Liu Ning pinched the golden hilt of the sword at his waist and pulled out a three-foot-long fish-scale soft sword.

The sword light flashed, knocking all the silver needles off.

"Dingding!"

Zi Qian displayed a speed-type martial art, walking like a breeze, constantly changing directions, and punching out pieces of silver needles, turning into waves of needle rain.

Liu Ning's brows furrowed, and she wanted to attack Zi Qian, but she was forced back by the needle rain, and she could only keep swinging her sword to defend, causing the true qi in her body to be rapidly consumed.

On the challenge platform, there was a stalemate.

She ...... Is it a hedgehog?Why are there so many needles hidden in his body?" Duanmu Xingling looked at Zhang Ruochen and asked with a smile.

"How do I know?" said Zhang Ruochen.

"You don't know?" Duanjupiter Spirit was surprised.

Zhang Ruochen shook his head lightly and continued to stare at the challenge platform. He had already seen Zi Qian's tactics, and she knew that she was not Liu Ning's opponent, so she used the silver needle to consume Liu Ning's true qi.

If Liu Ning can't break Zi Qian's silver needle rain, then Liu Ning will definitely lose.

As Zhang Ruochen expected, a quarter of an hour later, Liu Ning's true qi was consumed in large quantities, and she was attacked by Zi Qian from behind.

When Liu Ning reacted, Zi Qian's sword was already on her neck.

Challenge to win.

"She is so fast at the speed of the sword, without hundreds of thousands of exercises, the speed of the sword is simply not so fast. How do I feel like she is a professionally trained killer?" Duanjupiter Ling's eyes narrowed, and he felt that Zi Qian's sword method was somewhat similar to that of the killer in the Difu Gate.

Although Zi Qian had deliberately hidden, she still left traces, allowing Duanmu Xingling to see some clues.

Zhang Ruochen's heart moved, and he smiled: "If she is really a killer, then wouldn't I have been killed by her a long time ago?"

"That's right. Duanjupiter Ling nodded.

Zi Qian's last sword is indeed very amazing, it is simply invisible, only the Xuanbang martial artist can see the trajectory of her sword, and the other martial artists have not seen it clearly.

Zi Qian defeated Liu Ning and naturally became the new ninth master of the West Courtyard.

Liu Ning automatically dropped one place to tenth place.

Mo Qinglong was squeezed out of the top 10 and became the eleventh.

Next, many people went to challenge the top ten martial artists, and there were the most people who challenged Zi Qian, and everyone felt that her strength was the weakest.

But none of the people who went to challenge her succeeded.

Many people's strength is actually stronger than Zi Qian, but they lost to her in a daze. By the time they reacted, Sycabri's sword was already pointed at their necks, making them afraid to move.

A senior sister ranked seventeenth in the Western Academy, after being defeated by Zi Qian's sword, walked off the challenge platform in great annoyance: "How can this be?

Only the Xuanbang martial artist can see Zi Qian's power:

First of all, her speed is the biggest advantage, and the weird way of swordsmanship is unguardable.

Secondly, her eyesight and ear power are far beyond ordinary people, she can perceive danger in advance, hear the sound of the opponent's attack in advance, and then, in the shortest possible time, make the most correct response strategy.

Third, she has a lot of combat experience, and in this respect, she is much better than other students.

Zhang Ruochen also nodded, originally Zi Qian also had a weakness, that is, her physique was weaker than those top geniuses.

In the last three months, she had refined five drops of Demi-Saint True Liquid, allowing her to make up for this shortcoming. Her strength has also improved by leaps and bounds.

Under the gaze of everyone, Zi Qian walked to the challenge platform and stood to the right of Zhang Ruochen, the scholar took the appearance of Jupiter Spirit and Zhang Ruochen, clasped his hands to his chest, and said, "Aren't you going to challenge?"

"It's almost time!"

Zhang Ruochen walked towards the challenge platform, stood on the platform, and said, "I want to challenge the seventh place." ”

The seventh-ranked student in the Western Academy is named Sikong Shu.

He was an old student of the Western Courtyard eight years ago, and his martial arts cultivation reached the peak of the Great Perfection of the Xuanji Realm four years ago, and it was also because he wanted to enter the intermediate ruins, so he never broke through the realm.

With Zhang Ruochen's current cultivation, even if he challenges Ju Hailan, who ranks fifth, he has a great chance of winning.

However, Zhang Ruochen didn't want to be so high-profile, as long as he could obtain the qualification to enter the intermediate ruins, there was no need to push himself to the forefront.

Challenging for seventh place is relatively conservative.

Although he wanted to keep a low profile, challenging Sikong as a freshman still caused quite a stir. A lot of people rushed over to watch the fight.

"Do you think Zhang Ruochen is likely to succeed in the challenge?" said a senior student in the top 50.

Another student who had reached the Great Perfection of the Xuan Extreme Realm said, "If it was before Zi Qian's move, I probably wouldn't have believed it. But even Zi Qian can defeat Liu Ning in eighth place, Zhang Ruochen's strength is above Zi Qian, and he may not have a chance to defeat Sikong Shu. ”

"That's right! The freshmen are very talented, and their strength cannot be measured by pure martial arts cultivation. ”

"This year's freshmen are too strong, just three months into school, they beat the top ten masters of the college, how can we be embarrassed by the old students who have been in the college for several years?"

