I Have a Countermeasure!

After the dinner ended, he said goodbye to his classmates at the restaurant near the school.

Bai Mo slowly walked home, feeling that the training had been very effective.

After returning to his room, he did his daily cultivation.

At the same time, Lin Dongjun was on Feixin bragging to her little bestie far away at Mingzhu Affiliated High School.

Junjun: Lulu, listen, I beat Bai Mo from our school today.

Junjun: Guess how I beat him?

At the dining table, Lu Yuan, a teacher from Mingzhu Affiliated High School, looked at the two messages that had come in on his daughter's phone and frowned slightly.

He thought about it. This person seemed to be his daughter's friend. His daughter had gone to the bathroom and might be a while. As for news about Bai Mo, he was terribly curious, so he tapped twice on the phone.

Lulu: How?

Junjun: Not telling you.

Lu Yuan froze. How was he supposed to reply? He thought about the way his daughter Lu Lu usually spoke, then tapped the keyboard a few times.

Lulu: You're sick!

Junjun: eye-roll/why are you cursing me, are you mad now?

Junjun: I can tell you, but come to my house this weekend. Cuddles.

Lu Yuan's brows drew tightly together. What did "cuddles" mean? Forget it, never mind that. The news about beating Bai Mo was more important, so he replied with a single word.

Lulu: Okay.

Junjun: Not bad. So obedient.

Junjun: I used Light Radiance to blind him. He couldn't dodge it, and he couldn't find me either. Then I directed my teammates and they caught him all at once.

Junjun: Awesome, right/cool

"Light Radiance." Lu Yuan murmured under his breath, his eyes lighting up as if Light Radiance had been cast inside them. They gradually grew brighter, and in the end he slammed a fist onto his own thigh and sighed inwardly:

What a good idea! How had he not thought of it?

Then he looked at the phone screen after it went dark, then glanced toward the restaurant bathroom. After hesitating for a moment, he still decided not to delete the chat history.

He knew what he had done was wrong, but it was all for work. As the leading teacher of the Mingzhu Affiliated High School team, this was his responsibility!

When Lu Lu came back later, he would apologize to her and buy her some gifts.

He believed she would understand.

Thinking that, the faint trace of guilt in Lu Yuan's heart vanished completely.

In the room.

Bai Mo was meditating, holding the Void Source Stone in his hand.

With the Void Source Stone accelerating things further, it felt like turning on a faucet. His cultivation was growing at a blistering speed.

A day later, under Su Ning's lead, Bai Mo once again came to Modu Grand Arena with Zhou Tianyuan and the other two.

The round of twelve to six had already ended. Today, the round of six to three was about to begin.

The first thing before the match was drawing lots!

The custom of the captain going up to draw lots had been carried over from the National Institute Tournament.

Bai Mo went up to draw lots. Their opponent was Canglan High School. He had no idea what the situation was.

He glanced at the big screen. They were in the first match.

So he walked out of the Arena and looked at Su Ning. Su Ning pressed her lips together, sighed, and then said:

"This school has a mage who can use Mid-Level Magic. He's a rare Shadow Element mage. This is what he looks like."

Su Ning took out her phone, pulled up a picture, and showed it to them.

The four of them nodded slightly. It was a male student, with protruding ears, very easy to recognize.

"But the three seconds before the match won't be enough for him to complete his magic," Su Ning continued. "His secondary element is Earth Element. Their team also has a Plant Element student."

Just as she said this, the broadcast sounded as well. "Will the contestants for the first match please get ready!"

"Let's go. It's starting." Bai Mo swept his gaze over Zhou Tianyuan and the other two, then took the lead into the Arena.

The one leading the other side was precisely that Mid-Level Shadow Element mage. After they exchanged names, Bai Mo learned that he was called Gu Yuan.

They returned to their designated positions and stood still.

The referee's countdown rang through the whole venue.

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

"The match begins!"

In just an instant, the opposing Plant Element mage released his vines.

"Vine Transformation—Binding!"

The ground beneath Bai Mo's feet suddenly burst open. A dozen or so Vine Branches as thick as an adult's arm, covered in dense little barbs, grew out swiftly and ferociously under someone's control, about to bind Bai Mo's legs before wrapping around his entire body.

"Wind Track!"

The instant he sensed something wrong with the ground beneath him, a faint cyan-white Star Trace swept past Bai Mo's eyes.

"Drifting Shadow!"

Gales gathered. With just one lift of his foot, invisible tracks of wind spread across the entire Arena.

In the blink of an eye, Bai Mo dragged out a series of illusory afterimages and appeared somewhere else.

"Lightning Seal!" Mei Qian's eyes flashed with electricity as cyan lightning, carrying a violent aura, struck toward the Plant Element mage opposite her.

The Plant Element mage lifted his eyes to glance at the incoming thunderbolt and recognized at once that it was Soul Lightning.

But from this far away, even without any movement spell, he could dodge it easily.

He started running.

As for his teammates, none of them focused their attention on their clash.

After Bai Mo came to a stop, one Lightning Element teammate and one Fire Element teammate immediately hurled their magic at the spot where Bai Mo stood.

