As Lu Wuyi's statent, "Stump , and you're the champion," was uttered,
the entire Phoenix Nest Training Hall instantly fell silent.
Everyone knew the difficulty involved.
12 steles, 144 puzzles.
The types and difficulty levels of the puzzles varied.
Even if Lu Wu had known the answers beforehand, it would have been useless because he wasn't solving the puzzles chosen by the competitors.
Instead, he would be solving the puzzles chosen and modified by the competitors.
Such puzzles were definitely harder and more tricky than the ones on the steles.
And for this tricky set of puzzles, Lu Wu needed to solve 96. To everyone, this was an impossible task.
At the sa ti, Gutian in the audience understood Lu Wu's malicious intent all at once.
To others, Lu Wu had to solve 96 puzzles.
To him, Lu Wu did not need to solve that many; in fact, he only needed to solve one.
As long as Lu Wu solved Guzhentian's one puzzle, the championship that originally belonged to Guzhentian would be lost.
How could Gutian sit still?
He raised his hand imdiately.
"I protest, this rule has a huge flaw; the referee can manipulate the outco of the match. I demand the organizers change the rules."
The old man reacted quickly, but it was futile.
"Protest denied, the competition begins!"
With Lu Wu's order, the big screen on stage started the countdown.
3:00:00
2:59:59
...
As the countdown began to decrease, the competitors on stage started to move, all except for Guzhentian.
He politely asked Lu Wu, "May I ask, Referee Lu Wu, may I move now?"
"You may!"
Lu Wu nodded, and Guzhentian walked over to him.
"How about a bet?"
"What?"
"Referee Lu Wu is presumably targeting a certain soone, and during the impending match, you will inevitably target that certain soone..."
Lu Wu didn't like to hear that, although it was true, he couldn't just say it out loud.
"Are you doubting my fairness as a referee?"
"Yes!"
"To be precise, it's not doubt, but one hundred percent certainty that you will target in the next match, but I don't care.
You can target all you want. I can guarantee that you won't be able to answer any of the questions I pose."
Having said this, Guzhentian turned around and walked toward the steles.
At the sa ti, thunderous applause erupted from below the stage.
"Guzhentian!" "Guzhentian!" "Guzhentian!"
The roars represented the public opinion of the Phoenix Nest Training Ground at that mont.
Clearly, Guzhentian's confidence and domineering presence had conquered the entire audience.
In just a few words, Guzhentian set the roles between himself and Lu Wu firmly.
Lu Wu was seen as the villain with overwhelming power and bullying tendencies.
Guzhentian, on the other hand, was like the protagonist who was oppressed by power but not at all cowardly, resilient, and unyielding.
Between the villain and the protagonist, the audience at that mont sided with the protagonist.
Well, although there might be a portion swayed by their looks, at least the majority felt this way.
As the villain, Lu Wu was quite aware of his role.
After Guzhentian began solving puzzles, Lu Wu snapped his fingers, and the staff brought a sofa onto the stage for Lu Wu, complete with a fruit plate, snacks, and beverages.
Additionally, they handed two ga controllers to Lu Wu.
At the sa ti, Little Skeleton also excitedly ran over.
Then the master and beast duo leisurely lay on the stage, engrossed in their gas.
The big screen behind the stage switched to the ga interface while they were playing.
Hmm, all classic gas.
"Soul Fighter," "Big Snowman Brothers," "Super Li," "Tank Battle," "Ninja Deep Cabinet."
"A bit to the left."
"Get down, get down," "Leave that F for , don't take it,"
The stage was filled with the sounds of gaming and Lu Wu's voice.
Not going to lie, though old, these gas were still quite fun to play.
Especially for soone like Lu Wu, who hadn't played in a long ti, he was imdiately entranced.
Little Skeleton was even happier.
This was the first ti Lu Wu had played gas with Little Skeleton, and it was thoroughly enjoying itself.
Back in the audience seats, everyone's eyes were practically shooting fire.
On one side, they were strenuously solving puzzles, and on the other, Lu Wu was happily playing gas.
They had never seen a referee act like this before.
And that wasn't even the most outrageous part. Quick dinner ti approached at half-past eleven.
Those solving puzzles still had an hour left and no ti to eat.
Lu Wu was busy playing gas and didn't have ti to eat either, but no worries, soone brought him food.
By half-past eleven, a girl around 5'5" and about 140 pounds, a bit on the plump side but incredibly cute, one who could easily be a knockout if she slimd down, ca over with a food container.
"Lu Wu, ti to eat!"
"I'm playing a ga, why don't you feed ?"
"Oh," cooed Dudu sweetly, then took out the chopsticks and started to feed Lu Wu bite by bite.
The audience below exploded at the sight.
Not only did the audience below blow up, but several of the competitors on stage did too.
This casual attitude of Lu Wu's, in the eyes of those competitors, was an utter trampling of their dignity and a desecration of this sacred competition.
