Chapter 2338: Chapter 2342: Is This the Reason for His Strength?
"That big brother is Jiang Chen, the one who issued the bounty. He’s amazing! Fighting dozens of academies alone, no wonder he could kill those nasty wolves!"
In a corner among the academies, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl stared with bright eyes at Jiang Chen in the distance, amazed.
Beside the little girl stood a tall and graceful young lady, her long black hair tied behind her head, her exquisite features flawless, and her curvy figure evident even in loose academy attire.
"Nasty wolves?"
The lady heard this and was slightly taken aback. She lowered her head to look at the girl who was a head shorter than herself, "Ling’er, are those nasty wolves the Forest Wolves that chased you?"
"Yes, back then, Ling’er was chased by those nasty wolves and no one helped Ling’er. It was brother Jiang Chen who helped kill those nasty wolves. Brother Jiang Chen is a good person, and those who bully people from brother Jiang Chen’s academy are all bad!"
Ling’er nodded heavily, speaking earnestly.
The young lady reached out to stroke Ling’er’s head, then looked in the direction of Jiang Chen and murmured softly, "It seems we owe him a debt of gratitude!"
Central position among the academies.
Jiang Chen noticed the gazes from the surroundings, but he showed no reaction, his expression calm, his eyes exceptionally clear.
He was already accustomed to such attention; the brothers on Yuan Star looked at him with far more fanatic worship than these people.
"What are we still waiting for?"
After a while, seeing that almost everyone from the various academies had come out, yet Su Qingluan and Lu Zhichen remained motionless, Jiang Chen curiously asked Jian Wuheng beside him.
"Waiting for the examiners to come."
Jian Wuheng laughed lightly, "Elder Su and Elder Lu are only responsible for monitoring the assessment, preventing anyone from breaking the rules. But those who audit our scores are others; generally, it’s inner court students newly entered this year who do the examinations. Otherwise, relying on Elder Su and Elder Lu alone, we’d be reviewing forever."
"Inner court?"
Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow, showing a puzzled expression.
"The main academy is divided into outer and inner court. Outer court students are all Divine Spirit Realm cultivators. No matter when you enter the academy, if you break through to Void Refinement Realm within five years, you can enter the inner court for training. If five years pass and you haven’t reached Void Refinement Realm, the academy will advise you to withdraw."
Jian Wuheng explained softly, "As for the inner court, all students inside are Void Refinement Realm cultivators. Within ten years, reaching Late Virtual Refinement Realm counts as graduating. If not, those willing to work at the academy will be assigned to branch academies as instructors, or they can go out for training themselves."
"Most of our academy instructors are either allocated by the main academy or our own students who stayed on after breaking through to Void Refinement Realm; outside instructors are very few."
Jiang Chen asked again, "Besides the realm differences among students, is there any other distinction between inner and outer court?"
"There’s a fundamental difference between the outer court and inner court!"
A chuckle rang out, and over a hundred figures appeared in mid-air in front of the crowd. Leading them were two elders, one being Ouyang Song, who was in seclusion at Changlin Academy. It was he who spoke earlier.
"Elder Ouyang, Elder Zhu!"
Su Qingluan and Lu Zhichen emerged from the crowd, leaping to the side of Ouyang Song and reporting the assessment situation to the two.
Jiang Chen looked up at the hundred figures brought by Ouyang Song, all Void Refinement Realm cultivators at the initial stage.
These cultivators were all energetic, with calm expressions, eyes filled with undisguised pride, completely ignoring the students from the primary academies, as if no one was before them.
"So arrogant?"
Jiang Chen muttered softly.
"They have reason to be proud!"
Beside him, Lei Kai’s eyes showed a hint of fervor, "Those responsible for examination here entered the academy as Divine Infant Realm Early Stage students, meaning they crossed the large realm of Divine Infant Realm within five years, reaching Void Refinement Realm—genius students."
"Hehe! They hardly qualify as geniuses! If so many are geniuses, then geniuses are quite cheap, compared to Young Jiang, these people are far inferior."
Hu Yiqiu laughed lightly and spoke.
Although Hu Yiqiu’s words were spoken softly, he didn’t deliberately block them, naturally reaching the ears of the over hundred main academy Void Refinement Realm students ahead.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The whole hundred turned towards Hu Yiqiu, eyes showing a hint of anger.
"Oh ho, are they going to compete with this old man?"
Hu Yiqiu looked amused at the hundred, a provocative glint in his eyes.
The elders of other academies looked at Hu Yiqiu in astonishment, none expected him to provoke the main academy students. However, those in the know didn’t comment; Hu Yiqiu came from the main academy, these students were merely his juniors.
"Indeed, they don’t qualify as geniuses in front of you, the drunkard."
The main academy’s Elder Zhu laughed lightly, stepping forward to Hu Yiqiu.
Jiang Chen and his companions quickly made way.
Elder Zhu reached out and gave Hu Yiqiu a punch on the chest, a hint of excitement in his eyes, "Drunkard, time to return?"
This scene surprised the hundred main academy students, Elder Zhu, usually stern, showed such an act, was he familiar with the man?
"Haha, of course, this time returning, I’ll give the academy a shock!"
Hu Yiqiu laughed heartily.
"Oh?"
Elder Zhu was puzzled, a hint of doubt in his eyes.
Hu Yiqiu glanced at Jiang Chen ahead, smiling without a word.
Elder Zhu looked at Jiang Chen, released his Divine Sense, scanning Jiang Chen’s body, slightly stunned, "Twenty-nine years old, Mid Divine Infant Realm?"
"Oh my, Jiang Chen is twenty-nine and only Mid Divine Infant Realm?"
"Haha, what a waste, at twenty-nine reaching Mid Divine Infant Realm, that’s barely admissible by our academy’s standards!"
"No wonder his battle power is strong, trying to make up for lack of talent with effort, how many years has he remained at Mid Divine Infant Realm?"
"Thought he was a genius, turns out... when I reach his age, I’ll definitely enter Void Refinement Realm!"
Upon hearing Elder Zhu, students from surrounding academies laughed aloud, especially those from Qing Hai Academy and Fengchen Academy, mocking even more blatantly.
The hundred main academy students’ eyes also showed ridicule, looking at Jiang Chen with disdain.
Yun Tao and forty-nine Changlin Academy students glared angrily at those mocking, eyes filled with fierce anger.
Jiang Chen’s contributions to Changlin Academy were evident to all, they wouldn’t allow anyone to look down on Jiang Chen!
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PS: Haha, turns out I can!
Just one more day today, and I’ll be home tomorrow.
