Druid in the Xianxia world

Chapter 117: Coming out of seclusion, the preliminaries begin!
In order to anger Zhong Cang, everyone came up with many ways, but Xue Jingshan, who felt it was unsafe, spoke again. This time, he set his sights on the green-robed monk.

"Teacher Dan Zhuhe, Teacher Mo Shuyu hates you with all her heart. We just have different standpoints with Teacher Mo Shuyu. Even if she doesn't like us, she has the moral integrity of a teacher and won't do anything to us. Instead, she will do her best to teach us. But you are different. In her eyes, you are a traitor, and traitors are always more hateful than enemies. In particular, if you hadn't betrayed her, the Taoist temple might be different now. It is you who caused the Taoist temple's current situation. What do you think..."

"enough."

Before Xue Jingshan could finish his words, Dan Zhuhe said coldly, "If you have any suggestions, just say it directly. No need to ramble on!"

Finding that Dan Zhuhe already understood his current situation, Xue Jingshan stopped hesitating and directly expressed his thoughts.

"Zhong Cang is not a reckless person. He acts very methodically. He won't necessarily fall for a normal provocation. He already has a family background and is protected by people like Shuang Lingxue and Qi Wei. We can't do anything radical. Therefore, we should focus on him. We can only watch him get through this disaster."

"But he's not without weaknesses. He's fond of beautiful women and values ​​love, especially his relationship with Teacher Mo Shuyu. If you provoke Mo Shuyu directly in front of him and make her angry, Zhong Cang might do something stupid under impulse."

"As long as he loses, no matter how he loses, it will give us a break and it will be an opportunity..."

Xue Jingshan’s opinion made sense, and after some thought, everyone agreed.

As for Dan Zhuhe, although he did not want to fight in the front as a pawn, but wanted to hide in the back, but as Xue Jingshan said, his situation was the worst among everyone present.

If others were defeated, the worst that could happen is that they would give up the resources and return to their families, but he came from a poor family, and without the resources provided by the Taoist temple, it would be a huge loss for him.

What made him even more uncomfortable was.

"As the dean of the Alchemy Institute, you must have taken a lot of things you shouldn't have. We don't mind these things, but if Mo Shuyu and Qin Xiuye ​​were in power, they could be recovered... and this would be a reason for Mo Shuyu to deal with you."

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Time passes quickly, and the 100-day assessment is getting closer and closer.

On the ninety-fourth day, Zhong Cang finally came out of seclusion.

After staying there for nearly a month, Zhong Cang felt as if he was in another world when he returned to the Secret Garden.

"It's been a long time."

As he was sighing, Mo Shuyu, who was waiting outside the Secret Garden, walked up to him impatiently and asked.

"Today is the official selection competition. Are you confident? Also, which grade are you planning to challenge?"

Today is still a few days away from the 100-day assessment, and on that day, the surrounding aristocratic families and large sects will send people to "kick the door" in the name of watching the ceremony, but in fact it is a suppression.

In response to this, the Taoist temple naturally wanted to fight back.

But the enemy is indeed very strong. In order to win, the Taoist Academy will naturally not let the geniuses in the academy fight to the limit on that day, and then fight with the true disciples of the large sects.

Therefore, early selection came into being.

Today, Zhong Cang and his companions will decide the top few in the Taoist Academy, and then determine the rankings, deploy their troops, and engage in a real battle with the children of the aristocratic families and disciples of the major sects who are here to challenge them.

Well... this was the most ideal idea of ​​the dean of the Taoist academy and the teachers. However, when they were implementing it, they found that after the preliminaries, there would always be people who were unable to compete due to "injury", "illness", "family matters", "imminent breakthrough" and other reasons.

If the strongest few people do not go into battle, the Taoist Academy will not only lose, but also suffer a crushing defeat, a disastrous one that will be shameful.

There was even a year when the inner disciples of just one sect swept through the entire Taoist temple.

This matter was also reported to the king, who used it as an excuse to say that he was wasting money and resources building the Taoist temple and was missing the point...

While recalling the Taoist Academy’s past achievements, Zhong Cang looked at his emerald dream.

At this moment, Zhong Cang's Emerald Dream has not yet grown to the limit of his capabilities, but this Emerald Realm has already surpassed his past before his transformation.

In the core of the Emerald Realm, Zhong Cang's spirit seed, the Twelve Hour Wheel Crystal Tree, has broken through the forty-nine-meter limit of the second heaven and reached 57 meters.

The ten dependent trees next to them, as well as the tree of death in the reflection of the Emerald Realm, all broke through the first level limit of thirty-three meters and reached thirty-seven meters.

Although, in terms of breaking through the limit of heaven, only the strongest tree is considered, without counting the addition of side branches, the other eleven trees still enhanced Zhong Cang's foundation, allowing him to possess magical powers far beyond others.

Feeling confident, Zhong Cang stated his intended goal without hesitation when faced with Mo Shuyu's question.

"Third grade. This time, I will only challenge students in the third grade."

"..."

"..."

