The three major organizations in the Blackstone Settlement are three pillars, and it can be said that they live in peace most of the time.
The ability to maintain such a stable and peaceful situation is largely due to the existence of the three 'human pillars' swordsmiths.
Master Qi, Gao Mingliang and Peng Xianxi, the president of the Swordsmiths Guild, are the only three swordsmiths in the Blackstone settlement who have fully awakened the soul sword. Their strength is very different. No one is sure to suppress the other two, and they are afraid of each other.
This is why the stable situation has continued to this day.
Under such circumstances, if Master Qi and Gao Mingliang knew that Peng Xianxi had suffered a serious injury that was difficult to recover from, they might have different thoughts.
The Swordsmiths' Guild, which has lost the protection of the 'Human Pillar' swordsmiths, is undoubtedly a piece of fat in the eyes of others. The Autonomous Committee and the Blackstone Chamber of Commerce are bound to pounce on it and take a bite, or even join forces to swallow it whole.
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In any case, Peng Xianxi's failure to appear in the insect wave defense battle must have aroused the suspicion of the Autonomous Committee and the Blackstone Chamber of Commerce. The two organizations will definitely start investigating and testing, depending on how long the Swordsmiths Guild can hide it.
As his thoughts raced, Lin Ze had roughly guessed the next development of the matter, but he was not as worried as Su Lin, and was actually a little happy.
The more difficult the situation faced by the Swordsmiths Guild, the smoother it will be when he proposes a deal in the future.
"The practice of healing spiritual arts must also be put on the agenda!" Lin Ze thought to himself.
While the swordsmiths were busy collecting insect cores, Lin Ze and Su Lin said hello and went straight back to the guild's underground training room, exited the game, and entered the world of the Royal Court.
There are still twenty days before the start of the academy competition, and Lin Ze has mastered five spiritual arts in total, namely Weapon Armor, Green Thorn, Ten Thousand Blades, Simulation Element and Spiritual Ring.
Among them, the Ten Thousand Blades Spiritual Technique has been able to condense twelve weapons, which is considered a slight success.
As for the spirit ring, it has not yet been fully mastered, and the integration with soul energy is still being explored, but if nothing unexpected happens, it should be able to be successfully practiced before the academy competition.
"There are still twenty days left, which is enough for me to fully master and improve the spirit ring technique. After the academy competition is over, I can start practicing the healing technique."
With some calculations in his mind, Lin Ze put aside his distracting thoughts and continued to practice the spirit ring technique in the quiet room.
Time flies.
Twenty days passed quickly, and the college competition came as scheduled.
As soon as he stepped into the gate of the college, Lin Ze felt the warm atmosphere in the air.
Looking around, I saw that there were many more students coming and going than usual. Their faces were filled with excitement, anxiety, or solemn expressions.
Because there are no fixed class hours, students do not need to come to the academy every day, so it is difficult to see such a crowded scene like today on weekdays.
The venue for the competition was set in an open square, with four large isolated arenas in the center and a large number of seats already placed around the arena.
As soon as Lin Ze stepped into the square, he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure from the corner of his eye. He turned around and saw Chen Mu Zhen waving his arms happily to him not far away.
"There are so many people today!"
When Lin Ze approached, Chen Muchen pulled him to sit down on the chair and whispered excitedly, "Dean, the two vice-deans and teachers are here, as well as the palace affairs officers and nobles are also here.
A lot!"
"Of course, after all, it is an annual competition." Lin Ze followed Chen Muzhen's gaze and his eyes fell on the seats that came out of the special circle on the opposite side of the ring.
That is a place specially reserved for the dean of the college, teachers, palace stewards and nobles.
Sitting in the center of the first row is Su Xi, the dean of Zhenyang Academy of Spiritual Arts.
Su Xi is sixty-three years old, but her appearance is similar to that of forty years old. She is energetic, has a long beard, and has a rather fairy-like temperament.
According to the intelligence collected by Lin Ze during this period, Su Xi is one of the only two seventh-level great spiritual masters in the royal court. Apart from the palace spiritual master who lives in the palace all year round and is always guarding the Spirit King,
Apart from the chief master, he is the strongest and most famous, and is one of the biggest bosses in the world of Royal Court.
As if aware of Lin Ze's gaze, Su Xi suddenly turned her head, her eyes met Lin Ze's, paused, and nodded to him with a smile.
Lin Ze nodded back, then looked away and looked at the others.
Sitting on either side of Su Xi were the two vice-presidents of the academy, Zhu Zhongqun and Xiao Shengrui. Both of them were sixth-level great spiritualists, and their status in the academy was second only to Su Xi.
As for the palace affairs officers and other nobles, Lin Ze observed them carefully for a while. After finding that there were no important people, he quickly lost interest, looked away, and chatted quietly with Chen Muchen next to him.
This college competition adopts the principle of voluntary registration. Not all students will participate. Those who dare to register either have confidence in their own strength and want to show off their skills, or they come with the mentality of experience.
, I want to hone myself by fighting against strong players.
