Chapter 372
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At the exit of the mountain range in the trial area, dozens of elder mentors stood firm. One by one, disciples began to emerge, gathering before the mountains, waiting in silence. It was not until sunset, when no more figures appeared from within the mountains, that the senior students and mentors responsible for the safety of the trial’s peripheral areas also returned. After confirming that no one else would emerge, Tang Chuyi turned his gaze to the gathered new students.
A month ago, when they entered the trial area of Lingyun Mountain, there were over twelve hundred participants. Now, approximately a thousand new students remained. This number was surprisingly higher than the number of survivors from the previous years’ trials in Lingyun Mountain. Tang Chuyi’s eyebrows arched in surprise. After a moment of contemplation, he understood. In the past, during each trial in Lingyun Mountain, geniuses from various major families would participate. These geniuses were ruthless, often forming alliances to rob other disciples of their spiritual value points and even killing them outright. However, this year, almost all the outstanding geniuses from the major families had been eliminated by Ye Wushuang, which paradoxically increased the number of surviving disciples.
Seeing the numerous disciples gathered, Tang Chuyi cleared his throat and said, “Alright, follow me back to the academy.” The group, now a vast procession, headed towards Qingyun Academy. By the time they returned to the academy, the sun had set, and darkness had enveloped the sky. In one of the academy’s martial arenas, night pearls were spread across the ground, illuminating the arena as if it were daylight.
Tang Chuyi stood on a stone platform at the front, facing the crowd, and said, “Congratulations to all of you for surviving the trial that lasted a month.” “Next, we will proceed with the ranking of spiritual value points,” he continued. “Now, simply hand in your wristbands, and the stone tablet behind me will directly sort out the rankings of all of you.”
Upon hearing this, many disciples felt a sense of trepidation. The bottom hundred in terms of spiritual value points would be expelled from Qingyun Academy. To be kicked out before even properly entering the academy would be utterly humiliating!
Soon, one by one, the disciples stepped forward to hand in their wristbands. Gradually, names began to appear on the stone tablet. Over a thousand new students’ names flickered and changed until, finally, they stabilized. The tablet listed ten columns, recording all the disciples. The last column already had a hundred names in red, clearly indicating those who were to be expelled from Qingyun Academy.
“I’m on the list…” One disciple’s face turned pale, and he spoke sorrowfully, “I barely got into Qingyun Academy, and I don’t even know what it’s like yet, and now I’m kicked out…”
“Me too, I’m eliminated!”
“I’m… in the nineteenth-to-last place…”
The eliminated disciples looked dejected, while those who remained were overjoyed, examining their rankings. Eventually, everyone’s attention focused on the top ten positions. However, when they saw the top four names, their expressions became strange.
“First place, Ye Wushuang, with seventy thousand and four points.”
“Second place, Wang Xueqi, with seventy thousand and three points.”
“Third place, Xiao Yuan, with seventy thousand and two points.”
“Fourth place, Qing Chengtian, with seventy thousand and one points.”
The top four all had scores in the seventy thousand range, with a mere one-point difference between each? The crowd erupted in an uproar.
“Ye Wushuang… Even if we subtract the ten thousand base spiritual value points, that’s still over sixty thousand points. Over sixty thousand points… It’s like killing a hundred first-stage advanced spiritual beasts…”
Killing a first-stage advanced spiritual beast earned a thousand points. Ye Wushuang’s score was simply astonishing. If it were first-stage intermediate spiritual beasts, it would be at least two hundred of them. How many could one kill in a day? Did he never rest?
“Strange, where are the geniuses from the Qin and Chu clans? What about Chu Haoyu and Qin Cangsheng?” someone asked curiously. However, as soon as the words left his mouth, a companion quickly covered his mouth and whispered, “Do you want to die?”
Upon hearing this, several others who were unaware of the situation also strained to listen in. “Qin Cangsheng and Chu Haoyu are dead!” “Dead? How could that be?”
“Did you think Ye Wushuang’s first place came from killing so many spiritual beasts himself? Could he have done that in a month? Those points were all taken from the geniuses of the major families…”
“Is that true?”
“Of course it’s true.”
The topic sparked heated discussions, and the new students could no longer contain themselves, talking animatedly. “I saw with my own eyes that Ye Wushuang killed Xiao Rong and Xiao Yin…”
“I saw Ye Wushuang kill Shang Mingjie and Shang Tianyue…”
The martial arena was now in an uproar. In previous years, it was always the geniuses from the major families who eliminated other new students. But this time, it was completely reversed. When they emerged from the mountains, everyone had felt strange—among the top ten on the new students’ test list, only Ye Wushuang was still alive. It was simply inconceivable.
“Silence!” At that moment, a loud and clear shout echoed throughout the martial arena.
