Chapter 267 Beneath the Amethyst! All Are Ready to Fight!

Chapter 267: below amethyst rank! All May Come to Battle!

Jiang Yun's voice was not loud.

But it was like a piece of ice dropped into boiling oil.

Instantly freezing the clamor of the thousands of people before the mountain gate.

"I am the Heavenly Saint Student personally designated by the Dean! Jiang Yun!"

Silence.

An absolute silence swept across the entire mountain gate area.

The previous sky-high discussions, ridicule, and doubts were abruptly cut off as if by an invisible giant hand.

Everyone's movements were frozen.

Tiptoes forgotten to be lowered.

Open mouths forgotten to be closed.

Pointing fingers frozen in mid-air.

After several breaths.

"Hiss—!"

The sound of collective sharp intakes of breath was like wind passing through a bamboo forest.

Suddenly whipping up in the silence!

Immediately following.

Incredulous exclamations were like dense raindrops.

Exploding with a pitter-patter.

"He... he is Jiang Yun?!"

"Which Heavenly Saint Student?!!"

"How is it possible?! How could he appear at the bottom of the mountain? Isn't he at the Peak of Heaven Pillar Peak?"

"When did he come down? We didn't see him at all!"

"My god! Just now... who said he didn't dare to show his face?"

"Now this Heavenly Saint Student has directly run out and taken the initiative to stand before everyone..."

"What does he want to do? Doesn't he know what the situation is now? At a time like this, he actually dares to come out!"

One gaze after another.

From initial confusion and doubt, they instantly transformed into extreme shock and horror.

Focusing on Jiang Yun like searchlights.

Focusing on the token in his hand that radiated a restrained but unquestionable pressure.

The Tianqiong Ancient Seal Script on that token seemed to come alive at this moment, flowing with Dao Rhyme, silently crushing everyone's common sense and pride.

The expression on Chu Yunfei's face was as colorful as an overturned palette.

Astonishment, disbelief, humiliation, the anger of being fooled... eventually, it all turned into a grim ashen color!

He had completely not expected.

That the youth before him was his target for this time.

That Heavenly Saint Student!

Jiang Yun!

Just now.

He had actually, in front of everyone.

Pointed at this Heavenly Saint Student's nose.

And told him to get lost!

And even threatened to teach him the rules!

Yet the other party hadn't paid him any attention at all... he felt like he had been played like a monkey.

Humiliation!

An unprecedented sense of humiliation was like scorching lava.

Instantly crushing his sense of superiority as eighty-seventh on the earth ranking!

He could even feel the gazes of the few lackeys beside him change from previous fawning fanaticism to instant blankness and... a trace of hard-to-detect pity?

"You... you are Jiang Yun?!"

Chu Yunfei's voice sounded like it was squeezed out from between his teeth.

Carrying trembling and heavy shame and anger.

"Good! Very good! You actually dared to make a fool of me?!"

At the thought of his previous posture being fully seen by the other party, and even being walked past as if nothing happened, Chu Yunfei felt a surge of wicked fire rush straight to his crown, and that bit of previous wariness was instantly thrown to the Nine Heavens.

"What bullshit Heavenly Saint Student!"

He suddenly took a step forward.

The aura of High-tier Gold Rank erupted without reservation, forming a gust of wind that blew the slightly weaker scholars around him stumbling back.

He stared fixedly at Jiang Yun.

Raging fire burned in his eyes.

His voice carried unconcealed provocation and contempt.

"Just a country bumpkin who got lucky and awakened an SSS-rank! A Low-tier Gold Rank? Is also worthy of having a higher status and position than me? Is also worthy of monopolizing the top of Heaven Pillar Peak? I, Chu Yunfei, am the first to be unconvinced! Today, this title of yours as a Heavenly Saint Student will likely not be kept!"

He raised his hand and pointed at Jiang Yun.

His posture was even more arrogant than before.

As if he wanted to use this to wash away the previous humiliation in one go.

And even more, he wanted to use this to make a name for himself in the academy.

"Jiang Yun! Do you dare to fight me?! Right here, right now! Let me see how much weight you, this SSS-rank, actually have! Let me see if you are worthy of the title of Heavenly Saint Student! If you are a coward and don't dare to accept the challenge, then get lost back to your City C right now! The Sky Dome Academy in the provincial capital is not a place where trash like you, who sneaked in by luck, can stay!"

Boom!

Like a giant rock falling into water.

Chu Yunfei's public challenge.

Instantly ignited the crowd that had just quieted down!

"Holy crap! Senior Chu is really bold!"

"Actually directly declaring a challenge to the Heavenly Saint Student?! Such guts!"

"Now there's a good show to watch! I want to see if this Heavenly Saint Student is just a pretty face!"

"Hiss... Senior Chu is eighty-seventh on the earth ranking, Gold Rank Six! His spirit beast is even the rare Sky-Swallowing Sun Moon Wolf! I heard that Jiang Yun is only a Low-tier Gold Rank, right? It seems he just recently promoted to Gold Rank Beast Tamer... how can he fight?"

"Will he use his status to suppress people? Directly having the academy's higher-ups intervene... after all, his status is equivalent to the Dean..."

"What's there to fear! So many people are watching! If he dares to use his status as an excuse, he can forget about having a foothold in the academy in the future! We just want to see his strength, what's wrong with that? The Dean surely wouldn't punish us just because we want to see what the Heavenly Saint Student is made of, right?"

The sound of discussion surged like a tide.

Full of excitement, anticipation, and schadenfreude.

Gazes swept back and forth between Jiang Yun and Chu Yunfei, the air seemingly becoming thick and scorching due to this immense anticipation.

On the outskirts of this surging tide of people.

At several slightly higher terrains.

Several figures with condensed auras stood leaning or resting.

Their gazes pierced through the crowd.

Also falling upon Jiang Yun on the jade steps.

A Sturdy Youth, arms crossed, muscles bulging, with a small beast with pitch-black scales and eyes like molten gold perched on his shoulder. The aura radiated by that small beast was impressively already at Gold Rank Peak!

A hint of playfulness was on his coarse face.

"That fool Chu Yunfei was actually the first to jump out. Good, saves me the trouble of testing. Might as well first see what this Heavenly Saint Student is made of."

A bit further away.

A Woman in Snow-white Clothes, her figure slender and elegant, her face cold as the moon, an ice-blue thread wrapped around her fingertips, the other end of the thread disappearing into her sleeve.

She held a fox curled up like a snowball in her arms, which radiated a heart-palpitating cold air. Her gaze toward the jade steps carried a bit of inquiry and scrutiny, without much emotional fluctuation.

And the most eye-catching.

Was the Green-robed Youth sitting quietly on a gnarled branch of an ancient pine.

His face was handsome and clear, his temperament warm and refined.

Across his knees lay a simple and unadorned sheathed longsword.

Curiously, that sword did not seem to be a dead object; a faint green glow flowed on the scabbard, and his whole body unexpectedly had Sword Qi faintly emanating.

He had his eyes closed.

As if turning a deaf ear to the clamor below, but within several meters around him, the air carried a crispness as if it had been cleansed by invisible Sword Qi.

He slightly raised his eyelids, glanced toward the jade steps, a trace of very faint surprise and a fleeting sharp light flashed in his eyes, which then returned to calm.

On the jade steps.

Facing Chu Yunfei's aggressive provocation and the thousands of needle-like gazes below, Jiang Yun's expression did not change in the slightest.

His gaze calmly swept across Chu Yunfei's face, which was distorted by shame and anger; the talent manifested by the data entries had already been silently operating.

Chu Yunfei's information had long been seen through by Jiang Yun.

Chu Yunfei

Age: 24

Realm: Gold Rank Six Beast Tamer

Spirit Beast: Sky-Swallowing Sun Moon Wolf

Spirit Beast Attribute: Dark

Talent: A-rank · Shadow Affinity

Personality: Arrogant and easily angered

Academy Earth Ranking: eighty-seventh on the earth ranking

Record: Omitted... the information was clear to his heart.

Gold Rank Six?

