112: Chapter 112 Martial Arts Exchange Tournament Substitute Spots

How could Shen Xingchen possibly pull this off?

This question was imprinted in everyone's mind.

Director Ren Hong asked, "Student Shen Xingchen, could you tell us how you managed to do it?"

In truth, they found the situation rather vexing.

If he were an ordinary student, they could have directly questioned him in an authoritative tone.

But Shen Xingchen was different.

He was Vice President Xue's disciple!

Shen Xingchen said calmly, "I did indeed use some extra methods to elevate my tier to the mid-Stage Four, allowing me to slay the fifth-tier Heavenly Demon Lion Spirit Tiger."

Many students had seen him wearing silver armor.

There was nothing much to hide about this.

The school authorities could investigate and find out on their own anyway.

Before Director Ren Hong could speak,

"Even if you elevated yourself to the mid-Stage Four, your strength is still far inferior to ours. How can you talk about a score of 7,000?" The leading senior student, Li Chenyue, spoke up first, "You must have used some unspeakable, underhanded methods, and that's why you don't dare to explain!"

As a peak Stage Four cultivator,

Li Chenyue knew better than anyone the gap between the fifth tier and the fourth tier.

He firmly refused to believe that Shen Xingchen could slay the Heavenly Demon Lion Spirit Tiger while still at Stage Three!

Suddenly,

Li Chenyue seemed to have caught onto some crucial point. "Where is your leading senior sister? Why is she missing? Could it be that you abandoned her? Is this the result of your filthy methods?"

Everyone's gazes turned uniformly toward Shen Xingchen.

Their eyes filled with suspicion.

The explanation given by Shen Xingchen was too vague, making Li Chenyue's conjecture seem much more reasonable instead.

Beside the stone tablet,

Shen Xingchen smiled.

With a flash of his figure, the silver armor materialized on his body.

In a split second, he arrived right in front of Li Chenyue.

Slap——

Shen Xingchen swung his large hand.

A tight slap was delivered across the face.

From initial bewilderment to surprise, and then to shock,

even with Li Chenyue's peak Stage Four strength, he still failed to react in time and was slapped squarely across the face.

"You!" Li Chenyue was both startled and enraged.

Shen Xingchen smiled playfully. "Do you believe it now?"

Such a clean and decisive blow startled both the teachers and students present.

Then they heard Shen Xingchen's smiling counter-question.

And then they began to reflect.

Shen Xingchen, beneath the silver armor, could actually toy with Li Chenyue so effortlessly?

Turns out his peak combat power was truly terrifying to this extent?!

Li Chenyue hurriedly took two steps back, losing face completely, and gritted his teeth as he said, "You merely borrowed high-tier armor!"

Shen Xingchen: "First of all, in my hands, this armor is a part of my own strength. Secondly, only when I use the armor can it possess such might!"

The reason why the thunder emperor armor had such a massive cultivation boost

came down to the fact that the source of thunder driven by Shen Xingchen originated from the Myriad Gods Thunder Department.

If it were an ordinary Grade-A lightning attribute, it would at most elevate one by four tiers!

Li Chenyue's face turned livid, yet he was unable to retort.

Director Ren Hong said with a beaming smile, "Student Shen, since you possess fifth-tier combat power, how about our academy invites you to be a substitute for this upcoming university martial arts exchange tournament?"

The university martial arts exchange tournament was held every year.

Well-known institutions across Huaxia would send participating teams.

Judging from past years, the teams sent by Shanghai Shenwu, Xinghai Martial Arts, and Shangjing University were all entirely composed of fifth-tier cultivators.

Shen Xingchen was still young and had four more opportunities to participate.

Going to the martial arts exchange tournament this time as a substitute would be a great choice to broaden his horizons.

As for the official members, they should be left to those few at the front of the prodigy ranking...

Hearing that Shen Xingchen was invited to participate in the university martial arts exchange tournament, the other students were all shaken.

You must know that even senior students like them at the peak of Stage Four had never gone before...

Shen Xingchen repeated, "A university martial arts exchange tournament?"