After these words were spoken, Shuang Lingxue and Yaxin beside them seemed to be hesitant to speak.

They didn't want Zhong Cang to challenge such a strong enemy, but they were also afraid that if they said so, Zhong Cang would think that they had no confidence in him.

They hesitated, but Mo Shuyu, Luo Bende, Du Kui and others did not have such worries.

Du Kui: "Are you sure you want to do this? They've been practicing Taoism for three years now, which is more than ten times as long as you. And while there are mediocre people in the Taoist academy, those who can become your enemies must be genius elites."

Robbende: "Yes, third grade. At this stage, most of them are at the Dao Foundation level. Some have even refined a layer of evil spirit, which has transformed their magic power. Zhong Cang, there is no need. You are still young and have time to slowly consume them."

Both teachers did not want Zhong Cang to challenge an enemy that was too powerful in the first assessment.

What Zhong Cang didn't expect was that Mo Shuyu... didn't stop him.

He simply asked quietly, "Are you sure you want to do this?" "Yes." He nodded, and after thinking back on his skills during his reincarnation, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I have confidence in myself."

"..."

Looking at Zhong Cang, after a moment of silence, Mo Shuyu nodded: "In that case, let's go."

"Ugh?"

After these words were spoken, Zhong Cang was still calm, but Du Kui and Luo Bende were both shocked.

Slightly behind, the two men asked Mo Shuyu via voice transmission.

"Why not stop him?"

"There's no need... With us watching, even if he loses, he won't be seriously injured. Instead, he'll learn a lesson and curb his arrogance. Therefore, his defeat isn't necessarily a bad thing."

Although he said this, there was one thing Mo Shuyu didn't say.

Although she knew that Zhong Cang had been practicing for too short a time and his realm was far behind others, she inexplicably had confidence in Zhong Cang.

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Continuing on their journey, Zhong Cang and his companions soon arrived at the martial arts training ground of Xuehu Taoist Academy.

At this moment, not only Zhong Cang and his group arrived, but also teachers and students of five grades from the Xuehu Taoist Academy, as well as many deans, came here.

Today's preliminary round assessment is not just a test, it also concerns the future of the Taoist Academy and the allocation of resources.

In the following competitions, Taoist academies that perform well will be able to obtain more resource allocations, while Taoist academies that perform poorly will receive fewer resources allocated next year.

In this situation, no one dares not to come unless it is absolutely necessary or they don't care about the resources at hand.

The gathering of hundreds of people made the Snow Lake Taoist Temple lively for the first time.

Among them, many senior students were still looking around, searching for Zhong Cang.

What surprised him a little was that when his fellow brothers looked at him, there was envy, jealousy, and dissatisfaction in their eyes, but these... were actually in the minority.

Most students' eyes lit up when they saw him.

"That's Zhong Cang?"

"It is said that he wants to challenge the order established by the aristocratic families in the Taoist temple. Can he succeed?"

"I hope it succeeds. If the deans of the Taoist academy's branches were both Mo Shuyu and Teacher Du Kui, our situation would be much better."

"..."

The support from everyone reminded Zhong Cang of one thing - there were indeed children from aristocratic families in the Taoist temple, but more of them were children from poor families.

Just like the Lingzhifu Academy where he is, all the students are from poor families.

"I originally thought that I was the enemy of the whole world, but I didn't expect that within the Taoist Academy, I was the one who had the advantage in numbers and was more popular."

He was in the majority, which made Zhong Cangsong breathe a sigh of relief. However, these advantages only brought Zhong Cang some psychological comfort.

He had previously felt that the whole world was his enemy, but it was not just because he had not observed carefully. The more crucial reason was that in this world, personal power could suppress everything.

If there are only a lot of people but weak strength, it will be useless.

Although those children of aristocratic families are a minority in the Taoist academy, they have all the say in the Taoist academy because of their strong power and connections.

On the other hand, those children from poor families, who were weak and had no backing, only dared to discuss things secretly and did not even have the courage and ability to shout loudly for Zhong Cang.

At the same time, these people hope that Zhong Cang can win, but they also pessimistically feel that it is difficult for Zhong Cang to reverse the situation in the Taoist Academy.

"Junior Brother Zhong Cang is indeed very talented and brave, but the situation in the Taoist Academy is too dire, and it is difficult for him to turn it around."

"Indeed, a three-foot-thick ice doesn't form overnight."

Of course, there are those who are not optimistic about Zhong Cang, while others are optimistic:

"It's true that this one time won't work, but Junior Brother Zhong Cang is young. If he keeps doing this, he might be able to turn the situation around."

"I just hope Junior Brother Zhong Cang won't be impulsive. He just needs to fight according to plan and never challenge the senior students... Those people are ruthless and will definitely destroy Junior Brother Zhong Cang if they get the chance."

"Come on..."

Although no one shouted loudly, Zhong Cang could vaguely sense the discussions and thoughts of the crowd - the remains of the Sand Sea.

This also made Zhong Cang shake his head speechlessly: "Although I am not fighting for your interests, I have heard your cheers."

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(End of this chapter)