CHAPTER 1256: CHAPTER 1254: RULES (3RD UPDATE)

"Su Chen, you’re lying to me." Lin Yanran’s gaze shifted from Huang Siyu to Su Chen, and she walked over to him, biting her silver teeth as she spoke.

"How did I lie to you?" Su Chen replied with a playful smile and asked.

"You’re obviously so strong. And yet you pretend." Lin Yanran said with resentment. She had worried for Su Chen, lamented his inability to enter Yanxu Palace, and was anxious about Su Chen competing with Bei Buxiu for points...

In the end... Su Chen clearly possessed the strongest strength!

This bastard.

A big bastard.

"You never asked." Su Chen touched his nose and said, "Besides, I didn’t lie to you; I promised you would be second."

As he spoke, Su Chen raised his hand, moving the Beast Ring towards Lin Yanran’s Beast Ring, and gave Lin Yanran three hundred thousand points, enough for the second place.

Now, on the entire Assessment Island, apart from Woe Lingyun, all the other points were gathered in Bei Buxiu’s hands, well, which meant in Su Chen’s hands.

And Woe Lingyun probably only had about a hundred thousand points, so Lin Yanran indeed secured second place.

"You hide well." Woe Lingyun also appeared, her beautiful eyes looking at Su Chen with complexity.

She imagined various scenarios of Su Chen encountering Bei Buxiu—an earth-shattering battle? An evenly matched life-and-death struggle? Su Chen winning tragically? Su Chen being besieged to death? Su Chen winning over Bei Buxiu by a hair? And so on...

Yet never did she expect that when Bei Buxiu faced Su Chen, he didn’t even have the courage to make a move; Su Chen’s aura alone could crush Bei Buxiu.

The gap between them, what on earth had it reached?

According to Woe Lingyun’s estimation, Su Chen’s strength had even infinitely approached the Broken Eternal Realm, perhaps it was already the first level of the Broken Eternal Realm!

Woe Lingyun speculated based on the strength Su Chen had shown before.

She was somewhat trembling with fear; at twenty-six, having strength around the Broken Eternal Realm!?

Using ’genius’ or ’monster’ to describe Su Chen was an insult, wasn’t it?

Su Chen had surpassed the entire young generation of War Ancient Sky by several levels.

But in fact, Woe Lingyun knew nothing about Su Chen’s true strength, which was around the fifth or sixth layer of the Broken Eternal Realm.

Previously, whether facing the siege of those four thousand examinees, suppressing Zheng Tianqiong and others, or using his aura to defeat Bei Buxiu, he hadn’t truly exerted all his strength.

"Thank you." Su Chen glanced at Woe Lingyun, having some fondness towards her, for this woman reminded him, although her reminder was not particularly crucial, it nonetheless incurred a little bit of personal debt.

"Didn’t help you much; it was my ignorance." Beneath the veil, a touch of embarrassment flashed in Woe Lingyun’s beautiful eyes.

With such shockingly strong prowess, Su Chen was still stopped by her from seeking Bei Buxiu—a laughable matter indeed.

She couldn’t help but feel some anger; like Lin Yanran, her anger stemmed from Su Chen hiding too deeply; was he treating everyone like monkeys for his amusement?

With Su Chen’s strength, attending this assessment seemed like bullying, wasn’t it? Having such prowess and yet only at the eighth level of the Eternal Sovereign Realm—wasn’t it too misleading?

Of course, such complaints and anger could only be kept in the heart.

"The Space Gate on Assessment Island is open." Su Chen wanted to say more, but Lin Yanran raised her hand, pointing upwards and told him. She seemed not to want Su Chen and Woe Lingyun to continue their conversation.

"Let’s head out." Su Chen nodded, and he and Lin Yanran flashed outside Assessment Island; Woe Lingyun followed closely behind. The other examinees, despite being heavily injured, also exited the island.

Beyond the Assessment Island was Yanxu Forest.

Lan Dingtian was already waiting within Yanxu Forest!

When Su Chen and the others came out.

Lan Dingtian gave Su Chen a deep look, then suddenly raised his hand, swinging it towards his side where a Crystal Stele appeared.

On the Crystal Stele were several names.

The first rank, surprisingly, was Su Chen.

The second was Lin Yanran.

The third was Woe Lingyun.

Only these three names.

"Our Sect’s Lan Dingtian, Palace Master of Yanxu Palace."

"Originally, this Crystal Stele should record a thousand names." Lan Dingtian began, "but, due to certain reasons, this assessment only has three examinees with scores."

This was the first time such a situation occurred in the Yanxu Palace’s basic entry assessment.

For the first time in history.

"Aside from these three scored individuals, the remaining 997, based on a comprehensive estimate of realm and strength, our sect has a general ranking estimate." Lan Dingtian continued, then he raised a finger and pointed at the Crystal Stele.

Immediately.

On the Crystal Stele, besides the names Su Chen, Lin Yanran, and Woe Lingyun, many other names appeared.

Fourth, Bei Buxiu.

Fifth, Zheng Tianqiong.

Sixth, Ying Tianxia.

Seventh, Yao Tong.

Eighth, Ye Kaiya.

Ninth, Guo Dingyang.

Tenth, Zhao Wusheng.

Eleventh, Sui Yi.

Twelfth...Thirteenth...Fourteenth... up to one thousand...

"This thousand individuals shall enter Yanxu Palace. The first hundred will directly enter Xuan Palace.

"This Crystal Stele is named the Freshman Qianyuan List. It will be updated daily. This stele will stand in the Martial Training Field of Yanxu Palace." Lan Dingtian continued:

"The fluctuation in rankings will be based on combat achievements!!! For instance, today you might be thirtieth, but if you challenge and defeat twenty-ninth, then tomorrow you are twenty-ninth, and twenty-ninth drops to thirty."

"The quality of rankings relates to Martial Cultivation Resources, relates to the extent of secret realms’ openness, relates to the degree of the academy’s acknowledgment of you, and even relates to whether you can qualify for advancement to the Underground Palace, etc."

"Hence, our sect advises you all to battle more, challenge more, and strive to ascend to higher ranks, and to encourage all of you to fight! Fight!! Fight!!! All freshmen, if for ten consecutive days they do not challenge other freshmen, their ranking will automatically drop by one place."

...

When Lan Dingtian finished speaking, many examinees who made it into the top thousand and qualified to enter Yanxu Palace had their faces change.

Such terrifying rules.

Virtually to drive newcomers to fight non-stop at all times!

Too harsh.

Su Chen’s interest lay more on Bei Buxiu.

Very gutsy!

Daring to still join Yanxu Palace? It seems the backstage is very very strong!

"By the way, to remind you, although Yanxu Palace encourages combat, forbidden deathmatches are prohibited. After entering Yanxu Palace, regardless of any personal vendetta, killing is forbidden."

Lan Dingtian continued, with such degree of encouragement for combat, if deathmatches were still not prohibited, perhaps within ten years, ninety percent of the disciples in Yanxu Palace would perish, which is unwanted.

Upon hearing Lan Dingtian’s statement, many sighed in relief.

Su Chen nodded slightly, understanding a bit; no wonder Bei Buxiu was so bold; turns out, within Yanxu Palace, death duels are forbidden, plus having strong backing, Bei Buxiu is quite safe.