Chapter 33 (1/2)

Chapter 33: Graduation Ceremony

Xu Yangyi was sleeping. During Qi Condensation, one still couldn't disregard food and sleep like in Foundation Establishment. He had to rest, as well. In his slumber, he fell into a deep sleep.

On the morning of the next day, his cell phone summoned him to get up. It was the cell phone's preloaded alarm. He hadn't chosen any ringtone since it was rather troublesome.

He whistled as he finished was.h.i.+ng up. He wouldn't whistle any other songs, even though during his execution of Sanshui City's graduation exam a.s.signment, he had unconsciously saw saw an auntie dancing in a plaza and had learned Little Apple. Currently, this was what he was whistling.

He used his comb to brush his hair and took out a cigarette. He didn't leave to eat as well, taking several buns and milk, even if it was breakfast. Observing his actions, his mood seemed extremely well. However, if someone was in front of him, they would discover that his smile wasn't a cheery morning spiritedness, a br.i.m.m.i.n.g enthusiasm to tackle the dawn of the new day. Rather, it was a kind of indifferent, serene, blood-thirsty smile. It was the kind of smile that would leave others trembling in fear.

Yes, he was very understanding of his own standards. Chu Zhaonan hadn't guessed incorrectly yesterday. He was planning on fighting it out the entire journey!

Targeting me?

You enjoy fevered affairs?

A baseless rumor, words like the pa.s.sing wind?

It doesn't matter. I will make you forever remember this instance!

Since others were being unreasonable to him, then he didn't want to be sensible. He wouldn't stop searching until he found that person. Since they were scared of the lion, then they would clearly have to remember what a lion looked like!

”Creak…” The stone door slowly pulled open. A clamoring raucous suddenly burst in.

”Grandpa, it's so spectacular here!” At the same time, a young girl wearing a T-s.h.i.+rt and jeans pulled on an old man with liver spots covering his face. He was wearing a pair of gla.s.ses, and his voice and expression were extremely hearty even though he was an old man. Carrying an excitement as he looked at the already roaring crowd of the Unrivaled Beneath the Heavens Arena, his eyes were nearly set aflame.

The characters of unrivaled beneath the heavens at the top made the people below appear just like ants and crickets. However, these ants and crickets on the contrary had a majesty that lined the arena. It was the kind grandeur like the flouris.h.i.+ng of the sky and the boundless borders of open fields, making the crowds of people below even more insignificant.

It wasn't the same as the past several days. Today, in the seating behind this gigantic arena, there were 121 immense stone steles erected!

They were covered in moss and there were some stone steles that even had cracks on them. However, each stone stele had a name written on it, like hooking silver and streaking iron! Among them, half had already turned black, yet the other half was bright red like blood. *

The stone steles were five meters wide and fifteen meters tall. They were set off by the three-meter-tall names on them. Unexpectedly, they exhibited a kind of brilliant prestige. The stone steles were like swords without edge, yet despite their clumsiness, they held an immaculate might.**

”2348th graduation, champion: ”Yuyang City's Song Ziwen.”

”2393rd graduation, champion: Tianfeng City's Zhao Chun.”

”2387th graduation, champion: ”Zhaoping City's Wu Chunlai.”

”2412th graduation, champion: Fengyi City's Yu Ling'er.”

These words seemed to be sections of history, each stele to remind everyone where they were!

The gigantic stone stele were like raised pillars supporting the heavens, silently standing tall beneath the four characters of Unrivaled Beneath the Heavens. At this moment, there were already over ten thousand people seated in the arena stands before the stone steles!

A great majority were dressed in western-style clothing. 80% of people had a computer placed on top of their knees, carrying an extremely expectant expression as they looked at the arena. It appeared to be a chaotic mess, but they were autonomously divided into small groups of several tens to over a hundred people. Everyone held a stack of resources in hand and were in the middle of softly talking with each other.

Although it was quite soft, the sound of over ten thousand people converged together. Already, it shaped a stream of people that immediately had their blood set ablaze as they entered the venue!

Standing on the center of the stage, beneath the immense characters of unrivaled beneath the heavens, was what the crowd of ten thousand were truly focused on!

”What is this? A grave stone?” Sitting on the corner of a flight of steps, in a place where ten-odd people were a.s.sembled, it was evident that this was the first time a youth had come. His excited face was flushed red, and he excitedly pointed at the hundred-plus, ten-odd-meter-tall gigantic steles and said.

His voice not yet fallen, an old woman at his side immediately covered his mouth, so scared that her forehead was dotted with a cold sweat: ”Grandson… What the heck are you saying?! These are all the previous champions! In those graduation days, who wasn't a heavenly-endowed hero? Only the names that are black are fallen seniors. Of those that are alive, half of them are at the very least Foundation Establishment seniors!”

Hearing the several words of Foundation Establishment senior, the youth jumped in fright and immediately shut his trap.

It wasn't until a good while pa.s.sed did he pull on the old woman's sleeve: ”Grandma… Is that blank stele for the name of this year's champion? So why are there are two? Can't there only be one champion?”

The old woman looked at the two steles, her expression strikingly grave. She nodded and said softly: ”Grandson… Remember this well… One of the steles will certainly be carved with the name of this year's champion. However, the other stele needs not to be engraved.”

”Why?”

”Because that is Sunnihiliator's stele!”

These words were said with dignified honor and a decisiveness that could cleave through iron. At the same time, a heat radiated in her eyes like fire.

”Sunnihilator?! That thirty-year-old Foundation Establishment Sunnihilator? Is he from Nantong Province?” The youth gasped coldly upon hearing this name. A wisp of unrestrained zealotry climbed his face.

Foundation Establishment, how difficult was it? Didn't China have twenty thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators?

It was claimed a hundred years for Foundation Establishment, but the average was seventy-somewhat years. Yet among this unbroken tranquility, there was a man from Nantong Province that had soared into the heavens! He had seized the champions.h.i.+p and cut down the most talented, das.h.i.+ng through the entire journey. He left others to simply wait in his dust! Ultimately...

He attained Foundation Establishment at thirty years of age!