Chapter 166: Reverse Hundred Names
As soon as these words came out, the crowd was in an uproar.
No one could have expected Su Yan to be so flamboyant, directly making such a request to Elder Yin Mingchen.
He stood on the stage, with a faint smile, and when the crowd looked over, it felt just like his home turf.
Confidence and flamboyance are often just a fine line apart.
“Who does he think he is? He’s just a disciple who has just entered the Inner Sect. Even if he has some skills, what of it?”
Someone was indignant in their heart and muttered softly.
“That’s not necessarily true. If based on that Wang Bo Xiong’s strength, Ruyi Realm Great Accomplishment already has the potential to squeeze into 260th place.”
Someone was calmer, their eyes flickering as they looked at Su Yan, seemingly expecting something.
Anyway, the ones on the ranking weren’t them, so the spectators naturally didn’t mind if things got bigger.
Moreover, for something they couldn’t do, if someone could reverse climb upwards, wouldn’t that be great?
“But”
Yin Mingchen stroked his beard with a smile, also piqued by Su Yan’s interest. His gaze swept over this Nine Tablet Spirit Platform, and he said faintly: “The last hundred Tiger Ranking Disciples are all here. Originally, this Fighting Platform also has their share. For the final competition, since you want to go first, it is naturally allowed. Which rank do you want to challenge?”
Tiger Ranking three hundred, the last hundred are the lower list, must attend for ranking battles. Ordinary challenges are invited by Inner Sect Disciples themselves, and whether to accept is decided by themselves.
But for the monthly exam, this arena ranking battle, if without Dan Qiao as guarantor, must attend.
Middle list hundred people, exam every half year.
Upper list hundred people, exam every year.
During this examination, if there is a challenge invitation, unless it’s a wheel battle, it cannot be refused.
Everyone’s gazes all gathered on Su Yan. With his 279th place, challenging sequentially upwards would naturally be the safest.
However, with him being so flamboyant, how could he possibly challenge position by position slowly upwards.
“269th place, Fuyue Peak Senior Brother Zhang Hong.”
Sure enough, Su Yan skipped ten ranks at once.
Below the stage, Zhang Hong was burly and sturdy, holding a Heavy Hammer in his hand. He grinned: “I felt something was off when I went out today, but I didn’t expect it to be here. Please go easy on me, Junior Brother.”
His figure was tall, nearly 1.89 meters, wearing a beast scale Armor, looking exactly like a martial general.
“Fuyue Peak Zhang Hong, entered the sect three years ago, cultivation manual practiced 《 Mountain Moving Strength 》.”
A pitch-black mountain monster rose behind him. After cupping his fists, it lunged towards Su Yan.
Zhang Hong’s hammer technique was deft despite its weight, tempered to Great Accomplishment realm.
He attacked with wide sweeps, wanting to force Su Yan into a direct clash.
Su Yan controlled the Six-Winged Blood Centipede to fly and collide, fighting him for seven or eight rounds, hard-taking the Heavy Hammer, then using the centipede’s tail whip to send him flying off the stage.
“I accept your concession.”
He nodded slightly, then continued to name: “259th place, Guizang Valley Senior Sister Mo Yun.”
Mo Yun was a beautiful girl in an emerald-green dress. Hearing her name called, the corner of her mouth curved up slightly, and she said with a slight pout: “Junior Brother, you won’t even spare your own people?”
As she spoke, she arrived on the stage, holding an emerald Green Sword, Jade Snake like jade, rising spiraling up. She raised her hand and clashed with Su Yan.
Su Yan’s eyes lifted slightly, and Mo Yun’s heart tightened, her attacks becoming even more cautious.
She and Wang Bo Xiong were evenly matched, with no great difference in cultivation, only differing in Martial Skills, Contracted Beast, and experience.
Now facing Su Yan, her heart was already tense to the extreme.
However, even her nimble and tricky Sword Technique could not break the Six-Winged Blood Centipede’s defense.
The Jade Snake’s poison fangs were even more unsteady under the Six-Winged Blood Centipede’s Poisonous Mist.
Su Yan’s Blood Slaughter Hand grabbed, seizing the Jade Snake Sword into his hand. The sword hilt pointed at Mo Yun’s brow center: “Senior Sister, I accept your concession.”
