Chapter 143

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Eighteen rings!
Truly, eighteen rings!
Throughout the entire territory of the Azure Cloud Empire, ever since the Azure Cloud Academy initiated the Strength-Testing Drum assessment, no one had ever managed to strike it eighteen times!
No!
There was!
Five hundred years ago, Ye Wentian, the ancestor of the Ye clan, struck the drum eighteen times during his assessment at the Azure Cloud Academy when he was still a young man.
After five hundred years, another young man has emerged, striking the drum eighteen times.
“Impossible!”
A roar of fury shattered the silence.
It was Qin Hao who suddenly bellowed, “Absolutely impossible!”
He himself, having awakened his bloodline power, could only strike the drum twelve times. Ye Wushuang, a mere waste of three years of martial cultivation, had merely been granted a chance to enter the path of martial arts—how could he possibly strike the drum eighteen times?
Qin Hao glared at Ye Wushuang, his eyes suddenly brightening as he shouted, “The Strength-Testing Drum must be malfunctioning!”
Instantly, a storm of whispers erupted around them.
“Right, right, the drum must be broken…”
“How could a waste like him strike it eighteen times? There must be some trickery.”
No one could accept the fact that Ye Wushuang had struck the drum eighteen times!
“Trouble?”
Ye Wushuang glanced at the flustered Qin Hao, sneering as he walked to another Strength-Testing Drum. He clenched his fist and struck it once more.
The thud-thud-thud sounded again.
Eighteen rings, once more, echoed through the air.
“Could this one be broken too?”
As Ye Wushuang finished speaking, he stepped forward to another drum and threw another punch.
The thud-thud-thud continued to reverberate.
Eighteen rings, spreading once again.
This time, everyone was stunned.
At the main platform,
“Elder Tang, please… calm down…” Bai Yi said with a wry smile.
Tang Chuyi snorted and said, “I… have seen all sorts of geniuses in my time. Why should I be excited?”
Bai Yi’s face turned pale as he pleaded, “Then could you… let go of my wrist? You’re about to break it…”
Tang Chuyi snorted again, slowly sitting down. However, his hand, as he picked up the teacup on the table, trembled ever so slightly.
Eighteen rings!
It was truly… incredibly rare.
At that moment, in front of the Strength-Testing Drum, Ye Wushuang looked at Qin Hao and said again, “Qin, the peerless genius, could it be that all these drums are broken?”
At this moment, the entire venue fell into a deathly silence.
From the viewing stand, Ye Qingfeng raised his voice and asked, “May I ask Mentor Bai Yi, if twelve rings are rated as a peerless genius, then what about eighteen rings?”
This question drew many eyes to the main platform.
Bai Yi, taken aback by Ye Qingfeng’s question, was stunned.
What rating was eighteen rings? He… truly did not know.
Muran Ying and Bai Yi both looked to Tang Chuyi.
Tang Chuyi cleared his throat and said slowly, “Since the Azure Cloud Academy established the Strength-Testing Drum, it has been set that nine rings are rated as a genius, ten to twelve rings as a peerless genius, and thirteen to fifteen rings as an extraordinary genius!”
“And sixteen to eighteen rings are… a born sage!”
“The limit of the Strength-Testing Drum is eighteen rings.”
Upon hearing this, everyone began to buzz with discussions.
Genius, peerless genius, extraordinary genius, born sage!
The disciple in charge of recording picked up his pen and announced, “Ye Wushuang, a born sage!”
Ye Qingfeng laughed heartily and said, “Well done, Nephew Wushuang! Without awakening any bloodline power, you are still a born sage, which is far superior to some peerless geniuses who have awakened their bloodline powers.”
Everyone could hear the sarcasm in Ye Qingfeng’s words, clearly directed at Qin Hao.
Ye Qingfeng wanted to shout out boldly that the Ye family would hold a grand feast to celebrate, but he thought about the current situation of the Ye family and decided against it.
Moreover, the gold and silver Ye Wushuang had earned were the result of his own hard efforts, and there was no need for such unnecessary fuss.
At this moment, Qin Hao’s face was extremely ugly.
Ye Wushuang, however, walked down and smiled, “Everyone still remembers the bet I made with Young Master Qin Hao just now, right?”