Chapter 479 The Return of the Eighth-Tier Amethyst?! Stunning the Entire Audience!

On the main viewing platform, the shock of the deans had not yet subsided.

Zhan Qiong stood up and righted his overturned chair, but as soon as his backside touched the seat, he sprang back up.

He strode to the edge of the platform, hands gripping the railing, his Eclipsing Moon Rank Divine Sense sweeping toward the cyan-purple figure approaching in the sky like money was no object.

With every sweep, his shock deepened.

"Amethyst Sixth Tier Peak!! No, that's not right, it's more than that. I'm talking about his Beast Tamer cultivation. But his beast—did you see that avian beast beneath his feet clearly? Seven days ago, when he left the academy, his strongest beast was only Gold Rank Eight! Now, this Divine Roc is already at Amethyst Sixth Tier!!"

He turned around abruptly, his face full of confusion as his worldview was overturned.

"Gold Rank Eight to Amethyst Sixth Tier! Seven days!! Crossing nearly an entire major Realm!! I've lived for over a hundred years and seen eight hundred geniuses if I've seen a thousand, but I've never seen a Beast Tamer whose beast could cross an entire major Realm in seven days!! Is this even raising a beast? Is this just drinking water?!"

"Zhan Qiong is right."

Vice Dean Yan Lie finally put down the teacup that had been hovering in mid-air.

To be precise, the teacup slipped from his hand and rolled half a circle on the table before he subconsciously pressed it down.

His voice was full of disbelief.

"Seven days ago, I saw his beast with my own eyes; it was a True Dragon form beast, and at the time, it was still Gold Rank Eight. Now this Divine Roc is at Amethyst Sixth Tier. If one follows common logic, if he could make an avian beast Breakthrough to Amethyst Sixth Tier, then his main combat beast, that True Dragon, wouldn't it be..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but every dean present understood what he left unsaid.

If the avian was Amethyst Sixth Tier, then the True Dragon was at least Amethyst Sixth Tier, perhaps even higher.

His Beast Tamer cultivation was Amethyst Eighth Tier.

And the style the Heavenly Saint Student had displayed since enrollment—never showing his trump cards, always using just enough strength to get the job done.

Every dean knew it.

This meant that in his Beast Taming Space, there was a high probability he was still hiding a beast with a higher Realm than the Wind-Thunder Divine Roc.

"Amethyst Eighth Tier."

Medicine Dust Son slowly spat out the four words, his aged voice filled with irrepressible shock.

The entire main viewing platform was silent for a full three breaths.

Tie Kuang broke the silence with a muffled voice.

"Could we have misidentified him? The youth on the avian... is it really our Heavenly Saint Student? I remember when he clashed with the various prodigies at the academy, his main beast was a True Dragon form, Gold Rank. But this avian beneath his feet now, an Amethyst Sixth Tier avian beast—he never showed this beast while at the academy."

"Indeed."

Dean Wen Yuan pushed up the crystal lenses on his nose, a glint of deep thought flashing in his eyes.

"The Heavenly Saint Student has indeed never summoned this avian beast in public. This beast is either a hidden trump card he never used before leaving, or he obtained it during this training session."

"If it's the latter..."

Dean of Array Department Xuan Jizi took over, a sharp gleam suddenly flashing in his cloudy old eyes.

"Then it means the Heavenly Saint Student completed a leap-frog growth from Gold Rank to Amethyst mid-to-high tier within these seven days. This is absolutely not something that can be achieved by talent alone; he must have encountered an extremely extraordinary fortuitous encounter during this time out."

"Seven days."

Zhan Qiong repeated the number again, the shock in his voice turning into a numbness.

"Regardless of what fortuitous encounter he had, being able to raise a beast from Gold Rank Eight to Amethyst Sixth Tier, or even Eighth Tier, in seven days—this growth speed cannot be measured by common sense. Even if you threw him into a Legendary Grade Secret Realm for seven days, he would still need to survive, refine, and Breakthrough. Fortuitous encounters are for those with the life to take them. This kid doesn't just have the life to take them, he's taken them to the brim."

