Over a hundred Academy Plaques placed together before one's eyes. That scene was definitely a little shocking. Therefore, even with Mu Chen's character, he was momentarily stunned by the scene before him.
Mu Chen stared at those Academy Plaques. If he was able to take away all of those points, they should be able to squeeze into the Top 8.
Beside him, the gazes of Xu Huang and the rest had also turned somewhat heated. From the looks of it, they had also been shocked by the number of Academy Plaques.
Standing by the side, Luo Li did not utter a single word, while Wen Qingxuan had her jade-like arms crossed before her chest, looking towards Mu Chen with her beautiful eyes.
Behind Lin Zhou, the dozens of groups were similarly staring at Mu Chen, with complicated gazes present within their eyes. However, they did not say anything in the end, as they knew that if not for Mu Chen, it would be hard for them to escape the misfortune of being robbed.
According to the rules, Mu Chen should have the absolute majority of the spoils of war. As for them, being able to get some scraps was already considered extremely good.
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Under the gazes of the crowd, Mu Chen stared at the Academy Plaques as he pondered for a while. In the end, a smile appeared on his handsome face. That smile was completely different from Lu Tian's gloomy and cold smile, appearing to be able to cause people's hearts to feel slightly warmer.
It had to be said that when Mu Chen smiled like that, it was rather contagious. This could be felt from the gradually relaxing gazes of the groups behind Lin Zhou.
"Captain Lin Zhou, you've really given me a difficult problem," said Mu Chen as he smiled towards Lin Zhou.
Lin Zhou gawked, before scratching his head and said, "You don't have to feel any burden. In fact, such matters are rather common in the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament. It's all too common for weaker groups to be exploited by stronger groups, so no one would say anything about it."
"I will take 10% of the points here. Wen Qingxuan and the others will take 10%. As for the rest, you guys can divide it among yourselves. After all, this is your spoils of war." Mu Chen smiled.
Hearing that, Lin Zhou and the rest gawked as they blankly stared at Mu Chen, appearing to be slightly unable to believe what they had just heard. After all, they could be considered to have cooperated with some powerful groups before. However, the so-called cooperation was, in fact, the powerful groups wanting to use them as cannon fodder. Furthermore, during the final distribution of the spoils of war, the powerful groups would seemingly monopolize more than half of it, with the remaining being distributed by them.
Therefore, they couldn't believe that Mu Chen would take 10% of the profits as a token.
"Don't look at me like that. I'm not so noble that I don't care about the points. However, compared to exploiting the weaker groups, I prefer to snatch them from them." said Mu Chen with a faint smile as he pointed towards Lu Tian, who was still lying paralyzed on the ground.
Lin Zhou and the others exchanged glances, before turning silent for a long while. In the end, a sliver of undetectable gratitude appeared within their eyes. Their groups weren't high or low, and were in an extremely awkward position within the current Great Spiritual Academy Tournament. Generally speaking, having reached this step, they had seemingly become the point extraction warehouse in the eyes of the strong groups. Such a status was considered somewhat lowly. Therefore, it was the first time that they had seen someone like Mu Chen, who had given them such a great choice.
That's because they knew that what Mu Chen had given them wasn't only choice, but also respect.
"Thank you, Captain Mu Chen."
At the back of Lin Zhou, the Captain of a group cupped his hands towards Mu Chen, before speaking out in a somewhat deep voice.
Behind him, the Captains of the dozens of groups cupped their hands towards Mu Chen in thanks, with some gratitude present within their eyes. During this period of time, their moods were truly not good, as they had been exploited time and time again by the strong groups. Along with the points being stripped away, their dignity and dignity had also been taken away.
Seeing this, Mu Chen was somewhat stunned, before giving an awkward laugh. Turning his gaze towards Wen Qingxuan, he said, "You can take away the 20% of the points. I've already said that I'll do my best to let you return to first place."
Tilting her head to shoot a look at Mu Chen, Wen Qingxuan's red lips curled upwards as she said in a low voice, "I really couldn't tell, but Captain Mu Chen's quite good at buying people's hearts."
Mu Chen was unable to tell if there was any ridicule within Wen Qingxuan's words. Wrinkling his eyebrows, he replied, "I'm not thinking about that. I just simply don't like doing this."
"Alright, I'm not saying that you're not."
Wen Qingxuan smiled faintly, her voice surprisingly becoming a little softer. Her beautiful eyes deeply looked towards Mu Chen, before saying, "If you really had such a big appetite and swallowed all of those points, I would have been a little disappointed. This has nothing to do with right or wrong. I know that in this place, strength speaks for everything, and no one can criticize you for doing anything. However, if you can't even endure such a temptation, I'm really unable to believe that you'll be able to walk far in the future."
Shooting a glance at Luo Li, she said in a meaningful tone, "If you can't walk far, then don't harm such a pretty girl."
"What a set of principles. However, I'll treat it as a compliment."
Mu Chen rubbed his nose. In fact, his thoughts were very simple. He was just a little disdainful of using such a method to obtain points. That's because he knew that this wasn't the original intention of the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament. Teams that relied on peeling off smaller teams to obtain high points would ultimately not be able to stand at the end.
