Chapter 85: Meg’s Guardian (1/2)

Chapter 85: Meg’s Guardian

At the end of every year, every clan and household would become extremely busy.

Every household had to say goodbye to the old year and welcome in the new spring. Businesses needed to settle all their accounts. Those who needed to be rewarded were rewarded, and those who needed to be given a bonus were given it. Public officials needed to be adjusted; those who needed to be promoted were promoted, and those who needed to be demoted were demoted. Every clan would prepare for their own end-of-year competition, evaluating and selecting their top disciples. Those who needed to be praised would be praised, and those who needed to be reprimanded were reprimanded.

Long before Su Chen returned from the Scarlet Mountain Range, the Su Clan had already begun preparations for the end-of-year competition.

This was the meeting of the Su Clan’s third-generation disciples; an opportunity to compare their martial arts and skills, displaying their loftiness.

It wasn’t just the crown of strongest disciple that attracted people. Disciples who were strong would fight for the crown, while younger ones would contend for a position of their own. Whenever the end of the year drew near, everyone would be bitterly engrossed in cultivation, making their last preparations for the great battle.

Su Tong, the Su Clan’s grand elder’s beloved grandson earned third place in the last competition. Perhaps because he had been stimulated by Su Chen, not long ago he had also headed to the Scarlet Mountain Range. Of course, he didn’t go because of punishment, and he had also taken along a few escorts, so the safety of his journey greatly increased. While the amount of experience that he gained might have suffered as a result, when he returned from the Scarlet Mountain Range, his entire person’s temperament had become stronger overall.

Su Ling’er, the granddaughter of Fourth Elder Su Meixi, was fourteen this year. A year ago she had gone to her mother’s clan and had returned not long ago. Her strength had risen from the seventh layer of Body Tempering to the eighth layer. Her target was not to obtain the crown this year, but next year. At that time, Su Chen, Su Qian and the others would be over sixteen and wouldn’t be able to participate in the competition. At that time, the title of the strongest Su Clan’s third generation member would be Su Ling’er’s to claim.

In addition, Su Yue, Su Xing, and the other Su Clan’s disciples were all using their own methods to struggle for recognition.

Of course, the two that people paid the most attention to were still Su Chen and Su Qian.

Su Chen did not need to say anything. Ever since returning from the Scarlet Mountain Range twice, he shone like a sun in midday among the Su Clan’s third-generation individuals. No one dared to humiliate him because he was “blind”.

As for Su Qian, he had disappeared.

No one knew where Su Qian had gone. However, based on Su Keji’s expression, everyone could tell that he was supremely confident about the outcome of this year’s end-of-year competition.

On the twelfth day of Su Chen’s return from Shadow Mountain, the end-of-year competition was now only three days away.

Today, as per usual, Su Chen was cultivating in the back mountain.

Unlike other people, Su Chen only cultivated his Origin Skills.

Tang Zhen had translated another two of the ancient Arcana scripts. They were a large fireball technique and a technique called Meg’s Guardian.

In ancient times, because the Arcana Race’s history of studying and using Origin Energy had just begun, there was a common practice of using one’s own name to name the Origin Skill. For example, similar styles of defensive barriers would have different names and different shapes and sizes as long as they had different Origin Energy Patterns.

This was completely different from the current age. Current defensive barriers had become more and more polished over the tens of thousands of years. As the overgrowth of techniques was pruned, what remained was mainly the most cost-effective Origin Skills. Although this method increased the practicality of most Origin Skills, it had also decreased the variety of Origin Skills. The skills became more homogenized, and individual peculiarities began to decrease. Simply put, a standard procedure had been implemented. In comparison, the defensive magic barriers that ancient Arcana techniques created could have various flaws and insufficiencies, yet because of this they would also have their own unique characteristics.