"Ha ha ha... In all my years, this was the first time I had heard a new student say something like that. Since that was the case, I would grant your wish."
"If they won, the Fire Energy Hunting Competition would continue, but you would owe each of them ten days of Fire Energy. If you won, all their Fire Energy would be yours."
"Kid, did you still dare to challenge all of them by yourself?"
Elder Wan seemed to be someone who enjoyed watching the excitement grow. Smiling, he proposed the stakes for this one-against-ninety-nine wager.
Wu Yong smiled calmly and looked at the hesitant new students. "I don't think that's enough. If they can defeat me, I'll owe each of them one hundred days of Fire Energy."
"Elder, please bear witness. These are my words, Wu Yong's words!"
He was insane—completely insane!
Hu Gan and the others looked at Wu Yong and felt that this kid had truly lost his mind!
They were extremely curious about what treasure this kid had obtained in the Library Pavilion. Less than two days had passed, yet it had given him the confidence to fight ninety-nine people alone?
Even if he was a Two-Star Dou Ling, there were fifty Da Dou Shi among the old students alone, including a One-Star Dou Ling—not to mention the forty-nine new students.
How did Wu Yong dare?!
The new students, seeing Wu Yong act so arrogantly, could no longer hold back either. Wasn't what he said no different from taking a dump on their heads?
He simply did not regard them as people at all!
Since that was the case, what were they waiting for? Fight him!
"Wu Yong, I admit that you're very strong, but you're far too arrogant. I refuse to believe that with so many of us attacking together, you can still take our Fire Energy."
Liu Xu, who had not fought Wu Yong before, was burning with anger. Waving his arms, he shouted to the people behind him, "Brothers, attack together! Teach this bastard who doesn't take us seriously a lesson!"
"Attack!!!"
"Take my Ghost Wood Thorn!"
Several elders had already used Dou Qi Transformation Wings to fly into the sky, leaving this space to the students.
Standing where he was, Wu Yong watched the various Dou Techniques flying toward him as if he had gone foolishly still.
Only when those colorful Dou Techniques passed through Wu Yong's afterimage did everyone realize something was wrong.
But it was already too late. A cyan figure charged into the crowd, and before the students could react, more than a dozen of them had already been kicked into the air!
"Not good! Everyone, spread out! Don't stand together!"
Someone shouted instructions. In this situation, they did not even have a chance to unleash their Dou Techniques. They were standing too densely packed, and a careless move could injure their own people.
However, Wu Yong did not seem inclined to give them that opportunity.
His figure appeared outside the crowd. The Power of Heaven and Earth within a thousand meters gathered at Wu Yong's command, and he kicked a cyan footprint dozens of meters wide toward the crowd.
Seeing this, the old and new students attacked together to block it, sending all manner of colorful Dou Techniques flying toward that enormous energy footprint.
A terrifying collision of energy erupted. More than half the students were seriously injured by the dreadful energy shockwaves and fell to the ground, unable to rise.
A layer of cyan energy shield had appeared around Wu Yong. As the residual energy slowly faded, the shield vanished into nothingness as well.
Though he stood alone, Wu Yong remained completely unscathed.
Glancing at the several dozen people still standing across from him, Wu Yong's lips curled slightly.
"I wonder if you can block my next move?"
The surrounding Power of Heaven and Earth gathered once more, allowing Wu Yong to manipulate it as he pleased. It formed a cyan upper-bodied giant forty to fifty meters tall, whose two enormous palms swept toward the students.
The students had yet to recover from their shock. At this sight, their faces turned deathly pale as they watched the figure controlling that giant, their hearts slowly sinking.
In the sky, the elders who saw this were equally stunned.
At the same time, countless sounds of air splitting rang out. Many powerful figures from the Inner Academy had noticed the disturbance and were gathering here.
Then, they witnessed an incomparably shocking scene.
That new student could actually control such immense Power of Heaven and Earth, defeating all ninety-nine other new and old students with an overwhelmingly forceful display!
Before Wu Yong, who controlled the Power of Heaven and Earth, there was no difference between a Dou Ling and a Da Dou Shi.
Unless one was at the Nine-Star Dou Ling Peak, with one foot nearly in the Dou Wang realm, perhaps they could hold out for a few more blows?
"Did that little fellow do all this? If I remembered correctly, he should be one of this year's new students, right?"
An Inner Academy elder who had just flown over cried out in astonishment. Since when had new students become this fierce?
Before Hu Gan and the others could answer, Wu Yong below made another move.
The giant suddenly held a hundred-meter-long cyan blade and slashed horizontally at the nearby forest.
BOOM!!!
The massive commotion caused the students lying on the ground to raise their heads and look toward its source.
When the smoke and dust cleared, everyone who saw what had happened inhaled sharply in unison.
"Hiss!"
Every tree in the blade's path had been cut cleanly in half at the waist.
That bare stretch of land was incomparably conspicuous.
The Inner Academy elders who had just arrived likewise sucked in a breath of cold air, staring in disbelief at the youth who had dismissed the blade-wielding giant.
"Everyone, I won."
Wu Yong held a black Crystal Card between two fingers. There was not a trace of arrogance on his face; instead, he was incomparably calm.
As though everything was simply meant to be this way.
Heaven and earth fell silent, and every gaze focused on him.
It was because this seemingly tranquil youth radiated the aura of a powerful expert that made others take notice.
Even the Inner Academy elders in the Dou Wang realm unconsciously descended from the sky.
This was the rule of the Dou Qi Continent: the strong were revered.
A short while later, Wu Yong used his cyan Crystal Card to swipe the Fire Energy from the last old student. Led by the elders, he finally saw the Inner Academy, which lay within a meteor crater.
Because of Wu Yong's actions, it was only noon. Many old students of the Inner Academy saw a group of new and old students with their heads lowered, arms around each other's shoulders, walking into the Inner Academy.
This scene left many people in the Inner Academy puzzled. How had so little time passed, yet those old students had already become so close with the new students?
However, an hour later, they all learned the answer.
It was because a truly fierce figure had arrived this year. Without discrimination and with perfect equality, he oppressed every student, whether old or new.
In less than half a day, dozens of large and small factions throughout the Inner Academy had all been crushed and forced to pay protection fees.
Even a small group made up entirely of female students was not spared by that bastard. He even forced the female students in that group to become his personal maids, or else he would beat them until they could no longer care for themselves...
Now, among all the groups in the Inner Academy, aside from the top few on the Strong Ranking who were still cultivating in the Tianfen Qi Refining Tower and had not fought that bastard, everyone else had suffered crushing defeat.
In less than a day, the Inner Academy had been turned upside down. Countless people eagerly awaited the strongest few on the Strong Ranking to emerge and punish that reckless bastard!
Amid everyone's anticipation, Lin Xiuya, ranked second on the Strong Ranking, finally emerged from the Tianfen Qi Refining Tower.
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