TFHS: Chapter 178

Lu Yanfeng’s wild words didn’t change Bai Qiaomo’s expression at all, but Feng Ming’s voice made Bai Qiaomo’s ear move. He could distinguish this voice from many sounds.

The moment the referee announced the start, Lu Yanfeng rushed to attack.

He also carefully studied Bai Qiaomo’s battles before the match and asked some essence dan realm masters to analyze him.

He thought that Bai Qiaomo relied on speed and the advantage of the spear. He wanted to turn Bai Qiaomo’s advantage into a disadvantage.

Lu Yanfeng could still maintain third position among the younger generation of the Imperial Academy, so he had a certain strength.

His swordsmanship was very sharp. The tip of the sword swallowed and spat out sword energy, which made people not dare to approach. Once the sword slashed out, the sword energy rushed straight at Bai Qiaomo and was followed closely by another sword energy. If it was another cultivator, they might be in a hurry.

However, Lu Yanfeng really underestimated Bai Qiaomo’s speed advantage. He never thought that Bai Qiaomo hadn’t really demonstrated his speed in the competition.

Several sword energies attacked Bai Qiaomo, seemingly blocking his left and right paths. He had to either retreat or face the challenge head-on, which would result in him facing Lu Yanfeng’s sharper attack.

However, Bai Qiaomo didn’t follow Lu Yanfeng’s idea. He was like smoke as he quickly passed through the middle of the two sword energies, thrusting his spear forward again.

There was a sizzling sound as a sword energy was directly dissolved by the lighting energy at the tip of the spear. The spear tip continued to thrust straight at Lu Yanfeng.

Bai Qiaomo’s body shape changed quickly and his spear thrust even faster, like a flash of lightning. In the blink of an eye, the spear tip stabbed in front of Lu Yanfeng, instantly disrupting Lu Yanfeng’s careful attack rhythm. He had no time to attack Bai Qiaomo, so he quickly moved his sword to block while dodging to the side.

Wu Liyan and Zong Yupao watched the battle from below the stage and responded with a sneer.

They laughed at Lu Yanfeng’s overestimation of his own abilities, his stupidity, and his underestimation of Bai Qiaomo.

This wasn’t Lu Yanfeng trying to finish Bai Qiaomo on the stage. It was clear Bai Qiaomo wanted to end Lu Yanfeng’s chances in the competition.

Wu Liyan said bluntly, “This idiot, it has been so long and he hasn’t made much progress.”

Zong Yupao was too lazy to even comment. Originally when his cultivation hadn’t exceeded Lu Yanfeng’s, he never cared about this person.

This person was destined to be left behind by him. How could he be worth a few glances?

In the first round of the fight, the rhythm on the stage was completely controlled by Bai Qiaomo.

The eyesight of the qi gathering realm cultivators might not be able to keep up with the speed of the fight on the stage, but the essence liquid realm cultivators could see it clearly.

If Lu Yanfeng couldn’t turn this situation around, he would soon be knocked off the stage.

The faces of some of the Imperial Academy disciples changed. Some people cursed Lu Yanfeng as useless. No wonder he had always been third place and overtaken by Wu Liyan and Zong Yupao one after another. He couldn’t catch up with them and his cultivation even fell behind.

In the arena, Bai Qiaomo not only disrupted Lu Yanfeng’s attack rhythm and took control of the battle, but his offensive also became fierce.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Yanfeng fell into a passive defense and it was difficult to organize an attack.

Wu Liyan and Zong Yupao could naturally see the tricks in it. They secretly thought that Bai Qiaomo was unhappy about the wild words Lu Yanfeng had said when he came on stage, so he wanted to beat Lu Yanfeng so hard he couldn’t even fight back.

In the end, there was only one way left. It was to be swept or knocked off the stage by Bai Qiaomo.

It just wasn’t known in what manner Lu Yanfeng would leave the stage.

Lu Yanfeng was scrambling to defend, his expression very ugly. He never expected that this Bai would be so difficult. It was completely inconsistent with the previous analysis.

What did this show? It meant that in the previous battles, even the battle against Xiong Kui, Bai Qiaomo didn’t fully show his strength and still held back.

Lu Yanfeng was extremely angry. He couldn’t do anything to Zong Yupao and Wu Liyan, but couldn’t he do something against Bai Qiaomo, who came from a small place?

Lu Yanfeng became even more anxious as he fought. As Bai Qiaomo forced him closer and closer to the edge of the arena, he roared and tried to draw out most of the yuan energy in his dantian to block Bai Qiaomo’s attack. Then he turned around and headed to the other side.

Bai Qiaomo also turned and chased him. Halfway through the chase, Lu Yanfeng turned around and looked at Bai Qiaomo with strong malice and pleasure in his eyes. At the same time, he slashed at Bai Qiaomo with his sword.

Bai Qiaomo saw this look and secretly thought that it wasn’t good. This man was going to use a dirty trick.

There were many rules in the martial arts competition, stipulating that auxiliary means other than one’s own abilities couldn’t be used.

For example, the means of talismans and formations couldn’t be used unless they were made on the spot. The means of blasting through external forces couldn’t be used, and pets couldn’t be brought onto the stage.

Martial arts was a pure competition of force, fought with real weapons in the arena.

OF course, a formation master could set up a formation on the spot as long as they had enough time to set up the formation.

