Chapter 191 Extra Four
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"The first 'Who is my favorite student' competition has officially begun!"
"This competition will be divided into two stages—"
"The first stage is the individual group competition. Each student will join the 'Ancient Group including Cultivation' and the 'Modern Group including the Future' according to the era they belong to, and compete in groups. The winners of each group will be determined and awarded the honorary title of 'Minister's Favorite Ancient/Modern Student'."
"The second stage is the group team competition. Two groups of students will compete in a team battle. The winning group will receive the honorary title of 'Minister's Favorite Era'. The winner of the two groups will also receive the honorary title of 'Minister's Favorite Student'."
"The third stage is the award ceremony. Each student will receive a permanent title that will be passed down forever!"
"I declare that this competition has officially begun. Everyone, please applaud and welcome me!"
The system's electronic sound was a little excited, and it couldn't help but start playing electronic applause.
It had been three months since it had been separated from Zhu Qingchen. It missed Chenchen very much, but since there was nothing else to do, it didn't dare to disturb Chenchen, so it specially gathered all of Chenchen's students to hold a competition!
The entire competition is recorded, I'm sure you will like it!
but……
After the system's electronic applause finished playing, there was a dead silence in the system space.
No one applauded and no one spoke.
The system was stunned for a moment: "No, you all don't want to compete for the title?"
Liu An said indifferently: "Boring, this is clearly a provocation."
"That's right." Pei Xuan stood firmly on the side of his senior brother.
As the two of them were older and more mature, they stepped forward to take charge of the situation.
Liu An was still not used to his young body, and he subconsciously reached for his cane again. When he didn't find it, he walked in front of everyone and raised his hands: "Since you are all Master Zhu's students, then we are fellow disciples. Please be polite, fellow disciples."
Liu An raised his hand and bowed.
He was amiable, and everyone quickly returned the greeting.
Liu An looked back and didn't see the source of the strange sound. Everything was white.
He turned back and said, "This creature is acquainted with Master Zhu, so it probably has no ill intentions and is just trying to tease us. If that's the case, we won't fall for it. After a while, it will get bored and let us go."
“That’s exactly the point.”
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Liu An waved his sleeves, stretched out his hand, and made a "please" gesture: "I'll go sit over there and wait."
"good."
Liu An's tone was quite powerful, and everyone couldn't help but obey his command. They found a place at the side and sat on the ground.
"No..." The system was a little anxious, "How can you not compete? Don't you want to be 'Chenchen's favorite student'? Eh? You are not allowed to leave!"
After hearing it say this, everyone understood.
Just as Liu An said, if they ignore it, the system can't do anything to them.
Thinking of this, the group made up their minds and sat still.
The two students from the world of cultivation, Lu Nanxing and Cheng Yi, took their swords and searched around, making sure there was no danger before sitting down with them.
"Everyone can rest assured, there is no murderous intent here."
"Thank you." Liu An thanked him warmly, "I think your two friends' clothes don't seem to match ours."
Lu Nanxing and Cheng Yi were wearing clothes from the world of cultivation. Although they were also tight-sleeved clothes, they were still quite different from Chu Yunyang's clothes. They also had magic tools, talismans, and various other things on their waists.
Lu Nanxing said: "It seems that you are from the human dynasty, and we are from the cultivation world, that is..."
He didn't know how to explain it, so Cheng Yi added, "There is a world of magic."
"Really?" Lin Jingzhe's eyes lit up, "Is there really magic in this world?"
"Of course." Lu Nanxing took off the talisman from his waist and tried to activate it. "Let me show you."
Hmm...no movement.
Lu Nanxing choked and looked up at the sky.
The system said quietly, "In order to ensure a fair competition, I have temporarily sealed the magic of the two contestants."
I see.
Lu Nanxing put the talisman away: "I'll show it to you next time."
Everyone didn't feel embarrassed, and Lin Jingzhe asked again: "Since you come from a place with magic, Master Zhu must also know magic, right?"
Yes, everyone looked at them with anticipation.
