Taking On Everyone Alone!

"Wait, why does some brat from the intermediate class dare challenge our advanced class?!"

"How arrogant! He must be from some backwater, thinking he's invincible just because he has a little talent."

"Heh, how many people who make it into Spirit Hall Academy are weaklings?"

The advanced class students at Spirit Hall Academy were all indignant.

Though they were called the junior, intermediate, and advanced classes, they were actually large year groups made up of students in different age ranges.

The junior class was generally for ages six to twelve.

The intermediate class was for ages twelve to eighteen.

The advanced class was for ages eighteen to twenty-five.

Each class consisted of the most outstanding members of Spirit Hall's current generation.

And the advanced class was the cream of the crop. Both the junior and intermediate classes had a thousand students, but only a hundred made it into the advanced class!

Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue were Spirit Hall's future Golden Generation. Under this very system, they had fought their way through the ranks and been selected as the strongest in the advanced class.

Qian Guxing was only six, yet he dared challenge the advanced class. It was no different from a kindergartener going to a top university's graduate school to challenge its students.

And one of the very best universities at that!

Naturally, the advanced class students felt they were being looked down on.

The little junior class kids, meanwhile, were excited.

Together with the intermediate class led by Qian Guxing,

the entire Spirit Hall Academy was in an uproar because of him.

Mephisto, the dean of Spirit Hall Academy, noticed the matter at once. A member of the education committee under her asked:

"Dean, he is His Holiness the Pope's disciple, after all. Should we step in and keep this from going too far?"

"There's no need." Mephisto shook her head. Standing by her office window, she watched the students racing downstairs toward the advanced class area.

"The students are just sparring with one another. With teachers watching, there won't be any serious consequences even if he loses. But if he wins, things will get interesting."

Mephisto had witnessed Qian Guxing's Martial Soul Awakening with her own eyes.

The True Essence Dao Body had summoned heavenly lightning, and Zhang Sanfeng's terrifying phantom had opened the heavenly gate with a single sword strike.

Then there was the Ancient Tree of Nature, which reached from earth to heaven, and the laws of the God King of Nature that had made all of Spirit City tremble.

All of it had left a deep impression on Mephisto. She believed that Qian Guxing, who possessed Twin Martial Souls of such a caliber and Innate Level 20 Soul Power, could never be a fool who overestimated himself.

Even if Qian Guxing failed in his challenge, with talent like his, the Pope would surely assign him a Titled-level guard in the shadows. There would be no need for Mephisto to protect him.

So all she had to do was stand by and watch the show.

If Qian Guxing could win, he would create an extraordinary miracle: at six years old, he would have no equal in Spirit Hall Academy and would reign supreme over three generations of Spirit Hall.

Such a legendary feat was worthy of being recorded in Spirit Hall Academy's annals!

Mephisto, as the dean, could bask in some of that glory too.

"Little fellow, whether I get a mention in the annals is all up to you."

Though it would be embarrassing for the advanced class to lose to a six-year-old, Mephisto still looked forward to it, hoping Qian Guxing could create this miracle.

At that moment.

Qian Guxing led over a thousand intermediate class students and more than a thousand little junior class kids in a vast procession to the campus area where the advanced class was located.

The advanced class had long since heard the news and gathered around the Soul Fighting arena, looking for all the world like an army drawn up to meet its enemy.

When they saw the little brats from the intermediate and junior classes actually come charging up to them, the advanced class students wore all sorts of expressions.

Even though they had heard the news beforehand,

seeing it with their own eyes still felt absurd.

Seriously, what made these little brats think they could win?

A burly figure stepped out from the advanced class. Nearly two meters tall, he carried an oppressive presence like a mountain. He swept his gaze over the intermediate class students and said coldly:

"You intermediate class students want to challenge our advanced class?"

"No."

Qian Guxing's voice rang out from deep within the crowd.

The intermediate class students parted of their own accord, making a path.

Qian Guxing stepped forward, with Hu Liena close behind. He looked at the burly man and said calmly:

"I'm challenging all of you by myself."

As Qian Guxing's words fell,

silence descended over the crowd.

It wasn't because Qian Guxing's declaration was so overbearing that his kingly presence burst forth and awed everyone in the advanced class into silence.

Rather, after seeing Qian Guxing, the advanced class students were briefly stunned before they all laughed in relief.

"Hahaha... I was wondering how anyone dared challenge a higher class. Turns out he's a kid who hasn't even been weaned."

"Little baby, go on back. If you cry when we fight, I'll be responsible for comforting you."

"He's so cute! Come here and let big sister give you a hug."

Qian Guxing was only six this year. And because he had formed his Soul Rings himself, he hadn't gone through the Douluo Continent's beloved process of being prematurely grown up by absorbing Soul Rings, so he was the height of a normal child.

His charm stat of 120 gave him a soft, rosy look that anyone would find adorable.

The advanced class students were over twenty years old on average. Faced with a challenge from a child like Qian Guxing, they all relaxed at once, their initial anger turning to teasing.

Qian Guxing had expected a fierce confrontation, but he never imagined the other side would instantly switch to coddling-a-child mode. The tense, heated atmosphere of a duel became a warm, cheerful scene of adults comforting a kindergartener.

He even saw several advanced class girls already getting ready to come over and kiss and hug him.

Seriously?

You're showing me no respect at all.

Qian Guxing felt helpless too. His age wasn't something he could control.

Since you're treating me like a soft, adorable little baby,

you'll have to pay the price for looking down on me!

Qian Guxing just wanted to speedrun this, complete the mission, and obtain the Three Colors of Haki. He stepped forward and unleashed his Nature Domain, opening with Deep Forest Emergence. Endless vines swept toward the nearest advanced class students like raging waves on a furious sea.

The advanced class students of Spirit Hall Academy were all at least Soul Elders, and more than a small half were Soul Ancestors. Any one of them could have become a core member of another academy's team.

Faced with Qian Guxing's zero-frame opening move, the advanced class students were not as helpless as the intermediate class. They reacted in an instant, immediately releasing their Martial Souls and dodging backward with clean, decisive movements, trading space for time to escape Deep Forest Emergence's area of coverage.

The Soul Fighting arena's open grounds also gave them plenty of strategic depth.

As a result, Qian Guxing's usually reliable Deep Forest Emergence missed completely for the first time.

Even so, the move left the advanced class students deeply shaken.

"What the hell is with the ridiculous scale of that Soul Skill?!"

"Why is such a cute-looking kid so fierce?!"

"Wait, he's Qian Guxing, the genius who awakened Innate Level 20 Soul Power some time ago and was taken in as His Holiness the Pope's disciple!"

Someone had finally recognized Qian Guxing.

But it was already too late.

Countless vines intertwined, forming an enormous treant more than ten meters tall. Qian Guxing stood atop it, looking down as he said coldly:

"Let me say this again. I, Qian Guxing, challenge all of you today."

"Not one of you. All of you!"