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Chapter 86: Hongjun Taoist was eliminated long ago? (3000 words)

Zhang Zhi, who was about to leave the Trial Tower, noticed that the previous number plate seemed to vibrate. He took it out and saw that the number on the previous number plate had turned into two big words "Zhang Zhi".

Looking at his name on the sign, he complained in his heart: "Damn, look at this treatment, not even making it to the third round, this is not even worthy of having my name on this sign."

After leaving the Trial Tower, Zhang Zhi was called to Li Qianjun's side again.

The second round progressed quickly and ended soon. The screen showed that there were only more than 900 people left.

Seeing that there were only a little over 200 students on the list of the Seven Dragons Academy, he thought that the other two schools really had bad intentions in this joint examination of three schools.

It is no wonder that the previous two rounds of challenges and responses were anonymous, in order to prevent the Seven Dragons Academy from saying that the other two schools had joined forces to snipe.

Everyone at the Qilong Academy had a grim look on their faces. Li Qianjun turned his head and glanced at Zhang Zhi, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.

Zhang Zhi speculated that His Majesty Li Qianjun seemed to want to get a higher ranking, but later felt that this was a bit inappropriate, so he canceled the plan?

Everyone knows the rules of the third round.

It is worth mentioning that starting from the third round, every winner will receive a prize from the organizer, that is, the three schools.

And the higher the personal ranking, the better the rewards.

At the same time, the school will definitely give students different rewards based on different rankings.

Regarding the rewards, Li Qianjun had already reminded him not to be jealous, as the academy would not treat him unfairly.

The third round of challenges also started a little differently.

Everyone on the third round list came directly to the arena in the middle of the square. He rushed towards the Seven Dragons Academy area. Before he got there, he could hear someone taunting him from a distance:

"Look at the number of people from your Seven Dragons Academy who have entered the third round. There are only so few. I think you should stop calling yourselves the three major ones in the future."

"You don't feel ashamed, but we at Tianxing No. 1 Middle School feel ashamed to be compared with you."

"Exactly. The number of people who made it to the third round is half of ours, yet they still have the nerve to claim to be one of the top three like us."

"The Seven Dragons Academy is so shameless. They've always shamelessly claimed to be the top three, but now their true colors are revealed."

"Haha, the school leaders are really talented. They kept the first two rounds anonymous, so those people from the Seven Dragons Academy wouldn't be able to find any excuses."

"If the people of the Seven Dragons Academy have any shame, they should stop talking about the Three Greats. We really feel ashamed to be compared with you!"

Someone from the Seven Dragons Academy was also unwilling to be outdone: "The three-school joint entrance examination was a conspiracy between your two schools. Who knows if you guys have tampered with it!"

"I think they must have been behind this. Isn't the reason for the three-school joint exam this time because a genius from our school achieved 'Ten Flowers Celebrating'? Isn't it normal for the other two schools to use shady tactics behind our backs to suppress us?"

"Yeah, I think so too, considering the traditions of Tianxing High School and Tianxing No. 1 High School, isn't it normal to manipulate the opponents behind the scenes?"

At the end of the quarrel, it was "Boy, do you dare to fight with me later?"

"Come if you want, who's afraid of who? Those who don't come are grandsons."

"Where's that Taoist Hongjun from your school? Why haven't I seen him? Did he just get lucky and achieve some kind of accomplishment, so he didn't even make it past the second round?"

Zhang Zhi mixed in the team and listened with interest to the people in the academy and people from other schools swearing at each other. After listening for a while, he felt that the insults from the other side were just like that and would not have much harm to him.

But when I think about it carefully, it may be because I have always been looking at the school and this joint entrance examination of the three schools from a detached God's perspective.

Many students in the academy still attach great importance to the name of Qilong Academy and the honor of the academy.

It's like your alma mater in your previous life. You can curse it yourself, but if you dare to curse it, I curse your ancestors.

Amidst the noisy exchange of insults, a voice rang out in everyone's ears: "The third round of challenges begins. Everyone can start choosing their opponents!"

Zhang Zhi glanced at everyone on the Qilong Academy side. In this situation, it was reasonable that someone should step forward to arrange tactics and collect information such as the name, school, strength, etc. of the opponents he encountered from those who had participated in the battle.

But it seemed that due to the influence of the recent verbal fight, or for other reasons, no one from the Qilong Academy stood up to take responsibility.

