaoren's strength, although he didn't know what martial arts Tang Zheng was using with his right hand, he could clearly feel that the vortex of star power running in his right hand was becoming more and more powerful, and the threat to him was becoming more and more obvious.
Li Xiaoren's offensive intensified again. The axe shadow was like the wind, wrapping Tang Zheng in it. Tang Zheng was like a lone boat in the wind and clouds of axe shadows, rising and falling with the wind. He was in great danger and could be cut in half by the giant axe at any time.
The axe shadows became denser and denser, and the pressure of the star power vortex in Tang Zheng's hand became greater and greater.
Right at this moment, Tang Zheng suddenly moved slightly, not retreating but moving closer, suddenly shortening the distance between him and Li Xiaoren, and slashed towards Li Xiaoren's neck with his left hand.
Li Xiaoren remained calm and knocked Tang Zheng's fan dagger away. However, Tang Zheng refused to give in and threw the fan dagger, which turned into a hidden weapon and shot towards Li Xiaoren.
At this moment, Li Xiaoren sneered, turned his head to dodge, but the axe in his hand chopped in another direction.
"Now, die!" Taking advantage of the moment when throwing the fan dagger, Tang Zheng grasped Han Jiangxue with his right hand, which had already been pressurized. He did not use the starting move for ultra-long-range attack, but instead used the Kaio-ken, and delivered a Black Tiger Heart-piercing Blow to Li Xiaoren's chest and abdomen.
If this Kaio-ken, which was as fast as a meteor, hit Li Xiaoren, even if he upgraded his defense to four-star power as quickly as possible, he would probably suffer some minor injuries!
"Are we going to win?!" Tang Xiaotang, who had been staring at the battle on the field, couldn't help but shout.
Jiang Wuyan and Meng Fenghua were also watching intently, and were both shocked by Tang Zheng's ferocious final desperate punch.
However, when Tang Zheng's fist was about to hit Li Xiaoren's chest, Li Xiaoren's axe was already waiting there.
Block with a horizontal axe and counterattack with an elbow.
"Dang——" Tang Zheng's Kaio-ken hit the giant axe with a loud noise. The power of this punch was so great that even Li Xiaoren took several steps back before he stopped.
However, Tang Zheng himself was completely knocked away by Li Xiaoren's counterattack with an elbow, flying horizontally in the air like a sack, and completely lost his combat effectiveness.
"What a pity, failure at the very end..." Jiang Wuyan muttered to himself dejectedly. Seeing that Tang Zheng had come up with many clever strategies and used all his skills to the fullest, but still ended up losing, he felt very heavy-hearted because soon they would also be on the field and face an assessment of the same difficulty.
He asked himself, it is absolutely impossible for him to perform better than Tang Zheng in this game.
Tang Xiaotang and Meng Fenghua also showed gloomy expressions when they saw Tang Zheng flying in the air.
Li Xiaoren just stood still, looking at Tang Zheng who was about to hit the wall, his face dark and his tone gloomy: "You, failed the test!"
He had just finished speaking when he suddenly felt a chill on his head, his hair stood on end, his star power surged, and he bent his waist and dodged backward, performing an extreme dodge move similar to the Iron Bridge.
Just as he bent down to dodge, he clearly saw a folding fan spinning rapidly from above his head towards Tang Zheng, and whirled through the air with wisps of black objects floating along the way.
"Bang——" Tang Zheng hit the wall hard at this time and rolled to the ground. He raised his hand to grab the flying dagger, and brushed off a handful of black hair from the dagger, letting it fall gently from his fingertips, and smiled: "No, I won!"
Tang Zheng had just finished speaking when he coughed violently a few times and spat out a mouthful of bright red blood, which dripped onto the floor and intertwined with his black hair, as if mocking the word "win" he had just said.
At the cost of being injured to the point of vomiting blood, he got a handful of his opponent's hair. If this result had happened in the past, Tang Zheng would probably have quietly escaped with his face covered.
But now, he held up the hair with a smile on his face, as if it was a badge of victory.
Li Xiaoren looked at the hair in Tang Zheng's hand, touched the large patch on his head that had been shaved bald by a fan, snorted coldly, and did not refute Tang Zheng's declaration of victory.
"Master!" Xiaotang was so anxious that tears came out when she saw Tang Zheng vomiting blood. She and Meng Fenghua ran over at the same time and helped Tang Zheng up.
Jiang Wuyan also walked over and took Tang Zheng's pulse: "Don't worry, the injury is not serious, just rest for two days."
When he stated the diagnosis, his face was full of admiration.
Everyone, Tang Zheng’s final killer move successfully deceived everyone!
First he showed weakness to the enemy and dodged frantically, then he attacked with a dagger, and finally he made a desperate throw. They all thought that this was Tang Zheng's way of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west to cover up the final punch.
No one expected that this feint to the east and attack in the west, or the crazy high-pressure Kaio-ken, were all pretexts built openly and secretly, and in the end, the fan dagger that was thrown with all its might, without even a trace of star power attached to it, was the final killing move.
