14: Do you want to eat it plain, or with some sauce?
"Oh, isn't this Lin Yuan?"
Wu Moxuan took a few steps forward, intentionally blocking Lin Yuan's path, and spoke in a tone bordering on mockery: "Looking at how relaxed you are, it seems you did quite well in the 'Beast Refining' assessment."
Lin Yuan smiled and said, "It was alright."
"At least I'm satisfied."
After Lin Yuan said those words, several people beside Wu Moxuan burst out laughing.
"At least you're satisfied? You're far too modest!"
"By 'at least satisfied', you couldn't possibly mean failing to even pass the first stage of the combat assessment, could you?"
"Huh? Isn't the first stage easy enough to do with your eyes closed? No one could actually fail that, right? Right?"
"Hahaha, don't be so mean, guys. Having the courage to even participate in the assessment with an E-rank Beast Soul is already quite impressive!"
Upon hearing these words, the surrounding crowd cast pitying glances toward Lin Yuan.
They clearly hadn't expected that this rather handsome black-haired youth had only awakened an E-rank Beast Soul.
However, even so, these people were being a bit excessive with their words.
In reality, they were only mocking Lin Yuan as much as possible to curry favor with Wu Moxuan.
Once the assessment results were announced, Wu Moxuan would become the most dazzling favored child of heaven in everyone's eyes!
"Lin Yuan, do you still remember our bet from the other day?"
Wu Moxuan looked at Lin Yuan and spoke with a cold sneer.
To be honest, he hadn't originally intended to humiliate this guy again.
After all, with his talent and strength, he and Lin Yuan were destined to walk different paths.
Bothering with someone of this caliber would instead make him seem like he lacked class.
However, when Wu Moxuan saw Lin Yuan arrive together with Su Muxue, he couldn't help but feel a surge of anger in his heart.
In his eyes, a white swan like Su Muxue was simply not someone a toad like Lin Yuan could ever hope to touch!
Because he wasn't worthy!
Therefore, Wu Moxuan wanted Lin Yuan to lose face and make a fool of himself in front of Su Muxue!
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten."
Lin Yuan scratched his head. He clearly hadn't expected that someone would actually walk straight into the line of fire.
"Since you brought it up yourself, are you prepared to lose to me?"
Lin Yuan said those words with complete naturalness.
Yet, it directly stunned the surrounding crowd.
How did this guy manage to sound so matter-of-fact?
He actually asked Wu Moxuan if he was prepared to lose the bet!
Is he still dreaming?!
"Lose?!"
Wu Moxuan was so enraged that his face became somewhat distorted: "How the hell could I lose to a piece of trash like you!!"
Just then, the hour hand on the clock pointed to two o'clock.
A chorus of exclamations immediately rang out from the crowd.
"The results are out!!"
"The assessment scores have been posted!!"
Upon hearing this, almost everyone subconsciously looked toward the light screen in front of them.
The light screen was covered with a dense list of names.
The rankings before them were sorted according to the final results of the 'Beast Refining' assessment.
The better the score, the higher the ranking!
Under these circumstances, Wu Moxuan no longer had the time to bother with Lin Yuan and immediately began searching for his name on the screen!
Given his assessment results, his ranking was bound to be extremely high.
Thus, Wu Moxuan started looking directly from the very top.
People are always extremely sensitive to their own names.
Because of this, he spotted his name at first glance!
On the light screen, he was ranked third!
Third Place: Wu Moxuan. Final Result: Cleared the seventh round of the 'Beast Refining' assessment!
After seeing his ranking, Wu Moxuan's pupils couldn't help but tremble.
How could he only be ranked third?!
Could it be... that there were two others whose results were even superior to his own?!
At that thought, Wu Moxuan immediately raised his head and looked anxiously above his own name!
At this moment, he desperately wanted to know exactly who had stepped over his head!
Second Place: Su Muxue. Final Result: Cleared the ninth round of the 'Beast Refining' assessment!
A look of disbelief flashed in the depths of Wu Moxuan's eyes.
Second place was actually... Su Muxue?!
Moreover, she had actually cleared nine rounds of trials!
A deep sense of defeat instantly surged into Wu Moxuan's heart!
He thought his talent was already good enough, but he hadn't expected Su Muxue's talent to be even higher than his!
No, wait... if Su Muxue, who cleared nine rounds of trials, was only in second place... then just what kind of Prodigy was the one in first place?!
In their year, hadn't only he and Su Muxue emerged as Beast Soul Masters with S-rank Talents?!
Could it be that there was another Genius Beast Soul Master in Zhenhai City unknown to them?!
Thinking of this, Wu Moxuan abruptly looked up.
In the next second, an incredibly familiar name immediately caught his eye.
First Place: Lin Yuan. Final Result: Cleared the tenth round of the 'Beast Refining' assessment!
Lin Yuan?!
How could it possibly be him?!
In an instant, Wu Moxuan's pupils contracted sharply, his face filled with shock and horror.
The first place in this 'Beast Refining' assessment was actually Lin Yuan?!
With just that E-rank Beast Soul of his, how could he possibly clear ten rounds of combat trials?!
In fact, it wasn't just Wu Moxuan who was shocked; looking at the rankings on the light screen, the other examinees were also filled with confusion.
"Who exactly is this Lin Yuan? He's so fierce! He actually cleared ten rounds of trials!"
"I don't know, I've never heard of this name before!"
"The 'Beast Refining' assessment only has ten rounds of trials in total, right? My goodness, that means he basically beat the whole thing!"
"I wonder what kind of beast soul this big shot awakened to be strong to this extent!"
"Tough guys appear every year, but there are especially many this year. The score of last year's Zhenhai City top scholar wouldn't even make the top three this year!"
"Yeah, this is the biggest dark horse of the year! He even suppressed Su Muxue and Wu Moxuan, who both awakened S-rank Beast Souls!"
"Truth be told, Su Muxue's score is also very strong! Clearing nine rounds of trials would have definitely been a record-breaking score in the past. It's a pity she ran into a monster who beat the 'Beast Refining' assessment entirely!"
"If you ask me, the one who lost the most face has to be that Wu Moxuan. He was bragging like crazy before the results came out, and now he's been pushed down to third place. It's hilarious."
Listening to the discussions around him, Wu Moxuan's expression became increasingly unsightly.
However, just then, Lin Yuan's nonchalant voice rang in his ear.
"I say... since you lost, isn't it time to fulfill the bet?"
Lin Yuan spoke with a smile: "That sack of low-grade crystals—do you prefer eating them dry, or would you like to dip them in some seasoning?"