Light Cultivation
Eps. 340 — Academy Competition
In the Imperial Academy, generally every year there will always be a competition between students in the form of matches.
The match aimed to capture a ranking of the strongest in the academy, as it is today, the students are carrying out a fight provided by the academy in the middle of the field.
In the arena there are two people who are fighting, one of them is a man who has a spear weapon while the other is a woman.
The women in the fighting arena looked in the spotlight of all the spectators on the podium especially the men, they did not even blink when the girl started to appear on stage.
The incident is actually not surprising, it is because the girl has an unusually beautiful face.
Niu Meily, a talented woman in the Imperial academy. Three years ago her first arrival to the academy was enough to leave others stunned by her beauty and now they are stunned for the umpteenth time by her incredible talent.
Meily had only lived three years in the academy with her best friend but that time was enough to make the girl top of the rankings as a talented student.
Ziyun was also not much different from Meily, all the male glare could barely escape by the girl let alone her ever graceful appearance and exuding an aura of calmness and shade.
Both of them were indeed the main stars in the academy since the past few years because other than them being beautiful, both of them were martial geniuses as well.
In his second age which was still in his early twenties, Meily and Ziyun had already reached the peak Earth Realm warriors, in the Dragon Empire no swordsman at such a young age had achieved such cultivation except for them.
"I give up, I admit defeat!"
The man who was Meily's opponent suddenly raised his hand after the spear he was holding fell to the floor as a result of a clash with the girl.
The match was won again by Meily, making the match even more heated. Meily then sat back in her seat after the match had finished.
The rules of the match competition were actually quite simple, for anyone disciples who wanted to climb the ranks they had to fight with stronger disciples.
The student who will rise in the ranking will challenge the student who is higher than his rank, if the person who is challenged loses then his position will automatically be replaced by the challenger.
Ziyun and Meily were ranked one and second as the strongest disciples, not surprisingly in the current match the two fought a lot because many disciples wanted to challenge both of them.
So far dozens of disciples had challenged the two girls but none of them had managed to win, Meily and Ziyun had managed to defeat every single one of the disciples who challenged them.
"Who are you going to challenge?" A referee then asked one of the student participants who went up to the arena stage.
The disciple then pointed at Ziyun, he wanted to challenge the girl.
Ziyun sighed before getting up from her seat, this was already the match to the number of times she had to fight. The girl then started to go on stage.
Ziyun whipped out her first-class heirloom sword before exerting a deep flow of energy, Ziyun's sword then made a change of ice type, its navel covered in a cold blue powder.
When the jury lowered his hand, Ziyun immediately moved to attack the challenger's student with a barrage of attacks.
The fight did not last long because in the five skill exchanges Ziyun had made her opponent desperate until the disciple raised his hand and surrendered.
"That's great, Brother Ziyun..." Meily whispered softly as Ziyun was already sitting beside her again.
Meily chuckled, she understood what her best friend meant. Until now, no one knew that Ziyun and Meily's strength was already at the peak Hampa Realm.
The two girls deliberately hid their strength from anyone including the academy Elders, in a few weeks they might reach the Sky Realm.
On the arena stage there was another fight, a disciple who challenged another stronger disciple, these disciples they had to scramble for positions to become the strongest in the academy.
The attention of Meily, Ziyun and the others was diverted to a hooded person rising up onto the stage.
Meily could not see the man's face because it was covered in a hood on her head but she realized that the man was a young man.
The referee seemed to not know the student but he did not find out further, in the academy the number of disciples reached thousands so it was no wonder there were students he did not recognize.
The referee then asked who he was going to challenge, the hooded young man then pointed at Meily, that girl he wanted to fight.
"I can't see her power, you have to be careful Mei'er..." Ziyun whispered.
Meily nodded, she realized this but assumed that the person was using a special technique to hide his cultivation level.
Without waiting for Meily to climb up the arena again, plucking her navel and preparing to fight while the young man seemed to be doing nothing.
When the referee started the match, Meily immediately moved to attack the hooded young man using her sword technique.
Meily intended to end this match quickly so she used her mainstay style but unlike what she imagined, the hooded young man could avoid it.
A surprised expression was plastered on Meily's face, not just her but Ziyun, the referee and the other spectators seemed to react similarly.
Meily did not stop there even though her first attack failed, she attacked again but this time using the moon sword technique, unlike her hope that the hooded young man could dodge it easily.
The moon sword technique which was a high-level sword technique was completely useless before the young man even it seemed like he could dodge Meily's attack just by closing his eyes.
The hooded young man swung his finger, giving instructions for Meily to strike back. The young man realized Meily was still holding back most of her strength.
Meily clasped her sword even tighter, alright, the girl then poured a sizable amount of profound power into her sword before performing another moon sword technique.
"Full Moon Sword Technique — Two Star Light..."
Meily increased the speed of her sword swing in the first fifteen slashes, each swing of hers enveloped in a huge inner power.
Facing the speed of that sword, the hooded young man finally raised his hand to fend off some of Meily's attacks that were aimed at his body.
Meily did not believe what she saw, she was quite confident with the sharpness of her navel but the young man just easily held it without suffering the slightest injury.
Meily was out of her mind, she was now using the lightning type change to increase her attack, her sword speed increasing by several folds again.
Finally one of Meily's swings hit the young man's hood which made him sag and show his face. It was then that Meily saw the young man's face, her breath becoming stifled seeing a pair of golden eyes looking at him while smiling gently.