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There were more and more students under the challenge platform, and even the deputy masters of the three major academies and the masters of the West Academy rushed over, standing not far away, looking at the direction of the challenge platform. Obviously, they're looking forward to it too.

The better Zhang Ruochen performs, the better it will be for the Wushi Academy.

Genius is the most important resource for any force.

Sikong Shu looked like a tiger's back, his body was like an iron tower, his whole body had strong muscles, and although he was only twenty-five years old, his face was covered with beards, like a big man with green hair.

Holding a black iron rod, he climbed the stairs and stood ten steps away from Zhang Ruochen.

"Boom!"

He threw the iron rod towards the ground, and the ground immediately made a loud noise and trembled violently.

Sikong Shu said with a smile: "Zhang Ruochen, I know that your cultivation is very strong, your talent is very high, you helped the West Academy win the first place among the freshmen of the Four Courtyards, senior brother, I admire you." However, you kid is also arrogant, and you dare to challenge my senior brother. How sure are you that you can win?"

"Ten percent. Zhang Ruochen said.

"Ten percent, you look down on senior brother too much?" Sikong Shu was a little unhappy.

Zhang Ruochen said without arrogance: "For a martial artist, since he has chosen to challenge his opponent, he must have the confidence to win." If you don't even have the confidence to win, then you have lost half of it before you have played. ”

"Well said. If you don't challenge, you must have the belief that you will win. ”

Sikong Shu smiled mysteriously and said, "However, you chose the wrong person today, and you are destined to lose in the hands of your senior brother." Come on, let Senior Brother see how strong our freshmen in the West Academy are on the first day?"

Zhang Ruochen felt a powerful power fluctuation in Sikong Shu's body, so he didn't dare to underestimate the enemy, and was more cautious.

can enter the top ten of the West Courtyard, each of them has real skills, and if you are not careful, you may lose on the challenge platform.

Pinched the Soul Flashing Sword, injected the Jade Pure True Qi into the sword, and all the fourteen inscriptions in the sword were activated.

Four "force" are inscriptions, four "ice" are inscriptions, four are "electricity" inscriptions, and two "light" are inscriptions.

This was the first time that Zhang Ruochen activated all the inscriptions of the Flash Soul Sword and reached the strongest state.

The original fifty-three jin Flash Soul Sword, with the blessing of the four power system inscriptions, reached a weight of four hundred and fifty-three catties.

At the same time, cold qi, sword light, and electricity shuttled on the sword body, and sword qi flowed around Zhang Ruochen's body, as if it was completely integrated with him.

"This is the realm where the sword can go to a higher level with his heart?"

Sikong Shu knew that Zhang Ruochen had reached the high-level realm where the sword could go with his heart, his face became serious, and he injected his true qi into the tungsten star cold iron rod in his hand.

The Tungsten Star Cold Iron Rod is a fifth-order true martial weapon, and its grade is one order higher than the Flash Soul Sword in Zhang Ruochen's hand.

There are 21 inscriptions engraved in the stick, of which 15 are "force" inscriptions and six are "ice" inscriptions.

The inscription of the true martial weapon, the more pure it is, the stronger the power.

There are only two kinds of inscriptions engraved on the Tungsten Star Cold Iron Rod, which can be regarded as very pure, so it is also a top-level soldier in the fifth-order true martial arts.

Twenty-one inscriptions were activated, and the weight of the Tungsten Star Cold Iron Bar reached 1,608 catties, which was extremely heavy, and when placed on the ground, it seemed to be able to fracturing the ground.

Sikong Shu waved the Tungsten Star Cold Iron Bar with one hand, and a piercing cold aura emanated from the stick. On the challenge platform, there were snowflakes, a layer of white frost condensed on the ground, and the temperature in the entire air was rapidly dropping.

It seems to be a random stick, but it contains exquisite martial arts skills.

"It's not good, Sikong Shu even hides his strength. Duanmu Xingling began to worry about Zhang Ruochen, and said, "With the strength that Sikong Technique is showing now, it is no longer weaker than Ju Hailan, who is ranked fifth, and it may even be stronger than Ju Hailan. ”

The eyes of the courtyard master of the Western Courtyard also shrank slightly, revealing a hint of a smile, and said: "I didn't expect Sikong Shu to actually cultivate the "Tai'a Han Ice Gong" to the eighth layer, with his strength, he can already compete with those martial artists who are ranked lower on the "Xuan Bang". ”

The deputy head of the Southern Courtyard said with a smile: "Congratulations to the master of the Academy, there is another student of the Xuanbang martial arts level in the Western Academy." ”

"Hey, it's a pity that Zhang Ruochen, if Sikong didn't break through to the eighth layer of "Tai'a Han Ice Gong", he still had a chance to win. As for now, he has no chance at all. The deputy head of the East Courtyard said regretfully.

It seems that he is regretting, but in fact, he is sneering in his heart.

It is because of Zhang Ruochen that the East Courtyard is ranked third this year, and the deputy head of the East Courtyard naturally hates Zhang Ruochen. Seeing that Zhang Ruochen was about to fail in the challenge, he couldn't help but say a cool word.

The master of the West Courtyard smiled faintly: "It doesn't matter if the challenge fails, anyway, he still has a chance to challenge." ”