Chapter 39 : Chapter 39
Chapter 39: The Title of Peerless Under Heaven
Cui Xianglong tossed the last piece of goose wing into his mouth and smacked his lips twice.
“President Lin, this goose really looks a lot like the white swans you raise.”
Lin Yandong had not been thinking along those lines at all, but after Cui Xianglong’s reminder,
he suddenly snapped awake.
“Damn it!”
“My precious darlings!”
Lin Yandong rushed off toward the swan flock in a panic.
Less than two minutes later, he came back with a dark face,
sat down, and did not say a word.
Damn it.
He wanted to lose his temper,
but he did not have the face to.
After all, he had been the one eating the most enthusiastically just now.
Half the roast goose had gone straight into his stomach.
Lin Yuan and Sun Xu said nothing and kept their heads down as they ate fish.
Ever since Lin Yandong and the other two had sat down, Lin Yuan and Sun Xu had not touched the goose even once.
They had focused entirely on the fish.
The sight amused Mu Tianxing.
“You two really are something. Didn’t you know those swans were President Lin’s treasured darlings?”
Lin Yuan raised his head with an innocent expression.
“What are you talking about, old sir? This is goose.”
“I just bought it at the market.”
The moment he heard that, Lin Yandong crossed his arms and let out a heavy snort.
“Goose it is, then.” Mu Tianxing smiled and shook his head.
This boy really was sly to the core.
“Enough joking.”
Mu Tianxing pointed at Lin Yandong and Cui Xianglong as he introduced their identities.
“Lin Yandong, President of the Tianfeng City Class-Holder Association.”
“Cui Xianglong, President of Xianglong Guild.”
Naturally, Lin Yuan and Sun Xu already knew who they were.
They were not idiots. The front page of the Class-Holder Forum had photos of Tianfeng City’s top bigshots pinned to it,
and both of these men were right there in the first row.
Lin Yuan immediately put on an excited expression.
“So it’s President Lin and President Cui! I’ve long admired your great names—they strike my ears like thunder!”
Sun Xu chimed in from the side, “President Lin and President Cui truly are elegant and imposing gentlemen.”
Mu Tianxing: ...
Cui Xianglong: ...
Lin Yandong: ...
Was that not backward?
Shouldn’t those words have been said by the elders to them?
If you say all the lines first, what are we supposed to say after that?
Mu Tianxing pointed at himself.
“My name is Mu Tianxing, President of Peerless Guild.”
When he said this, he deliberately paused for a moment,
clearly hoping to give the two boys a chance to gasp in amazement.
Lin Yuan scratched at his ear.
“Peerless Guild?”
“Never heard of it.”
It was not that Lin Yuan was ignorant.
The truth was that information about Peerless Guild belonged to a relatively high level of knowledge.
Teachers at school would never tell students these things,
so it was perfectly normal for Lin Yuan not to know about Peerless Guild.
Even though he did not know what Peerless Guild was,
Lin Yuan still thought that if someone was this old and still serving as guild president,
then the guild probably could not be all that strong.
Sun Xu eyed Mu Tianxing suspiciously, looking at the man in his security uniform and arrogant bearing.
“O-old grandpa, does your Peerless Guild work in the security industry?”
That question nearly choked Mu Tianxing to death.
“What do you know? I wear this to hide my identity,” Mu Tianxing said proudly.
“My personal safety is of critical importance to Xia Country and even to Blue Star as a whole.”
“The fact that I’m here absolutely cannot be allowed to leak out.”
At Mu Tianxing’s words, Lin Yuan inwardly let out a quiet scoff.
He really could boast.
From the side, Lin Yandong folded his arms and said,
“This gentleman is Mu Tianxing, President of Peerless Guild, the top guild in Xia Country. He’s also a Level 60 Holy Knight.”
“He looks like this because he was afflicted by an Aging Curse.”
“The reason he came to Tianfeng City is because the city has a Dungeon capable of slowing the effects of the Aging Curse.”
A Level 60 Holy Knight!
That was a true super bigshot.
“Greetings, senior!”
Lin Yuan and Sun Xu immediately stood up and bowed to Mu Tianxing.
Mu Tianxing let out a light snort.
“If this had been before I was cursed, the two of you wouldn’t even have been qualified to meet me.”
