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Chapter 133 The First Battle with Tang Ruobing!
Master!

This is a master!

He clearly already took care of my sister, he's obviously quite capable, and he's of high status. Yet he still said those things to me, giving my sister face. No wonder he got his hands on her. This guy is definitely not simple!

No, as the older brother, I have to try my best to test his attitude!

Although I really want to trust my sister's ability to judge people, who knows if she might suddenly have a relapse, get love-struck, and fall for someone else?

Although the possibility is slim, it's not entirely zero, so it's best to test the waters.

"By the way, you two are such good friends, how did you meet?" Xingran asked curiously.

"Good relationship? How did you figure that out?"

Tang Ruobing asked in confusion.

"You're sitting almost right next to other people, don't you feel anything?" Xingran asked, puzzled.

"Ok?"

Tang Ruobing looked down and suddenly realized that she and Ye Mingqiu were very close, their shoulders almost touching. But even at such a close distance, she didn't feel anything at all, as if she had already gotten used to it.

Upon noticing, she showed no signs of tension or panic, simply uttering an "oh," and that was it.

She simply replied, "We started out as online friends, chatted, and then happened to be assigned to the same college entrance exam preparation team. We got to know each other by studying and researching magic together."

"I see."

Xingran nodded slowly.

It turns out they met online. I guess after getting to know each other, they targeted Tang Ruobing's school, found a new identity, and finally successfully replaced the original owner, joining the college entrance exam preparation team by coincidence.

However, this guy is really ruthless. If he can take down an ancient god overlord of the same level single-handedly, it means that he has at least the strength of the first-tier limit. And now there is still a year before the college entrance examination. If he does not break through before the college entrance examination, the loss will probably be huge.

He's really ruthless!

The upper limit of ability allowed to enter through the college entrance examination is the first-tier limit. Those above the second tier cannot join, but they can be directly admitted to any university of their choice, skipping the college entrance examination process.

Moreover, under normal circumstances, high school students with second-tier strength are highly sought-after students by major universities. In order to recruit these students, major universities will provide them with a lot of top-tier resources and promise to do their best to cultivate them into top-tier psionicists.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, truly powerful and talented psychic beings do not need to take the college entrance examination; university professors will actively recruit them.

Xingran thought for a moment, then continued, "So what do you think is the most attractive or charming thing about him?"

Ye Mingqiu pricked up his ears; he was actually quite curious about the answer to this question as well.

Tang Ruobing glanced at him, then smiled knowingly and replied, half-jokingly, "Because I really like this kind of crazy person who looks exactly like a normal person."

"?"

Ye Mingqiu was puzzled for a moment, then said accusingly, "Hey, don't slander me. I'm a normal person, and I have nothing to do with being crazy."

"I was just kidding, don't take it to heart." Tang Ruobing smiled, shifted her weight to him, and rested her head on his shoulder.

"Ah~"

Ye Mingqiu looked at Tang Ruobing leaning against him and didn't want to blame her. He felt that it was probably because his battles during his exploration of the spirit world had been a little risky that she thought he was a bit crazy.

They might be targeting me on purpose.
On the other hand, Xingran saw it even more clearly: to force someone to stay in high school in order to have a relationship was already incredibly crazy.

To a normal person, this would be absolutely unbelievable, but Ye Mingqiu himself didn't seem to care. It seems this guy is indeed crazy, and the kind of crazy that's obsessed with love.

"Cough cough!"

Zheng Xuejun coughed twice, looked at Xingran with a strange expression, and said, "You can talk about things privately. This is an office. It's best to do business first."

"Tang Ruobing, Ye Mingqiu, I have something very important to discuss with this student. Please excuse us for a moment, okay?"

"no problem."

"Ah."

Ye Mingqiu and Tang Ruobing stood up at the same time and walked out of the dean's office side by side. Ye Mingqiu sighed and looked helplessly at Tang Ruobing beside him, saying, "Hey, hey, what's wrong with me? Do I look like a normal person? I'm perfectly normal, okay? You bad guy, you're slandering me outside!"

