Chapter 278 Wind and Thunder Gather! The Pressure of the Tenth-Ranked Player on the Earth Ranking!

Jiang Yun's gaze fell calmly on Feng Qianyuan.

From the moment the other party spoke, his Divine Sense, which far surpassed his peers and had reached the Diamond Rank, had already quietly enveloped this area like an invisible net, locking onto him.

Facing this tenth on the earth ranking, who was clearly unfriendly, arrogant, and provocative in his words, Jiang Yun's face did not show the solemnity, wariness, or anger that everyone expected.

He only... frowned slightly.

tenth on the earth ranking?

Gold Rank Eight Peak?

He heard all the discussions around him.

Direct descendant of the Feng Family.

Power of wind and thunder.

Thunder Feather Startling Wind Falcon.

These keywords linked together.

Sketching the image of a Genius whose strength and background could not be underestimated.

With a slight thought, that extraordinary talent ability fused with his Soul operated silently, his gaze focusing on Feng Qianyuan himself.

Within his field of vision, beside Feng Qianyuan.

Clear data entries flowed and quickly took shape:

【Beast Tamer】: Feng Qianyuan

【Age】: 22

【Realm】: Gold Rank Eight (Peak)

【Identity】: Direct descendant of the Feng Family, Prodigy of the Sky Dome Academy Beast Taming Institute, tenth on the earth ranking.

【Spirit Beast】: Thunder Feather Startling Wind Falcon (Rare Variant, Wind/Thunder dual-attribute)

...Information brief.

The character's basics and the spirit beast's name were both manifested.

“Wind and thunder dual-attribute... Rare Variant...”

Jiang Yun's heart stirred slightly.

This attribute combination happened to be consistent with Little Skylark.

He just didn't know its specific Aptitude and skills; for it to be the capital that Feng Qianyuan relied on to be tenth on the earth ranking, it surely wouldn't be simple.

He raised his eyes.

Meeting Feng Qianyuan's scrutinizing and superior gaze, the slight frown on his face had already smoothed out, returning to his usual calm.

Regarding Feng Qianyuan's provocative words.

He did not get angry.

He simply spoke slowly in a flat tone, as if stating a fact.

“Just now, before Senior Chu came onto the stage, he seemed to have said the same thing.”

“His attitude was also quite arrogant.”

Jiang Yun's voice wasn't loud.

Yet it spread clearly throughout the arena.

Carrying a strange penetrating power.

He paused as if reminiscing, and a nearly imperceptible, almost helpless smile even curved at the corner of his mouth.

“I originally thought it would be a... hearty and evenly matched battle.”

He shook his head gently.

His gaze swept over the Sky-Swallowing Sun Moon Wolf, which was still collapsed and wailing nearby, as well as the dejected Chu Yunfei.

“I didn't expect...”

“That he couldn't even take a single blow from my spirit beast.”

“Tsk.”

That soft "tsk" wasn't deliberately emphasized, yet it seemed to contain a thousand words, vividly contrasting Chu Yunfei's previous arrogance with his current wretched state, filled with silent mockery.

Immediately following that.

Jiang Yun's gaze locked onto Feng Qianyuan again, his eyes as calm as a deep pool, but the words he spoke made everyone who heard them skip a beat.

“I just wonder...”

“How is our Senior Feng's strength?”

His tone remained steady.

Even carrying a hint of just the right amount of curiosity, as if he were truly just asking for guidance.

“It couldn't be... that the result will still be failing to last a single move, being completely fragile?”

As soon as these words were spoken.

The entire arena went silent!

Then it exploded with noise!

“Holy crap! He... what does he mean?!”

“Is this not arrogant enough?! He actually said Feng Qianyuan might also not be able to take a single move from him?!”

“My god! Is he crazy? That's the tenth on the earth ranking! Gold Rank Eight Peak!”

“Does he really have some hidden earth-shattering methods? Or... does he also have confidence in defeating Feng Qianyuan? How is that possible?!”

“Too wild! Simply arrogant beyond limits! Does he think that by instafilling Chu Yunfei, eighty-seventh on the earth ranking, he can challenge Young Master Feng? Young Master Feng! Hurry up and teach him a lesson!”

“Young Master Feng is not someone Chu Yunfei can be compared to! Their spirit beast Realm, combat power, and Aptitude are completely on different levels! On what grounds does this guy speak like that?!”

