Zhang Ruochen was placed in the first group of the Semi-Saint group, and there were sixty Saints in the group, all of them with cultivations above the Small Extreme Position of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, and all of them were dragons amongst men.
Moreover, the backgrounds were deep and their origins were not small.
Some were the heirs of saint clans, some were the young masters of a certain sect, and some were the children of court officials.
The first group, also known as the “Absolute Elite Group”, consisted of the sixty highest ranked freshmen from the Sword Dao Department.
Apart from Zhang Ruochen, Duanmu Xingling was also placed in the first group.
As for Huang Yichen, because she was ranked slightly lower during the three rounds of examination, she was placed in the second group of the Half-Saint Group.
At this moment, the sixty Saints in the first group were all gathered in the middle of an empty martial arts field, standing neatly, everyone looking handsome and full of energy.
Among them, the number of male Saints was higher, with thirty-eight. The number of female saints was smaller, only twenty-two.
“See, he’s the king of the new generation, Zhang Ruochen, it’s said that there are very few people who can catch three moves from him. Those who are able to catch ten moves from him will be famous all over the world.”
“Is he really as strong as the legends?”
Inside the first group of Saints stood a beautiful woman with a pair of dragon horns on her head. She looked over towards Zhang Ruochen, revealing a questioning look, not quite believing that Zhang Ruochen was as powerful as the legends.
Her name was, Ao Xin Yan, a clan member of the Divine Dragon Half Human Clan, with both human and dragon blood flowing in her body, with a half-dragon body, and she was only twenty-four years old this year, but her martial cultivation had already reached the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Great Extremity Position.
Ao Xinyan had entered the first group with the third place, just behind Zhang Ruochen and Duanmu Xingling.
Of course, it wasn’t that Ao Xin Yan’s strength was weaker than Zhang Ruochen and Duanmu Xing Ling, but it was because, during her training in the Five Elements Ruins Realm, she hadn’t accumulated as much Military Merit Value as Zhang Ruochen and Duanmu Xing Ling.
Ao Xin Yan’s skin was snow-white like jade, her body was perfect and graceful, her head was covered with colourful glazed crystals, and without running her gong methods, the water qi between heaven and earth converged towards her, making her look exceptionally holy, like a white and flawless jade lotus in the water.
“Don’t you know that Zhang Ruochen used eleven moves to defeat the Divine Sword Holy Land’s Lu Flipping Heaven, and used ten moves to defeat the Orange Moon Star Envoy of the Black Market’s One Piece Hall? Such a battle record, even the Saint Body Luo Shuihan, who is on par with him, would probably find it hard to achieve.”
“Zhang Ruochen will definitely become the leader of the first group, and in the future, he will be our benchmark and the goal we strive for.”
The crowd, you said and I said.
Hearing those Saints’ evaluation of Zhang Ruochen, Ao Xinyan’s eyes revealed a cold crag of defiance.
Ao Xinyan had never seen Zhang Ruochen fight with anyone, so naturally, she didn’t know how strong Zhang Ruochen was.
However, she believed in her own strength.
Ever since she was a child, among her peers, she had never lost once, so naturally, she defied anyone.
Throughout the years, the leader of the first group of the Sword Dao Department of the Sacred Academy almost represented the highest level of the younger generation of disciples of the Sacred Academy, and had the opportunity to compete for the throne of the “Young Duke” of the Martial Market Chambers.
The young masters of the Martial Market Bank were equivalent to the devil sons and holy daughters of the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult, and the young masters of the black market, and possessed a very high status and power to walk the world in the place of the Martial Market Bank and deal with the affairs of the common world.
Therefore, in the Sword Dao Department, the battle for the leader of the first group in every session was unprecedentedly fierce, and many people would fight tooth and nail for that one position.
This year, there was a Zhang Ruochen, who completely suppressed the light of the other geniuses. That was why no one had taken the initiative to fight for the position of group leader.
There was one exception, and that was Ao Xinyan.
Ao Xin Yan walked straight towards Zhang Ruochen, holding out her round breasts and tilting her snow-white chin, her beautiful eyes were filled with a chilling aura as she said, “Zhang Ruochen, if you want to become the leader of the first group, you must defeat me first.”
Zhang Ruochen raised his head and stared at Ao Xinyan.
It had to be said that this woman was very beautiful, comparable to a heavenly beauty, with delicate features and an enchanting figure, especially the snow-white beautiful muscles exposed outside her clothes, delicate as sheep’s fat, comparable to a blowing flick.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen was only looking at her with an admiring look and had no other evil thoughts as he said, “I never said that I want to be the leader of the first group. If you are interested, go ahead and do it, I definitely won’t compete with you.”
Ao Xin Yan snorted coldly and said, “Who doesn’t know that the leader of the first group must be the strongest Saint? I can only be the group leader if I defeat you. Zhang Ruochen, cut the crap, if you are a man, draw your sword and fight me now.”
“Today is the first day of school, I don’t want to fight anyone.”Zhang Ruochen said.
If he didn’t have to meet the lecturer of the first group, Zhang Ruochen would have already gone to the Book Depository and wouldn’t stay here, wasting time.
“You are afraid to fight me, aren’t you! You’re afraid of losing to me and thus losing the chance to become the group leader.”Ao Xin Yan deliberately provoked.
