Chapter 574 (1/2)

Chapter 574: Approaching Storm

Translator: Thyaeria  Editor: Thyaeria

As time had elapsed to this phase, the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament had already entered its final period of the contention for hegemony. More and more powerful groups continued to emerge, before continuing to constantly change the Top 16 with new names.

Therefore, under the premise of such large changes, other than the few groups that truly possessed astonishing strength, the other groups all felt alarmed, anxious and afraid that there would be a powerful group emerging and defeating them at any moment, before standing on their heads and spreading their fame and reputation across the entire competition.

Even under such a period of great change, the defeat of Lu Tian and Wang Jiang, the originally 10th place and 8th place respectively, had still caused quite the big ripples in the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament.

That was due to the similarity in the group that had led to the defeat of the these two powerful groups, which was precisely the one from the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy that had Mu Chen as their captain.

Furthermore, those people with more informed sources knew about an additional piece of information, which was that Lu Tian and Wang Jiang were both part of Ji Xuan’s alliance… as for Mu Chen, he didn’t find anyone else, but had specifically targeted those groups that were in an alliance with Ji Xuan. The intent of targeting the latter was already clear and obvious.

Such targeting caused quite a few people to feel amazed and stunned. As of now, Ji Xuan’s fame and reputation was too extensive and widespread within the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament. This heaven-gifted son of the Spiritual Road was still as dazzling as the sun, even in a place like this, where numerous geniuses were present, causing people be only able to look up to him.

Quite a few powerful groups had all suffered defeat in the hands of Ji Xuan and the group he led, successfully becoming his stepping stones to reach greater heights. Therefore, in the current phase of the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament, the number of groups that were able to send a challenge towards Ji Xuan and his group might not even exceed one hand.

It was also this reason that caused everyone to feel that stunned and amazed upon hearing that Mu Chen had actually dared to target Ji Xuan at this current phase of time. After all, regardless of anything, there was a clear, hard-to-surmount disparity between Mu Chen’s fame and reputation, when compared to Ji Xuan.

Therefore, everyone was waiting for the response of Ji Xuan towards such targeting by Mu Chen.

However, what made many people astonished was that after Lu Tian and Wang Jiang’s groups were defeated, Ji Xuan had unexpectedly not made any retaliatory actions. Such feelings appeared as if he had forgotten about the focus Mu Chen had made against him.

Such a response by Ji Xuan had seemingly exceeded everyone’s expectations. They were completely unable to understand why Ji Xuan, who had always been exceedingly fierce in his actions, would not invoke any retaliatory response. This was clearly unlike his usual mannerisms and attitude.

Nevertheless, regardless of how much Ji Xuan’s actions had caused voices of doubt to rise within the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament, he did not make any changes to his actions. Appearing to still continue calmly defeating group after group, obtaining more points and steadying his position as the Numero Uno on the rankings.

It was within those blanketing voices of doubt that yet another attention-grabbing matter happened, which was a new group that had rushed into the Top 16. Generally speaking, it was a common occurrence for powerful groups to suddenly rise into the Top 16 during this period of time. Other than causing everyone to feel astonished for a moment, things quickly calmed down.

That was because it wouldn’t take long for this dark horse that had emerged to be brought down by yet another dark horse, something that was common in this current situation.

Therefore, what made people interested was that this emerging group wasn’t a dark horse, but a group that was unexpectedly from the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.

Ranked 16th on the point rankings. Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy. Captain, Shen Cangsheng,

With the addition of this group in the points ranking, the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy had become the only Spiritual Academy within the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament to occupy two places within the Top 16.

That’s because after defeating Wang Jiang, the group led by Mu Chen had rose to the 10th rank on the rankings.

“Ji Xuan’s really able to endure.”

Standing on a hill, Mu Chen looked towards a small town present before him. From time-to-time, there would be streaks of light descending from the skies, before landing within. This was a small transaction base within this region, and was also their temporary resting ground, for now.

“Why won’t Ji Xuan take direct action against us? As of now, we’ve already stepped into the Top 16, with Ji Xuan being able to find our location,” asked Xu Huang, standing behind Mu Chen in doubt. This question had been bugging him for the past few days, as he was guarding against Ji Xuan sending an attack. However, what made him suspicious was that for the past few days, Ji Xuan, who should be getting angry and furious at them for such targeting had not shone any movement at all.

“That’s because Ji Xuan’s also afraid,” replied Luo Li in a soft voice.

“You guys underestimate your Captain too much,” added Wen Qingxuan with a smile. “Within the Spiritual Road, he and Ji Xuan are old opponents. Furthermore, in such a confrontation, Ji Xuan doesn’t have any obvious advantage over him.”

Hearing that, Xu Huang and the others gave embarrassed laughs in response, with shock and astonishment appearing in their eyes as they looked towards Mu Chen. As Ji Xuan gradually increased in fame and reputation, they had also started to know about the frightening strength the latter possessed. Such a character would absolutely be rated as a heaven-gifted child, and was more than sufficient to cause countless geniuses to pale in colour when compared to him.

However, even this heaven-gifted child seemed to not be able to obtain much of an advantage in Mu Chen’s hands. One could see from this that the latter similarly possessed the methods and capability that was not inferior to Ji Xuan.

“That’s why there’s no one that could obstruct Mu Chen’s path in our Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy. So, it turns out that he’s a top-class big shot…” said Zhao Qingshan with a bitter laugh. In the past, they were still brooding about the fact that Mu Chen was a Freshman, with them being his Seniors. However, now, they had no choice but to respect and admire the former.

“You guys better not praise me.” Mu Chen could not help laughing. “The accurate reason why Ji Xuan didn’t take action is due to fearing the three of us.”

His fingers were pointing at himself, Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan.