After Dai Mubai told them about the four hurdles of examination, he also explained about the condition of the students and teachers in the academy.
"We've arrived."
Dai Mubai halted his steps. By now, they had reached another open space. This compared to that previous second exam location was much smaller, only two hundred square metres or so. One looking like he was over fifty years old middle aged man sat napping on a chair.
"Teacher Zhao, I'm bringing people to take the fourth exam."
"En? This year there is a fourth exam? Unexpectedly it's still five people."
The middle aged man opened hazy sleepy eyes, somewhat surprised looking at the five male and female youths before him, as if coming across some manner of inconceivable affair.
Dai Mubai said:
"Not only are there five people for the fourth exam, but they still also were all excused from the second and third tests."
After getting surprised, the middle aged man introduced himself as 'Zhao Wuji'. He told everyone that to pass the fourth hurdle, all they had to do was to face him for fifteen minutes in a battle as a group and still be able to stand after that.
If atleast one of them was able to stand after fifteen minutes are up then they all will have passed. Then he gave them fifteen minutes of time to get to know each other and decide a strategy to face him afterwards.
Dai Mubai tried to argue with him but he didn't listen. So, Mubai had to explain to them about 'Zhao Wuji's martial spirit and spirit ring abilities to make them better prepared.
After that, they all introduced themselves properly to have better teamwork.
Tang San first opened his mouth,
"I'm Tang San, tool spirit blue silver grass, twenty ninth ranked control system battle spirit master."
Xiao Wu looking at Tang San speaking, second said:
"Xiao Wu, beast spirit rabbit, twenty ninth ranked assault system spirit master."
"Ning Rongrong, tool spirit seven treasure glazed tile pagoda, twenty sixth ranked auxiliary system spirit master."
"Zhu Zhuqing, beast spirit hell civet, twenty seventh ranked agility attack system spirit master."
After they were surprised about Ning Rongrong because of her clan which was known for its martial spirit, known for the ultimate auxiliary system spirit in the Continent, she told them about her abilities saying that supporting them for fifteen minutes was not a problem.
Then they all looked towards JoyBoy who was silently observing everything with his gentle smile including Tang San. He knew already that JoyBoy had three spirit rings but didn't know his cultivation rank.
Noticing that everyone was looking at him, JoyBoy politely gave his introduction
"JoyBoy, tool spirit Infinity Gauntlet, fortieth rank assault system spirit master."
Hearing his introduction shocked everyone especially Tang San and Xiao Wu because they knew him very well.
Tang San was shocked because of the speed at which JoyBoy was cultivating as he knew about his spirit ring situation and knew that he had to spend a lot of time in each bottleneck to gain his next ring.
Xiao Wu was shocked because all this time she thought that she and Tang San were at the top when they were in Nuoding academy. She knew that JoyBoy was also a two ring spirit grandmaster but that was it. She thought that at the most, he would be near their rank because of all the cultivation he did most of the time.
But she never thought that he would be a three ring spirit elder, not to mention a rank forty spirit elder. Even his first and second spirit ring was thousand years of age!
She found it ridiculous that she used to act like the big sister if Nuoding academy when there was such a monster hiding in plain site. She felt lucky that such a person was her brother and didn't want to think what would have happened if someone like him decided to go against her.
JoyBoy noticing that everyone was looking at him like he was a monster, asked Tang San for a plan of action as the control system battle spirit master of their group.
Hearing him, Tang San calmed himself and started telling everyone his plan. After hearing his plan, JoyBoy politely said
"Miss Ning Rongrong, I am really sorry to say this but your martial spirit abilities won't be able to amplify my abilities because of my martial spirit's peculiarities. Please focus only on others."
After she heard him, she looked at him surprised. When he introduced himself just now, she was shocked after hearing his cultivation level because their age was almost similar but his level was far above hers even though she was a princess of a top tier clan.
When she focused on his look and saw that he appeared as a mild-featured boy with brown scholarly hair enhanced by square glasses, along with soft brown eyes. He had a gentle smile on his face and when he introduced himself and spoke to her, he was very polite and spoke very softly.
Seeing his polite behavior, she thought that he had no reason to lie about this and nodded. When she nodded her head at him, Zhao Wuji declared that fifteen minutes were up and their test was beginning.
After his declaration everyone got ready to battle him. JoyBoy knew how this fight was supposed to go down from the novel but he decided that this time he will actively participate in the battle.
From what Dai Mubai had told them about Zhao Wuji's abilities, he thought that he could test his strength on him and find out just how strong he currently is.
In the last five years he had trained his spirit ring abilities to the point that he could activate 100 times boost without even releasing his spirit rings meaning even if his martial spirit and spirit rings were sealed, he would still be able to use his 100 times boost.
Currently his three spirit rings abilities were Strength amplification, Agility amplification and Endurance amplification. After his daily workouts and cultivation level at rank forty, his current physical body was strong enough to handle, eight thousand years old spirit ring. This made all of his current spirit rings eight thousand years old.
This meant that he could boost his strength, agility and endurance upto eight thousand times. Also because his abilities complimented one another, if he activated them together, he could use complete eight thousand times boost without going out of control.
He noticed that as his physical body grew stronger, his cultivation speed increased and the amount of spirit power required to breakthrough his cultivation bottleneck and get his next ring also increased.
This was a weird situation for him in the beginning but he decided that he would continue to do his daily workouts because the increase in physical attributes of his body was permanent.
He knew from the novel that there were many places in this world where soul power, martial spirit and spirit ring abilities are sealed. He knew that if he were to somehow get stuck in a place like that then he would become a mortal.
But, with the daily increase in his physical body attributes, this wouldn't be a problem anymore. He knew that with enough time, he would become strong like Saitama.
What JoyBoy didn't know was that he was worrying about those places for nothing as the laws in those places won't be able to affect him because of the Reality Stone's blessing.
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A/N : Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all are doing great and will continue to do so in the upcoming year. I am really sorry that I will only be able to release two chapters today. A certain respected teacher of mine decided that students should not waste time on holidays and told us that we will be having test this Monday and therefore I will be busy for some time. My schedule should go back to normal starting Tuesday. Okay, have fun on the weekends everyone!Once again, Happy New Year!