Chapter 3: Competition

The entire arena fell silent!

A look of dismay converged on Zhang Yun on the high platform.

"Zhang Yun, you accept this too, crazy, right?"

Meng Zhong couldn't help but open his mouth.

Zhang Yun ignored him and just calmly looked down at Xu Ming, "Are you willing to worship me as your teacher?"

Xu Ming woke up at the words and did not hesitate, "I am willing!"

"Good! From today, you are my Zhang Yun's disciple!!!"

Zhang Yun smiled.

"I refuse!"

But at that moment, Meng Zhong's chorus sounded from the side.

Zhang Yun frowned.

"Patriarch, I request that Zhang Yun's qualification to accept disciples be revoked!"

Only Meng Zhong looked at the Patriarch of the Spirit Immortal Sect and said, "Although he is the Ninth Elder, Zhang Yun has never accepted a disciple and has no eyesight. Right now, he is even trying to bring such a waste into the sect, wasting our sect's resources. I strongly suggest that his qualifications for accepting disciples be revoked!"

"A wastrel? Oh ..."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yun could not help but laugh.

"What are you laughing at?

Meng Zhong frowned.

"I'm laughing at your ignorance!"

Zhang Yun coldly rebuked him, "If it's an invalid in your eyes, then it's an invalid? Don't be so self-righteous! In my opinion, Xu Ming is not an invalid, he is a genius!""Genius?"

When these words were uttered, not only Meng Zhong, but everyone present was stunned.

Xu Ming was a genius?

"Hahahahahaha ..."

As if he had heard a heavenly joke, Meng Zhong couldn't help but burst out laughing, "Zhang Yun, I think you've gone off the deep end with your cultivation and made yourself stupid as well, right? Such an obviously crippled Spiritual Root Scrapper, you call that a genius?"

Saying that, Meng Zhong suddenly thought of something and laughed, "How about this, since you think he's a genius, why don't we compare?"

"Compare?"

Zhang Yun was stunned, "What do you want to compare?"

"Compare disciples, and by the way, compare our ability to give instructions that we should have as masters!"

Meng Zhong spoke indifferently, his eyes sweeping around the place before finally fixing on the two one-metre green stones in the martial arts section, "Let's use these two martial arts stones to compare. You teach this 'genius' disciple of yours, while I won't bully you, so I'll teach this new disciple of mine, Nie Zhi, who has a lower level Spirit Root."

"We will each give our disciples a few pointers. After our instructions, whoever's disciple can cause the most destruction to the martial arts performance stone will be considered the winner! If you win, I will recognise that disciple of yours as a genius and also recognise your qualification to take on a disciple. On the other hand, if you lose, your disciple qualification will be cancelled. Do you dare to play a game?"

"This ..."

Zhang Yun frowned.

"What, don't you dare?"

Meng Zhong sneered, "If you don't dare, then admit that you don't have the eyesight and roll back to the Ninth Peak!""Why wouldn't I dare?"

Zhang Yun spoke indifferently, "I just think it's unfair!"

"Unfair?"

Meng Zhong was stunned.

Zhang Yun said, "According to you, if I lose, I will completely lose the qualification to take on a disciple. On the other hand, if I win, you won't have to pay anything. Tenth Elder, don't you think you're making an empty hand out of a wolf?"

Meng Zhong frowned, "Then what do you want?"

"It's simple, if I win ..."

Zhang Yun thought for a moment and raised his finger, "Ten thousand Spirit Stones. If I win, you will pay me 10,000 spirit stones as compensation for defaming me!"

The moment these words were uttered, the entire room fell silent.

Spirit Stones were the currency of the cultivators on the Immortal Dao Continent, as well as the most important cultivation resource.

Ten thousand Spirit Stones was no small amount.

Even as an elder of the Immortal Spirit Sect, the offerings one could receive in a year were only two thousand spirit stones, which was already equivalent to an elder's offerings for five years.

