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Chapter 345 Pigtail

"Wha, what?"

Yun Wangmei's heart tightened, and he laughed dryly twice, as if he didn't understand what he meant: "I, I don't understand what you mean..."

"Let me ask you, do you want to admit defeat?"

Qin Xiao repeated it.

"Of course I don't want to. Aren't you talking nonsense?" Yun Wangmei laughed, looking as if he knew nothing, but secretly he had already mobilized his Yuan Qi, ready to fight him at any time.

Unexpectedly, Qin Xiao just nodded after hearing it, and there was no further words.

Yun Wangmei:?

Yun Wangmei didn't dare to let his guard down, and asked him tentatively: "You... ask me what I want to do?"

"Oh, nothing." Qin Xiao looked at him, "I'll ask you if you want it. If you don't, forget it."

Yun Wangmei: "Just like that?"

"What else?" Qin Xiao looked at him, "Or do you want to fight with me?"

Yun Wangmei quickly shook his head and said, "No, that's not the case..."

Qin Xiao nodded and said nothing more.

Yun Wangmei didn't know what to say for a moment, and the atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

Qin Xiao seemed not to feel it and continued walking forward.

A whistle blew, and the piercing wind condensed into a thorn, suddenly appearing in the air, like an invisible sharp arrow, stabbing towards Qin Xiao's head!

At the critical moment, Yun Wangchuan reacted and wanted to wave his sleeves to block the attack, but he saw Qin Xiao's figure flash and disappeared on the spot, and the whistle fell into empty air.

At the same time, a young man with a whistle in his mouth saw Qin Xiao disappear and just as he was beginning to wonder, a black shadow suddenly appeared behind him.

Thunder suddenly sounded, Yun Wangmei was startled and looked towards the sound. He saw Qin Xiao appeared behind him at some point, threw the unconscious boy to the ground, and then groped for his jade token.

Yun Wangmei forgot to react and just watched stupidly as Qin Xiao found the jade token and crushed it. Then the young man disappeared.

"Intermediate level." Qin Xiao suddenly said.

Yun Wangmei looked at him. Qin Xiao's expression was indifferent, and it was obvious that this young man had no pressure on him at all.

Indeed, being able to deal with a mid-level opponent in an instant... is a bit scary.

Although Yun Wangmei was also at a higher level, he asked himself that if he were given the same amount of time, he might not be able to have half the confidence that Qin Xiao had.

"Qin, Qin Xiao."

Yun Wangmei suddenly called him.

Qin Xiao paused and looked back at him.

"Let's team up, shall we?" Yun Wangmei forced a smile, "Let's eliminate the others first."

"Well, it doesn't matter."

This was not a big deal for Qin Xiao. In his opinion, as long as only a few of them remained at the end, it was enough. He did not care which of the other nine teams they belonged to.

Yun Wangmei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"That child is Qin Xiao, right?"

Ye Ningzhi looked at the projection, then at Qin Xiuyun: "I just saw him in the commentary. He showed up a little bit earlier. I haven't seen him for a few years, and he's become even more handsome."

"Hmm... not bad." Qin Xiuyun looked at Qin Xiao, who was talking to Yun Wangmei, with a look of relief in his eyes. "We must get together after the game is over."

"Hehe, when the time comes, I'll call those two guys from my family along too... But why do I feel like Han Yu has changed a lot?"

Ye Ningzhi looked at Mo Hanyu, whose black hair and black pupils half-hid his face, in confusion, and frowned slightly.

"His mask." Qin Xiuyun saw through it. "He's probably wearing a Qi device that can conceal his aura, and it has also changed his body and appearance."

"Ah, is this okay?" In Ye Ningzhi's impression, this kind of competition requires identity verification, just like the Magic Moon Competition seven years ago, all the players and monsters on the field had to be verified.

"Yes, the regulations have been relaxed in recent years. Identity verification mainly uses Qi. As long as the Qi remains unchanged, it's fine." Qin Xiuyun looked at the field, his brows slightly furrowed. "That is..."

"What's wrong?" Ye Ningzhi asked, hearing something strange in his tone.

“…That’s wrong.”

The projection stone accurately and clearly revealed every move of the contestants in the fragmented world. Qin Xiuyun's brows slowly furrowed, and an ominous premonition arose in his heart.

"The guy named Qin Xiao is in trouble."

Yuan Tao suddenly spoke, her beautiful eyes sharp: "No, it should be said that everyone in their academy is in trouble."

"Logically speaking, this kind of large-scale alliance shouldn't have occurred right at the beginning." Lan Xinci touched the handle, frowning slightly, "Unless they had already discussed this before."

Lan Xinci thought of something and looked in Lan Huaiqiu's direction. Lan Huaiqiu was staring intently at the projection, his fists clenched nervously, not daring to blink.

Even though there were specialized cold-type Qi cultivators in the field to lower the temperature, Lan Huaiqiu still felt the urge to sweat.

...Strange, why is it getting hotter?

Lan Huaiqiu finally sensed something was wrong and looked up to find Xia Wule, her arms folded, her eyes fixed, her body practically emitting sparks. Sitting next to her, Qiu Puyue was still sweating profusely and cast a helpless look at Shen Youge.

Lan Huaiqiu: ...

Shen Youge smiled. The cold air around them suddenly intensified. Xia Wu shuddered and looked at him.

"Calm down." Shen Youge smiled at her, "Trust them, nothing will happen."

"...Yeah." Xia Wule stretched out a smile, but he was obviously still uneasy.

"I don't want to fight you."

Wang Xuyi raised his hand and smiled brightly: "How about joining forces?"