Won again…
The crowd’s eyes grew even hotter. Although only two people, it meant Su Yan had crossed twenty ranks.
“249th place, Shattered Moon Peak Tang Qingqing”
Tang Qingqing jumped onto the stage, releasing her Ruyi Realm Great Accomplishment Aura, even sharper than Wang Bo Xiong and Mo Yun.
What she cultivated was Frost Wolf True Intent. As soon as she came up, her figure was like an invading white wolf, directly attacking Su Yan.
The force was invasive like cold frost, Contracted Beast and True Intent cooperating tacitly, attacking from left and right.
Su Yan controlled the Six-Winged Blood Centipede to entangle for several rounds. That Contracted Beast Frost Fang Wolf went all out, breaking several Appendages of the Six-Winged Blood Centipede, then was coiled on the ground, Poison entering its body, immediately losing combat ability.
Tang Qingqing seized the opportunity, merging with Frost Wolf True Intent to attack, one Sword Slash splitting the sky, sharpness like frost.
Su Yan lifted his eyes slightly. This Tang Qingqing’s strength surpassed Wang Bo Xiong; this sword was enough to win.
“Sorry about this.”
Su Yan raised his hand in a punch, Dharma Body and Scale Patterns uniting, a golden Fist Seal carrying overwhelming force crashing over.
Centipede shadow appeared, ferocious like a dragon.
Just one punch tore open Tang Qingqing’s Sword Momentum.
True Intent like two beasts devouring each other, extinguished by the Star Moon Centipede in one bite.
“That’s?!”
Yin Mingchen’s eyes blurred, then he stared fiercely at Su Yan. He asked in a deep voice: “Qiushui, your lineage didn’t teach him Heavenly Python Scripture, didn’t teach him Five Poisons Golden Body Profound Skill, but instead taught this?!”
Star Constellation Profound Beast Skill
Back then, Yin Mingchen was just a junior, but he also witnessed Wang Xuanxing’s seventy-two Star Constellation Profound Beasts turning into a great array, fighting to death a Half-step Dharma Aspect True Person.
Dan Qiao fighting Dharma Aspect, how mighty.
However, this skill has a difficult path ahead; isn’t this cutting off Su Yan’s future path?
“Martial Uncle Yin, he matches this skill well. Master has already prepared a backup path.”
Long Qiushui replied, and when the crowd looked back at the field, it was already somewhat silent.
Tang Qingqing was defeated, and the crowd glimpsed Su Yan’s True Intent.
Another mysterious and fierce giant centipede finally forced out his True Intent.
But it was merely a fleeting glimpse; this was a Ruyi Realm Great Accomplishment disciple after all.
Su Yan’s eyes lifted slightly, True Essence consumed somewhat.
“Su Yan, after three battles, I allow you half an hour to rest. Meditate and recover for now.”
Yin Mingchen cherished talent and knew Su Yan had fought three in a row, though not at full strength.
But the consumption was still considerable.
Moreover, from 249 upwards, the Inner Sect Disciples were almost all uniformly Ruyi Realm Great Accomplishment, with stronger or equal cultivation and more seasoned and decisive methods.
Among them were no lack of three- or four-year disciples, all tempered from battles against Feral Beasts of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, Martial Artists from other sects, Bandit Cultivators, and Demonic Path Demon Persons.
Su Yan fighting again might not be so easy; after all, he was only Ruyi Stage Beginner.
“239th place, Azure Dragon Peak Feng Ruhai.”
Su Yan smiled faintly, his Star Moon Centipede Beast Spirit circling like a Guardian beast, starlight sprinkling down, making him look like a divine general.
Feng Ruhai laughed and met the challenge. After thirty exchanges, man with True Intent and Contracted Beast were strangled down by Six-Winged Blood Centipede and Star Moon Centipede, defeated on the spot.
The people below the stage were already somewhat numb.
“Perfected Ruyi Stage”
Feng Ruhai was already at Perfected Ruyi Stage realm; further up were all these experts.
“229th place, Azure Dragon Peak Senior Sister Liu Fengyi.”
Su Yan’s eyes were calm, Liu Fengyi’s expression solemn, like facing a great enemy.
She moved like a roaming dragon, her raised Contracted Beasts actually a pair of black and white giant pythons. Python bodies soared like dragons, spear tip sharp.