The deans nodded one after another, the shock on their faces lingering for a long time.

Only Vice Dean Ming Jing maintained a relatively calm posture from beginning to end.

His hands, which had been on the armrests, were already released, his fingertips tapping lightly on the armrests, his gaze piercing through the dome to land on the approaching cyan-purple light, the curve of his mouth deeper than before.

"Everyone."

His voice was still steady, but those who were attentive could hear the faint anticipation within it.

"It seems this Molten Cavern quota competition will be interesting. I wonder if this Little Fellow can fulfill the agreement with the Dean today and promote into the top ten of the Provincial Capital Heavenly Ranking."

Zhan Qiong heard this and raised his thick brows slightly.

He pondered for a moment.

The shock in his tone hadn't completely faded, but his professional judgment as the Dean of the Beast Taming Institute had regained control of his brain.

"Top ten of the Heavenly Ranking... that difficulty is still very high. Vice Dean Ming Jing, you also know that the Provincial Capital Heavenly Ranking is full of prodigies; everyone who can fight their way into the top twenty is a true Prodigy, one in ten thousand. At Amethyst Eighth Tier, his strength on the current Provincial Capital Heavenly Ranking can only be ranked around fifteenth. And the top ten... those in the top ten are now all at Amethyst Ninth Tier. Although the Heavenly Saint Student's combat power is always far beyond his peers and he can fight across Ranks, those in the top ten of the Heavenly Ranking can do the same. Their trump cards, Bloodline, treasures, and tactical literacy are all at the top level of the Provincial Capital. No matter how terrifying the Heavenly Saint Student's combat power is, challenging an Amethyst Ninth Tier Prodigy in the top ten of the Heavenly Ranking by crossing a small Rank, the odds of victory are probably fifty-fifty. Not to mention that among the top ten, there are monsters like Feng Xingyun—S-Rank talent, Amethyst Rank Peak, who has dominated the top spot for an entire year."

"No rush."

Vice Dean Ming Jing shook his head slowly, his tone carrying a calmness that seemed to see through something.

"Our Heavenly Saint Student is gifted, and the one thing he doesn't lack is time. Give him time, and perhaps in another seven days, he will have already surpassed those geniuses on the Heavenly Ranking. Seven days ago he was Gold Rank, now he is an Amethyst Eighth Tier Peak Beast Tamer. In another seven days, who knows if he will charge directly to Diamond Rank?"

The deans were dumbfounded and laughed, but there was no contempt in their smiles, only a deep recognition and anticipation.

Just then, a huge shadow quietly enveloped the southeast corner of the Colosseum.

At first, it was just a thin line on the edge of the viewing platform, then it expanded rapidly, like an invisible giant blanket slowly spreading out, blocking the morning light in mid-air.

Where the shadow covered, the originally scorching air suddenly cooled, and even the stone steps beneath their feet seemed to darken by a shade.

The noisy sound waves in the Colosseum were pressed by an invisible hand as if on a pause button.

The students sitting at the highest point in the southeast corner were the first to notice the abnormality.

They suddenly felt the sunlight above their heads disappear.

Looking up, their pupils dilated instantly.

"Sky... Sky!! Look at the sky quickly!!"

That scream was like a pebble thrown into a stagnant pool, the ripples spreading to the entire Colosseum at an astonishing speed.

Thousands of gazes raised their heads in the same instant, looking at the firmament illuminated by the morning light.

In the direction where the morning sun rose, a mass of cyan-purple light was hovering directly above the Colosseum.

It was not a cloud, not a thunderstorm, but a Wind-Thunder Divine Roc with wings covering the sky.

The divine feathers interwoven with sky cyan and pale purple flowed with brilliant halos in the morning light, and the power of the Wind-Thunder Law condensed on the wingtips was so thick it was almost physical. Every time it flapped its wings, ten thousand tons of thunder exploded into dense electric snakes at the edges of the wings.

A pair of wings of the firmament unfolded completely behind it, and the light film of the Sun-Level treasure acted like a huge prism under the refraction of sunlight, sprinkling halos of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple onto the Colosseum below.

