275 Chapter 268: The Champion! (1/2)
”Ladies and Gentlemen, a Junior from the Jixue Knights Academy, who fought his way through the first stage, and then stood as the last man standing on this special stage, I present to you, Duan Li!!” the Emcee declared grandly with his sharp posture and high-pitched voice. (A.N: You can imagine his posture like Frieza lol)
Roaarr!!
The audience cheered in excitement. After all, the champion was a local from the Jiu Empire whom could be described as young but extremely talented!
Not only that, just his merits of defeating other students from the stronger foreign empires alone was enough for them to look up to him in extreme veneration!
On the platform, Duan Li scratched the back of his head feeling a little bit embarrassed. For him, this much was not too difficult since it only involved a competition of martial arts, but if skill arts were to be allowed, even he wasn't confident that he would be able to reign as the champion with his current internal injuries!
”As per the previous arrangements with the organizer for the Special Stage, Duan Li will win himself the Grand prize.. of 5 High Quality spirit stones!” the audience once again erupted in a series of whistles and cheers. For them, this was a totally massive amounts of money that could trickle down all the way to the seventh generation!
Furthermore, such capital would allow one to do many great things! For those whom are ambitious, they could even start a Clan or Sect of their own in the pugilistic world, and they would be looked up to with respect, holding influence and power that could hardly be matched by most people!
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However, little do they know that this amount of money that could move a mountain was nothing to Duan Li! After all, he already pretty much bought the whole of the Jiu Empire when the Emperor agreed to make use of his money to develop the empire. If Duan Li wanted to, he could even request a massive private land and start a following of his own!
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”Hmph! His title as the champion meant nothing. If we were allowed to use skill arts, let alone hitting me, he wouldn't even be able to see my shadow!” Liu Shuiyui scoffed as he cast a hateful glance towards Duan Li from the audience seat, watching the latter took the Grand Prize from the Emcee.
”Stop dreaming kid. If he were to use his skill arts, the whole stadium might need to evacuate. Not to mention you, even Nascent Soul realm Early stage would pack their bags behind their a*s.” Queen Levy replied, her tone a little bit cold. For her, arrogant young man was one of the type of person she hated the most, and if this was the old her, she would've killed him in a heartbeat!
Liu Shuiyui was about to refute back, but Liu Sheng Duhai quickly waved his hand to stop him, shaking his head for the former to drop the matter with a stern look. In his mind however, even he himself found it hard to believe. After all, Golden Core realm Pinnacle stage was the closest realm to the Nascent Soul realm level, and even they could only win 3 out of 10 possibilities, what more for those whom was still in the Core Formation realm stage, they will definitely win none at all!
Still, if what she just said was at least half the truth, then this Duan Li was definitely a genius comparable to that Young Lord in their Liu Empire!
”I guess the young generation will eventually overtake the old generation.. such is the way of life..” Liu Sheng Duhai sighed as he stared up at the night sky with a complicated look.
”Brother Juan.. ”
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”Empress Dowager, you are right in your previous deduction, the young man won...” an old man with a hunchback cupped at his long white beard, his apathetic pair of eyes seemed to flash with great interest in it.
The graceful lady sitting on the Queen's throne chuckled, ”Advisor Chen, he was chosen by my husband to carry on that title, so of course he must win. If he lost here, I will personally kill him myself.”
Hearing such murderous words that was devoid of emotion from the Empress, the hunchback old man seemed to shiver for a moment. He had no doubt that the Empress meant every single syllable in her sentence. However, he also understood the main reason on why she would've done so.
A week before, a top secret decree was suddenly passed down onto some of the most important members of the Royal Family. In it, contained a startling information that stated that; the Emperor himself decided to bestow the title of the Imperial Overseer to a young man who had close to no background at all!
At first, they thought that the Emperor was just joking, but it was apparently the truth. This in turns riled up the Empress so much that she had dispatched her personal Knights to go and 'collect' the person in question, so that she could 'interview' the latter.
Regrettably, Duan Li was nowhere to be found and it was only later on that they knew that the other party was away on some sort of adventure somewhere.
For the Empress, bestowing someone with the title of an Imperial Overseer was a great humiliation to the Royal Family! After all, not only will such a person holds higher authority than her husband, even her children would become a laughing stock!
Furthermore, the consequences of the coronation of an Imperial Overseer that can loom over the Royal family and the Jiu Empire does not stop just there. For example, in terms of politics, the Jiu Empire was stable at the moment and all the big clans and influential people were pretty much patriotic.