Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 227

[Chapter 227 Calculation]

In the first training ground, someone unexpectedly defeated Zhang Xin. This news quickly spread to other training grounds.

“Is it true? There are such powerful people?”

“He is really hidden!”

“A master of the Earth Rank, but he was eliminated in the first round of the small competition. Who would believe it if they told others? The Zhang family has done too many bad things and got retribution…”

…

The seeded contestant of the Earth Rank was eliminated by a Xuan Rank, which caused a lot of heated discussion in the whole training ground.

This kind of thing has almost never happened in previous small and large competitions.

After watching Lin Xiu’s competition, the imperial concubine left the training ground with Shuangshuang.

Zhao Lingyin, Qin Wan and Xue Ning’er were still in the stands.

In the subsequent competitions, it is very likely that they will encounter these Earth Rank masters. They need to understand their abilities and strengths.

Lin Xiu was also thinking. He was mainly thinking about what abilities he needed to acquire next.

He decided on the water technique very early.

Although this ability is relatively soft and weak among the five elements, and its attack and defense are not very good, and it is also restrained by ice, this is only because the training ground is not their home ground.

If they are on the sea, or by the lake or river, their power is endless, and the restraint relationship between ice and water will no longer exist. The

water skill is not weak, but it needs to be in a specific environment to exert its greatest power.

Lin Xiu will definitely fly to the sea frequently to practice in the future. He will feel more at ease when he gets the water skill, and by then, he can practice both water and thunder skills at the same time. The

second ability that Lin Xiu wants to obtain is wind. Apart from other things, it is very convenient for him to practice wind skills. High altitude and sea are both the best places for practice.

In addition, among the five elements, he still has the wood skill that he has not obtained.

Water, fire, gold, and earth are all available, but the only thing missing is wood, which is a bit uncomfortable for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Moreover, in the forest, the wood skill is more useful than any other ability. After obtaining it, he will have another home ground.

Water, wood, and wind, these three heavenly abilities, can bring him three times the speed of cultivation. His current cultivation speed is already thirteen times the basic speed, which adds up to sixteen times. One year of cultivation is equivalent to sixteen years for people with the same talent as him. Lingyin and Princess Minghe normally practice for eight years, and ice and fire practice for four years.

Under normal circumstances, there is a multiple relationship between the time required for promotion.

If it takes fifteen years to go from the upper realm of the Xuan level to the lower realm of the Earth level, then it takes thirty years to go from the lower realm of the Earth level to the upper realm of the Earth level, and it takes at least sixty years from the upper realm of the Earth level to the Heaven level.

This is what the predecessors have concluded through countless examples.

In this way, he will have the hope of being promoted to the upper realm of the Earth level in the next two years.

At most six years, when he is twenty-five years old, he will be promoted to the Heaven level.

At that time, people will have to call Zhao Lingjun Lin Xiu’s wife. Lin Xiu fantasized in his mind and looked forward to that day.

YY is over, and we have to face reality.

Water and wood are easy to obtain. There are many students with this ability in the Yishu Academy. At most, I will be a stalker once more. Wind is a bit tricky. Song Yuzhang is not an ordinary person. It is very difficult to get close to him and directly obtain his ability.

I don’t know if the little girl from the Murong family has come. She likes to drink so much. I will find a chance to get her drunk, and then, hehehe…

There is one last ability. Lin Xiu is not in a hurry to decide. He plans to look for it first.

Next, several more competitions were held.

Including two from the Song family, a son of the Weiguo Mansion, and two princes of the royal family. Their abilities are not rare. One is fire, one is earth, two are wood, and one is practicing martial arts. They all easily defeated their opponents.

Li Baizhang came on the stage, and there was no surprise.

Then there were four earth-level geniuses from other countries.

The young man from the Western Regions can turn the ground under his feet into sand and manipulate the sand to fight against the enemy. Although his attack power cannot be underestimated, he did not catch Lin Xiu’s eye.

The man from Wuji Country practiced martial arts and had no special abilities. A strong man from Beimang seemed to be able to put himself into a beast state, which greatly improved his speed and strength. For Lin Xiu, it was also useless.

Finally, there was the man from Java Country. His ability was thunder, which Lin Xiu already had.

So far, all the geniuses of the Earth Rank have finished the competition. Except for Zhang Xin who was defeated by Lin Xiu, the others easily advanced to the next round.

Lin Xiu did not watch the subsequent competitions. He began to search for prey in other training grounds.

In a short period of time, Lin Xiu saw many abilities that he had never seen before.

