NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 44 I'm Sorry Everyone
(To celebrate reaching 100,000 words, I added an extra chapter yesterday. I'm asking for continued readership and for everyone's help in promoting this book. Thank you, and I will strive to update more frequently after the book is on the shelves.)
Immortal Sect.
Although the college entrance competition is a focal point of interest for countless people, this session was undoubtedly too thrilling. The viewership for the matches broke historical records, and even those who usually didn't pay attention to it joined in the fervor. Then, everyone witnessed an exceedingly amusing scene!
"How could you let such a monster in?"
"Why is his Cultivation so high?"
"Right, his Swordsmanship, how can it be so terrifying?"
"The Immortal Sect is cheating again, they've rigged the game!"
Today, the viewership of Immortal Sect Television reached an all-time high, with countless viewers glued to their screens, waiting for the decisions of the children.
Although many were there to see a bloodbath.
After Zhuge Caihua's proposal was rejected, everyone sighed, and the internet erupted with countless curses, saying things like the quality of these children is truly lacking, and so on.
All kinds of comments emerged, everyone expressing their heartache and saying this wasn't good.
But as the saying goes, "the grass is always greener on the other side." Friends from the Outer Domain saw it differently, only able to comment that the Immortal Sect really cultivated a group of very frightening students.
Zhuge Caihua's proposal almost succeeded, which proved the strength of the Immortal Sect. If it had been their side's people, it wouldn't be a question of whether the vote would pass, but rather if there would be more than a thousand people left alive before the vote.
Even to be safer, maybe not even a few hundred could be mustered!
Striking first, stabbing a friend in the back, etc., that's the real possibility.
Yet, the Immortal Sect managed to maintain peace and order, a kind of strength that sends shivers down one's spine!
If it were 12,000 ordinary students, it might be understandable. After all, innocently naive children are like timid lambs, obliviously unsure what to do. But these are the one-in-ten-thousand true talented students of this year's Immortal Sect!
In other places, these True Seeds are simply known as a bunch of the most selfish, the most vicious, the most shameless...beasts!
However, these blossoms of the Immortal Sect demonstrated what is known as camaraderie among classmates, unity, and so forth. And in their actions, there was negotiation and sacrifice, including the efforts of Zhuge Caihua and others. Even though the vote was unsuccessful, it gave people of the Outer Domain a chilling feeling!
What does it mean to have a nation of warriors? This is it!
What does cultural invasion mean? This is it!
The Immortal Sect has nurtured its scholars for ten thousand years, and it's only because of this that the children possess such dazzling brilliance.
Who knows how many people from the Extraterrestrial Domain watched the competition, dumbfounded, unable to believe it. Just thinking that one day they might face the Immortal Sect's army, surrounded by treacherous allies with dark hearts and long legs, while the Immortal Sect had people who could entrust life and death to a lottery draw, left them dripping in cold sweat.
Even more people from the Outer Domain cemented their opinion of the Immortal Sect as a beacon, swearing that if they had the chance, they would definitely immigrate to the Immortal Sect!
It could be said that the impact of this broadcast was even more significant than the Immortal Sect winning several battles.
The children of the Immortal Sect are truly innocent, kind, and understand sacrifice.
And that is power!
This is also why the Immortal Sect's higher-ups decided to continue live broadcasting, and one of the reasons why historically, they agreed to let other Star Domains broadcast the competition.
Competitive fighting, in another world's era of the Cold War, was never just a simple sporting event. It was at the forefront of cultural evolution and the best avenue to display soft power to other Sects!
Then, everyone witnessed, within a flock of sheep, the sudden appearance of a scene where a pig pretends to be a tiger to eat the tiger.
One sheep suddenly stopped pretending and told everyone, "I am the tiger!"
Regarding this player, those who had been following the competition were actually quite familiar. Wasn't this the young brother dressed in prison garb, looking shabby? He didn't make it into the top ten; he was ranked thirty-third, causing many people deep regret, feeling that his equipment had held him back.
But regardless, he had tried his best. After the competition ended, people hoped he would have a good outcome.
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But, but, he...
Meng Yu's sword stroke completely shocked everyone!
Mirror Twelve provided many different angles for the live broadcast, and it was in super high-definition frame rates. It even included data like air flows, and all of these were transmitted to the outside world immediately.
The Immortal Sect's high-stakes examination had become a carnival feast for the audience, with cultivators from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core analyzing the potential future trends in various live streaming rooms.
For example, Zhuge Caihua's composure and grace (slyness and cunning), or Zhao Yuxuan and others' secret preparations, or that glorious sword stroke Meng Yu unleashed.
A genius swordsman online, a famous Foundation Establishment influencer from Immortal Sect, began to analyze Meng Yu's combat strength immediately, scrutinizing different frames, positions, everyone's preparations, and their responses.
Then, he stated that he couldn't do it!
Meng Yu's dodging, Meng Yu's attacks, at his level of Foundation Establishment, he could still imitate, but facing Wang Youcai and the seven men's sword array, he could at most take them down in twenty moves, but to do it effortlessly like Meng Yu, to break the array with a single stroke, he couldn't.
In seizing the moment, Meng Yu was far stronger than he was!
And this, Meng Yu had hardly showcased in the previous competitions.
"This guy, he, he, he, he concealed his strength!"
Many people said this.
That's right, a man in prison, what does he intend by hiding his strength? Of course, it's to avoid overtime stepping on more sewing machines, isn't it?
...
Meng Yu uttered his wild claims, but this time, no one around said anything.
All right, the real geniuses, the top hundred, remained silent.
They were proud, but they had to admit, Meng Yu's sword stroke was a truly dazzling display of genius, and as for others, what could they say when they looked at Wang Youcai's severed head on the ground?
Did they really think Meng Yu wouldn't dare to kill?
Looking at his prisoner's identity, if you offend him now, and he comes to assassinate you quietly tonight, who could stop him?
Among a flock of sheep, a tiger appeared; at this moment, who would want to lead?
"Meng Yu, how strong are you really?"
Suddenly, someone asked this aloud.
"Not bad, I guess, Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer."
"You, you, you, weren't you at Qi Cultivation Third Layer, Fifth Layer?"
"Oh, sorry, I've leveled up."
Meng Yu smiled sheepishly, "Before the presence of the True Lord, I sensed a crisis, so in those days, I didn't attend the meetings but secluded myself for some quiet cultivation and sorted out what I had learned.
I've been practicing the White Crane Swordsmanship, Fire Crow Sword Technique, along with the Wind-Slicing Strike I obtained with great difficulty.
So, with the three sword techniques progressing together, the two Sword Intents supporting each other, and the Wind-Slicing Strike breaking through the stages, I originally wanted to use the Burning Body Technique to achieve Foundation Establishment, to let everyone see."
Meng Yu sighed, then sighed again.
"It's a pity, a real pity, I didn't have any Alchemical Elixirs at the time, nor was there a Spiritual Spring or Spiritual Pool, so I could only rely on my comprehension to level up. Looking back, it seems I was lacking; actually, if I had lowered my standards then, I could've established my foundation, but that would have compromised the quality, hindering my achievement of becoming a First Grade Golden Core.
So I thought about it and decided to spend my energy elsewhere, and now I'm at Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer, I haven't achieved Foundation Establishment, I really am sorry to everyone."
He bowed his head shyly.
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