Frost Strike

Seeing Zi Yan like this, Bai Xing's expression changed as she felt the ripples of the Energy Magnetic Field seemingly integrated with her frenzied emotions.

"You all need to be careful of the bespectacled female student behind her; she's extremely skilled at using wind blade techniques for sneak attacks!"

After warning Reilo and the others, seeing Zi Yan's unstoppable momentum, Bai Xing's Energy Magnetic Field flowed around her body, and white feathers gradually appeared, making her body seem much lighter and more agile, like a floating feather.

These feathers floated around Bai Xing's body, flickering faintly, with a strange agility.

""Feathering Technique!"

The white feathers flickered and shifted, their abilities unknown.

Combat was inevitable. Seeing the strength of this female student from Xilan Duchy, who didn't seem like a first-year student, Reilo no longer foolishly held his iron sword for close combat, intending to use his own body to fight her.

With a flash, Reilo took out a magic folding fan from his spatial box, putting away his long sword.

This was the magic folding fan Wushuang had gifted Reilo when they first met. Later, due to the strange bird pattern on the fan surface, which was a mutated kite, Reilo named it the Wind Kite Fan.

Feeling the powerful magic properties of the Wind Kite Fan, Reilo sighed.

Although he couldn't activate the magic folding fan normally yet, holding it at least showed Bai Xing his long-range academic attack methods, preventing her from misunderstanding and thinking he wouldn't fight with his long sword.

Whoosh!

As an experienced mercenary, Luo Ji uncle quietly threw a throwing knife, but with a "clang," a wind blade, as transparent as jade, arrived later and perfectly neutralized the throwing knife that was sneak-attacking Zi Yan in mid-air.

"This!"

Reilo, holding the Wind Kite Fan, looked over. It was the bespectacled, mushroom-haired female student hiding under the Burning Totem in the distance, who had shot the wind blade.

Seeing Zi Yan's fierce advance, Reilo hadn't planned to confront the powerful female student head-on. He intended to choose one of the other two, or simply use Bubble Technique from afar to muddle through. When the opponent got tired, they should retreat.

Thus, he had intended to target the bespectacled female student, but the scene of her accurately blocking the throwing knife with a wind blade immediately made Reilo show disbelief.

"Impossible!"

Reilo couldn't believe that a first-year student who had just enrolled could possess such combat instincts and academic precision.

If this were the case, the bespectacled female student was probably stronger than the charging Zi Yan. The students of Xilan Academy of Natural Sciences were too strong!

Unless, she had some strange auxiliary academic skills?

"Peasant, get lost!"

Suddenly, Zi Yan unleashed a powerful explosive fireball, swatting Luo Ji uncle aside like swatting a fly, her words filled with disdain for mercenaries.

It was understandable.

In Xilan Duchy, which had a slave system, there was an insurmountable gap between nobles and commoners. The low-ranking mercenaries from the Mercenary Association were almost like household slaves in the eyes of Xilan Duchy nobles. If they dared to offend them, killing them in public would only cost a few gold coins.

Luo Ji's movements were agile, and after a few leaps, he retreated more than ten meters. The old mercenary looked at the young girl with surprise on his half-intact face.

This level of magic was clearly not in the realm of trickery like Reilo's Bubble Technique.

As a veteran mercenary, Luo Ji realized the danger and naturally wouldn't foolishly charge forward again to fight these hot-headed youngsters to the death. However, since he had taken the commission, and they were enemies of his country...

Luo Ji looked at the mushroom-haired female student wearing black-rimmed glasses and frowned.

The female student's wind blades were incredibly fast, accurately deflecting his throwing knife. Moreover, she was standing under that stone pillar filled with fiery power, which clearly had a very strong protective effect.

Luo Ji looked at the last male student from Xilan Academy of Natural Sciences.

But when he saw this male student easily trap Qiu Hei, who was aggressively lunging at him, with a chain magic item, Luo Ji frowned again.

Although this Black Flame Wolf was only a juvenile, without black smoke from its nostrils, it clearly hadn't condensed a magic core. However, its physical strength already surpassed that of ordinary beasts, and every muscle seemed to possess explosive power!

If even it was like this, he would definitely not fare well if he were trapped by this strange magic item.

What should he do?

After Bai Xing unleashed Feathering Technique, her body seemed to become as light as a feather. Seeing Zi Yan charging at her fiercely, she silently retaliated with a feather at incredible speed.

The speed of the flying feather far surpassed that of the earlier throwing knife!

Zi Yan subtly waved her magic staff, and rolling fireballs were hurled towards the flying feather and Bai Xing!

The strange feather seemed to become semi-transparent and ethereal, passing through the fireball unharmed. To Zi Yan's stunned surprise, it flashed past like an arrow and appeared in front of her.

Clink!

It was the mushroom-haired female student's wind blade again, blocking the feather's attack!

Incredibly precise control!

