Chapter 96 – Second (1/2)

Chapter 96 – Second

“The next best results were Hong Xun’s seventy-two and Xue Yao’s seventy-five. As confirmed by Pu Yuan, the eighty-first rune was a key-point. It did take me a day to get past it, but the fact that I did proved that I am on another level. If anyone should pass the test, it’s definitely going to be me!” Jin Yan pulled his shoulders back and stood tall; it was very hard for him to stay calm in this situation.

“I don’t care what family you’re from my result speaks for itself!” Jin Yan’s gaze made it obvious his message was directed to Lin Zi Yan. ‘The reason why I can decipher eighty-one runes in three days is because I have the talent to become a Runemaster. My master told me in a year or two I should be able to take the Runemaster entry exam!’

The fact that Jin Yan had the talent to become a Runemaster was a secret between him and his mysterious master. Even the Jin family was kept in the dark this whole time.

“Little Wei, how do you think you did?” Lin Zi Yan whispered in Ye Wei’s ears.

“Heh, not bad, but ladies first!” Ye Wei smiled confidently and shrugged.

“Ok!” Lin Zi Yan nodded and walked into the beam of light gracefully towards the figure.

‘It’s that girl!’ The cultivators’ eyes started to gather on Lin Zi Yan. Both her desirable strength and beauty caught quite a lot of attention earlier, and everyone was curious about how she did.

“Even Mo Ya couldn’t keep this girl under control! I think she’s actually stronger than Jin Yan!”

“I’d much rather this girl inherit the Glacial Emperor’s legacy than Jin Yan.” Nobody really liked Jin Yan, and seeing that no one else could match Jin Yan’s astonishing results, they all started to root for the girl with purple hair.

Jin Yan too, couldn’t take his eyes off Lin Zi Yan. She was the only person in the hall who he felt threatened by. He didn’t see Ye Wei as anything more than an annoying Student who got lucky in this treasure filled labyrinth.

Lin Zi Yan remained calm, and she didn’t lose her cool even though everyone was looking and talking about her. She took a few light steps and raised her slender arm as she arrived in front of the figure.

“Buzz!”

After a brief moment of silence, the runes on the figure started lighting up one by one at her touch.

“One hundred and eight!”

Everyone was staring at the green lights on the figure feeling startled.

“One hundred and eight runes! That’s ridiculous! That’s way better than what Jin Yan did!” The news was hard to swallow and after the initial shock, everyone turned their heads to Jin Yan whose face ashened. They thought what Jin Yan displayed was pretty hard to match, but apparently not so if you were Lin Zi Yan.

“Oh my god… one hundred and eight? Back in the day, the Glacial Emperor did the same in three days!”

“Could this girl be as talented as the Glacial Emperor was?”

The way each of the cultivators looked at Lin Zi Yan was slightly different; there was envy, jealousy, fear, but there was a sense of reverence in everyone’s eyes. They couldn’t help but ask themselves, ‘Will I live to see the rise of a legend?’.

“How is this possible?!” Stunned with disbelief, Jin Yan widened his eyes. He couldn’t take them off the runic figure bathed in bright light.

‘I have the talent to become a Runemaster, and I only deciphered eighty-one runes!’

Jin Yan, out of all the cultivators in the hall, was one of the people who knew how the complexity of the runes in Supernova stance only gets worse past the eighty-first rune. He struggled to believe that Lin Zi Yan could decipher as many as one hundred and eight runes.

Pu Yuan’s gaze fell upon Lin Zi Yan. He was excited at her talent that matched his late master’s. His cloudy eyes cleared up and shone brightly.

“Not bad, not bad. You’ve passed the test!” Pu Yuan announced full of praise. He didn’t think that after just three hundred years he would meet someone with so much potential.

The assessment was not yet over, but Pu Yuan was too excited to contain himself. Jin Yan took that as an insult because the remark Pu Yuan gave him was not as good.

“Next!” Pu Yuan looked at Ye Wei and said.

Ye Wei was the last in line!