“Crush him! Young Master Feng! Let him know the height of the heavens and the depth of the earth!”

Exclamations, doubts, indignation, incitement... all sorts of voices mixed together.

Like a boiling oil pan.

Jiang Yun's words.

Seemed flat in tone.

Even carrying a bit of an exploratory meaning, but the comparison contained within.

Placing Feng Qianyuan alongside the just-instakilled Chu Yunfei and that casual mention of being fragile was more provocative than any direct insult!

Instantly ignited many people's dissatisfaction with him.

Especially those students who already couldn't stand his meteoric rise.

In a peripheral corner.

Zhao Tiezhu and the others were dumbfounded by what they heard.

“He... how does he dare to say that?”

Lin Kuo felt like his heart was about to jump out of his chest.

A Gold Rank Eight Prodigy.

Could easily crush them to death!

Facing the pressure brought by Feng Qianyuan.

He felt his breathing become labored just by watching.

Jiang Yun actually dared to take the initiative to provoke him?

Zhao Tiezhu swallowed hard.

His honest face was full of tension.

“Is Jiang Yun... being too overconfident?”

Inside the arena.

Chu Yunfei, whose reputation was being flogged again by Jiang Yun.

His already pale face instantly flushed red.

Then it quickly faded, turning ashen.

Shame, anger, and unwillingness gnawed at his heart like poisonous snakes.

He stared fixedly at Jiang Yun, his lips trembling, wanting to retort, wanting to lash out, but the other party was speaking the cold hard truth.

He indeed hadn't even taken a single blow!

This feeling of having his scars repeatedly exposed in public was harder to bear than the defeat itself; he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into!

And hearing Jiang Yun compare him to Chu Yunfei, even implying he might be equally fragile, a clear ripple finally appeared on Feng Qianyuan's face, which had maintained a noble and cold expression.

It wasn't anger.

But a kind of extreme contempt, as if he had been severely offended and had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.

“Heh.”

He let out a short, cold laugh.

His gaze was like he was looking at a bug that didn't know its place.

“Jiang Yun, it seems you bumpkin from C City not only has questionable strength, but your vision and brains aren't very clear either.”

He raised his chin slightly.

Using that tone of looking down upon all living beings.

“Don't lump me together with a low-class trash like Chu Yunfei.”

“I, Feng Qianyuan, and him...”

“Are simply not on the same level!”

These words were spoken decisively.

Filled with absolute confidence and unconcealed disdain for Chu Yunfei.

“You—!”

Chu Yunfei, who was already on the verge of collapse, trembled with rage upon hearing this, suddenly turning his head to look at Feng Qianyuan, fire almost spewing from his eyes.

But when he met Feng Qianyuan's cold and indifferent gaze, that anger was instantly extinguished by a bucket of ice water, leaving only endless humiliation and powerlessness.

He couldn't afford to offend Feng Qianyuan.

Whether in terms of strength or background.

Ultimately.

All his resentment could only turn toward Jiang Yun.

Chu Yunfei gave Jiang Yun a fierce glare.

He squeezed out harsh words through gritted teeth.

“Jiang Yun! I, Chu Yunfei, will remember today's humiliation! You just wait! Next time, I will definitely defeat you!”

After saying that.

He no longer had the face to stay on this platform where his dignity had been swept away. He stumbled toward his heavily injured spirit beast, using every means to recall it into the Beast Taming Space, then rushed off the platform without looking back, his figure wretched as he disappeared into the shadows of the passage, drawing sighs and faint mockery from the stands.

As for Chu Yunfei's harsh words, Jiang Yun didn't even lift an eyelid, as if it were just a breeze passing by his ear.

A defeated opponent was not worth mentioning and needed no attention.

Feng Qianyuan didn't even bother to glance in the direction where Chu Yunfei left, as if he had driven away an insignificant fly.

His attention was always on Jiang Yun.

“Now that the background noise has been cleared...”

Feng Qianyuan took a step forward, his internal energy beginning to rise. His luxurious brocade robe moved without wind, and a powerful Aura belonging to the Gold Rank Eight Peak, mixed with a sharp intent of wind and thunder, slowly spread out.

“It's time to get down to business.”

He stared at Jiang Yun with burning eyes.

