novelraw Chapter 51 – The four were
Chapter 51 – The four were
On the training grounds, after a thousand geniuses were sent into the Heart of Heaven Realm, it didn't take long before they started to be sent out one after another.
"Am I... eliminated?"
"It shouldn't be. My strength was enough to withstand that round of attacks, but my spiritual power was completely depleted."
"How many rounds did you withstand?"
"Eight rounds!"
These geniuses, who had already been sent out, gathered together, discussing and looking mostly displeased.
Before long, most of the geniuses had already been sent out from the Heart of Heaven Realm.
At this moment, a burly blond man was also sent out.
His appearance immediately drew the attention of all the geniuses present.
"It's Cang Yan!"
"Him?"
"He was sent out so early?"
Many geniuses were astonished.
Cang Yan was a top-tier genius capable of competing for the top twenty in the hunt. In terms of strength alone, he shouldn't have been sent out of the Heart of Heaven Realm so early.
After all, there were still over a hundred geniuses remaining inside.
"Damn it!"
Cang Yan gritted his teeth, clenching his fists, his expression extremely unpleasant.
"I was too reckless!"
"I should have been more cautious, conserving my spiritual power as much as possible. Otherwise, I could have withstood the tenth round of attacks!"
Inside the Heart of Heaven Realm, facing the rounds of opponents, he had unleashed his full strength from the start, forcibly defeating them with sheer power.
Although he quickly passed the eighth round, his spiritual power was mostly depleted. By the time he realized something was wrong, it was already too late.
He barely made it through the ninth round, but in the tenth round, the opponent's strength suddenly surged, and with only a small amount of spiritual power left, he was eliminated.
"In the Heart of Heaven Realm, the ninth round is a threshold. By the tenth round, the difficulty increases significantly!"
"If too much spiritual power is consumed in the first nine rounds, the increased difficulty and excessive depletion of spiritual power in the tenth round can lead to elimination."
Elder Mo from the Tianye Sect stood with his hands behind his back, watching as geniuses were eliminated and sent out from the Heart of Heaven Realm, shaking his head silently.
He understood the purpose of the Heavenflame Dynasty using the Heart of Heaven Realm as the second phase of the hunting assessment.
For a genius, talent and strength are important, but if they lack basic crisis judgment or are too slow to react in special environments, no matter how high their talent, they won't go far.
Like Cang Yan, who acted too recklessly, relying on brute force to defeat opponents without understanding the rules of the second phase of the hunt, resulting in early elimination, it was deserved.
...
As time passed, more and more geniuses were sent out of the Heart of Heaven Realm.
After a while, Duan Yunfeng was also sent out.
"What a pity. I knew I had to conserve spiritual power as much as possible, but during the battles, I couldn't help but use powerful sword techniques to defeat them."
"If I had a bit more spiritual power, I could have used a few more ultimate moves, and I could have withstood the thirteenth round of attacks, maybe even lasted a bit in the fourteenth round," Duan Yunfeng sighed.
He had passed twelve rounds of attacks in the Heart of Heaven Realm and lasted most of the thirteenth round before being eliminated.
This result was already among the best of the eliminated geniuses.
Now, only four images remained floating in the sky above the training grounds.
This meant that only four people were left in the Heart of Heaven Realm, continuing their trials.
These four were...
The universally acknowledged strongest, Xia Mang!
From the Qi Prince's Mansion, Tu San!
The mysterious monk, Wu Chao!
And finally, the one suspected of having top ten strength but doubted by many due to only having Sea Transformation level... Su Xin!
...
In the Heart of Heaven Realm, within the trial space, the thirteenth round was underway.
The opponents in this thirteenth round were ten black-armored soldiers wielding long spears.
Each of these black-armored soldiers was incredibly powerful, their spear thrusts terrifyingly formidable.
In the center of the trial space stood the barefoot monk Wu Chao, a string of prayer beads around his neck, casually wielding a stone staff.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!~~~
Each swing of the stone staff sent a black-armored soldier flying.
When all ten soldiers attacked simultaneously, they were all sent flying.
Simple and brutal!
No fancy techniques.
In the eyes of many, these terrifyingly powerful black-armored soldiers were like sandbags in front of Wu Chao, repeatedly sent flying.
"So strong!"
"How powerful is that monk's stone staff?"
"This is the thirteenth round's opponent? Any one of those black-armored soldiers could easily crush a genius who passed the second level of the Dragon-Seeking Tower, right?"
