Chapter 270 Shocking the Entire Audience! The Tian Sheng student is actually an old acquaintance?!

The edge of the Colosseum.

The most remote corner.

Beside the aisle near the cold stone wall.

Zhao Tiezhu, Lin Kuo, Xiao Yutian, and several other youths from City C sat dejectedly on the ground like abandoned weeds.

The rough stone floor emitted waves of chilliness.

But it was far from the bone-piercing cold and humiliation in their hearts.

The surroundings were filled with deafening clamor.

It was the sound of waves of excitement and anticipation from thousands of students.

But all of this seemed separated from them by an invisible barrier.

They curled up in the shadows, out of place with the glamorous and high-spirited mainstream stands.

"Pah! These so-called Family disciples from the provincial capital are all so arrogant, they simply don't treat people like human beings!"

Zhao Tiezhu hammered the ground fiercely.

The back of his hand was red, and his voice suppressed anger and unwillingness.

His mind constantly replayed Feng Qianyuan of the Feng Family's contemptuous gaze, insulting words, and that mountain-like Aura that made them unable to breathe. In City C, when had he, Zhao Tiezhu, ever suffered such indignity?

"Exactly! Too overbearing! We clearly occupied the spot first..."

Xiao Yutian held his knees. Having been struck by the High-tier Gold Rank Aura earlier, his internal organs still throbbed with faint pain, but more than that was the shame of having his self-esteem trampled upon.

Lin Kuo remained silent.

Usually lively, his face was now terrifyingly gloomy.

He pursed his lips tightly.

His nails dug deep into his palms.

He wanted to refute, to resist, but reality was like a bucket of ice water, dousing all his hot-bloodedness.

High-tier Gold Rank... Direct descendant of the Feng Family... Every term was like a great mountain.

Pressing down on these Silver Rank students from a small city until they felt despair.

"Sigh..."

A slightly older youth in the team sighed heavily, his voice full of exhaustion and helplessness.

"Who can we blame? In the end, it's because we're too weak. In City C, we were geniuses and the focus. But here... C-rank and B-rank talents... Bronze Rank is just the bottom-tier existence in Sky Dome Academy. Without enough strength, you'll be looked down upon and bullied wherever you go."

These words were like a sharp awl.

Piercing the last shred of hope everyone had.

Several people lowered their heads one after another.

Falling into a deeper silence.

Indeed... they once thought.

Leaving City C.

Stepping into the highest academy in the provincial capital.

Would be the starting point of a brilliant life.

But reality gave them a harsh wake-up call.

Geniuses here are as numerous as stars, Gold Rank is everywhere, and the Earth Ranking experts are enough to crush all so-called geniuses in their understanding.

The capital they were proud of.

Was worthless here.

The admission qualifications they fought so hard for.

Seemed to only grant them the qualification to become background characters and targets for bullying.

This huge gap.

Brought not just disappointment.

But a bone-deep bitterness and self-doubt.

The youths who were once high-spirited on the stage of the City C competition had their sharp edges worn away by the cruel reality of the provincial capital, leaving only wretchedness and confusion.

They were like a group of young beasts who had strayed into a giant beast's lair, trembling with fear.

At a loss.

"I wonder how Jiang Yun is doing..."

Zhao Tiezhu suddenly raised his head.

Looking towards the open space in the center of the Colosseum.

His gaze was somewhat dazed.

"The one-month period is almost over, he should have arrived at the provincial capital too, right? I wonder if he successfully entered the academy..."

At the mention of Jiang Yun.

Everyone's expressions shifted slightly.

That person in the City C competition.

Who swept the field with an invincible posture.

And even reversed the cult crisis at the last moment.

That figure reappeared in their minds.

He was the recognized, insurmountable peak of the younger generation in City C.

"Jiang Yun... although he didn't test for an innate talent, his Beast Taming talent is simply a Prodigy."

Lin Kuo murmured.

A complex light flashed in his eyes, including admiration and a trace of undetectable jealousy that he didn't even want to admit to himself.

"If he came to Sky Dome Academy, with his skills, he definitely wouldn't be like us..."

"He would definitely rise quickly!"

Xiao Yutian took up the conversation.

His tone carried a hint of hope.

Zhao Tiezhu also nodded.

"Yeah! Maybe then we could even benefit from him and not be bullied like this anymore..."

But as soon as this thought arose.

They quickly extinguished it themselves.

The several of them looked at each other.

They all saw bitter smiles in each other's eyes.

It wasn't that they didn't believe in Jiang Yun's strength.

On the contrary, precisely because they had witnessed Jiang Yun's power, they understood more deeply that Jiang Yun's level of power was enough to be king in City C, but in this Sky Dome Academy where the top prodigies of the whole province and surrounding areas gathered, how much brilliance would be left?

The last ranker on the Earth Ranking.

All had Mid to High-tier Gold Rank strength.

Their tamed beasts were rare and powerful, and their combat experience was rich.

No matter how strong Jiang Yun was, as a newcomer with no background, facing this unfathomable academy and these wolf-like geniuses, could he really gain a firm foothold quickly?

Would he also be like them?

Submerged in the vast crowd.

Or even encounter more severe challenges and suppression?

"It's hard..."

Zhao Tiezhu let out a long sigh.

A massive sense of powerlessness hit him again.

"To change the current situation, to truly hold our heads high here, it's too difficult. Perhaps this is the gap between us and the world of true geniuses."