Some people can summon a cloud of fog around them, trap their opponents, and then hide in the fog to attack them unexpectedly.

Some people can hypnotize their opponents in the air and win without fighting. The magic of illusion also has this ability.

There are also people who can control the actions of their opponents like controlling puppets. Lin Xiu can do the same through telekinesis and mental control.

The rest of the people had normal abilities, mostly the five elements, strength, golden body, petrification, etc. These abilities were easy to practice and had impressive power. They have always been the most mainstream supernatural abilities.

Lin Xiu turned around and didn’t find any abilities that interested him, so he walked back to the first parade ground.

He sat between Ning’er and Qin Wan. Next to Qin Wan sat Lingyin, and to Ning’er’s right sat Qianye Lin. Compared to the competition on the field, they were more interesting.

Many people’s attention was not on the competition, but on them.

After watching two more games, Zhao Lingyin said, “The next competition is meaningless. Let’s go back.”

Ning’er and Qin Wan had the same idea, so Lin Xiu stood up and walked out of the parade ground with them.

When they walked out of the parade ground, people on the stands began to whisper.

“How can this boy be so popular with women?”

“Won’t Miss Zhao do anything about him?”

“Miss Zhao even wants to take a concubine for him. I really don’t know what she’s thinking.”

“The ones around him are so beautiful. I heard that the daughter of the Xue family and Qin Wan from the Yishu Academy have unclear relationships with him. It’s really enviable…”

…

In front of the stands, a figure walked up to the Zhang brothers and said to Zhang Xin, “It’s a pity. With your strength, if you don’t meet him, you will definitely be ranked on the Tianjiao list in next year’s competition.”

Zhang Xin glanced at him and said, “You are not as good as him. There is nothing to say.”

The Prince of Changping shook his head and said, “I think it’s not that simple. It’s just a coincidence that he happened to meet her among so many people.” The Prince of Changping sighed

a few words and left. Zhang Yi looked at Zhang Ren and asked, “Does the Prince of Changping have a grudge against Lin Xiu?”

Zhang Ren smiled and said, “The hatred of stealing a wife is irreconcilable. He has liked the one from the Zhao family since he was a child. He has proposed to her more than ten times but was rejected. After Old Duke Xue made a breakthrough, he went to the Xue Mansion to propose several times but was also rejected. When he was in the Yishu Academy, he also pursued Qin Wan, but was unsuccessful…”

Zhang Yi thought of the scene of Lin Xiu being surrounded by women, and thought of the Prince of Changping, and couldn’t help saying, “How pitiful…”

Zhang Ren changed his tone and said, “But he is right. This matter is indeed too coincidental. Let someone go to the Yishu Division to check. If it is really a coincidence, there is nothing to say. If someone deliberately targets the Zhang family, they must pay the price…”

Soon, the three brothers also stood up and left the training ground.

Not long after, at Zhang’s house, a man walked into the yard and said to Zhang Ren: “My lord, I have checked and Lin Xiu did not draw the fifth prince.”

Zhang Ren’s eyes fixed and said: “Is it true that someone is plotting against the Zhang family?”

The man said: “Not really, the one who drew the fifth prince was Princess Minghe. The fifth prince’s magic restrained Princess Minghe, and his cultivation was higher than Princess Minghe, so Lin Xiu exchanged with her…”

Zhang Ren did not expect that this matter would involve Princess Minghe.

Could it be that the one who plotted against the Zhang family was the royal family, His Majesty?

His Majesty has been dissatisfied with the Zhang family for a long time. Could it be that he is using this to suppress the Zhang family?

The top ten of the Tianjiao list is of great significance to the court. It is closely related to the allocation of cultivation resources and the right to speak in Daxia in the next few years.

Although being able to enter the top 100 of the Tianjiao list has no impact on the overall situation, it can obtain more cultivation resources in the next three years. Zhang Xin stopped at the small competition, and the only loss was the Zhang family.

Lin Xiu is your majesty’s confidant, this possibility is very high.

…

In the imperial study, Emperor Xia, who was reviewing the memorials, sneezed inexplicably. Zhu Jin walked in from outside and said, “Your majesty, an interesting thing happened at the parade ground.”

If you want to say that the person who knows him best in the world, besides Concubine Shu, is Zhu Jin, what he said must be of interest to him. Emperor Xia put down the memorial and asked, “What’s the matter?”

Zhu Jin smiled and said, “Zhang Xin of the Zhang family met Lin Xiu in the first competition, was defeated by Lin Xiu and eliminated.”

