bayedsolid Chapter 107 : Chapter 107
Chapter 107 : Chapter 107
Chapter 107: Even in Her Deranged Form, She Still Gets Beaten!
The crowd at the scene exploded at once.
Countless people sprang to their feet, wishing they could rush straight onto the stage to see more clearly.
An expert with an SS-grade talent!!
No matter how strong Li Mu was, he should not have been this overwhelmingly powerful, should he?
He had not even drawn a weapon?
Heavenly Might only lasted for a single second before slowly dissipating.
As the dust gradually cleared, Song Yan was revealed at the bottom of the crater, her clothes in disarray and her body covered in wounds.
Every member of Jinlin High School stared with their eyes wide open.
Li Mu, however, could not be bothered to watch them stand there in a daze. He simply held out a hand to Lin Yuya for the microphone.
Before Lin Yuya could bring it over, a burst of suppressed laughter suddenly rose from the crater below.
“Hehehehehe... Hahahaha!”
It came with a trembling excitement that had been repressed to the extreme.
Supporting herself with her arms, Song Yan slowly climbed back to her feet.
That sick, manic laughter made everyone’s bones turn cold.
The icy, aloof beauty she had worn before was gone. Her clothes were torn in many places, exposing broad stretches of snow-white skin.
Her hair had fallen loose in disorder, and her delicate face was still lovely.
But when she slowly raised her head, madness was written all over that face.
It was as if she had become a completely different person.
The aura radiating from her body also changed, becoming incomparably terrifying.
Li Mu only sensed it briefly before summoning the Ghostface Cudgel.
At that moment, Song Yan stretched her body, and a series of crackling pops burst from her bones.
Then an utterly crazed voice came from her mouth.
“Hahahaha... I said long ago that this body should have belonged to me in the first place!”
“You were never worthy of controlling it!”
Then her expression changed, and that cold face returned as she roared through clenched teeth, “Get out! Get out of my body! Leave, now!!”
Her expression changed again. “Ridiculous. It was my power awakening that let you stand up again!”
“You already lost. You lost to a worthless D-grade trash!”
“What right do you have to tell me to get out?”
She had actually begun talking to herself.
The audience immediately erupted.
“What is this? Split personality? A mental-type classification?”
“No, that’s not it. I heard that this woman’s SS-grade talent is called Pisces Ghost Transformation. This might be the manifestation of her talent.”
“She looks completely deranged, but she’s so strong!”
The people from Jinlin High School were invigorated once again.
“She actually forced out Yan-baby’s second form! Li Mu’s life is in danger now!”
“He deserves it! He humiliated Yan-baby so badly. He should have died a long time ago!”
“Yan-baby, don’t hold back!”
At that moment, Song Yan in her deranged state had already turned those bloodthirsty, exhilarated eyes toward Li Mu.
She leaped out of the crater like a cannonball.
At some unknown moment, a one-handed battle axe had materialized in her hand, black along one half, and she hacked it down savagely at Li Mu.
That terrifying speed, strength, and oppressive force far surpassed any martial artist of the same rank.
To Li Mu, it felt as though a frenzied Sixth Grade Abyss monster were charging straight at him.
Unfortunately, Li Mu was not afraid of Sixth Grade monsters.
Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze saw through her assault. He dipped his body and flashed past it.
Song Yan in her deranged state brought the axe down onto the arena, instantly cleaving a huge trench into the stage.
She gave a sick smile and was just about to turn around when Li Mu shouted coldly, “Freeze!”
Song Yan in her deranged state immediately widened her eyes in terror. She discovered that she could no longer move.
She could only stare helplessly at Li Mu.
But what shocked both Song Yan in her deranged state and the entire audience was this:
after immobilizing her, Li Mu did not attack at all.
The moment he shouted, “Freeze!”
Li Mu’s face remained cold. Holding the Ghostface Cudgel, he leisurely strolled two steps around her.
He simply wandered around without doing anything.
There was unmistakable mockery in his eyes.
Half a second later, Song Yan in her deranged state broke free of the immobilization. Snapping out of her shock, she swept her axe horizontally again.
Anyone with eyes could tell that this deranged version of Song Yan possessed terrifying strength. One could already tell as much just from that enormous one-handed axe.
Combined with her frenzied aura and speed, the attack became even more ferocious.
Yet Li Mu chose to swing his Ghostface Cudgel head-on against her giant axe!
CLANG!!
Cudgel and axe collided!
The strength behind the giant axe that Song Yan in her deranged state was so proud of felt as though it had been struck head-on by a train.
The weapon nearly flew out of her hand, and the impact shook her so hard that she staggered backward several steps.
Li Mu, however, was not affected in the slightest. Pressing the advantage, he shot forward
and brought the cudgel crashing down toward her head!
A huge golden cudgel-shadow, mixed with the shrill wailing of ghosts, came smashing toward Song Yan’s shoulder.
Song Yan twisted her body by force and raised the giant axe to block.
In an earth-shaking collision, the arena beneath her shattered once more.
With that single blow from Li Mu, she was smashed back down into the depression again and lost consciousness once more, her condition uncertain.
[Victory! Triumph Points gained +127.]
Li Mu glanced at the time.
From the moment Song Yan in her deranged state got back up to the moment she was put down again, it had been about sixteen or seventeen seconds. As long as it had not exceeded twenty seconds, that was enough.