It did not continue to fly, but hovered steadily directly above the Colosseum, like a Wind-Thunder God descending from ancient mythology.

Looking up from the ground, the wingspan that covered the sky almost obscured half of the Colosseum's sky, and the shadow cast enveloped the rows of viewing platforms below in a deep darkness.

At the boundary where the shadow met the sunlight, the dense floating thunder light exploded into tiny purple electric sparks in the air.

"Who is it?! How dare you fly a beast over Sky Dome Academy!!"

On the viewing platforms in all directions of the Colosseum, cries of astonishment rose one after another.

"Sky Dome Academy has explicit regulations that, except for the Dean and those with special status, no one is allowed to fly beasts in the academy's airspace!! This guy not only flew, but stopped right above the Colosseum?! Is he crazy?!"

"What a terrifying aura! An Amethyst Sixth Tier avian beast! No, this pressure is not at all in the category of Amethyst Sixth Tier!! It's not like I haven't seen Amethyst Rank beasts, this sense of oppression... my own beast in my Beast Taming Space is shivering! This is Bloodline suppression!!"

"What is the origin of this avian? Look at its divine feathers! Cyan and purple interwoven, thunder on the wingtips, this is clearly a characteristic of a special Bloodline!! When did such a person appear in our academy? Could it be a Prodigy from a major force coming to smash the place?!"

Just as everyone was in doubt, two sharp streams of light shot up from the Law Enforcement Hall on both sides of the Colosseum.

They were two Law Enforcement Elders in black robes.

Each was riding an Amethyst Rank Griffin beast.

Their faces were as cold as iron.

Law Enforcement Elders had absolute authority in Sky Dome Academy.

Trespassing on the No-Fly Zone was a serious violation.

At the very least, contribution points would be deducted and they would be expelled from the academy; at the worst, the beast would be crippled on the spot.

"Bold!! Who dares to fly a beast in our Sky Dome Academy airspace!!"

The leading Law Enforcement Elder's voice was like thunder, and the pressure of an Amethyst Rank Peak was released without reservation.

Both Griffins let out a threatening roar simultaneously, their wings bringing up violent air currents as they rushed upward.

"Still not descending quickly and surrendering!!"

However, they hadn't even approached within a hundred feet of the Wind-Thunder Divine Roc.

The Divine Roc suddenly raised its head and let out a long cry that pierced the clouds.

" 唳!!!"

The cry pierced gold and cracked stone, like Nine Heavens of wind and thunder exploding at the same time.

Visible sound waves spread crazily in all directions with the Divine Roc as the center.

The ten thousand wind and thunders surrounding its wings bloomed with a bang amidst the cry.

It was not a Domain, just the natural release of its own Bloodline pressure.

Sky cyan wind blades and pale purple thunder intertwined into a giant net covering a hundred-foot radius.

The cyan and purple light intertwined and exploded in the morning light.

The light was so dazzling that the people below had to lift their hands to cover their eyes, and the clouds above the entire Colosseum were shaken away in all directions by this pressure, revealing a clear, blue, circular sky.

The pressure was like a mountain, like a Peak, like an ancient god coldly looking down on all living beings.

At that moment, many beasts on the Colosseum that were fighting fiercely, regardless of whether they were Gold Rank or Amethyst Rank, were affected.

The Stone-Armored Savage Bear's four limbs softened and it collapsed directly to the ground, the Feather-Winged Flying Snake fell from the sky, the Void-Splitting Profound Gold Eagle's wings trembled and it could no longer fly, and even several veteran powerful beasts of Amethyst mid-tier let out low whimpers simultaneously, trembling and prostrate on the battle platform, not daring to move.

All beasts were afraid.

That was the instinctive fear from the deepest part of their Bloodline.

The Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng.

A top-tier Divine Beast Bloodline that could contend with the True Dragon in ancient times, it had a natural, Innate suppression over all birds and beasts with a lower Bloodline Rank than it.

This suppression was engraved in the genes, written into the Soul, and could not be resisted by willpower.