Director Ren Hong smiled and said, "Actually, it's just a martial arts exchange between academies. You should have encountered it during your high school days. Besides, as a substitute, you generally won't need to take the field. We plan to arrange for you to lead the team when you are a junior!"

Shen Xingchen understood; it was just a larger-scale Six Academies Grand Competition.

He asked again, "Where is it being held?"

Director Ren Hong quickly replied, "The host rotates every year, and this time it's at Shanghai Shenwu!"

"That's not bad!" Shen Xingchen was slightly surprised.

This way, he would be able to see Little Miss Jiang.

"Does this mean you agree?" Director Ren Hong didn't know why Shen Xingchen was surprised.

However, it didn't matter as long as he was willing to go.

"Mhm." Shen Xingchen readily nodded.

Director Ren Hong smiled with gratification. "Good, good, good!"

The students on Elder Xue's side were indeed very strong, but they were also very lazy.

They had always been too lazy to participate in activities launched by the academy, especially that female student named Bai Wanqing...

Being able to invite Shen Xingchen so easily this time was also an unexpected pleasant surprise.

"If there's nothing else, I'm leaving." Shen Xingchen had already stepped forward to leave.

He didn't need to choose an instructor anyway, so staying behind had no meaning.

Director Ren Hong and the other teachers didn't stop him.

Just at this moment,

the secret realm's teleportation array lit up with light once more, and an all-female team appeared outside.

The moment they came out,

one of the girls among them stepped forward and shouted, "Shen Xingchen cannot leave! He killed Senior Sister Yan Xinqi and younger sister Qin Yueyan!"

As soon as these words were spoken,

it once again drew the attention of the entire audience.

"What she said is true?"

"What kind of grudge could they possibly have between them to go to such lengths?"

"We can't just listen to one side of the story. Shen Xingchen looks very gentle; perhaps there's some misunderstanding."

"Right, right, right! We must have discernment!"

"..."

On the other side,

Shen Xingchen paused his steps, turned to look at everyone, and said openly and honestly, "That's right, I did it."

Uproar——

Hearing Shen Xingchen make such a straightforward admission,

the people present were in an uproar.

"He really killed them!"

"Senior Liu Meng didn't come out with the team either. Could she have been killed by him too? How terrifying!"

"This is going a bit too far, isn't it? Yan Xinqi just wouldn't let him join their team for hunting."

Director Ren Hong was also in disbelief. "Student Shen, you..."

They would grieve for the children cultivated by the academy if they died at the hands of the demons, but dying at the hands of a classmate touched upon the academy's bottom line.

What made people the most exasperated was that Shen Xingchen was Elder Xue's student, making him very troublesome to handle.

Shen Xingchen took out a phone and gestured with it. "Although even if I just left like this, you most likely wouldn't be able to execute me, I'm not an unreasonable person either."

"This is Senior Liu Meng's phone. Inside are her chat records with Yan Xinqi. Right and wrong will be judged by people themselves."

Tossing a phone with a screen full of cracks to Director Ren Hong,

Shen Xingchen left just like that in a grand manner.

Director Ren Hong had no choice but to first open the phone and see how Yan Xinqi and the others had provoked Shen Xingchen.

The chat history unfolded.

[Yan Xinqi: Mengmeng, you have to help me fix someone.]

[Senior Liu Meng: Who is it?]

[Yan Xinqi: A chauvinistic freshman. He actually bullied us soft and cute girls.]

[Senior Liu Meng: Hmph, daring to touch our women's rights, and he's just a freshman. How about we make a move in the secret realm?]

[Yan Xinqi: Okay (obedient)]

[Senior Liu Meng: If we kill him in the secret realm, no one will know, right?]

[Yan Xinqi: Qin Yueyan somewhat likes him, so let's keep him for now. Just cripple him, and we'll talk after Qin Yueyan gets tired of playing with him.]

[Senior Liu Meng: Hmph, letting him off easy!]

[...]

The subsequent chats became increasingly outrageous.

Director Ren Hong found it a bit hard to keep reading. "This... is this something a human being could say?"