Chapter 54 : Chapter 54
Chapter 54. Controlling Fifty Magical Artifacts at Once, Shocking the Entire Internet
“Holy hell! Is this real? Young Master Jiang’s aura fluctuation just broke straight into the Fifth-Realm Grandmaster level!”
“A Fifth-Realm Grandmaster! How is that possible? That’s the same realm as my freshman-year mentor.”
“If the system’s scan isn’t wrong, then Young Master Jiang has been hiding his strength all along. Fifth-Realm Grandmaster probably isn’t even his limit!”
“What?! Young Master Jiang really is a hidden dragon biding his time. He was clearly a heaven-blessed prodigy, yet he was willing to play the good-for-nothing for four whole years!”
“No wonder the Jiang family never stripped him of his status as heir, even though he seemed so disappointing. He was hiding himself far too deeply!”
“That’s not even the main point. Look at that purple-ink aura around Young Master Jiang. Just looking at it is enough to make your whole body tremble!”
“But even so, trying to defeat a peak sixth-rank Ink Venom Octopus as a Fifth-Realm Grandmaster is still too naive.”
“...”
Watching the comments race wildly past, Professor Ma could not help swallowing hard.
He too had been deeply shaken by Jiang Yichen’s strength. As one of Huazhong University’s old guard, he knew better than most what this meant.
Among all the graduating classes over the years, the number of students who had reached the Fifth-Realm Grandmaster level before the martial exam could be counted on one hand. Only the current generation’s five Martial Gods had ever accomplished such a feat.
But...
When he thought of a Fifth-Realm Grandmaster facing a peak sixth-rank Ink Venom Octopus, Professor Ma still shook his head.
It was still a bit too overconfident.
He lifted his head and continued watching the martial exam footage.
At that moment, Jiang Yichen faced the giant octopus with a smile. A sixth-rank Magical Artifact appeared in his hand, the Purple Lightning Azure Frost, and he crooked a finger at the Ink Venom Octopus.
That provocation made the Ink Venom Octopus’s eyes blaze red as it spat out a huge mouthful of poisonous black ink.
Jiang Yichen neither dodged nor avoided it, allowing the ink to splash all over him.
Yet the venomous ink, which could even corrode giant rocks, failed to damage the Black God Suit in the slightest.
The Ink Venom Octopus’s greatest strength was its poison. If that was useless against the Black God Suit, then it could die now.
“My turn, little octopus.”
Jiang Yichen flung thirty sixth-rank Magical Artifacts out of his system space. The limitless mental power granted by the Supreme-grade Divine Mind Master allowed him to control all thirty of them directly.
The thirty sixth-rank Magical Artifacts surrounded the Ink Venom Octopus, leaving it with no blind spots and no room to escape.
Jiang Yichen hovered above the octopus, slowly raised his right hand, and at the instant he clenched his fist, ripples spread through space.
The thirty sixth-rank Magical Artifacts seemed to gain the power to traverse space, and in an instant they pierced into the Ink Venom Octopus’s body.
At once, black ink gushed out like cascading waterfalls and flowed through the valley, corroding everything in its path.
“It’s still not dead?”
Through his spiritual perception, Jiang Yichen discovered that the Ink Venom Octopus was still alive. The wounds cut open by the sixth-rank Magical Artifacts were miraculously healing after being soaked in black ink.
No wonder it was so hard to kill. So it had an ability similar to the Auspicious Domain.
Jiang Yichen glanced at the black ink flowing below. To kill it, the best tactic would have been to drag it out of the ink-covered area.
But he believed that enough quantity would eventually trigger a qualitative change.
Let’s see if you can keep healing through this.
Jiang Yichen descended and planted both feet on the black ink. Then he added twenty more sixth-rank Magical Artifacts. With his mind force controlling them and the spatial ability of the Void Scripture, the octopus had no ability to react at all.
All it could do was let out miserable cries and hide in its ocean of black ink, constantly repairing its severed tentacles, completely unable to fight back.
The barrage was simply too dense.
It perfectly proved that one saying.
All fear comes from insufficient firepower.
That scene left Zhou Mingyuan, Su Zhan, and Jiang Dongnian utterly dumbfounded at the martial exam plaza.
Controlling fifty sixth-rank Magical Artifacts while remaining that calm and effortless?
What the hell was this, a cheat code?
Even the Tang family’s ninth-rank Martial God, despite also being a Mind Master, could control at most twenty-four flying knives without compromising the effectiveness of his attacks.
So what in the world were these fifty sixth-rank Magical Artifacts?
And on top of that, those Magical Artifacts even came with spatial traversal.
Was this a joke?
Zhou Mingyuan’s eyes went wide in utter shock, and he dropped straight back into his seat.
“How is this possible? His mind force can control fifty sixth-rank Magical Artifacts. Not even movies would dare write something this outrageous!”
Jiang Dongnian and Su Zhan were equally stunned. Neither of them wanted to believe what they were seeing.