Her wide and sweeping Combat, clearly a Perfected Ruyi Stage Martial Artist, yet her heart was anxious, as if slowing a bit or dividing attention would let Su Yan crush her.
Su Yan controlled Six-Winged Blood Centipede and Star Moon Centipede to fight her for fifty rounds, True Intent Beast Spirit merging with Six-Winged Blood Centipede.
Starlight as armor, hard-taking a dragon-like spear strike, then sending her flying out.
“219th place, Huang Tianheng Perfected Ruyi Stage cultivation, dual cultivating python and tiger True Intents, fierce combined strike method, fought Su Yan for a hundred exchanges, defeated.
209th place, Guizang Valley Lin Fengfeng, Half-step Condensing Momentum Stage, True Intent brilliant, manifested Attack already with some divine might.
He rode a Poison Scale Beast holding a long Spear, figure merging with Beast Spirit True Intent, like a divine general, constantly pressing the attack.
Six-Winged Blood Centipede and Star Moon Centipede were suppressed for a time, finally forced to Su Yan’s side.
His Spear Momentum overbearing, straight to Su Yan’s vital points.
Unfortunately, Su Yan was also skilled in Spearmanship. Eighteen Styles of Blood Tiger unleashed, tiger shadows in layers, tiger roar stirring wind from thin air, completely breaking this Spear Momentum.
Lin Fengfeng was defeated, actually under Su Yan’s Spear Momentum.
This shocked everyone, their hearts stunned and speechless, unable to recover for a long time.
“Is he from Hundred Tiger Peak or Guizang Valley?”
Hundred Tiger Peak Disciples who knew the details of Spearmanship and Blood Slaughter Hand felt awkward, suddenly feeling like everyone was looking at them.
Logically, having learned so many of their skills, and recruited by Martial Uncle Xiang Ge, shouldn’t he belong to Hundred Tiger Peak?
Reverse Hundred Names, body of a first-year disciple, now climbed to 209th place.
In the past few decades, such a person hadn’t appeared.
Geniuses appear every year, Su Yan is this year’s genius, but weren’t the ones who made the ranking geniuses in previous years?
“201st place…”
Yao Yunzhou’s eyes flickered, chuckling lightly.
“Yao Yunzhou, you’re speaking too soon.”
“The 200th place Ji Lian was once your defeated subordinate. You know the gap between Condensing Momentum Stage and Ruyi Stage.”
Yao Yunzhou looked to the side, Gu Songde’s gaze on Su Yan, not turning back.
“Mind as desired, nothing more than calming the mind. If the mind is steady, control of True Intent Beast Spirit can be better exerted.”
Gu Songde’s voice was neither high nor low, just right for Yao Yunzhou and others to hear.
“Condensing Momentum Stage condenses the might of Beast Spirit True Intent, might united, Combat Attack Methods take it to the next level, worlds apart.”
Yao Yunzhou asked: “Then do you still favor this Junior Brother helping your Guizang Valley?”
Gu Songde’s fat face grinned: “He can fight like this, he has his own methods. Don’t forget he had more than one True Intent when he entered. Moreover, even if defeated, so what? Could you do it back then?”
Yao Yunzhou Tiger Ranking 47th place, Ruyi Realm Spirit Merging Stage expert; Gu Songde ranked 53rd, also top-notch.
Back then, the two had barely held 270-something; it was the second year after entry that they broke through all the way, climbing the rankings.
“Whoosh”
A pitch-black long Spear shot over, straight to the Fighting Platform. With a swish, a cold-faced man in black clothes stepped onto the Fighting Platform.
“Junior Brother need not name me. You won’t pass this stage.”
“Shattered Moon Peak Ji Lian, True Intent Realm Condensing Momentum Stage!”
He released his Aura, also Frost Wolf True Intent rising, but this Frost Wolf’s eyes icy cold and blood-red, Cold Air eerie around, like wisps of black smoke.
Divine charm refined, Aura ferocious, far stronger than Ruyi Stage, with momentum to crush people.
His Beast Taming Bag at the waist stirred slightly, a Three-eyed Black Wolf jumping out, baring teeth, fierce light locked on Su Yan.
Condensing Momentum Stage!
