Martial Boss Chapter 116

The first day of the first month.

Several horse-drawn carriages came whistling in, crushing the spring snow under the Datong Mountain.

The people of the Great Qian Science said that they would come at the beginning of spring in the coming year. On the first day of spring, the people arrived.

“Stop.” The carriage stopped at the foot of the mountain, and the coachman on the carriage in the centre said towards the carriage, “Sacrificial wine, Datong Mountain has arrived.”

“Hm.” Ming Rui stepped out of the central carriage and stood on top of it, looking out over the familiar and unfamiliar snowy landscape.

In the rest of the carriages, there were also scholars who had come here in twos and threes to participate in the competition for a place in the literary world.

“Let’s go.” Ming Rui’s true qi was released outwardly, covering the surroundings and wrapping around the many scholars as they rose up.

“Great Qian Jixi Palace of Learning, come and pay your respects to the mountain.” The sound of worship spread for a thousand miles, after which, like flying immortals, the crowd rose up on the wind, lifted by Ming Rui’s true qi, and flew towards the Mountain River Academy on the mountain.

The long road up the mountain was only a few moments away under the true qi of a Tong Shen realm powerhouse.

And in front of the Mountain River Academy, there were already people waiting, but strangely enough, only one person was waiting.

“Senior Brother Qingzhu, long time no see.”

The person waiting in front of the mountain gate was no other than that Mr. Qingzhu of the Ritual Saint Pavilion, who had only heard of his name but not seen him when Qing Yu had first enrolled.

He coughed lightly every now and then, and when faced with Ming Rui’s greeting, he said very stiffly, “I don’t have a priest brother, so I’m sorry.”

In the face of Qingzhu’s cold words, Ming Rui was not the least bit annoyed, but still had a kind face and said, “Brother Qingzhu took good care of me back then, so no matter what my status is, I would never dare to forget my brother’s love. I would never dare to disown you, no matter what your status is.”

“Humph,” Lu Qingzhu snorted coldly, “If you don’t forget your kindness, then do you remember how I got this old wound!”

With these words, Lu Qingzhu had left Ming Rui speechless. Thirty years ago, during the literary competition, Lu Qingzhu had fought with King Jing Yang of Science and would rather die than retreat, taking three slaps from him and winning.

“I have waited here for an hour today to see if this face of yours, Ming Rui, is really shameless and skinless.”

“Now, it seems that this Tong Shen realm powerhouse is really as cheeky and brazen as a god.” After saying this, Lu Qingzhu waved his sleeves and left, leaving Ming Rui and the others where they were, as if he had waited for an hour just to ridicule Ming Rui for a few words.

Once he left, he left Ming Rui and his group standing dumbfounded at the door.

“You ——” One of the men behind Ming Rui was about to speak out at the sound of his voice, but was stopped by Ming Rui, shaking his head to stop him.

“Sacrificial Wine, this move by the Mountain River Academy has fallen on our faces, if we don’t fight back, won’t we be trampled under their feet in a raw way.” The man said sharply.

Ming Rui didn’t need to turn his head to imagine the anger of the lecturers and students behind him, but he still smiled and said, “If this is the only kind of temperament that the Shanhe Academy has, we won’t have to worry about winning this trip. We have endured this for thirty years, so it’s no longer just a moment. If we wait too long, we will not be the only ones to lose face. If we were to turn our defeat around on this trip, the humiliation that the Mountain River Academy would suffer would be a million times greater than what we are suffering now.”

Hearing this, the students behind them all pushed down the irritation in their hearts and turned it into firewood, stoking the fire of their fighting spirit.

“Sacrificial Scholar Ming is joking, in thirty years, Sacrificial Scholar Ming has not led a team to participate in a single literary forum competition for the position, and you were not among those who were humiliated. And wasn’t it you yourself who bestowed the first defeat on Science in the first literary contest thirty years ago?” On the side of the gate, Zhuge Longxu walked out slowly, followed by Lu Qingzhu and Ouyang Yan, who everyone thought were long gone.

“Forgive me, but today is a holiday for the academy, and all of our students have gone home to their families, so there are not many students left behind, so only the dean and two lecturers are here to welcome you.”

“Dean Zhuge is joking, it is an honour for us to have Dean Zhuge come to greet us personally. We are more than happy, how can we say that we are sorry.” Ming Rui raised his voice and laughed.

The two sides exchanged pleasantries again, and it really looked like Dao was simply paying a visit rather than coming to kick the bucket.

“Sacristan Ming, please.” Zhuge Longxu sidled up and led in a false manner.

“Please.” Ming Rui walked alongside Zhuge Long Su, followed by a line of people at the back, and entered the Shan He Academy.

As soon as they entered the school, Ming Rui’s face did not change, and the lecturers behind him also looked calm, but the students’ faces changed, but they returned to their original state after a while.

The three Zhuge Long Su saw this and a wisp of deep thought flashed across their eyes.

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“The person that Rei has come to this time is not simple!” On a distant pavilion, Qing Yu looked at the movement at the door from afar and suddenly said.

Although he still didn’t know exactly what his eye powers were, with his current enhancement of his vision, Qing Yu could easily see all sorts of things happening at the mountain gate, including the details of which scholars had shifting expressions on their faces.

“Oh, how?” Hearing this, Feng Jiu, who was standing at his side, questioned.

“You can’t feel it now that ‘Hao Rang Zheng Qi’ is in your body, try transforming the robbery power into the true Qi of the Science.”

The “Heavenly Science Inner Sage Method”, which Qing Yu had also given to Feng Jiu to practise, was naturally effortless to convert the Science True Qi.

As soon as the Science True Qi started to run in her body, Feng Jiu felt that it seemed to be running a bit stagnant, not as freely as before.

What was wrong? Feng Jiu looked at Qing Yu in confusion.

“It’s the environment,” Qing Yu explained, “The residual effects left by the outbreak of the Long River of Hao Qi on the eighth day of the lunar month, plus the fact that the Long River of Hao Qi in the academy has never really fallen silent since that snowy night visit to the mountain, and has been poised on alert, has caused the special environment, which used to be only slightly affected, to change so much that it has begun to significantly suppress the operation of the fey true qi.

Most of the students at the academy had left on leave for the same reason. The current environment of the academy is just too unfriendly to them, the students who have not yet cultivated their ‘Hao Ren Zheng Qi’.”

“Then how come the science cla*s has not been affected?”

If they are being suppressed, it doesn’t make sense that the scholars of science would not be affected.

“The nature of the true qi is only slightly different from that of Confucianism. That’s why that Ming priest was able to switch to the school of science without any problems. The cultivation level of each of these scholars is at least two or three times that of the Ascended Masters, otherwise they would not have been affected.

That’s why we say that the people from the Academy are not simple this time.”

And there were definitely more than just these people. This sentence, Qing Yu didn’t say out loud.

This time, the competition for position in the literary world was different from the past, right now only people from the Science appeared, there must be others lurking.