Only then did Su Chen suddenly realize.
Qing Cang's eyes narrowed slightly, pacing left and right. "In their cognition, you defeated Qin Tianlin. Given another year's ti, nine tis out of ten you would be able to advance to the 6th-Tier. Even if you aren't a match for those front-runners among the 7th-Tiers, you shouldn't have any rivals within the 6th-Tier. Therefore, they will definitely make a move."
"And the more moves made, naturally, the more is exposed."
"Is that so." Su Chen thought for a bit. "In other words, no matter what I do, I have to wait until a year passes to obtain this Marrow of the Morning Star?"
"Are you very anxious?" Qing Cang didn't understand. He truly couldn't figure out what exactly Su Chen wanted this thing for.
"It's not exactly that I'm anxious; it's just best to get my hands on it as soon as possible." Su Chen used Vague Prevarication. "Senior Brother, this is our ho turf after all. Is there any way?"
"You even want to take the back door for this matter?" Qing Cang glared at him, then turned to deep thought:
"This strongest 6th-Tier, in the past, basically always took a year to be filtered out. In so special years, Sixth-Rank Professionals could even squeeze into the Elimination Rounds, so the waiting ti was naturally even longer."
"However..." Qing Cang changed the subject. "If there was an unshakeable battle record... for example, like when you defeated Qin Tianlin previously, impossible for any latecors to replicate, plus the ho turf advantage, we should be able to get it from the Royal Court in advance."
"It's nothing more than fighting, right." Su Chen understood, sowhat unable to wait. "When do our preliminaries start?"
Qing Cang shot him a glance and shook his head. "Don't make a move in the early stages. Our sect's screening asures are relatively special. In past years, there have been more or less so doubts. I estimate it will take at least a month or two before a credible consensus can be ford."
"At that ti, you'll need to pick soone you can beat, and it also can't be an ordinary 7th-Tier."
"However..." Speaking up to here, Qing Cang was sowhat hesitant. Although he was the one who proposed the suggestion, Deduced down to the details, it was still sowhat troubleso.
"So 6th-Tier Star Seeds will also participate in the preliminaries. They also possess the strength to perform Rank-Defying Slaying on ordinary 7th-Tiers."
Those guys definitely weren't Su Chen's match, but the troubleso point was that once Rank-Defying Slaying 7th-Tiers wasn't uniquely accomplished by Su Chen alone, the Royal Court could stall.
Qing Cang shook his head again. "To expect to directly seize the title of Minor Star Chief using this thod within a month or two is sowhat difficult, ah."
"Picking a 7th-Tier Class-User with high enough intensity, won't that work?" Su Chen asked.
Qing Cang said helplessly, "Unless it's a 7th-Tier who has already achieved Forging a Holy Class, otherwise the intensity cannot be defined. Because 7th-Tier Class-Users will also be arriving in a steady stream. So might occupy an advantage in the front ranks initially, but then Fade into Obscurity later on."
"The preliminaries also have 7th-Tiers who have Forged Holy Classes?" Su Chen was sowhat surprised.
"Naturally, there are." Qing Cang carried a bit of a reminder. "Do not underestimate the Dust Star Sea. The thods by which other factions nurture Professionals have already approached perfection. Unless there is another technological breakthrough, it's very difficult for Professionals of the sa Talent to thoroughly widen the gap."
"It is only us Five Great Sects and the Royal Court, who still have our respective technological barriers, that can maintain an advantage."
"But other factions possessing Morning Star Tiers are also Not to be Trifled With. Every ti, there will be those few who just happen to be stuck at the age limit, thereby participating in the preliminaries as 7th-Tier Class-Users who have Forged Holy Classes."
"Then why don't they possess the right to skip the preliminaries?" Su Chen couldn't help but be confused.
Qing Cang shook his head, carefully explaining the intricacies within: "The Five Great Sects and the Royal Court are massive and complex. Internally, they already have screening thods, which are also acknowledged by the Dust Star Sea."
"But for those slightly smaller factions, their internal chanisms aren't complete, and it's impossible for them to bring out those Junior Generation mbers who have Forged Holy Classes for us to inspect."
"If they speak empty words, it's impossible for us to believe them either. So whether or not they have actually Forged a Holy Class still has to be reflected in combat."
Su Chen looked thoughtful. It seed this matter truly wouldn't be that easy to achieve. Unless he directly defeated a 7th-Tier Class-User with a Forged Holy Class right from the start, only then would it truly be unshakeable.
But a 7th-Tier with a Forged Holy Class... Su Chen pondered secretly. He estimated he couldn't win, ah.
"It's only a year's ti. To say it's long, it isn't long. There's no need to be so anxious." Seeing Su Chen fall into deep thought, Qing Cang couldn't help but say a sentence, "You are still young, you have plenty of ti."
