prynovel Chapter 68 : Chapter 68
Chapter 68 : Chapter 68
Chapter 68: The Grandson of Martial Saint Ouyang? A Gift from Nature!!
Those words, meant to disgust Situ Ouyang, ended up disgustingly rebounding on Gu Xuan instead.
Damn it. He had run into a real homosexual.
“Excuse me!!!”
At that moment, a calm voice rang out, and at the same time a terrifying streak of golden light slammed straight into Situ Ouyang.
BOOM!!!
In an instant, the horrifying force blasted Situ Ouyang’s battle armor apart on the spot!
His whole body shot away like a missile, crashed into a mountain several hundred meters off, and blasted out a huge crater before going completely still.
And where he had originally been standing, traits now littered the ground.
The newcomer was none other than Xiao Xuan.
Xiao Xuan glanced at them. They were all fire-element swordsman traits, and he already had everything worth having.
So he recycled them all.
“Wuwuwu, many thanks to Brother Xiao for saving my life yet again. I have no way to repay you. From now on, I can only devote myself to you!”
The moment he saw Xiao Xuan, Gu Xuan rushed over in tearful gratitude.
Of course, he was only joking.
But Xiao Xuan, who had once been confessed to by Gu Xuan every day, was genuinely frightened. He thought Gu Xuan’s old affliction had flared up again.
“Get lost, get lost! You queer who was practically about to lick him! Don’t sicken me!”
Xiao Xuan was so alarmed that he hurriedly dodged aside, grabbed Su Qingwu, and ran.
“What the hell? I was joking with him. How was I supposed to know he was actually into men? Wait for me, damn it!!”
Gu Xuan hurriedly chased after them.
Only Situ Ouyang was left lying in the ruins some distance away, covered in blood and coughing it up in mouthfuls.
After the three of them left, a sixth-tier Ferocious Beast that had heard the commotion wandered over curiously.
“Damn it, who ambushed me?!”
At that moment, Situ Ouyang, battered and covered in wounds, struggled out of the rubble.
But the instant he emerged, he froze.
A powerful Sixth-Tier, Ten-Star Ferocious Beast had appeared right in front of him.
Under normal circumstances, he could have barely exchanged a couple of moves with it.
But now, he was already gravely injured.
The Ferocious Beast was stunned as well. A tiny little thing radiating powerful Vitality had just grown out of the dirt.
The beast practically seemed to say, “A gift from nature!”
In its excitement, it opened its huge mouth and bit straight toward Situ Ouyang.
“No, don’t come over here!!”
In the next instant, amid a scream, Situ Ouyang was swallowed whole.
After rushing out of the cavern, Xiao Xuan and the other two quickly saw Mu Xiying again after not seeing her for quite some time.
But the instant Xiao Xuan saw her, his pupils contracted slightly.
His True Eye had already been upgraded to High Silver.
Together with the upgrades to his other traits, his overall strength had also risen quite a bit.
He was able to tell at a glance that Mu Xiying had advanced into the Martial Emperor Realm, though he still could not tell exactly which layer. The difference in strength had already surpassed the upper limit of two hundred times.
This was even more outrageous than cheating.
“So much for thinking that surpassing Sister Ying by five minor realms would at least let me put up a fight. It turns out I’m still far off!”
Xiao Xuan felt helpless.
Then again, Mu Xiying was the future Empress.
And she was the kind who could move freely between present and future. It was only natural for her to be absurdly overpowered.
“So, you’re back. Looks like your strength improved quite a bit these past few days.”
Mu Xiying too was a little surprised when she saw Xiao Xuan.
Xiao Xuan had actually risen by five minor realms as well!
“Heh, not too bad. Once the third round starts, Sister Ying, you’d better not hold back.”
Xiao Xuan put on an openly smug expression.
Naturally, he could not let Mu Xiying realize that he was able to see her traits.
“Really? Then I suppose I’ll have to use my full strength.”
Mu Xiying smiled faintly and spoke with a meaningful tone.
The moment Xiao Xuan heard that, his heart tightened.
Full strength? Would she not just beat him into pieces?
“Only eighty percent made it back? Your generation really is afraid of death.”
After the time was up, Zhao Wuji swept his gaze across the crowd and could not help mocking them.
Everyone present was speechless. Did they have to die before they could stop being called afraid of death?
Could it not simply be that their generation was stronger?
“Let’s go. We’re heading back to tally the scores.”
With that, Zhao Wuji waved a hand and turned into a streak of light, flying back toward the university at great speed.
“Teacher Liu, you all go on ahead. A friend’s son still hasn’t come out, so I’ll go in and take a look.”
At that moment, after all the geniuses had taken flight, one of the Martial Thearchs frowned and spoke to another Martial Thearch beside him.
The others were all taken aback.
A Martial Thearch’s friend was at least another Martial Thearch. And now that person’s son had failed to come out? Had he died inside?
