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Chapter 358: 355: Trial Tower Rankings_1
Chapter 358: 355: Trial Tower Rankings_1
Chapter 358: 355: Trial Tower Rankings_1
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“Steward Xu.”
“Uncle Xu!”
“Martial Uncle Xu!”
These previous generation geniuses all called out his name with full etiquette, causing Steward Xu to stand aside quite satisfied.
However, when these geniuses saw Yang Chen, the hostility and sarcasm in their eyes were undoubtedly revealed. They all folded their arms, not really putting Yang Chen in their hearts.
“Uncle Xu, who is this?” A person next to him asked Steward Xu. Seeing Yang Chen wearing the Yuanshan Sect’s attire, they generally didn’t take the younger members of outside forces seriously.
Steward Xu smiled amiably and said, “This is the champion of this year’s Genius Selection Competition, Yang Chen. Young friend Yang Chen here is very talented, so you must not underestimate him because he is young. Perhaps, you may not be better than him.”
Hearing that Yang Chen turned out to be the champion of this Genius Selection Competition, these previous-generation geniuses of the Beishan Main City were stunned and obviously surprised by Yang Chen’s identity. However, they soon sneered.
Not because of anything else.
It was because they were the geniuses personally cultivated by Beishan Main City.
Just like Lu Yihan, he was nurtured by the Beishan Main City and was originally the favorite to win. The championship was almost guaranteed for him. It’s just a pity that he encountered some accidents.
These geniuses nurtured by Beishan Main City didn’t care about the Genius Selection Competition champion at all. They missed it, but if they had participated, they could have won the championship as well.
Furthermore, Steward Xu’s words have ignited the fighting intent of these geniuses. They were originally calm but quickly stared at Yang Chen with ill-intended expressions.
“We’re not as good as him?”
“What a joke.”
“He just won a Genius Selection Competition, Uncle Xu, you’re overvaluing him. Stronger than us? Hmph, if we participated in the Genius Selection Competition, we would have the ability to win the championship, too. The kid wouldn’t have taken advantage of us! It’s just that the Genius Selection Competition doesn’t take place every year, otherwise, we wouldn’t let an outsider make a name for themselves.”
Hearing these geniuses’ ridiculing remarks, Yang Chen shrugged. If they knew the reason for Lu Yihan’s miserable defeat, maybe they wouldn’t have spoken so self-righteously.
Then, he cast an annoyed look at Steward Xu.
Obviously, the initiator of all this was Steward Xu. He looked harmless but said, “You may not be better than him.”
On the surface, it’s a compliment, but these geniuses were all short-tempered. How could they tolerate it? In the blink of an eye, Yang Chen was pushed to the forefront, targeted by everyone.
This also made Yang Chen feel helplessly annoyed. He had known early on that Steward Xu bringing an outsider like himself into the Trial Tower for cultivation would not go smoothly. Now, it was as expected. At least, the trouble had come, right?
“Kid, do you dare to come out and walk around?”
“Kid, do you want to compete?”
Before Yang Chen could speak, Steward Xu waved his hand and chuckled, “Why are you in such a hurry? There will be competitions, but it’s not the time right now. The most important thing now is the Trial Tower, isn’t it, Yang Chen, my friend?”
Yang Chen cursed Steward Xu in his heart.
Steward Xu spoke crisply and seemed to be looking out for Yang Chen’s best interest.
But Steward Xu’s words hinted that there would always be competitions! This statement was paired with entering the Trial Tower.
What does it mean?
If he says it’s not, then Steward Xu can simply say that he doesn’t want to enter the Trial Tower, right?
If he says it is, then he has basically agreed to the competition.
He came to Beishan Main City to enter the Trial Tower for cultivation. Why would he be interested in causing extra trouble? Moreover, Elder Hu and Elder Yun had been beside him, transmitting sound messages to keep him calm. He naturally didn’t want to cause more trouble. But now, even saying no wasn’t an option.
With that in mind, Yang Chen said coldly, “That’s right.”
“Heh, enter the Trial Tower?”
“This is interesting. I wonder how many levels this kid can reach in the Trial Tower?”
“Hmph, I think he can only reach about three to five levels at most.”
“Three to five levels? I think you’re overestimating this kid, still three to five levels? In North Mountain County, our Beishan Main City is the orthodox one, and the level of geniuses in the outside world is more than one class lower than ours in the Beishan Main City. This kid is not a genius of our Beishan Main City, and he will have a hard time during his first participation in the Trial Tower.”
“Do you really think his Genius Selection Competition championship is a big deal? To be honest, that so-called championship is nothing. Any one of us could win the championship. It’s not a big deal. It’s just that Lu Yihan was too useless. He was actually defeated by this kid. It’s a disgrace.”
They didn’t know that Lu Yihan was defeated by a genius from the Sun Star Region, and their words revealed a sense of superiority.
They naturally saw themselves as the orthodox geniuses of Beishan Main City.
Based on their orthodox premise, others were inferior, lower-class, destined to be inferior to them, and meant to be stepped on by them. In the past, this was indeed the case, because the nurturing resources of Beishan Main City were higher than those of other Sects. Even the Three Hegemons like Yuanshan Sect and Canghai Sect were slightly weaker!
Seeing these Beishan Main City people full of arrogance, Yang Chen didn’t want to deal with them at all.
A genius full of superiority, who looks down on others, he wondered how they would fare when they encountered geniuses from the Sun Star Region.
Right now, he stood with his hands behind his back, looked at Steward Xu, and asked, “Steward Xu, what is recorded on this stele?”
When he came to the Trial Tower, he had noticed this stele.
There were many characters carved on the stele, which made Yang Chen very curious about what it represented.
Steward Xu seemed gentle and elegant, but there was a hint of pride in his eyes as he said, “Yang Chen, my friend, you may not know that this stele records the top ten of each stage who have passed the Trial Tower.”
“Each stage? What do you mean by that?” Yang Chen asked curiously.
Steward Xu spoke gently, “You see, the first twenty layers are the limit of the Spirit Martial Realm. In the past and now, the strongest Spirit Martial Realm talents, including the Half-step Origin Martial Realm, have never broken this limit.”
“Steward Xu, why are you telling this kid about the limits? Can’t he read the stele himself? The Trial Tower was built three thousand years ago, and since then, only the royal genius who was led by the royal family at the time had reached the twentieth layer. Besides him, the highest was only the eighteenth layer. How does telling him the limit serve any purpose? Can he break through?”
“The twentieth layer, how could that be possible.”
Although Yang Chen didn’t like to listen to these geniuses talking, what they said was not wrong.
The stele clearly marked that Wu Changkong had reached the twentieth layer of the Trial Tower, followed by Huang Taiji who reached the eighteenth layer… and Yun Han Dao, the seventeenth layer.