Chapter 667: Extremity Yin Yang Formation

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After the news of the competition among the various divisions spread, almost every team that was formed started to increase their training frequency. They wanted to grow stronger with the limited amount of time they had left.

In the training plaza of the Fifth Class of the Inner Division, Ju Hang was conducting the practical combat class, but the people he was teaching weren’t Martial Extremity Realm disciples of the Fifth Class. The 6 Martial Extremity Realm students were on the other end of the plaza as they practiced some sort of battle formation.

As he taught the students, Ju Hang glanced over at the others and a weird gaze could be seen in his eyes.

Is that it?! Is that the so-called battle formation?

Ju Hang couldn’t understand the intricacies of the battle formation as all they were doing was moving around patiently around the plaza.

The battle formation he had no idea about took the students 7 whole days to learn, even with Shang Xia’s personal direction.

If not for the fact that Shang Xia was the person in charge of teaching them, Ju Hang would have already stopped their practice. In his eyes, they were wasting time!

Well, whatever the case, he would be able to see if the battle formation would be of any use soon.

According to their previous agreement, the students in the Martial Extremity Realm would challenge him to actual combat.

Currently, Ju Hang had an impressive cultivation base at the higher-levels of the Martial Intent Realm. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been given the role to teach students in the Fifth Class of the Inner Division practical combat skills.

Moreover, he had a lot of experience in the Protection Division and could be said to be a seasoned cultivator. He was ruthless and ferocious when it came to fights, and he was able to gain the upper hand over cultivators of the same level. As such, he didn’t really take the students of the Fifth Class too seriously.

Glancing at the corner of the Training Plaza, Ju Hang noticed a female student sitting upright despite revealing a slightly anxious expression.

She was the seventh Martial Extremity Realm student of the Fifth Class, but she was heavily injured in the battlefield between the two worlds. Her cultivation was nearly crippled back then.

Back when the students of the Fifth Class heard about the competition 7 days ago, they gathered their silver essence and bought her a portion of recovery powder. It greatly increased the speed at which she could recover.

When they handed her the medicine, they told her to join them in the competition after she had fully recovered. They didn’t think that she would be adamant about joining their training every day. She had been observing how the battle formation worked the entire time.

Ju Hang couldn’t help but press his lips together in admiration of her determination. A trace of appreciation started to form in his heart.

The next moment, he noticed that Shang Xia had stopped the 6 of them at the other side of the plaza. He did the same and allowed the students who hadn’t reached the Martial Extremity Realm to take a break.

Everyone seemed to know what was going to happen next and as soon as Ju Hang called for them to take a break, they ran to the middle of the plaza to get ready to watch the showdown between Ju Hang and the 6 who were practicing their battle formation.

Feeling slightly annoyed, Ju Hang could see that all his students were merely messing around earlier. They weren’t taking the training session seriously and they might have already forgotten everything he was teaching them.

Well, whatever. He soon noticed that he was the same. He wasn’t fully committed to teaching them earlier as he was thinking about the upcoming battle. Otherwise, with his cultivation at the Martial Intent Realm, he would have noticed that all of them weren’t taking their training seriously with his divine sense.

Glaring at the other students who had already formed a circle around the middle of the platform and were ready to watch the show play out, he realized none of them were actually paying attention to him.

If they included the still-injured Mu Songfang, the Fifth Class would have 7 students in the Martial Extremity Realm. Of them, Yan Weihai, Shi Huai, and Mu Songfang were the only ones who were in the small completion stage of the Martial Extremity Realm. The others had barely consolidated their foundations after breaking through.

Shang Xia strode over to the middle of the plaza and stared directly at Ju Hang. A look of confusion could be seen on Ju Hang’s face as he muttered, “Are you… Are you really going to let them fight me?”

He wasn’t showing off his cultivation of anything, but with his current strength, he felt that there was no way the disciples of the Fifth Class would be his opponent even if they rushed at him in unison.

The smile on Shang Xia’s face grew wider and he chuckled, “Since we already agreed, we should keep our promise, right? Otherwise, won’t you be slightly embarrassed as their practical combat teacher?”

His tone changed all of a sudden. “Right. Time is of the essence and they only managed to familiarize themselves with the way they should move about in their battle formation. Their performance isn’t that great and I will have to join in as part of their last member.”

With his eyes widening in shock and fright, Ju Hang couldn’t be bothered to speak respectfully to Shang Xia. He yelled in shock, “Are you fucking kidding?!”

Students all around turned to stare at them, surprised by his sudden outburst.

Shang Xia couldn’t care less and he chuckled, “Relax! The essence of their battle formation lies in the balance of the various extremity qi they will be using. I will have to greatly restrain myself when I join them in their battle formation. Anyway, you can rest assured that I will seal my cultivation base and limit it to the Martial Extremity Realm in order to not affect their battle formation.”

