Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 228 - 188: Showcasing Their Strengths

Wang Qi pointed in the direction where the competition was taking place.

Sun Sheng was Tianye Immortal Institute's top disciple, and Tianye, being close to one of the Five Extremes, the Light Hall, was an excellent Immortal Institute, second only to Leiyang and Lijing.

Because of its proximity to the Light Hall, Tianye's teaching naturally revolved around the Light Hall's mental method, along with Light Determining Heaven and Earth and Shape Comparison Technique derived from it. It was truly remarkable that Sun Sheng could stand out in a Sect leaning towards the Guiyi Alliance with the aid of the Heavenly Calculation Atlas from Tianling Ridge. It could be said that in this Martial Arts Examination, Sun Sheng was the "first place" with the least fluff.

Past unified entry trials were like this as well. Leiyang and Lijing took the lead, followed by Tianye and Heaven, with Xinyue and Langde coming next. By the time you reached Jiongli and Mengcheng's level, hardly any True Inheritor from the Five Extremes would emerge.

However, this year was an exception.

Ai Changyuan, from a noble family of the West Sea, Wang Qi, from a commoner family of Central Earth. These two freakishly talented individuals even overshadowed the brilliance of several past cohorts of students.

If it weren't for the fact that Wang Qi was also suspected of being a Banished Immortal, this cohort might have been directly dubbed "unprecedented and never to be duplicated."

Enough said for now. Sun Sheng was currently engaged in fierce combat with his opponent. Wang Qi and the others were familiar with this opponent—he was Qiu Yunlong from Langde Immortal Institute.

Having not seen him for half a year, Qiu Yunlong had made significant progress with his Cloud Mist Sun Covering Technique; swirling Qi orbited around him, almost turning into a living giant dragon. Amidst the piercing whistles created by the friction between the cloud mist and air, Qiu Yunlong let out a metallic roar, crazily lunging at Sun Sheng.

For some reason, Sun Sheng seemed to only strengthen his Protective Gang Qi, absorbing the attacks head-on.

Although Qiu Yunlong was far from matching Ai Changyuan, and even inferior to Hu Jianhao, he was still one of Langde's top picks, a figure among the top five of the Immortal Institute, so there were naturally plenty of cheering voices. Since Sun Sheng's way of fighting seemed completely devoid of technical content, utterly unworthy of his status as the top disciple of Tianye, he naturally received just as many jeers.

The expressions of Tianye Immortal Institute, however, were a bit strange. It was as if they didn't care about this match at all, watching other competitions with cold indifference.

Wang Qi nodded in appreciation, "That's right, that is the attitude a Heavenly Calculation Atlas cultivator, no, a Tianling Ridge cultivator should have."

Mao Zimiao was greatly disappointed, "But he's just resisting with brute force, meow."

For some unspoken reasons, the girl preferred Wang Qi's clever and nuanced style, where he had specific combat tactics for every enemy.

Wang Qi looked at her in surprise, "You wouldn't be able to learn this. From one law derives thousands of laws; first, you must master one law. And this 'one law' has to be universally applicable—generally speaking, that would be the disciples of the Wanfa Sect."

Mao Zimiao pouted, "Senior Sister Ai clearly has many spells too."

Wang Qi almost laughed out loud, "Speaking of others is one thing. Senior Sister Ai... she's the very example of someone who plays with Innate Divine Abilities!"

"Miaow?" Mao Zimiao was perplexed.

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"Have you ever sparred with Senior Sister Ai?"

Mao Zimiao obediently shook her head. Her relationship with Ai Qinglan was somewhat similar to Wang Qi's and Su Junyu's. Ai Qinglan found the girl to her liking, so she taught her some tricks in cultivation.

But not everyone had past lives' accumulation like Wang Qi, nor the genius without peers like Ai Changyuan or Ai Qinglan. She struggled immensely just to absorb the theory, let alone the practical, combat phase. For routine sparring, the ordinary disciples of the Immortal Institute were enough.

"Then, I can tell you about Senior Sister Ai's true fighting style," Wang Qi said, touching his shoulder with an almost fearful look, "It's one word, 'All-out!'"

The vine spell that Ai Qinglan used to capture the Evil Demon that Yang Jun had become was astonishing, but that was her bullying an Evil Demon who hadn't yet achieved Foundation Establishment. Her usual Medical Skill was even used to dismiss Qi Cultivation Stage disciples.

Her true combat style was so brutally simple that it was hair-raising.

Damn!

If ten percent strength isn't enough, go up to fifty percent. If that's not enough, go up to a hundred percent! Use vines as tentacle monsters? The thicker the better, the longer the better, the more the better—in every sense of the word.

In summary, that's the style of Tianling Ridge: they emphasize quantity.

The essence of life is a local negative entropy phenomenon in the cosmos, capable of progressing from chaos to order, adept at turning external forces into their own foundation. Tianling Ridge cultivates life beings, life itself, and naturally makes good use of this characteristic. The mana produced by Tianling Ridge's cultivation techniques, whether in quality or quantity, is incomparable to other sects.

With such substantial capital, combat naturally becomes more brutal.

While training Wang Qi, Ai Qinglan was basically throwing punches with unmatched colossal strength!

After hearing this, Mao Zimiao was stunned: "I feel like something's missing in my heart."

Ai Qinglan's image, shattered.

Just then, the situation on the field changed again. Qiu Yunlong attacked for a long time, but Sun Sheng's protective gang qi didn't even budge. Even an idiot could see something was wrong.

Sun Sheng's intention was clear—I'm just standing here and you can't win if you attack!

Qiu Yunlong was also shocked. It was obvious that the other side was aiming to use him to establish their reputation. If he didn't use whatever tricks he had now, he would never get another chance! With that thought, he hesitated no longer; the nature of the cyclone around him changed again, no longer mimicking perfect fluid but now a deadly wind that imitates a sandstorm!

"Divine Sand Storm!"

Faced with such a move, Sun Sheng's mouth curled into a disdainful smile. He gathered dazzling gang qi around his fist, and then...

Boom!

With a loud explosion, Qiu Yunlong was sent flying backward!

Wang Qi commented nonchalantly: "If I were him, I'd definitely use Divine Sand Storm as my first move, and I'd put all my mana into it. Giving Tianling Ridge's cultivator a chance to 'grow' is simply asking for death! Azimiao, you should take note, 'On Protracted War' is a required course for Tianling Ridge, you know!"

"'On Protracted War'? Is that some theoretical treatise?"

Wang Qi covered his face: "It's about endurance, dummy!"

Right at this moment, Bao Xiaoya also finished her first match.

Bernoulli's Law of Large Numbers simply means "given enough events, the statistics obtained will tend to approach probability." For example, if you keep tossing a coin, the difference in the number of times "heads" and "tails" come up will definitely get smaller.

The essence of this theorem is "the arithmetic mean of a sequence of random variables converges to a constant," applied to swordsmanship, it means "continuously swinging your sword, inducing the opponent's moves to converge toward mediocrity, and finally striking with a sword that has a hundred percent chance of victory." This swordsmanship also increases the likelihood of winning the longer it goes on. Bao Xiaoya, with her relatively steady nature, took a while before she could defeat her opponent.

And at this time, Ai Changyuan also finished his first match. Unlike everyone else, to describe his battle, truly only one sentence is needed—one punch.

Just one punch, a punch that embodies the essence of classical mechanics, and a fellow cultivator of the same rank collapsed with severe injuries.

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Once again I ended up falling asleep on the keyboard, my apologies