In the following days, the Underworld Pavilion didn't continue to send out missions, so Lin Hao was happy to be idle.
Not only did he have a salary to get, but he could also practice at the Tian Yan Academy, which was incomparably cozy.
Just like this, Lin Hao devoted himself to practicing martial arts.
In this way, day after day, Lin Hao gradually adapted to the life of the Heavenly Diffusion Academy.
Moreover, his knowledge of martial cultivation was no longer as ignorant as before, and he already knew how to learn from it and integrate the principles of various moves.
In this kind of boring cultivation, months passed by in the blink of an eye.
As autumn went to winter, the weather was also starting to become cold.
On this day, Lin Hao didn't go to Xuanwu Hall or Lingmiao Hall for classes as usual.
Instead, he went to the southern district of the mansion alone.
There, the area that was divided into cultivation grounds.
In the past six months, Lin Hao had been learning the sensible knowledge of martial cultivation in order to build a good foundation.
Therefore, he had never used the 10 points of contribution value from the new student badge once.
However, nowadays, his knowledge of various martial cultivation basics had been completely consolidated.
Therefore, in terms of cultivation, he could really start to make an effort!
"I haven't moved my muscles for several months, so I'll first go and try out what that Illusory Killing Stage is like."
Along the way, Lin Hao decided on the direction of the cultivation site after a little searching.
The so-called Illusion Killing Platform was actually a formation stone platform where illusion runes were inscribed.
However, it was different from that kind of ordinary illusion, in the Illusory Killing Formation, any senses were very realistic.
Whether it is physical strength, ability, all correspond to the reality.
Injuries would hurt, and the terrible feeling before dying was also incomparably real.
Some with low mental capacity would even think that they were really dead, thus falling into a state of brain death.
However, even so, the Phantom Killing Stage was still a highly sought after cultivation site by many students of the academy.
This was because the realistic mode of the phantom killing formation not only allowed them to quickly accumulate real battle experience, but also used it to break through their physical potential.
Not long after, Lin Hao arrived at the location of the phantom killing platform.
To the eyes, the place was empty, just like a square.
And in the central area, a huge stone platform was built, about ten meters wide.
On top of the stone platform, various arcane runic formations were tattooed, and vaguely, an obscure energy fluctuation permeated the area.
Just by looking at the complexity of its runes, one could tell that it was an advanced formation.
And what made Lin Hao feel peculiar was that next to the stone platform, there stood a green-colored stone wall.
The green stone was as high as several zhang, its surface as smooth as a mirror, and on it, light flashed, condensing rows and rows of golden fonts.
Upon closer inspection, these fonts were actually names.
"The Illusory Slaughter Stage's ranking list?"
Looking at the names on the stone wall, Lin Hao's heart moved slightly and muttered.
Although he was here for the first time, he had previously heard Lei Meng and Qin Yu and the two of them mention it.
Here at the Illusory Slaughter Stage, there was a ranking stone, and the names on it would constantly change in real time every day, based on the strength tests of the House's courtyard students.
However, not everyone's name would be visible on the ranking stone.
The only people who could be on the list were those before the thousandth place.
Four Treasures' eyes quickly rotated and soon searched for Lei Meng's name on the ranking stone.
Indeed, as the latter had said two days ago, he had squeezed into the 769th rank in the battle strength test in the Illusory Killing Stage.
In the entire Heavenly Diffusion Academy, there were about tens of thousands of students.
Lei Meng's comprehensive battle power, coupled with being a first year freshman, being able to reach the top 1,000 in the Illusory Killing Stage was considered very good.
As for Qin Yu, he was concerned about picking up girls all day long, and to him, how could he have the heart to come here and 'waste' his time.
Immediately, Lin Hao maneuvered the four treasures' line of sight and moved to the very top of the ranking stone.
The name on there, compared to the font below, was several times bigger, flashing with a scarlet red light, extremely remarkable.
"Yan Chen."
Looking at those two big red characters, Lin Hao read it thoughtfully.
He knew that the person in charge of the Great Yan Dynasty belonged to the Yan Clan lineage.
Therefore, people with the surname Yan were, generally speaking, royal family members with royal blood.
At the stairway entrance of the Illusory Killing Stage, there were two youths standing, each wearing a red cloth on their right arm with the word 'Deacon' written on it.
This was the deacon group set up by the Heavenly Diffusion Academy, which was mainly responsible for various chores within the mansion.
The members of it, instead of being tutors, or law enforcement teams, were senior academy students.
These people, most of whom were martial artists from poor families, did not have the money to buy contribution points, so they had to earn cultivation resources by means of labor.
At this moment, the two deacons were lining up to register one by one with the courtyard students who had come to the Illusory Killing Platform to cultivate.
