Chapter 405 - 396: Giving You a Glimmer of Hope for Victory!

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"This is no competition at all!" "Nobody dares to step onto the stage!" "A bunch of cowards!" "We can’t blame them, Bai Yan is a former member of Dragon Ascension, young but already beyond S-rank in strength. Who wouldn’t feel psychological pressure against such a demon talent!" "Damn, stop dawdling, hurry up and get on the stage!" The crowd was getting unruly; they were all waiting for Bai Yan to win so they could make a fortune! Nevertheless, the twenty-nine Heavenly Prides, excluding Chen Wuwei, were still hesitant and undecided at the edge of the stage. "Well then, seeing you all so cowardly, let’s do it this way..." Bai Yan chuckled lightly, then turned to Master Blood Dragon and said, "Master, since no one is coming up, why not change the rules?" "What do you propose?" Master Blood Dragon raised an eyebrow, looking at Bai Yan with curiosity. Bai Yan drew a circle in the air with his finger, encompassing all the competing Heavenly Prides below. With a faint smile on his face, Bai Yan calmly said, "I challenge these twenty-nine people!" The moment these words fell, the whole place went silent, and everyone’s eyes bulged out! The Dragon Ascension Tournament with tens of thousands of people went quiet for a full ten seconds! "Hiss~!" It was only a moment later that the sound of people collectively gasping in astonishment could be heard. "Oh my God!" "He’s too arrogant, actually wanting to take on these twenty-nine people alone!" The crowd exclaimed in shock, their faces a picture of disbelief. No one expected Bai Yan to make such a demand. With his nonchalant expression, he clearly didn’t take anyone below seriously at all! "Are you sure you want to do this?" Master Blood Dragon was taken aback, unsure whether to call Bai Yan arrogant or confident. In previous Dragon Ascension Tournaments, there had been overly confident contestants, but anyone who tried to challenge multiple competitors had to face a particularly perverse and stringent rule. That rule was: no matter how many opponents there were, the challenger’s Dragon Pillar had to be higher than the combined height of everyone else’s Dragon Pillars to win! That is, if there were three opponents, each with a Dragon Pillar ten meters tall, then the challenger’s Dragon Pillar must exceed thirty meters to win! Even matching thirty meters would not be enough! It had to surpass the total height of everyone’s Dragon Pillars! Otherwise, it would be considered a loss! Master Blood Dragon told Bai Yan this rule very seriously. "No problem, I agree to this rule." Bai Yan nodded nonchalantly. "Oh, my God!" "This rule is too perverse!" "Twenty-nine people, even if they all summon a ten-meter Dragon Pillar, Bai Yan’s Dragon Pillar needs to be over two hundred ninety meters to win!" "But... with the Illusion Realm suppressing, no one can summon a Dragon Pillar over a hundred meters here!" "Agreeing to this rule is like seeking one’s own death, how is Bai Yan so foolish!" "Damn it, my thirty million bet! This Bai Yan is so infuriating, messing things up like this! Now he surely won’t make it to the end! And I’m going to lose money!" Looking around the stadium, there were twenty-nine Heavenly Prides, each one of them a talent of Hua Xia. Since the qualifiers, most people’s achievements have been stable at around forty to fifty meters; they are all the geniuses of Hua Xia! Bai Yan actually wanted to challenge twenty-nine people at once, which shocked Master Blood Dragon. "Are you sure? You really won’t change your mind?" Master Blood Dragon asked again, not reassured, his expression extremely serious. He very much hoped that Bai Yan would change his mind. Because Master Blood Dragon didn’t think Bai Yan could win in such a contest. "No choice, they’re all being cowards. If I don’t give them a glimmer of hope for victory, the competition can’t go on." Bai Yan shrugged his shoulders and said with a light smile. At these words, the expressions of the competitors below changed, each one’s face filled with rage, their trembling shoulders showing the extent of the humiliation they felt inside. This Bai Yan was indeed detestable, repeatedly humiliating them, too domineering! "Bai Yan, you’re too arrogant!" One of the challengers below couldn’t help but shout out loudly, his face flushed red, his eyes gleaming with a cold light as he stared at Bai Yan. "Come on up, everyone." Bai Yan smiled unconcernedly and waved at the twenty-nine challengers. Then, Bai Yan lowered his head, found a cushion, and sat down cross-legged. "Whoosh~!" "Whoosh~!" "Whoosh~!" The twenty-nine figures gracefully moved forward, each finding their cushion and sitting down cross-legged. "I’ll make you understand that there’s a price to pay for arrogance!" "The slightest hope of victory, a joke! You underestimate us too much!" "Ladies and gentlemen, give it your all to summon the most distant dragon veins! I want to see if this Bai Yan can break through the shackles of one hundred meters!" The competitors