If that were true, then things would become troublesome.
Still, no one asked further questions. They simply escorted the other geniuses away one by one.
These Martial Thearchs were only the forces out in the open. Hidden in the shadows were Martial Saint-level powerhouses watching over them as well.
After all, these were the top geniuses of the Hundred Provinces.
“Could that brat Ouyang really have died?”
That Martial Thearch was named Ouyang Lun.
He was the son of Martial Saint Ouyang, one of humanity’s ten greatest guardians.
And Situ Ouyang was not only the son of his friend Situ Xuan, but also the son of Ouyang Lun’s younger sister.
That was right. Situ Ouyang was Martial Saint Ouyang’s grandson.
That was where his name came from.
As for the Martial Thearch who had stayed behind, he entered the cavern directly and activated a locator as he began searching.
Very soon, beneath a shattered mountain not far from the exit, he found a sixth-tier Ferocious Beast lying there asleep.
What made Ouyang Lun’s face darken was that the signal from Situ Ouyang’s battle armor was coming from the beast’s stomach.
Without wasting a word, Ouyang Lun shot down toward the sleeping beast.
SHHK!!!!
With a slash of his hand through empty air,
a streak of golden light fell onto the beast’s head, instantly decapitating it.
In the next moment, Ouyang Lun tore open its stomach, and from the heap of half-digested matter inside, he finally found a skeleton and several fragments of battle armor.
At that moment, Ouyang Lun’s face turned utterly grim.
“This beast is only sixth tier. There is no way it could have shattered Ouyang’s seventh-tier battle armor. Someone must have killed Ouyang first, then thrown his corpse to this beast.”
In an instant, Ouyang Lun concluded that the beast itself had not been the real killer.
Fortunately, the armor core had not been too badly damaged. After checking it, he pulled out the real-time combat recording stored inside.
Very soon, the footage was adjusted to a little over ten minutes earlier.
It was exactly the scene where Situ Ouyang had stopped Su Qingwu and Gu Xuan.
Naturally, when Ouyang Lun saw that Situ Ouyang was actually into men, his face darkened on the spot.
“Situ Xuan, just how exactly did you raise your son?”
Ouyang Lun snorted coldly in anger.
But angry or not, the most important thing now was to find the real killer.
The Gu Xuan and Su Qingwu in the footage were clearly not the culprit.
The two of them were far too weak.
The footage continued to move forward.
BOOM!!
Suddenly, with a tremendous explosion and a flash of golden lightning, the screen went black.
The battle armor had been destroyed!
“Golden lightning? Could it be a gold-grade lightning trait? But according to the records, none of the talents in this year’s tournament seem to possess a lightning talent that powerful.”
Ouyang Lun’s expression grew grave.
If the other party truly was a holder of a Gold Trait, then this matter would become troublesome.
Even the Ouyang Family would not dare make a move against a genius with a Gold Trait.
If it were discovered, that person would probably kill even Ouyang Lun’s father without hesitation.
Unless, of course, the circumstances were entirely aboveboard—such as during the assessment itself.
If someone died there, no one could blame anyone else.
“Still, if this person’s strength was enough to shatter battle armor, then he will definitely challenge the examiner later on. In that case...”
Ouyang Lun thought for a moment, then directly opened someone’s contact information and explained everything that had happened.
A long while later, a message came back from the other side.
“Wait for me.”
Three hours later,
all the Hundred-Province geniuses who had long since returned to Imperial Capital University had washed up, eaten, and gathered at an enormous Martial Arena.
After returning, everyone had submitted their battle footage.
At the same time, all of them had their Vitality Value tested again.
After all, the scoring standards were calculated according to each person’s realm.
And when the final ranking list came out, everyone was shocked!
This time, the person ranked first in total points was actually a senior-year student named Xiao Xuan!
He stood in first place with a terrifying score of over thirty million points.
As for Mu Xiying, her total score was only a little over seven hundred thousand, enough to place her barely within the top thirty.
That was because she had submitted only a single battle recording: her kill of a Seventh-Tier, Ten-Star Ferocious Beast.
And on top of that, her realm test had already reached the Third Heaven of the Martial Emperor Realm!
Of course, all of those battle recordings were classified. Not even Zhao Wuji, the Deputy Examiner, had clearance to view them.
It was said that Huaxia’s highest AI Core handled the scoring personally. There was absolutely no possibility of error. If it could make mistakes, Huaxia’s entire network would have collapsed long ago.
“What the hell? Over thirty million? Who exactly is this Xiao Xuan? I’ve never even heard his name before!”
“A senior-year student. Most likely he awakened a Gold technique-type trait when he was a child, or else he’s some prodigy with High Silver talent or above.”
And since he’s probably from a great clan as well, getting a result like this, while terrifying, isn’t completely unbelievable.
