"Speaking honestly," Zhu Yanyi said, her small voice clear and firm, "the fighting people in your Shangmo Plane… to me, that isn't fighting. That is just brawling."
"Isn't it just brawling?" Elder Wu took a sip of tea and spoke slowly. "I see your people have some brute strength, at least."
"Is it wrong for us to fight?" Guan Feng looked increasingly confused. "We fight each other to improve our cultivation. Is that wrong?"
"Don't ask me. Ask the students of our Sage Academy," Elder Yi pointed to the students around them, looking at Guan Feng.
Guan Feng looked at Yi Yunfei. Yi Yunfei smiled gently. "Although I am a martial cultivator, I have never thought of fighting my junior brothers and sisters. If you must fight, fight your enemies. And even then, you don't always have to use force."
"Exactly," Jian Feiyan added. "Those who call brawling 'fighting' simply do not understand the true meaning of combat."
Guan Feng turned to look at Zhu Yanyi. Zhu Yanyi tapped her head. "If I want to fight someone, I like to use my brain. Why waste energy? Some things can be solved with a little thinking. Fighting like a brute lowers my style."
"Actually, Fifteen, your style is just like that," Ouyang Tianyun teased Zhu Yanyi. "At most, you just bring a recliner to the competition field to sleep."
Zhu Yanyi made a funny face. "If my brain is working, why should my body move for no reason?"
Cui Chang'an said from the side, "I agree too. If you have a brain and methods, why rely only on strength? We are not Thirteenth Senior Brother, who only grows strength but no brain."
"Who says I have no brain?" Niu Wulang felt wronged. "It's because you are here, so I don't need to bother myself."
"Thirteen, I find you seem smarter now," Gu Jun remarked from the side. "So you wait for us to think of a plan, then you just execute it. You really have your own kind of cleverness."
"Of course," Niu Wulang said proudly. "I know my thinking speed is not as fast as yours. Since that is the case, why should I think for myself? You just tell me the plan."
Zhu Yanyi smiled slightly after hearing this, then looked at Guan Feng. "Dean Guan, what do you think of our Thirteenth Senior Brother? She has innate divine strength. If she really wanted to fight, she could try. But in fact, she knows how to assess the situation. Do any students in your Shangmo Academy have this quality?"
Guan Feng smiled bitterly. Indeed, the students of Shangmo Academy currently did not have such students. It was not that they were stupid, but they disliked being distracted by other matters, believing it would affect their cultivation. Their lives and very marrow were controlled by the word 'fight'. They did not realize that fighting was not so simple.
"Is there a way to change all this?" Guan Feng did not want his students to become nameless codes in the end. He hoped each of them could have their own path.
"Aren't we changing it already?" Zhu Yanyi asked with a smile.
"You are changing it?" Guan Feng was slightly stunned, then his heart moved. "You mean you made such a big noise in this competition just to change the status quo?"
"Yes," Yi Yunfei, as the eldest senior brother, spoke again. "Coming to the Shangmo Plane, we saw the situation of the Shangmo Plane and Shangmo Academy. We know that if this status quo is not changed, this plane will be abandoned. Both your Shangmo Academy and the Shangmo Plane love fighting the most. You always think you are unparalleled fighters and mages, and that your power is unmatched. So we want to let you know that you are actually nothing. Before, we did not like to be first because we did not want to. Now we want to be first, and no one can take it from us."
Guan Feng's heart trembled. "How do you plan to do it?"
"We have no specific plan," Jian Feiyan said with a grin. "We just want to win the championship of this competition. So, Dean Guan, don't worry. We still love peace."
"Have you thought about it? If your academy of seventeen people wins the championship, what a huge blow that would be to others. What if the Shangmo Plane becomes depressed because of this blow?" Guan Feng, after all, belonged to the Shangmo Plane. He naturally did not want any flaws to appear in the Shangmo Plane.
"You consider yourselves fighters, supreme strong ones. How can you become depressed just because you lost a small competition championship? If so, don't tell me you are strong," Zhu Yanyi's words were very sharp. "In my opinion, if you really become depressed, it can only prove one thing: you are all cowards."
Guan Feng was speechless. She naturally knew her students could withstand the blow of such a failure. But hearing Zhu Yanyi's blunt criticism, she felt an indescribable sense of depression in her heart.
"Are the students of our academy really that bad?" He had never thought his Shangmo Academy would become like this.
"Not just bad, but really very bad," all the students of the Sage Academy answered in unison.
Guan Feng was startled by this sudden unison answer and stepped back several steps. It took him a long time to regain his composure slightly, then he continued, "It seems the students of our academy are really inferior."
"They are indeed inferior," Zhu Yanyi said, not afraid of hurting anyone's feelings. "If they were not inferior, how could their cultivation not compare to ours?"
"Actually, this is also what I do not understand. Over the years, we all thought that the students of your Sage Academy were the least active. But now I find that the truth seems to be different," Guan Feng seemed a bit curious about the students of the Sage Academy.
"There is certainly a reason for this," Zhu Yanyi said with a smile. "As for what the reason is, I won't tell you."
Then she glanced at Guan Feng. "Actually, it is meaningless to tell you. You haven't even managed your own Shangmo Academy well. Even if we tell you our matters, what can you do?"
Guan Feng was speechless, feeling a bit depressed in her heart. To be honest, she was indeed curious about the situation of the Sage Academy students after hearing Zhu Yanyi's words. However, these students of the Sage Academy, who usually looked carefree, were surprisingly united on this matter, refusing to reveal the truth to her.
Guan Feng was truly curious. Why could the Sage Academy achieve such a situation with so few students? Moreover, through the recent contact, he could see that the students of the Sage Academy were very united.