"Question: If you suddenly encounter a rival overlord of the same level during a critical exploration, what choice would you make?" Tang Ruobing asked directly.

"Kill him and loot the treasure chest."

Ye Mingqiu answered without hesitation.

"Ah."

Tang Ruobing smiled and shrugged.

"Hey! No, I only made this choice because I can beat the overlord. This isn't madness, it's the way to maximize profits!" Ye Mingqiu explained.

"Alright, if you were to encounter a ruler three levels higher than you, what would you choose?"

"He's only three ranks higher, let's beat him up!"

"Oh~"

Tang Ruobing's smile became even more meaningful. She tilted her head slightly and asked, "Haven't you considered what would happen if we couldn't win?"

"Why should we think about these things? If we're not focused on fighting, why are we thinking about these trivial matters? Isn't that suicide?" Ye Mingqiu said matter-of-factly.

"Didn't you ever consider that challenging a ruler three levels higher than yourself is tantamount to suicide?"

"Can that be the same!"

"Ugh!"

Tang Ruobing sighed helplessly and finally gave up on continuing the discussion. She was very certain of one thing: Ye Mingqiu's combat talent was extremely strong, and the best reason was that he was still alive.

If this guy had been even slightly less talented, he wouldn't have survived until now.

"Hey, hey, hey, why are you sighing? It makes me sound like I'm being unreasonable. I just felt I could fight, so I made that choice. If I encountered a stronger enemy, I would probably choose to retreat, become stronger, and then challenge them again."

"Should?" Tang Ruobing turned her head and asked.

"Uh"

"Haven't you considered that the other party might possess some kind of strong control ability, or an extremely special curse? What if you fall into a trap and become unable to move, or be controlled by some kind of first-encounter killing skill? What if the other party has some kind of ability after death that can inflict negative effects on you by reducing your attributes?"

Tang Ruobing suddenly became serious and questioned Ye Mingqiu one after another, while walking closer to him with a sharp gaze like that of a hawk eyeing its prey.

She felt that Ye Mingqiu was underestimating the dangers and unpredictability of the spirit world, and that he needed to clearly understand the limitations of his own strength.

"Uh, I have high resistance, a lot of health, and recover quickly. Under normal circumstances, control and curses are useless against me. As long as the first-time kill skill can't kill me instantly, I can basically fight it off," Ye Mingqiu answered frankly.

"High resistance? Don't you know there's an attribute called resistance penetration? Don't you know there's an attribute called resistance ignore? How high do you have to be to act so recklessly? If you encounter an enemy with strong resistance penetration, you won't even know how you died."

Tang Ruobing turned around, waved her hand and said, "Come here, I'll show you just how strong resistance to penetration really is, and how insignificant your so-called resistance is in the face of penetration."

"Ah."

Ye Mingqiu nodded.

Private training room
Tang Ruobing stood opposite Ye Mingqiu and manipulated the Spirit Realm interface to change the equipment to accessories that increased resistance to abnormal statuses.

These types of accessories are quite expensive, and curse-based classes have a strong need for them. Without resistance to penetration, they have a significant impact on strength. Tang Ruobing isn't a curse-based class, but she still prepares some of these items for unforeseen circumstances.

“I’m ready. You can use the skill that increases resistance to abnormal statuses now,” Tang Ruobing said.

"I mainly rely on my permanent resistance; I don't have any skills that temporarily boost my resistance," Ye Mingqiu said.

His only skill to increase resistance is the [Tyrant Form], which requires 100 points of battle spirit to activate and is not suitable for use in daily testing.

"Alright, then I'm going to start casting the spell."

Tang Ruobing slowly raised a brand-new black staff, her gaze slightly cold.

