novelraw Chapter 401: A Living Legend
Chapter 401: A Living Legend
Ocean Realm, first stage!
A twenty-five-year-old Ocean Realm first stage!
This realization exploded simultaneously in the minds of all nine of them!
All their anger, resentment, humiliation, and confusion...
In this moment, all vanished like smoke and dispersed.
Transforming into a kind of... release.
So... that's how it is.
So he was already in the Ocean Realm.
So the opponent they were facing was not even on the same level.
No wonder he could toy with them so easily, no wonder he could cripple Bai Pojun with a single punch.It wasn't that they were too weak, but that their opponent... was too strong!
Strong to a degree that surpassed their understanding!
If they had been defeated by a centuries-old Ocean Realm monster, they might still have felt resentment, might still have thought about catching up in the future.
But Su Zhan was their peer!
This enormous gap brought by age utterly shattered all their hearts of comparison.
What can make a genius submit is only the existence of an even greater genius!
At this moment, not a shred of fighting spirit rose in their hearts, only a feeling of helplessness like gazing at the vast starry sky, and... a complex emotion of witnessing the birth of a legend.
Su Zhan slowly raised his right hand.
He did not use any Life Soul skill.
He simply gathered the vast, ocean-like Ocean Realm Spiritual Energy within his body into his palm, and then... casually pushed forward.
It was just a torrent of Spiritual Energy, containing the might of heaven and earth, radiating outwards from him as the center, pushing flatly in all directions!
"BOOM—!!!"
The nine prodigies couldn't even manage a blocking motion before they were violently struck by this irresistible force.
Their protective Spiritual Energy shattered like paper.
Nine figures were sent flying backwards with no power to resist.
They crashed down in various corners of the arena, dazed and disoriented.
Some unconscious, some collapsed on the ground, completely losing their fighting ability.
One strike!
Just the purest Spiritual Energy impact!
The nine great prodigies, completely annihilated!
The entire Celestial Arena fell into a deathly silence.
Only Su Zhan stood there calmly.
The aura of the Ocean Realm was like a crown, bestowed upon him.
With his absolute strength, he carved a mark belonging solely to him upon this era!
The arena was in complete disarray.
The nine prodigies lay scattered in all directions on the ground.
The referee stood with his mouth agape, staring at this unbelievable scene.
Only when Su Zhan's calm gaze swept over him.
Did he jolt violently, announcing in a trembling voice, "M-match over! The winner is... Su Zhan!"
The entire audience erupted into frenzied cheers.
Countless people were so excited they were moved to tears:
"Su Zhan! Su Zhan! Su Zhan!"
"Ocean Realm! A twenty-five-year-old Ocean Realm!"
"We witnessed history! We witnessed a legend!"
"This is the true number one under heaven!"
On the Judges' Platform.
Several high-ranking officials looked ashen-faced, slumping despondently into their chairs. They knew all their schemes had come to nothing; Su Zhan was now unstoppable.
The deans of the Five Great Academies exchanged complex glances, each seeing the same shock in the other's eyes.
The times had changed; a new era led by Su Zhan had already arrived.
Feng Jue, Xu Hao, and Liu Ziming looked at each other with bitter smiles.
"I believe now that Brother Su was really going easy on us back then."
Xu Hao shook his head and sighed.
"This gap... is so vast it makes you not even want to think about catching up."
Liu Ziming murmured.
Feng Jue remained silent for a long time before finally slowly letting out a breath: "Being able to walk a part of the road with him was our fortune."
Mo Yuan wore a slight smile, enjoying this frenzy alongside Su Zhan.
After all, he was not without merit in Su Zhan's realm advancement.
The powerful individuals from various major forces watching this battle via live broadcast unanimously issued the same orders:
"Re-evaluate everything about Su Zhan!"
"Spare no cost to befriend this person!"
"Immediately adjust our policies towards Vermilion Bird Academy!"
...
Many Awakened individuals who deeply understood the hardships of cultivation were now in tears.
They grabbed their companions beside them tightly, roaring with hoarse voices:
"Ocean Realm! It's the Ocean Realm! I've been cultivating for a hundred and twenty years and I'm still stuck spinning my wheels in the Abyss Realm!"
"You youngsters simply don't understand! Being able to touch the threshold of the Ocean Realm before forty is already considered upper-mid among geniuses!"
"Our president trained bitterly for eighty years and only just entered the Ocean Realm last year. The entire city celebrated with gongs and drums for three months! But Su Zhan... he's only twenty-five!"
The younger audience members might not have a personal understanding of the specific hardships of cultivation.
But from the loss of composure of their elders, they intuitively grasped the terror that was Su Zhan.
They frantically waved anything they could get their hands on, shouting themselves hoarse:
"I get it now! The ten top prodigies are like heavenly soldiers and generals who cultivated for a thousand years and finally attained their celestial posts, thinking they're somebody. Then they go out and run into Sun Wukong wreaking havoc in the Heavenly Palace! With one swing of his staff, a hundred thousand heavenly troops are just background decoration!"
"Su Zhan is that Sun Wukong! The top ten don't even qualify to be monster chieftains, they're just the front-row cannon fodder grunts!"
"What we just watched wasn't a match, it was the Great Sage Equal of Heaven clearing out the Southern Heavenly Gate!"
This understanding pushed everyone's emotions to their peak.
What they witnessed was not a simple victory, but the birth of a living myth.
Chu Zhou and the others lying on the arena struggled to lift their heads, gazing at that figure standing proudly over the entire venue.
There was no more resentment in their eyes, only deep reverence.
When a peer becomes so powerful you can't even see their back, all that remains is to look up.
Su Zhan bathed in the gaze of countless millions, accepting all of this with equanimity.
From this moment on.
He was no longer the "Chen Qing" who needed to hide.
Nor was he the "deceased genius" Su Zhan.
He was Su Zhan.
A twenty-five-year-old Ocean Realm.
A living legend.
A myth of an era.
The host took a deep breath and, using a voice infused with spiritual power, addressed the entire venue, the hundreds of millions of viewers before all the live broadcast cameras:
"Ladies! Gentlemen! Fellow countrymen of all Daxia!
Please allow me... please allow all of us, at this moment, to observe three seconds of silence!"
He solemnly lowered his head, and the clamorous waves of sound in the entire venue miraculously subsided.
"These three seconds are dedicated to history! Dedicated to today! Dedicated to the young man before our eyes... who has redefined genius, who has rewritten possibility, Su Zhan!"
The host suddenly raised his head, his arm shooting high into the air, pointing at that proudly standing figure on the arena, his voice abruptly rising:
"We once thought that reaching the Ocean Realm at forty was a heaven-sent talent!
We once thought that the ten top prodigies were the most dazzling peaks of this era!
But today, right now, Su Zhan tells us with his indisputable strength...
Beyond the peaks, there is still the azure sky!
He has shown us what it means to be unprecedented.
He has made us believe that miracles are right before our eyes.
A twenty-five-year-old Ocean Realm!
This is not the end, it is only the starting point of his legendary path!"