"Yes." Lu Nanxing nodded. "Master's name is Yuqing. He has powerful magic skills and is well-known throughout the world. He has led the people of the cultivation world to seal the Demon Abyss twice. He is quite prestigious in the cultivation world and is the well-deserved leader of the immortals in the cultivation world."
Lin Jingzhe smiled and said, "Master is a famous scholar here, and we are all his students."
"Yes." Liu An nodded, "Master is extremely talented, well-educated, upright, kind, brave and resourceful. He is also a famous teacher in our area."
The Chu Yunyang trio who were sitting together raised their hands: "Well...it's the same over there!"
The Master is the best Master in the world!
The system said faintly: "Is this still my snack-loving, sleep-in loving minister you are talking about?"
Hearing it say this, the group suddenly raised their heads and looked for the source of the sound.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Lu Nanxing jumped up first. "Master has been fasting for a long time, breathing wind and drinking dew. He has never been involved in the mundane world. How could he possibly like to eat snacks?"
The others held him back: "Don't worry, Junior Brother. The Master does... well, likes to eat snacks."
It seemed to be like this, Lu Nanxing himself also remembered it.
He sat back down and smiled sheepishly.
Memory beautifies Master Zhu, in more ways than one.
A group of people sat together, chatting idly, mostly talking about Master Zhu.
This was the only common topic between them.
Suddenly, there was a noise coming from next door.
"I wish I was the teacher's favorite student!"
"Teacher Zhu, please treat me to milk tea!"
"I wish the teacher would comfort me and stop me from crying!"
"I wish the teacher could climb over the wall and rescue me!"
"Teacher Zhu also climbed over the wall to rescue me!"
"It's me! It's me! It's obviously me!"
The system said: "The modern group next door has already started fighting, don't you plan to compete?"
"No need for that." Liu An said calmly, "You don't have to go to great lengths to sow discord. We are all calm people, and we are worthy of Master Zhu's teachings. We will never fight against each other."
"This is just a friendly match." The system explained, "Fair competition, friendship first, competition second, you must respect your opponent."
Liu An said: "There is no need for meaningless competition."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"We are not stupid. We won't fall into your trap."
"Be sensible and send us back as soon as possible."
"Okay." The system seemed to have given up, and it turned silent and stopped talking.
A group of people sat together, listening to the quarrel next door boredly, and couldn't help yawning.
After a while, Liu An said, "It seems that it doesn't intend to let us go. We have to stay for a while. In this case, let's get to know each other, right?"
"Okay." Lu Nanxing said, "I'm Lu Nanxing, from the world of cultivation, and I'm Master's eldest disciple in the world of cultivation. This is Cheng Yi, my junior brother."
He secretly smuggled his own agenda and emphasized the words "eldest disciple".
Cheng Yi was helpless and rolled his eyes: "Yes, I am your junior brother."
Chu Yunyang also hurriedly said: "Chu Yunyang, the master's eldest disciple in the court! Even the emperor has to line up behind me!"
Xiao Chengan frowned slightly, but had no way to refute.
That's true.
At this time, Liu An said calmly: "It should be me."
Everyone turned to look at him, and Liu An added, "The Master's eldest disciple in the court should be me."
Chu Yunyang couldn't help but open his eyes wide. What? How is this possible?
Liu An raised his chin slightly with pride: "You are all very young, but I am already eighty years old. Judging from my age, I am the Master's eldest disciple."
Pei Xuan quietly tugged at his sleeve and whispered, "Brother, you are only sixty-eight this year, not eighty yet."
Liu An glanced at him and told him to shut up.
At this time, it would never be wrong to lie about your age a little.
Liu An continued, "Besides, I just mentioned that this thing is trying to sow discord. I am the leader among you all, and you all follow my lead. Whether in terms of age or status, I should be the eldest disciple."
This statement makes sense, but others listen...
Why is it so uncomfortable?
Chu Yunyang said tactfully: "Senior Brother Liu may be the eldest disciple in your place, but in other places, he may not be. Maybe our dynasty is before your dynasty?"
