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Chapter 106 : Chapter 106
Chapter 106: Heavenly Might!
When Li Mu nodded, Lin Yuya asked tentatively, “Then... are we accepting the challenge?”
“We are!”
Lu Chenfeng rolled up his sleeves and shouted at once.
“Those bastards—not only is Li One-Cudgel accepting, Spearman and I are too!”
“Don’t they want to sweep the rankings and make the top ten look nice and neat as a group?”
“If they want to fight, then let them fight the three of us!”
Lin Yuya stuck out her tongue a little and looked toward Li Mu for confirmation.
She still had to follow Li Mu’s lead in this matter.
Li Mu immediately smiled.
“Stop looking at me. Comrade Iron Ox said it very well.”
“We’ll do it his way.”
“I accept the challenge of anyone from their school, with no limit on the number of matches.”
“As long as their school can beat me even once, the three of us will clutch our heads and roll right out of the top ten.”
Lu Chenfeng said, “That’s right! ...Hm??”
He glared at Li Mu irritably. Was this really doing it his way?
Had it not turned into Li Mu’s personal one-man battle instead?
Zhang Zhiwei nodded.
“I think it’ll work...”
He really was curious how many blows Jinlin High School could take.
Very quickly, Blackwater High School released its response.
They accepted Jinlin High School’s challenge.
The organizers of the Elite Tournament instantly caught the scent of traffic.
They hurriedly issued an announcement, hastily arranged a venue, and organized an “additional match.”
Today, at exactly two in the afternoon.
At Golden Sands Plaza in the Eastern District.
Blackwater High School and Jinlin High School would hold a top-ten showdown.
But after all, this match had only been decided at the last minute.
People had treated the Elite Tournament like a grand festival, and the crowds had been overwhelming.
As for this sudden match, many people truly could not free up the time.
So the attendance was not even one-tenth of what it had been during the Elite Tournament.
And the overwhelming majority of those present were students from the major schools.
Only they cared most about such a sensational clash between campuses.
At exactly two in the afternoon, Golden Sands Plaza.
The crowd was noisy and disorderly, some seated and some standing. It was clearly nowhere near as formal as the Elite Tournament had been.
Nearly everyone from both Blackwater High School and Jinlin High School had come.
Even the first- and second-year students had come to cheer for their seniors.
This time, it was a feast for the young, so there were especially many banners all across the venue.
Most of them, of course, were in support of Song Yan and Jinlin High School.
But Li Mu was surprised to discover that quite a few were supporting him as well.
There were supporters for Blackwater High School, and for the Blackwater Three Towers too.
The moment Li Mu led Blackwater High School’s Student Council into the venue, deafening cheers erupted from Blackwater High School’s side.
The organizers had specially erected an enormous arena.
No one announced any rules.
This was a privately agreed challenge between two schools, overseen by the organizers.
The schools themselves would decide the rules. The organizers would only be responsible for changing the rankings afterward according to the agreed results.
It could truly be called the largest schoolyard grudge match in the history of Ironhand City.
At that moment, waves of shouting also rose from Jinlin High School’s formation, trying to drown out Blackwater High School.
“This is going to be good. Why do I feel like this is even more exciting than the Four-District Elite Tournament?”
“Even though Li Mu didn’t make a move in the Elite Tournament, he was able to command the reservists, so he’s probably extremely strong too.”
“Will he fight Song Yan this time?”
Those in the audience who were not Song Yan’s fans were still fairly objective.
But Song Yan’s fans and the people from Jinlin High School were nowhere near that polite.
Someone let out a long breath.
“Damn, Blackwater High School finally came! I was really afraid they wouldn’t.”
“Me too. I was scared they’d talk big and then refuse to come, just hanging there in the top ten to disgust people.”
“My obsessive-compulsive disorder is finally about to find peace!!”
“You have no idea. I’m a Virgo. That ranking tormented me so badly last night that I couldn’t sleep.”
“I’m definitely going to sleep well tonight.”
At this very moment, Zheng Kuan was thinking the same thing.
He was extremely excited now, as though third place in the entire city were already in his pocket.
Song Yan stood at the front of Jinlin High School’s formation, studying Li Mu across from her.
Now that they were close, she finally realized that she could not see through his cultivation.
A more interested curve immediately rose at the corner of her lips.
She was at the peak of the Third Grade. The fact that she could not see through him meant Li Mu was in the Fourth Grade!
As for Zheng Kuan, he was only at the middle stage of the Third Grade, so he merely assumed Li Mu was at the peak of the Third Grade.
With his explosive pill, he feared nothing.
Song Chuhe, meanwhile, sat in the distant stands, his expression calm.
Ever since he had proposed refusing to continue the challenge against Blackwater, he had been completely isolated.
That made sense too. The plan was already complete, so the man who had started it was no longer of any use.
And he had been so “cowardly” besides. Naturally, this group of elites looked down on him.
As for Li Mu, the moment he arrived at the venue, he walked straight onto the main arena.
There was a microphone on it.
Li Mu picked it up and faced Jinlin High School.
“I accept the challenge of every student in Jinlin High School, with no limit on the number of matches.”
“You do not need to beat me. As long as you can remain standing on this stage for thirty seconds,” “Blackwater High School will withdraw in full from the top ten rankings.”
“That is my rule.”
After speaking, Li Mu casually hurled the microphone off the arena.
His bearing was overbearing and beyond question.
The whole crowd fell silent in shock at Li Mu’s words.
Arrogant!
Arrogant to the extreme!
