Wang Chen, the iron man, was so choked with anger by Hua Wuchang that he was gasping for breath.
He had originally named Hua Wuchang "Overlord Flower" to humiliate him, but instead, Hua Wuchang accepted it without complaint and even assigned them a series of nicknames that made them want to vomit blood.
He suppressed his anger time and again and finally managed to calm down. He took a few steps forward to check his results.
Then he immediately saw Hua Wuchang's name at the top, which made him so angry that he almost lost control.
He quickly moved his gaze away and indeed saw his own name in the second row.
Second place, Wang Chen, with sixty-six merit points.
As he breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't help but clench his fist.
He was just a little bit away from answering correctly.
"Wang Hammer, I'm not trying to say you've been stuck at the sixty-sixth level for several years now, how come you haven't improved? Want to ask me for advice?"
Hua Wuchang looked at the stone tablet and clicked his tongue in admiration.
"No need!" Wang Chen gritted his teeth.
No matter how bad he was, he was still ranked second in the Artifact Building for years. Others were not as good as him.
He looked down again, wanting to find some comfort by checking the rankings of others.
As expected, the third and fourth places were still a long way behind him.
As for the fifth and sixth places, they were even more… wait, why had he never seen these two names before?
"Overlord Flower, are these last two new people?"
Wang Chen remembered hearing yesterday that a new batch of disciples had joined and asked curiously.
"So what if they are, what do you want to do?" Hua Wuchang, contrary to his usual self, was very agitated, which made Wang Chen clueless.
"I don't want to do anything?"
"Hmph, I warn you, even if these two join, they cannot shake my position."
"Shake your position? Do their artifact refining talents surpass yours?"
Wang Chen's eyes widened in surprise, thinking to himself that if that were true, he could finally deflate Hua Wuchang's arrogance.
"I don't know them, how would I know about their talents?" Hua Wuchang rolled his eyes ungracefully. "I'm talking about my Overlord Flower position."
Wang Chen: ...Madman, madman!
Wang Chen ignored Hua Wuchang's crazy talk and stared intently at the names of the last two, as well as the slowly and steadily rising merit points after their names.
"Wang Chen, Overlord Flower, why are you still here? Are you waiting for us?"
The two disciples ranked after Wang Chen appeared in the hall one after another. Seeing Wang Chen and Hua Wuchang, who had not yet left, their eyes flashed with surprise.
Merit points were very important in Kunlun Academy, so the disciples of Kunlun Academy were accustomed to making the most of every moment and not wasting any time.
In the past, Wang Chen and Hua Wuchang would usually leave immediately after completing the trial, or go to the top of the Artifact Building to ask Teacher Li questions, instead of staying in the hall.
Wang Chen turned his head and looked at the man who spoke with a complicated expression, looking as if he wanted to say something but was too embarrassed to speak.
"Hey, Wang Chen, what's with that expression! I didn't perform too poorly this time!"
The man felt a little uneasy under Wang Chen's gaze. He quickly walked up, instinctively looked up from bottom to top, and found his name at first glance.
Qi Feibai, with fifty-four merit points.
These merit points were not wrong.
Qi Feibai began to suspect that Wang Chen was playing a trick on him, and then he saw two unfamiliar and somewhat dazzling names above his name.
Fifth place, Xu Yi, with fifty-six merit points.
Fourth place, Yu Xiaoyu, with fifty-seven merit points.
Qi Feibai looked at these two names, his mind blank.
He was not stupid. He naturally knew about new disciples entering Kunlun Academy, so he had made preparations before coming to the tower.
But his preparations did not include seeing the two new disciples ranked above him.
After he reacted, a strong sense of shame made him feel as if he had just been fished out of boiling water.
Wang Chen didn't know what to say to comfort his brother, who had been surpassed by newcomers, so he could only remain silent.
The expression of another disciple, who appeared at almost the same time as Qi Feibai, also turned a little pale.
Because the gap between Xu Yi and Yu Xiaoyu and him was gradually narrowing, and it seemed that they would surpass him soon.
No! This is impossible!
How could new disciples have such a profound understanding of artifact refining? What he imagined would definitely not happen.
He comforted himself madly, but his hope was quickly dashed. When Yu Xiaoyu's name appeared above his name, he finally couldn't help but let out a roar.
This roar was meaningless; it was only to vent the anger in his heart.
Hua Wuchang had been watching the show earlier because he felt that these two smelly girls wouldn't pose much of a threat to him. But when he saw the ashen faces of the two beside him, he felt a rare sense of urgency.
These two smelly girls actually seemed to have some ability.
The top of the Artifact Building.
Teacher Li, who had a perpetually stern face, was smiling like an overblown old chrysanthemum.
His small eyes shone with a joyful light, and he muttered incessantly.
"Good seeds! Good seeds!"
"Good disciple, hehe, good disciple."
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"Write down twenty kinds of level six artifact refining materials that are counteracted by the attribute of the Heart of Plants and Trees."
Xu Yi was stuck at the sixtieth level.
Perhaps it was because she had answered nearly sixty artifact refining questions consecutively, but she could only think of eighteen answers now.
She sighed with some regret and then put down the jade slip.
The floor of the room collapsed, and a force pulled her feet down.
When her feet touched the ground, Xu Yi found herself in a spacious hall. Four people were looking at her menacingly, including the mumbling Hua Wuchang.
Xu Yi subconsciously raised her guard. Their gazes seemed malicious to her.
"You are Junior Sister Xu Yi, aren't you?"
After a moment of stalemate between the two sides, it was finally a man with a honest appearance from the other side who broke the silence.
"I am. May I ask your senior brother's name?"
"Let me introduce you. My name is Wang Chen. These three are disciples of the Artifact Building. They are Qi Feibai, Liu Jing Tian, and Over... Hua Wuchang."
After breaking the silence, Wang Chen's gaze towards Xu Yi lost its previous strange meaning.
"Greetings, senior brothers." Xu Yi smiled politely, without showing any signs of closeness.
She felt that these people were somewhat strange and did not intend to interact with them too much before understanding their true intentions.
However, her demeanor was mistaken by Qi Feibai as arrogance and disdain for associating with them.
"Xu Yi, don't think you can be arrogant just because you have exceptional talent. There are many people in Kunlun Academy who can crush you. What are you so proud of!"
Qi Feibai suddenly spoke, his eyes full of resentment.
Xu Yi, who was forcibly labeled as arrogant: ...