It had to be said that the Illusory Killing Platform was indeed a popular cultivation site, and the number of people lining up was extremely large.
At a glance, there had to be at least a hundred people.
Lin Hao shook his head and smiled faintly, since he was here, he could only wait in line.
Just like that, Lin Hao walked into the line.
His arrival immediately caught some people's attention.
"Hehe, that first year freshman, isn't that Lin Hao."
"It's said that he detected ultimate cultivation talent at the time of the assessment and recruitment, but it's been a few months now, so why does he feel flat and unsurprising?"
"What's so surprising about that, talent is nothing more than absorbing heaven and earth's aura quickly, he has a crippled eye, what can he do?"
"Tsk, it's not bad for a blind man to reach such a level."
While sizing up Lin Hao, those courtyard students around him, all of them had a rarefied look on their faces and couldn't help but discuss in low voices.
Each one of them had a strange expression, seemingly wanting to see what kind of achievement Lin Hao had on the Illusory Killing Stage.
If he couldn't even rank in the top thousand, then his ultimate cultivation talent would really be a waste.
This was because the cultivation and ranking of the Illusory Killing Stage was not judged by cultivation.
In the illusionary realm, the enemies that were anthropomorphized were all based on the criteria of the level of one's own strength.
For example, if a martial artist of level three warrior went in, the illusory enemy that he started to face would have the cultivation level of a level three warrior.
And the fourth level warrior martial artist, into the illusionary realm, face the enemy is also the same, starting from the fourth level.
After that, as they killed more enemies, only then would more powerful enemies appear.
So this ranking, on the contrary, was very fair.
Regarding the whispers around him, Lin Hao had an indifferent face, waiting for his turn on the stage.
The phantom killing stage's formation could accommodate fifty people at a time for cultivation at the same time.
As the previous batch of people went up to the stage, Lin Hao's distance in the queue was suddenly shortened by a large margin.
Counting the number of people, the next batch would be his turn.
Looking at those courtyard students who had just come down from the Illusory Killing Platform, he saw that all of them were pale, with a trace of fear still lingering in their eyes.
Obviously, the death and despair experienced in that Illusory Killing Formation had left their hearts palpitating.
Buzz-!
And at this moment, the arrangement of the names on that ranking stone clearly showed a slight change.
Yet, there was a name that continuously jumped upwards, directly skyrocketing by a hundred ranks.
From the original 896 names, it directly squeezed up to a ranking of 788.
Lin Hao realized that that name was, of course, called Yan Fengjun.
This fellow, he wasn't unfamiliar with.
It was none other than King Yan's second son.
He remembered that the night he first entered the mansion, they had some disputes in the Mansion Wells Xuan.
Qin Yu had even stepped in and cast a wind spell to teach the horseman beside Yan Fengjun a lesson.
However, due to the Qin family's position in the dynasty, that second prince had only moved his lips, and the two sides hadn't caused much of a fight.
After all, the next successor to the throne, or unknown, even if he is the second prince, but no hard ability, many of the court officials, bird will not bird him.
Not to mention the Qin House that controlled half of the military power of the Great Yan Dynasty, even the Yan King had to be afraid of three times.
"Congratulations Your Highness, Second Prince, your ranking has improved again, and in a short while, you will definitely reach the top 100."
The follower beside Yan Fengjun patted his horse's ass vigorously.
However, Yan Fengjun was unmoved and was still very dissatisfied with this achievement.
He raised his head and couldn't help but glance at that top position at the top of the ranking stone, Yan Chen.
The rankings of both sides were separated by more than seven hundred places.
This gap, it was a bit too big!
"That lowly bastard, what gives him the right to always press on my head!"
Yan Fengjun frowned and snorted coldly with a rather unpleasant feeling in his heart.
It seemed that for that name at the top of the list, he felt extremely obtrusive.
And just as Yan Fengjun was about to leave, out of the corner of his eye, he inadvertently glanced at Lin Hao in the crowd.
Although he hadn't seen him for a long time, the parrot four treasures on Lin Hao's shoulders were instantly recognized by him.
All along, due to Yan Chen, he and Qin Yu had followed the frequent conflicts.
Now that he found out that Lin Hao was actually in the same dormitory as Qin Yu, and had a great relationship, it made Yan Fengjun feel like he had found an outlet.
"Tsk, tsk, a blind man enters into the illusion, I don't know if he can see it."
Yan Fengjun sneered and walked over, staring at Lin Hao with a teasing face.
At those words, Lin Hao's face sank slightly.
However, due to the identity of the other party's prince, he, who didn't want to invite trouble, chose to ignore it.
However, Yan Fengjun didn't have the slightest intention of converging.
Seeing Lin Hao's silence, he continued to snort, "After coming into the Tianyan Academy for so long, you're afraid that this is the first time you've come to the Illusory Killing Stage, surprisingly, you don't even have a ranking, how about a bet?"