Chen Mo was slightly stunned, a snake-like shadow moving on his arm. He didn't know whether what he said was true or false. The Yuan Qi surged wildly in his meridians, and he didn't dare to stop.

"Hey, look, I've even put down my weapon, why don't you believe me?" Wang Xuyi laughed. "After all, we're opponents we've fought before, so why don't you trust me?"

“…” Chen Mo didn’t say anything, just stared at him.

Just when Wang Xuyi was about to get goosebumps, a voice broke in.

"He has been like this since he was a child. He can't utter a few words for a long time."

Chen Mo's body tensed, and a shadow began to spread beneath his feet. Wang Xuyi was familiar with this posture—he was trying to slip away.

Wang Xuyi raised his eyebrows, looked at the person who came, but was stunned.

This……

Wang Xuyi looked at Chen Yao, then at Chen Mo, paused for a moment, clapped his hands with an "Ah," and said, understandingly, "You two are brothers, right?"

"Yeah." Chen Yao glanced at Chen Mo with a half-smile, then smiled at Wang Xuyi, "My brother has always been shy. I'm sorry. I apologize to you."

Wang Xuyi tilted his head in confusion: "Why?"

Chen Yao smiled appropriately: "As the elder brother, of course I have the responsibility to take care of my younger brother——"

"No." Wang Xuyi smiled brightly, "I'm asking you, what's so trivial about this that you're sorry for it?"

Chen Yao paused.

"Isn't this perfectly normal? In this competition, anyone from a different school could be a potential opponent. Isn't it normal to be a little more cautious?" Wang Xuyi stared at him with a half-smile, his eyes distinctly black and white. "Why would you feel offended?"

Chen Yao was about to say something when Chen Mo suddenly disappeared from the spot as if melting into a shadow. The shadow passed by and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"You're running pretty fast." Wang Xuyi chuckled as he looked at the direction the shadow was going. He turned to look at Chen Yao, the silver spear appearing in his hand. "Want to play a trick on me?"

Chen Yao maintained a smile on his face: "I thought our confrontation should be postponed."

"Really?" Wang Xuyi narrowed his eyes and smiled in a creepy way.

Chen Yao quietly clenched his hands behind his back, his face expressionless.

It seemed like a long time had passed, but it also seemed like only a few seconds had passed. Wang Xuyi laughed, casually made a gun flower, casually put the gun barrel on his shoulder, turned around and left.

"Then I'll listen to you!"

Wang Xuyi tilted his head slightly, his eyes darkening. “I hope I won’t be eliminated first.”

Chen Yao's cheeks twitched, and just as he was about to raise his lips to fight back, Wang Xuyi had already turned into a gust of wind and disappeared.

"...Are all Yuhua people so arrogant?" Chen Yao's eyes gradually became fierce. He suddenly turned around and stared at the depths of the woods. He felt goosebumps all over his body.

Dangerous and very scary!

Chen Yao's bones couldn't stop shaking, his pupils constricted, and he couldn't believe that his body would react like this.

Deep in the woods, steady and even footsteps gradually sounded, accompanied by the rustling sound of leaves rubbing against clothes. The light and shadow shifted, and the person coming gradually became apparent -

He was wearing a blue robe that reached down to his calves. The tight and exquisite clothing gave off a sense of abstinence. The boy held a glass flower umbrella in his hand. Each end of the eighteen umbrella needles was hooked with a two-finger-wide silk ribbon. The silk ribbon moved without wind, vaguely revealing the boy's delicate and cold face.

The only thing that didn't match his overall style was the slightly rough, crooked braid on the right side of his face. A lock of black hair was braided into a long, thin braid, half a finger wide, and hung over his right shoulder.

The boy's black eyes flashed with a faint green color, and he didn't move at all under Chen Yao's vigilant gaze, as if he was a ghost passing by - but he did indeed land on the ground.

Chen Yao couldn't help swallowing his saliva. His intuition told him that he shouldn't provoke this young man, so he didn't move and just watched the young man get closer.

Qingyi didn't even give him a glance. Halfway through the journey, he suddenly thought of something, shook his sleeves a few times, and a colorful little snake came out.

The small snake coiled along his arm to the hand holding the umbrella, and lightly coiled around his fingers. His oval head stood up, and he spit out his scarlet tongue twice before turning in another direction.

Qingyi looked at the direction the snake head was pointing and turned to walk in that direction.

"Look, his braid!"

The terrifying aura that Hua Wujian unintentionally exuded was completely unnoticed by those watching the game, but those with sharp eyes could vaguely sense it from Chen Yao's reaction.

Tian Miao suddenly spoke, pointing at Hua Wujian's rough braid.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Lan Huaiqiu looked at it twice, confused.

Tian Miao chuckled and pointed at himself, full of pride: "I made it up!"

Lan Huaiqiu:……?

Tian Miao looked at the cold and introverted boy in the projection, and remembered that when he learned in the morning that Hua Wujian was going to participate in the competition, he specially found him to braid a lucky braid for him.

"That's fake. It's just for people to have a psychological sustenance." Hua Wujian mercilessly punctured his fantasy. Tian Miao looked at him with tears in his eyes, and when he was about to cry, Hua Wujian agreed impatiently.

"Don't cry." Hua Wujian stuffed a strand of hair into his palm and ordered.

Tian Miao smiled contentedly, washed and dried her hands and face, and carefully braided it for him. Although Hua Wujian said "ugly" in disdain after seeing it, he still did not untie it.

"hey-hey……"

Tian Miao's eyebrows were curved, and her watery eyes sparkled with charming light.