Chapter 142 - 141: Gathering - The Future

Chapter 142 - 141: Gathering - The Future

"No."

"...What?" Long Chen’s was startled, so was everyone else. Long Chen had just lost to Wei Wuyin earlier, yet he didn’t dare to accept this challenge? Even Xiang Ling was startled, gazing at Wei Wuyin as if he would accept without hesitation. After all, if it wasn’t for her, Long Chen might’ve already been killed.

Wei Wuyin’s eyes were truly calm, indifferent, and uncaring. "I’m bored of all this; I’m bored of you. I have nothing to prove to you. Nor do I feel like enabling your childish need to prove yourself to others. I’ve never once felt that desire to seek other’s recognition, and merely took every step for myself and myself alone."

"..." The crowd was truly unable to predict this.

While others can’t understand his thought process, he felt that Long Chen was a cockroach that was infesting his life’s events. At first, he was merely suspicious that this was Inheritor of Sin versus Blessed, but now he felt a touch of heavenly design.

This three year challenge?

He was unwilling to be someone whetstone or puppet. To the heavens, to the first sinner, or to anyone.

If the heaven’s wanted to choose between him or Long Chen, have them fight it out until a winner was decided, then he was unwilling. He wanted to jump off this chessboard, and as an Inheritor of Sin, did he not have that choice? Even if, in three years, he could freely kill Long Chen, then it would be a match orchestrated by the Heavenly Daos.

His distaste and contempt for this went beyond imagination in his heart.

He turned to Na Xinyi, "the offer will remain in effect for as long as I live; as long as you avoid intimate relations with others." While he wasn’t discriminatory towards accepting someone who had had past relations with others, he felt that since he had informed her of this now, then it would be best that she didn’t turn to him after regretting choosing others.

In the strictest sense, he’d accepted Na Xinyi as a half-fiance at this moment and she merely needed to accept.

He wasn’t someone that enjoyed wearing a green hat, so the moment she chose someone else, then she could consider their ties of fate severed entirely.

He turned to Qing Qiumu, "I hope we can remain friends. Regardless of what happens in the future." These words were the only ones spoken with a hint of emotion. He didn’t have feelings of desire, love, or attraction towards Qing Qiumu at the moment. While she was an attractive beauty, he felt a kindred spirit from her that suited more of a friend than a lover.

Of course, if she wanted to push that type of relationship, then he wouldn’t immediately reject and consider it seriously.

"I don’t have many friends..." he thought to himself. Since his clan’s eradication, he hadn’t felt as comfortable with someone like he had with her in those few hours. It was an inexplicable feeling that couldn’t be explained no matter how hard he seeked the answer.

Shiiing!

A sharp, keening sound exploded in his mind. He felt his sea of consciousness come under assault, impacted by an unknown force. It induced an immense migraine. The scarlet-haired woman turned to face Wei Wuyin, and her eyes were unusually bright. An eerie power arrived in his mind.

Before he could react, the Alchemic Spirit of Eden Qi shook within his sea of consciousness and started to send constant waves of Eden Qi into it to stabilize it. Only then did the migraine cease.

The young woman frowned. Her eyes flashed with a wisp of shock. She turned to the young man, but he had already entered the crowd of eligible participants.

Wei Wuyin didn’t dare to inspect her any further, but the shock in his heart caused endless ripples. He discovered that she was using some type of mental power to disguise her appearance, and when he tried to inspect her, it had tried to alter his perception by integrating with his sea of consciousness. If it was effective, his spiritual spell would’ve observed a completely different image and aura.

But because of his spirit nestled inside his sea of consciousness, it was abolished and revealed her true appearance. Even a trace of her aura was revealed!

She was in her early twenties, and had golden hair, not red. As for her facial appearance, she eclipsed everyone that he had ever seen in his entire life. She was beyond the word ’beautiful’ and neared ’perfect’.

"She’s much, much stronger than Fairy Blessed Spirit!" His heart was truly given a hellish shock. It seems that that young man from before was definitely a Blessed to have an expert of that caliber beside him.

When he tried to find her again, she had already vanished.

"..."

Before long, everyone here was eligible participants. They were young elites with bright potential and far-reaching dreams! They had vibrant hopes and endless desire.

Xiang Ling swept her gaze on these young, bright, and confident faces, a faint sigh in her heart. However, she didn’t reveal her emotions as she said after getting everyone’s attention with a clap, "If you think the examination will be difficult, then you’re correct. But, also, horribly wrong. It will be difficult, but not even close to what any of you currently imagine.

"I want you to think about the difficulty in your minds and hearts. Truly think about how difficult it might be, then...multiply that difficulty by a hundred. If you can pass that level of challenge, then you can keep your life. If you want to become a disciple of the sect, then multiply it by ten thousand times on top of the hundred times! Even then, you’ll merely be eligible to be the lowest disciple." She coldly and cruelly explained, instantly demoralizing all these valiant youths. Many of their smiles and hopes seemed to be suppressed by a formless pressure.

"Your life will be on the line, and many of you will die. More of you will receive nothing in the end, and even if you succeed, you’ll still have to work harder than anyone to gain a hint of recognition. This is because you will not be joining some insignificant sect! You’re joining a hegemon sect that rules a portion of this starry sky!

"If you are too intimidated by this, then you should leave. If you aren’t scared of death, then you should leave! The ignorant and foolish will always be the first to die. I’ll give everyone one last chance: You can stay here and likely rule a direction in this continent or leave and risk everything for your future!" Xiang Ling’s tone was low and sharp.

The hearts of everyone quivered without end, but regardless of who, not a single person decided to leave this group of young elites.

Xiang Ling softly sighed and shook her head.

"So be it."