"Since you're asking to be humiliated, I'll oblige you."
Jiang Li spoke coldly, appearing utterly calm.
Even though Mu Chen had displayed a formidable aura, Jiang Li still possessed absolute confidence.
He had entered the mid-stage Spiritual Movement Realm long ago. Even among the Heaven Grade students of Northern Spiritual Academy, he was considered fairly strong.
The instant his words fell, Mu Chen stepped forward.
Ever since Tong Guan had delivered Liu Yang's message, this man had repeatedly provoked the Mu brothers. Mu Chen had kept suppressing his anger, but now it erupted completely.
A heavy muffled boom rang out from the ground. A dim black sheen covered Mu Chen's body, making him resemble a black war god clad in armor. His aura was so violent that it made hearts tremble.
"This guy..."
A strange gleam flashed through Tang Qian'er's beautiful eyes.
On the day of the Academy Trial, Mu Chen had revealed cultivation at the mid-stage Spiritual Movement Realm, but she had not taken it seriously. Yet now, he gave her an extremely powerful impression.
Tang Qian'er could sense it, and Tong Guan and Jiang Li could as well—the powerful aura surrounding Mu Chen.
They had clearly underestimated Mu Chen's strength.
Tong Guan brought two fingers together, and yellow spiritual energy surged wildly forth, forming a faintly visible sword tip that shot fiercely toward Mu Chen.
Wherever the sword tip passed, even the air seemed to be torn apart.
Tong Guan was trying to seize the initiative.
Yet Mu Chen simply raised a palm before him. His palm, glowing with dim black light, directly crushed the yellow sword radiance.
With a loud bang, Mu Chen stepped forward. Tong Guan's expression changed slightly as he rapidly retreated, bursting forth with astonishing speed. It was a movement-type spiritual art he had cultivated.
But Mu Chen was even faster. After taking only one step, Tong Guan felt as though a towering mountain had appeared before him. His expression finally changed drastically, and he could no longer remain calm.
In his past battles, even Liu Yang at his strongest, after activating his spiritual veins, had never given him such terrifying pressure, leaving him no time to reveal his full strength.
Bang!
Mu Chen's palm turned into a fist, and his fist, blazing with dense black light, smashed out.
With almost no suspense, Tong Guan's body fell backward and was smashed viciously onto the ground.
Mu Chen continued forward, making the ground tremble as he charged straight at Jiang Li.
Though it sounded slow in the telling, everything happened in the blink of an eye.
Mu Chen had forcefully defeated Tong Guan.
Jiang Li finally reacted and realized that Mu Chen was even stronger than he had imagined.
The surrounding Heaven Grade students felt their hearts tremble at Mu Chen's explosive aura, secretly thinking:
Was this guy really a new Heaven Grade student? He was stronger than most old students.
"Thousand Palm Seal!"
Orange spiritual energy bloomed across Jiang Li's palms as he continuously struck toward the air. A terrifying force immediately roared forth, transforming into vaporous palm seals.
"Go."
Jiang Li struck out nine more palms in succession. The number of palms stacked together, making the palm seals even more terrifyingly powerful.
"Break!"
A cold gleam flashed through Mu Chen's eyes. The spiritual energy within his sea of qi poured out without reservation, while domineering black light darted like lightning around his fingertips.
Screech!
That finger instantly condensed the spiritual energy into a single point, merging all the power of his body as it streaked through the air in the form of a black dot at a terrifying speed.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Loud explosions rang out as the Thousand Palm Seal was actually blocked.
The next moment, the fingertip wrapped in black spiritual energy seemed to transform into a sharp needle, piercing through the vaporous palm seals.
Jiang Li's expression changed drastically at the sight. Orange spiritual energy flooded his limbs as he leaned backward and flipped sideways. His hands hit the ground and his feet pointed skyward. When he turned his head again, he saw Mu Chen striding toward him.
Buzz!
Jiang Li swung his arms, drew in his legs, and flipped repeatedly through the air, temporarily avoiding the edge of Mu Chen's attack.
Boom!
The ground shook violently. The crowd watched Mu Chen stomp fiercely upon the ground, cracks spreading beneath his feet. Then his body shot toward Jiang Li in midair like a dim black afterimage.
"Watch out."
Someone cried out. Jiang Li's body froze in midair as he lowered his head and stared down in horror at the scene below.
Mu Chen's hand had seized his foot. A tremendous force came through it, and then Jiang Li's body plummeted downward.
With a thunderous crash, Mu Chen swung Jiang Li up with one arm and smashed him directly into the ground. Jiang Li instantly lay sprawled there, utterly motionless.
"So violent."
The watching Heaven Grade students trembled inwardly. Was this really the mid-stage Spiritual Movement Realm?
Mu Chen's sheer might had utterly overturned their understanding of cultivation.
"If any of you are still dissatisfied, feel free to step forward."
Mu Chen spoke icily.
Hearing this, the Heaven Grade students gave awkward laughs. Even Teng Yong, who had been eager to make a move moments earlier, shrank his neck back.
Seeing that no one dared step forward, Mu Chen's aura faded. He walked back behind Mu Yuan, looking like a quiet young man. Where was the tyrannical presence from moments ago?
"If Mu Chen was already this strong, then how powerful must Mu Yuan, who had taken first place in the Earth Grade, be?"
Thinking of this, the students could not help becoming even more wary of Mu Yuan and the others.
"You two brothers are really something!"
Tang Qian'er's beautiful eyes widened before she gave a bitter smile.
The moment they arrived, these two had beaten up Jiang Li, the strongest among them. Their swift and decisive methods made her see them in a new light.
"If no one provokes me, I won't provoke them."
Mu Yuan spoke casually.
He did not wish to draw excessive attention to himself, but neither would he deliberately pretend to be low-key and wrong himself.
Tang Qian'er could not help rolling her eyes.
She finally understood. He had definitely done it on purpose just now, intending to establish his authority through this. Still, it had indeed achieved the desired result.
When it came time to choose cultivation spots, Mu Yuan took a liking to an area beside a golden stone pillar. Not a single person voiced any objection.
The golden stone pillar was one of the few Spirit Gathering Pillars within the Level Three Spirit Gathering Array. It emitted the densest spiritual energy, so cultivating near a Spirit Gathering Pillar naturally produced better results than elsewhere.
Spirit Gathering Pillars were made from a material known as Spirit Gathering Stone.
Spirit Gathering Stone was a material beneficial to cultivation, and it was not cheap.
Therefore, many people regarded Spirit Gathering Arrays as a benchmark for determining whether a faction possessed abundant wealth.
Beside the stone platform extending from the golden stone pillar were four jade-like meditation cushions.
Tang Qian'er sat down cross-legged, then stretched her slender jade arms and slightly lifted her chest. Her clothes immediately outlined several alluring curves, drawing many furtive gazes from the cultivation grounds.
"This little girl is quite bewitching."
Mu Yuan shook his head. After Mu Chen and Tan Qingshan sat down, he too plopped down onto a jade meditation cushion and immediately felt the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy grow even denser.
With a thought, Mu Yuan immediately circulated the God Elephant Suppressing Prison Force, continuously drawing streams of spiritual energy into his void aperture.
He could feel that the spiritual energy within his void aperture was increasing at more than twice the speed of his previous cultivation.
Even with Mu Yuan's composure, such obvious growth in spiritual energy stirred a trace of joy within him.
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