Zhang Zhi's most important task in participating in the joint entrance examination of three schools this time is to eliminate the suspicion of connection between himself and Taoist Hongjun, so naturally he will not be the first to stand out.

Just as he was wondering, he suddenly heard two people beside him whispering, "Why hasn't Taoist Hongjun come out yet?"

"In our class, no one is more qualified to be the leader than him."

"Yeah, even if he's not good at this, no one would have any objections if he just stepped forward and randomly assigned a few people."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhi suddenly realized that in the minds of the people in the academy, Taoist Hongjun was the natural leader of his class. With Taoist Hongjun around, it was impossible for anyone else to step up and become the leader.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhi felt a little helpless. The leaderless appearance of the group of dragons in the Seven Dragons Academy seemed to be due to his own reasons.

Then, he thought of a deeper level: maybe some people were waiting for Taoist Hongjun to stand up himself.

Seeing that people from the two nearby schools had already begun to organize, more people were talking around: "That Taoist Hongjun, could it be that he was really eliminated in the first two rounds?"

Another person said in a very low voice: "That's really possible. You don't know that in recent years, the alien races have been madly targeting our outstanding talents."

"Maybe the academy's top management simply gave up in the first two rounds."

"Not necessarily. Taoist Hongjun is indeed very famous in our generation, but we have never seen him in person. Could it be that he really got lucky and came to the Ten Flowers Congratulations, and then felt that his strength was not enough, so he became a turtle?"

"Luck is also a kind of strength!"

"That's right. If he really just had luck, then it's understandable that he hasn't shown up for a month."

As more and more people were whispering, someone suddenly said loudly, "Is Taoist Hongjun here?"

After hearing what that person said, everyone fell silent.

Seeing that no one responded, the man continued loudly, "I don't know if you are here, Taoist Hongjun, and I don't know why you don't want to show up."

"Logically, you should be in charge of this situation, but for some reason you can't show up, or you're not here."

"This joint exam is related to the school's reputation, so we need a leader to take charge of the overall situation."

"If you can't come forward, we really have no choice but to nominate a suitable person to take charge of the overall situation."

"If you don't deny it out loud, we'll take it as your consent."

No one said anything. After a while, the man said loudly, "As you can see, in this situation, we can only elect one or a group of people to take charge of the overall situation."

"First, please raise your hands to respond, specially recruited students."

Following the man's voice, some people began to raise their hands. As more and more students raised their hands, the man's face showed joy.

Regardless of anything else, at least today, I have made a big splash.

Zhang Zhi originally planned to watch the show quietly from the side.

But when he heard the man say that special admissions students should raise their hands, he was stunned for a moment. After seeing that many people raised their hands, he slowly raised his hand as well.

It seems that those who can become special recruits are really talented.

Among the more than 200 people who entered the third round, 67 were special admissions students.

The man gathered the special recruits together in order to discuss how to compile the information later.

After discussing for a while, everyone came up with a rough charter:
If the school needs to get more points and a higher ranking, then first of all, those strong people need to try to challenge people from other schools, and then write down the strength and names of their opponents.

After winning the challenge, other weaker students can use this information to select people they are confident of defeating and challenge them.

However, this method has a drawback, which is that if you challenge it randomly without any investigation, you may easily run into tough opponents. Therefore, only those who have absolute confidence in their own abilities can do this.

In fact, someone has proposed another method, which is to let the weaker people explore the way, and after finding out the situation, the stronger people will go to challenge.

The advantage of this method is that people of average level may be able to obtain better rankings.

However, no one agreed to this condition, or rather, only those who were brainless would agree to this proposal.

This proposal of letting others be cannon fodder will not only reduce the number of victories of the school, but will also directly affect the school's reputation. In the next verbal battle, other schools may start by pointing out the school that specializes in training cannon fodder, or the school that specializes in tricking others into being cannon fodder.

Zhang Zhi didn’t know what others thought, but he definitely remembered the person who made this suggestion, and planned to avoid this person when he saw him in the future.

Three people volunteered to lead the way for everyone. After seeing Du Feng volunteer to be one of the three, Zhang Zhi felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Du Feng saw Zhang Zhi looking at him, raised his chin and said, "What are you looking at? Last time you only won by a narrow margin. Now I have almost fifty Transcendent Realm cultivators. You definitely can't beat me."

Zhang Zhi smiled at him but said nothing.

Du Feng felt a little uncomfortable seeing Zhang Zhi's smile. His face froze for a moment and he turned his head away and ignored Zhang Zhi.

(End of this chapter)