Then his gaze slid to Ali, who stood at the side as straight as a spear.
A flicker of surprise passed through Mu Tianxing’s eyes.
A Fourth-Rank Summoned Beast. So you were hiding your strength this deeply.
No wonder Cheng Feng, the moment he saw the boy, offered him SS-Rank treatment.
With a Fourth-Rank Summoned Beast in hand, the Level 20 class advancement mission was no problem at all.
Perhaps this boy would truly become the first Summoner in human history to complete an advancement.
That would indeed suit the image of Peerless Guild.
Mu Tianxing thought for a moment,
then took out an electronic wristband engraved with the word “Peerless” and tossed it to Lin Yuan.
“This is the membership token for Peerless Guild.”
“After the College Entrance Examination, as long as that wristband is still in your hands, you’ll receive one S-Rank skill and a full set of Platinum equipment as a reward.”
Taking the wristband, Lin Yuan asked, “Why after the College Entrance Examination? Could someone actually come and try to steal it?”
“Exactly.”
Cui Xianglong’s eyes were filled with envy.
“Peerless, Peerless—it means peerless under heaven.”
“Every single member of Peerless Guild is an unrivaled supreme prodigy of their era.”
“This year’s College Entrance Examination will be your touchstone.”
“You must take first place, suppress all the Class-Holders of Blue Star’s current generation, and achieve the name of Peerless.”
At this point, Cui Xianglong let out a sigh.
He had been born in the same generation as Mu Tianxing.
In that era, everyone had lived beneath Mu Tianxing’s shadow,
and thus his great title, Mu Tian’s Light, had been forged.
Yet today, Mu Tianxing had actually handed the Peerless wristband to Lin Yuan.
Did Mu Tianxing truly believe that a mere Fourth-Rank Summoned Beast was enough for him to crush every Class-Holder of this generation across Blue Star?
“Peerless under heaven.”
Lin Yuan repeated those four words over and over.
“Interesting.”
“I’ll take the wristband. As for first place, I’m reserving it in advance.”
Not because of the single S-Rank skill or the full set of Platinum equipment.
It was simply because he wanted the title of Peerless under heaven.
“Oh? You’re quite confident.” Mu Tianxing smiled slightly.
“A friendly reminder: you may only rely on your own team.”
“Exactly what I wanted.”
Lin Yuan had never intended to find teammates in the first place.
What would he need teammates for?
He would only have to worry about keeping them alive.
Unless his teammates all had abilities like Sun Xu’s possession skill, they would just be burdens.
Mu Tianxing rose to his feet and patted Lin Yuan on the shoulder.
“I’ve heard that someone over in Shanhe City has already reached Level 18.”
“In another month, he’ll probably reach Level 20.”
“There’s a good chance he’ll complete his First Advancement mission before the College Entrance Examination.”
“There are still two months left until the examination. You need to put in a little more effort.”
Put in more effort?
Wasn’t that just leveling?
How hard could that be?
Clear a few more Nightmare Dungeons and everything would be solved.
Complete the First Advancement mission before the College Entrance Examination?
That would be as easy as the Buddha capturing the Monkey King.
Mu Tianxing had achieved what he came for, so he left with his hands clasped behind his back, strolling away while swaying his head.
Cui Xianglong and Lin Yandong followed him out together.
Before leaving, Lin Yandong shot Lin Yuan a warning look.
Do not ever eat my swans again.
“Take care, seniors!”
Lin Yuan waved with a bright smile.
After the three of them had gone some distance away, Sun Xu suddenly cried out while clutching his phone.
“Holy shit, Brother Lin, look at this!”
Lin Yuan leaned over and saw the content on Sun Xu’s screen.
《Peerless Guild President — The Strongest Holy Knight of Humanity》
《Mu Tian’s Light — The Holy Guardian Who Shattered the Darkness》
Sun Xu tapped open the short video in the post.
A Holy Knight clad in golden armor and bathed in sacred radiance stood high in the sky.
Facing him was a black mass of Gargoyle Legion.
More than thirty thousand Gargoyles blotted out the heavens like the descent of darkness itself.
Against that endlessly pressing tide of Gargoyles,
the Holy Knight made only a single strike—
and with it, he swept away the darkness in the sky.