Chapter 140: My Academic Weapon Best Bro (Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

After hundreds of exchanges between the two sides, Xu Chen accumulated more and more injuries, and was ultimately worn down and killed by the clone.

Inside the sacred white space, Xu Chen's consciousness avatar condensed.

He reviewed and recalled every detail of the battle.

Every move and stance of the clone seemed completely ordinary, so ordinary that even a child on the street could execute a few of them.

Although Xu Chen knew there was a problem, he could not figure out where the problem lay.

"His battle rhythm..."

After reviewing for a long time, Xu Chen still could not make sense of it.

"Let's continue. Anyway, there is plenty of time."

Xu Chen looked at the only golden gate in the sacred white space and pushed it open once again.

"Senior, I'm here!"

"Let's continue!"

Seeing Xu Chen enter, the clone smiled.

"You are fortunate to have crossed paths with me."

"Study well. This is what I comprehended after fighting across countless battlefields for many years."

The two clashed again. No matter how Xu Chen attacked or how immense the erupted physical force was, it was completely dissolved by the clone within his battle rhythm.

Throughout the night, Xu Chen fought twenty battles against the clone. He reviewed every single one, yet gained no upper hand in any of them.

Upon returning to his physical body, Xu Chen felt a long-absent sense of mental exhaustion.

He found the resting chamber in his grotto-heaven, lay down on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

Waking up the second day:

"Let's continue. I'm going to lock horns with you!"

Just as Xu Chen was about to enter the sacred white space, a message came in.

Inside the largest music pavilion of the human market in the Daxixi Sect:

Xu Chen looked at Li Chenghfu, whose mood was low yet carried a trace of relief, with a somewhat complicated expression.

"You mean your fiancée came this time intending to call off the engagement?"

"Yet fearing she would be slapped in the face later, she deliberately came to observe you for a period of time, and only confirmed it before calling off the engagement," Zong Changshou said, looking at Li Chenghfu with a strange gaze.

"Roughly speaking, yes," Li Chenghfu sighed.

"Isn't that killing two birds with one stone?" Xu Chen looked at Li Chenghfu with novelty.

To think he was actually the protagonist of a broken-engagement trope.

"Why would her side call off the engagement for no reason?" Zong Changshou asked with curiosity.

"A Mystic Immortal in their family, whose lifespan was nearing its end, risked his life breaking through and actually advanced to the Golden Immortal realm."

"Now there are two Golden Immortal magnates in the family, and crucially, the newly advanced Golden Immortal is an important elder of my fiancée."

"Then that Golden Immortal felt that I was unworthy of his great-granddaughter."

"Next month, that Golden Immortal will personally come to call off the engagement." Li Chenghfu did not even know what kind of mood he was in right now.

Upon hearing this, Xu Chen suddenly thought of a certain scenario.

"Senior Brother Li, when the engagement is called off, do you want to shout out: 'Do not bully a young man into poverty for thirty years to the east, thirty years to the west'?"

"I wouldn't dare. If I really get targeted by that Golden Immortal senior, my days ahead won't be easy," Li Chenghfu scratched his head.

"Senior brother really is..."

"No matter what, the matter is considered resolved."

"After a while, once we all advance to the Mortal Body Realm, I will treat Junior Brother and Changshou to a trip to the Human Emperor Great Dao Continent," Li Chenghfu said heroically with a wave of his hand.

"It's a deal. Both the junior brother and I will remember it," Zong Changshou said from the side.

"When have I ever gone back on my word?"

After the three of them ate, drank, and played for a while in the music pavilion, they returned to their respective grotto-heavens to cultivate.

In the Human Dao Realm, within the Myriad Dao Peak Academy's miniature world:

Xu Chen was studying Dao scripts alone.

At that moment, the white furball appeared before Xu Chen.

"Master, someone wishes to communicate with you: Jiang Beici from the Human Emperor Great Dao Palace."

"Connect." Xu Chen paused the lecture smoothly.

A light screen appeared in front of Xu Chen.

"I happened to have some free time recently, and while chatting with friends in the Human Dao Realm, I suddenly remembered that you should have entered the Human Dao Realm as well."

"I tried calling, and you were actually online."

In the light screen, Jiang Beici said happily.

"What are you doing? If you have time, I'll come find you," Jiang Beici said.

"I am attending a Dao script lecture. There is still half an hour left, and I'll come find you then," Xu Chen said, checking the academy's time.

"A Dao script class? I'll go listen too."

Not long after, a figure appeared in the academy's miniature world.

Upon seeing the teacher lecturing on the other side, Jiang Beici was even stunned for a moment.

"Isn't this Teacher Wan, who specializes in teaching foundational Dao scripts? Did you buy his course?" Jiang Beici looked at Xu Chen.

"In our sect, only elders and hall masters teach Dao scripts once one reaches the Mortal Body Realm, which delays things too much, so I enrolled in a course here."

"Then you listen. I'll stay by the side and not disturb you."

"If there's anything you don't understand later, just ask me. Your brother here is most proficient in Dao scripts, and all thirty-six thousand Dao scripts come to me as easily as turning my hand."

"I even used Dao scripts to write a few Dao script scriptures concerning divine abilities and techniques in the past, earning quite a few Human contribution points," Jiang Beici said full of confidence.

"Awesome!"

Xu Chen praised him and then began to listen attentively to the lecture.

After the one-hour Dao script class ended, Xu Chen actually asked Jiang Beici about the parts he didn't understand from before and in this class.

Jiang Beici answered them one by one, going from the shallow to the profound, giving Xu Chen a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

"It seems you weren't bragging," Xu Chen remarked with emotion.

