59: Chapter 58: Provincial Competition Contestants' First Encounter with Li Tianze!!

Sun Po's vision was shrouded in a hazy gray, different from the dizziness he felt when entering the Wujiang Secret Realm previously.

This time, he only felt as though he was swimming through a sea of clouds, with no sense of discomfort whatsoever.

In just a split second, the clouds parted and the mist dispersed.

A gigantic, magnificent, and ornate palace emerged before everyone's eyes.

With vermilion walls and green tiles, flying eaves and bracket sets, and tiered terraces and pavilions,

the entire palace was arranged in an orderly fashion, resembling a fairyland amidst the swirling clouds and mist.

At this moment, the three of them were standing right before the large palace doors studded with red lacquer and gold nails, looking up:

The bold, imposing characters of "Li Tang Wanbang University" in gold on a black background exuded an aura of ruling the world.

Du Zimei stepped forward and said to the two dozen-meter-tall stone lions in front of the door:

"Pardon me, please let us through. These three are Gaokao students participating in this year's provincial tournament."

The two gigantic stone lions glared at Du Zimei, and one of them cursed in a muffled, rumbling voice:

"Hurry and go inside! Looking at your miserable, mournful face gives me a headache!"

Accustomed to it, Du Zimei smiled bitterly and led the three of them through the gates.

Only after stepping through the gates did Sun Po realize just how truly massive this place was.

What met the eye was an extremely wide straight path. On both sides of the road was a fiery-red maple forest, within which the murmuring sound of flowing water could be faintly heard.

Young men and women dressed in crimson school uniforms hurried past.

Suddenly, a panicked, loud shout came from the forest:

"Oh no! I overslept!"

Immediately following that, the voice came again:

"With the wind, the roc rises in a single day, soaring ninety thousand miles straight up! Here you go!"

Several phantom projections of black-and-white ink characters drifted up from the maple forest, transforming into a large ink bird with a wingspan of four to five meters.

That large ink bird shot straight up into the sky at an extremely fast speed, looking as though it was about to fly out of the school gates.

Suddenly, a powerful giant stone claw reached out, swatting the large ink bird down in one swoop like a cat catching a flying bird.

The large bird directly dissipated in mid-air, and a long-haired youth tumbled down in a disheveled state right in front of Sun Po and the others.

"Li Taibai! Didn't you know that students are prohibited from flying on campus? This is the eighth time this month you've tried to force your way through the gates! Go find the Dean of Students yourself to take your punishment, now get lost!"

A deep, resonant voice came from outside the school gates.

A handsome youth with a gourd tied around his waist and a sword slung across his shoulder scrambled up from the ground in a somewhat flustered manner:

"Oh no, oh no! This is adding insult to injury! Huh? Now I'm completely done for! Zimei? Have you seen those high school students I'm in charge of?"

Du Zimei looked at Li Taibai, then looked at Sun Po,

and a smile surfaced on his dejected face:

"Yes, two are over by the dock,

and another one should probably be packed into a shroud by now."

Li Taibai: "???"

Du Zimei continued with a bitter face:

"I still need to arrange the accommodations for these high school students. You'll see for yourself once you go."

With that, he led Sun Po and the others and continued walking further into the school,

leaving behind a dumbfounded Li Taibai in place.

...

After dropping off their luggage, Du Zimei pointed to a fairly large side hall and said to the three of them:

"That main hall over there is where registration takes place. Go on yourselves, I'm going to go check on... Ah, no, I'm going to go help a friend of mine."

Saying this, he left with a smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

Looking at this incomparably massive campus, Sun Po couldn't help but marvel in his heart.

As expected of a top-tier national university. Judging from the imposing aura of those two stone lions earlier, they were probably more than just purple cards, and Sun Po also sensed a familiar presence—divinity.

Although extremely faint, Sun Po, who had close contact with divinity when loading mods, could confirm that those two stone lions possessed weak divinity.