“Senior Sister Ao is right, I think Zhang Ruochen is afraid that he will lose, that’s why he doesn’t dare to fight you.”The voice of a conspiratorial woman rang out with a mocking tone.
Zhang Ruochen looked towards the owner of that one voice and saw another very good-looking woman, who turned out to be that one heir of the Xi Sacred Sect Valve, named Xi Yunxi.
At the Pilgrimage Heavenly Staircase, Zhang Ruochen had once fought with her.
She was also a very outstanding daughter of the heavens, possessing a sanctified left hand that was strong and could not be underestimated.
For her to be able to become a Saint in the first group of the Sword Dao Department, Zhang Ruochen wasn’t surprised in the slightest.
A male Saint standing beside Xi Yunxi, his eyes flickered with a strange light as he laughed, “Ao Xinyan is known as a hundred-year rare talent in the Divine Dragon Demi-Human Race, her cultivation is very powerful, she once defeated a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Realm, so perhaps Zhang Ruochen really isn’t a match for her.”
This one male Saint, who was also an heir of a certain Saint Clan, was very close to Xi Yunxi and was one of her suitors.
Ao Xin Yan revealed a sneer and said, “The so-called king of the new generation turns out to be nothing but a coward, what a disappointment to me.”
“Whatever you say.”Zhang Ruochen said indifferently.
Ao Xin Yan originally wanted to stimulate Zhang Ruochen with her words and force Zhang Ruochen to make a move, but she didn’t expect that Zhang Ruochen completely ignored her and had no intention of fighting her at all.
“Since you don’t dare to fight me, in the future, don’t call yourself a king of the new generation in front of people.”Ao Xinyan said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “I have never claimed to be a king of the new generation.”
Ao Xinyan’s eyes glared, rather exasperated.
With a swish, her fingers trembled and drew out her true qi, pulling out the Dragon Marked Aqua Sword and stabbing it towards Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
Since she couldn’t provoke Zhang Ruochen to strike with her words, she could only force him to strike.
No matter what, she had to fight Zhang Ruochen today, and only by defeating Zhang Ruochen would she have a chance to become the leader of the first group.
“Snap!”
A translucent qi energy flew from afar and struck above the blade of the Dragon Marked Aqua Sword.
The power of the qi energy was so strong that the sword body trembled violently, causing Ao Xin Yan’s fingers to go numb, and her body fell back as if she had hit on top of a curtain of light.
“What person?”Ao Xin Yan said in a cold voice.
“Wow!”
Above the heads of the crowd, an intense white light emanated out, forming a pillar of light that fell from the sky and connected all the way to the earth.
Afterwards, a woman in red, who was only three inches tall, was seen flying down from the sky.
Beneath her feet, she stepped on a cloud of colourful auspiciousness and stood two metres above the ground, exuding a divine meteorology from her body.
It was none other than the Spirit Pivot Half-Saint that Zhang Ruochen had once met.
“Greetings to the Half-Saint.”
All the Saints present, all of them kneeled down on one knee and bowed respectfully to the Spiritual Pivot Half-Saint.
Half Saints, transcending above all beings.
Not to mention them, even if a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Realm saw a Half-Saint, they would have to bow down and salute.
“Greetings to the Half-Saint.”
Ao Xin Yan’s heart trembled when she saw that it was actually a Half-Saint arriving, and she also immediately knelt down on one knee, not daring to continue challenging Zhang Ruochen.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint glanced towards the sixty Saints and said, “From now on, you are the Saints of the first group of the Sword Dao Department’s Half-Saint Group, and I, your lecturer, you can call me Spirit Pivot Teacher, or you can call me Spirit Pivot Half-Saint.”
“Greetings, Spirit Hub Teacher.”The crowd of trainees said in unison.
From now on, they were the Half Saint’s students, and many people’s hearts were thrilled.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint said, “Our Half-Saint Group is different from the Fish and Dragon Group, all the Saints who are able to enter the Half-Saint Group are elites among elites, geniuses among geniuses. You guys are human geniuses that can be ranked in the forefront even in the entire Eastern Region. Therefore, I won’t be teaching you guys too much, more than that, I need you guys to go to your own realisations and cultivate on your own. Of course, if you guys don’t understand anything, you can always come and ask me.”
“As the first group of saints, you must be strict with yourselves.”
“I only have two requirements for you, within five years, you must enter the top two hundred of the Heavenly Ranking. Within ten years, you must break through to the Fish Dragon Realm. If you fail to meet these two points, you will be directly kicked out of the first group.”
“Boom!”
Everyone felt like they had been hit with a stick in the head, and a boom resounded inside their heads.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint’s two-point requirement was too perverse.
To enter the top two hundred positions of The Heavenly Ranking was already as difficult as climbing up to heaven, and she actually demanded that it had to be reached within five years.
Five years, not too long to say, not too short to say.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint acted as if she didn’t see the faces of the crowd and continued, ”Five years is already long enough, you guys can either go to the Martial Market Fighting Arena to challenge the top 200 experts on the Heavenly Ranking, or you can go to the Ruins Realm Battlefield to kill the enemies, accumulating enough military merit value to impact the top 200 on the Heavenly Ranking. Both paths, you guys can choose however you want.”
“Of course, the leader of the first group, I will have higher requirements for him. Within three years, he must enter the top ten of the Heavenly Ranking. If he fails to reach it, then I can only replace him.”
“Now, I will ask, who is willing to be the leader of the first group?”