So Wang Junkai from among the competitors couldn't hold back first.
A little over two hours, he brought over his chosen problems that had been completed and modified.
"Judge, have you finished correcting my questions? Your turn to answer them."
Wang Junkai's face was challenging, but Lu Wu kept playing his ga and eating his food, not even glancing up, "Finished? That fast? Alright, go ahead and read them out. I'm busy and don't have ti to look."
"You!"
Wang Junkai's face darkened, and after taking a deep breath, he said solemnly, "Please show so respect!"
Lu Wu didn't even lift an eyelid in response.
That infuriated Wang Junkai, but then he thought, oh, you're putting on airs? Fine, let's see how you fare!
Let's see if you'll be embarrassed when you can't answer.
With that in mind, Wang Junkai read out his first question.
After it was finished, all attention in the Phoenix Nest turned to Lu Wu, waiting for his response.
Only Gutian curled his lips dismissively: "That kid won't answer, besides my own problems, he won't bother with the others!"
Gutian, being a big shot, could make his voice resonate throughout the Phoenix Nest even if he was injured.
Almost simultaneously, Lu Wu swallowed another mouthful of food and then said, "Next question!"
In an instant, the whole Phoenix Nest was in an uproar.
Of course, the great Demon King was planning to blow the whistle for his own side.
And he was so blatant about it, not even bothering to pretend, imdiately calling for the "Next question!" without even a show of consideration.
That actually made it sowhat difficult for Wang Junkai, not knowing if he should continue reading.
After a brief hesitation, Wang Junkai still read out his second question.
"Next question!"
From the second "next question" onwards, the audience was no longer surprised, not even Wang Junkai. He just continued to read out the questions chanically.
With every question he read, Lu Wu threw back a "next question."
Until the very last one was finished.
This ti, Lu Wu didn't proceed with the next question. Instead, he sighed, and just as Wang Junkai sighed and turned to leave, he suddenly heard Lu Wu say,
"Kid, you're narrowing your own path!"
Wang Junkai was taken aback, wondering what he ant.
Lu Wu, still playing his ga, responded, "Your first problem was about goblin breeding, the original question asked whether understanding a goblin's habits and training skills would be of help.
What you modified it to was, how to utilize the goblin's habits in training, not a big change, but it reveals you've actually studied goblins quite a bit and you haven't forgotten to set traps in the questions...
Then the second question...
Followed by the third question..."
Lu Wu, engrossed in his ga, carefully analyzed each question posed by Wang Junkai.
From the original versions of these problems to their modifications, the traps and thought processes employed by Wang Junkai in altering them, and what Lu Wu discovered about Wang Junkai through these questions.
Lu Wu pointed them all out one by one.
And whether it was Wang Junkai or the audience below, their attitudes changed during Lu Wu's continuous explanation.
Initially, everyone thought Lu Wu was just being a jerk, clueless about breeding.
But as Lu Wu explained, even summoners who weren't deeply knowledgeable about breeding felt they comprehended quite a bit and benefited greatly.
The change in Wang Junkai was even more noticeable.
From initial anger to later disdain, to surprise when Lu Wu started explaining, then admiration, by the ti Lu Wu finished discussing all his questions,
Wang Junkai was sitting in front of Lu Wu respectfully like a student.
In Wang Junkai's eyes, Lu Wu was not just solving problems anymore; he was teaching him.
This was also an old habit of Lu Wu's, starting from the first ti he taught Li Kai, he had passively learned the skill of teaching.
And this was a skill that Lu Wu kept upgrading; if this skill could be displayed on the attribute panel, then its proficiency level would be at least master level.
Not only Wang Junkai learned quite a bit, the other competitors who were still striving also benefited imnsely.
Even Guzhentian himself had to admit that at least in goblin matters, he was not as good as Lu Wu.
This forced Guzhentian to change the questions he had originally planned to ask.
But the other competitors did not have this concern. Seeing the ti was almost up, they brought their questions to Lu Wu one by one, and read them out.
Lu Wu, still engrossed in his ga, answered them one after another.
With every answer, another person sat down beside Lu Wu.
More than three hours later, apart from Guzhentian, Lu Wu had analyzed all of their problems, although he had not given any of them any answers to any of their questions.
Yet not a single person doubted Lu Wu's ability to solve these problems.
After all, even the ones who had posed those questions were now sitting beside Lu Wu respectfully, like disciples.
Who would doubt Lu Wu's ability to solve these questions?
The audience watched Lu Wu playing gas and eating fruit.
Then they turned to look at Guzhentian, the super genius who had started out so calm and confident, now sweat covering his brow, eyes fixed intently on the problems before him, unable to utter a single superfluous word.
Comparing the two, it was clear who stood higher.
In that mont, the audience finally understood the organizer's opening statent: "Without Lu Wu, breeding would be eternally stuck in darkness."
Turns out, that proclamation wasn't just bragging!
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