384: Chapter 384 Book a plane ticket and go home.

The square was deathly silent.

"Are you kidding me?"

"Who would dare to raise an objection now? Are they tired of living?!"

Zhao Zhenlei shook his head like a rattle, Qin Zhuo bit her lip and remained silent, and the old principal of Kuangsha Academy simply closed his eyes, choosing out of sight, out of mind.

Seeing that no one refuted, President Xia Yun nodded in satisfaction and waved his hand:

"Since that is the case, I shall announce it once more!"

"In this year's Hundred Schools League, Magic City Martial Arts University is the undisputed grand champion!"

"Now, the award ceremony officially begins!"

Accompanied by stirring background music, rows of etiquette ladies wearing high-slit cheongsams, carrying mahogany trays covered with red cloth, walked onto the high platform with swaying figures.

President Xia Yun personally unveiled the red cloth and read out the generous rewards that made people's eyes red and ears hot:

"As the grand champion team, Magic City Martial Arts University will receive: fifty bottles of official supply Fifth-Order Marrow Cleansing Pills! One hundred thousand pieces of top-grade spirit stones! Every member can enter the Martial Arts General Administration armory and choose any one Fourth-Order weapon!"

Listening to these resources, the contestants off-stage who had been cleaned out by the Faceless Man had eyes almost bleeding with jealousy.

With this batch of resources, these already abnormal freaks from Magic City Martial Arts University would definitely experience an explosive leap in strength after returning!

But the most important reward was yet to come.

President Xia Yun's expression turned solemn as he solemnly took out a mysterious iron token engraved with a lifelike black dragon pattern from his bosom.

As soon as the token appeared, the temperature of the surrounding air seemed to drop several degrees, and a faint sound of dragon roars could be heard.

"Apart from that!"

President Xia Yun held the token with both hands, presented it to Principal Pang Ban, and announced loudly:

"S-rank secret realm, [Dragon Fall Abyss]!"

"The absolute priority exploration rights for the next year are officially transferred to Magic City Martial Arts University!"

Principal Pang Ban was so excited that his old face turned flushed, and he took the mysterious iron token with trembling hands and held it high.

"Boom!"

The crowd from Magic City Martial Arts University erupted into a deafening cheer!

Xiang Batian was so excited that he hoisted Gou Fugui onto his shoulders and spun him around, Lu Xingye raised his long saber pointing straight at the sky, and even the usually quietest Qiu Yunan couldn't help but push up her glasses, revealing an excited smile.

With the spot for Dragon Fall Abyss in hand, this meant that Magic City Martial Arts University would control the distribution rights to the top-tier opportunities in Great Xia for the next year!

This was a massive stroke of fortune sufficient to change a university's century-old foundation!

Until the award ceremony concluded successfully, the smoke from the salute cannons gradually dissipated.

Principal Pang Ban led his team down the high platform with great pride, passing through the crowd that automatically parted to make a wide path.

Everywhere they passed, the prodigies from various schools lowered their heads, avoiding Jiang You's gaze.

Not a single person dared to say another word of gossip, and no one dared to mention the word "luck" again.

The arrogance of Great Xia's younger generation was, on this day, completely trampled under the feet of this yawning man.

As the group from Magic City Martial Arts University gradually moved further away, that tall, black-and-gold silhouette finally disappeared at the end of the passage.

On the square, where silence had been held for a long time, a tide of sighs and clamor finally erupted.

"Let's disperse, let's disperse... Go back and pack up our luggage."

A team member from Nanhai Academy rubbed his still-sore shoulder and sighed heavily with a pale face.

"Did you book the flight tickets?"

"Booked, the last flight back to Nanhai tonight."

"Coming to the Imperial Capital this time makes me feel more and more that I was truly a frog in a well, ignorant of the vastness of the world."

"Only someone with Jiang You's strength deserves to stand on the podium. Losing this time, we don't feel cheated."

The various prodigies, who had originally been high-spirited and aiming for the championship, were now all crestfallen, hurriedly taking out their phones to start booking return flight tickets.

How arrogant they were when they arrived, that is how miserable they were when they left.

Of course, there were some who didn't need to book flight tickets.

"Beep, student card."

The card reader on the Imperial Capital bus route 302 emitted a crisp prompt sound.

In the back row of the bus, the lethargic Captain Shen Xiuan had a pair of dark circles under his eyes, and his entire demeanor was one of hopelessness.

Beside him, several similarly dejected Imperial Capital Martial Arts University team members were slumped in their seats.

Captain Shen Xiuan watched the retreating streetscape of the Imperial Capital outside the bus window and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"Captain Shen..." A team member beside him clutched his chest, which was aching faintly from the shockwaves of the blood energy, and asked in a weak, low voice, "After we go back, are we... still going to do extra training tonight as planned?"

Captain Shen Xiuan didn't even lift his eyelids; he just stared at the swaying handrails on the bus ceiling and replied gloomily in a daze:

"Train my ass."

"Just let it all end, I'm tired."

This day in the Imperial Capital was destined not to be peaceful.

With the final ruling of the Hundred Schools League handed down, the championship was decided in an extremely dramatic and unreasonably overbearing manner!

The entire martial arts world of Great Xia was completely in an uproar.

Major martial arts forums, social platforms, and even restaurants on street corners were all frantically discussing topics related to "Magic City Martial Arts University" and "Great Emperor Jiang You".

[Great Xia Martial Arts Forum Hot Post]:

"Shock! The biggest scandal in the history of the Hundred Schools League? No, that was a dimensional reduction strike belonging to Great Emperor Jiang You!"

1st Floor (OP): "Brothers, I was on the scene at that time! When that blast of blood energy wind swept over, I knelt down on the spot! I really knelt down! Even breathing was difficult, do you dare to believe this is air pressure that a freshman can release?"

2nd Floor: "Holy crap, I heard from people on the scene that Jiang You didn't even use his Supernatural Ability, and just by unleashing his blood energy, he crushed all the prodigies in the audience? This has to be a humanoid tyrannosaurus!"

3rd Floor: "Heh, in the previous round, there were still people stirring up trouble saying he was a freeloader champion or a camping winner. Now it seems, he didn't make a move purely because he didn't want to bully people! If he really started fighting, one slap down, and everyone present would be turned into meat paste!"

4th Floor: "The coolest part was that last sentence, 'Stand up, take it', it was the ultimate flex! I was instantly a fan, no more talking, I'm going to buy spongebob pajamas tonight!"

Public opinion on the internet was shaping Jiang You into a "peerless demon king" rarely seen in a hundred years in Great Xia, in a nearly crazy manner.

And behind this clamor and carnival.

In the core area of the Imperial Capital, deep within an ancient building guarded by heavy troops and covered with the highest level of defensive barriers in Great Xia.

Great Xia Martial Arts General Bureau, Top Secret Conference Room No. 1.

Beside the thick mahogany conference table sat only the core high-level officials of the Martial Arts General Administration.

These national pillars who could make Great Xia tremble with a stomp of their feet were now all frowning, their expressions serious.

Even Imperial Capital Martial Arts University President Xia Yun could not sit in the main seat here; he could only hold his thermos cup and sit quietly on the right side of the long table.

At this moment, there was only one topic of discussion.

That was the situation regarding the student "Jiang You".