Seeing Ji Lian’s such Aura, the crowd’s faces changed slightly, couldn’t help sweating for Su Yan.
They weren’t close, but could still feel Ji Lian’s Aura.
That True Intent not fully revealed, merely a smoky misty wolf head, already with chillingly terrifying demeanor.
Su Yan did feel pressure, but his brows and eyes showed even more excitement.
Ji Lian saw his expression and frowned slightly: “Does Junior Brother need rest?”
“No need for rest.”
Su Yan refused decisively: “Senior Brother, make your move.”
“Good”
Ji Lian drew his long Spear, a strand of True Intent divine charm empowering it.
Instantly ten-zhang spear glow, light almost illuminating the entire Fighting Platform.
Su Yan’s Scorpion Profound Spear shook, spear tip pointing out countless starlights, gathering into a star-point tiger shadow, charging over.
A heaven-shaking muffled boom, tiger shadow broken by spear glow, aftershocks carrying sharp qi shooting in all directions.
Su Yan’s Blood Hand Seal grabbed, sweeping down most of the sharp qi.
Three-eyed Black Wolf’s third eye suddenly opened, shooting a beam of blood light.
“Hit!”
Blood light came suddenly, about to strike Su Yan and crush him in one blow.
However, a cyan-golden figure emerged, waving beast claws to shatter the blood light, blocking it in front.
Ji Lian thrust his Spear, another white figure appeared, arm blocking horizontally, clanging loudly, hard-stopping the attack.
Ji Lian retreated, astonished at Su Yan.
“You actually cultivated three True Intents!?”
He showed incredulity. Even if intensities varied, three True Intents would take how much time to comprehend and accumulate True Intent power?
Not just him, on that Nine Tablet Spirit Platform, Yin Mingchen, Shui Manyi, Qian Mulan and others were all stunned.
“How long has he been in the sect?”
Pu Hanshan muttered. Such great talent, pity not coming to my Fuyue Peak.
“Merely three True Intents, please instruct me, Senior Brother.”
Su Yan’s eyes seemed to carry starlight, and Ji Lian suddenly felt much more pressure on himself.
“Condensing Momentum!”
Frost Wolf True Intent power fully unleashed, Aura nearly substantialized, invasive chill assaulting.
It almost united with Ji Lian’s power, sweeping out cold ice Spears straight at Su Yan.
This strike so strong, even ten Wang Bo Xiongs might not block it.
Yet Su Yan stood unmoving, True Essence surging in his hand, fingertip pointing.
“Star Constellation Profound Beasts, Four Symbols Star Array”
True Essence transformed by Star Constellation Profound Beast Skill poured out like falling starlight from Su Yan, continuously sprinkling on the three True Intents and one Fierce Insect.
Pale silver light emerged, connecting them completely.
Fighting Platform flowing with a hundred turns of light, looking like under starry sky.
Ji Lian’s heart grew anxious, pressing the attack.
Attacks blocked by Poison Star Ape in front, strikes landing on it merely rippling starlight, then dispersing force to Star Moon Centipede, Green-scaled Poisonous Flood Dragon, Six-Winged Blood Centipede.
“That Poisonous Flood Dragon is the breakthrough.”
Ji Lian kept attacking, then kept being resolved. In a few breaths, already hundreds of spear glows assaulted.
At this time, he found the weak point in this Star Array.
Green-scaled Poisonous Flood Dragon not a Star Constellation Profound Beast, without Beast Taming Seal connection, flaw in the Star Array.
He attacked it, but Su Yan formed Blood Hand Seal gesture.
Starlight gathered into a Blood-colored Giant Hand, pressing down, slamming Ji Lian to the ground, Blood spurting from his mouth.
Even a flaw requires sufficient strength to exploit; Ji Lian was too presumptuous.
“Su Yan wins, Inner Sect Tiger Ranking 200th place, lower list first, First Among New Inner Disciples”
Yin Mingchen’s voice came, approval evident even to ordinary people.
“Do you wish to continue?”
“Disciple’s strength exhausted. This challenge matter, we’ll talk later.”
Su Yan withdrew his True Intents, Six-Winged Blood Centipede also shrinking, carrying him off the Fighting Platform.
The crowd stared wide-eyed, not knowing who muttered.
“Fooling ghosts? He hasn’t even fully made his move yet.”
