"You—you actually crippled Xie Hanbing!"
The Danyang Academy elder glared at Ye Xuan and roared. The pressure of the Nirvana Realm spread out as he prepared to act personally!
"Impudent!"
"Elder Wu, do you really think we don't exist?"
"This is Cloud Palace, not Danyang!"
The Yaoguang Tower Master also unleashed his full Nirvana aura and blocked the front of the arena.
Ji Xueyao merely folded her arms and grinned viciously, showing no intention of making a move.
The other tower masters exchanged glances. Even now, they had yet to recover from the shock of that single finger.
"Yaoguang Tower Master, are you planning to protect this brat!?"
"Binghan is a direct descendant of the Xie Clan! Ye Xuan acted viciously, and the Xie Clan will never let him off!"
"You're only the Yaoguang Tower Master. Can you protect him!?"
The Danyang elder roared.
He was the leader this time. With Xie Binghan crippled, he would surely be punished when he returned!
"Heh heh, so what if it's the Xie Clan? If they dare come knocking, life and death will be decided by fate!"
"My husband already showed mercy. Otherwise, he'd be dead!"
Ji Xueyao sneered even more disdainfully.
She knew that Ye Xuan had yet to use his full strength!
"You—you people!"
"Fine, just wait and see! At the Peak Competition, your Cloud Palace will pay the price for this!"
Seeing this, the Danyang elder could only leave Cloud Palace Academy in the utmost fury, dragging along the several injured prodigies.
Only then did the Cloud Palace disciples and the various tower masters who had rushed over finally recover their senses.
Yet when they looked at Ye Xuan, who still stood proudly atop the arena, every one of them wore a solemn expression.
Danyang had come to challenge the academy, Chu Chen had won consecutive victories, and Cloud Palace's prodigies had all been defeated—yet Ye Xuan had single-handedly turned the tide and crushed three Myriad Manifestation Realm freshmen in succession!?
Wasn't it said that the Forbidden Body was only invincible within the same realm?
Why could this person blast apart Xie Binghan of the Myriad Manifestation Realm with a single finger!?
The Tianxuan Tower Master's pupils contracted slightly. If Ye Xuan were allowed to keep growing, who else could suppress Ji Xueyao?
"Ji Xueyao, your Tianshu Tower has truly brought down a catastrophe this time!"
She immediately spoke.
"Ji Xueyao, do you know what kind of status the Xie Clan holds as a great clan? Do you know what position the prodigies of the Xie Clan occupy in Danyang Academy?"
"Not to mention the First Generation Disciples—even among this year's freshmen, Xie Hongyi is known as the Xie Clan's True Phoenix. She has even comprehended Danyang's Unique Dao Treasure, Phoenix Feather Tribulation Heaven!"
"Offending the Xie Clan will implicate the entire academy!"
The Tianxuan Tower Master growled in a low voice.
"The Xie Clan!?"
"Even the Xuan Clan isn't worthy of our attention. What is her Xie Clan supposed to be?"
Ji Xueyao still wore a mocking smile.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the Five Great Clans were colossal existences. In her eyes, however, they were no more than toys.
Forget the Five Great Clans—even across the entire Great Gan Dynasty, the only person who inspired a trace of wariness in her was the Princess in the Great Gan Imperial Palace.
That savage little girl was not someone to provoke!
"Let's go!"
Ye Xuan remained indifferent as he left the plaza with Ji Xueyao and the Yaoguang Tower Master.
He had now completely swept through Danyang's prodigies and obtained all the points he wanted.
"Only five hundred and seventy thousand points."
Yet when Ye Xuan looked at the number that had appeared on his medallion, he could not help frowning.
Even with the double points for winning the academy challenge, it was still far too little.
These points were only enough for four days of cultivation in Cloud Palace Pond.
"You were earning points too fiercely on the Enlightenment Platform before. You broke into the top ten of the True Disciple rankings in just one hour. In reality, how could points be so easy to accumulate?" The Yaoguang Tower Master shook his head.
Other disciples found it too difficult to earn points. Ye Xuan's problem was that he had too few channels through which to earn them.
"Actually, there's another place where you can obtain points quickly."
At this moment, Ji Ziyao suddenly spoke.
"You mean the Hundred Refinements Tower?"
The Yaoguang Tower Master raised his brows.
"The Hundred Refinements Tower?"
Ye Xuan frowned. He had challenged the Hundred Refinements Tower in Tiansuan City before, and it had posed no difficulty.
"That's right. The academy's Hundred Refinements Tower has sixty-six floors. It's where the True Disciples of the three academies compete for rankings, and it also rewards a huge number of points!"
"Sister Wan'er has already entered it. Oh, right—the Tianquan Tower True Disciple Zhao Yan whom you surpassed recently came out of seclusion not long ago. He's also preparing to challenge the Hundred Refinements Tower and reclaim his statue!"
Ji Ziyao nodded with a smile.
"Reclaim his statue?"
Ye Xuan let out a disdainful laugh at that.
