In the middle of Xiafeng Academy, a purple light pillar surged from the Monument of Strength, rising above the nine-layered clouds with a roaring, ceaseless sound.
The splendid purple light illuminated the vast sky, turning all the clouds thoroughly purple, a Purple Mist covering the heavens, spreading across half of the horizon.
The moment the purple light appeared, everyone from the Xiafeng Academy to all the myriad residents of the Royal Capital looked over in unison, staring dumbfounded at the purple pillar of light that completely astonished them, their faces showing an expression of unbelievable amazement.
Purple Mist Tongtian!
What did this represent? It represented that the Monument of Strength at Xiafeng Academy had been struck to emit the highest color of purple sheen, only achievable by surpassing a strength of sixty-five thousand catties, to display such a seventh kind of brilliance.
Simultaneously, this represented the terrifying potential of a person.
Looking back at the millennia-long history of Xiafeng Academy, how many students could there be who could emit such a Purple Mist brilliance.
Only four words could describe it—
To stay within Xiafeng Academy, one must at least be there before turning twenty-four. But how many could reach this stage before their twenty-fourth birthday? One could precisely use the phrase "rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns" to describe it.
Throughout the thousand-year history, including the Crown Prince and Ye Chen, there had only been a handful of six people who had appeared, each nearly two hundred years apart, rightly called a genius that appears every two hundred years.
And of the other four in history, without exception, they had achieved extraordinary success, with two of them nearly stepping past the Martial God Realm, almost reaching the legendary Heavenly Divine Realm, known as the strongest Martial Gods beneath the Heavenly Gods.
Two others, among them one being the current Mansion Master of Xiafeng Academy, a man of great age, centuries old, holding sway over all the geniuses of Xiafeng Country, with high authority and unfathomable cultivation.
The last one, he was now the supreme ancestor of the Kingdom, also centuries old, rumored to have taken the final step into the legendary Heavenly Divine Realm.
It could be said that anyone in history who could emit the Purple Mist from the Monument of Strength was none other than an extraordinary and peerless figure.
Similarly, it also proved the terrifying potential of Ye Chen and the Crown Prince, who, barring any accidents, would inevitably stand at the very peak of Xiafeng Country’s Pyramid.
It had to be said, this generation of the younger peers was extraordinary, able to emit the Purple Mist from the Monument of Strength and bring out two people, one being the Crown Prince and the other now appearing.
"Quick, let’s see who has emitted the unparalleled Purple Mist from the Monument of Strength, our Xiafeng Academy has produced another peerless genius following the Crown Prince, who truly is this divine being!"
At this moment, nearly everyone within the academy was spurred into action, rushing like lightning toward the location of the Monument of Strength.
Within the Royal Capital, similarly, numerous gazes turned toward Xiafeng Academy, with many people heading to Xiafeng Academy as well.
Simultaneously, under the Monument of Strength, everyone in the Martial Arts Arena was completely dumbstruck, gazing up at the all-encompassing purple light emanating from the Monument of Strength, like a giant purple dragon, roaring as it surged into the vast clouds, becoming the sole phenomenon between heaven and earth.
In a silence where one could hear a pin drop, one could clearly hear the sound of swallowing echoing incessantly.
"It’s Purple... Purple Mist!"
Xia Mang and others stared dumbly at the ten-zhang-high Monument of Strength bathed in the purple light, their minds blank, unable to process anything, completely astonished.
All because this was all too shocking, overwhelmingly so.
Purple Mist, only achievable with a strength of sixty-five thousand catties, but now Ye Chen had done it, reaching the level of those few historical figures and the Crown Prince.
Not to say he alone, others felt the same.
Had there been any possibility of error in the Monument of Strength, they would surely doubt its authenticity.
How could this young man possess such peerless strength that even the Monument of Strength displayed the rarely seen unparalleled Purple Mist?
"Purple Mist... Only the Crown Prince reached this step two years ago, and in the millennium history of the academy, only five people had appeared before, but now including Ye Chen, we have the sixth," said the lady in red, shocked beyond belief, and couldn’t help but inhale a breath of cold air while looking at the young man beneath the Monument of Strength.
Among those present, perhaps only Vivian was the calmest. After all, she was prepared in her heart, having witnessed Ye Chen’s immense strength in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, where he had successively killed the Innate Giant Crocodile and the Fierce Mountain Bear, two fearsome Innate Demonic Beasts on his own.
Merely the strength of the Innate Giant Crocodile was judged to be no less than fifty thousand catties, while the Fierce Mountain Bear was even more terrifying, hard to subdue without a strength of sixty thousand catties.
From these glimpses, one could know just how strong Ye Chen was, his strength at least reaching sixty thousand catties. Although Vivian was somewhat surprised that he had emitted the Purple Mist, it wasn’t beyond imagination.
Nevertheless, she believed that all of this would be indeed recorded in the annals of Xiafeng Academy, to be remembered by future generations.
"Purple Mist, to think that after only two years could we see it again. The last time it was left by the Crown Prince, we initially thought it would take another two hundred years for the next time, but unexpectedly it didn’t take two hundred years but just two years, unbelievable indeed."