“What did you say!!!”

On the mountaintop, Shi Jingjing’s eyes widened in disbelief and she screamed.

“He defeated Qiao Xingwen in just one minute! Could it be that you’re under an illusion?”

Cao Yaling knew that Shi Jingjing wouldn’t believe it if she hadn’t witnessed it herself.

Even she, at the eighth level of Qi Refining, couldn’t defeat Qiao Xingwen in just one minute.

Perhaps only Gong Xiangyu, at the ninth level of Qi Refining, could achieve this with the use of powerful talismans or spells.

“There’s a video uploaded, take a look for yourself.”

Cao Yaling opened the betting website, where multiple videos of battles were already uploaded according to the match schedule.

She selected the match between Chen Mobai and Qiao Xingwen, clicked on the small triangle button between their avatars, and immediately a short video started buffering.

It was indeed short, just one minute.

Shi Jingjing immediately leaned over to watch.

After the referee stepped down, Qiao Xingwen first used two spiritual pills to test Chen Mobai. Chen Mobai used the common technique of body movement to dodge the attack.

But this step fell into Qiao Xingwen’s calculations. He predicted the landing point of Chen Mobai’s body movement technique and three dazzling spiritual pills burst out, followed by even more powerful spiritual pills shooting out from the tips of his three fingers, accurately targeting all the possible landing points for Chen Mobai’s movements.

Wasn’t it over then?

Just as Shi Jingjing was thinking this, a wooden shield talisman lit up in Chen Mobai’s hand.

Hmm, a good response.

Just as Shi Jingjing was evaluating this, Chen Mobai threw out an even more dazzling talisman.

The water shimmered like waves, but in an instant, it condensed into a sword and slashed in front of Qiao Xingwen.

Could it be that the opponent was defeated by a first-grade intermediate “Water Sword Talisman” like this?

Shi Jingjing was puzzled, and Qiao Xingwen confidently used a earth shield talisman. With just this first-grade inferior defense talisman, he blocked the water sword talisman that Chen Mobai seemed to have thrown out in a panic.

Then, Qiao Xingwen opened his right hand, and five spiritual pills burst out, covering Chen Mobai who was rushing towards him. Chen Mobai had to stop and move left and right to dodge the attacks of the spiritual pills.

And just as one of the spiritual pills was about to touch Chen Mobai, Qiao Xingwen suddenly couldn’t move and fell unconscious.

Shi Jingjing immediately rewound the video, played it at 0.5x speed, watched it three times, and even used her own spiritual vision to finally see the clue.

She saw that the water sword talisman that was originally blocked by the earth shield talisman turned into a stream of clear water that fell at Qiao Xingwen’s feet. When he used the spiritual pills, this stream of clear water seemed to have a spiritual nature. Like a spiritual snake, it flowed from the edge of the earth shield talisman on the stone platform beside his feet to behind him, rising up to the back of Qiao Xingwen’s head.

Then, a transparent water staff came crashing down heavily.

Qiao Xingwen had no defense at all and was directly knocked unconscious by this staff.

“Water manipulation technique?”

Shi Jingjing showed a hesitant expression, and Cao Yaling nodded lightly.

“The water sword talisman was just a decoy. Qiao Xingwen thought he had blocked this first-grade intermediate attack talisman and focused all his attention on the first-grade superior talisman that Chen Mobai might use. But he didn’t expect that the water sword of the water sword talisman was just an illusion, and the real attack was the water that scattered after the water sword dissipated.”

“Because we can use talismans, we have all placed our trump cards on talismans. But we forgot that the main purpose of the battle is to test our flexible use of spells.”

“Although Chen Mobai looks ordinary, he has realized the key to this. With a simple water manipulation technique, combined with the water sword talisman and the right tactics, he can easily defeat a powerful opponent like Qiao Xingwen.”

Cao Yaling witnessed Chen Mobai designing tactics step by step, making Qiao Xingwen mistakenly believe that he had grasped the overall situation, and then using a simple water manipulation technique to defeat his opponent.

Before Shi Jingjing came over, she had already analyzed this intricate plan, one layer after another, which could be called a brilliant duel within a duel.

But the more she analyzed, the more amazed she was by Chen Mobai.

So it turns out that battles can be this simple!

There’s no need for powerful talismans or advanced spell cultivation. You just need to use the most appropriate spell at the right time to easily defeat seemingly powerful opponents.

“Where did this guy go?”

Shi Jingjing raised her head and asked.

“It’s said that he made an appointment to have lunch with Teacher Chan.”

“Let’s go, let’s tag along… no, let’s mooch a meal!”

While Cao Yaling was still wide-eyed and hadn’t reacted, Shi Jingjing had already pulled her towards the direction where Chen Mobai had left, and also sent him a message.

Previously, Chen Mobai had added her as a friend in order to ask for the betting website.

But it seemed that Chen Mobai wasn’t playing with his phone and ignored her.Out of options, Shi Jingjing was about to give up when she saw a call coming in from Teacher Chan.

“Why are you all here?”

In the snack street of Danzhu Academy, Chen Mobai had just ordered five dishes when he noticed many of his classmates sitting at the tables.

In addition to the familiar faces of Song Zheng and Mo Simin, there were also Xu Yuan, Shi Yuanqing, and others.

Basically, more than half of the students from their school had arrived.

“I am your teacher. Since you have come to Danzhu Academy to take the entrance exam, as the host, I naturally have to welcome you all. So, I called everyone here.”

Chan Si sat at the corner of the long table with a smile, waved at the owner, and ordered two more tables of dishes.

“Well, it seems I won’t get a chance to treat you.”

Chen Mobai sighed, wondering why it was so hard to invite Chan Si for a meal.

“There will always be a chance. After all, you have made it to the next round, haven’t you?”

“Eh, how did you know? According to the odds, didn’t I only have a 1% chance of winning against Qiao Xingwen?”

Chen Mobai hadn’t mentioned his duel results to Chan Si or Sister Fu since their meeting.

“I thought you had been eliminated and didn’t want to bring up a sore subject, so I didn’t ask. But now, your duel video is going viral on the city forum of Danxia City.”

Shen Juanxiu looked at Chen Mobai, whose eyes were filled with surprise. Upon hearing this, he immediately took out his phone and logged into the forum.

【Shocking upset, a Qi Refining Level Seven was defeated by a Qi Refining Level Six】

【The art of dueling from the top scorer of the college entrance examination of the Fifth High School of the Immortal Gate, just a simple water control technique can change the battlefield】

【Is the Third High School too weak, or the Fifth High School too strong】

【Such a cunning tactic】

……

Chen Mobai, seeing the posts with little flame symbols behind the top dozen or so titles, clicked on them with great interest.

Seeing the praises for himself, he couldn’t help but smile happily.

Then, to the surprise of Chan Si and the others, they saw Chen Mobai post a message directly on the forum.

【Thank you all for the discussion. I, Chen Mobai, will continue to uphold the prestige of the Fifth High School of the Immortal Gate in this duel. Please continue to support our school】

Poster: If I Were the Azure Emperor in the Future.

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