During the Jia Nan Academy's recruitment period, Ruo Lin encountered many troublemakers.
However, most of these people ultimately didn't end up well.
To temper the sharpness of new students during recruitment was almost an unwritten rule of Jia Nan Academy.
After all, those who could reach the admission threshold were generally considered to have good talent.
Such people, in their small local areas, should have been pampered and rarely ridiculed.
Entering the Jia Nan Academy, where excellent individuals emerged endlessly, with such a mindset, it was a very realistic and important issue for new students to clearly understand their own rank and strength before enrollment.
Of course, this Xiao Yan in front of her was a strange little fellow.
However, it was not too different; they all had to go through that experience.
Xiao Yan couldn't help but chuckle. Even though his temperament had been tempered, in the face of such a huge joke, he truly couldn't hold back!
Yun Yun also lightly covered her mouth and chuckled. This Instructor Ruo Lin looked mature and dignified, but she was more amusing when teasing people than that lively student just now.
"Come on," Xiao Yan said, his fingers poised on the Shang key, appearing ready to begin at any moment.
Speaking of which, Instructor Ruo Lin's timing was really good.
He was just about to create a zither-type Dou Skill and needed someone with Instructor Ruo Lin's level of strength, someone not too strong, yet not too weak.
This would allow him time to get familiar with zither combat, and also prevent the opponent from being shaken to death by a single note.
Xiao Yu and the others moved back. Yun Yun called out the student who was cultivating on the grass and looked towards Xiao Yan, wondering how Xiao Yan, just sitting there, was going to fight someone.
Watching Xiao Yan, who was as still as a mountain, Ruo Lin moved back a distance, a gentle smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.
Her fair hand slowly rose, a green storage ring on Ruo Lin's slender finger flashed with a faint light, and a roll of blue long whip, emitting a strange glow, suddenly appeared.
Yun Yun was slightly surprised. Ordinary people used common weapons like knives, swords, and spears. Although this whip was not exceptionally obscure, it was definitely not a widely used weapon.
There was a considerable distance between the two. Xiao Yan sat motionless, and his attack methods were limited to the zither strings. Even if his strength was impressive, it was difficult for him to fully utilize it.
Moreover, there was a twenty-breath time limit. It would truly be difficult for Xiao Yan to win this battle.
Ruo Lin's long whip was entirely azure, imbued with a rich energy fluctuation.
At the hilt of the whip, a widely opened serpent's mouth was intricately carved, and within the serpent's mouth, a blue magic core, the size of a baby's fist, was deeply embedded.
Seeing the appearance of this magic core weapon, Xiao Yu looked at Xiao Yan with a slightly heavy heart.
Among many weapons, the whip's attack range could definitely rank among the top.
It was precisely because of this that she believed it was truly far-fetched for Xiao Yan to sit there and contend with those slender zither strings, yet still hope to defeat Instructor Ruo Lin.
"Shall we begin?" Instructor Ruo Lin casually flicked the long whip in her hand onto the ground not far in front of Xiao Yan.
The energy and moisture contained within it immediately left a shallow puddle on the stone slab. Raising her pretty face, she asked with a smile.
She could reach Xiao Yan's position with just a few steps forward.
As for Xiao Yan... she didn't believe that he could still have a chance to hurt her under so many restrictions.
"Come on!" Xiao Yan let out a low shout, and immediately flicked his fingers, not yielding to Ruo Lin despite his superior rank.
The moment it began, he launched an attack.
As his fingers lightly released the hooked zither string, a sound wave was instantly released from the string.
A resonant sound rang out, like a huge rock falling into a calm lake, immediately spreading ripples out of thin air.
Seemingly slow, yet in the blink of an eye, it approached Ruo Lin.
As a cultivator of water-attributed Dou Qi, Ruo Lin's delicate brows suddenly furrowed.
As far as she knew, Xiao Yan's Dou Qi attribute was fire. Such fierce and domineering Dou Qi could actually unleash this kind of gentle, water-like attack with zither strings.
This level of Dou Qi control would be extremely difficult to find even in Jia Nan Academy!
Her mind raced. Ruo Lin watched the ripples, which were rapidly approaching, and with a flick of her slender hand, the long whip in her hand shot out like a venomous snake emerging from its lair, leaving a faint blue streak in the air.
The long whip swept through the air, falling like a thunderbolt, immediately scattering the continuous ripples.
However, Ruo Lin did not remain happy for long. After one note, Xiao Yan's hands moved in unison, and the sound waves suddenly changed from the initial ripples to the chilling sound of clashing weapons and armored horses.
For a moment, the zither's melody stirred the airflow, as if endless gales were continuously emanating from Xiao Yan's position.
Her eyes intently fixed on the continuous ripples, Instructor Ruo Lin suddenly whipped her blue long whip back, tangling it around her body to form a blue wall.
"Clang, clang, clang!" The zither's sound waves clashed with the blue wall, immediately emitting a series of crisp impact sounds.
Instructor Ruo Lin could only barely parry for a moment, unable to launch any offensive.
Watching the two, whose offense and defense greatly exceeded everyone's expectations, Yun Yun and the others were all quite startled.
The guqin had always been something for cultivating one's temperament, but unexpectedly, it could also produce such an attacking effect.
This placed extremely high demands on the performer's Dou Qi control; otherwise, the zither strings would not be able to withstand the Dou Qi, and would likely be destroyed before even hitting anyone.
Moreover, the intricate high and low turns in the zither melody could not be performed as naturally as Xiao Yan did, unless one had a profound understanding of Dou Qi and Dou Skills.
Xiao Yan could condense Heavenly Flame with Dou Qi, and he also cultivated alchemy, reaching a quite high standard. In terms of Dou Qi control, he was naturally terrifyingly exceptional.
In addition, he had recently gained insights into the combination of Yin and Yang moves from Pure Yang Palm and Flying Waterfall Palm, further elevating his understanding of hardness and softness to a new realm.
Xiao Yan's fluid zither playing, with its clanging notes like substantial swords, actually forced Instructor Ruo Lin to remain rooted, rising and falling, unable to move an inch.
However, if one stood a bit further away, making it difficult to clearly see the almost invisible undulating ripples, and only saw Instructor Ruo Lin's voluptuous and exquisite body dancing up and down.
The whip in her hand, however, seemed like a dancer's ribbon, complementing the divinely wonderful melody, truly making one unable to help but fall under its spell.
This, in turn, made the competition look like a scene from an immortal realm, with men and women playing zither and dancing, truly enviable.
Especially Nalan Yanran, looking at the ethereal black-robed young man, a hint of bitterness inevitably welled up in her heart.
After more than ten breaths, Xiao Yan's mastery of the zither advanced further, adding an extremely rare Dou Skill to the numerous Dou Skills he had created—a zither-type sound wave Dou Skill.
[Through your deduction of zither artistry and Dou Skill experience, you had an epiphany. You comprehended the sound wave Dou Skill "Nine Scores One Zither."]
(End of Chapter)
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