"Had I known, I could have recorded a Dao-rhyme explanation regarding Dao scripts for you, and you wouldn't have had to spend this unjust money," Jiang Beici regretted not finding Xu Chen sooner.

"Come, I'll take you to a good place."

A portal appeared before the two of them.

As soon as they entered it, Xu Chen keenly sensed that he had turned into a mortal, possessing only the strength of a single ox.

Moreover, there was a light screen before his eyes, asking him to choose two initial weapons.

"This is a special combat miniature world where two initial weapons are granted at the start."

"Then, one must seize the divine weapons that descend upon this world as much as possible."

"After a single divine weapon kills twenty people, ten contribution points can be redeemed. If it is seized, nothing is left; if you are killed, it counts as being eliminated for this match."

"In this miniature world, no matter how high one's cultivation base is upon entering, it is reduced to that of a mortal with the strength of a single ox," Jiang Beici explained the rules of this miniature world.

"Then how is a match considered won or ended?"

Xu Chen casually selected a saber and a bow and arrow from the light screen.

Jiang Beici chose a fire-controlling pearl and a shield.

"A divine weapon will appear every half-quarter hour. When the tenth divine weapon appears, a deadly poison will emerge and begin covering the entire miniature world."

"Only by obtaining a divine weapon and slaying twenty people can one escape from this miniature world."

Jiang Beici held a shield in one hand and the fire-controlling pearl in the other, a cluster of flames transforming into various shapes in the palm of his hand.

"This game is in the Human Dao Realm, why haven't I heard of it?"

Xu Chen tested the tension of the bow, finding it barely under the strength of a single ox.

"It has just started circulating among a few sects in the Human Emperor Great Dao Continent. To join this game, one needs to pay one-tenth of a Human contribution point."

"Ten tenths make one Human contribution point."

Following Jiang Beici's explanation, Xu Chen's eyes lit up.

"It can actually win contribution points? Have you ever won?" Xu Chen grew interested.

"I've obtained a divine weapon once, but came up just short."

"Besides, almost every match has shameless scoundrels who have stepped onto the immortal path coming over to pretend to be novices."

"What's worse, Golden Immortal magnates come over from time to time as well. Currently, it is said they are starting to prepare to divide matches according to cultivation bases."

At that moment, Xu Chen suddenly slashed his saber, while Jiang Beici unleashed a blade of fire.

The two jointly intercepted an arrow shot toward them.

"Interesting, daring to ambush me."

Xu Chen, holding his bow and arrow, smoothly climbed a tree not far away, his Three-God Qi converging into his eyes.

He instantly spotted the ambusher.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Three arrows were fired in less than the snap of a finger, sealing off all paths for the ambusher.

Jiang Beici saw a beam of spiritual light rising in the distance.

"What happens if you kill people without taking a divine weapon?"

Xu Chen felt that the beam of spiritual light should emanate from someone's death; a warm current gathered within his body, and he felt his strength improve slightly.

"It increases your strength by fifty catties."

"As expected of someone who fought his way out of the Ancient Desolate Battlefield. Those three arrows just now—if I didn't have the shield, I couldn't have blocked them at all," Jiang Beici exclaimed as he looked at the beam of spiritual light rising in the distance.

"Let's go, let's kill more people so we can seize a divine weapon." Xu Chen naturally adapted to the game.

"Well, looks like you're adapting to this place faster than I am," Jiang Beici laughed.

"This feeling is too familiar. Let's go, let's see if I can carry you to victory."

"By the way, how many people are there in this battlefield?" Xu Chen was still scouting the surrounding terrain from the tree.

"The standard is ten thousand."

"Then can we collect all ten divine weapons and leave after all of them have killed twenty people? That would be one hundred contribution points." Xu Chen's eyes shone.

Ever since he had visited the Human Realm's Human Treasury, he had understood the preciousness of these Human contribution points.

"Impossible. Even if a Golden Immortal magnate comes over to pretend to be a novice, they can at most secure three or four pieces."

"Initial strengths differ very little. No matter how high the battle prowess is, ants can still bite an elephant to death," Jiang Beici shook his hand and said.

At that moment, twenty miles away in the distance, a yellow pillar of light lit up.

"That's the first divine weapon. Let's go, we're heading over."

Jiang Beici led Xu Chen toward that direction, and along the way, the two were occasionally ambushed by hidden arrows.

At this point, Xu Chen felt how this place differed from the Ancient Desolate Battlefield. Aside from the unlucky fellow he had shot dead at the very beginning, whether it was ambushes or snipped arrows along the way, the combat standards were extremely high.

If not for the cooperation of the two of them, they might have already met their demise.

Just then, a black spear, as if traversing space itself, shot toward the two of them.

The angle of the shot was extremely tricky; a moment of carelessness and one could easily be pierced through by this single spear.

Xu Chen slashed out with his saber, meeting the spear head-on, and was directly knocked back more than ten steps.

The momentum of the spear remained unabated, and Jiang Beici stepped up with his shield to meet it.

The massive force directly knocked Jiang Beici flying.

And at the very moment he was knocked flying, two more hidden arrows shot over from the distance.

Xu Chen grabbed Jiang Beici in a flash, waved his saber with one hand to deflect the two hidden arrows, and found a secluded place to hide.

"The one who threw that spear is a Golden Immortal magnate! So shameless, bullying juniors!"

"We've run into this several times."

Jiang Beici spat out a mouthful of blood foam.

"There are way too many ambushes along this road," Xu Chen could not help but say.

"No help for it, all ten thousand people are eyeing this single divine weapon."

"I used to be one of those ambushing people myself."

Jiang Beici looked at the distance to the divine weapon.

"Don't walk forward anymore. Let's just hide right here."

"Kill more people to increase our strength."

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