TFHS: Chapter 161

Up to now in the league, Feng Ming had met many contestants and exchanged a lot of information with them.

This time, while watching the formation master competition, everyone gathered together to discuss the situation of formation masters all over the nation.

Feng Ming hadn’t expected someone to actually mention the Wen and Wu brothers who appeared in the Xuanyue Secret Realm, and that Wu Hai was a formation master.

Someone said, “I specifically checked the list of participants in the formation master competition and found that Wu Hai’s name wasn’t on it. Did Wu Hai not come or is he too old? I heard he was so amazing at the time. I really want to see Wu Hai’s formation level with my own eyes.”

“Yes yes, Alchemist Feng should be very familiar with this person. He appeared in your territory.”

Feng Ming: “……”

Feng Ming rubbed his face with a bit of embarrassment and lied with open eyes, “How can I be familiar with him? You all know that I didn’t participate in the exploration of the Xuanyue Secret Realm. I had no chance to meet the Wen and Wu brothers. By the time their reputation spread outside, all traces of them had been lost. How could I meet them?”

Seeing Feng Ming’s serious look, Chen Tianlang and Pei Yingmin, who was sitting to the side to watch the competition, both glanced at Bai Qiaomo.

They found that Bai Qiaomo had no abnormal reaction, and both of them showed a helpless look in their eyes.

These two people made them at a loss for words.

But what could they do? After all, these two were junior brothers. As senior brothers, what else could they do except be tolerant and help conceal the truth?

Chen Tianlang controlled his voice and said, “What a pity that your junior brother isn’t participating in the competition, or our academy would have a champion again.”

In the competition of talisman masters and weapon refiners, Sihong Academy won one or two places, but the academy had no chance of winning the championship, runner-up, and third place.

The Imperial Academy reaped a rich harvest. If no dark horse emerged, this formation master competition would definitely be the home court of the Imperial Academy.

Pei Yingmin shrugged. “What can I do? My junior brother doesn’t want to expose his formation level, or those present will really not be good enough.”

If Bai Qiaomo was to take to the field, it would definitely be like the alchemist competition where he crushed the entire field with his absolute strength.

Pei Yingmin added, “But it doesn’t matter. Once the martial arts competition comes, my junior brother will definitely get it back. For my junior brother, it is fine as long as he gets a quota.”

Chen Tianlang thought this was the case, so he stopped dwelling on this topic and asked, “Why didn’t your second junior brother show up this time? Where did he go? No one is better at running than him.”

Pei Yingmin was also helpless. “I haven’t been able to contact him for a long time. I’m afraid he is no longer in the territory of the Dongmu Dynasty. The last time I contacted him, he promised to bring a gift for our junior brother.”

Chen Tianlang was very happy to hear this. Compared to Pei Yingmin, the brothers and sisters on his side were so well-behaved. Now only the youngest one liked to run outside, and he probably won’t be at home in the future.

As Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo were listening to others talk about the Wen and Wu brothers, a few people walked over and happened to hear their conversation.

One of them said disdainfully, “Wu Hai? I’ve never heard of this name. You can’t produce any decent people in the formation master competition, so you just made someone up.”

This made the entire Sihong Academy laugh. All the disciples present looked up. They only recognized one of them, the ger who was Feng Ming’s defeated opponent, Qiu Yi. The others looked at them with arrogance.

Feng Ming responded bluntly, “Just because you haven’t heard their names doesn’t mean they don’t exist? Are you the creator where everything you say is the truth?”

If someone else had said this, the other person would’ve immediately started to mock them. But after seeing that it was Feng Ming, the person who was speaking choked up.

He really wanted to fight back with confidence, but a living example was right in front of him.

Before Feng Ming came to Imperial City, how many people in the Imperial Academy had heard his name?

They all knew that Yu Xiao had accepted a disciple, but they only referred to him as Yu Xiao’s youngest disciple.

As for his name, it didn’t matter at all. No one thought he had the level to defeat the alchemists trained by the Imperial Academy.

Then they were given a hard slap on the face. Even the most outstanding alchemist carefully trained by the imperial family was defeated by this guy.

The man choked for a while but was unwilling to admit defeat. He said, “Then call out the Wu Hai you are talking about and let him compete together.”

Bai Qiaomo rolled his eyes in his heart. If ‘Wu Hai’ really came out, would these people still have room to speak?

He asked, “How is the formation master with the highest level of formation here? Is it you?”

The man choked up again. Qiu Yi couldn’t help feeling sympathy for him. Qiu Yi had experienced it before. Feng Ming wasn’t only good at alchemy, but his skills in talking were equally impressive.

Qiu Yi came to the rescue. “The best formation master participating in this competition is Senior Brother Ji Yuan, who has been certified by the Formation Hall as a fourth-grade formation master.”

Feng Ming thought to himself, ‘This person is already a fourth-grade formation master. This means he is indeed quite capable.’ However, Feng Ming didn’t think this guy named Ji Yuan could beat Bai Qiaomo.

He deliberately looked around and found that none of the people in front of him claimed to be Ji Yuan. He asked with exaggerated curiosity, “Ji Yuan isn’t here?”

His expression was too obvious. Qiu Yi immediately understood, and his face turned red.

The others were a few beats slower to react and also choked with anger.