How powerful would a martial artist’s mental strength have to be to control fifty sixth-rank Magical Artifacts in one breath?
This was simply absurd.
Was this really still the same wastrel who had wasted four years and nearly thrown his life away over Lin Wan?
What?
Zhou Mingyuan and Jiang Dongnian stood there with blank expressions. Before even graduating, he had already broken through to the Fifth-Realm Grandmaster level, and his mental strength was terrifying enough to control fifty Magical Artifacts. Was that something a human being could even do?
Even a Martial God could not do it, so how could Jiang Yichen, whose talent was only A-rank Psychic Amplification, possibly do it?
Su Zhan slowly rose to his feet, utterly unable to understand.
Jiang Yichen had spent every day idling around before the graduation assessment, so how had he suddenly become this strong?
Could it be that he had been hiding his strength all along? But even if he had, this was far too outrageous.
Bang!
He slammed his cane hard against the ground. Recalling how coldly he had just watched Jiang Yichen’s life hang in the balance, he immediately raised a hand and opened the teleportation gate to the Monster Battlefield.
He wanted to see it with his own eyes.
“Jiang Dongnian, what kind of information did you give me? Why has Jiang Yichen suddenly become this strong? Didn’t you say he had been idling around and fishing before the assessment?”
Zhou Mingyuan seized Jiang Dongnian by the collar and was completely furious.
How was Jiang Dongnian supposed to know?
Jiang Yichen really had been idling around and fishing before the assessment.
As for why he had suddenly broken through to the Fifth-Realm Grandmaster level, become a Mind Master capable of controlling fifty Magical Artifacts, and even gained spatial abilities, Jiang Dongnian truly had no idea.
“Old Zhou, calm down first. Things have already come to this point. Let’s think of another way.”
“Calm down? How am I supposed to calm down?” Zhou Mingyuan pointed at the teleportation gate to the Monster Battlefield. “Su Zhan has gone into the Monster Battlefield now. That means he has hope in the Jiang family again. What other plan do you have?”
Jiang Dongnian pressed a hand down, signaling for him to settle down. “The upper ranks of the Jiang family are deeply prejudiced against Jiang Yichen. Even if he has suddenly displayed such powerful strength, they won’t change their minds that quickly.”
“As long as Feng’er leads the Yanhuang Team to first place in the Huaxia Team League one month from now, I’ll have a way to make Jiang Zhentian strip Jiang Yichen of his status as heir.”
Hearing that, Zhou Mingyuan gradually calmed down, though suspicion still filled his eyes. “Will that really work?”
“Don’t worry. The Yanhuang Team was trained by Jiang Yichen into the number one team in Huaxia. Taking first place in the league will be easy.”
Zhou Mingyuan drew a deep breath. “Fine. I’ll trust you one more time.”
The two of them said no more, but as they watched the livestream comments praising Jiang Yichen, irritation filled their hearts.
Jiang Dongnian could not understand it. Feng’er had clearly worked a hundred times harder than Jiang Yichen, so why had Jiang Yichen suddenly become so powerful?
In the end, all they could do now was wait for the team league one month later.
Monster Battlefield.
The Ink Venom Octopus had already been riddled with holes by Jiang Yichen’s fifty sixth-rank Magical Artifacts. The black ink’s rate of regeneration simply could not keep up with the speed at which it was being wounded.
Jiang Yichen glanced at the remains floating in the black ink, recalled his Magical Artifacts, and opened the rankings.
Rank 8933: Jiang Yichen — 1300 points
... The martial exam time is up. Point tally has ended.
Still above the passing line. He had scraped through at low altitude.
This Supreme-grade Divine Mind Master really was terrifying. His mental power was inexhaustible, and even fifty Magical Artifacts clearly were not his limit.
It had to be known that the Tang family’s Martial God was also a Mind Master. Even he could control at most forty flying knives, and if he wanted to maintain attack quality, then twenty-four was the true limit.
This talent was simply heaven-defying. At only the Fifth-Realm Grandmaster level, he had already surpassed a Martial-God-level Mind Master.
If I had used the Supreme-grade Chaos Body just now, I doubt the Ink Venom Octopus would have lasted nearly this long.
The system’s rewards are outrageously overpowered. This is incredible.
Jiang Yichen was in an excellent mood. “The martial exam’s over. Time to go home and continue taking it easy.”
He was just about to leave in the Black God Suit when a powerful and familiar aura suddenly entered the range of his perception.
Jiang Yichen froze for a moment. Just as he was about to turn around, Shen Qingyue, dressed in a soft white satin qipao, threw her arms around him.
“Xiao Chen, are you hurt? How did you, with Third-Realm strength, dare face a sixth-rank Ink Venom Octopus? Are you trying to scare your mother to death?”
Shen Qingyue quickly looked around. “Where’s the Ink Venom Octopus? Why can’t I sense its aura anymore?”
Uh...
Jiang Yichen pointed at the soft remains floating in the black ink. “I killed it.”
Shen Qingyue: (☉_☉)