Chapter 57 : Chapter 57
Chapter 57: Are They Thinking Too Highly of Him?
When Li Mu returned to school, he immediately felt that the front gate was unusually noisy.
A huge crowd of students was blocking the entrance.
Only two small gates had been opened, and a group of Blackwater High School students were checking everyone’s documents.
The one maintaining order was none other than Student Council President Lin Yuya.
“Welcome to Blackwater High School!”
“Please do not crowd together. Keep a little distance between yourselves!”
“Take out your student profile pages. You’ll be able to get in very soon, so do not rush!”
“After you enter the school, turn right and follow the yellow arrows on the ground to line up outside the Student Records Office!”
Lin Yuya called out loudly.
Her beautiful face and graceful figure immediately drew quite a few sideways glances from the boys nearby.
But Lin Yuya quickly spotted Li Mu in the crowd.
Her eyes lit up at once, and she trotted over to him.
A faint fragrance drifted with her as she came to a stop in front of him.
“You finally came back! I thought you were not coming today either.”
“And this is?”
Li Mu tilted his chin toward the crowd and asked with a smile.
“You weren’t here yesterday, so you have no idea what happened.”
“Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Chenfeng transferred here.”
“Then a large batch of transfer students from Soaring Dragon Martial Academy came over to our school too.”
“Today is the second group, and there are students from other schools as well.”
Lin Yuya explained, but the way she looked at Li Mu only grew more admiring.
After all, all of this had happened because of Li Mu.
No wonder Li Mu had humiliated Zhao Yi so badly that day.
And yet he had still joked so casually and confidently.
He had even said that Principal Yin Changming could be the one to worry about it.
So he had already arranged such a terrifying counterattack in advance.
He had not even needed to show himself in person.
Just how frightening was that kind of influence?
“Mm. Are Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Chenfeng at school right now?” Li Mu asked as he started walking toward the gate.
“They are! They came early. They even asked about you this morning!”
“That Lu Chenfeng got annoyed when he saw you still hadn’t come to school and even dragged Zhang Zhiwei off to spar. Hee hee...”
As Lin Yuya spoke, she remembered the absurd scene from that morning and could not help laughing.
She personally led Li Mu through a side entrance that was not open to outsiders.
Once they entered the school, there was actually still a long line of students outside the Student Records Office building.
All of them had come from outside the school.
There were also noticeably more people inside the campus now.
For a school the size of Blackwater High School, it suddenly felt somewhat crowded.
Lin Yuya led Li Mu straight to the Training Arena.
Although Blackwater High School’s Training Arena was fairly spacious, the equipment was old and outdated, and there was very little of it.
Some of the training dummies were still being used even though they were rusted or damaged.
But at that moment, two large circles of people were loosely gathered around the open central ground of the arena, watching the excitement.
It seemed that someone was sparring.
As soon as Li Mu and Lin Yuya appeared, they immediately triggered cries of surprise.
“Wow! It’s Li Mu!”
The one who spoke was a girl. The moment she saw Li Mu, her eyes brightened.
“It’s Li Mu!”
“Li Mu’s here!”
The ones exclaiming in amazement from farther away were generally the recent transfer students.
As for Blackwater High School’s original students, they all greeted Li Mu warmly.
Li Mu walked to the edge of the crowd and looked inside.
Standing in the middle of the arena was Lu Chenfeng.
With his legs slightly bent, he stood there like an iron tower.
Three people surrounded him. One fought with fists and kicks, one used a long saber, and one used a long spear.
The three of them unleashed martial techniques from three different angles in a furious barrage against Lu Chenfeng.
But a faint green light glimmered around Lu Chenfeng’s body.
His feet did not move at all, and he casually parried with his upper body alone.
Their attacks struck him as if they were hitting raw iron.
They failed to leave the slightest mark on his body.
Lu Chenfeng’s face was full of displeasure.
“Hey, hey, hey! This is annoying. Not one of you can even break my defense!”
“With attacks at your level, even scratching an itch would be too weak!”
As he spoke, he suddenly snapped his hand out.
He actually caught the long saber that was chopping down at him with his bare hand.
Then he squeezed hard.
With a sharp crack, the saber shattered on the spot!
At the same time, a burst of Gang Qi exploded from his body and sent all three opponents flying back!
The difference in strength was simply not on the same level.
The crowd immediately burst into screams and cheers.
Lu Chenfeng pointed irritably at Zhang Zhiwei, who was standing by the edge of the arena.
“Oi! Spearman, let’s fight again!”
Zhang Zhiwei smiled calmly.
He lifted his chin slightly in Li Mu’s direction.
“The one you’ve been waiting for is here.”
Lu Chenfeng turned his head at once and immediately saw Li Mu.
His eyes lit up!
“Li One-Cudgel! You finally came!”
With that, he strode straight over to Li Mu, looking as though he had been waiting for him forever.
“You just transferred to our school, and you’re already swaggering around giving people nicknames.”
“That doesn’t seem very appropriate, does it?”