Su Chen nodded, actually not saying much more. He wasn't exactly anxious either, just that with this thing staying in soone else's hands for a day, it always felt like so accident might happen.
Watching Qing Cang leave, Su Chen muttered secretly: 'Exactly how powerful is a 7th-Tier with a Forged Holy Class?'
His gaze landed on the Challenge Room not far away, A Slight Stir in One's Heart: 'Should I go try?'
Shen Yi'an had already Forged a Holy Class, happening to be the best experintal subject.
Thinking of this, Su Chen also didn't hesitate, stepping directly into the Challenge Room.
The lights lit up, and a voice transmitted: "Your Excellency Su Chen, welco to the challenge. Please select your challenge target."
The top ten of the Holy List were all 7th-Tier Class-Users. However, according to the rules, Su Chen was currently undertaking a Rank-Surpassing Challenge; he could only challenge the tenth place first.
"Target confird, 10th place on the Holy List—Ding Ze!"
A Phantom Image was gradually outlined. The figure was burly and tall, and in his hands, he actually gripped a giant Brass Mountain-Cleaver.
The 10th place on the Holy List was not unfamiliar to Su Chen. He could often hear Chu Ran and the others ntion him. This guy also wasn't a person from a certain family within the sect, but had climbed up step by step. What he selected was also a Holy Class made public by the sect.
'If I rember correctly, it should also be Eternal Physique. This weapon strongly aligns with a certain Profession of his, which is why it could be evolved within the Challenge System.'
According to his understanding, it had only been five years since Ding Ze advanced to the 7th-Tier, belonging to the "early stage". But Su Chen didn't relax his vigilance because of this.
Thud!
Hearing only a muffled sound, the large foot landed like a hamr striking a drum. The enormous Challenge Room seed to pause for a mont because of it.
In the next instant, Ding Ze's Phantom Image had already pounced over to kill. Gripping the giant mountain-cleaving axe in his hands, the brass-colored axe radiance tore through the air.
It looked simple and crude, but as the target, Su Chen only felt his heart skip a beat.
Under this axe strike, the surrounding airflow surged like ocean waves, yet was also cleaved open from the center. Pure and berserk power erupted, seemingly wanting to hack him to pieces together with this Challenge Room!
Imposing montum, heavy power, simple and crude. This kind of attack thod required a powerful physique. No wonder he had to select Eternal Physique for support.
Ding Ze's speed wasn't slow. Driving his body with montum, at least in a straight-line hacking strike, it could be called extrely fast.
BOOM!!
When the axe blade was less than half a ter from Su Chen, a ring-shaped air wave explosively burst open.
It was Su Chen exerting force under his feet. In an instant, he had already urged the nurous Professional Abilities of his own body. His body crashed through the air, triggering rolling air waves as he darted out in a flash.
'The intensity is completely different from the top hundred gatekeeper I challenged before, ah.'
Su Chen sighed secretly. There were almost nearly two hundred Sixth-Rank Professionals on the Holy List. But in every generation, those who could beco 7th-Tier Class-Users at this age wouldn't exceed twenty at the most, and would number a dozen at the least.
To be able to advance to the 7th-Tier within fifty years of age, their own Talent was naturally beyond doubt, and they were the kings of Intense Competition among kings of Intense Competition. Even if it was a 7th-Tier gatekeeper, the intensity was also very...
'However, it didn't exceed my expectations too much.' Su Chen moved lightly under his feet. Flashing past like a sar of lightning, he dodged another axe strike from the opponent.
This Ding Ze wasn't agile. Su Chen tangled with him for a mont and then figured out the opponent's current strength.
Suddenly hearing a violent roar, rolling sound waves ca Rushing Toward One's Face.
That Ding Ze's Projection abruptly grew taller. His muscles knotted like the twisted roots of an old tree, rapidly expanding to nearly ten ters, seemingly like a giant.
The giant axe in his hands also swelled wildly along with it. The axe handle was as thick as an ancient tree, and the scale patterns on its surface cracked open inch by inch, as if so sort of Transformation had occurred, revealing the magma-like dark red luster inside.
The giant axe swung once more. A storm howled, filling every corner of the Challenge Room.
This was clearly so sort of explosive thod. Su Chen's eyes narrowed slightly. The wind blades cutting his face actually emitted the sound of clashing tal and iron, but this ti he no longer dodged.
His spine arched, surrounded by tassels of Fla Thunder. Gathering his montum, he smashed out his right fist, heading straight for that axe blade.
CRACK!
The axe blade shattered like thin ice. The crimson patterns extinguished inch by inch, and fragnts shot out like rain, carrying piercing, sharp shrieks.
Su Chen's montum didn't diminish. Ding Ze's right arm was the first to explosively burst open, closely followed by his body, collapsing with a boom.
