"Hmm?" Qian Mo fixed his gaze and found that there was one last spot on the first row of lotus leaves.
His figure flickered, and Qian Mo arrived on the last lotus leaf in the first row.
As soon as Qian Mo stood firm, a robust male student appeared beside him and threw a punch at Qian Mo, intending to use force to drive Qian Mo away from the lotus leaf beneath his feet and occupy this better position.
There were rules for entering and competing for positions: one could not use physical contact to snatch a position, nor could one use Spirit Ability, but pure spirit power could be used.
Qian Mo tilted his body slightly, easily allowing the male student's punch to brush past him and land in empty space.
Qian Mo lightly tapped his toes, his body leaped up nimbly, and a powerful, heavy whip kick fiercely struck towards the male student, a rapid whooshing sound ringing in the male student's ears.
The male student crossed his arms in front of him to block this whip kick.
But the male student clearly overestimated himself; an immense force that he could not resist struck. With a "crack", his arm bones were instantly dislocated, and his entire body was sent flying out like a cannonball.
This strike was still Qian Mo holding back; with his current physical strength, this kick, even without using spirit power, was enough to break the male student's arms in two.
"Bang!"
The male student slammed heavily into the water, splashing water as high as a person, falling into the Sea God Lake, and was automatically considered eliminated.
Qian Mo adjusted his posture in the air and landed steadily on the lotus leaf, his toes lightly tapping the leaf, his entire body full of spirit, light as a feather. The soft and fragile lotus leaf perfectly supported the slender Qian Mo.
After a while, the male students fell onto the huge lotus leaves one after another, occupying their positions. Looking around, a scan revealed a total of fifty-one male students.
On the female student's side, there were only thirty-one. More monks than porridge, that was the case.
The next moment, on the Sea God Lake, the lotus leaves beneath their feet were illuminated by lights, highlighting their bodies. Beside them was the shimmering water of the Sea God Lake, and beneath their feet were beams of light. With their appearance, large areas of light illuminated beneath the surrounding water. At this moment, the surface of the Sea God Lake was their most brilliant stage.
Lan Muzi smiled slightly, "According to the tradition of the Sea God's Fate, the first segment is called 'Cherishing Each Other'. The name sounds good, but the difficulty is not small. Thirty-one female students will line up in a row one hundred meters away from you. Each of them will wear a bamboo hat with a veil hanging down, so their faces cannot be seen. Simply put, this competition for you male students requires working together. The fifty-one of you can take turns attacking the female students through your own means. You can attack one, or you can attack multiple. The goal is to lift the bamboo hats on their heads, do you understand?"
As soon as Lan Muzi finished speaking, the lotus leaves beneath the female students' feet drifted on their own, changing the female students who were originally standing in two rows into a single row, lined up in a line.
Lan Muzi looked at the male students in the front row and smiled, "Alright, now is the time for you to display your male charm. I will call you to attack according to your number. Before attacking, you can choose to reveal or not reveal your mask. Then attack towards the female side. Conversely, what you need to pay attention to is that the female students cannot lift their bamboo hats themselves in the previous segments, so if you cannot find a way to knock off their bamboo hats, I'm afraid it will be difficult to determine who they are."
The first segment was relatively gentle; even if a female student's veil was not lifted, it only proved that the male student's strength was insufficient and they would not be directly eliminated.
Soon, one after another, the male students displayed their skills, attempting to lift the veils of the female students opposite them. Some succeeded, some failed, and some with impure intentions were mercilessly knocked into the water by the female students.
This continued until the ninth male student. The most veils lifted at once was eight by Le Zhengyu.
"Number ten male student, are you revealing your mask?" Lan Muzi looked at Qian Mo.
"Revealing," Qian Mo cleanly removed his mask.
Tang Yinmeng saw the handsome face beneath the mask, her eyes lit up, and she said with a smile, "Wow, what a handsome young man. I feel he's even more handsome than Wu Changkong back then."
Lan Muzi nodded slightly towards Qian Mo in acknowledgment. Qian Mo frequently visited Sea God Island and was somewhat acquainted with Lan Muzi.
"Come on, Qian Mo, let's begin, good luck." Lan Muzi made a gesture of invitation to Qian Mo.
On the building ship, Long Yeyue, whose eyes were half-closed, opened them and looked up at Qian Mo, saying to Yun Ming lightly, "He is that Qian Mo."
Long Yeyue either went traveling or was in seclusion on Sea God Island, so she had not met Qian Mo before, only heard of him. She only knew that he was a prodigy whom even Yun Ming praised repeatedly.
Yun Ming nodded, "Sister Yue, yes."
Long Yeyue said lightly, "He looks extraordinary."
"Believe me, Qian Mo's performance will surprise you, Sister Yue," Yun Ming said with a smile.
"Then I will wait and see," Long Yeyue said.
On the Sea God Lake, Qian Mo scanned the female students wearing veils, searching for his target.
He didn't intend to try his best to lift as many veils as the male students before him. Although he had the ability to lift the veils of all the female students, he was too lazy to seek this attention. He only cared about the ultimate goal of this trip.
Noticing Qian Mo's gaze and actions, Lan Muzi smiled and said, "Oh, looking at this, student Qian Mo already has a target. But it's very difficult to recognize who the person opposite is, dressed in the same attire and with most of their body covered."
Qian Mo shook his head, "The attire can be the same, the figure can be similar, but the aura cannot be the same."
His mental force spread out, and in an instant, Qian Mo locked onto three figures among the female students.
Qian Mo gently raised his hand and slowly pushed out, and the clear breeze above the Sea God Lake became still. Immediately after, layers of waves rose on the lake surface, and a divine dragon emerged from the water, rushing towards the female students.
This divine dragon formed from lake water had a terrifying aura and was lifelike. Its dragon scales were arranged in a staggered manner, its five claws were sharp, and its dragon whiskers were flying.
The divine dragon surged above the lake surface, stirring up layers of air currents, blowing the veils of the female students.
Among the female students opposite, a female student standing in the center snorted, her right hand struck the air, and instantly seven spirit rings rose beneath her feet, two yellow, three purple, and two black. She raised her hand and pointed, and the lake water rapidly condensed, actually transforming into the shape of a fierce tiger, which directly charged towards that divine dragon.
The person who attacked was Ding Xiaoling, whose cultivation among the Inner Courtyard female students was second only to the Grandmaster sister Tang Yinmeng. Her own cultivation had reached the Spirit Saint level with seven rings, and she was working hard to break through to become a three-word Dou Armor Master.
Qian Mo flipped his wrist, and the divine dragon churned the Sea God Lake, scattering the fierce tiger with a single divine dragon tail whip.