Qingfeng, Give Senior Brother Some Face and Make a Move

The entire new student assessment area covered roughly twenty thousand square meters. It had now been divided into fifty sections, each around four hundred square meters—a square with sides of twenty meters. Each section had one or more teachers responsible for assessment, registration, and judging.

The morning was spent tensely drawing lots for groupings, while the assessments officially began in the afternoon. On the first day, so the new students could adapt, each group only had to complete one match before leaving.

Aside from Freshman Class One, which had only twenty-two teams, the other classes generally had more than thirty teams.

This was because, aside from Zhou Yi, the homeroom teacher who strictly followed the principle of accepting only monsters and showed little consideration for others, unless students performed especially poorly during their freshman period, teachers generally would not casually eliminate students before the New Student Assessment. They would always give them a chance to take the assessment.

In the end, a total of three hundred and eleven teams, nine hundred and thirty-three students altogether, participated in the New Student Assessment. Of those three hundred and ten teams, only one hundred and fifty would ultimately remain and officially become first-year students who could continue studying. The rest would all be eliminated.

In the team Su Qingfeng chose, Ning Tian was an auxiliary soul master, but her Soul Power Level was as high as thirty-one. She was a distinguished Soul Elder, while Wu Feng was also a level twenty-five Soul Grandmaster.

Such levels were among the best in the freshman classes. Though they could not win the championship, remaining as first-year students was beyond doubt.

Thus, in the first few battles, Su Qingfeng barely exerted any effort. He did not even release his martial soul, yet he still won.

This caused the new students and some upperclassmen to question Su Qingfeng:

"Why has this Specially Selected Student barely made a move? He is not even using his martial soul. What is he doing?"

"Could he have connections? Did he deliberately pick a powerful auxiliary team from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to carry him through advancement?"

"This is too shameless. How can he do that?"

"Didn't they say he was quite strong? Now that he is actually competing, he is just mediocre. Could those new students have been exaggerating before?"

"A connected student, a despicable connected student! We protest!"

Even Zhou Yi and Ma Xiaotao were somewhat disappointed. They had wanted to see just how far Su Qingfeng had progressed in three months.

Zhou Yi especially had learned from Fan Yu that Su Qingfeng's identity was far from simple, and Fan Yu had praised Su Qingfeng extremely highly. He had repeatedly told her not to provoke Su Qingfeng.

At first, Zhou Yi had found it ridiculous. She was a teacher at the academy, yet she had to give way to a student? How absurd was that?

But after Fan Yu said it so many times, Zhou Yi took it to heart. After all, anyone valued by Fan Yu and Xian Lin'er could not possibly be ordinary!

When Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong saw that Su Qingfeng was also participating in the New Student Assessment, their hearts tightened.

At this time, Huo Yuhao had received the Xuan Water Pill Beibei had obtained from Xu Sanshi, as well as a Rising Soul Pill. His Soul Power Level had already reached level seventeen.

As for Tang Wutong, she had been provoked by Su Qingfeng at the time. He had said that if she wanted to be with him, she had to surpass the first generation of the Shrek Seven Devils, so she cultivated desperately over the past two or three months.

She had even written to her backers—Haotian Fort—and received some medicinal pills and plants that promoted Soul Power growth. After taking them, coupled with her hidden Goddess Body, her level had reached the lofty height of twenty-six.

However, the strength their team could currently bring out had been greatly diminished.

Because of Su Qingfeng's appearance, Tang Wutong and Huo Yuhao had grown apart. Their coordination could no longer achieve perfect harmony, nor had they awakened a fusion Soul Skill belonging to the two of them. Hao Dong Power had ceased to exist from the very beginning.

Tang Wutong did not want such a skill with Huo Yuhao either. She only wanted to coordinate seamlessly with Su Qingfeng. If they could awaken a couple's Soul Skill, she would be deliriously happy.

Likewise, Huo Yuhao wanted even more to become inseparable friends with Su Qingfeng. He felt that Wang Dong was no longer sincere toward him.

After being gently rejected by Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao's fragile heart had also been hurt.

Every member of this three-person team possessed something extraordinary. One had a bug-like First Soul Ring nearly Million-Year in age and the potential to develop three martial souls; one possessed Twin Martial Souls suited for support; and the other was a daughter of a god. Unfortunately, rifts had formed between them, and sometimes they would start fighting among themselves in the middle of a battle.

Every battle fought by the Huo Wang Xiao Team was relatively difficult. They could only keep throwing out their trump cards, and before long, three of the four Soul Skills of Huo Yuhao's First Soul Ring had been exposed.

In particular, they inevitably ended up facing Su Qingfeng, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng's team.

Su Qingfeng had originally wanted the Snow Empress's ice power to compete with Tian Meng's ice power, to see whose Ice Element power was more extreme.

Unexpectedly, an extremely ridiculous scene unfolded.

Tang Wutong was the team's main assault force, yet she only fought Wu Feng and Ning Tian. With the three bug-like boosts from Ning Tian's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda at level thirty-one, Wu Feng's combat strength had already surpassed level twenty-five, and she fought Tang Wutong evenly.

Moreover, whenever the battle spread toward Su Qingfeng, Tang Wutong would stop attacking, revealing the infatuated gaze of a lovestruck fool.

Huo Yuhao was also unwilling to attack Su Qingfeng. Wu Feng seized this opportunity and used Su Qingfeng as a shield, leaving Tang Wutong and Huo Yuhao helpless.

This scene left Su Qingfeng rather speechless. This New Student Assessment match was truly far too childish.

So he simply stood to the side, unwilling to make a move.

If Huo Yuhao did not use Tian Meng's power, Su Qingfeng really had no interest.

However, Xiao Xiao was displeased with Su Qingfeng. When she thought of how Wang Dong had told her that night that she liked this Specially Selected Student, she was full of anger.

She had actually lost to a man? To any girl, that was the greatest humiliation!

She withdrew her first martial soul, and her second martial soul, the Three Lives Soul Calming Cauldron, appeared. While everyone was still shocked by her Twin Martial Souls, her Three Lives Soul Calming Cauldron had already split apart, transforming its defensive Soul Skill into an offensive Soul Skill. Its target was Su Qingfeng.

Just as the cauldron was about to smash into Su Qingfeng and he was reacting to defend himself, Wang Dong kicked that cauldron aside. A crisp sound rang throughout the entire arena.

The more Wang Dong acted this way, the more Xiao Xiao sulked. All three Soul Calming Cauldrons attacked Su Qingfeng from different directions.

At this point, even Huo Yuhao could not sit still. He used Spiritual Detection Sharing on Su Qingfeng, allowing him to evade perfectly.

Xiao Xiao nearly died of anger at Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao. She stomped her foot fiercely. "Are you two even going to fight this match or not? Didn't we agree to win the championship?!"

The students in the stands and the teachers on the platform were all utterly stunned. What the hell? What was going on? Why were they helping their opponent deal with their own teammate?

Students who did not know the truth said, "I feel bad for Xiao Xiao. One against five."

"Please note that your two teammates have defected to the enemy."

Zhou Yi stood by the railing of the viewing platform, nearly crushing it in her grip.

"Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, what are those two doing? Even if they are close with this Specially Selected Student, this is a competition. Do they want to be expelled?"

Yan Shaozhe rubbed his temples atop the platform. "What are these two little ones doing? And Qingfeng too—his charm is far too great. At Sea God Pavilion, he is doted on by all the Esteemed Elders. Now he comes to the Outer Court for a small match and pulls this stunt too. How are they supposed to save face afterward?"

"They have no competitive spirit at all. This is cheating! It is too childish! Director, they must be immediately removed from the field and disqualified!"

After noticing the situation, some teachers could no longer hold back and began berating them.

Du Weilun wore a bitter smile as he looked toward Yan Shaozhe. You think I can make the decision? I am helpless too!

"Qingfeng, give Senior Brother some face and make a move. In this match, either pin them all down and beat them, or make them go all out."

Yan Shaozhe transmitted his voice to Su Qingfeng.

"Fine. I originally did not want to use those three fools, Huo Yuhao and the others, as my test subjects. But since Senior Brother has spoken, then I will make a move."

Su Qingfeng looked up at the platform and nodded faintly. In an instant, he released his martial soul. The starry sky immediately illuminated the entire arena, and Su Qingfeng, whom everyone had regarded as a Specially Selected Student slacking off, instantly became the center of attention.