Furthermore, all along the way to the registration, besides seeing Card Makers dressed like priests and pharaohs,

Sun Po even saw a knight riding a flying dragon whizzing past high overhead.

Of course, the most numerous were still the Li family's iconic cards—[Golden-feathered Pheasant].

From the moment these cards were crafted, their lowest quality was blue, and their highest quality was purple.

There was even a legend that when Li Tiance's [Golden-feathered Pheasant] was just finished being crafted, it was already of orange quality.

Just as he thought of this, Sun Po heard a crisp bird chirping from above.

A dozen-meter-long golden giant bird flew swiftly past high in the air.

Just as Sun Po raised his head, he suddenly felt a wave of spiritual fluctuations around them.

Beside the three of them, a massive crimson figure emerged, letting out a roar that shook the heavens.

"Broken snake! Why are you roaring so loudly?!"

Liu Jianren scratched his head:

"This fellow sleeps in the spiritual space every day usually. Who knows what wind it caught today to run out on its own."

In broad daylight, even with Liu Jianren's thick skin, he felt a bit embarrassed.

He quickly turned the [Red Flood Dragon] back into a card and put it away.

This was just a minor interlude.

The three of them quickly arrived at the main hall for registration.

Inside the resplendent and magnificent main hall, several people were already waiting there.

At the entrance, a black-haired girl draped in iron chains and sitting on a coffin greeted the three of them:

"Hi~ Hello there!"

She looked full of vitality, and her age seemed to be around that of a middle schooler.

In the corner, a youth in white with his eyes narrowed into slits also smiled and nodded in greeting.

On the other side of the main hall, an eight-foot-tall, long-faced youth with a reddish complexion was resting his eyes.

With his eyes slightly narrowed, he glanced at the crowd before withdrawing his gaze.

Further back was a youth in full plate armor with blonde hair and blue eyes. He looked cheerful and upright, with an exceptionally good appearance that instantly won people's goodwill.

He looked like a medieval knight, clearly a person from the Bald Eagle Federation.

At this moment, footsteps and an old man's flattering voice came from outside the door:

"Young Master Tiance, for such trivial matters, you can just tell the servants to handle them. Why did you make the trip personally?"

A clear, youthful voice sounded:

"I happened to be passing by, so I came over."

The footsteps drew closer, and two figures appeared at the door.

One was wearing the school's crimson faculty uniform, looking like a teacher of the school.

The other was a youth with an upright posture, looking to be around the same age as Sun Po and the others.

This youth possessed a truly grand and imposing appearance.

He wore a long purple robe adorned with white jade at the waist, and a jade thumb ring on his right thumb, making him look overwhelmingly noble and prestigious.

He was tall and slender, with ape-like arms and a wasp waist, standing there like a heroic, robust, and handsome man stepping out of a painting.

As the youth walked, his strides were dragon-like and tiger-like, full of spirit and majesty. He truly combined valor and nobility in one, making anyone who looked upon him feel utterly captivated.

The so-called bearing of a dragon and phoenix, the countenance of the sun and sky, could be none other than this.

...

Sun Po was speechless inside at this moment.

Hearing every day on television that the Second Young Master of the Li family had crafted an orange field card and won the succession right of the Li family,

Sun Po had always thought this was a middle-aged powerhouse who had achieved great success and renown.

But nobody told him

that Li Tiance was still a high school student!!

Sun Po was not a native-born commoner of this world and didn't have access to much historical knowledge.

From the moment he heard keywords like Xuanwu Gate, the Li family, and Tiance, Sun Po had already guessed in his heart:

This was most likely the Erfeng version of "me from another world".

So, what you mean is:

Erfeng in this world is still a high school senior taking the Gaokao right now?

And he has already won the succession right of the Li family?

And he is about to throw down with him at [Xuanwu Gate]?

Ho ho,

this time it's truly eight hundred for eight hundred.