Emperor Xia was stunned for a moment and asked, “Is it such a coincidence? I remember that his ability is water. As long as he doesn’t meet Lin Xiu, there will be no problem in advancing…”

Zhu Jin said, “It’s such a coincidence, but I checked and found that the one who drew Zhang Xin was actually the princess. In order to let the princess advance, Lin Xiu took the initiative to exchange with the princess.”

Emperor Xia said, “He is not bad to Minghe, and it’s worth my kindness to him.”

In fact, he wanted to marry Lin Xiu to Minghe at the beginning, but Lin Xiu was very resistant to it, and Minghe didn’t agree, so he had no choice but to give up.

Later, he learned that being together could speed up each other’s cultivation, and he regretted not insisting at the beginning.

But a forced melon is not sweet, and since both of them disagreed, he had no choice.

Although Zhang Xin was eliminated, it was beyond his expectation, but it was not related to the overall situation. The loss was only to the Zhang family. As expected, Lin Xiu’s work made him feel comfortable, but he soon thought of a problem.

He looked at Zhu Jin and asked, “You said that this matter is related to Minghe and Lin Xiu. Will the Zhang family think that I deliberately arranged it this way?”

Zhu Jin murmured, “No way…”

Emperor Xia looked at him and asked, “If you were the Zhang family, would you think so?”

Zhu Jin thought about it carefully and said honestly, “Yes.”

…

The next morning, when Lin Xiu came out of Changchun Palace after seeing the imperial concubine and the pet, Princess Minghe was already waiting for her outside.

Today is the day of the second round of drawing lots.

In the first small competition last night, 400 out of 800 people were eliminated, and 400 people advanced. In the second competition, 200 people will be eliminated.

From the third game, no one will be eliminated.

The following competitions were just a rough ranking of the crowd, and the ranking was used to determine the order of appearance in the big competition.

In the Xuan level, Princess Minghe was almost invincible. In the first game yesterday, she naturally advanced easily.

As long as she wins one more game, she can lock in a seat in the big competition.

When she came to the Yishu Division, before drawing lots, Lin Xiu specially asked, and an official told him that fourteen of the eighteen earth-level seeds had been drawn by others, which means that the possibility of them drawing was very small. The

remaining four, one from the Song family, one from the Wuji country, and two princes from the royal family.

Princess Minghe heard and immediately put her mind at ease. This time she decided to draw first. She reached into the box, pulled out a wooden stick, and looked over eagerly.

Then her expression was stunned.

Lin Xiu looked at her stunned expression, and his heart was also a little unbelievable.

No way? Is

her luck really that bad?

Win again?

He glanced and saw a number written on the stick.

Thirteen.

Lin Xiu was a little speechless.

He recalled that Zhang Xin was eliminated by him yesterday, and the number of the person behind him would move up one, number 13, which should be the prince of Jiangning of the royal family.

His ability is wood, and Princess Minghe is slightly better than him, but in terms of magic, fire overcoming wood is not as absolute as ice overcoming water. There is a big difference, and she has no chance of winning.

Lin Xiu comforted her and said, “It’s okay, I will switch with you later.”

This is not considered a violation of the rules, and the official from the Magic Department did not say anything. He came to Lin Xiu with the wooden box in his hand.

The moment he stretched out his hand, Lin Xiu’s eyes slightly condensed and looked at this person.

Just now, he noticed the fluctuation of the power of space.

With two spatial abilities, he is very sensitive to spatial fluctuations. Although the fluctuation just now was weak, it was indeed a spatial fluctuation. Someone used the power of space.

When he looked into Lin Xiu’s eyes, the official’s eyes flashed with a look of emptiness, and his expression was still pretending to be calm.

Lin Xiu smiled slightly, and still reached into the box and took out a wooden stick.

Princess Minghe looked over impatiently, and the expectation on her pretty face solidified the next moment.

The number written on the wooden stick in Lin Xiu’s hand is twelve.

Princess Minghe drew the Prince of Jiangning.

Lin Xiu drew the Prince of Changping.

Their abilities, one is wood and the other is earth. After the exchange, Princess Minghe’s chances of winning are even slimmer, which means that no matter what, she will be eliminated in the next round and lose the qualification for the competition.

Lin Xiu looked at the wooden stick in his hand.

He and Princess Minghe had bad luck.

There were only four earth-level ones left, and they drew two of them.

However, Princess Minghe drew it based on her strength.

Someone was secretly plotting against him.

(End of this chapter)