"...At your level, you’re not even qualified to be my opponent."
Lin Tianfeng spoke coldly and disdainfully.
Earlier, when climbing the stone steps, he was completely outdone by Chen Yu, losing face in front of countless people.
At that time, he even had the urge to kill Chen Yu.
The results between Lin Tianfeng and Chen Yu in the Holy Stele examination were worlds apart.
He completely surpassed Chen Yu, regaining his lost face.
At this moment, Lin Tianfeng also felt that Chen Yu’s initial success in reaching the top might have had other reasons, but his true strength was revealed through the Holy Stele examination, and it was just like that.
"I never considered you my opponent."
It’s the truth, he truly never saw Lin Tianfeng as a rival; he didn’t think of himself as someone who bullied the weak.
Lin Tianfeng didn’t understand why, but Chen Yu always managed to anger him easily.
Was it because of Lin Yuxuan?
Yes, it must be because of Lin Yuxuan!
"You’re right, because you know your own limits, you don’t dare to consider me your opponent at all."
Lin Tianfeng laughed, twisting Chen Yu’s words.
"Lin Tianfeng, you’re still as shameless as ever."
At this time, Song Man climbed up the stone steps and mocked.
"Mad Woman, mind your own business."
Lin Tianfeng scolded angrily.
Although he and Song Man were old rivals, right now, he only wanted to deal with Chen Yu.
"Chen Yu, I advise you to leave early. Slandering Lin Yuxuan— even if I don’t deal with you, many others will, including elite disciples of the Heavenly Martial Sect."
Lin Tianfeng sneered.
Chen Yu’s biggest mistake was slandering Lin Yuxuan about an engagement.
Chen Yu thought there was some truth in Lin Tianfeng’s words, but it wasn’t completely accurate.
"Not necessarily, as long as Lin Yuxuan and I have a good talk and dissolve the engagement, they might even thank me."
Chen Yu expressed his thoughts.
If he and Lin Yuxuan ended the engagement, others would then have a chance.
"You... you bastard, you’re asking for it!"
Lin Tianfeng cursed angrily because of Chen Yu’s words.
Chen Yu not only claimed that Lin Yuxuan had an engagement again but also declared himself as Lin Yuxuan’s fiance.
What was more audacious was that Chen Yu said he was going to dissolve the engagement with Lin Yuxuan.
"You trash, what qualifications do you have to be mentioned alongside Lin Yuxuan? With your strength, I could kill you as easily as crushing an ant."
Lin Tianfeng scolded coldly.
The other Lin Family geniuses also couldn’t stand it and began to curse angrily.
"You bastard, humiliating Lin Yuxuan again and again, you’re asking for death."
"Trash like you can’t even enter the Heavenly Martial Sect, and even if you do, you won’t have a good end."
It wasn’t just the Lin Family.
Many spectators around also started cursing, some were so furious that they jumped and rushed over.
From afar, Song Man even felt a bit of admiration for Chen Yu, as if he was so convincing, speaking as if Lin Yuxuan really had an engagement with himself.
Chen Yu wasn’t someone who simply tolerated insults without fighting back.
"You’re always saying trash, always saying ants, yet you don’t realize, it’s you who are the trash and ants in my eyes."
Chen Yu spoke with a calm arrogance, serene and composed.
This remark was more like a bomb, exploding everywhere, arousing countless outcries.
Chen Yu found the noise to be too much and decided it was time to make these people shut up.
He walked up to a Holy Stele.
This Holy Stele was dark yellow throughout, its surface rough and hard, exuding an overwhelming aura of pressure, more like a giant peak than a stone.
This was the Power Holy Stele.
Chen Yu reached out and touched it, silver light emerged, enveloping him and absorbing him into the internal space of the Holy Stele.
As Chen Yu disappeared, the insults and scolds around slightly quieted down.
"Hiding inside the Holy Stele? Hmph, once he comes out, I’ll continue to scold him."
"A cowardly ant dares to enter the Holy Stele for examination, how disgraceful."
"Looking at him, he definitely won’t pass the Power Holy Stele examination."
Lin Tianfeng and other Lin Family disciples showed faint smiles, believing Chen Yu, having become a public enemy, would definitely not have a good ending.
"If this person fails and leaves the Heavenly Martial Sect, I will ensure he has no place to die."
Lin Tianfeng was filled with murderous intent.
The Power Holy Stele radiated golden brilliance.
This scene attracted much attention.
After all, it was just now that Chen Yu entered the Power Holy Stele.
"Did he pass the examination? This soon?"
"I feel like he just went in less than three breaths ago."
Many people were instantly surprised.
Lin Tianfeng and the other Lin Family disciples were dumbfounded, all with astonished faces.
Did Chen Yu pass the examination so quickly?
The light ascended to two zhang!
This proved not only did Chen Yu pass, but he performed excellently.
But the golden brilliance didn’t stop after reaching two zhang, it continued to rise.
"Three zhang of brilliance, impossible!"
The brilliance soared to five zhang.
Before this, only Lin Tianfeng had made the Holy Stele radiate with brilliance reaching five zhang in height.
But now, there’s an additional person, and that person is Chen Yu.
This was hard for Lin Tianfeng to accept, hard for those undergoing the Holy Stele assessment around them to accept, and even more so for the many spectators.
Chen Yu came out of the Strength Stele, solidifying the fact that the five-zhang radiance was his achievement.