Streaking Light overflowed in all directions. Su Chen landed and exhaled a breath of hot air. What he was currently using was his basic peak form, which was the enhancent of Might, Chakra Release, as well as abilities like Spiritual Pressure.
But he hadn't used the series of Left Foot Stepping on Right Foot Professional Abilities like Blood Burner, Ravager, Stigmata Healer, and the like.
Taking out a Nutrient Potion and chugging it down, he waited for his body to recover. His gaze landed on the 1st place ranked Shen Yi'an. When his body had recovered just about enough, Su Chen decisively made his selection.
"Target selection confird, 1st place on the Holy List—Star Seed Shen Yi'an!"
Fluorescent light intertwined, and a Phantom Image with a figure similar to his surfaced. It was exactly Shen Yi'an, the only 7th-Tier Class-User in the Bronze Sect who had Forged a Holy Class.
This guy's Holy Class had been passed down through generations in the Shen Family, nad [Spirit Mastery]. It belonged to the spiritual category of Holy Classes. Forging it was quite difficult, and it was said its might was unfathomable.
Su Chen was Itching to Act. Shen Yi'an's Projection was also sowhat similar to this guy's personality; he didn't proactively attack right from the start, but instead rely stood in place.
'Experts all like it this way...' Su Chen was secretly speechless. This was rely a Virtual Projection; to compete in patience with the other party was simply sick.
He simply stepped forward and up, not concealing anything either. Right from the start he used the Weapon Lord's enhancent, wrapping a fist in Fla Thunder, drawing the airflow of the entire Challenge Room to howl, bearing straight down on his face.
Shen Yi'an wasn't seen making any movents, rely stretching out a finger, and a Golden Light barrier condensed before him.
BANG!
Su Chen's fist landed upon it, emitting a muffled sound. It was extraordinarily hard, but his movents didn't stop. Another fist had already followed up, and in the blink of an eye, fists fell like rain.
In just a few breaths, Rifts surfaced on the Golden Light barrier. The mont the Rifts appeared, the next instant it shattered.
However, one after another, Golden Light Chains also spread over from the surroundings, climbing onto and tugging at his limbs, and then abruptly pulled taut, seemingly wanting to tear him to pieces alive.
Su Chen's eyes narrowed slightly. Crackling electric arcs shot outwards. His limbs retracted, and then with an abrupt shake, he tore these Chains to shreds in one fell swoop.
But his eyelids twitched again. A torrent-like flood of various Phantom Images of weapons had already co head-on. He hurriedly dodged and retreated, but these weapon Phantom Images also pursued relentlessly.
"Extraordinary!"
Su Chen realized that Shen Yi'an was far from soone the recent Ding Ze could compare to. It was also because the other party had precipitated at the 7th-Tier for a long ti; his Foundation was Not to be Trifled With.
He realized that he probably couldn't win, but he also wanted to see where the limit lay.
Su Chen took a deep breath. Blood flas ignited on the surface of his skin, entering an extre Peak Condition. Quickly using Left Foot Stepping on Right Foot, his strength continuously climbed until it reached a certain boundary.
No longer dodging the torrent of weapons closely following behind, he violently charged into it. Energy surged wildly, cracking sounds ceasing. With fierce montum, he headed straight for Shen Yi'an standing in place.
Even the condensed Golden Light barriers shattered in response. The Virtual Projection had no emotions whatsoever; it would only evaluate the current situation.
It wasn't until Su Chen fought his way close that the Phantom Image raised its hand again. Wisps of golden symbols dissipated from its hand, and then abruptly expanded to the entire Space.
In an instant, Su Chen only felt his ears go dead silent. His body actually stiffened in mid-air, unable to move at all.
'This... seems similar to my Spiritual Pressure?' Su Chen's mind shifted. His body faintly trembled, seemingly wanting to forcefully break free.
Imdiately after, his body loosened, and a voice transmitted to his ears: "Challenge failed."
Phew... Su Chen slumped to the ground, releasing the various states of his body. Panting heavily, he couldn't help but click his tongue inwardly.
'Without using the Holy Class, there's still a fight. But once the Holy Class is used, I have almost no ability to resist.'
"The gap still isn't that simple to make up for." Su Chen stood up, actually not minding it. Before fighting, he already had so estimates.
Not only were the two separated by an entire Tier, the age gap was also twenty years, and he also had a Holy Class on him.
"Thinking about it carefully, I can actually be considered to have taken advantage." Su Chen suddenly realized one thing.
For others, the nurous Specialized Classes acting as prerequisites for a Holy Class couldn't all be put to use in combat. Furthermore, for so Professions, the intensity was indeed not that high.
It wasn't until the mont of Forging a Holy Class that they would welco a thorough tamorphosis.
But for him, the various two-in-ones and Tri-Fusions could be considered barely experiencing a portion of a Holy Class's intensity.