Lu Nanxing also said: "I think we should discuss our own affairs. Since we come from different places, we can have several senior disciples, right?"
"That's right! You can have several senior apprentices!"
Chu Yunyang and Lu Nanxing hit it off immediately. The two of them came together, clapped their hands, and smiled brightly.
Good brothers across time and space!
Liu An choked up a bit. "How can there be several senior apprentices? There can only be one senior apprentice. This person must have age, knowledge, prestige, and the ability to teach the apprentices. Compared with the two of you, I am more suitable."
"Junior Brother Liu, I can also teach you guys some magic."
Liu An opened his eyes wide in disbelief.
No, you even called him “Junior Brother Liu”?
He has never been called junior brother in his life!
Liu An is about to stand up.
Unlike students in the modern group, students in the ancient group are more particular about seniority and strive for the title of first place.
They are fighting for the position of eldest brother here, and the others are unhappy.
Cheng Yi raised his hand: "Wait a minute, I have a question."
The three of them turned their heads and said in unison: "If you have any problem, tell Senior Brother and he will help you solve it!"
"Please don't be so arrogant and talk nonsense. I am the eldest senior brother."
"Thank you. Our place is the world of cultivation, the place when the primitive world was first created, so I must be here earlier than you."
Cheng Yi didn't have time to say anything and just watched them quarreling quietly.
Finally, Cheng Yi couldn't bear it anymore and shouted, "I want to speak!"
The three senior brothers turned their heads and said, "Speak! I asked you to speak just now, but you didn't! Speak now!"
Cheng Yi stood up and said, "Seniority is useless. The order of seniority doesn't mean anything. It only means that Master met you a little earlier. It doesn't mean that you are Master's favorite disciples!"
"That's right!" Liu Yun stood up immediately, "I agree! Being the first doesn't mean I like it the most!"
Liu An glared at him: "What are you talking about?"
"I'm sorry, Grandpa." Liu Yun sat down quickly.
He sat down and more people stood up.
"I think the master likes me very much. The master's sincere teachings have made me strive for success."
"You are all from wealthy families, unlike me. I was born in poverty. It was the teacher who helped me to drive away my tyrannical adoptive father. The teacher and I depended on each other for survival and lived in a leaky thatched house. The teacher taught me how to read and write, and I think I can also..."
"According to what you said, the Master also saved me from danger. I am the Master's favorite student."
Everyone stood up from the ground and looked at each other without fear.
As they spoke, the voices of the modern group next door became louder and louder.
"I am the Master's favorite student!"
"I am!"
The Ancient Group looked at each other and said, "So what? We fell into the trap too, right?"
I just told you not to fall for it, but now...
"We can't give in on this kind of thing. They're still arguing. How about we just do it?"
"Everyone here is quite good at talking. There's no point in talking nonsense. Let's just fight."
The system got anxious again: "No, I didn't ask you to fight! I asked you to compete! To learn from each other! I asked you to reminisce about our past together, not to fight!"
No one cares about it.
Everyone rolled up their sleeves and prepared to fight.
Then he looked at the two people from the cultivation world and said, "Put down your weapons first. Let's spar in a friendly manner. No swords are allowed."
"If you don't need it, then don't use it." Lu Nanxing and Cheng Yi threw aside their swords and the things hanging on their waists.
Liu An turned his wrist to confirm that his young body was still useful.
Lu Nanxing and Cheng Yi said, "We in the cultivation world have been training our bodies since childhood, so you should be careful."
Chu Yunyang said: "Who doesn't exercise? Look at my strong arms."
Liu An pushed Pei Xuan out: "This is a cook. You should know the strength of a cook."
Liu An felt that he might not be safe, so he asked Pei Xuan to fight in his place.
The system frantically tried to stop the fight: "No, I didn't ask you to fight!"
The group was about to start a fight.
The system had no choice but to loudly announce: "Okay, okay, now we enter the second stage!"
The next second, with a "boom", the space was opened up.
Everyone in the ancient group looked back.
The students in the modern group were also stunned.
Why is there still something here?!