Sky-Swallowing Dark Wolf?

The Realm advantage that seemed enough to crush him in the eyes of others.

Could not stir a single ripple in his eyes.

Little Fire and Little Skylark's current Realms had both reached above Gold Rank Three.

Their Aptitude was terrifying, and their skills were even more overbearing; the combat power of any one spirit beast was enough to form an absolute suppression against this so-called dark attribute rare beast!

Chu Yunfei's roar still echoed in his ears.

The gazes of the thousands of people before the mountain gate were as scorching as fire.

However.

Jiang Yun did not immediately respond to Chu Yunfei's personal shouting at him.

He slowly took a breath.

This breath was incredibly long, as if taking the surrounding clamor, doubt, and that invisible but heavy pressure all into his chest.

The mountain wind rolled up the hem of his plain-colored clothes.

Brushing past his calm and ripple-less face.

He slowly raised his arm, not toward Chu Yunfei, but toward the entire dense crowd below, toward the behemoth that was the entire Sky Dome Academy.

His voice was not high, but it clearly suppressed all the noise, carrying a determination that cut off Karma and burned bridges, as it exploded again before the silent mountain gate.

"I know! Many of you! Are not convinced! By this Saint!"

Every word was like a heavy drumbeat.

Striking at everyone's heart.

The calmness and arrogance in that voice weirdly intertwined.

Forming a heart-pounding power.

Everyone was even more surprised and astonished!

One by one, they looked at Jiang Yun on the jade steps with furrowed brows.

Wondering what exactly this Heavenly Saint Student was going to do next?

Amidst the curiosity.

Jiang Yun's voice spread once more.

"You think! That I! Am not worthy of the title of Heavenly Saint Student!"

"Not worthy! To reach the top of Heaven Pillar Peak!"

"Not worthy! To enjoy the cultivation of the academy's full resources!"

His gaze was as sharp as a blade.

Slowly sweeping across the shocked, bewildered, or still unconvinced faces below.

Wherever his gaze went.

It actually caused many people to subconsciously avert their eyes.

"In that case!"

Jiang Yun's voice suddenly rose.

Like Nine Heavens thunder, tearing through the frozen air!

An incomparably powerful and unyielding overbearing will, like the rising sun, instantly erupted from his seemingly thin body.

Causing the airflow in the entire mountain gate area to stagnate!

He suddenly took a step forward.

Standing high on the jade steps.

His sleeves moved without wind, snapping loudly!

"Today! I, Jiang Yun, hereby announce to all scholars of the academy!"

He extended his finger, pointing straight at the sky.

As if to pierce through this canopy of heaven!

"From today on! I, Jiang Yun, will by my own strength! Take on all the Prodigy scholars of the academy!"

The huge sound wave was like a physical shockwave.

Centered on the jade steps, it boomed and spread out!

Making the ears of countless people buzz!

Their minds trembled violently!

Immediately following.

That cold and resolute voice.

Filled with boundless confidence and arrogance.

Like the announcement of a final judgment.

Resounded in the depths of everyone's Soul.

"below amethyst rank! All may come to battle!"

"!!!"

Silence!

Even more thorough than when the token was shown before.

An even more suffocating dead silence.

Instantly enveloped the entire world!

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

The expression on Chu Yunfei's face, distorted by shame and anger, froze.

His mouth was open, as if an invisible giant hand had gripped his throat; all the words he had prepared to shout were stuck in his throat, leaving only his eyeballs almost bulging out due to extreme shock.

The onlookers were completely petrified.

Countless faces were written with absurdity, disbelief, and madness!

Those holding melon seeds dropped them all over the floor, those on tiptoe squeezed off their shoes, those picking their ears thought they had misheard... in various postures, they were frozen in the same expression.

Dumbstruck!

"Be... below amethyst rank? All may come to battle?"

Someone murmured despondently.

Their voice was dry like sandpaper rubbing.

"He... he's crazy! He must be crazy!"

"This guy wants to challenge all the geniuses in Sky Dome Academy below the level of Amethyst Rank Beast Tamer! How does he dare!"