Li Mu said irritably.
He had heard it just now. This guy called Zhang Zhiwei “Spearman” and called him “Li One-Cudgel”?
What kind of lousy nickname was that?
“You can give me one too. I’m not afraid! But you’re not getting away today.”
“Looking at your aura, you’ve actually broken through to Third Grade too. Good!”
“We’re at the same grade now, and you’re not injured either. This time, you should finally let me take that cudgel strike, right?”
Lu Chenfeng said eagerly.
Li Mu had already sensed the auras of both Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Chenfeng just now.
The two of them had also only recently broken through to Third Grade.
As expected of geniuses.
“So you really won’t give up until you get hit with that cudgel strike?” Li Mu asked in return.
“Exactly!”
Lu Chenfeng immediately grew excited. From Li Mu’s tone, there was hope!
There was a reason he had been chasing after Li Mu this whole time, asking to take one hit from his cudgel.
Everyone else only thought he was a battle maniac who loved challenging people to fights.
But what they did not know was that his talent could only grow stronger by constantly pushing the limits of the defense and damage his body could endure.
Moreover, that force could not come from someone whose realm was much higher than his.
That would only have the opposite effect.
The more it came from someone at the same grade as him, or even lower, the more rapidly his talent would grow under that kind of powerful attack.
Unfortunately, only a few days after he awakened his talent, it had already become difficult for him to find opponents like that.
“I’ll grant your wish.”
Li Mu saw no need to refuse any longer and nodded in agreement.
A huge wave of cheers immediately rose from the crowd, and everyone drew back in a rush, opening up an even larger circle.
Every single person there became excited.
Watching however many people take turns attacking Lu Chenfeng earlier had become more and more boring.
Not one of them could even break his defense.
But now that Li Mu was about to make a move, everyone’s anticipation shot to the limit.
Very quickly, the excited Lu Chenfeng personally dragged Li Mu into the middle of the arena.
“Go, Brother Feng!”
From the crowd, five or six girls shouted loudly in support of Lu Chenfeng.
They were obviously Lu Chenfeng’s fangirls.
Lin Yuya immediately refused to be outdone and raised her fist as she shouted, “Go, Brother Mu!”
The moment she shouted, the other girls from Blackwater High School followed suit.
Lin Yuya glared provocatively at Lu Chenfeng’s cheering section.
That look seemed to say, Hmph, as if we don’t have fangirls too.
Trying to compete with Li Mu in the number of fangirls he had at Blackwater High School?
What a joke.
Those girls shot Lin Yuya annoyed looks. The voices from Lin Yuya’s side completely drowned theirs out!
In the middle of those girls was a young woman in a long green dress.
A closer look showed that the shade of her dress was exactly the same as the color of Lu Chenfeng’s clothes.
The girl in the long dress had an elegant bearing, and the way she looked at Lu Chenfeng was full of affection.
After shouting a few words of encouragement, the girls began talking among themselves.
“Brother Feng should be fine, right?”
“This Li Mu seems pretty strong.”
The girl in the long dress pressed her lips into a smile and gave a slight nod before speaking in a cool voice.
“Do not worry. The fact that Brother Feng is even insisting on making Li Mu attack is already giving Li Mu too much credit.”
“Judging from the look on his face, he actually seems confident that he can break Brother Feng’s defense. It is rather laughable...”
At that point, the girl let out a contemptuous laugh and shook her head, wearing a thoroughly disdainful expression.
The Blackwater High School students nearby who heard that immediately grew unhappy.
These girls had all transferred from Chongming High School.
Especially the girl in the long dress. She was obviously one of Lu Chenfeng’s most devoted fangirls.
But admiring Lu Chenfeng was one thing. Was there really any need to step on Li Mu like this? How was it laughable?
“Hey, could you watch your mouth? This is a friendly spar!”
A male student said in dissatisfaction.
The girl in the long dress glanced at him, gave a contemptuous smile, and then withdrew her gaze.
She seemed utterly unwilling to argue with him even for half a sentence.
Instead, she deliberately turned to explain things to the girls beside her.
“The reason Li Mu was able to kill the Strange-Tailed Python back then was actually because Zhang Zhiwei had already pierced through the monster first.”
“Once the monster’s qi was disrupted, its defense naturally dropped sharply.”
“It is just a pity... many people cannot understand details like that.”
As she spoke, the girl deliberately glanced at the male student.
The implication was obvious. It was as though only she could understand such things, while everyone else was an idiot.
“I think so too. I feel like a lot of people are overestimating this Li Mu.”
“Brother Feng is probably just confused for the moment. He was probably bluffed by Li Mu’s title as champion.”
The other girls also found that reasoning convincing and quietly voiced their agreement.
The male student was furious, but he did not know how to refute them, so he could only snort and turn his head away.
At that moment, everyone’s gaze focused on the center of the arena.
Li Mu had already drawn out the Thornflower Cudgel.
Lu Chenfeng bent his knees and planted himself there once more, clamping his arms tight as he shouted:
“Come!!”