Chen Muchen majored in healing spiritual arts and his combat effectiveness was not high, so he did not sign up for the academy competition, but his mentality was very relaxed.
"I just went to the bulletin board to see that you are A-23. Your opponent in the first game is in the lower order, so you are A-24. I have inquired about it, and the students of A-24 are only one level.
Definitely not your opponent!" Chen Muzhen had obviously done enough homework and had researched the strength of Lin Ze's opponent in advance. He held a book full of densely written small words and analyzed it seriously, "The contestants will be divided into three parts.
There are four groups, A, B, C and D, and the first six duels will be played within the same group, until the group winner is determined, then there will be inter-group duels!"
"Sister Tang Zhen is not participating in the competition, so the four students who are expected to win the championship, Cheng Yue, Wang Xian, Qu Jianwen and Cui Jianping, are divided into four groups. Among them, Wang Xian is in group A. He is the one you need to pay attention to most.
opponent!"
Chen Muchen spent a lot of time with Lin Ze, so he naturally noticed the latter's progress during this period. He knew that it only took him less than four months to master multiple spiritual techniques, and his own spiritual power had reached level two.
With his level of cultivation, most ordinary first- and second-level students are no match for him. There is only one strong opponent in the same group, and that is Wang Xian!
As long as Wang Xian is defeated, qualifying for the group is almost certain!
Thinking of this, Chen Muchen's pretty face couldn't help but reveal a solemn look, and his eyes began to scan the crowd, and he quickly locked onto Wang Xian's figure, staring at him intently, as if he planned to use his eyes to kill Lin Ze's biggest opponent first.
Seeing the girl's expression in his eyes, Lin Ze's heart warmed slightly and he also laughed a little.
Chen Muchen regarded Wang Xian as his strong rival, but to him, he was far from being a rival.
After thinking for a while, he casually called up his personal panel.
crow
[Human male, 20 years old]
[Level: Elite]
[Points: 402]——
Body training——
Physical fitness: 25
Basic fighting level 4
Aura lv3——
Arms——
Red Lotus (can be liberated, awakening level 13.08%)
Sword skill level 4——
Wanfa——
Aura lv3
Just as Lin Ze expected, before the academy competition came, his spiritual energy skills successfully broke through to level 3, and both the total amount and quality of spiritual energy were greatly improved.
Even in terms of aura and ordinary spiritual arts, he is now among the best among third-level spiritual masters, and there is also the existence of Honglian.
On the other hand, after successfully mastering the spirit ring spirit technique, Lin Ze also received a reminder to achieve the ‘Spiritual Art Master I’ achievement and received a 5-point reward.
Clearly another series of achievements!
This surprised him quite a bit.
"It seems that my previous guess was correct. Mastering spiritual arts does have a series of related achievements."
Now there is another source of points to earn in the Royal Court World.
"quiet!"
While he was deep in thought, a loud voice suddenly sounded in the sky above the square. It spread throughout the square in an instant and suppressed all the conversations at once.
Everyone looked around and found that the speaker was a very senior teacher in the college. They quickly fell silent and looked like they were listening.
Seeing this, the teacher nodded slightly and began to explain the rules of the competition.
The first half is similar to what Chen Muzhen told Lin Ze, and the second half is about the progress of the game. The four groups A, B, C and D compete at the same time. They are located in four different arenas and take turns playing according to the arranged numbers.
The rules were very simple, and no one raised any objections. Soon, the competition officially began.
Lin Ze and Chen Muchen were right in front of the Group A ring, and could clearly see what was going on in the ring.
The first person to come up were two male students with somewhat unfamiliar faces.
After coming to the world of Wangting, Lin Ze has never seen a battle between serious spiritual masters. Although the melee in the training gym was enjoyable to watch, it was too chaotic and nothing could be seen at all.
So after all, the academy competition in front of me was the first time I saw spiritualists fighting.
The teacher serves as the referee during the competition and is also responsible for watching over the competition to prevent accidents.
With the referee's order, the game officially started.
In an instant, a halo of light appeared in front of the two students, and a thick steel buckler appeared in the void. Then the two of them raised their arms in unison, aiming their palms at each other.
The halo reappeared, and one of them quickly condensed a cyan light bullet the size of a basketball in front of his palm, while the other person condensed three sharp arrows that seemed to be real.
Green bullets and spirit arrows!
Both spiritual arts are low-level spiritual arts. Only low-level spiritual masters whose spiritual power is of a lower level and cannot support the consumption of higher-level spiritual arts will use them as regular spiritual arts.
Obviously, the two students on the field should only have first-level strength and not many spiritual arts. The ensuing battle quickly evolved into a situation where they were on the same spot against A. The two of them continued to use green bullets and spiritual arrows to attack each other back and forth.
, until one of the shields was unable to hold up and was blown to pieces. It had no time to regroup and was hit by the opponent's spiritual magic, thus declaring defeat.
The uniforms worn by the students were specially made and had a certain defensive effect against spiritual arts. Therefore, even if the defeated student was hit by a green bullet from the front, he did not suffer much injury. His face was just slightly pale and he turned around.