His voice suddenly became sharp.

“Anyone below amethyst rank can come and fight? What big words!”

“I, Feng Qianyuan, tenth on the earth ranking, will be here today to face you, the newly appointed Heavenly Saint Student!”

“I want to see with my own eyes and try for myself...”

He spoke each word deliberately.

Filled with a sense of pressure.

“Just what kind of amazing skills and Heaven-Defying qualifications do you, an SSS-level Genius promoted by the principal as an exception and enjoying supreme honor, possess...”

“...to dare to utter such... arrogant boasts without knowing the height of the heavens!”

The moment his words fell.

Feng Qianyuan spoke no more.

His gaze suddenly became as sharp as a falcon's!

The wind and thunder attribute Aura around him exploded!

“Come out!”

Feng Qianyuan gave a clear shout.

His voice carried an unquestionable majesty and pride.

“Thunder Feather Startling Wind Falcon!”

Boom-crack!!!

As if responding to its master's call.

In the Void Realm above the battle platform.

A dull thunderclap exploded without warning!

Immediately afterward.

A violent green airflow emerged out of thin air, spinning frantically, instantly forming a miniature tornado over ten meters in diameter!

And the core and edges of this tornado were not ordinary wind blades, but countless wandering, eye-piercing silver-white lightning bolts!

Wind and thunder, two violent attribute powers, frantically intertwined and resonated at this moment, emitting scalp-numbing crackles and pops!

Within the wind and thunder tornado, space distorted violently, and a huge and magnificent silhouette was manifesting from void to reality at an alarming speed!

Screech!!!

A clear and resonant cry, capable of piercing gold and stone and seemingly able to pierce the clouds, containing endless sharpness and thunderous majesty, suddenly erupted from the center of the wind and thunder!

The sound waves, mixed with the power of wind and thunder, formed visible shockwaves that swept across the entire Colosseum!

Many weaker students had their eardrums pained by the cry, their Qi and blood churning!

Under the gaze of countless shocked eyes.

The violent wind and thunder tornado suddenly shrank inward.

Then it exploded outward!

A massive figure, like a divine bird tearing through storms and lightning, proudly revealed itself before everyone!

Its wingspan was nearly thirty meters!

Its entire body of feathers displayed a noble and mysterious dark green, but under the light, the edges of each feather shimmered with a metallic silver-white luster, with fine thunder patterns faintly imprinted on them by nature!

Its head was more like a hawk than a falcon, its beak sharp as a hook and gleaming with cold light. Its eyes were a strange bluish-gold color, and as they blinked, tiny wind swirls and electrical sparks seemed to burst forth!

Most eye-catching were its wings and tail feathers.

When its wings were fully extended.

Long feathers like sharp swords naturally extended from the ends of its wings, where the power of wind and thunder was most concentrated, constantly emitting a low hum.

Its long tail feathers were divided into several strands, like a magnificent cloak, with fine electrical arcs similarly entwined at the ends.

It just hovered there, not deliberately emitting pressure, but the sharp, swift, and violent Aura belonging to a Gold Rank Eight Peak bird of prey was already like a tangible blade, cutting through the air!

The subtle wind swirls and jumping electrical arcs naturally surrounding its body further highlighted its exquisite and powerful control over the forces of wind and thunder!

Thunder Feather Startling Wind Falcon!

Darling of the wind and thunder attributes!

The high-speed hunter of the sky!

Its appearance.

Instantly caused the entire arena to fall into a chorus of sharp intakes of breath once more.

That magnificent appearance, that sharp Aura, and those naturally induced wind and thunder phenomena all proclaimed its strength and extraordinariness!

The trump card spirit beast of Feng Qianyuan, tenth on the earth ranking.

Had finally revealed its true form!

That overwhelming pressure, belonging to a truly top-tier Gold-rank Spirit Beast, caused many who were previously excited by Little Fire's strong performance to feel their hearts sink once again.

Jiang Yun being able to win against Chu Yunfei was indeed shocking.

But facing this clearly more powerful Thunder Feather Startling Wind Falcon, which also had rare and perfectly matched attributes... would he still have the strength to fight?!!

Everyone's eyes were locked onto the two sides confronting each other on the platform, as well as their spirit beasts above, which had vastly different styles but similarly emitted astonishing power.