Hearing about a bet, Lin Hao seemed to be aroused by a hint of interest.
A bet meant that there were benefits to be taken.
He who had been trying to find ways to make money was undoubtedly right up his alley.
Immediately, Lin Hao raised his eyebrows lightly and asked, "What's the bet?"
Seeing that Lin Hao took the bait, the corner of Yan Fengjun's mouth curled up slightly, and he said with a teasing face, "As long as you can surpass me in the ranking stone, you can win ten million taels."
"If you lose, this prince doesn't want your money either, just run around the Illusory Killing Platform naked."
Hearing this, Lin Hao, however, smiled.
A few months ago, he had scraped off Yang Chengji's wealth, plus the wages from the Underworld Pavilion, and was worth hundreds of millions of dollars to say the least.
Ten million taels, in his eyes nowadays, was simply not enough.
Seeing that Lin Hao smiled and didn't respond, Yan Fengjun thought that Lin Hao was afraid, and couldn't help but mock, "It seems that the so-called geniuses of ultimate talent are nothing more than that."
Lin Hao shook his head, stretched up a finger, and said indifferently, "Ten million dollars is too little, it has to be at least this much, one hundred million."
What?
One hundred million?
Hearing this value, the follower next to Yan Fengjun, instantly turned red in the face and angrily rebuked, "You blind man, you're crazy for money!"
Yan Fengjun's expression also changed slightly at this moment.
Originally, he thought that Lin Hao would be too scared to make a bet, and that he would just mock him a few times to get in a good mood.
However, he didn't expect that Lin Hao would not only accept the bet, but instead raise the stake tenfold!
One hundred million dollars, that kind of amount, was almost all of his savings in recent years!
At this moment, whether it was Yan Fengjun's status as a prince, or Lin Hao's reputation in the Tianyan Academy, the two of them stood together.
The two of them standing together instantly drew the attention of many gazes in the room.
Especially hearing about Yan Fengjun and Lin Hao's bet, it undoubtedly caused the atmosphere of the scene to become lively all of a sudden.
"What? Forget it if you don't have the money to bet."
The corners of Lin Hao's mouth spread out in an arc, and he similarly disliked the words back, "It seems that the so-called Second Prince His Highness is nothing more than that."
These words undoubtedly irritated Yan Fengjun.
His face, all of a sudden, sank to the extreme at this moment.
"How dare you! How dare you be rude to our Second Prince Highness, looking for death!"
The henchman next to him, while shouting angrily, fiercely stepped forward, then slammed his palm at Lin Hao's face door.
In his opinion, even if a blind man could become a martial artist and knew something about hearing voices, he definitely couldn't dodge this palm at such a close distance.
And just as he expected, Lin Hao always stood still, seemingly not realizing anyone's attack at all, showing no signs of dodging at all.
Snort-!
However, right at this moment, the parrot on Lin Hao's shoulder suddenly opened its mouth, and between the twitching of its tongue, it actually ejected an electric light.
The sudden change made that guy a bit unprepared, and when he reacted, he felt as if his body had been struck by lightning, and was directly shocked to fly backwards.BIquGe.biz
Yan Fengjun's eyes were cold, seeing the subordinate who flew over backwards, he didn't even have the thought of hiding, he directly clenched his fist and brought up a strong wind, and blasted at the other party's back.
With only a 'click' sound, the backbone of that henchman's backbone, instantly snapped inch by inch, and then fainted on the ground with a miserable scream.
Hiss-!
Seeing this scene, the crowd immediately looked shocked and couldn't help but suck in a mouthful of cool air.
Obviously, they also didn't expect that the parrot that had been following Lin Hao's side all this time would have such a strong attack power.
What kind of magical beast species was a parrot that could release thunder?
However, what shocked them even more was that Yan Fengjun had struck so hard, and it was really as ferocious and vicious as the outside world had rumored.
If he were to become the emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty in the future, he would simply be a tyrant, the misfortune of the people.
"One hundred million taels, I accept your bet."
Yan Fengjun stared at Lin Hao with a gloomy gaze and said in a low voice.
Facing such a vicious character, Lin Hao remained indifferent.
Even though the other party was an imperial prince, there was no reason not to take the wealth that was sent to his door.
As for whether he would be subjected to Yan Fengjun looking for trouble in the future, this was something Lin Hao didn't have the slightest concern at all.
This was because he was now a member of the Undercroft Organization, which belonged to Yan Wang's undercurrent power.
To lose an assassin based on a small matter alone, King Yan was naturally not that brainless when he was able to sit in the position of an emperor.
In the end, he might even rebuke Yan Fengjun in turn.
Therefore, in this matter, Lin Hao could be said to be emboldened.