Chapter 94 (1/2)

Chapter 94 Giving Guidance

Just like that, Fang Xingjian's cla.s.s won two consecutive battles, acc.u.mulating 6 points in the group battle, tied with Cla.s.s 248 (the most senior cla.s.s, who had trained for eight years longer than Cla.s.s 256), and Cla.s.s 250 (enrolled six years earlier than Cla.s.s 256).

Therefore, based on the time that they had used, and on the number of members eliminated during battle, Fang Xingjian's Cla.s.s 256 and Cla.s.s 248 (the most senior cla.s.s, who had trained for eight years longer than Cla.s.s 256) were chosen as the two cla.s.ses to directly enter the semi-finals.

Thereafter, the cla.s.ses ranked third to sixth, namely Cla.s.s 250, Cla.s.s 252 (Xiu Yi's and Renault's cla.s.s), Cla.s.s 249 (the second most senior cla.s.s), and Cla.s.s 254 all continued their battles in the elimination rounds after drawing lots.

The remaining three cla.s.ses, with the lowest acc.u.mulated point totals, were eliminated immediately after the first stage.

Therefore, for the next two days, Cla.s.s 256 did not need to take part in any battles. They only needed to wait for the elimination rounds to conclude, and would be able to enter the semi-finals for the top four cla.s.ses directly.

In the days without any battles, Fang Xingjian kept practicing his sword arts in his own villa, of course... there were a few more others in these two days.

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On the lawn, Fang Xingjian sat cross-legged on the floor, physically circulating the Training techniques, and the Nurturing techniques, automatic as usual, while in his mind he unceasingly practiced a few of the Nurturing techniques he had secretly learnt these past few days.

However, he would quickly glance over at that silhouette on the lawn every now and then.

Still, most of his focus was not on it. It was because the other party's sword techniques were too unbearably coa.r.s.e. Even The School of Sword Arts' Ogden and Lambert were of a much higher level in terms of sword arts when compared to that young girl.

The one practicing her sword arts on the lawn was Kirst's City Lord's daughter, Lilia.

Today, after bringing along a whole cart of precious materials, she had started demonstrating her sword techniques under Fang Xingjian's command.

Today, her att.i.tude towards Fang Xingjian was much more respectful than it had been the day before. She had obviously heard of how Fang Xingjian had not only wiped out all of the Knights in Cla.s.s 252 the day before, but had even displayed sword techniques at the speed of sound, astonis.h.i.+ng the crowd.

Therefore, Lilia was now waving her greatsword about in the air, sending soil and dust flying, shooting about gra.s.s and stones, and making a mess of the nice lawn.

After a very long time, she ran excitedly to Fang Xingjian, bowed respectfully, and asked in great antic.i.p.ation, ”Teacher, how do my sword arts look?

”How should I be training from now on?”

Fang Xingjian narrowed his eyes and threw a glance at her. Most of his consciousness was still focused on automatically cultivating the Nurturing techniques that he had secretly learned, as he spoke.

”Trash.”

”Ahh?!” Lilia pouted and said, ”How's that possible?

”The teacher my father got for me kept saying that I have great talent and that I am a genius for practicing martial arts. Usually, I'm very strong in fights as well!” As she said this, she clenched her delicate little fists.

Fang Xingjian knew that her teacher was not wrong to say that. He did not know if it was due to the powerful bloodline of Kirst's City Lord, or if it was because Lilia had grown up eating too many treasures of the world, but her attributes were good, and she even had an inborn speciality called 'Monstrous Strength', allowing her strength to be maintained at its peak for as long as her physical strength was not depleted.

This was obviously an extremely outstanding speciality, ideally suited for combat, and it could generally allow Lilia to maintain peak condition during combat at all times. Normal injuries would not affect her either.

But this also made her perform each stance at full power, which ended up affecting her sword arts practice.

Of course, her talent in sword arts was really poor, and that was also why the levels of her techniques were all very low. She was thus unable to pa.s.s the selection to become a Knight, having been stuck at level 9 for a very long time, and even decided to pa.s.s up on opportunities for the Prefectural Selection these past few years.