The geniuses on the training grounds, along with the strong figures from various factions and sects, were all deeply shocked watching the scene of Wu Chao easily defeating the black-armored soldiers.
"That freak!"
Duan Yunfeng gritted his teeth, recalling how he was knocked senseless by that monk's staff, sending shivers down his spine.
The thirteenth round was quickly passed.
In the fourteenth round, the opponents were still ten spear-wielding soldiers, but their armor had changed from black to silver, and their combat strength had increased.
"That's enough!"
Monk Wu Chao calmly watched the ten silver-armored soldiers approach.
"Having withstood thirteen rounds of attacks, I should pass this second phase of the hunt."
"I didn't come to this hunt for fame; that's enough."
The monk smiled honestly, and under the attack of the ten silver-armored soldiers, he symbolically swung his stone staff a few times before being eliminated and sent out.
As Wu Chao appeared on the training grounds, the geniuses present all wore extremely peculiar expressions.
"How could it be? He passed the thirteenth round so easily, but in the fourteenth round, he was eliminated so quickly? Did he run out of spiritual power?"
"Impossible! Look at how relaxed he was before; he didn't seem to use much spiritual power. I think he lost on purpose."
Most geniuses understood.
Wu Chao clearly didn't intend to continue, so he deliberately got eliminated.
As for his strength...
Previously, the Crimson Dragon Tower had assessed him as having top ten hunting strength, and no one doubted it. Now, many believed that Wu Chao's true strength might not be weaker than Xia Mang!
"Situ Yu, I heard that during the first phase of the hunt, Wu Chao was looking for you. You better be careful," someone reminded.
Situ Yu's face was as dark as water.
He knew the monk was strong, but not this strong.
"Where did this monster come from?"
Situ Yu gritted his teeth.
...
In another trial space.
Xia Mang had also reached the fourteenth round.
At this moment, all eyes were on him.
"I am a member of the Imperial Family!"
"I represent the dignity of the Imperial Family!"
"I will enter the Heavenflame Palace, and it must be as the first place in this hunt!"
"Not only must I rank first in the end, but I must also be first in this second phase of the hunt!"
With a robust build, a cold and arrogant face, and a hint of dominance, Xia Mang stood in the center.
Born into the Imperial Family, he didn't grow up pampered but in the most intense and brutal competition.
In such an environment, he always pursued being the strongest!
"I've been through the Heart of Heaven Realm many times before, always stopping at the fourteenth round!"
"But this time, I will pass!"
Xia Mang roared, his spear like a flood dragon.
Dominant!
Fierce!
The power was terrifyingly extreme.
The ten silver-armored soldiers attacking from all sides were each incredibly strong, let alone when they joined forces. But under Xia Mang's dominant and fierce spear techniques, three were quickly killed.
Then, boom! Boom! Boom!
After a dozen more fierce and intense exchanges.
The ten silver-armored soldiers were all killed by Xia Mang alone.
The fourteenth round, passed!
"So strong!"
"Too strong!"
The training grounds erupted in exclamations.
"Until now, even top geniuses like Tu San and Wu Chao only passed the thirteenth round, and in the fourteenth round, they were quickly eliminated. But Xia Mang directly passed the fourteenth round, and he didn't just barely withstand the attacks of the ten silver-armored soldiers; he overpowered them with sheer strength. This power... is terrifying!"
"Terrifying!"
"Overwhelmingly strong!"
"This is the universally acknowledged strongest in this hunt!"
The entire training grounds were in an uproar.
No one expected Xia Mang's strength to be this formidable.
"The third level!"
"Xia Mang definitely has the strength to pass the third level of the Dragon-Seeking Tower!"
The top experts from various factions and sects were equally shaken.
They knew that being able to pass the fourteenth round of the Heart of Heaven Realm, and doing so by overpowering the opponents, meant having the strength to pass the third level of the Dragon-Seeking Tower.
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Passing the third level of the Dragon-Seeking Tower, in the Heavenflame Dynasty, represents the most extreme genius.
Such a genius is rare, even in several or a dozen Imperial Capital Hunts, but this time, one appeared.
After passing the fourteenth round, Xia Mang faced the fifteenth round's opponents, ten spear-wielding golden-armored soldiers.
These golden-armored soldiers were clearly stronger than the silver-armored ones. Xia Mang held out for a while against them before being defeated.
After Xia Mang's defeat, in the entire second phase of the hunt, out of a thousand geniuses, only one remained in the Heart of Heaven Realm, continuing the trials.
That person was Su Xin!!