“After all, the lower your realm, the easier it is to get a high score.”
“That may be true, but thirty million is still absurd!”
The terrifying fact that Xiao Xuan was ahead of second place by nearly thirty million points instantly set countless people talking.
“Hah. Low realm, is it? If they knew that Brother Xiao is already at the Fifth Heaven of the Martial King Realm, I wonder whether they’d die of fright.”
“A bunch of frogs at the bottom of a well. They thought these so-called top geniuses from the Hundred Provinces were something special. They’re nothing much after all.”
As Gu Xuan listened to all the discussion around them, he could not help grinning, his heart swelling with excitement.
“If it were you, before you met Xiao Xuan, would you have believed a senior-year student could possibly be this strong?”
Su Qingwu could not help mocking him from the side.
“Well... that’s true. After all, my Brother Xiao isn’t human.”
Hearing that, Gu Xuan came to a sudden realization and nodded in complete agreement.
“Xiao Xuan! Was it you who killed Ouyang?!”
Up on the viewing platform, Ouyang Lun stared at Xiao Xuan below, and his expression gradually darkened.
A senior-year student taking first place in total points had never happened before.
And not only had he taken first place, he had taken it by an overwhelming margin.
Could Xiao Xuan truly be the owner of that golden lightning?
Next came the second round: same-grade combat.
There was no suspense in that battle at all. Xiao Xuan crushed his way to first place within his grade.
Gu Xuan, meanwhile, relied on an overwhelmingly strong Myriad Swords Return to the Sect to finish in the top five.
As for Su Qingwu, she lagged a little behind and barely made it into the top three hundred.
Given how lacking she was in both realm and foundation, making the top three hundred was already quite good.
Although she had missed direct entry into Imperial Capital University, with her current talent she would absolutely be able to get into one of the top three universities during the college entrance exam.
Mu Xiying’s terrifying strength also began to make itself known little by little.
Not a single genius in the university third-year category managed to withstand even one exchange with her.
Once the second round ended, it meant that the list of those qualified to enter Imperial Capital University had also been decided.
Only the top one hundred from each grade, one thousand people in total, could join Imperial Capital University.
And thebenefits enjoyed by those thousand would all exceed that of ordinary Imperial Capital University students.
After that came the third round.
The third round was based on voluntary registration.
Anyone among the top one hundred of each grade who wished to participate could sign up directly.
Once signed up, they would compete for the top ten places in this Hundred-Province Genius Tournament.
Anyone who made the top ten would not only receive even richer rewards, but also Elite Student status.
Every year, Elite Students received hundreds of millions in cultivation funds.
Of course, money was the simplest of the rewards.
The other privileges were far better.
“Sigh. I’m not going to go humiliate myself over the fight for the top ten. Anyone below fifth year who goes up will probably just be cannon fodder.”
The moment Gu Xuan heard the rules, he gave up directly.
And it was not just him. Aside from Xiao Xuan, every senior-year student withdrew. Among those below fifth year, more than ninety-five percent also withdrew.
After all, any fight could turn fatal.
In the end, as the number of participants from each grade was gradually announced,
everyone’s gaze turned toward the list of contestants from the senior-year group.
There was only one name on it.
“Xiao Xuan? What the hell? A senior-year student is going to compete? Is he really some top prodigy from a powerful great clan?”
“Xiao? Does Huaxia even have a Martial Saint surnamed Xiao?”
“I don’t think so!”
“Could Xiao Xuan’s realm have already reached the Martial King Realm? But if he were already at the Martial King Realm, could he still have earned that many points? Were there really that many sixth-tier Ferocious Beasts in the cavern for him to farm?”
The moment it became known that Xiao Xuan was going to compete, the several hundred thousand students filling the plaza were all stunned.
“You still don’t understand how strong Xiao Xuan truly is. Just watch. When he finally reveals his real power, you’ll understand what a true prodigy looks like!”
Within the crowd, Zhao Ziyun kept his eyes fixed on Xiao Xuan, who stood at the center of everyone’s attention. Endless battle intent blazed in his gaze.
Perhaps, in the finals, he would have the chance to fight Xiao Xuan again.
And when he thought of the extra talent he now possessed, perhaps he really might have a chance to defeat Xiao Xuan after all.
Meanwhile, the geniuses of the eighth and ninth years had also grown solemn.
At first, their limelight being stolen by a mere senior-year student had made them unhappy.
But the more they thought about it, the more something felt wrong.
When they recalled that earth-shaking battle from the first day of the assessment,
for some reason, they began to suspect that one of the participants in that battle had very likely been Xiao Xuan.
And that Xiao Xuan might even have been the victor.
If that were true, then they might genuinely not be Xiao Xuan’s match.
That battle had been too terrifying. Not one of them had any confidence of surviving even the aftershocks of it, much less fighting in it themselves.
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