Chapter 648: Fire Spiritual Body (2/2)
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This fight took much longer than everyone’s expectations. Initially, the crowd thought that this Ninth Junior Brother would be able to suppress Xiao Chen easily. However, the battle had not ended even after fifteen minutes.
The previously excited cultivators filled with anticipation of breaking into the Proud Son of Heaven Ranking slowly started to reveal conflicted expressions.
After another fifteen minutes, the victor was still undecided. The unperturbed Wang Meng could not help but frown.
“Ka ca!”
Suddenly, a crisp shattering sound rang out in the quiet hall. Wang Meng relaxed his frown and smiled, saying, “The victor is decided!”
However, when Wang Meng looked carefully, he discovered the shattered lantern belonged to his Ninth Junior Brother. Not expecting such an end, he could not help being dumbfounded.
“How can this be?!”
The onlookers filled with anticipation sighed. They now cast their hopeful gazes on Leng Liusu. However, they did not expect that Nuan Muyun would place her right hand on Leng Liusu’s shoulder, stopping her from attempting to break into the Proud Son of Heaven Ranking.
“There is no need to try. Liusu, let’s come back next year and try then.”
Everyone was astonished when Nuan Muyun said this. Someone from the Holy Lands actually gave up on breaking into the Proud Son of Heaven Ranking because of a lower-realm genius.
Wang Meng smiled coldly and demanded, “Nuan Muyun, what do you mean by this?”
Nuan Muyun looked at the many Sage images on the wall and pointed. She said, “Take a look for yourself.”
Wang Meng looked in the direction that Nuan Muyun’s finger indicated. He saw a Sage image that was much dimmer in the midst of the many Sage images. If Nuan Muyun had not pointed it out, it would not catch anyone’s attention.
“This is…a Sage had personally guided Xiao Chen in a Martial Technique!” Wang Meng exclaimed hoarsely in startlement.
Normally, only cultivators with exceptional comprehension ability would attract the attention of the Sages. Such people would induce these Sages to exhaust their will to guide them.
There were less than twenty such people in the entire Proud Son of Heaven Ranking. Today, there was one more—Xiao Chen.
“No wonder Xiao Chen took so long to finish the foundation test! So this was the reason.”
“I’m really a fool. To think I believed what that Bai He and Bai Yu said, that Xiao Chen was just running around and dragging things out!”
“Damn it! Those two fools turned us into fools as well.”
The onlookers suddenly understood what had happened. They could not help but scold themselves for their foolishness at that time; they even scolded Bai Yu and Bai He as well.
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Far in the distance, Bai Yu and Bai He, who were traveling back, started sneezing nonstop. They exchanged glances with each other, wondering at the strangeness of it.
“Achoo! This is really strange. Why are we sneezing so much?” Bai Yu said depressedly. After he spoke, he sneezed again.
Bai He mumbled, “Could it be that there are hundreds of people calling us fools?”
“What a joke. If we are fools, that there is no smart person in the world. Achoo!”
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Wang Meng eyed Nuan Muyun unhappily. She had probably noticed the dimmed Sage image early on and had purposely let him go up to embarrass himself.
“Let’s go. We will be back next year!” Wang Meng withdrew his gaze and walked away without looking back.
Nuan Muyun called out to stop the two, “Wait a moment!”
Feeling depressed in his heart, Wang Meng asked impatiently, “Nuan Muyun, what else do you want?”
“Ha ha! Nothing much, just pay up the agreed bet. You are not going to renege shamelessly, are you? Hand over the half drop of Dragon Marrow,” Nuan Muyun said without restraint, holding out her hand.
“What a joke! I did not lose to you. Why should I give it to you?”
Nuan Muyun smiled gently and said, “Both of us lost. According to the rules, we both have to hand over the bet. Pass me the Dragon Marrow, and I will send someone to bring it and the Monarch Blood Grass to Xiao Chen.”
Nuan Muyun sounded calm, but the look in her eyes said that she would not let anyone question her resolution in the slightest.
Wang Meng was quite disgruntled, but although he was arrogant, that depended on who the other party was. While he did not care about the other giants, he did not dare to go against what the Phoenix’s Passion Palace’s Holy Daughter, Nuan Muyun, had decided, no matter how frustrated he was.
Wang Meng could only hand the Dragon Marrow over to Nuan Muyun and leave vexed. Not only he had lost face today, but he also lost some wealth as well.
All this is because of that brat Xiao Chen, Wang Meng thought. I have to get my revenge for this.
Nuan Muyun and Wang Meng, the Phoenix’s Passion Palace’s Holy Daughter and the most arrogant of the seven giants. Within the Tianwu Domain, they were people many paid attention to—dazzling absolute geniuses. This was especially so for Nuan Muyun. Her lantern had remained in the second row of the pyramid of lanterns for a long time already.
Just like this, the disciples the two brought had lost to Xiao Chen—a Sky Dome Realm cultivator that everyone looked down on—while trying to break into the Proud Son of Heaven Ranking.
“The carriers of Luck of the ten great battle realms were able to advance more than two hundred ranks in their first attempt. Now, there is another Xiao Chen. Things are going to change in the Tianwu Domain.”
“This is the era of geniuses. There are not only the geniuses in the great realms that the Martial God Palace controls but also the young experts of our own Tianwu Domain.”
“The top hundred positions of the Proud Son of Heaven Ranking has not had many changes for a very long time already. I guess that in less than a year, after these lower-realm geniuses grow up, there will be great changes in this ranking.”