Luo Tai

"Luo Tai!"

Lin Qing didn't have much of an impression. Although he had been watching the assessments for the past few days, he mainly focused on Ma Ziye and Li Ping. Even if someone else performed exceptionally well, he didn't have time to watch them because all the fights on the eighteen arenas were taking place simultaneously.

However, he didn't know who Luo Tai was, but Luo Tai knew him.

Just as Lin Qing was about to leave, he suddenly felt a malicious intent coming from behind, causing a faint pricking sensation all over his body.

He frowned, turned around abruptly, and saw a tall young man with short red hair, nearly ten feet tall, striding towards him. His eyes were like those of a jackal, extremely aggressive.

"Remember my name, I am Luo Tai. I don't know how you managed to obtain the Gold Token from Steward Wang, but that doesn't matter. In three days, this Gold Token will definitely belong to me."

"It's good for young people to be energetic, but being too confident can lead to a big fall," Lin Qing said calmly.

He hadn't expected Luo Tai to be so domineering, making threats right away and acting so arrogantly, as if he didn't take him seriously at all. This was typical of the geniuses of the Prefectural City; they had never experienced any setbacks from childhood and unconditionally believed in themselves. However, such a mentality was extremely fragile. If one day they encountered an even more terrifying genius and were ruthlessly crushed, their mentality would completely collapse, and they might even never recover.

The conversation between the two immediately attracted a crowd of onlookers. These people, who had just finished the assessment and were about to leave in small groups, suddenly found something amusing and stopped to leave, discussing it amongst themselves.

"Hmph, three days from now, I hope your skills are as tough as your mouth." Luo Tai turned and left. He had grown up in the Luo Family since childhood, living a life of luxury with servants attending to his every need. He looked down on these geniuses from various county towns from the bottom of his heart.

"What geniuses? They're just a bunch of country bumpkins fantasizing about defying fate. Your goal is just the starting point for me." After walking away, Luo Tai turned back for a second, his eyes full of arrogance.

The crowd was buzzing with discussion.

"Who is this person? How can they act so arrogantly? They don't even know basic manners."

"We're about to go into the ring, and it'll be a battle of wits. It's normal for them to exchange threats; it's called psychological warfare. If Lin Qing gets scared and loses momentum, then even if their strengths are even three days from now, Luo Tai will most likely be the winner."

"You're right, but I don't like Luo Tai. That kid went too far in the ring fight. He could have won easily, but he chose to use ruthless methods to seriously injure his opponent. He's too vicious and cruel!"

At this moment, Ma Ziye and Li Ping moved closer to Lin Qing.

Ma Ziye said indignantly, "This person is so arrogant."

"Brother Li, be careful. Although this man is arrogant, he has real skills. He has made his move three times in the past few days. All his opponents were crushed and seriously injured. You must be careful," Li Ping said in a low voice.

"It's alright, as long as it's at the Transforming Force, I have nothing to fear," Lin Qing said calmly.

At this moment, a handsome young man dressed in white approached Wei Dong and said politely, "Brother Wei, my Yang Gan. I will be your opponent in the assessment in three days. Let's stop here and not go too far. I'll treat you to drinks another day."

"Haha, Brother Yang is absolutely right. That's what I was thinking too. What's the point of fighting and killing? We'll all be on the same side from now on, and we'll run into each other all the time. Let's have a drink together another day." Wei Dong laughed heartily.

"Then I'll be going now." Yang Gan turned and left.

"Look at that. That's what a normal person looks like," Ma Ziye said.

"There are all sorts of birds in a big forest, nothing strange about it. Let's go." Lin Qing shook his head and walked towards his own courtyard.

Back in the courtyard, Lin Qing had a thought, and a panel appeared before his eyes.

"There are too few Combat Arts that can be directly equipped," Lin Qing thought to himself.

In his martial arts repertoire, the few Combat Arts he possessed were Perfect Mastery Water Skimming, Perfect Mastery Locust Stone, Perfect Mastery Iron Garment Shrouds the Body, Perfect Mastery Bamboo Shadows Riding the Wind, and Perfect Mastery Lone Swan Reflecting Shadow.

This reflects two problems. First, there are too few Combat Arts, making it impossible to combine them and fully utilize the advantages of the Fourth Tier Rebirth Record. Ideally, different combinations of techniques should be used to deal with different situations.

Secondly, the quality of the martial arts is too low. Among these five martial arts, "Lone Swan Reflecting Shadow" is a second-tier good quality, while the other four are all first-tier common quality, which means they are very common martial arts.

This level of Combat Arts might be sufficient in a county town, but it falls far short in this Prefectural City.

"Now that this assessment is over, I must find a way to replicate more advanced Combat Arts," Lin Qing thought to himself.

Training methods are important, but so are Combat Arts Martial Artist. If one martial artist has a higher level of training and cultivation, while the other has a lower level of cultivation but a higher level of Combat Arts, the latter may not necessarily lose in a life-or-death struggle.

As he was pondering this, Lin Qing suddenly heard footsteps, and a figure leaped down from the roof and landed outside his door.

Lin Qing immediately got up and went out, only to see that the person who came was Wang Ling, still dressed in white.

However, Lin Qing keenly noticed that there were mottled bloodstains on the white clothes, and when Wang Ling landed, he smelled an extremely strong stench of blood. Clearly, Wang Ling had recently killed someone, and possibly more than one.

"Greetings, Steward Wang," Lin Qing said respectfully.

"Some clueless people on the way delayed me for a few days, and I only returned yesterday. I suppose you already know who my opponents will be in the assessment in three days?" Wang Ling said calmly.

"I understand." Lin Qing nodded.

"Don't disappoint me. Take some time these three days to go to Golden Phoenix Tower and buy some intelligence on our opponents. Knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory in every battle," Wang Ling added.

"Thank you for reminding me, sir. I'll go right away," Lin Qing said, bowing.

"I've been searching for so many years, and I've finally found someone who barely satisfies me. If you fail, I don't know if I'll ever find another one who satisfies me in my lifetime." A hint of melancholy suddenly appeared in Wang Ling's words. He didn't linger, leaping up and disappearing into the courtyard.

Lin Qing immediately went out to the Golden Phoenix Tower and spent a large sum of money, twenty taels of silver, to buy a piece of information about Luo Tai.

"Luo Tai, a member of the Luo Family in the Prefectural City, is twenty-six years old. He is suspected to be in the early stage of the Transformation Realm. Transforming Force has naturally Stone Skin, Arm Strength exceeding one thousand, and possesses the Thirteen Guardians Body-Hardening at its Perfect Mastery state. There is a certain possibility that he has already broken through to the middle stage of the Transforming Force Realm. If he is, then he can be ranked 165th on the Pride of Heaven Ranking."

Back home, Lin Qing carefully reviewed the intelligence and was amazed by Golden Phoenix Tower's professionalism.

The text not only provides information about Luo Tai's strength and the Combat Arts he possesses, but also specifically reminds readers that Luo Tai may be hiding his true strength—that's what professionalism is all about.

"The Thirteen Guardians Body-Hardening at the Perfect Mastery Realm is truly formidable," Lin Qing thought to himself.

He had seen this martial art in the Zhenhun Division Treasury of Jiangyin County before, but it was incomplete and of the third-grade fine quality. It was a high-level martial art that could be mastered in the city. To be able to master it to perfection by the age of twenty-six, in addition to having extraordinary talent, one also needs to invest a lot of martial arts resources, because the body-strengthening technique requires the most medicine.

"If the intelligence is accurate, then Luo Tai will be no match for me in the assessment three days from now." Lin Qing was full of confidence.