People on both sides pointed at each other in disbelief: "You too? You all?"
Why are there so many?
It’s almost twenty in total!
How many students does Teacher Zhu have? Why is it so endless?
Shi Ran, who came from the interstellar era, couldn't help but clench his fists and said, "Humans from the ancient times? After the teacher left the interstellar era, he went to find you, right?"
Chen Hesong pushed up his glasses and said, "Since this is an illusory system world, fighting in a group should not be against the law."
The ancient group was on high alert.
"Where are you from? You're dressed weirdly."
"What have you taught your students?"
"I don't care, I'm the eldest brother anyway!"
With a "whoosh", three to five cards appeared in everyone's hands.
The system's electronic voice sounded: "Don't fight, play cards."
Everyone looked down and saw different words written on the cards in their hands, such as "I have read the article to the Master" and "I have been taught the principles of life by the Master".
Everyone looked at each other fiercely and said, "Let's play cards!"
The ancient group and the modern group gathered all their cards together, divided into two camps, squatted on the ground, and started playing cards in the "primary school chicken style".
"A pair of 'showing the article to the Master'!"
"A pair of 'had dinner with the Master'!"
"don't want."
"'Had breakfast, lunch and supper with the Master', all in one go!"
"'Listen to the Master's Teachings', bomb!"
Everyone gathered together, holding their breath, watching the card game motionlessly, their palms sweating.
nervous.
"Click, click," the system is cracking electronic melon seeds.
This is what it likes to watch the most.
The game lasted for a long time, and by the end, everyone was sweating.
Liu An, who represented the Ancient Team, took a look at the cards in his hand and said, "I advise you to admit defeat. We still have a lot of cards here."
Shi Ran, who represented the modern team, also said, "You should admit defeat. We have a lot of people here."
“We’re all big names here.”
"Our cards are not small either."
"Are you sure you don't want to admit defeat?"
"Of course not."
"Then go for it."
"Let's go all in. Come on, you count to 'three, two, one', and we'll go all in together."
"Okay. Three...two...one!"
People on both sides threw the cards on the ground at the same time!
"'Saved by the Master'!"
“Who can beat me?”
The system said faintly: "Oh, no, it's a draw."
"No, how can this be considered a draw? It's obvious that we have more ancient decks!"
"That's because there are more of you. The number of cards is not equal. This game is unfair!"
"You say it's unfair if you lose?"
"It's not that I say it's unfair because I lost, it's that the game was unfair in the first place."
Before they could argue about who was right or wrong, suddenly, the pure white floor beneath everyone's feet cracked, the system space ruptured, and everyone fell down before they could even react.
With a "crash", the cards scattered all over them.
A dozen people landed on the desert, picked up the scattered cards and put them in their arms.
Suddenly, someone pointed to a place not far away and shouted, "Master!"
Everyone looked up.
On the barren desert dunes, there is a thin silhouette.
Hearing their voices, the figure turned around.
Zhu Qingchen's dress was a little strange.
He was wearing the scarlet robe of an ancient civil servant, with modern gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, a feather hat from the interstellar era on his head, and in his hand a scepter with bells ringing and strips of cloth fluttering in the wind.
Zhu Qingchen opened his arms, as if he was embracing his students, or as if he was embracing the vast world.
On the desert hills, a group of students lined up and followed their teacher.
The setting sun casts a silhouette on the hills.
Like a student traveling around with a bard.
But if you get closer, you can hear their chirping.
"Teacher, I wanted to pick you up after the battle. Why did you suddenly disappear? Did you go to find them?"
"Master, when will we meet again? Pei Xuan and I are both dying. Can we see you after we die?"
"Teacher, can I have your phone number? Can I call you? Do you have a phone number?"
Finally, someone asked the question they all wanted to ask.
"Master, who is your favorite student?"
"Uh..." Zhu Qingchen's smile froze, "This..."
He stopped and thought for a moment.
At this time, a tall figure appeared not far away.
Zhu Qingchen immediately pointed at him and said, "The big villain, the big villain is my favorite person!"
(End of the book)
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