The crowd exploded into thunderous shouting.
As for Jinlin High School’s formation, they were utterly dumbfounded.
This time, Li Mu did not even need to say anything.
Holding the microphone, Lin Yuya shouted toward Jinlin High School, “Next one. Please hurry up!”
This time, the people of Jinlin High School could not even summon the energy to be angry anymore.
Next one??
Ironhand City’s number one SS-grade talent user had not managed to stay standing for a combined total of even twenty seconds against Li Mu!
As for Zheng Kuan, Li Mu had treated him like a dog.
No!
That was not even accurate.
If he had been beating a dog, he would at least have needed a cudgel.
By that logic, even Song Yan in her deranged form had only barely qualified for the role of a dog.
Zheng Kuan did not even count as that.
Humiliation!!
The people of Jinlin High School felt nothing but endless humiliation!
Even Jinlin High School’s leadership had gone ashen-faced by now!
Originally, they had not planned to involve themselves in all this. It was only a clash of youthful pride between the student councils of the two schools.
If the school leadership got involved, it would only cheapen the matter.
They had only tacitly approved today’s challenge.
After all, many capital backers had already begun contacting their school to discuss sponsorship.
If they could also sweep the rankings as a group, making it even more perfect, so much the better.
Yet they had never expected that the situation would instead reverse!
And all of it was because of Li Mu’s ruthless humiliation!
From the very beginning, Li Mu had thrown down that savage challenge—allowing Jinlin High School to challenge him without limit, with even one victory counting as a win.
Then he changed the rule to standing on the stage for thirty seconds.
Then he changed it again to twenty seconds!
Step by step!
Li Mu was trampling Jinlin High School’s dignity into the mud.
And what was most hateful of all was Li Mu’s little immobilize-and-stroll display!
Anyone who was not a fool could see that in that half-second of immobilization,
if Li Mu had wanted to attack, he could have killed Song Yan twice over!
But instead, he immobilized her and took a walk.
He was clearly showing how much margin for error he had!
He immobilized you, refused to attack you, then deliberately chose to crush your greatest confidence—your strength—with a single blow.
And now, by himself, he had forced the entirety of Jinlin High School to keep their heads lowered!
How, then, were those capital backers supposed to continue taking Jinlin High School seriously?
Of course, in terms of overall results, Jinlin High School still held the lead.
And naturally, capital investment had to consider a school’s overall quality. It could not determine the rise or fall of an entire school based on one person’s strength alone.
But Li Mu happened to possess that kind of force.
His terrifying rate of growth, his heaven-defying Growth-Type Talent, his mysterious and powerful methods, his ruthless and decisive temperament, and the prestige he already held within the Abyss-Suppressing Army—
you might choose not to curry favor with Blackwater High School for the sake of one man, but you would still have to consider the consequences of standing on the opposite side of Li Mu while cooperating with Jinlin High School!
So, today’s challenge from Jinlin High School could be said to have instantly overturned the enormous benefits that Song Chuhe’s plan had painstakingly built up before.
It had even cost them some prestige on top of that.
For a very long time to come, Jinlin High School would find it difficult to stand tall again.
The rescue team rushed onto the arena at once and pulled Song Yan free from where she had been embedded in the shattered stage.
Li Mu, meanwhile, swept his gaze across Jinlin High School’s formation.
After a long while, seeing that no one from Jinlin High School responded, Li Mu spun the cudgel once and tucked the Ghostface Cudgel back into his ear.
Then he turned, leaped down from the arena, and walked out along the same path he had taken in.
A great many people had not even processed what had happened.
They felt dazed.
From the moment this “great clash” between the two schools had been announced until now, how much time had actually passed?
Three minutes?
Or two and a half?
To put it this way— many of the spectators who had entered with tickets in hand were still looking for their seats.
Those who had found theirs had only just opened their bags of chips.
And the match was already over.
Blackwater High School exited to earth-shaking cheers.
Jinlin High School, on the other hand, sank into a dreadful silence and misery. Every face looked as miserable as though they had swallowed filth.
Especially those who had originally been glad that Li Mu came.
Those so-called “obsessive-compulsive” sufferers.
More than half of Jinlin High School’s students had supported continuing the challenge against Blackwater High School.
If they had not made such a big fuss, if they had been satisfied and maintained the status quo, outsiders would have assumed Li Mu had avoided battle.
That would actually have benefited them.
And yet it was their insistence on continuing the challenge that had given Li Mu a chance to prove himself.
But this result seemed to be more than they could bear.
Only one person stood apart from the rest.
That person was Song Chuhe.
At that moment, Song Chuhe smiled faintly, let out a long sigh toward the sky, rose to his feet, and walked out of Jinlin High School’s formation.
There was even a trace of satisfaction in his chest.
He had only one word to give Jinlin High School.
Serves them right.
But at the same time, he sighed for himself as well.
He had been born humble, his talent was ordinary, and his strength had barely reached the middle ranks.
Only a little bit of intelligence gave him any hope of changing his fate.
He had originally thought that if this plan succeeded, he would count as one of Jinlin High School’s contributors.
All he had wanted was to exchange it for a slightly brighter future.
Who would have thought that the moment he voiced his opposition yesterday, he would instantly change from a contributor into the “coward” despised by all?
The facts proved that there had been nothing wrong with his decision.
What was wrong was this cursed twist of fate.