Feng Ming said it clearly. Ji Yuan himself wasn’t here. Why were these people coming over to show off? He actually thought the guy who just mocked them was Ji Yuan himself.

Wait until you have such great ability and then come and mock us.

Qiu Yi wanted to turn around and run away. He didn’t know why his feet were disobedient and he came here.

He didn’t realize that he had been paying close attention to Feng Ming since the end of the alchemist competition.

When others talked about this person, he couldn’t help listening carefully.

After realizing this, he told himself that he just wanted to increase his understanding of the enemy. It was only by understanding both himself and the enemy that he could win every battle.

Feng Ming simply despised these guys, but he had a good impression of Qiu Yi. This guy was indeed quite good at alchemy. Unfortunately, due to his identity, Feng Ming had no chance to become close friends with him.

Feng Ming came out, patted Qiu Yi on the shoulder like a good brother and said, “Don’t you feel cheap when staying with such people?”

“What did you say, Feng?” These people were really annoyed and wanted to smash his mouth.

Feng Ming felt that his hatred value was still too low, so he pointed at Qiu Yi. Then he pointed at them and said, “Qiu Yi is a fourth-grade alchemist, so what about you? It is okay for Ji Yuan himself to come and declare war, but who are you?”

Then he said to Qiu Yi with a smile, “What is your relationship with Ji Yuan?”

Qiu Yi was stunned when Feng Ming patted him on the shoulder. When did he become so close to Feng Ming?

He regarded Feng Ming as an enemy and vowed to defeat him in alchemy.

Due to this, he reacted a few beats slower. After hearing Feng Ming’s question, he subconsciously replied, “The relationship is fine. Senior Brother Ji takes good care of me.”

The words ‘takes good care of me’ was used in a more subtle way. Feng Ming showed an expression of understanding and patted Qiu Yi’s shoulder meaningfully. “Then you and your Senior Brother Ji should take care of yourselves.”

Then Feng Ming waved his hand casually and returned to the stands, leaving Qiu Yi in confusion.

The other people were so angry that they wanted to fight Feng Ming. However, they were stopped by Qiu Yi and taken away by him.

Qiu Yi had the highest status and was a fourth-grade alchemist. No one dared to oppose his words, so they had to leave in humiliation.

Along the way, they kept saying things that belittled Feng Ming to vent their anger.

Qiu Yi didn’t care what they said at all. Their opinions had no influence on Qiu Yi himself.

Qiu Yi was still thinking about the last words Feng Ming had said. What did they mean?

After returning to the Imperial Academy, several people took the opportunity to publicize Feng Ming’s bad behavior, saying that he was so shameless.

Ji Yuan walked up to Qiu Yi, obviously knowing what Junior Brother Qiu was thinking. “Junior Brother Qiu went to see Feng Ming again? You don’t have to care too much about him.”

Qiu Yi understood what Senior Brother Ji meant. He was worried that the blow Qiu Yi suffered was too great and would affect his ambition in alchemy.

Senior Brother Ji was thinking too much. His ambition wasn’t stopped. On the contrary, he became more motivated. Feng Ming was his target to defeat.

Qiu Yi was still thinking about Feng Ming’s words. Then he repeated Feng Ming’s words to Ji Yuan. “Senior Brother Ji, what do you think Feng Ming meant by his words?”

Ji Yuan’s expression became subtle after hearing this, but he knew very little about Feng Ming. “Junior Brother Qiu, what type of person do you think Feng Ming is? Do you think he is the type to talk nonsense?”

Qiu Yi had a very bad first impression of Feng Ming. He thought that Feng Ming was just an arrogant person.

Now he had changed his perception. He shook his head and said, “I think he isn’t that type of person, so I don’t understand why he said that. Could it be that Feng Ming actually knows Wu Hai and thinks that Senior Brother Ji has a chance to fight against Wu Hai? But I heard from others that this formation master named Wu Hai didn’t participate in this league.”

Under normal circumstances, Ji Yuan would disdain any rumored formation genius.

The best formation masters were all in Imperial City and the imperial family. The so-called geniuses outside were just what outsiders thought of geniuses.

He had even specifically called out several so-called geniuses to compete with him. Every one of them was defeated by him.

Then Feng Ming, this freak, appeared. Even Qiu Yi, who he believed to be as talented as him, was defeated by Feng Ming. This made Ji Yuan a bit more sober. It turned out that there really were geniuses out there, and not all of them were just in name.

“It seems that Feng Ming highly respects this guy called Wu Hai. I’ll have someone search for information about Wu Hai to see if he is really capable. If there is a chance, I’ll go find him in person to learn from him.”

Qiu Yi thought this was right and pushed Ji Yuan. “The competition has already started. Senior Brother Ji, just wait to go on stage.”

“Okay.” Ji Yuan didn’t think anyone could defeat him, but he still appreciated his junior brother’s kindness.

At Sihong Academy, Chen Tianlang pointed to the person next to Qiu Yi and said, “Junior Brother, see that? He is Ji Yuan.”

He was saying this to Feng Ming as well as Bai Qiaomo. Junior Brother Bai would definitely have a chance in the future to fight against Ji Yuan, so he should take advantage of the competition to weigh up the opponent’s level.