"To truly fight him, I estimate I'd need to Forge a Holy Class. But wanting to win, one Holy Class is probably not enough. Of course, this is under the circumstances of Rank-Surpassing."
Su Chen speculated secretly. Having an advantage and winning still had a very large distance between them.
This was also a rather abnormal part of the Holy List. One needed to continuously surpass the predecessor; otherwise, even if they fought to a draw, they still wouldn't surpass the other party in ranking.
"Since that's the case, what about Old Wei?" Su Chen's eyes flickered.
On Wei Zhenghong's Floating Island, after Su Chen left, the several people didn't disperse either. The atmosphere was still ardent.
However, Chu Ran felt sowhat like a wet blanket. "Qing Shi should have just chatted with the people of the other sects, right? Why did he seek out Su Chen as soon as he ca back?"
"He probably has so urgent matter." Zhao Ming's eyes were sowhat unfocused. "I heard that Su Chen was originally going to beco Qing Shi's disciple. As a result, through a Strange Twist of Fate, he instead beca his Junior Brother."
"I heard that too. It's said that Qing Shi has always been Brooding over this."
Facing gossip, Chu Ran's interest seed to increase greatly. However, before he even spoke two sentences, his Comm-Bracelet started vibrating violently.
"I wonder exactly what thod the Ancient King used to alleviate the Crisis of the Flas." Wei Zhenghong, however, was thinking of this matter. Shen Yi'an said flatly, "Then that isn't sothing you or I need to consider."
"You're a really boring person." Wei Zhenghong shot him a glance.
"Holy shit!" Right at this ti, Chu Ran suddenly shouted loudly. Staring at the Virtual Screen in his hand, his face was filled with shock and horror. "This f..."
He rubbed his eyes, seemingly as if to confirm. This commotion imdiately drew the attention of the other people. Wei Zhenghong imdiately frowned. "Being all startled and jumpy, what happened?"
"Old Su... Old Su..." Chu Ran's throat bobbed. "He just defeated Ding Ze and advanced to 10th on the Holy List."
"What?" Zhao Ming, Jiang Mufeng, and the others gathered around in a flash, their expressions stunned.
Chu Ran murmured, "No wonder his alcohol tolerance got so good, so he advanced to the 6th-Tier."
The others also thought of this, clicking their tongues inwardly. "Truly fast, ah."
What they marveled at more was Su Chen's advancent speed. As for defeating Ding Ze, with the matter of Rank-Defying Slaying Qin Tianlin prior, if Su Chen had ascended to the 6th-Tier, it wasn't exactly unacceptable.
Wei Zhenghong also stared blankly, unable to help but say, "Now, there are even more people keeping an eye on him."
"Since the Ancient King is here, naturally there is no harm." Shen Yi'an's expression was calm.
"True." Wei Zhenghong's mood was cheerful and comfortable. "Everyone is forging ahead; I can't fall behind either. It's also ti to Forge a Holy Class."
Shen Yi'an was sowhat surprised. "The sect found a new Spirit Fire so quickly?"
"How could it be that fast." Wei Zhenghong shook his head: "Sect Master stepped in to help contact a certain faction in the Dust Star Sea. They hold the coordinates of a Spirit Fire in their hands, but haven't nurtured anyone who could Forge a Holy Class in many years."
"Old Shen, ah, just wait." Wei Zhenghong's battle intent flared up. "You've sat in the first place position for far too long."
Shen Yi'an was speechless. "The Peak Star Tournant is already about to begin. Why stare only at ?"
"Who told you to..." Wei Zhenghong hadn't finished speaking, yet heard another burst of gasping cold air from Chu Ran's side.
"Holy shit, holy shit... holy shit."
Chu Ran's expression was sluggish. Jiang Mufeng's eyes were wide open, his head almost drilling into the Virtual Screen.
"What is it now?" Wei Zhenghong was even more Displeased. "Chu Ran, normally how many tis has Sect Master said that one must have a calm mind whenever major events occur."
"It's not... this..." Chu Ran raised his head, looking at him with an extrely bizarre gaze.
Not only Chu Ran, but also Zhao Ming, Zhang Heng, Jiang Mufeng, and the others, all looked over with similar gazes.
"Su Chen, he..." Zhao Ming spoke with difficulty. "...just defeated Old Wei. He currently sits at number two on the Holy List."
Number two?
Wei Zhenghong's scalp went numb, his pupils contracting. Abruptly standing up, the wine cup gripped in his hand was crushed with a cracking sound, liquor flowing all over the ground.
Shen Yi'an's expression shook violently. He quickly called up the Holy List rankings, and as expected, the second place had already beco Su Chen. Wei Zhenghong, on the other hand, had been squeezed down to third.
Wei Zhenghong also hurriedly looked over. After confirming this matter, Earth-Shattering Waves surged in his heart. For a ti, he was actually sowhat dazed. He's number two just like that?
It's a bit too fast.
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