Extreme Almightiest Young Master

Chapter 1187 - 1185: Half-Step Transcendent Realm

"Teacher Lin, this seems rather uninteresting," Xia Hongde said with a smile as he walked up to Lin Feng. He had originally placed great importance on the competition, but then found that his opponents were not even real challengers for him. Accustomed to challenges, he now found this competition boring.

"Yeah, me too, what’s going on, Teacher Lin?" Xia Jiansheng chimed in from the side. He echoed Xia Hongde’s sentiment, puzzled by their own overwhelming strength that crushed their opponents in seconds when no other matches on stage had ended so decisively. He wondered, what was going on?

Lin Feng looked at the two children, understanding why they were confused, and nodded subtly as he spoke softly, "Your combat abilities are simply not on the same level as your opponents, and your strength isn’t weak either. It would be strange if you couldn’t beat them. There’s no need to wonder; just fight as you normally would."

Lin Feng had anticipated this performance from the children, so there was really no surprise. If the children did not have such strength now, that would have been the real surprise.

Hearing Lin Feng’s explanation, Xia Hongde and Xia Jiansheng finally understood what was happening. Both children laughed immediately, and the other children also understood how they should approach the upcoming matches—quickly resolving the fights given the vast difference in strength and not wasting any time.

Xia Lalan, watching from the sidelines, couldn’t stop smiling. She was already very familiar with the children’s capabilities. All of them had reached the later stages of the Mortal Realm, and even children like Xia Jianping and Xia Jianwu had the peak Mortal Realm and Half-Step Transcendent Realm strength, needing only an opportunity to break through to the Transcendent Realm. Such power was incredibly formidable for the youth division, so much so that it truly dominated the competition. She no longer had to worry about the youth division’s matches.

Now more relaxed, she began to remind the children that although they were stronger than their opponents, they shouldn’t be careless, among other precautions...

However, the children from the other Prominent Families were experiencing a completely different state of mind at the moment. They were panicked by the strength displayed by the Xia Family’s children, realizing they could not beat such power. They worried about what would happen if they faced the Xia Family’s children in the upcoming matches. Would they be instantly defeated like the others? Even the strongest prodigies among them had to start taking the Xia Family’s regular children seriously and began to worry about their own prospects in the contest.

The fights that followed were increasingly straightforward. As everyone had anticipated, in the following rounds of competition, any match involving the Xia Family’s children generally ended in their victory. Only two ten-year-old children faced challenging opponents and were defeated after a tough fight, but their opponents still ended up with serious injuries.

In a wave of shocks, everyone’s attention was drawn to the Xia Family, all wanting to know how the Xia Family managed to train their children to such formidable levels. They were truly astounded by the might of these Xia Family’s children, something no one could have predicted!

"What’s with the Xia Family?"

"I don’t know either, this is strange. How did these children suddenly burst forth like this!"

"This is indeed very abnormal. Could it have something to do with that unreliable mortal teacher from the Xia Family?"

"Him? A mere mortal from the Secular World capable of that? You think too highly of him!"

...

Gu Nantian and Kong Lifeng, the Family Heads from the Gu and Kong families, frowned deeply in worry. Neither of them had expected the Xia Family’s children to suddenly burst forth with such strength, each at the late stages of the Mortal Realm—a phenomenon previously unheard of that left them utterly baffled.

Gu Nantian suspected it might be due to Lin Feng’s influence, but Kong Lifeng immediately refuted it, asserting that Lin Feng, being a mere mortal from the Secular World, couldn’t possibly possess such capabilities. Gu Nantian eventually agreed, acknowledging the lack of such energy in a mere mortal from the Secular World.

But the current situation was troubling for both the Kong Family and Gu Family. The Xia Family’s youth’s strength was outrageously formidable, likely to cause an unwanted upset in the competition results, especially for the Kong Family, which had placed high stakes on the youth division but now faced a disheartening defeat. Kong Lifeng was so anxious he didn’t know what to do.

Song Wuya watched everything unfold with a knowing smile. Now the elders in his family could finally stop questioning him. In fact, the Song Family’s elders were also genuinely shocked by the strength displayed by the Xia children, puzzled as how the Family Head could have predicted this. If it were one or two children who had burst forth, they might have believed it, but this was a collective surge, making them wonder if the Family Head knew something else that led to his earlier decisions.

In a blink, several more rounds of competition passed, and it was finally Xia Jianping’s turn to compete. His opponent was a Kong Family child named Kong Shen. As Kong Shen stepped onto the platform and saw Xia Jianping across him, his face showed a mocking smile!

"Xia Jianping, it’s finally your turn. Today, I will defeat you right here and let everyone know the strength of our Kong Family. Even if your strength has surged, you’re still heading for a devastating defeat. What do you say, scared? If you’re scared, you better surrender now to avoid the inevitable tears!"

