Cultivation Pet Shop

Chapter 858 Duel

After the top results had been announced, there was still another part of the exam that was left.

This was a school that fostered and encouraged competition among the students, so everything they did had that in mind. The top results were an example of this, but they also took things a bit farther than that.

After the results had been announced, there was a free challenge period.

This was when people that got lower ranks were able to challenge those that had higher ranks. As long as they defeated the people with higher ranks, they would take those ranks for themselves. The ones with higher ranks that lost would be demoted down to those lower ranks and wouldn't have a chance to challenge anyone, so they would be stuck with these lower ranks.

Naturally, Jun Xie who was in first place was someone that had a big target on his back.

However, no one dared to rush into this because they didn't know just how strong Jun Xie was.

They didn't know if his freezing of the dummy was cheating or if it had been real.

Even if there was the smallest chance that it was real, they didn't want to be the first one to challenge him to test this.

But there was a limited time to propose a challenge, so it wasn't as if they could just keep waiting for someone to step up first forever.

Everyone turned to look at Ouyang Xun's subordinate who had been silently waiting as well.

When this person noticed that everyone was looking at him, he tried to ignore it at first, but it was just too hard to ignore. After all, with the publicity that the bet between Ouyang Xun and Yang Xi Ruo, it was impossible for them not to know what was happening.

If he didn't do something now, he would be losing face to Ouyang Xun.

In fact, Ouyang Xun in the audience was even glaring at his subordinate at this moment as if telling him to step forward.

Seeing all of this, the subordinate had no choice but to bite the bullet and be the first one to step forward.

The subordinate came up to the stage and then pointed at Jun Xie to say, "I want to challenge first place!'

In response to this, he received a wave of applause that really made him want to cry. However, since he had taken the lead, he had no choice but to stick with it to the end.

So he pointed at Jun Xie and said, "I don't believe that trash like you could ever take first place, you must have bought the teachers off and cheated! But no matter, I will prove in front of everyone what a fake you are! Come and receive your punishment, villain!"

The righteous ways that he said his words almost made it seem like he was the one that was in the right, even though technically Ouyang Xun was the one that had bought off the teachers.

But after he said this, everyone couldn't help whispering to each other.

After all, it was true that Jun Xie's change had been just too much. There were many people who had been wondering about this in the back of their head the entire time, but now that someone had said something, it was like the dam had broken.

"That's right! Jun Xie was the worst one on the exam before, how could he suddenly become this powerful?"

"I would rather be beaten to death than to believe this lie!"

"He, he, I heard that the Jun Family is quite rich. I guess we all know where that money went."

When Jun Xie heard them, he turned to look at the subordinate on the stage before walking over with a dark look on his face.

If they were just insulting him, he wouldn't have cared because he was used to this kind of thing. However, insulting him now was also secretly insulting Yang Xi Ruo since she was the one who backed him.

It was an understatement to say that everything he was now wasn't because of her…Well, there was also Lin Fan's store for helping him train Xiao Han, but she was the one who helped him train.

Even if it had left a trauma on him that was hard for him to forget, she was still the one that had helped him become stronger.

He wouldn't let anyone insult her like this, even indirectly.

The subordinate was about to say something, but seeing the cold look in Jun Xie's eyes, he immediately swallowed his words down.

He didn't know why, but he was feeling a terrifying feeling coming from Jun Xie…

It was almost as if he was feeling a sense of threat from Jun Xie, but that didn't make sense…

Young master Ouyang had already told him that this Jun Xie was a weakling that wouldn't even be able to fight him, but that didn't seem to be the case now…

The subordinate was a bit at a loss for words as to what to do.

But after thinking about it, he knew what he had to do.

He had already come this far and if he were to back down, there would be no future for him. The only thing that he could do now was destroy Jun Xie in a fight. It would be best if he didn't hold back at all.

While that would be looked down a bit by the crowd, it was still better than letting any accidents happen and losing all face.

So once they were on stage, the subordinate released his full aura.

High Embryo Soul Realm, this subordinate was in the High Embryo Soul Realm.

He was only second to Ouyang Xun in the second year and he was facing Jun Xie who should have been only in the Low Fragmented Soul Realm.

But after he reached the stage, Jun Xie also revealed his aura.

Low Embryo Soul Realm!

Everyone was shocked when they saw this.

It wasn't because they thought that he would win, but rather because he was in the Low Embryo Soul Realm.

It should be known that just a week ago, Jun Xie was only in the Low Fragmented Soul Realm. So that meant that he had gone up three minor realms and a full major realm in the span of a single week.

This was a cultivation speed that even geniuses couldn't keep up with.

After a long period of silence, one of Ouyang Xun's subordinates said, "He must be using some kind of special pill that boosts his cultivation or he must have used pills to increase his power. The power of money really is something else."

When these words rang out, everyone couldn't help nodding along with this.

After all, this explanation was the easiest one for them to accept.

They would never accept that Jun Xie had reached the Low Embryo Soul Realm in just a week from the Low Fragmented Soul Realm.

Accepting this kind of truth would bring themselves down, let alone the fact that it was impossible.

The teachers all looked at each other before one of the teachers came forward and said, "Before we start the match, we want to test each of the students to see if they have taken any enhancing items."

There was actually indeed a rule against enhancing items in the exam rules, but it was an obscure rule that most people ignored since most people chose to use enhancements in the first place. But for the teachers to bring it up now, it was clear that they were thinking that Ouyang Xun's side would win, so they wanted to curry favour with him.

But after the teacher searched Jun Xie, they couldn't find a single trace of any enhancements.

Unlike the other teacher who did a quick sweep over the subordinate, this teacher spent over ten minutes searching every bit of Jun Xie in hopes that he would find something. However, no matter how hard he tried, he wasn't able to find a single thing.

He wouldn't have given up yet, but Yang Xi Ruo said, "Isn't that enough?"

This teacher was only a small teacher in this academy and naturally he couldn't offend someone like Yang Xi Ruo, so he immediately backed down after this and announced the results.

Everyone was once again shocked because the teacher confirmed that Jun Xie indeed didn't use any enhancements.

Since everything had been confirmed, it wasn't as if they could do anything else to delay the match anymore. The teacher had no choice but to let Jun Xie and the subordinate come onto the stage before starting the fight.

As soon as the fight started, the subordinate didn't even have a chance to do anything as there was a chill that suddenly hit him.

Before he realized what had happened, he was completely frozen in a block of ice.

No matter how hard he struggled, he wasn't able to do a single thing and could only just stare at Jun Xie in shock.

Seeing this subordinate being frozen, everyone couldn't help shaking their heads with a bitter smile because this scene was very familiar. It was the same scene as when Ouyang Xun had confronted Jun Xie a week ago.

His subordinate who had picked a fight with Jun Xie had been frozen just like this.

Even though the teacher had been bought off, he couldn't keep stalling when the results were this clear, so he had no choice but to declare Jun Xie the winner.

Jun Xie didn't even bother looking at them as he walked off the stage.

But before he could leave, it was Yang Xi Ruo who jumped onto the stage and said, "Wait a minute."