This was practically like gouging out Jinlin High School’s eyes and grinding them beneath his heel.
Even someone strong enough to defeat Jinlin High School would never set conditions this harsh.
Thirty seconds.
Even with sheer numbers, they ought to have been able to exhaust him to death.
And yet Li Mu had chosen exactly that.
Everyone could feel it clearly—Li Mu was not merely arrogant.
He was furious.
You wanted to manipulate public opinion and dominate the top ten as a group?
Then I would humiliate Jinlin High School in the cruelest way possible and make sure they could never lift their heads again.
“I’m dying of laughter! Is Li Mu brain-damaged or what??”
The students of Jinlin High School were laughing in sheer anger.
“How did he even say something like that? Is he not the least bit afraid of humiliating himself?”
“He talks this big, and when he can’t do it later, what—will he just laugh it off and say he was joking?”
“Zheng Kuan, if you don’t beat him half to death today, then you may as well not keep living!!”
In an instant, the people of Jinlin High School were boiling with rage.
The surrounding spectators were also buzzing with discussion.
Zheng Kuan, however, only let out a cold laugh and strode quickly toward the main arena. Before stepping onto it, he lowered himself slightly and tossed a pill into his mouth.
By the time he stood opposite Li Mu, the medicinal effect had already begun to manifest.
At that moment, Lin Yuya stepped forward, picked up the microphone Li Mu had thrown down, and blew the dust off it.
Then she shouted loudly, “The match begins!”
Li Mu had said thirty seconds.
She did not want the villain to spend all thirty of them just delivering lines.
Zheng Kuan had nothing to say either.
The power of the pill erupted. All he wanted was to smash Li Mu as quickly as possible.
With a long blade in hand, he slashed toward Li Mu like a raging gale.
Li Mu stood where he was without moving.
And just as the blade came down with a streak of cutting light— Li Mu moved.
Without even drawing a weapon, he merely shifted lightly aside to evade the strike.
Then his right hand shot out and closed around Zheng Kuan’s throat.
Li Mu was now in the Fourth Grade.
With Mountain-Bearing Art and the strength of eight tigers and nine oxen, he could swing a weapon weighing several tons as though it were a toy.
Zheng Kuan only felt as though fate itself had seized him by the throat.
Then Li Mu lifted him bodily into the air.
Using Zheng Kuan as a weapon in his hand, Li Mu swung him in a full arc and smashed him toward one corner of the arena!
Boom!!
Zheng Kuan’s entire body was hurled onto the ground.
A deafening crash rang out, and the stage shook.
Zheng Kuan then slammed against the defensive barrier like a heap of mud.
Li Mu stepped forward and used his foot to shove the unconscious Zheng Kuan off the arena.
The whole venue fell deathly silent.
Many had guessed that Li Mu, after making such a savage declaration, was probably extremely strong and would win.
But no one had expected him to win like this.
He had not even drawn a weapon.
He had simply smashed a man half to death with his bare hands.
Seeing the stunned expressions on the faces of Jinlin High School’s formation, Li Mu’s brows immediately drew together.
He reached out to Lin Yuya for the microphone.
Then Li Mu said coolly,
“The rules have changed. Twenty seconds.”
“If you can stand there for twenty seconds, you win. Also, please be quicker.”
“I dislike wasting time.”
The spectators instantly exploded into an uproar.
Li Mu’s arrogance had already gone beyond all limits.
Not a single curse appeared in those words, yet he had already looked down on Jinlin High School to the very bottom.
The meaning was obvious: even thirty seconds had been giving them too much credit.
Amid the towering roar of fury from Jinlin High School,
Song Yan rose to her feet.
With her icy, breathtaking beauty, she slowly walked onto the main arena.
At last, cheers erupted from Jinlin High School’s side.
Song Yan was finally making her move!
Many people let out sighs of relief.
“With Yan-baby stepping in, this is finally stable. Zheng Kuan is such trash! He scared me to death.”
“Don’t worry. Yan-baby has been lonely at the top for a long time. She can finally let loose properly this time.”
“I just hope Li Mu can last twenty seconds!”
“Arrogance comes at a price. Damn it, I’m still furious when I think about how arrogant he was just now.”
“The more arrogant he was just now, the more ridiculous he’ll look in a moment. I’m just waiting to enjoy it.”
Every one of Jinlin High School’s people was grinding their teeth, waiting for Li Mu to be brutally beaten.
When Song Yan stepped onto the arena, she spoke in a cool voice, her temperament like an orchid blooming in a secluded valley.
A beautiful curve lifted at her lips as she parted them slightly.
“You are very interesting.”
“Yes, yes, yes. You are too. Hurry up.”
Li Mu nodded repeatedly, looking thoroughly impatient.
At last, Song Yan broke into a smile, as beautiful as ice and snow melting away.
“Very well. Begin!”
Li Mu lifted a hand and pointed at Song Yan, speaking two words softly:
“Heavenly Might...”
Boom!!!
From directly above Song Yan’s head, covering most of the arena, a crushing pressure from the heavens came crashing down.
Space itself suddenly let out a cry of agony.
Around the arena, Zhang Zhiwei, Lu Chenfeng, Lin Yuya, and the others all clapped their hands over their ears, pain flashing across their faces.
And where Song Yan stood, the arena collapsed into a massive crater.
As for Song Yan, who had been icy and stunning just moments before, she was now pinned at the bottom of that crater by the terrifying Heavenly Might, sprawled on the ground and trembling as she struggled desperately to keep herself from being crushed flat.