Shenyan was currently excited to practice his techniques with the sword and so he arrived at the weapon storage hall to take some weapon for practice at the training ground, but he did not expect that the moment he entered building, there would be someone who would actually throw a laugher towards his direction. He was confused by this fellow student's reaction and so he quizzically turned his head and face the student only to hear the student speak after holding back his laughter.
"Hahaha!"
"What do we have here… If it isn't the Untalented Weapon Genius." This one statement from the student in front of Shenyan caught the attention of all the other students who were currently busy picking their weapons inside the Weapon storage building.
'Eh? Untalented Weapon Genius? Who is that?' Shenyan had a puzzled expression on his face as he stared at the student in from of him.
"Oh… you are not going to deny it? Right, how could you anyway? You are just a trash who does not belong to this prestigious academy dedicated to practicing cultivation." The student spoke in a mocking tone as he looked at Shenyan from top to bottom.
"Uhm… are you talking with me?" Shenyan still had no idea what was going on with this student as he kept staring at him as he spoke.
"Huh?"
The student was caught off guard by Shenyan's statement, but he immediately came to his senses before continuing, "Who do you think I was talking to all this time?" The student said with clear disdain look in his eyes. He could not wait to humiliate Shenyan.
This fellow student caused a phenomenon to occur during their examination, and everyone thought he was some heaven-defying genius, but it turned out he was just a trash who could not even practice simple cultivation. How can someone like that still be allowed to stay in the academy?
Indeed, this student was right about the fact that Shenyan could have been kicked out of the academy the moment they found out that he could not cultivate but due to Wang Lei's pleading and also Leng Lanyue helping behind the scenes, Shenyan was able to stay in the academy for the duration that normal weapon cultivators stay in the academy until they are judged to be talented or untalented with cultivation, which was only one year.
Shenyan was not aware of this fact but that does not mean that he was not aware of the possibility of being kicked out the academy in a year's time.
Shenyan stood opposite to the student who spoke just now with a deep frown on his face when he heard what the student said.
After a moment of silence, Shenyan finally spoke, "Do I know you? Why are you talking to me?"
"Haha… know you? Who wouldn't know about you? The genius who failed to awaken his elemental affinity but instead awakened the highest talent for weapon talent."
He paused and gave Shenyan a deep stare with a wide grin on face before continuing, "Also the same genius who couldn't practice the cultivation technique of the academy. Do I know you now? Hahaha!!"
"So what?"
"What?" The student did not expect this kind of reply. He was dying to see Shenyan's embarrassed face as he scurries away from the building, but what did he say, 'So what?'. He must be hearing things. The student doubted his hearing as he could not believe that Shenyan was unperturbed by his ridiculing.
"What did you say just now?" The student asked with raised eyebrows.
"I said so what if what you said is true, how does that concern you?" Shenyan did not understand this student at all. What does his plight have to do with him and for him to confront him on top of that?
'Shouldn't all students be focused on their own cultivation, was he bored and decided to pick on me?' he thought.
"…' The student was struck speechless by the turn of events. Not knowing what to say for a long time as this was not part of the script he devised just now.
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Meanwhile, the other students who were paying attention to the confrontation just now started making their own discussions.
"Who is that kid, he actually shot down Qu Feng."
"Hehe… this is a good show… that Qu Feng had been looking down on everyone because he had a higher aptitude than others. Now someone finally stood up against him."
"Still, what was it again, 'untalented weapon genius?' What a funny nickname."
"I know right, how could someone be untalented and still be a genius? This Qu Feng is exaggerating the nickname."
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"Hmm…" Meanwhile there was a student who was paying attention to this whole situation without saying a word. His expression was only cold and indifferent as he looked on, as the situation unfold.
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At this point, Shenyan went and picked up a steel sword after leaving the dazed student who currently rooted on the same spot. He could not waste his time on this student. The moment he was about to walk out of the building, he was stopped by the deranged student from earlier. He tried to grab Shenyan's shoulder, thinking that since this kid does not have any cultivation base, he could easily deal with him and save his own face— he can wash away this embarrassment that he had suffered by this brat's hand.
However, the moment his hand was about to touch Shenyan's shoulder blade, Shenyan suddenly tilted his body and dodged to the right avoiding the approaching hand which left the student propelling forward due to the momentum as he fell right on his face since he did not expect the other party to suddenly dodge his attack.
"Thud!"
"Mhmph…"
The student let out a groan sound as he felt his face smash the floor with his butt facing upwards. Although it did not hurt as he was cultivator, but he still could not escape the embarrassment suffered from falling over his face and ending up in that weird position.
"Pftt!" Some students who watched this scene could not hold back their laughter anymore as they started making muffing sounds. These students were the ones who were always suppressed by this Qu Feng. This time they had witnessed a good show.
"Fuck! How dare you dodge?!" Qu Feng gritted his teeth as he barked his voice towards Shenyan, his eyes containing glint of anger.
"Ha? Why wouldn't I dodge when someone tried to attack me?" Shenyan had a clear confused look on face as he asked.
And he continued, "You should be glad I didn't fight back, stop bothering me, I need to practice my sword techniques."
Shenyan did not have time to waste on this kind of people. In the first place, there was no grudge between them, yet this fellow student suddenly approached him out of nowhere and started giving him a strange nickname and now he wanted to attack him just because he was frustrated?
Shenyan shook his head as he left the furious student behind as he made his way to the training ground leaving everyone dumbfounded and shortly after, some students had smile on their face. They were happy about the outcome of the confrontation— they just love the look of helplessness on Qu Feng's face, but they did not dare to show this for too long as they resumed whatever they were doing.
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Shenyan arrived at the training that was not that far away from the weapon storage hall. After looking around for a while, he found some students currently practicing their spells with their elements. Shenyan felt a slight jealousy in his heart seeing this people practice their element, but that was only for a moment, he found a secluded spot on the training ground and began practicing his sword techniques.
While Shenyan was practicing his sword techniques, the student from earlier who was watching the scene from before with a cold expression on his face followed Shenyan and was standing not far from him as he pretended to also be practicing his technique.
He monitored Shenyan who was currently immersed in swinging his steel sword around, enacting the same techniques and their movements that he practiced in that strange space. He started off with just swinging without using spirit energy, but as he practiced, the wind in the surrounding was being moved by him with every swing of his sword.
"Whoosh!"
"What?! Is that a type of Wind blade?!" The student exclaimed upon seeing the changes around Shenyan. The student was also practicing his wind element techniques at this moment, so he was really surprised by what he had just witnessed.