"You're pretty thick-skinned."
Wen Qingxuan rolled her eyes at Mu Chen. The softness that she had earlier instantly disappeared, and she had once again regained her proud and arrogant appearance.
As she spoke, Wen Qingxuan raised her jade-like hand and extracted 20% of the points from the Academy Plaques without any trace of politeness. As dense rays of light rose, the points on their Academy Plaques surged by over 20,000 points, closing in on Ji Xuan, who was the Numero Uno.
After extracting the points, Wen Qingxuan threw the Academy Plaques back to Lin Zhou and the rest, before allowing them to divide them up in a flurry.
After a brief moment of chaos, the scene regained its order once again. Every single gaze that looked towards Mu Chen was brimming with gratitude.
"Brother Mu Chen, words cannot express our gratitude for this great favour. We'll all remember this favour."
Slightly bowing his waist, Lin Zhou did not delay any further. With a wave of his hand, he turned around and left, while the other teams also started to leave after expressing their gratitude towards Mu Chen.
Looking at their departing figures, a faint smile appeared on Mu Chen's face.
"What about that fellow?
From the looks of it, he doesn't seem to have any good feelings towards you. "
Wen Qingxuan's slender jade-like finger once again pointed towards Lu Tian. At this moment, the latter was gnashing his teeth in anger. Clearly, he had an extremely great hatred towards Mu Chen.
Upon hearing this, Mu Chen's eyes faintly narrowed. A person of Lu Tian's strength was considered to be somewhat of a threat. If he were to let him off so easily, he would definitely cause some trouble for Mu Chen when the latter made a comeback.
"Mu Chen, you've already taken the points. What else do you want?
Don't tell me you want to kill me? "
Lu Tian sneered. Although he had fallen into Mu Chen's hands, from the looks of it, he was not afraid that Mu Chen would do anything to him.
"I won't go so far as to kill you."
Mu Chen smiled. His gaze flickered as a faint black light suddenly surfaced within his palm. Within the black light was an extremely mysterious power.
It was the sealing power contained in the page of the Immortal blueprint in his body.
As Mu Chen's palm pressed against Lu Tian's chest, the sealing power rapidly drilled into the latter's body. In the next instant, Lu Tian was somewhat horrified to discover that the Spiritual Energy within his body was unexpectedly weakening at an astonishing rate.
In the short span of a few breaths, the already heavily injured Lu Tian's strength had fallen to roughly the level of Human Body Disaster, while the Spiritual Energy fluctuations within his body had also withered to the extreme.
"You, what did you do to me?!"
Lu Tian finally felt fear, as he discovered that the Spiritual Energy within his body seemed to have suffered some sort of suppression, causing him to unexpectedly be unable to use it as he wished.
Only after probing with his mind did he discover that there seemed to be some black rays of light sparkling within the meridians within his body. It was precisely those strange black rays of light that had caused him to lose absolute control over the Spiritual Energy within his body.
"I've only temporarily sealed your Spiritual Energy."
Replied Mu Chen with a faint smile. With Lu Tian's current state, wanting to expel those sealing powers would require at least a month's time. At that time, the results of the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament might have already been decided.
Lu Tian's face was deathly pale, while his eyes brimmed with a fury that seemed as if he wanted to devour someone.
However, Mu Chen did not pay any attention to him. Turning around in a calm manner, he said towards Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan and the rest, "Let's go. It's time for our next target."
As his voice rang out, his figure rose from the ground, with Luo Li and the rest following behind him, leaving behind an exceedingly miserable Lu Tian, who was roaring in fury.
The matter of Lu Tian's group suddenly dropping out of the Top 16 from the Top 10 had caused quite a bit of ripples to rise within the vast Central Cretaceous Zone. After all, Lu Tian could be considered as a rather famous expert in this region. However, no one had imagined that his defeat would come so quickly, causing people to sigh in admiration. There were truly hidden dragons and crouching tigers within the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament.
On a green mountain peak.
Looking at the Academy Plaque, a faint wrinkle appeared on Ji Xuan's forehead.
"Lu Tian was defeated by someone." Mu Feng's voice rang out from behind him. "Could it be that someone is trying to deal with us?"
"There are many hidden dragons and crouching tigers here. Lu Tian's too arrogant, so it's unavoidable for him to be defeated."
Ji Xuan didn't seem to care too much about it. After all, it was all too common for one to experience ups and downs in the current Great Spiritual Academy Tournament.
Hearing that, Mu Feng nodded his head and didn't speak any further.
Clearly, the two of them didn't care too much about such a common matter.
However, after this mood of theirs lasted for a day, it was suddenly shattered. Even with Ji Xuan's shrewdness, his face started to turn dark.
That's because, on the second day, another sensational piece of news spread across the vast Central Cretaceous Zone.
The group led by the King General from the Myriad Beasts Spiritual Academy, who had obtained the inheritance of the Demonic Alligator Hall, had similarly been defeated. The person who defeated them was called Mu Chen.
On the mountain peak, Mu Feng looked towards the dark expression on Ji Xuan's face. That's because they could clearly feel that someone was targeting them. That Mu Chen had already started to issue a challenge to Ji Xuan.