Even Li Xiaoren, who was a veteran of many battles, relaxed for a moment after successfully interrupting Tang Zheng's most threatening Kaio-ken and seeing that Tang Zheng had completely lost his fighting ability.
Just when everyone thought the battle was over and the dust had settled.
Tang Zheng had already put a transparent silk string on the fan dagger. He used the inertia of Li Xiaoren knocking Tang Zheng away to retract the fan dagger and successfully delivered the last, silent and most incredible blow to Li Xiaoren from behind.
This attack, without the fluctuation of star power, could definitely not cause any substantial damage to Li Xiaoren, so he could not give any advance warning.
However, this one strike successfully gave Li Xiaoren a solid yin-yang haircut!
"You win if you can hurt even a hair on my head!" This is the condition for passing the assessment given by Li Xiaoren.
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In the end, Tang Zheng passed this almost impossible assessment perfectly with scores a thousand times better!
Jiang Wuyan was prostrated at this moment. This was the only word that could describe his feelings about the battle with Tang Zheng.
But the scene in the room now is a bit weird.
The person who said "I won" had blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, his nose and face were swollen, and his body was covered with wounds.
The "loser" person, although his face was very dark, did not suffer any substantial injuries. Just a strip of hair was cut off in the center of his head, making his hairstyle a little more unique.
The Taoist temple where Tang Zheng and his companions were was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.
A cool breeze blew over Li Xiaoren's head, but he did not reach out to touch it.
"The Yisuli Academy's baseline assessment is extremely difficult." Tang Zheng stood up and looked at Li Xiaoren with a smile.
Li Xiaoren's eyes also looked straight into Tang Zheng's, as if he wanted to find something from Tang Zheng's eyes.
He brought a lot of shock to Tang Zheng.
But what was more shocking was the shock that Tang Zheng brought to him!
"You are abnormal! I will keep a close eye on you in every assessment in the future, so you'd better remember this. Don't do anything inappropriate in Yisu Academy!" Li Xiaoren said coldly to Tang Zheng.
"Okay, okay, if you say so, then it is. I'm not normal, but I'm a cat, okay?" Tang Zheng had no way to explain to him, so he simply spread his hands and sat aside to heal his wounds.
Of course Li Xiaoren would not argue with him, he turned around and pointed at Jiang Wuyan: "Next, you!"
Jiang Wuyan's name was called, and he could only walk forward amid the strong atmosphere of confrontation.
Li Xiaoren was a four-star high-level warrior. After fighting with Tang Zheng, he hardly expended any energy. He immediately picked up the giant axe and fought with Jiang Wuyan.
The more Tang Zheng watched, the more he felt something was not right.
"Why is it that when he faces Jiang Wuyan, he has to hold back his moves both when he attacks and when he fights back... He treats him differently!"
The fight between Jiang Wuyan and Li Xiaoren was obviously not as intense as the one between Tang Zheng, but in the end Jiang Wuyan directly shredded the entire sleeve of Li Xiaoren's right hand with a sword, and it seemed that his result was much better than Tang Zheng's.
Before Tang Zheng had the time to complain, Li Xiaoren pointed at Meng Fenghua again.
Meng Fenghua was at a disadvantage against Li Xiaoren. Both of them were heavy weapons, and Meng Fenghua was far inferior to Li Xiaoren in terms of star power and combat skills...
However, a scene that surprised Tang Zheng appeared.
When Meng Fenghua was attacking, Li Xiaoren took the initiative to remove all his defenses and engaged in a pure offensive against Meng Fenghua. Then, Li Xiaoren retreated to Xiao Lingdang, who was eating snacks and watching the game, and grabbed his clothes!
With just one hand, Xiao Lingdang pulled Li Xiaoren to sit on the ground, ending the test.
"Oh my god, is this possible?" Tang Zheng was speechless.
If the scene with Jiang Wuyan was just "different treatment", then the scene with Meng Fenghua could only be described with the word "letting go".
In the end, Tang Xiaotang used the thorn whip in her hand to fight with Li Xiaoren for more than a hundred rounds, tangling Li Xiaoren's hair into a mess, breaking one or two strands, which was normal...
"Okay, the baseline assessment is over. You all passed." Li Xiaoren fought four rounds in a row, and without even taking a breath, he put away his weapon and announced the results.
Tang Zheng began to feel a little pessimistic about his future academic career.
Not only did Li Xiaoren target him specifically, but he also didn't even try to hide his feelings, making it clear that his attitude was "I don't like you", without even the appearance of being polite.
"Starting today, for fifteen consecutive days, I will serve as the instructor for the four of you."
"During these fifteen days, I will investigate your star-guiding methods in more depth, including your strong and weak points..."
"Now, line up! Each person should be two arm's widths apart. Then, raise the star sign and perform all your martial arts for me."
After Li Xiaoren finished the baseline assessment, he immediately started his first teaching for them.
