Chapter 116: The guest of heaven and earth enters the bamboo poles, crosses the river a thousand feet, and understands the three autumns...
Love may be blessed in the Spiritual Master Academy, but Shi Chan's love will only attract public outrage.
"Damn! Don't let that bastard take first place!"
Lin Zhuyue put her arms around Shi Can's neck and said:
"The weight is too heavy. You can't win."
Shi Can held Lin Zhuyue in his arms and strode down the track. The wind whistled past his ears, and his heart beat faster and faster, pounding heavily in his chest.
“Is winning important?”
Shi Can responded to Lin Zhuyue while running.
"Winning doesn't give you any extra credit, so in this situation, of course you should just do whatever makes you happy."
Lin Zhuyue closed his eyes and thought:
...Okay, as long as you are happy.
Shi Chan didn't win, but he did place very well. He stood on the podium and smiled like a fool as he received his prize.
After the borrowing race ended, Lin Zhuyue, carrying a shoulder bag, left the school with Shi Can and walked towards the Shi family residence.
Lin Zhuyue looked at the gift bag in Shi Can's hand and asked:
"What's the prize?"
"Do you want a desk lamp?"
Shi Chan handed the gift bag to her and said,
"I've opened it up and it seems pretty good. Is that desk lamp in your room having trouble staying charged? It's quite a hassle to charge it every two or three days. You should replace it."
Lin Zhuyue took the bag and said, "Thank you."
Shi Can rubbed Lin Zhuyue's head and said:
"What are you thanking me for? You contributed a lot to getting this prize."
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
Lin Zhuyue really couldn't understand what contribution he had made.
When Shi Can was running the race with borrowed objects, if he had followed the rules and chosen a three-kilogram weight, he would definitely have come first, not fourth.
And he was quite happy to get fourth place——
Shi Can is the kind of person who is very competitive. If he can't get a perfect score on the exam, it will kill him. Not only does he want a perfect score on the physical test, he also wants to get first place among his classmates who are running laps in the same batch. His goal in the four-school league is also to win the championship...
How could finishing fourth be a good thing for someone like that? It should be a mark of shame.
Five days later, the day for the qualifiers arrived.
Fights between trainee spiritualists cannot take place in the training hall unless the Spiritual Master House is mentally prepared to rebuild the training hall.
The preliminaries for four groups of contestants were held on four islands.
The competition of Group C, where Lin Zhuyue is located, is arranged on Mijing Island, southwest of Tiancheng. The island is connected to Tiancheng by a cross-sea bridge, so it is relatively convenient to drive there.
"Why did you come to watch Group C's game?"
Shi Chan looked up and looked at the person in the back seat through the rearview mirror.
"Your partner is in Group A, aren't you going to cheer him on? It's pitiful to have no one cheering him on from the sidelines."
Wen Miyan took Lin Zhuyue's hand and said:
"But I want to cheer Zhuyue up more. Between a partner and a beautiful woman, I will definitely choose the latter."
Shi Can: “…”
Sometimes I really feel that Ye Yangjia is quite pitiful.
They soon arrived at the qualifying venue. Shi Can and Wen Miyan went to the audience seats, while Lin Zhuyue went directly to the venue, signed in, and waited for the arrival of other players.
After all Group C players checked in, they drew lots to determine their first-round opponents. The draw contained twenty-seven different lots, numbered 1-27. Each number had two lots, for a total of fifty-four. Each player who drew a lot would face a player with the same number on their lot; they would become opponents in today's match.
I don’t know what kind of luck it was, but Lin Zhuyue directly drew the number 1.
After the lot drawing, all the contestants left the stage, leaving only the two contestants with the number 1 on the stage, ready to start the competition.
Lin Zhuyue nervously gripped the recurve bow in his hand.
"The first match is between Jiang Guangji from Class 3, Grade 6 and Lin Zhuyue from Class 1, Grade 4."
The referee stood in the middle of the field and said,
"Friendship first, competition second. Stop when you're ready. Contestants, do you understand?"
Lin Zhuyue and Jiang Guangji answered at the same time: "Understood."
The referee announced: "Then the game begins."
The referee left the stage as quickly as possible.
Lin Zhuyue placed the arrow on the bowstring and aimed at Jiang Guangji. To avoid injuring anyone during the competition, she had switched to a suction cup-shaped arrowhead, allowing her to draw the bow without any psychological burden.
Jiang Guangji took a step forward, moving quickly around the edge of the field while chanting a spell:
"The golden crow sets in the west, the jade plate rises in the east, the river flows south, and heavy clouds press in from the north. In all directions, the mountains are shrouded in mist. The fog is gloomy and obscure, and evil obstacles arise everywhere, obstructing people's eyes and bodies—"
Jiang Guangji chanted the spell and the magic gradually took effect.
A gray-black, cold fog enveloped the stadium and became thicker and thicker. In less than a minute, the fog had obscured his figure.
In the audience, Wen Miyan looked out at the stadium, which had turned gray and black, and asked:
"Isn't this fog harmful to the body?"
Shi Can nodded and said:
"This spell comes from mountain ghosts. They use it against humans. It can confuse vision and harm health. If you stay in there for too long, you might have to lie down for several days."
