Venerable level strength
Gu Xuan blushed as he watched Chen Ba leave. With his current strength, he could use other methods to defeat Chen Ba. Moreover, it would be much easier.
However, Gu Xuan did not do so. Instead, he chose the most direct and exaggerated method.
This was not because he disliked Chen Ba, but because he wanted to respond to Zhou Juechu.
Previously, Chen Ba had displayed strength that was stronger than his, and this person had also provoked him verbally. This was nothing, it was just a competition.
However, Zhou Juechu's words had a different meaning.
Just as Chen Ba was about to start a conflict with him, Zhou Juechu immediately threw an olive branch to Chen Ba, causing Chen Ba to kneel on the ground excitedly.
Others might think that Zhou Juechu wanted to nurture Chen Ba and support his own forces.
However, Gu Xuan knew that Zhou Juechu had absolutely no intention of roping Chen Ba in. The reason why Chen Ba was able to challenge those above his level was not because of his extraordinary talent, but because he had cultivated a type of cultivation technique.
Once a student of the academy had broken through to the Revered Rank, as long as they were willing to officially join the academy, they would immediately receive a scroll as a reward. At that time, Chen Ba's advantage would be completely gone.
With Zhou Juechu's aptitude, it was impossible for him to take a fancy to Chen Ba. There was only one reason why Zhou Juechu wanted to recruit Chen Ba, and that was to let him know the difference between them.
The person that Zhou Juechu was unable to defeat had become uncontrollably excited just because he had tried to rope him in. This also highlighted Zhou Juechu's superiority.
Therefore, Gu Xuan did not choose to use his full strength to directly crush Chen Ba. Instead, he chose to compete with Chen Ba in terms of strength. He used Chen Ba's best method to defeat Chen Ba. This was the only way he could slap Zhou Juechu's face.
Gu Xuan did this to tell Zhou Juechu, "The person you value is nothing to me!"
From the very beginning, Gu Xuan had felt an indescribable hostility from Zhou Juechu. However, as long as he provoked Gu Xuan, Gu Xuan would not care in the slightest regardless of who the other party was or what their status was.
As Gu Xuan walked down from the battle stage, Zhou Juechu's expression was extremely gloomy.
Chen Ba, whom he had previously thought highly of, had actually been defeated by Gu Xuan in such a straightforward manner. This was truly embarrassing for him.
The Azure Dragon Envoy took a step forward. His eyes were cold as he said in a low voice, "Master, do you want me to kill him?"
"No need." Zhou Juechu frowned. "He's just a slightly stronger ant. Bickering with such a person is beneath my status. Let's continue watching. Even if he defeated Chen Ba, he might not be the number one in the Heavenly Court. Even if he is the number one in the Heavenly Court, so what? My true strength is not in the Xuan Grade, but in the Revered Grade. Even if he is on par with me in the Xuan Grade, that's all there is to it!"
"Yes!" The Azure Dragon Envoy replied and returned to his original position.
…
Gu Xuan walked down the battle platform, while Zhao Mayi carefully sized up Gu Xuan, shook his head and sighed: "I'm really a little curious, what are your hands made of? It's one thing for an ordinary person to be able to take a sword head on, but you were actually able to withstand Chen Ba's giant axe, it's really unbelievable, an ordinary body refining technique doesn't have this kind of ability, could it be a middle rank technique?"
"Perhaps." Gu Xuan smiled.
Middle-grade cultivation method? Zhao Mayi thought too highly of a middle rank technique. If an ordinary middle rank technique could be as good as a tenth of his, then it would be fine.
The Divine Weapon Arts that he trained in was already a divine rank technique that was above the upper rank. It could be trained from the Spirit Grade, tempering one's body into a divine weapon. When trained to the Great Completion Realm, one could take on a Heaven Grade Spirit Treasure head on!
Gu Xuan's previous Divine Weapon Arts was far from being able to reach this level. However, with the breakthrough in his realm, although he didn't deliberately train in it, the Divine Weapon Arts had been greatly strengthened. The other parts of his body could take on ordinary swords, but his specially strengthened right hand's strength was unimaginable.
The battle between Gu Xuan and Chen Ba was seen as the final battle by many of the Heavenly Court students. The popularity of the Heavenly Court Tournament had also become lukewarm.
One by one, the students fought. Because Gu Xuan had challenged too many people before, among the people that he had chosen, about fifteen to sixteen of them were people that he had challenged before.
Now that they were fighting again, Ye Cang, Qin Feng and the others couldn't help but sigh. The Gu Xuan that they had gathered together to deal with, and even looked down on, had now grown to a height that they couldn't reach. The gap between them and Gu Xuan was so big that they couldn't even feel jealous.
And this was only in the span of a few months.
Round after round of battles ended very quickly. When there were sixteen people left, they were divided into groups. Those who had been eliminated had to fight again to determine the ranking. However, the students on the Mountain River List had all fought before, and many of them directly admitted defeat. At this stage, there was no need to force them to fight.
After two rounds, only Gu Xuan, Zhao Mayi, Lin He and the seventh ranked student had maintained a clean record.
Elder Lin wrote down the names of the four people, and then picked out two of them to determine the situation of the battle.
Gu Xuan and Song Tian, Zhao Mayi and Lin He.
Gu Xuan hadn't even stepped onto the stage when the student called Song Tian shook his head and said helplessly: "I'm far from being Senior Brother Gu's opponent. I admit defeat."
If he had picked Lin He, maybe he would have dared to fight. But against Gu Xuan, he had lost the courage to even fight.
Towards this result, no one was surprised. From the looks of it, Gu Xuan was the strongest out of the four, and Song Tian was the weakest. It was normal for him to admit defeat.
Gu Xuan and Song Tian's battle ended hastily, while Zhao Mayi and Lin He walked onto the stage.
"Junior Brother Lin, I know that you are not weak. I wonder if you will continue to hide this time?" Zhao Mayi looked at Lin He and said with a smile.
"Hide?" Lin He's face revealed a smile, "I think there is no need for that now. I am already prepared to break through to the paragon rank and obtain first place in this year's Heavenly Court competition. That would be perfect."
Hearing the words "First place in the competition", Zhao Mayi frowned slightly. Gu Xuan's strength was so tyrannical. Logically speaking, obtaining first place in the competition was a certainty. This Lin He, could it be that he was confident that he was stronger than Gu Xuan?
Boom!
Before Zhao Mayi could think further, Lin He's aura suddenly exploded out. It was still at the peak of the Profound Grade.
However, after this aura appeared, many people sucked in a breath of cold air.
Although Lin He's aura was at the peak of the Profound Grade, it was much more powerful than a true one-star paragon rank warrior!
After Chen Ba had broken through, he was only comparable to a one-star paragon rank warrior in terms of brute force. But in other aspects, he was far from a true paragon rank warrior.
Lin He, on the other hand, truly possessed the fighting power of a true paragon rank!
"Looks like the first place in this year's competition will fall on Lin He's head."
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