Chapter 78 The Young Prodigies (2/2)

The four of them smiled in return, and Wang Bugui started to pay extra attention to Lu Qianchen. He was no ordinary practitioner; he knew how much power Wang Bugui was concealing. The youth guessed that Lu must be a prodigy of the Sect of the Nine Heavens. The small group was then directed to head upward, and Wang Bugui and Lu Qianchen glanced at each other when the former passed by, as if trying to find out what skills the other had.

Both of them concealed their strengths well, however, and neither of them managed to discover anything much. They bid each other farewell, and his fellow male disciples crowded around him as they noticed that he was still gazing after Wang Bugui and company. ”Senior, what's the matter? Are these people very strong?” One of them asked.

Lu Qianchen frowned slightly as he replied, ”They're more than strong. I could sense that all of them are prodigies!”

”What?!” All of Lu Qianchen's fellow disciples were shocked. ”Are they really prodigies?” They thought. Prodigies were the strongest disciples of each sect, and aside from their great strength, they were normally aloof and haughty. As such, they would never travel in groups, except with their own sect members. How could those four people be prodigies? It was hard to believe that four of them would travel alongside each other.

”Impossible! Were you mistaken, senior?” Someone asked, still in disbelief.

Lu Qianchen shook his head and gave his analysis, ”I believe you've heard of Sage Huo Heng from the Dragon Spear Sect as well. He never accepts more than three disciples at one time, but all of them are exceptional talents! As for the recreational practitioner, Lyu Heng, he's from the line of the Overpowering Halberd, which only Xiang Yu and Lyu Bu managed to inherit in the past. I think I don't have to elaborate about the reputation of the Warlord of Chu and the demonic God of War to you.”

”Moving on to that Yu Wude, who comes from the School of Diplomacy. It used to accept only two disciples at one time, and one of them would learn the art of 'weaving' while the other the art of 'wefting', and they would compete with each other. Eventually, the masters realized that combining both techniques would lead their disciples to become more powerful, and they ended up accepting only one student at a time since then. Any disciple from that school, however, will definitely end up as an exceptional talent.”

”Lastly, I have a feeling that Wang Bugui, who claims that he's a recreational practitioner, is the most scary of them all. Perhaps you guys haven't noticed that the other three defer to him. He leads them in whatever they do, be it dismounting or speaking, and the others take great notice of his actions. Don't you think that someone who could cause three prodigies to treat him with such deference is really terrifying?”

Lu Qianchen's analysis was mind blowing for the disciples of the Sect of the Nine Heavens. They had never expected that the person who they had paid the least attention to was also the one that their senior was most wary of; he had concealed his power far too well. ”In that case, senior, did you manage to discover which sect he comes from? Also, who would win in a fight between him and yourself?” Someone asked.

”I couldn't find out anything about his sect. Perhaps, only our Headmaster can. I only know that he was very good control of his qi, and he didn't allow any of his unique aura to appear. It's hard to say if I could beat him in a fight. After all, we fear the unknown the most. However, I believe that Junior Leng can defeat him; even the Headmaster says her talent is greater than his.”

Lu Qianchen said as he cupped his chin and thought. His analysis further elevated their evaluation of Wang Bugui. Their senior was one of the two prodigies of the Sect of the Nine Heavens, and even he was unsure about whether he could beat Wang in battle, and that only their top-ranking disciple could handle him. They shivered as they thought about the power of the exceptional woman.

Wang Bugui and his sworn brothers encountered many cultivation sects on their way up. They formed their own groups, and there were a few prodigies among them. There was a swordsman from Shushan that was carrying a holy sword, and the aura that he projected caused the breathing of disciples from other sects to become labored.

A handsome man holding a white foldable fan stood in the group to the left of the swordsman. He looked extremely carefree and distinguished, and he dispersed the aura projected by the swordsman with a gentle wave of his fan. It released the pressure on his sect and he continued to chat casually with his fellow disciples.

There was another sect whose members used only sabers. The youth that led them was even bigger in size than Lyu Hao, and he carried a huge bloody saber on his back. The aura it gave off caused many cracks to appear in the ground surrounding him.

There were another two sects whose members stood facing and smiling at each other. One of them was an order that focused on external skills, while the other a Taoist sect. The prodigies from both sects shook hands and tried to test each other's skill secretly. The external skill expert directed his qi into the Taoist's body, but it was defused by the latter's pure Yang energy. Their fellow disciples retreated instinctively as they competed.

There were a few other prodigies who did not wish to reveal themselves and chose to hone their power for the actual competition. This was a Golden Age of prodigies, and there were talents in each sect that came once in every few centuries and millennia.

There were many talents and prodigies in this era. They would unleash their skills during the Gathering, and compete to obtain the Mother of All Things!