Although her outward expression remained unchanged, her inner reaction was actually quite strong. Permanent resistance and temporary resistance boosts from skills are completely different concepts. Skill-boosted resistance only means having more combat strategies, while permanent resistance means you are truly unafraid of being killed on the first encounter.

"Whoo~"

Tang Ruobing activated her spell, and a chilling aura instantly dissipated, causing the temperature in the space to drop drastically. Next, she would unleash Ice Seal, a skill that could directly freeze enemies into ice sculptures, rendering them completely immobile, while also inflicting both abnormal status effects and control effects.

If you only have abnormal status resistance but not enough control resistance, you will not be able to break through the control of the ice seal. Conversely, only by having both sufficiently high abnormal status resistance and control resistance can you successfully resist the effect of the ice seal.

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Ye Mingqiu was on high alert.

To be honest, he felt a little nervous. After all, Tang Ruobing was an 8th-level mage, and she had deliberately worn equipment that protected against abnormal status effects, making it possible for her to break through his resistances. After all, he didn't have many stacked abnormal status resistances; he only had five passive resistances that could be stacked: [Unrivaled Valor], [Undying Tyrant], [Spiritual Energy - Holy Body], [Sequence - Holy Radiance], and [Crown of the Beast King]. That's basically one legendary class passive, plus two S-level talent passives, one S+ talent passive, and one equipment passive.

[Note: Shattered Star's use of 'Freeze' on you failed to determine your Strength/Constitution, resulting in a 10-second freeze effect.]

[Note: Your abnormal status resistance assessment was successful, your control resistance assessment was successful, you are immune to this control effect.]

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Ye Mingqiu only had a few shards of ice on him; other than that, it had no effect whatsoever.

"Ok?"

He tilted his head in confusion, looked at Tang Ruobing opposite him, and asked, "Resistance to penetration. That's it?"

Tang Ruobing was also stunned. Using the Ice Seal with specific equipment should have a very good effect. She could freeze even a level 10 overlord for two seconds, so how come Ye Mingqiu couldn't even be controlled for a moment? This is not right.
Isn't the Eye of Omargon only supposed to absorb curses? And I'm not using a curse, am I?
"Wait, just how high is your abnormal status resistance? My accessories have up to 8 points of penetration, and my weapon has a 5-point penetration bonus, so why isn't it having any effect?" Tang Ruobing asked incredulously.

The Eye of Omargon opened its eyes, revealing an extremely mocking gaze.

It's important to know that the Ancient Gods are the most powerful beings when it comes to curses. Their skills include not only resistance to penetration, but also resistance to corruption, resistance to ignoring, resistance to reduction, and a series of other effects, and these effects can stack.

However, even under these circumstances, Ye Mingqiu was still able to withstand it, killing the ancient god's remains from the world of Eludnis despite the screen-filling instant-death judgment. He could even completely ignore the curse of the Eye of Omargon, which possessed higher spirituality. This shows that his resistance was already at an unbelievable level.

Laugh to death!

Even the Ancient Gods' instant death ability can't kill them, and you think you can successfully control them with just a freeze spell? That's hilarious!

"It's okay, don't be sad. It's still pretty good to be cold," Ye Mingqiu comforted her.

Why does this sentence structure sound so familiar?
Tang Ruobing was briefly puzzled, then asked, "How exactly did you stack the resistance?"

"It's nothing. It's just that the new talent I gained from the Divine Evolution increases resistance, my previous talents also increase resistance, my class passive increases resistance, and I also consumed several treasures that stack abnormal status resistance," Ye Mingqiu replied after thinking for a moment.

"Outrageous. If I'm not mistaken, your abnormal status resistance has exceeded 100 points. Even a second-tier negative status might not be able to control you. How could someone stack their abnormal status resistance to this extent? Is this even human?" Tang Ruobing muttered to herself, looking down.

However, if his resistance to abnormal statuses is already this high, coupled with his 7000 HP, it seems that he can really be reckless. What would be a deadly trap for others seems to have no effect on him.

after all
A level 10 hero's top tank probably only has five or six thousand HP.