"Zhang Yun, you're going crazy thinking about spirit stones!"

Meng Zhong shouted in a deep, deep voice.

"What, you don't dare?"

Zhang Yun laughed lightly.

"You ..."

Seeing that he was even using his own words back at him, Meng Zhong was annoyed, but quickly grunted coldly, "Zhang Yun, you want to use this way to escape? Impossible! I, Meng Zhong, will expose your true face as a punk today! Ten thousand Spirit Stones, I accept!!!"

"Nie Zhi, step forward!"With that, he looked down.

Nie Zhi immediately stepped out, a confident smile on the corner of his mouth.

Compared to others, he would be a bit scared. But compared to a waste like Xu Ming, he still had a lot of confidence!

Meng Zhong also looked at Zhang Yun with a cold smile.

He was using the disciple that Zhang Yun had chosen himself, but had been snatched away by him, to make Zhang Yun feel ashamed!

"Nie Zhi, choose your favourite weapon from the weapon rack and then perform your best fighting technique to try and attack this martial arts performance stone!"

Upon hearing this, Nie Zhi downstairs nodded his head and immediately took a long sword from the weapons rack at the venue and held it in his hand.

"Master, the fighting technique I'm going to perform is called Spirit Blade Decision!"

Nie Zhi walked over to the martial arts area with the knife in his hand, and with it, he 'brushed' and began to dance a series of knife techniques.

"Drink!"

As the knife dance reached a critical moment, Nie Zhi's eyes narrowed and he roared as he severely chopped his blade on a martial arts training stone.

Snort...

With a burst of sparks, a scratch the thickness of a fingernail cap appeared on the martial arts stone.

Meng Zhong looked at it with a slight nod and began to speak eloquently, ''Nie Zhi, I've seen this set of Spirit Blade Resolutions of yours. It's okay to use, but the steps are a bit redundant, this Spirit Blade Decree is not trying to be fancy, those few strokes you danced in front of you seem to lay the foundation for the strongest blade, but they are actually fancy. The best way to ...The first blade will adapt to the strength of your hand, while the second blade builds up its strength, use your right hand holding the blade to move the handle to your left hand, and then both hands hold the handle together to combine their strength to chop the third blade!"

As Meng Zhong spoke, those hands even demonstrated it on themselves, "This is the only way to chop out the most powerful blade!"

"Disciple understands!"

Nie Zhi's eyes lit up.

Immediately, following the way Meng Zhong said, one, two, and the third slash with both hands together in one place slashed at the martial arts stone with all his might.

Snap!

There was a crunching sound.

Only to see that the martial arts stone was directly underneath this knife, emitting countless stone chips, a knife mark as thick as an arm appeared on the martial arts stone.

Wow!

The audience gasped.

If this blade was considered a test with the martial arts stone just now, then this blade simply destroyed the martial arts stone.

After a few more cuts, it was estimated that the martial arts stone wouldn't be able to withstand it.

This power has at least doubled several times!The eyes of the many young boys and girls looking at Meng Zhong couldn't help but be filled with awe for a moment.

This Tenth Elder, he's got some skills!

Meng Zhong enjoyed this look and glanced to the side triumphantly, "Zhang Yun, it's your turn!"

"Unfortunately... ..."

Zhang Yun suddenly sighed.

Meng Zhong was stunned, then reacted with a contemptuous smile, "What, you know you can't do it. You want to admit defeat?"

"You're not light on paranoia!"

Zhang Yun rolled his eyes and shook his head slightly, "I'm just sighing, it's a pity that this Nie Zhi is worshipping under you. Ten percent of his strength, I'm afraid he hasn't even brought out fifty percent of his strength, sadly ..."

"Fifty percent? Oh ..."

Meng Zhongqi laughed and coldly looked at Zhang Yun, "This elder wants to see how you can make your punk pupil use his full strength!"

Zhang Yun didn't say much and directly jumped down from the high platform, coming in front of the venue's weapon racks ...