“Heh… Your role in their battle formation should be to take charge and direct everything, right?! Affect their battle formation my ass…” Ju Hang muttered. However, he wasn’t done. He had to check again and he confirmed, “Are you sure you will be sealing your cultivation base?!”

Lightly slapping the spot on his belly where his dantian was located, the aura he emitted started to weaken significantly. Even Ju Hang could tell that the qi he could muster would be limited to that of a cultivator at the Martial Extremity Realm.

Excitement started to boil in Ju Hang’s heart. He had seen a chance where he could finally defeat Shang Xia!

In Shang Xia’s entire time in the institution, from the time he was in the Outer Division, he had never lost the position of the Chief Disciple. He only grew stronger, and to people like Ju Hang or Zhang Jianfei, their hopes of ever defeating him were destroyed.

Now that Shang Xia had sealed his cultivation to the Martial Extremity Realm in an attempt to teach the students of the Fifth Class, Ju Hang couldn’t care so much. A win was a win! A chance for him to defeat Shang Xia had finally arrived.

“You better not regret this!” A wicked look flashed in Ju Hang’s eyes.

𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Chuckling softly, Shang Xia didn’t respond. He simply turned around to gesture behind him to call Yan Weihai and the others who still seemed a little unsure of what was going on to take their positions.

When he saw their uneasy look, he couldn’t help but laugh. “I won’t join in the battle directly. I’ll only be responsible for maintaining the smooth flow of qi through the formation. All of you should be much more used to the battle formation after practicing for so long. Go ahead and test it out.”

Yan Weihai and the others stared at the bulky Ju Hang who was flexing his muscles at the moment and regulating his divine sense, they could feel battle intent rolling off him. Yan Weihai gulped weakly, “Teacher Shang Xia, are we really going to do it?”

The few of them had a clear sense of Ju Hang’s strength. During their combat trial in the battlefield between the two worlds, they saw how Ju Hang defeated a large completion stage Martial Intent Realm cultivator of the Changbai Holy Land as a mere small completion stage Martial Intent Realm expert.

If not for him, the Fifth Class would have suffered an even greater defeat!

Shang Xia smiled nonchalantly before turning around to point the metal sword they were using in practice forward. He growled, “Maintain the balance of qi!”

The past 7 days of practice had already conditioned Yan Weihai and the others to respond to Shang Xia’s commands. The moment he spoke, they took their positions as they waved their weapons in the air. Inner qi poured out from their bodies and with a single swipe from Shang Xia, they were split into clear and concise streams.

Everyone in the formation felt the boost from their companions’ extremity qi and they discovered that they would receive backup from the other members in the formation the moment anything happened.

It was a miraculous feeling they were feeling for the first time, and it was as though a single movement from anyone in the formation would cause a ripple effect that would lead the others into battle.

Despite feeling it for the first time, they managed to suppress their shock. The unease they felt when facing Ju Hang earlier started to dissipate.

With Shang Xia’s instructions, Yan Weihai and the others started to move through the battle formation like they practiced. They started to press closer to Ju Hang from different directions, and they quickly surrounded him.

In the next instant, Ju Hang’s eyes snapped open as his divine sense emerged. It slammed heavily against the members in the formation.

When higher leveled cultivators faced those with weaker cultivation bases, they would use their aura to suppress their opponent in order to force them to lose their combat abilities.

Ju Hang’s move might feel like a little overkill, but it wasn’t inappropriate in a situation like that. After all, they were going through a practical combat demonstration. No expert would allow their opponents to attack freely without fighting back.

Ju Hang was no noob cultivator. He had been through many battles in the institution and the number of enemies who died in his hands wasn’t small. His divine sense was tempered and strong as it emerged.

Yan Weihai and the others felt their consciousness shaking as their bodies started to freeze up.

If they were facing him without any tricks up their sleeves, the outcome of the battle would have already been decided. Unfortunately, Shang Xia was the person in charge of the formation.

The moment Ju Hang released his divine sense, Shang Xia growled, “Fusion of the Extremities!”

All 6 of them trained in different types of extremities but with the arrangement of their battle formation, their extremity qi could surprisingly merge with each other.

As soon as the fusion process was complete, everyone in the formation felt several times stronger. It was as though all of them had received a boost from the others and they managed to negate the impact of Ju Hang’s divine sense. Their battle formation operated as smoothly as before.

With the 6 of them working together, they attacked Ju Hang from all directions and sealed off all routes of retreat.

As soon as they unleashed their techniques, Ju Hang could tell that every single one of them possessed the power surpassing what cultivators at the small completion stage of the Martial Extremity Realm had.

Since he couldn’t dodge them, he decided to face them head-on. He pulled out an object that was a foot long before flipping his wrist. It transformed into a metal whip and it danced around to clash with the 6 weapons coming his way.

Everyone in the plaza heard a loud explosion as the sound from the 6 impacts superimposed together. Sparks filled the air and the students gathered around broke out into cheers as they saw the huge figure in the middle of the formation rapidly changing postures as he sent out his attacks.