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"Is this guy... joking?"

Shen Qi was stunned when he heard Zi Yue’s voice.

He was an idler in Lyuzhou, unlike his brothers who needed to deal with the affairs of the underworld, so he spent most of his time studying those new techniques at the academy.

He had delved into techniques from all four major academies, and although not exclusively proficient in the array studies of the Heavenly Institute, he had spent a lot of time researching and understanding them.

He considered his formation level to be not far behind Chen Ying’s, but it still couldn’t compare. However, at this moment, Zi Yue’s move truly shocked him.

He knew how to draw formations in the void, but to instantly create over a hundred arrays like this seemed a bit too much, didn’t it? Could an archer shooting one arrow be the same as one who instantly shoots a hundred arrows?

The key point was that these arrays were also complex in design.

And most crucially, this was a remote drawing of arrays through transported elements, the elements separating by at least a hundred meters, yet they could still form an array...

This realm...

Shen Qi felt a tingling sensation on his scalp, feeling that the gap between him and Zi Yue was not just a little.

Zi Yue had only been in Jiangnan for two years, whereas how many years had he been there?

He was among the first to be exposed to the Dragon Palace inheritance, and the disparity was so great that he couldn’t accept it for a moment.

Yet the scene didn’t give him much time to accept it.

Because the next thing the other party said was to let the students break the array within half an hour.

If it weren’t for a magician’s strong mental control, which hardly ever led to dreaming, he would have thought he was still dreaming?

Chen Qing stroked his chin, frowning and said, "It’s not that all students can pass the test, Zi Yue is being a bit too strict..."

Shen Qi: "....."

This guy... wasn’t joking, right?

Swallowing his saliva, Shen Qi looked into the crystal ball again. Those young students, was it for real?

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"What is that woman saying?" Two descendants of the Chen Family looked grim, obviously in disbelief.

The others were also incredulous, turning their gaze to the contestants from Jiangnan.

They were mostly young boys, with only one man looking a bit older, but he seemed to be only about twenty-four or twenty-five years old at most. The youngest... looked to be about ten years old.

That Zi Yue... actually asked this group of people to break the array in half an hour?

Wait, who is that person?

The eldest of the Chen Family suddenly saw a familiar face.

"Shen Yuan?"

Among the contestants from Jiangnan, the oldest scholar, upon closer inspection, wasn’t it Shen Yuan?

Everyone recognized him at once. The Shen Family from the Capital City might not be a great noble house, and ordinarily, not many of its descendants would remember someone from the Shen Family.

However, Shen Yuan, as a direct eldest son, had actually secured the position of Second Place Scholar once, and that had indeed caused quite a bit of talk.

Descendants from noble families who didn’t want to deal with family affairs but went to take the imperial examinations and succeeded in gaining an official position were extremely rare. Shen Yuan’s actions back then had often been the subject of post-dinner conversations.

Late, upon his return to the Capital City, it was said that he astounded everyone, even controlling an elder of the Yun Family with his array, and sparked a Jiangnan fever.

Deep down, many people looked down on this fellow who had lucked out, and now that everyone had ancient inheritances, even fewer thought much of Shen Yuan. They didn’t expect to run into him here.

"Hmm?" Shen Yuan frowned slightly. Actually, he hadn’t wanted to come on this trip.

He was engrossed in his research and spent every day in Jiangnan feeling immensely fulfilled.

When he had free time, he could accompany his mother, and although he occasionally had to deal with his thick-skinned father and brother who came to bother him, overall, life in recent years had been very comfortable.

As for participating in a Heavenly Master competition to become famous, he had no interest at all, especially meeting those people from the noble families of the Capital City.

Some unpleasant memories came back, really affecting his mood.

In fact, that was true. Back then, his mother went through a lot of trouble to get him into the Sorcerer Academy since his aptitude wasn’t enough, and he didn’t know how much scorn and ridicule he had suffered.