sneered coldly, looking at Bai Yan, their eyes flickering with rage. Indeed, our Talents are not as good as yours, but how dare you challenge us all at once! Originally, Bai Yan, you had a good chance of becoming the champion, but you are seeking your own death. If you lose, you can’t blame anyone else! What’s the use of having good Talent, do you really think you can outmatch the combined strength of the twenty-nine of us alone? The crowd closed their eyes one after another, each sensing the dragon veins. Bai Yan smiled indifferently, casually closing his eyes. In an instant, it was as if he was immersed in a world of dazzling brilliance, radiance spilling out as if the entire land of Shen Zhou lay under his eyelids. Bai Yan’s will descended, nearing the vast Shen Zhou land. Bai Yan clearly sensed that wherever his will went, it attracted the light spheres from those places. All around Bai Yan were various light spheres, filled with Dragon Power, flowing with strange radiance. As Bai Yan’s will passed by these light spheres, they all triggered the spheres to emit the sound of dragon chants. These light spheres were undoubtedly the dragon veins hidden throughout the Shen Zhou land! The light spheres were dense and numbered in the thousands, surrounding Bai Yan. A thought struck Bai Yan’s heart; it seemed that with a mere thought, he could summon these dragon veins back. This special Illusion Realm is indeed terrifying—the higher the Talent, the more dragon veins one perceives! Take Chen Wuwei, for example, who, when using the Dragon Vein Divine Map, sensed dozens of light spheres and chose the farthest one to summon for himself. However, at this moment, the number of light spheres around Bai Yan continued to increase, overwhelming in their density, surpassing a thousand, surpassing ten thousand! Bai Yan could not help but bitterly smile. He could only summon the most distant dragon vein, defeat everyone at once. These light spheres were not what he needed. Bai Yan’s will sank deeper, his consciousness rapidly spreading across the Shen Zhou land, further and further away. Crossing over mountains, crossing rivers... Suddenly, Bai Yan’s consciousness felt a chill, and he arrived at a place covered in white snow... Bai Yan looked at the somewhat familiar place before him and couldn’t help but smile at the corner of his eyes. To think his will had actually reached this place? It seems my Loyal Soul Inheritance is indeed powerful! Well, since it’s this far, I should be able to beat those twenty-nine. Bai Yan chuckled lightly. At this moment, on the platform of the Dragon Rise Tournament, the others had gradually begun to summon their dragon veins. "Pff!" A Dragon Pillar soared up, thirty-five meters! "Pff!" Another Dragon Pillar soared up, forty meters! "Pff!" "Pff!" "Pff!" One Dragon Pillar after another sprang up, the shortest being thirty meters, the tallest fifty-five meters! These people all tried their best. With a sense of shame and anger, everyone summoned the farthest dragon vein they could sense. Gradually, all twenty-nine had completed their summoning. The people present checked the count, and the heights of these twenty-nine Dragon Pillars together amounted to over a thousand meters!! "This brat! Too arrogant! How is this kid supposed to compete!" Master Blood Dragon sat on the stage, angrily slamming his chair, his face dark with rage, annoyed at Bai Yan’s presumptuous arrogance. Dragon Pillars totaling over a thousand meters in height, how the hell are you going to win! "Alas, it seems that this is what destiny wills." Mr. An sighed deeply. "Hehe, young people! In the end, he is still just a youth!" Sima Xuanxuan’s face showed a hint of a smile, sipping his tea in a composed manner, and said with a chuckle. What destiny wills, it’s all brought on by Bai Yan himself! After the twenty-nine had finished summoning the dragon veins, no one believed Bai Yan could win anymore! The suppression of the hundred-meter Illusion Realm was destined to spell Bai Yan’s defeat! This Illusion Realm, a powerful legacy surviving thousands of years in Hua Xia, was set by the first and most powerful Guardian of Huaxia! For thousands of years, no one had broken through the suppression of a hundred meters, not even Bai Yan! At least everyone present didn’t think Bai Yan could break this convention. "Bai Yan... you have to give it your all!" Yan Qing clenched Sofia’s jade hand tightly, their delicate hands entwined together, both sets of beautiful eyes filled with tension and anticipation, fixed on Bai Yan. That lone figure sitting in the middle of the venue, so proud and unrestrained. To reach the peak of supreme position, that path is inevitably filled with doubt, disdain, and slaughter. No need for many words, just stick to your heart! Bai Yan, from the beginning, has never needed anyone else’s approval or trust! Relying only on his own hands and feet, he will carve out his own sky, walking his own Demon path!

Chapter 405 - 396: Giving You a Glimmer of Hope for Victory!

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