His goal had never been to become the tenth True Disciple. Did Zhao Yan think he could reclaim the statue?
"We're going to the Hundred Refinements Tower!"
Ye Xuan snorted and immediately headed for Cloud Palace's Hundred Refinements Tower.
The academy-level Hundred Refinements Tower had sixty-six floors. It stood at the rear mountain of the academy, opposite Cloud Palace Pond, soaring into the clouds and easy to spot.
When the three of them arrived beneath the Hundred Refinements Tower, quite a few cultivators had gradually gathered there.
Ye Xuan immediately spotted the stone stele standing beneath the Hundred Refinements Tower. It displayed the current rankings for the academy's Hundred Refinements Tower.
What surprised Ye Xuan was that the rankings not only included Cloud Palace Academy's list. Above it was also the combined ranking of the three academies, called the Latent Dragon Ranking.
On the Cloud Palace Ranking, the person in first place was naturally the current number-one True Disciple, Jun Wuji. His record was the sixtieth floor, leaving him six floors from reaching the top.
The tenth place still belonged to Zhao Yan, who had reached the forty-ninth floor and had yet to cross the hurdle of the fiftieth.
Ye Xuan looked at the Latent Dragon Ranking next. To his surprise, Jun Wuji, the number one of Cloud Palace, was only eleventh on the Latent Dragon Ranking—not even in the top ten!?
The first place on the Latent Dragon Ranking was Ling Xiao of Tinglei Academy, with a record of the sixty-fourth floor.
Places two through five had all reached the sixty-third floor. The tenth place had reached the sixty-first floor. At a glance, the gap did not seem particularly large.
"Above the sixtieth floor, the difficulty doubles with every level. Ling Xiao is the most exceptionally gifted member of the Ling Clan's younger generation. He possesses a natural King Body and is in the late stage of the Nirvana Realm, yet he has failed all seven times he challenged the sixty-fifth floor."
As if she had noticed the contempt in Ye Xuan's eyes, the Yaoguang Tower Master hurriedly explained, "To date, no one has managed to clear the sixty-sixth floor of the Hundred Refinements Tower before leaving the academy."
"Is it really that difficult?"
Ye Xuan smiled at that, then turned to Ji Xueyao.
She shrugged and curled her lips. "Husband, don't tell me you've developed some unrealistic expectations of these people?"
Ji Xueyao's meaning was obvious.
The so-called latent dragons on the ranking were nothing but a bunch of trash!
"However, Ye Xuan's opponents right now are still the freshmen from the three academies."
The Yaoguang Tower Master continued, "You may not know this, but the Central Region has actually established a ranking for freshmen like you as well."
"We have one too?"
Ye Xuan was stunned.
"That's right. It's called the Young Dragon Ranking!"
The Yaoguang Tower Master nodded, then took out a Jade Slip and handed it to Ye Xuan.
Ji Xueyao glanced at the ranking on the Jade Slip and could not help frowning. "Who made this ranking? My husband is only fifteenth? Are they insane?"
Ye Xuan also laughed as he looked at the ranking in his hand.
The Young Dragon Ranking listed a total of thirty freshmen. Not only was he ranked fifteenth, he was even ranked below Ling Yan and Zhuo Jing.
Among Cloud Palace Academy's disciples, Chu Wanruo held the highest position, but she was only ranked eleventh.
The top ten of the Young Dragon Ranking were all occupied by freshmen from Tinglei and Danyang Academies.
The first place was Xuan Zheng, one of the Four Talents of the Xuan Clan. Second place was the Xie Clan's True Phoenix, Xie Hongyi, whom the Tianxuan Tower Master had just mentioned.
"The Xie Hanbing whom my husband crushed with a casual raise of his hand can even rank in the top ten?"
Ji Xueyao was deeply dissatisfied.
"The Young Dragon Ranking is also based on talent and battle achievements. Ye Xuan is a Forbidden Body, so he's at a disadvantage in terms of talent. On top of that, he hadn't participated in any battles before, nor did he have a Hundred Refinements Tower record, so..." The Yaoguang Tower Master gave an awkward smile. "But he'll enter the top ten very soon!"
After Ye Xuan's battle today, in which he had casually crushed three Myriad Manifestation Realm freshmen from Danyang Academy, the Young Dragon Ranking would certainly be updated.
"The top ten of the Young Dragon Ranking?"
"Far too low!"
Yet Ye Xuan shook his head. "The Young Dragon Ranking is meaningless."
"Why not take a shot at the Latent Dragon Ranking?"
To be honest, Ye Xuan had never placed the academy's freshmen in his eyes.
Even the so-called Xie Clan True Phoenix or the Four Talents of the Xuan Clan were not worthy of his attention.
Only the Latent Dragon Ranking was worth trying for!
The Latent Dragon Ranking!?
At the foot of the Hundred Refinements Tower, everyone's expressions changed slightly when they heard this.
Ye Xuan was far too arrogant, wasn't he?
As a freshman, he wasn't even satisfied with a place on the Young Dragon Ranking?!
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