Lin Zhuyue, who was trapped in the fog and couldn't see anything clearly, did not panic.
"The guest of heaven and earth, enters ten thousand bamboos, crosses a thousand-foot river, sheds its leaves in the third autumn, and blooms its flowers in the second month—"
Lin Zhuyue threw away the bow and arrow in his hand, turned around,
"Wind Lord, summon us!"
A sudden strong wind blew away the thick fog on the field.
Lin Zhuyue caught the hand holding the knife, about to reach for her back. She followed the direction of the hand's force and pulled hard, catching the owner of the hand off guard and throwing himself to the ground. Lin Zhuyue released her hand, spun lightly, and with a graceful turn, she circled behind Jiang Guangji and pushed him flat on his face.
Lin Zhuyue reminded:
"Senior, you lose."
Jiang Guangji struggled and said, "I know, let me go..."
The first game ended smoothly and quickly.
After the referee announced the result of the match, Lin Zhuyue jumped off the field with his bow and arrow, left through the player passage, and headed to the audience seats where Shi Can and Wen Miyan were.
Shi Can and Wen Miyan moved to the sides to make a seat for Lin Zhuyue.
"boom--!"
A loud noise came from a distance.
Lin Zhuyue even felt the audience seats beneath his feet shaking.
Lin Zhuyue asked in confusion: "What's going on?"
"It should be the movement from Group B."
Shi Can handed the bottle of mineral water with the cap loosened to Lin Zhuyue and asked,
"Lucis is in Group B, right?"
Wen Miyan nodded and said affirmatively:
"Well, yes, it should be her."
"Lu Sisi's spiritual weapon is called One Flame Nine Cauldrons. It can maximize the power of fire talismans by a hundred times. The talismans originally used to attract spiritual fire will have an explosive effect when she uses them."
Shi Can said with disdain,
"You're going so hard in the first round, what are you trying to do? Blow up your opponents and the crowd?"
The twenty-seven matches in Group B did not end until late at night.
Many people in the audience couldn't hold on any longer and left early. In order to observe their opponents, Lin Zhuyue waited until the last match was over before leaving Mijing Island with Shi Can and Wen Miyan.
On their way home, they passed by the Gong family.
Gong Yongyuan leaned against his front door, a pain-relieving compress plastered on his face, a cigarette between his fingers, puffing sadly. A beagle sat at his feet, its leash tied to a roadblock instead of his.
Shi Can drove past Gong Yongyuan, then reversed and returned to Gong Yongyuan. He lowered the window and asked:
"……What’s wrong with you?"
"Has your brother beaten you to the point of you questioning your life?"
Wen Miyan, sitting in the back seat, was looking through the forum posts.
"This qualifier has already seen two famous moments: the opponent being blown away, and the cousin killing his brother... The match lasted a total of ten minutes, and Daxian was pinned down and beaten by his cousin for nine of them."
Shi Can looked at Gong Yongyuan sympathetically and said:
"Honestly, when you and your cousin were put together, you should have surrendered. Your fighting abilities are simply not on the same level."
Gong Yongyuan threw away his cigarette, raised his head, and prepared to scold Shi Can.
But before he could say anything, Bigger at his feet started to exert his strength.
The Beagle is a relatively small dog, but it is a hunting dog and has much more energy and physical strength than other dogs.
Beagle rushed out, the dog leash gradually straightened, and under Gong Yongyuan's shocked gaze, it took off with the heavy roadblock and flew into the corner of the intersection ahead.
Gong Yongyuan: “Fuck!”
Gong Yongyuan quickly took a step forward to chase the dog, and soon he and the dog disappeared from the sight of Lin Zhuyue, Shi Can and Wen Miyan.
Shi Can curled his lips, pulled the handbrake, unbuckled his seat belt, and got out of the car to help chase the dog.
Shi Can chased and shouted,
"Your brother beat you up, and that was definitely revenge for you giving him the big-eared, squealing donkey!"
"I'll go help."
Wen Miyan also got out of the car and said to Lin Zhuyue,
"Wait here. You have a game tomorrow, so save your energy."
Lin Zhuyue nodded and watched Wen Miyan leave.
After a while, someone walked out of the house, shouting as he walked:
"Brother, supper is ready. Do you want yogurt in your blueberry juice, brother?"
Yao Hanshuang walked out of the house, looked around, and then looked at Lin Zhuyue who was sitting alone in the back seat of the car and asked:
"Hello, Senior... Where's my brother?"
Lin Zhuyue described to him as vividly as possible how Big took off with the roadblock, and how Shi Can and Wen Miyan ran away with Gong Yongyuan and disappeared without a trace.
"...I see. Looks like I won't be back for a while. Senior, do you want a midnight snack? I've got some drinks ready."
Yao Hanshuang invited Lin Zhuyue into the house.
"These are freshly opened live Arctic scallops. You'd be remiss not to try them. It's okay. My aunt and uncle are both away on a mission since they're not at home."
Lin Zhuyue did not accept the invitation directly, she called Shi Can.
"If you want to eat, go ahead and eat."
Shi Chan said on the other end of the phone,
"Don't worry, Gong Yongyuan is here with me. If anything happens to you in the Gong family, I will kill him."
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