Chapter 434: Team Formed (1)
20th of October.
The Character Faculty was holding a tournament with five slots of the Willpower Grotto as the rewards. Countless students had signed up for the tournament. There was a large arena in the Dao Preaching District. This massive arena was generally used as the venue for any large-scale events at the academy.
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The arena was already filled with people early in the morning.
These tournaments had always been able to garner the interest of the various students. Even the ones who were too weak to participate could have a good time as spectators.
This tournament, in particular, was even more interesting since the old students were also allowed to join. Rumors were also floating about that teams of grandparents and grandchildren would be fighting side by side, further stoking the interest of the masses.This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com
Amid the crowd, Yang Sha looked at his junior brother and frowned as he whispered, "Junior Brother Lin, the rules have yet to be announced. And Teacher has been staying silent about it as well. How did you find out about it in advance?"
Lin Yao hurriedly scanned their surroundings before whispering back, "Senior Brother, be careful when you're speaking. There are too many outsiders here!"
This senior brother of his was really giving him a headache. Was this the kind of matter you could mention in public?
"Just trust me. If you're unwilling to trust me, there's nothing I can do."
Lin Yao felt very strongly that his senior brother still needed to be tested more. His senior brother was too bad at keeping secrets. If someone like that was recruited into the Mutual Aid Club, he could easily be the leak and end up exposing the club's existence.
In Lin Yao's eyes, the Mutual Aid Club was a great and impressive organization. The club was filled with countless hidden big shots.
Not long ago, a catalog was released in the voice transmission talisman. And the items available for sale in the catalog had nearly given him a heart attack.
Heaven-grade cultivation methods, heaven-grade martial techniques, top-tier yellow-grade foundation cultural arts, earth-grade cultural weapons All sorts of treasures he had never dreamed of seeing had appeared in that catalog.
If it weren't for the fact that he had been getting along well with his senior brother recently, he wouldnt even have been willing to pull his senior brother into the club. Yet his senior brother wasn't even taking his words seriously! His senior brother was definitely going to regret this!
There was basically zero chance that he and his senior brother would be given any slots. Their teacher had only been given a single slot and he would definitely keep it for his own breakthrough into the Cloudbreach Realm.
The slots were too valuable. Even a lot of the top 100 students had yet to get a slot. And here was Yang Sha, doubting him when he was giving them a chance to get a slot for each of them.
Yang Sha shut his mouth. But he was still doubtful of Lin Yao's words. If they hadn't even been informed anything by their teacher, who was in charge of the tournament, how had Lin Yao found out about the tournament format?
And how was Lin Yao so sure that they could each get a slot? How was he supposed to trust Lin Yao?
But since he was already here, he might as well go with the flow. He wasn't going to be able to get a slot himself anyway.
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At the same time, Wan Mingze and company arrived.
Hu Qiusheng looked at Wan Mingze and said, "Mingze, are you not participating? Maybe you can get an extra slot for yourself if you do join."
But in a situation where Skysoars could enter, nobody would say no to more slots.
Elder Sun's expression remained the same as he said, "Is Pingsheng fine with this?"
Liu Hong said, "Senior Brother Zhou won't mind. His favorite students are Di Feng and Qiu Yi. But you know that these slots are no longer that useful for him with the ban on his students."
Zhou Pingsheng had six students. Two of them were Skysoars. As for the rest, apart from Di Feng and Qiu Yi, he had two students over 30 that were below the Skysoar Realm.
As for Zheng Yuming, Huang Qifeng was one of his six students. Four of them were Skysoars. And one of them was a student over 30 who was stuck below the Skysoar Realm.
Of Hu Wensheng's two students, Chen Qi was too weak while Guo Shengquan was decently strong. But he was an outlier that wasn't too close to the single character faction.
Zhou Pingsheng had actually been given two slots. The slots had been given before the scandal. Those two slots were meant for Di Feng and Qiu Yi. With the ban on them, he could no longer use the slots on them. But instead of returning the slots to the faction, he gave them to the other two other students of his who were still below the Skysoar Realm.
Everyone noticed the special treatment Zhou Pingsheng was enjoying, but nobody said anything. It was unknown how many of them were unhappy with that.
Liu Hong softly added, "Elder Sun, I'm actually trying to prevent Senior Brother Zhou from getting more slots."
"..."
Elder Sun said nothing and waited for more explanation.
"Senior Brother Zhou has already been given two slots. And he only has two students who can put those slots to use. He doesn't need more slots. However, he had still requested more slots from me...But there are already a lot of eyes on him. I'm worried that if we keep giving him what he wants, more unfavorable things might happen to us."
Elder Sun glanced at Liu Hong and asked, "Did he really ask for more slots from you?"
"Yeah."
"Ignore him. What an idiot. Why is he still so active? Does he really think that everyone is blind? Old Zhou can protect him once, but not forever. Also, did we really buy the formula for 100,000 merit points previously?"
"We only spent 82,000 merit points on it..."
Elder Sun nodded. Old Zhou had already taken the blame for all that. It was not worth arguing with Old Zhou over those things.
"Liu Hong, keep your mouth shut. Don't run your mouth around. Do you understand me?"
Liu Hong smiled bitterly and said, "I understand. But Elder Sun, I am actually quite afraid. I have been maintaining a low profile since my teacher entered seclusion. But this time, Senior Brother Zhou had requested for the matches to be rigged in favor of his people. I don't dare to disobey him, but it really isn't a good idea. I have no choice but to tell you about this. If he comes after me, I hope Elder Sun can speak out on my behalf.
"If I really listen to him and help him get more slots, he will definitely sell them since he no longer has anyone under him that can use the slots. It will be fine if he ends up selling to our own people. But what if he sells to outsiders? Elder Sun, I will end up as the scapegoat. I will be the one to suffer. In that case, I might as well come clean, even if it will offend Senior Brother Zhou."
Elder Sun indifferently said, "Just do what you need to do. Little Zhou has forgotten himself recently. It's time for him to get a good wake-up call. You're the person appointed by Old Zhou to oversee all our members below the Skysoar Realm. Just do your job and ignore him."
"Thank you, Elder Sun."
Liu Hong expressed his gratitude with a relieved expression on his face.
Elder Sun said nothing else. After checking the time, Liu Hong flew into the sky before landing on the stage.