A talisman marker could draw a talisman on the spot in the air. Of course, to reach this level, the requirements for the talisman maker were very high. So far, no talisman maker could do it.

However, those formation masters and talisman makers didn’t like to participate in the martial arts competition. They had their own special competition stage. Why should they bother to participate in this competition and embarrass themselves like Lu Yanfeng now?

In other words, in such a competition, wealthy participants couldn’t use yuan crystals to win.

After all, as long as there were enough yuan crystals, they could buy endless talismans, formation disks and other explosive items, relying on their financial resources to knock the opponent off the stage.

Feng Ming also thought that this competition system was relatively fair. Otherwise, if it was a competition of financial resources, the cultivators from outside generally couldn’t compete with the powerful children of Imperial City.

As Lu Yanfeng’s sword energy came, Bai Qiaomo smelled a fishy smell. He held his breath and danced with the spear and lightning power in an airtight manner.

Nevertheless, he felt danger approaching. Based on his intuition, Bai Qiaomo jumped back high and stabbed forward with his spear. The tip of his spear was full of lightning and sizzled.

Sure enough, something was stabbed by Bai Qiaomo. The next moment, the referee, Zong Yupao and Wu Liyan stood up.

“Lu Yanfeng cheated!” Wu Liyan’s pupils shrank as she shouted loudly.

Feng Ming immediately ran to the side of the stage, clenched his fists and glared up at Lu Yanfeng, this bastard.

Hearing Wu Liyan’s cry, the audience also became agitated. What did Bai Qiaomo stab?

Under the influence of thunder and lightning, the audience gradually saw the object wrapped by the power of thunder and lightning. A snake charred by lightning was thrown onto the stage by Bai Qiaomo’s spear. Then the spear with a force of ten thousand kilograms struck at Lu Yanfeng.

“Ah—!” Lu Yanfeng screamed as he flew back.

Bai Qiaomo stabbed again. If he hit, Lu Yanfeng would be pierced.

“Spare his life.” One of the referees shouted as he rushed toward the stage.

“Shameless!” Jiang Qian also quickly rushed to the stage.

The two essence dan realm masters exchanged moves above the arena.

A huge air wave occurred due to their actions. People close to the stage were almost blown away by the air wave, and the protective formation below was also shaky.

At this time, the coldness in Bai Qiaomo’s eyes faded slightly and he changed from stabbing to whipping. With another whip, he directly pulled Lu Yanfeng off the stage.

Lu Yanfeng was whipped to the ground like a cannonball and a pit formed in the ground. Lu Yanfeng spat out a large mouthful of blood, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

The referee immediately announced the result of the fight. Jiang Qian didn’t care about competing with the essence dan realm master and immediately checked Bai Qiaomo’s condition.

At this time, the protective formation was opened and Jiang Qian landed on the stage. “Bai Qiaomo, how are you?”

Bai Qiaomo had just swallowed a best-grade detoxification pill. He explained, “I didn’t inhale much poisonous gas. The man should’ve used the shadowless glass snake that can turn invisible.”

Feng Ming had already jumped onto the stage to check Bai Qiaomo’s condition.

Bai Qiaomo shook his head. He knew very well whether he was poisoned or not.

Feng Ming sighed with relief. He turned around and wanted to curse angrily. These bastards couldn’t beat him openly, so they used such despicable means that couldn’t be revealed.

Jiang Qian protested on behalf of Sihong Academy. “Referees, what do you say? What about the Imperial Academy? Won’t you give an explanation? Do you want to disregard the league rules? This invisible glass snake, whose bite could kill a cultivator, was openly used in the arena.”

The top leaders of the Imperial Academy were also angry. They never expected Lu Yanfeng to use such means.

The behavior of Gong Liquan’s group had already brought shame to the Imperial Academy. Now it was even worse. People would think that the Imperial Academy couldn’t afford to lose, so it used such means to plot against the opponent.

The snake was very poisonous and could turn invisible, but it wasn’t particularly difficult to hit it as long as it was discovered. Now Bai Qiaomo had electrocuted the small invisible snake into a piece of charcoal.

Everyone in the referee’s seat was very glad that Bai Qiaomo reacted quickly and didn’t let Lu Yanfeng succeed, or it would be difficult to explain this matter to Sihong Academy.

The referee discussed it for a while before giving a reply. “Lu Yanfeng blatantly violated the rules of the competition. All previous achievements are invalid. He will be kicked out of the competition and replaced with a lower-ranked contestant.”

Jiang Qian looked at Bai Qiaomo, who nodded slightly. Jiang Qian said, “Okay.”

Next, it was up to the Imperial Academy. The dean of the academy had to come forward to appease them. “Lu Yanfeng’s behavior doesn’t represent our Imperial Academy. After discussing it, the Imperial Academy will expel Lu Yanfeng.”

From Jiang Qian’s perspective, such a punishment actually wasn’t painful.

Was it important for the child of a powerful person to have this identity? It wasn’t important at all.

But at Bai Qiaomo’s signal, Jiang Qian didn’t say anything. He turned around and accompanied Bai Qiaomo off the stage along with Feng Ming. He also asked professionals to check Bai Qiaomo’s condition carefully to avoid delaying the subsequent matches.

Of course, Bai Qiaomo was fine. The one who was in trouble was Lu Yanfeng himself. Was it so easy to take Bai Qiaomo’s last two consecutive hits?