The next moment, a very ominous thought suddenly popped into Tang Ruobing's mind: Could it be that I can no longer beat him now?

Thinking of this, her expression instantly turned serious. She quickly switched her equipment and said, "I'll have a brief spar with you. I'll try my best to test your strength. Just attack me with all your might."

"you sure?"

"I'm sure and sure."

"it is good."

Ye Mingqiu took out the Blood Spear, took a deep breath, and bent down to enter battle mode.

Meanwhile, Tang Ruobing on the other side had already switched equipment, staring intently at Ye Mingqiu, her heart pounding at its fastest.

"Whoosh!!"

In an instant, Ye Mingqiu moved first. His figure turned into a black afterimage and arrived in front of Tang Ruobing in a flash. [Raging Pursuit] was quietly activated.

At the same time, as he swung the blood spear, a terrifying crimson killing intent erupted instantly, and the terrifying aura unique to the [Killing Intent Wave] instantly enveloped Tang Ruobing, and the blood spear fell down as well.

"when!!"

A deep blue shield appeared instantly, and the necklace around Tang Ruobing's fair neck shone quietly. She raised her staff, and three completely different spells were formed simultaneously in an instant.

Triple casting?

Ye Mingqiu immediately realized something was wrong. His fighting instincts made him instantly move to the side, and the next moment, several ice spikes shot out from the ground where he was standing, but missed.

"You predicted it?"

Tang Ruobing frowned slightly, but wasn't too worried. She found that although Ye Mingqiu was very strong, he hadn't exceeded her control limits. It was just that his ability to ignore control and abnormal status effects made her feel troubled.

She had to subdue Ye Mingqiu without controlling him, and he just happened to have an incredibly long health bar and extremely fast recovery ability, making it very difficult to subdue him.

But it's not like we can't give it a try!

"A chaotic storm!"

"Break the ice!"

Several ice spikes shattered instantly, turning into countless tiny ice shards that rained down on Ye Mingqiu amidst the sweeping storm. Meanwhile, Tang Ruobing, standing on the ground, cast a third spell. She planted her staff on the ground, and the entire private training room instantly transformed into a frost-covered arena.

"Extremely cold region".

That way, I can.
"puff!"

The next moment, an unharmed figure broke through the storm amplified by countless ice spikes. Ye Mingqiu raised his blood spear and brought it down hard.

No injury? How is that possible!

"boom!!"

The blood spear struck the shield again. After confirming the shield's strength for the first time, Ye Mingqiu increased the force of his strike. A terrifying explosion erupted instantly. The ground beneath Tang Ruobing's feet was crushed by the azure shield, and fine cracks appeared. The shield itself also began to crack, as if it could be shattered at any moment.

How can this guy's attack power be so strong!
90.2 permanent forces!

神勇无双+暴力碾压提升75%力量判定！基础-力量直接增加20%爆发力！基础-敏捷增加20%攻速！血矛拥有高达60-81的恐怖攻击力！受控制失败进入【激怒】状态，提升25%攻速、移速！
With a series of enhanced effects, Ye Mingqiu's attack power was extremely high at this moment!

Ye Mingqiu.
Your strength is simply too great.
Tang Ruobing exhaled white breath, and her body emitted an incomparably powerful and terrifying spiritual energy fluctuation. The ice-blue light in her eyes began to flash, and her hair moved without wind. Ice-blue energy continuously burst forth from her body.

"Shhh!!"

In an instant, an extreme cold storm erupted from her center, generating dozens of ice spears with a diameter of two meters, and they continued to generate. The surface of the azure shield was also regenerated with a brand new ice shield.

The blood spear that was in contact with the ice shield was now frozen at the tip, and the freezing effect was gradually spreading to Ye Mingqiu's body. This was physical control. Physical ice control cannot be completely resisted through control resistance; it requires sufficiently powerful strength to completely resist.

