Chapter 288: The High Position Competition Begins

A pyramid-shaped platform, approximately 15 meters high, appeared on the original large platform.

The platform had five layers.

From bottom to top, there were 81, 27, 9, 3, and 1 seats, respectively.

A total of 121 seats.

This pyramid platform was the High-Level Competition Stage.

And at the highest point, the huge stone seat, crafted from an unknown material, was the throne of the High-Level Competition.

At this time, almost all the special trainees, trial trainees, and instructors had gathered on the platform.

“Did you complete your regular training?”

“Don’t even mention it, the instructor assigned to me is a devil. The training tasks he set for me are simply impossible for a human to complete. I woke up at five today and have only completed half the training so far.”

“Me too, the instructor isn’t human! I suspect he ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ wants to send me away, sob sob sob...”

“I barely finished, but I’m exhausted. It’s three times more intense than the training I usually do at my gym.”

“I envy you. I don’t think I’ll be able to complete the regular training today.”

“If you don’t finish, you’ll lose points.”

“I know, but it’s just too hard...”

Almost all the students were complaining about the difficulty of the regular training, each with a bitter face, and their exhausted appearance proved that they were not lying.

The ten teenagers from Tide Beast High School stood together, their conversation topics similar to everyone else’s.

They exchanged training experiences and incidentally cursed their instructors for being inhuman.

“Has anyone seen Mingxi today?”

Luo Ta suddenly asked.

The nine people fell silent, looked at each other, and then shook their heads.

Throughout the morning, none of them had seen Mingxi at the special training base.

“Has Junior not woken up yet?” Jian Lian was a bit bewildered and shocked.

He thought he hadn’t met Mingxi because their training schedules happened to be staggered, but since no one had seen her, it was a bit unusual.

“She’s a genius, not a pig. How could she not be up by this time?”

A teenager named Qingcheng rolled his eyes.

Jian Lian didn’t mind his attitude, stroked his chin, and looked thoughtful, “Then why hasn’t she appeared yet?”

It was almost 1 PM, and the High-Level Competition was only a few minutes away from starting.

If she didn’t show up, wouldn’t it be...

“Have you noticed? That Mingxi hasn’t arrived yet. Could it be that she knows she’s bound to lose, is afraid of losing face, and so intentionally avoided the fight?”

A voice came from not far away.

Jian Lian and the others looked in the direction of the voice.

Don’t misunderstand, the one spouting nonsense was not a student from Bei Yi Vocational High School, but a student from Qichen High School, a well-known high school in the Jianghuai region, like Tide.

“That blockhead Chen Tianbao is jumping around again. I wonder what kind of feng shui their school has, but whoever is the strongest in the entire school is always a blockhead.”

Thinking of this bizarre and mysterious event, not just Jian Lian, but even Luo Ta shook his head, looking speechless.

Qichen High School was considered an old rival of Tide. The strength gap between them was not significant; they were like an older brother and a younger brother.

Of course, the older brother had to be Tide Beast High School.

It wasn't that Qichen High School students were weaker than Tide students every year, but rather that the strongest student in each graduating class at Qichen always had a bit of an innate, reckless bravery.

In other words, they weren't very clever.

This directly led to Qichen’s perpetual second-place position.

And Chen Tianbao, who had just spoken, was the current leader of Qichen.

Knowing his character, Luo Ta and the others naturally weren't angered, as he was merely speaking his mind and didn't truly bear ill will towards Mingxi.

Luo Ta and the others didn't take Chen Tianbao's words to heart, but the other students around them did.

“It’s true!”

“Is she really scared?”

“Scared? That shouldn’t be the case. Her pet beast is General-level. How many of us here are her match?”

“What if she’s General-level? Even among General-level, there are differences in strength. Which of Ye Xuanwu and Qiu Furong from Bei Yi isn’t stronger than her? I think she’s definitely chickened out! Rather than being defeated in public, it’s better to just concede.”

“After all, she’s too young. It’s not impossible for her to shrink back and avoid the fight.”

“If you ask me, she never had the right to monopolize the throne. To let a trial trainee suppress so many of us special trainees, I don’t know what General Instructor is thinking.”

“If she’s not qualified, are you? Didn’t you see the message in the communication group last night? Even Senior Lu Yun Shen admitted he was inferior to Mingxi. What? Are you more powerful than Senior Lu?”

“Then why is she avoiding the fight? Isn’t it because she’s scared?”

Just as a fan-versus-anti-fan war was about to begin.

(￣～￣) “Hmm... who’s avoiding the fight?... Me?”

Mingxi’s figure squeezed through the crowd, her hair half-wet, half-dry, a piece of dried beef still in her mouth.

(￣～￣) This dried beef is a bit tough, really hard to chew.

When those people saw her, they all moved back, some embarrassed, some annoyed, and some expectant.

“Junior!”

Jian Lian and the others, seeing her appear, excitedly crowded around her.

“Junior, where have you been all day? How come we didn’t see you at the special training base?”

Jian Lian asked with a curious expression.

(￣～￣) Mingxi was still chewing on dried beef.

It was already 12:30 PM when she picked the Yellow Springs Grass, so she didn’t have time to go to the cafeteria for food.

She could only rush back to her balloon house, quickly take a shower, recall Golden Yuanbao and the others, and then hurry here.

She drank two bottles of nutrient solution and chewed some dried beef as her lunch.

“Normal, my regular training mostly has to be completed outside.”

And when she was at the base, they were all still dreaming, so it would be a miracle if they saw her.

“Ah? All outside, do you mean on the island?”

Everyone became even more curious.

They asked animatedly, “Which instructor were you assigned to?

What kind of training did he assign you that’s mostly outside the base? Is that a bit unreliable?

What kind of good training methods can there be outside the base?”

Mingxi nodded. She also thought Chu Kuangsheng was unreliable.

“I was assigned to Instructor Chu.”

Luo Ta and the others were stunned.

“You were assigned to Instructor Chu? Are you referring to General Instructor?”

They repeated, uncertainly.

Mingxi nodded, “Yes, he’s my exclusive instructor.”

Thinking of her experiences today, Mingxi secretly gritted her teeth, her tone cold as she complained, “He looks like a decent human being, but unfortunately, he’s not very humane.”

Although these training projects were indeed very beneficial for her strength improvement, was this intensity really okay?

One must know, setting aside her psychological age, she was still just a child.

And the training plan he set for her, probably few adults could complete.

Mingxi always felt that something was off about this matter.

Ancient One didn’t train Doctor Strange like this.

Doctor Strange was training to save the world; she couldn’t possibly have to save the world too, right?

Hearing her blunt complaints, the others were somewhat speechless.

Just then, Chu Kuangsheng made a grand entrance with Lan Zhu and other instructors.

“The top 121 ranked students, you may now take your respective seats!”

“The High-Level Competition officially begins!”