On and off the stage, it was dead silent.

The students who were shouting just now all lost their voices.

The Law Enforcement Elder's Griffins, which were roaring just now, were now hanging in mid-air with their tails tucked, not daring to move forward another step.

The intense battles that were happening just now all came to an abrupt halt, and even those Heavenly Ranking experts on the battle platforms raised their heads one after another, their faces full of astonishment, confusion, and a trace of undisguisable shock.

"This... this is..."

In the southeast corner of the Colosseum, the sharp-mouthed, monkey-cheeked student who was gloating and gossiping that the Heavenly Saint Student was likely dead outside was now gaping, his mouth wide enough to fit a fist.

His whole body slid down from the railing, his legs weak, and his voice cracked.

"What level of avian is this?! My beast is shaking inside me as if it's about to fall apart!!"

"No... no way! Look closely at the back of that Divine Roc! There is a person standing on it!!"

A sharp-eyed student suddenly pointed to the sky, his finger trembling violently.

Thousands of gazes pierced through the thunder light where wind and thunder intertwined, landing on the broad back of that Divine Roc.

A slender and upright figure stood with his hands behind his back, his clothes fluttering in the wind.

The morning light spilled from behind him, wrapping his face in a layer of pale golden halo, making it unclear.

One could only see a faint pale silver Mental Energy field vaguely flowing around him.

That was the lingering charm of the Falling Star Rank Divine Sense that had just broken through and had not yet completely converged.

Even those Heavenly Ranking experts on the battle platforms who had always been calm and steady changed their expressions.

Feng Ziyue was standing on a battle platform, closing his eyes to rest.

He looked up at the Divine Roc covering the sky, his pupils slightly constricted.

Feng Yu was on another battle platform with his arms crossed, seemingly calm, but the slightly clenched fists in his sleeves betrayed the raging waves in his heart.

Lin Feng was squinting at the figure from off the stage, his brows furrowing tighter and tighter.

Lin Xinmu raised his hand to cover his brow to block the dazzling thunder light, his thin lips pressed into a line.

And in the direction of the Longxiang Pavilion, Zhao Tiezhu looked up at the familiar figure in the sky, his whole body frozen in place as if struck by lightning.

His lips twitched violently several times.

Then he suddenly clenched his fists and smashed his fist onto Lin Kuo's shoulder beside him, his voice hoarse and trembling.

"This beast seems to be Jiang Yun's Little Skylark!! It's Jiang Yun!! That's Jiang Yun!! That's Little Skylark!! It seems to have changed a lot! Could it be that Little Skylark has evolved!! He's back!! He's really back!!"

Lin Kuo was grimacing from the punch, but a smile that was about to split to his ears bloomed on his face.

Xiao Yutian silently clenched his fists.

Shang Xiaoxiao clenched her hands tightly in front of her chest, looking up at the figure bathed in the morning light in the sky, her eyes slightly red, but the corners of her mouth curved up.

Just when the whole arena was dead silent and everyone was guessing in doubt who the person on the back of the Divine Roc was, a gentle and dignified voice slowly sounded from the main viewing platform.

The voice was not loud, but it clearly entered the ears of everyone present.

It was Vice Dean Ming Jing.

"Two Law Enforcement Elders, no need to panic. Everyone, no need to be alarmed."

Vice Dean Ming Jing stood up from his seat and walked slowly to the edge of the main viewing platform.

The morning light spilled onto his plain white robe, reflecting his usually calm and indifferent face exceptionally clearly.

He raised his head, looking at the Wind-Thunder Divine Roc hovering directly above the Colosseum, looking at the youth standing with his hands behind his back on the back of the Divine Roc.

The curve of his mouth was deeper than ever before.

"The person on the back of this flying beast..."

He paused, his voice gentle but resonant.

Every word slammed clearly into the eardrums of everyone present.

"Is the Heavenly Saint Student of our Sky Dome Academy!"

The whole arena held its breath.

Vice Dean Ming Jing's gaze swept across the audience, his voice calm but carrying undeniable authority.

"Jiang Yun!"