Fortunately, Ye Mingqiu's strength attribute is not low!
"Crack!"

He forcefully pulled back the blood spear, and the sound of ice shattering erupted instantly. Countless fragments were swept into the storm, and the terrifying storm, carrying countless ice shards, continuously slashed across Ye Mingqiu's body, tearing his clothes, but it could not leave any damage on his skin.

"You didn't use any spells just now, did you? You're definitely stronger than I imagined," Ye Mingqiu said.

“Your defense is not simple either. Even a level 10 fully armed hero-level tank would not be able to remain calm in the face of such a high-intensity attack. If I’m not mistaken, it should be some kind of high fixed damage reduction.” Tang Ruobing stood at the core of the icy domain, and multiple spell arrays rose up under her feet once again.

It's a high-speed interrupt spellcasting!
At the cost of consuming 3 times the psionic energy and having more difficult control effects, the casting time is reduced by more than 50%. The longer the time is reduced, the more psionic energy is required, and the more difficult it is to accurately control the spell effect.

Now, Tang Ruobing's spellcasting is almost instantaneous, which means that her normal spellcasting speed is already extremely fast. After the high-speed interruption spellcasting bonus, it is even more terrifying to the point that it can be almost instantaneous.

With a wave of her white jade hand wielding her staff, countless sharp ice spears rained down, attacking the boy from all directions as he plunged into a terrifying ice storm.

At that moment, Ye Mingqiu felt as if the whole world had slowed down considerably. He stared at the ice spears, and his [Instinct Perception] skill was instantly triggered by his combat instincts. In the world of battle, everything was so clearly visible.

The attack trajectory of the ice spears became clear instantly, but what Ye Mingqiu saw was not a line, but ice spears filling the entire world. He moved within the world he had discerned, but no matter what he did, thousands of ice spears would lock onto him, and the final attack trajectory would always be in his direction.

Tang Ruobing is controlling the spell!

This is the level of attention to detail that a top-tier mage possesses!

Outrageous! This kind of micro-management is terrifying!

Faced with Tang Ruobing's mastery of such details, Ye Mingqiu instantly felt that his attempts to see through her were ineffective; even if he could see through her, it was useless.

The opponent's basic abilities are too strong. After his skills are exposed, he will react. Tang Ruobing will adjust his skills in real time according to his reaction to make the ice spear attack more effective. Moreover, this adjustment is continuous.

There is no way to avoid it!

Then let's fight!

"what!!"

Ye Mingqiu unleashed a fierce fighting spirit, wielding his blood spear at incredible speed to create an impenetrable blood shadow, which he used to defend against the falling ice spears. The sound of thousands of ice blocks shattering rang out, and countless fragments fell to the ground.

The ice blocks that fall to the ground will quietly condense into new crystals. These are new, stealthy attacks created by Tang Ruobing through micro-management. Without sufficient combat agility, they can be easily ambushed and defeated.

Ye Mingqiu, however, could not do that. Although he could not dodge by seeing through the attacks, he could still perceive the routes of most attacks and analyze the paths and sequences to determine how to wield the Blood Spear and how to handle the situation as well as possible.

"He's a monster!"

Fine beads of sweat appeared on Tang Ruobing's forehead. It wasn't just Ye Mingqiu who was feeling the pressure; she was also in a difficult situation. All her attacks had been anticipated, and her attempts to launch a sneak attack had been preemptively calculated. Ye Mingqiu would be able to make the best response based on the order of her attacks.

Faced with this situation, she could only rely on micro-management to keep suppressing the opponent, but the opponent's attention to detail was also quite good, and even now, she has not been able to find a weakness in her offensive.

Now, her spiritual energy is being depleted at an alarming rate. Tang Ruobing can only maintain this level of attack for a mere ten minutes! In ten minutes, her spiritual energy will be completely exhausted!

After all, she only had 7000 psionic energy.
(End of this chapter)