At the same time, an earthy-yellow light flashed and vanished in the Shadow Mage's hand.

A patch of loose, soft sand began flowing beneath Bai Mo's feet.

"Heh, you think this can trap me?" Bai Mo chuckled softly, lifted a foot, and stepped out of the Sluggish Land.

Facing the incoming thunder and flames, he neither dodged nor avoided them. A sharp Silver Light rose in his eyes.

He casually traced his palm beside him, and a wall formed from Space Shield blocked the area three meters in front of him.

The incoming lightning and bursting flames all slammed into the Space Wall.

"Boom~~~~~~~!"

There was clearly nothing ahead, yet it was as if they had crashed into a reef that had stood for ten thousand years.

A thunderous roar rang out.

Bai Mo turned his steps, swept past the Lightning Light and blazing flames before him, and his silver-lit eyes swept over the four people opposite him.

He had no intention of letting Gu Yuan complete the Shadow Nail. Although, with his Mental Power, he could easily break free of the Giant Shadow Nail's restriction very quickly.

But there was no need to go through that trouble.

Another bright star line cut through space.

Then the invisible Force of Dispersion swept out along with Bai Mo's silver-lit gaze.

It was like a giant raising a hand to brush across a dust-stained book, gently sending several people outside the Arena.

"Zhilan High School wins!"

The referee froze for a moment before shouting it. He had not expected today's match to be resolved so quickly again.

"Wind Element!" The small number of people who understood Bai Mo's information all furrowed their brows, their expressions turning extremely ugly once more.

But they soon recovered. These people had long known they might not be able to beat him.

They were already thinking about bravely fighting for second place.

Still, if they ran into Bai Mo and the others in the next match, they would have to struggle a little.

"How is this Bai Mo so strong?!"

"Wasn't his second element Summoning? Looks like he's found his Summoned Beast."

"Summoned Beast? He still has a Summoned Beast! His Summoned Beast hasn't even come out, so how are we supposed to fight him?!"

"I have a Summoned Beast too. What's there to be afraid of?" a boy wearing a hat said.

"The Summoned Beast is secondary. The problem is how to block his Space Element!" someone pointed out the key issue.

Over at Mingzhu Affiliated High School, team leader teacher Lu Yuan looked calm as he listened to his students shouting and clamoring, while in his heart he was thinking about his daughter, who had left in anger yesterday.

"Teacher, do you have a way?" Lu Yilin's voice called Lu Yuan back to his senses.

Turning his head, he looked at his nephew, who was also the current captain of the Mingzhu Affiliated team, Lu Yilin. Lu Yuan said lightly:

"Don't be afraid. I have a plan! If you run into him, Yilin, Bei Yao." He called out the names of the two Light Element Mages on the team.

"You two release Light Radiance with everything you've got and wear him down until Dong Shan finishes drawing Fierce Fist."

After speaking, he looked at the hat-wearing boy on the team, who was also the school's only Summoning Element student, and said:

"Ye Zi, while Light Radiance is ongoing, summon your Rock Demon Beast. It isn't afraid of Light Radiance. Take care of Bai Mo's three teammates first, then try to deal with him."

Hearing this, the five students' eyes lit up. Although Lu Yilin felt somewhat indignant that he was only an auxiliary, he did not continue being arrogant.

There was no helping it. Their opponent was too powerful.

"That method is good!" Lu Yilin said. "Bai Mo may be able to dodge traps and block Beginner Magic, but can he block light? Can he dodge light?"

"No!" a boy who was obviously one of Lu Yilin's hangers-on, with a strangely pretty face and slicked-back, powdered looks, said at once. "We still have to rely on the captain's ability to lead us to the championship!"

The other team members exchanged glances, all seeing the speechlessness and disgust in each other's eyes.

Even so, they all voiced their support for this method. There really was no better way to handle it.

After the referee announced the result, Bai Mo went down together with his teammates—his seat-filling props.

Zhao Qingying and Zhou Tianyuan looked as calm as ever. They had already accepted the fact that they were nothing more than front-row spectators.

Mei Qian, on the other hand, secretly clenched her fists, cheering herself on, hoping that one day she would also have the strength to fight many opponents alone.

By the afternoon of the second day, the top three had been decided.

Bai Mo's team received a bye and waited for Mingzhu Affiliated High School and Songjiang Experimental to face off, after which the final match would be held.

Bai Mo watched this slightly more exciting match.

They defeated Songjiang Experimental, who also had Mid-Level Magic, with only a single Summoned Beast and Lu Yilin, a Mid-Level Light Mage.

That person from Mingzhu Affiliated High School called Ye Zi was actually of the rare Summoning Element, which slightly surprised Bai Mo.

Ding Yumian had not told him, probably because she felt this person would not pose much of a problem for him.

His Rock Demon Beast was fairly large, but with Bai Mo's current Mental Power, lifting it would be very easy.

Come to think of it, ever since he had gained the Space Element, he had never thrown rocks before.

More importantly, he had heard a little family story from Lin Dongjun.

He was looking forward to tomorrow's finals a little.

Only a little!