Chapter 26: Dormancy (1/2)

Chapter 26: Dormancy

News that Su Chen would not be competing in the end-of-year competition spread rapidly.

Bai Yihong, Bai Ou, and many others were extremely let down and unhappy about this development.

Night Blade, who had been defeated by Su Chen during the Three Mountains Region Exam, claimed that Su Chen was afraid of participating in the end-of-year competition. Otherwise, he would have dealt with Su Chen, settling the score from his earlier defeat at Su Chen’s hands.

Frigid Despair Gan Erlei, who had also been defeated by Su Chen, also expressed his desire to teach Su Chen a lesson.

However, their words were spurned by Wang Doushan and Jin Ling’er.

Jin Ling’er’s relationship with Su Chen after the Three Mountains Region exam was always pretty good and they still often interacted with each other. When she discovered that Su Chen was not participating in the end-of-year competition, Jin Ling’er personally went to find him and ask why. When she heard Su Chen’s reasoning, she could only sigh.

As for Pan Hao and his lackeys, because of the dirt that Su Chen had on them, they could not say anything in the end. All they could do was endure silently.

In comparison, Ji Hanyan’s method was much simpler. She went to Su Chen directly and tried to fight him.

She argued that since she could not battle with him during the end-of-year competition, they should have a secret battle.

There was nothing Su Chen could do. He helplessly followed Ji Hanyan to the arena to exchange a few blows.

Utter defeat!

Unsurprisingly, Ji Hanyan’s strength had once again increased since the Three Mountains Region exam. In the past year, she had been bitterly cultivating the entire time.

As for Su Chen, he had spent his first three months merely analyzing new Origin Skills. Apart from that, all he had done was research, study, study, and research. It would’ve been strange if he had been able to win.

Contemporary Origin Skills emphasized experience and practice – this was not just a saying.

Even so, Su Chen did not change his mind.

It was just as Shi Kaihuang had said.

Before you succeeded, you would be just a piece of trash.

After you succeeded, you would become someone with great stature.

Su Chen didn’t pay any attention to what others thought of him. He continued to bury his head in his own studies and research.

If Shi Kaihuang wouldn’t allow him to study Origin Energy, he would research it after his classes.

Using the Brooke Formula to calculate how certain variations affected the skill’s output and how to best complement Kaihuang’s Heaven seemed simple. However, the actual components involved were extremely complex; otherwise, Shi Kaihuang wouldn’t have been stumped for such a long time in the first place.

Origin Energy Talismans were already quite complex in their own right, not to mention Origin Energy Patterns. When the two of them were combined, the number of variations was like the number of stars in the sky. As he performed calculation after calculation, Su Chen felt like his head was about to explode.

Even so, Su Chen was quite happy.

He ignored the suffering as he continued to calculate, searching for a final answer that could resolve the issue. At the same time, he was becoming more and more familiar with Kaihuang’s Heaven’s method of conducting Origin Energy, deepening his understanding……

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The day of the end-of-year competition had finally arrived.

The tournament was set up as a single-elimination bracket.

All of the students were seeded based on the rankings they had when they first entered the Institute. After the weak were eliminated, the top 200 would be placed on the Dragon Transformation List.

Because there were so many people, the end-of-year competition lasted for ten days.

The students of the Hidden Dragon Institute were busiest during this time of year.