"You're not even as good as the First Prince!"
Lin Heng remarked irritably, "At least the First Prince defeated an opponent with a higher cultivation. You only beat someone much weaker than you. What's there to show off about?"
"Haha! I knew the Little Prince would say that!"
Lin Feng burst out laughing and teased, "It's such a shame the Little Prince didn't enter the tournament. Otherwise, first place would surely have been his!"
"Even first place would be selling my little royal brother short!"
Lin Xuan, seated on the third stone tier, chimed in, "I reckon even if all of us joined forces, we still wouldn't be a match for him!"
His mother, Shi Feifei, greatly disliked Liu Ling'er and Lin Heng. Influenced by her, he too loathed Lin Heng!
Shi Feifei regarded Lin Heng as a little bastard, and so did Lin Xuan!
"Right, right, right!"
Lin Feng nodded repeatedly.
He wasn't a prince, but as a member of the royal clan with a grandfather at the Quasi-God Realm, his standing in the Chishui Royal Clan was hardly lower than a prince's!
He had originally been indifferent to Lin Heng, but Lin Heng's astonishing performance that morning had earned him the praise of many academy students, and that had left Lin Feng deeply displeased.
After all, he had always been the one the academy students most liked to praise!
"The First Prince does have a sharp eye!"
Lin Heng said mildly, "You so-called elite geniuses taking part in the tournament really wouldn't be enough to beat me, even if you were all tied together!"
"Huh?"
Lin Feng was taken aback. He hadn't expected Lin Heng to say something so arrogant.
The First Prince and I were mocking you. Couldn't you tell?
"Little royal brother, if you're going to blow your own trumpet like that, I won't spare you any face. I'll have to expose you!"
Lin Xuan descended the tiers, and after leaving those words behind, stepped into the arena.
It was his turn to fight again!
This time, it was a match in the winners' bracket, and Lin Xuan won just as easily.
No one knew whether his opponent was wary of his status as the First Prince or whether his strength really was that formidable. In any case, he won!
Lin Xuan didn't hurry to leave the arena. Instead, he beckoned to Lin Heng and shouted, "Little royal brother, there's no point boasting with your mouth. Do you dare come up here and show what you can really do?"
Even if there was no glory in challenging and defeating a three-year-old child, winning was all that mattered!
He didn't mind making a fool of Lin Heng in public and showing everyone that having a powerful physique alone was far from enough!
Hearing Lin Xuan's words, Lin Changqing frowned.
Lin Changqing had been about to speak up and stop Lin Xuan from making trouble, but when he recalled what Lin Heng had said that morning, he dismissed the thought.
With so many people watching, he didn't think Lin Xuan would dare go too far!
There was nothing wrong with letting the always spoiled Lin Heng suffer a little and learn a lesson!
Since the ruler hadn't spoken up to stop it, Xi Zhaoqu, who was presiding over the tournament, naturally had nothing to say either.
"Don't go chickening out, Little Prince!"
Seeing that Lin Heng hadn't moved, Lin Feng raised his eyebrows as he spoke.
"I didn't want to bully anyone!"
Lin Heng slowly rose and walked toward the arena, one step at a time.
"Please go easy on me, little royal brother!"
Once Lin Heng had come to a stop in the arena, Lin Xuan spoke with a smile.
Lin Heng ignored him. Instead, he turned to look at Lin Feng and said, "You come too. I can't be bothered wasting time! No, no, no, all you elite geniuses should come at me together!"
As soon as he said that, the whole crowd erupted!
Just now, only some of the academy students had heard what Lin Heng said.
But now, everyone present had heard him!
His words were too wild, too confident, too arrogant!
"Has the Little Prince gone mad? He's only three!"
"I have to say, he really is strong. He could probably match a Purple Mansion Realm expert in strength, but nearly everyone in the tournament is at the Martial Ancestor Realm!"
"A three-year-old child doesn't understand the realm system well enough. He thinks being strong makes him invincible!"
"It looks like the rumors are true. The Little Prince really has been spoiled by the goddess. He has no idea how high the heavens are or how deep the earth is!"
Voices rose and fell throughout the crowd!
Even Hong San, who spent every day with Lin Heng, was a little surprised.
But beneath his surprise, Hong San's heart was full of anticipation!
He knew the Little Prince fairly well, and he didn't believe the Little Prince was boasting!
Since the Little Prince dared to challenge every elite genius present, he surely had the strength to back it up!
"You're really dragging this out!"
Lin Heng said impatiently, "Are we fighting or not?"
"Little royal brother, if you want to challenge every genius here, you'll have to beat me first!"
Lin Xuan let out a shout and charged straight at Lin Heng.
"That works too!"
Lin Heng didn't move. His expression was exceptionally composed and calm.
Only when Lin Xuan rushed up close and smashed a fist at him did Lin Heng lazily raise his right hand.
Bang!
After a dull, booming impact, everyone was astonished to see that Lin Heng had caught Lin Xuan's fist head-on with his right hand.
What was more, Lin Heng's body hadn't trembled in the slightest!
"First Prince, there's not much strength in your punch. Did you skip lunch?"
Lin Heng sneered.
"This..."
Lin Xuan was a little dumbfounded too. He hadn't used all his strength, but even a Purple Mansion Realm martial artist shouldn't have been able to take that punch head-on!
Lin Heng swung his right arm, and Lin Xuan was sent flying a long way, unable to resist.
Bang!!
Lin Xuan's body slammed heavily into the hard ground of the training arena, leaving him covered in dust and in a sorry state!
The sight instantly silenced the entire crowd!
Almost everyone stared wide-eyed, finding it utterly unbelievable!
Throwing a two-hundred-jin iron ball thirty zhang wasn't all that astonishing. Anyone at the Purple Mansion Realm could do it easily, and even some Body Tempering Realm martial geniuses could manage it.
But taking a punch head-on from a third-grade Martial Ancestor Realm expert and then flinging the opponent a long way was beyond what Body Tempering Realm and Purple Mansion Realm martial artists could do!
Besides, Lin Heng was only a three-year-old child!
"I told you already that you couldn't do it alone and told you all to come at me together, but you just wouldn't believe me. Now you've suffered for it, haven't you?"
Lin Heng glanced at Lin Xuan, who had just struggled to his feet, then looked back at Lin Feng. "Lin Feng, are you going to try me alone first, like the First Prince, or bring all the elite geniuses with you?"
The smile on Lin Feng's face had long since frozen.
Even if he had made a move, he couldn't have taken Lin Xuan down so easily!
"Don't be so arrogant! Everyone, get him together!"
Lin Feng shouted, then led the charge into the arena.
The academy students taking part in the tournament were the first to respond. They leaped down from the stone tiers to the east and followed Lin Feng.
None of the Chishui Academy students dared offend either Lin Feng or Lin Xuan. Even those who didn't want to join in had no choice but to brace themselves and follow!
"We're going too!"
Xue Jing, an elite genius of the Black Tiger Sect, joined the fight as well.
He had long wanted to test himself against the Divine Son!
He wanted to prove to his master that a three-year-old child posed no threat to him, even if the child was the Divine Son!
"Charge!"
"We can't let a three-year-old brat look down on us!"
The elite geniuses from the various sects and martial clans also followed Xue Jing one after another.
And so, an exceedingly rare scene unfolded!
A group of martial geniuses in their teens and twenties launched a group attack on a child who was only three!