Lin Tianfeng stared intently at Chen Yu, wanting to verbally malign him.
But just at this moment.
The radiance on the Strength Stele surged upward again, stopping Lin Tianfeng, who was about to speak, in his tracks.
The golden radiance reached up to six zhang!
Lin Tianfeng was stunned.
Chen Yu’s score actually surpassed his!
However, six zhang was not the end!
As the golden radiance reached ten zhang high, the light beam suddenly thickened, enveloping the entire platform, casting everything in a golden hue.
On the platform, everything seemed to freeze; under the golden light, Chen Yu was dazzling, while everyone else became sculptures, dumbstruck in place.
On Martial God Mountain.
The high-ranking members of the Heavenly Martial Sect, observing from above, were silent for a moment, then began discussing excitedly.
"Strength Stele radiance of ten zhang!"
"Logically, those top assessors in this trial should also achieve this feat, but this kid is only at the peak of the Early-stage Star Condensing."
"Strength Stele? This means this child practices the Body Dao."
"This elder once explored the ruins of an ancient Body Cultivation tribe and gained considerable insights. If this child joins my sect, his path in the Body Dao will surely go further."
An elderly man, corpulent like a small mountain and smiling like a Maitreya Buddha, said.
"The Body Dao has declined; this child excels in the profound meaning of space, so joining my sect is most suitable."
Previously, Chen Yu’s one step to the top merely piqued their interest.
But now, Chen Yu making the Stele release ten zhang of radiance, truly moved the high-ranking members.
Below Martial God Mountain, a silence pervaded.
Logically, the Holy Stele emitting ten zhang of radiance should cause a fervent discussion, inspiring awe and admiration.
Yet, paradoxically, the one achieving this feat was Chen Yu, whom they had just mocked as garbage and an ant.
If even a "garbage ant" could make the Stele emit such brilliance, what did their assessment results, if lower than Chen Yu’s, amount to? Worse than garbage?
Those who had just mocked Chen Yu felt utterly humiliated now.
Those standing near Chen Yu, especially, felt deep embarrassment, wishing they could dig a hole and disappear.
"You, you cheated, this is impossible!"
Lin Tianfeng’s face turned red, whether from shame or rage was unclear.
His earlier smugness was again surpassed, completely overtaken by Chen Yu.
He couldn’t admit this reality in his heart!
He was the Lin Family genius; what was Chen Yu? How could he be surpassed by Chen Yu?
When Chen Yu ascended in one step earlier, Lin Tianfeng claimed he cheated. Now, with the Stele releasing ten zhang of radiance, Lin Tianfeng accused him of cheating again.
Chen Yu disdainfully did not explain.
If he had to explain to every doubter, wouldn’t he be dead from the exhaustion?
A voice filled with admiration and reverence came from the stone steps.
"Brother Chen, you are amazing."
The speaker was Kong Qiuye, sweating profusely, slowly climbing the steps.
Kong Qiuye hadn’t expected Chen Yu to be so powerful. Now, the entire stairway was enveloped in that golden radiance, with Chen Yu at the top, gilded, seemingly a deity.
Kong Family genius Kong Dongshan and Lin Family genius Lin Tianfeng could not compare to Chen Yu.
Chen Yu ignored Lin Tianfeng, Kong Dongshan, and the others.
He had already left his name on two steles.
With just one more, he would have passed the assessment.
He continued to focus on refining his weaknesses. Before long, he made another stele emit one zhang of radiance, passing the assessment. Thɪs chapter is updated by ɴovᴇl(ꜰ)ir(e).nᴇt
This time, no one doubted.
No matter how many times Chen Yu failed, they had no right to question him unless they could make the Holy Stele release more than ten zhang of light.
Having completed the assessment, Chen Yu prepared to leave.
At this moment, he noticed Kong Qiuye still climbing arduously on the steps.
Kong Qiuye, in the Early Stage of Star Condensing, did not have a deep foundation, probably being only able to reach seventy or eighty steps, struggling to reach the top.
Despite being drenched in sweat, she persisted, disregarding the gazes around her and ignoring the advice and disdain of others.
Kong Qiuye reached the eighty-second step and was out of strength.
She stopped and panted heavily.
"This time, I only made it to the seventy-seventh step. I’ll return in twenty years, and by then, I will ascend like Brother Chen."
Kong Qiuye dreamed inwardly.
But suddenly, she felt the pressure around her ease, as if the mountain pressing on her had vanished.
Kong Qiuye was puzzled, but with the reduced pressure, she could continue climbing.
A moment later, she reached the top.
Everyone around was astonished to see a young girl in the Early Stage of Star Condensing reach the top.
Especially those who had previously mocked Kong Qiuye, who now felt extremely embarrassed.
"Is the Heavenly Martial Sect’s trial too lax, or do they not care about the first trial?"
Chen Yu thought to himself.
Earlier, he used the profound meaning of space to help Kong Qiuye by reducing the oppressive force of the world, allowing her to reach the top.
Previously, when the Lin Family geniuses pressured Chen Yu, the Heavenly Martial Sect high-ranking officials did not intervene. So, Chen Yu tried helping others pass the examination to see if the Heavenly Martial Sect would interfere.
"It seems the focus is on the second trial."
The Heavenly Martial Sect only accepts a hundred people every time, so the second trial must be incredibly rigorous.