Following Xu Sanshi, many others used all their skills to attack the conical hats on the fairies' heads. Among them were Soul Sage and Soul Douluo experts with superior cultivation. However, the fairies were not to be trifled with either, and they launched a fierce resistance against their male compatriots.
After an hour, only about a hundred fairies had their conical hats unveiled. This was the result of the organizer, Shrek Academy, deliberately instructing the fairies to hold back. After all, nearly ten thousand people were participating in this blind date event. If less than half of the conical hats were unveiled by the end of the convention, then this blind date would not have much meaning.
Moreover, the intensity of the fairies' counterattacks also varied from person to person. Especially those handsome and powerful young geniuses, they met with almost no fierce resistance and easily took off more than a dozen conical hats. In contrast, those who were ugly and had average strength were directly beaten into the water.
Ugly men have no rights! Those young men with ordinary looks and average strength who had swum back to the shore couldn't help but sigh to the heavens.
After this brief contact in the first segment, more and more people felt that these prodigies from the various major sects were unfathomably deep. Just the few moves made by some of the boys, any one of them, if placed outside, would be an absolute expert, invincible among their peers.
After all, the younger generation who usually cultivated in the major reclusive sects were no worse than those in the greenhouses of the academies, and were even better. This could be seen in the Dueling Soul Contest held in Ming Dou in the original timeline.
Long Aotian, who had previously threatened to cause trouble for Xu Sanshi, had also made a move, but his luck was not very good. He ran into the combination of Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo from the original Shrek inner court and was almost knocked into the water.
Perhaps because Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming had greatly intimidated the boys, the subsequent boys who came on stage were all very well-behaved. They stayed as far away as possible from those two senior sisters and went around the edges to lift the conical hats of the girls on the periphery.
It was unknown whether the girls' defenses were too strong, or if the brothers who made a move were too timid. After fifty or sixty people had made a move in a row, less than a hundred conical hats had been taken off.
Although Xu Sanshi had already successfully completed his mission, with so many beauties around, it would be a waste not to look. He craned his neck in anticipation, controlling the water lily beneath his feet, and quietly watched the convention proceed.
"Wow—so handsome!"
Just then, a cry of surprise suddenly came from the fairies' side. Xu Sanshi turned his head as if he had sensed something and found an extremely handsome young man slowly drifting towards the other side on the water lily beneath his feet.
This was a man who looked to be twenty-five or twenty-six years old. His long black hair was simply tied behind his head with a ribbon. His face looked a little unhealthily pale, but he was so handsome that even men would sigh in admiration. It was just that his pair of eyes looked as if they had no spirit, and even his movements seemed a bit sluggish.
Among the men Xu Sanshi had seen, probably only Tang Wutong when she was disguised as a man could compare to him in appearance. But Wang Dong's handsomeness carried a hint of gentleness. The man before him, however, had a cold handsomeness. From him, Xu Sanshi could not feel the existence of any emotion at all.
He had three swords at his waist, about four feet long, entirely black and of an ancient style, with no discernible features.
However, the first time Xu Sanshi saw him, his whole person had a feeling of his hair standing on end. The previous Yu Tianlong had already made him feel very dangerous, but compared to this handsome and cold-faced young man, he was far inferior.
"Ji Juechen?"
Many students from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy recognized this person. Didn't this guy go out for training two years ago? He was clearly only interested in swords, so why would he come back for a blind date event?
Two yellow, two purple, three black—a total of seven soul rings appeared one by one from beneath his feet. He was now a Soul Sage, and he had broken through in seclusion during the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of Heavenly Soul.
Seeing his arrival, many of the fairies' little hearts couldn't help but beat rapidly. A Soul Sage in his early twenties, and so handsome, heavens...
Ji Juechen hadn't wanted to participate in this so-called blind date, but since he was already here, he might as well just go through the motions.
He slowly drifted over, came before the nearest fairy, and slowly reached out his hand.
However, under the gazes of all the boys, that fairy actually did not resist at all, and let him take off the conical hat, revealing a pretty face that seemed both angry and happy.
What's the situation? Ji Juechen was still thinking about how to deal with the opponent's counterattack, but he didn't expect it to be so smooth.
Thus, he actually made a heaven-defying move—
He put the conical hat back on the girl's head.
What the f*ck!
On the men's side, all their eyeballs fell to the ground. Many of his classmates from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy who knew him couldn't help but cover their faces with their hands. Only this sword fanatic could do such a thing.
That fairy directly grabbed the conical hat on her head and threw it on the river surface, a look of shame and anger on her face.
What did this guy mean? Did he think she was ugly, or did he pick the wrong person?
Ji Juechen didn't care about her. He used the same method to take off the conical hats of several fairies in a row, and then put them back on for her.
"You... why don't you attack me?"
Indeed, the thought process of a sword fanatic could not be measured by common sense. This one sentence of his directly made the blood pressure of the few girls who had let him take off their conical hats skyrocket.
"If you want to die, just say so directly!" Wu Ming directly revealed her martial soul. How could her explosive temper tolerate this person acting in such a way?
"Good, let's have a decisive battle." Ji Juechen drew the longsword from his waist and took a fighting stance.
"..."
Everyone was silent.
"Ahem, this brother, this is not a martial arts tournament. If you do not have a person you admire, please return." It was Bei Bei who saved the day in time. He quickly spoke up to persuade this unromantic block of wood to retreat.
Ji Juechen sheathed his longsword. With a look of confusion, he controlled the water lily beneath his feet and drifted towards his male compatriots.
Many of the boys who had been nervous because of Ji Juechen's handsome appearance immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out this guy was just a block of wood who only knew how to cultivate and play with swords!
"Uh... may we have the next one." The corner of Xixi's mouth twitched, but it was clear that the event could not be stopped just because everyone was embarrassed.
"Ji Juechen?" On the tall building, Gou Luanshi's eyes were cold. According to the frontline battle reports, this person seemed to have joined the Xie Long army and fought side by side with Huo Yuhao's companions, yet now he had appeared at the convention.
Could it be that Huo Yuhao had already arrived? Or was he among those people?
After Ji Juechen, another handsome, blond young man came on stage.
"Ah, with so many fairies, could this place be... heaven?" This blond man was the complete opposite of Ji Juechen. His figure floated gracefully towards the other side, his handsome face full of infatuation. However, this was not for any one fairy, but for all the women.
"Beautiful lady, please allow me to take off your conical hat for you." The blond young man came before a fairy with elegant movements, his gentlemanly demeanor impeccable. It was just that the red hearts overflowing in his eyes were almost about to gush out.
"Ah, this..." That fairy was clearly a bit at a loss. The blond young man mistook her behavior for her tacit approval, so he affectionately reached out his hand to touch the conical hat on her head.
The moment the conical hat was taken off, a slightly dark and coarse face, covered with acne scars, appeared in the public eye. The pair of small eyes were curved into crescents, and the thick, large lips were split open, revealing two large buck teeth.
This "fairy" stuck her carrot-thick pinky finger into her nostril, dug around, and also looked at him with deep affection.
"What are you looking at—"
"Ohohohohoho—" Zimu's face instantly turned green, and then changed to an eggplant-like purple. He frantically twisted his body and actually fled into the high air.
"Heavens, the Tiger Sky Steps!"
Many people recognized the aerial steps he was performing. It was shockingly the same as Dai Yueheng's ultimate skill in the Dueling Soul Contest three years ago.