The group fell into silence again, with only the mountain-like waves of sound around them constantly hitting their eardrums, reminding them of their own smallness and insignificance.

They were like rootless duckweeds in a storm, only able to drift with the tide and endure silently.

Just as this suffocating depression and bitterness were about to swallow them.

Boom!!!

The sound waves inside the Colosseum suddenly rose by an order of magnitude!

Like a calm volcano suddenly erupting!

"He's here! He's here!!!"

"Quick, look at the entrance!!!"

"It's the Heavenly Saint Student! He's entering the arena!!!"

"Which one? Is it that youth walking at the very front?!"

"My god! So young! He looks about the same age as us!"

“Hiss!!! So many people following behind him! What a display!”

"So majestic! So domineering! Is this the owner of the SSS-Rank Talent?"

"Truly an extraordinary bearing! Just walking there, he feels different from the people around him! No wonder he dares to challenge all the geniuses in the academy!"

Exclamations, praise, and discussions swept through the entire Colosseum like a tsunami! Everyone's eyes focused simultaneously on the largest entrance passage on the east side.

The originally noisy and chaotic stands.

Instantly became uniform.

Thousands of gazes were like searchlights.

Firmly locking onto the figure slowly walking out of the shadows of the passage.

Zhao Tiezhu and the others also subconsciously raised their heads.

Looking in the direction of everyone's gazes and exclamations.

Despite the great distance.

Despite being in a remote corner with poor visibility.

They still tried hard to stand on tiptoe and crane their necks, with a hint of curiosity and a sense of looking up to a Legendary figure, to look at the center of attention.

The light at the passage entrance alternated between brightness and shadow.

First to enter their sight was a plain white robe corner flowing with a faint moonlight-like glow under the sun.

The texture of the robe seemed extremely special.

It carried a sense of ethereal elegance while walking.

Immediately following.

A youth's figure, upright as a pine and composed, was completely bathed in the light cast from the dome of the Colosseum, appearing clearly before everyone's eyes.

He had a handsome face, with a bit of youthful greenness still between his brows, but those eyes were as calm as a deep pool, without ripples, as if this mountain-like scene and thousands of burning gazes were just a breeze.

His pace was steady and unhurried, every step seemed to fall on some kind of rhythm, possessing an indescribable calmness and majesty.

Just by appearing, without any action or words, an invisible and indescribable field of energy had already spread out, faintly suppressing the clamor of the entire arena!

This was the newly appointed Heavenly Saint Student of Sky Dome Academy!

This was the SSS-Rank Prodigy who claimed that anyone below amethyst rank.

Could come and fight!

Countless people felt shaken in their hearts and held their breath.

However.

Just as the gazes of Zhao Tiezhu, Lin Kuo, and Xiao Yutian finally fully focused on that handsome and calm face.

Time.

Seemed to be infinitely stretched and frozen at this moment.

Buzz!!!!

A strong sense of numbness, like a high-voltage current instantly penetrating the whole body, suddenly seized them!

Their eyes widened to the extreme in an instant.

Their eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets!

Their pupils contracted sharply, focusing on that face that was incredibly familiar, yet appeared incredibly strange at this moment!

Blood throughout their bodies seemed to rush to their heads instantly.

Then froze into ice in the next second!

All the clamor and exclamations in their ears instantly faded, leaving only the thunderous pounding of their own hearts, shaking their eardrums until they pained!

Breathing stopped.

Thinking solidified.

Their bodies were as stiff as statues.

Zhao Tiezhu opened his mouth wide, his jaw almost falling to the ground, making meaningless gasping sounds in his throat, but unable to spit out a single word.

The muscles on Lin Kuo's face twitched uncontrollably, his originally gloomy face instantly lost all color, becoming as pale as paper, then quickly flushed with unbelievable redness.

He extended a stiff finger pointing into the arena.

Trembling violently, like a withered leaf in the wind.

Xiao Yutian's legs went soft.

If not for leaning against the cold stone wall.

He would have slumped to the ground on the spot.

He covered his mouth tightly to prevent the scream that was about to burst out from escaping, but his wide eyes were already completely flooded with boundless shock and a sense of absurdity.

The other youths from City C had similar reactions, all looking like they had seen a ghost, with their Souls having left their bodies.

"It's... it's...!!!"

Zhao Tiezhu's throat finally squeezed out a trace of a distorted, out-of-tune voice, hoarse and dry, full of extreme shock and daze.

"Him!!!"

Lin Kuo used almost all his strength.

To force out a single word from between his teeth.

With a trembling voice that broke.

Several people's gazes were locked onto that moon-white figure in the arena, their minds blank, with only that name they were just discussing—the one they both pinned hope on and felt the path ahead would be difficult—exploding repeatedly in their minds like thunder, shaking their very Souls!

It was him!

Jiang Yun!!!

The fellow from City C whom they thought might be struggling to adapt in some corner of the provincial capital, or perhaps struggling at the bottom of Sky Dome Academy, or someone they might need to rely on in the future... that youth who had no innate talent but possessed a monstrous Beast Taming talent... at this moment.

Was standing composedly in the center of the Sky Dome Academy Colosseum as the Heavenly Saint Student, the highest honor, receiving the attention and cheers of thousands of Genius students from the entire academy!

It was the SSS-Rank Talent holder who challenged the entire academy, claiming that anyone below amethyst rank could come and fight, causing this unprecedented sensation!

This huge, absurd, and subversive reality was like the Nine Heavens' Milky Way pouring down, washing away their fragile worldviews and perceptions!