Under the Burning Totem, the mushroom-haired female student pushed her glasses up again and calmly said, "Her feathers have a delayed hallucinatory effect. It's not that your fire magic failed, but that what your eyes see is just the afterimage of its flight path."

As the black-rimmed glasses slightly reflected the light, her pupils were revealed: a pair of vertical pupils!

With rich combat experience and the mushroom-haired female student's reminder, coupled with recalling Bai Xing's previous escape method, Zi Yan had a good grasp of Bai Xing's abilities.

Zi Yan had absolute confidence in her own abilities!

Or rather, she had absolute confidence in the history and culture of Xilan Academy of Natural Sciences!

In past graduation assessments, Xilan Academy of Natural Sciences had taken first place among the six major academies of natural sciences in nearly three-quarters of them!

As for her two companions who were accompanying her on this external trial, Zi Yan was also quite confident. To strengthen her fire attack capabilities, Zi Yan had entrusted her defense to Xiao Nan with complete trust, which also allowed Xiao Nan to fully utilize her strengths and avoid her weaknesses.

And as for Beck?

Zi Yan's peripheral vision swept over, and seeing that the black demon wolf cub had been completely restrained by him, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but curl into a cold sneer. He looked at Bai Xing, who was once again escaping with the elusive and illusory properties of Feathering Technique, as if looking at a lamb to be slaughtered.

Whoosh!

Another feather shot out. This time, Zi Yan preemptively released a fireball. With a "poof," the feather, which was meant for an illusory sneak attack, was incinerated in mid-air. The residual power continued to shoot towards Bai Xing.

Seeing this, Bai Xing gritted her teeth. The necklace on her neck flashed silver. With a surge of magic energy, ripples spread across the semi-transparent protective shield.

The flames scattered.

However, this purple fireball seemed to possess extremely special properties. After dispersing on the energy shield, the flames didn't extinguish. They seemed to use the energy shield as a power source, reigniting.

"What kind of flame is this?"

Bai Xing, who was about to cast a counter-spell, was greatly alarmed. She quickly stopped her counter-spell, poured more energy into the magic necklace, and simultaneously activated a magic ring, firing a water arrow.

"Heh heh..."

Zi Yan's cold sneer intensified upon seeing this.

As if the magic necklace had already become part of his collection, he chanted a Curse. With a sharp cry, many purple flames converged into a fireball several times larger than before, about the size of an infant's head. It shot towards Bai Xing, who was frantically trying to extinguish the purple flames on her energy shield.

In comparison, the water arrow activated by Bai Xing's magic ring was pathetically weak and easily shattered. If Bai Xing were hit by Zi Yan's attack, she would truly be in danger!

On the edge of the battlefield, Reilo's eyelids twitched wildly.

As Zi Yan gathered the blazing fireball, Reilo could clearly feel the fear in his body's cells. What if this fireball was aimed at him?

He had initially thought this was just a friendly academic exchange between first-year students. Even if it escalated into an uncontrollable battle, he never expected any life-threatening danger.

But at this moment, Reilo clearly realized he was completely wrong!

In a state of unprecedented mental focus, Reilo instinctively warned himself to stay far away from this female student from Xilan Duchy who wielded strange purple flames. Even being grazed by the wind blade from the mushroom-headed female student would only result in a bleeding wound. But if she were hit by this advanced purple flame spell, with his current state, which was even weaker than an ordinary adult, he would truly die!

After all, he lacked a strong physique and defensive means.

And looking at the current situation, with Zi Yan being meticulously defended by the mushroom-headed female student, no one on their side could possibly stop...

"Frost Strike!"

Suddenly!

Just as Bai Xing was filled with despair and took out a beast-skin scroll to unfurl, Lulu, who, like Reilo, had rarely participated in real combat, finally overcame her nervousness upon seeing Bai Xing facing a life-or-death crisis.

She leaped into the air with incredible explosive power. The long sword in her hand even exuded a faint white frost, directly charging towards the blazing purple fireball.

With a "puff," the fireball exploded in mid-air.

Luo Ji, who was contemplating whether to sneak attack the only male student from Xilan Natural Academy or find a way to protect Reilo and retreat, suddenly his pupils contracted sharply upon seeing this scene. He murmured in disbelief, "Dout Qi Mind Technique!"

Dout Qi Mind Technique belonged to a very small number of special inheritances among Fighters.

Fighters who mastered this inheritance were even rarer than mages. They not only required certain special cultivation methods but also needed bloodline support.

The benefits of mastering Dout Qi Mind Technique were self-evident.

Ordinary Fighters, after advancing to Charging Fighter, would rely on their instincts to master the methods of using Dou Qi. However, Fighters who mastered Dout Qi Mind Technique could grasp some special abilities even at the low-level Fighter stage. Upon advancing to Charging Fighter, they could infuse these special abilities into their Dou Qi, making their combat power extraordinary.

Of course, this was just a story among a few warriors. To the scholars present, or rather, the mages, they would simply assume that this young female Fighter who suddenly exploded had mastered an ice-attribute magic sword.