Chapter 428 Dwotong and Tianji!
Translator:ryuxenji | Editor: H2dH2mr
The days passed by amidst the hard work everyone invested in their studies, and three months were over. In these three months, it had not all been smooth sailing. The newly established Lingtian cha Clan which also managed a reversal to beco the number one faction had constantly been the centre of attention for all the cadets. Unsurprisingly, the Lingtian cha Clan received two more challenges during this ti from other factions in the academy. These challenges were respectively from the number four faction, the Dwotong cha Clan, and the number two faction, the Tianji cha Clan.
The Dwotong cha Clan was the first to step out and challenge Lingtian after Lingtian’s defeat of Leiting. The mont this challenge fight was initiated, there was a great upheaval within Dwotong. It should be known that, in the Dwotong cha Clan, there was a portion of mbers who were students of the Doha Central Scout Academy. Also, the Lingtian cha Clan just so happened to be a cha clan which consisted primarily of students from the Doha Central Scout Academy, while the four main regint commanders were all from the Central Scout Academy. In contrast with Dwotong which gathered students from all scout academies on planet Doha, the ‘purer’ Lingtian cha Clan gave these Central Scout Academy students a greater sense of relatability.
Thus, when Dwotong issued its letter of challenge this ti, the seniors in the faction who had graduated from the Doha Central Scout Academy were infuriated. They rose up in indignation and demanded that the regint commander of Dwotong would take the initiative to give up on this challenge. Unfortunately, the current regint commander of Dwotong, Gu Jinxing, who had succeeded Zhang Jing-an, was not from the Central Scout Academy. He rejected the demand without any hesitation — this move thoroughly enraged the mbers who had graduated from the Central Scout Academy, and the conflict among the mbers began to intensify. Dwotong began to break apart from within.
When the challenge against Lingtian was just about to start, the seniors who had graduated from the Central Scout Academy made a move which flabbergasted all the cadets — they collectively withdrew from the faction. This move reduced Dwotong’s numbers by almost one-fifth, also causing Dwotong to fall to the dusty depths from their position in the top four. Both in terms of numbers and strength, Dwotong was now pretty much equivalent with the other middling factions.
anwhile, those Central Scout Academy students who had left Dwotong unsurprisingly all joined the Lingtian cha Clan. This boosted the strength of the Lingtian cha Clan greatly, and those other factions which had still considered Lingtian’s success a consequence of sheer dumb luck at the start now no longer dared to underestimate them.
“Gu Jinxing … Jinxing, cautious-action, caution in acting1 — Gu Jinxing really does not live up to his na.” Zhang Jing-an, who was currently devoting all his attention into his enlistnt applications, broke out into a cold smile when he heard the news from a mber of his battle clan. He said, “Ling Lan’s group is not so easy to deal with. He is really quite stupid, actually completely oblivious to the other side’s tactic.”
Zhang Jing-an’s words confused his clan mber. Seeing this, Zhang Jing-an could not help but shake his head, sigh, and say, “Our Dwotong is lacking a good strategist. It’s likely that even Wuji, Tianji, and Leiting have seen and understood what Lingtian was doing. Tily provocation combined with emotional investnt, and then by pushing things to a head, under this entire series of calculation, Dwotong can be considered done for. That fellow Ling Lan … his thods are as vicious as ever. Either he does nothing, or else once he acts, it’s like a thunder strike. This kind of person is very scary as an opponent …”
His team mbers were rather disgruntled. “Even so, our Dwotong is overall still stronger than Lingtian. Our Dwotong has over two thousand mbers, while Lingtian won’t have even a full thousand even if they add in those mbers of ours who quit to join them … our Dwotong still has the better chance of winning in the challenge fight.”
Zhang Jing-an chuckled dryly. “How can it be that simple? I can bet with you that the final outco will be Lingtian’s victory.” This fellow Ling Lan had never ever lost before … unless he gave up on purpose.
Just as Zhang Jing-an predicted, the final victor was the Lingtian cha Clan. Even though Dwotong’s regint commander Gu Jinxing had learned from Leiting’s example and gave up on the elite 12-man team format to choose the 50-man cha battle, Dwotong’s fate was even worse than Leiting’s. At least Leiting and Lingtian had fought till both sides had only one man left standing. At the ti Dwotong’s team was completely eliminated, Lingtian’s side still had seven people remaining.
The remaining seven included all the four regint commanders without exception, and the two senior special-class operators Zhao Jun and Li Lanfeng. No one was overly surprised that these six had remained till the end — after all, the strength of these six had already been acknowledged by the cadets. What truly surprised the audience was the seventh survivor on Lingtian’s side. It was not one of the team leaders of the various battle clans in the Lingtian cha Clan, nor was it any of the primary fighters in the various battle clans. It was one of the secondary fighters in Ling Lan’s battle clan — that enchantingly beautiful, delicate and slender Luo Lang.
But when they thought back on Luo Lang’s performance during the fight, everyone could see how reasonable it was for him to have survived. When Luo Lang got into the groove of fighting, he was extrely tenacious and was also willing to be ruthless at the sa ti, not only towards others but also towards himself. Many tis, when he was forced into a disadvantageous situation, just as everyone believed he was sure to lose, he would fight his way out with frighteningly explosive combat power that verged on the edge of harming himself in the process. That attitude of never giving up gained the admiration of everyone there.
Dwotong’s fragntation before the battle and their defeat in the battle was a wake-up call to all those cha clans that were thinking of taking advantage of Lingtian. Though there had been an elent of luck involved in Lingtian’s victory over Leiting, in reality, Lingtian’s strength was not as weak as these other factions had believed. Additionally, after taking in one-fifth of Dwotong’s n, it could be said that Lingtian was now fully qualified to rank among the rest of the top-line factions.
Under these circumstances, the third place Wuji silently retreated. Han Yu was wary of Lingtian’s soaring power, and was also apprehensive over Li Lanfeng’s scheming ways. He was certain that Li Lanfeng had a hand in orchestrating Dwotong’s tragic outco.
After much consideration, Han Yu decided to give up on this chance to represent the First Academy in the Grand cha Tournant. Of course, the reason Han Yu could give up so easily was that he had long heard that even if their Wuji defeated Lingtian, in order to ensure the best team represents the academy at the Grand cha Tournant, the school administrators would still specially arrange a fight between Wuji and Tianji. The final victor of that match would be the faction which would really represent the academy.
The academy administrators definitely wanted to choose the strongest faction in the team to represent the academy. If Leiting had not lost to Lingtian so publicly, thus preventing the administrators from enforcing any hidden manipulations, they would not have had to back down and make do with Tianji. Han Yu was a clever person — he was not willing to benefit Tianji with the fruits of his efforts.
Sure enough, after confirming that Wuji had given up on challenging Lingtian, Tianji issued their challenge. The challenge mode they chose was like Leiting, the 12-man elite team battle. However, unlike Qiao Ting’s self-centred and overconfident approach, Tianji chose to send out a whole team of special-class operators as its representative, the strongest 12 Tianji had to offer.
Before the challenge fight, everyone thought that Lingtian’s good fortune was about to be ended here — this ti, Lingtian would lose for certain. After all, Lingtian only had three special-class operators — Ling Lan, Li Lanfeng, and Zhao Jun — and no matter how strong the others were, they were still only advanced cha warriors. 3 versus 12 … no matter how you looked at it, the Lingtian cha Clan had no chance of winning. But the results made everyone’s eyes fall out of their sockets2 — the final victor was still Lingtian. Moreover, there were two mbers who survived the battlefield: Ling Lan and Zhao Jun.
It should be said that this challenge fight was not as one-sided as everyone had assud. Even though nine of Lingtian’s mbers were advanced cha warriors, those nine people worked together extrely well. The battle had not started for long before they had managed to group themselves into three team formations. In comparison, the Tianji mbers reacted much slower — not only did they not get into formation successfully, three of their number had been taken out by Lingtian’s formations not too long after the start of the battle. If the regint commander of Tianji had not picked up on how bad the situation was and ordered all his mbers to retreat and regroup, Lingtian might have had even more mbers survive till the end of the battle.
It was only after Tianji had assembled themselves into formation that Lingtian found themselves caught in a precarious situation. The nine advanced cha were successfully killed by Tianji, but the mbers of the Lingtian cha Clan were extrely ferocious — even when they died they did not forget to pull their enemies down with them. In the fighting, Tianji also lost two cha.
However, even as the nine advanced cha of Lingtian were being besieged and killed, Lingtian’s one and only formation made up of special-class cha similarly revealed its fearso side, successfully killing off the opponent’s cha formation it encountered.
At this ti, Tianji’s upper hand was completely gone. 4 against 3 — although Tianji had one extra mber, in this situation where both sides were special-class operators, that one additional mber was not enough to decide the ultimate victor yet. In the end, the two teams simply ended up pitting blunt force against blunt force — the 7 cha clashed in a lee battle. In order to protect Ling Lan, after he defeated one cha, Li Lanfeng used his battered cha to bring down another cha in mutual destruction.
anwhile, Zhao Jun engaged the regint commander of Tianji in a bitter fight with his strength as the second rank in cha. Of the three Lingtian special-class operators left, Ling Lan, the weakest one in the audience’s eyes, ended up having the easiest ti of it. He fought against another special-class operator from Tianji who also was not very strong for up to several hundred rounds.
Finally, half-crippled, Zhao Jun found an opening in the other’s defence and defeated his opponent. It could be said that Zhao Jun and the regint commander of Tianji were about equal in strength — it would not be surprising for either side to win; it all just depended on who was luckier that day. And in this battle, Zhao Jun’s luck was indisputably better than that of the Tianji regint commander as he had managed to catch the other’s weakness a step earlier.
At the sa ti that Zhao Jun defeated the regint commander of Tianji, Ling Lan also successfully killed her opponent, clinching the final victory for Lingtian. In contrast to Zhao Jun’s beaten up cha, Ling Lan’s cha was almost undamaged, only slightly drained of power.
The spectators were very curious about this because, during the battle, Ling Lan’s opponent had previously managed to land a hit on Ling Lan. When struck by cha of the sa level, even the sturdiest cha armour would also inevitably be scarred. With this question in mind, everyone began rifling for information on Ling Lan’s cha, and only then did they discover that Ling Lan’s cha was a modified cha.
Of course, all they could find out was the line saying that it had been modified; as for more detailed information, they could not find anything. The mainfra had to protect the privacy of its users.
However, just this point alone was enough to make the cadets think they had found the answer. They believed that Lingtian was just too lucky in having managed to recruit the modification prodigy Chang Xinyuan, thus obtaining such a tough and fearso modified special-class cha. As a consequence of this battle, Chang Xinyuan’s reputation unexpectedly soared within the military academy …
This was notably the first ti that a chanic who could modify special-class cha had appeared in the First n’s Military Academy. As such, Chang Xinyuan shot to fa overnight, becoming the most sought-after person in the area. Many factions all began to inquire about the nature of the contract Chang Xinyuan had signed with the Lingtian cha Clan. They were hoping that Chang Xinyuan had only signed a temporary collaboration contract with Lingtian so that they would have a chance to bring this future maestro of cha modification into their fold …
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