Confronting Xia Jianping, Kong Shen spoke arrogantly. He indeed had the capital to be arrogant—the peak of the Mortal Realm and nearly stepping into the Transcendent Realm. Among the children in the Hidden World, he was absolutely the foremost, thus he was supremely confident in his battle against Xia Jianping.

"Stop with the nonsense, if you want to compete then let’s get on with it quickly, staying silent doesn’t make anyone think you’re a fool." Watching the arrogantly overbearing Kong Shen, Xia Jianping was speechless, casually threw a remark at Kong Shen, thinking that Kong Shen is still so arrogant at this point, not knowing where his confidence comes from. If that’s the case, he felt even more that he should defeat Kong Shen sooner to stop him from spouting nonsense here.

"You... you... once I defeat you, I want to see how sharp-tongued you can be!" Kong Shen, brimming with pride, immediately turned red-faced with anger upon hearing Xia Jianping’s words, pointed at Xia Jianping but couldn’t even complete his sentence. He couldn’t believe Xia Jianping dared to speak to him like that, it was simply outrageous!

After saying that, he didn’t say another word and immediately burst out, only to see Gang Qi erupting from his body in an instant, forming whirlwinds around him, covering an area of about twenty to thirty meters in diameter, instantly swirling with hurricane force, making him look even more imposing!

Half-Step Transcendent Realm?

The Kong Family has a child at the Half-Step Transcendent Realm?

Their secrecy is really top-notch!

...

The outburst of Kong Shen immediately drew everyone’s attention, they were all amazed that the Kong Family had such a child. Considering that the junior group comprises only children below the age of twelve, reaching the late stage of the Mortal Realm at this age is already deemed as a genius among geniuses, but now this Kong Shen actually achieved the Half-Step Transcendent Realm, such strength indeed gives him the capital to be arrogant.

For a moment, everyone started wondering about the outcome of the match between Kong Shen and Xia Jianping, considering Kong Shen’s strength had already reached the children’s limit. Before the age of twelve, no child in the Hidden World had ever reached the Transcendent Realm. The result of this battle was really hard to predict.

However, what surprised everyone was that Xia Jianping was not tense at all against Kong Shen’s Half-Step Transcendent Realm strength, maintaining a faint smile on his face. They didn’t know that Xia Jianping could even single-handedly slay true Transcendent Realm Demon Beasts, so for him to be nervous about Half-Step Transcendent Realm Kong Shen would indeed be strange.

Xia Jianping just stood there, completely indifferent to Kong Shen’s outburst, even without using his own Gang Qi, just smiling and watching Kong Shen, waiting for him to attack. Seeing that Xia Jianping was so dismissive of his Half-Step Transcendent Realm strength, Kong Shen’s face turned pale with rage, without another word his figure flashed, instantly like a gust of wind, suddenly rushing towards Xia Jianping!

Before even getting close to Xia Jianping, he gathered the Gang Qi atop his fists, delivering a Fist Aura punch towards Xia Jianping. In an instant, a punch with Fist Aura roared like a Dragon’s Chant towards Xia Jianping, its speed indescribable. This, after all, is Fist Aura that only a Half-Step Transcendent Realm expert can wield, and today he intended to see how Xia Jianping would handle this Fist Aura!

This? That’s it?

Seeing Kong Shen using Fist Aura against him, Xia Jianping’s smile grew even brighter, thinking Kong Shen was truly amusing. The power and speed of this Fist Aura, compared to that of a Transcendent Realm Demon Beast, was simply not close; thinking such a Fist Aura could injure him was purely a fantasy!

Since they’ve already clashed, better finish this quickly to avoid wasting time.

Having made up his mind, Xia Jianping’s smile suddenly vanished, and just as the Fist Aura was about to strike him, he suddenly moved. Just as it happened, it seemed that the formidable Fist Aura was dodged by Xia Jianping.

How is that possible, how could he dodge it?

Seeing the Fist Aura dodged, Kong Shen was immediately stunned, not expecting Xia Jianping to actually dodge his Fist Aura, wondering how it was possible given the speed of the Fist Aura, what exactly did Xia Jianping do? But he quickly snapped back to reality—thinking that even if Xia Jianping could dodge the Fist Aura, what does it matter, he could just get close and cripple Xia Jianping!

All of a sudden, Kong Shen, who was about to reach Xia Jianping, had his Gang Qi surge once again, the dense Gang Qi wrapping around his two fists, turning them into what seemed like two enormous hammers in an instant, undoubtedly devastating if they landed on someone.

Yet, at this moment, Xia Jianping still did not move, watching the charging Kong Shen and just shook his head lightly. Such an attack was basically ineffective against him as he had long noticed that Kong Shen was only up to this realm in terms of cultivation, and in other aspects, far from this realm, his strength posed no threat at all!

This act left all the observers of the battle stunned, not one understood why Xia Jianping would do this, facing a Half-Step Transcendent Realm expert and still not dodging or flinching, they wondered if Xia Jianping was already a Transcendent Realm expert himself, otherwise, how could he act like that?