In the Sorcerer Academy, lacking aptitude meant being the subject of ridicule and bullying, and among them, these two scions of the Chen Family, who were nothing but scoundrels, were the worst offenders.

These two individuals held prestigious identities, but their talents were mediocre, and they had often been mocked by others.

When they encountered Shen Yuan, they showed not a hint of empathy but rather acted as if they had finally found someone they could bully.

Merely seeing the faces of the two, Shen Yuan’s expression immediately darkened significantly.

"Yo, it really is you!" The two young masters of the Chen Family instantly became interested, "You actually came to participate in this?"

"If you two can come, why can’t I?"

"What do you mean?" The countenances of the two from the Chen Family instantly turned grim, a bloodline pressure inherent to the Dragon Clan emanating from them.

They had long heard about Shen Yuan’s impressive exploits in the Capital City, secretly cursing him countless times. Why should that piece of crap have such luck?

Now that they had encountered him again, a sense of ridicule naturally arose.

Just like back in the academy, and now in Jiangnan as well, they were from the Chen Family.

Even though their talents were average, they still managed to become Dragon Transformed Magicians through the accumulation of substantial resources.

However, their poor talents meant that even after the transformation, among the excellent descendants of the Southern Sea families, they were still embarrassingly inadequate.

Among those who came to participate in the trial, almost none were weaker than the two brothers.

In this situation, Shen Yuan was like an outlet for them to vent their emotions!

Watching the Chen brothers cause trouble, the descendants of the Southern Sea noble families watched with cold eyes.

Zi Yue’s tone was so exaggerated that for a moment, they couldn’t gauge the depth of these Jiangnan youngsters, so letting those two wastes test the waters was indeed excellent.

One breath passed, then two, then ten.

An awkward scene unfolded.

The faces of the Chen Family’s two young masters flushed red, with dragon scales emerging all over their bodies, but the group of descendants opposite them remained unfazed, not just Shen Yuan, but even the little girl standing not far from him, who looked about ten years old.

They watched the pair as if observing performing monkeys.

This comical scene caused the complexions of the descendants of the Southern Sea to change!

The Chen siblings were indeed incompetent, but their Dragon Transformation bloodline was genuine.

Even though they had fused with an inferior Dragon Clan like the Hundred Legged Dragon, a dragon was still a dragon, and the pressure produced upon the awakening of their bloodline was not something those below the Transcendent realm could withstand!

Look at those from the Yun Family, the majority are pale-faced, and there are even some who have fallen to the ground.

But the group from Jiangnan was entirely different; their complexions did not change in the slightest and they only looked with eyes as if beholding fools, creating an atmosphere that silenced the entire area in an instant.

The faces of those two from the Chen Family turned from bright red to ashen, yet they did not dare to speak another harsh word.

The two brothers might be untalented and full of envy, but they were not fools; they were acutely aware of what it meant to resist their pressure.

That group from Jiangnan... they were all at the Transcendent realm!

But weren’t they all just kids?

How could that be possible?

"You two..." Finally, Shen Yuan spoke up, "must have used the Secret Dragon Transformation Technique, right? Moreover, you haven’t been transformed for long. I advise both of you to spend another ten years consolidating your transformation. Don’t unnecessarily activate your bloodline, or once your foundation is damaged, you’ll regret it too late. .."

"You... what nonsense are you talking about?"

Seeing their secrets casually exposed by his indifferent tone, the two felt an endless frustration, yet they felt helpless to do anything about it.

The one they had humiliated every day now bore a look in his eyes that seemed unapproachably high, which they could not stand the most.

"Enough..." Shen Yuan simply couldn’t be bothered with them any longer, turning back to the other Jiangnan descendants, "Time is of the essence, unless you want to go back and start your training all over."

"Yes!" As soon as retraining was mentioned, the group of half-grown kids finally stopped the giggling and started to take things seriously.

Subsequently, everyone watched in astonishment as this group of youngsters unhesitatingly activated their Techniques and charged into the Arrays!