Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The crowd that was involved watching this entire incident didn’t know what they should say anymore. Jiang Chen had caused such great trouble on this day just for his friend. It was quite unusual for a human to defy Spirits like this.
“He isn’t an ordinary human. Don’t just look at the fact that he doesn’t have a great faction to depend upon. Both his status as a Heaven Alchemist or as a Martial Sovereign’s follower can’t be underestimated.
“That’s right, if it wasn’t for that, the Blood Shadow Dynasty would have killed him many times long ago. The reason why he can stand here to argue with them isn’t that he isn’t in the wrong, but just because of his status.” Someone spoke while sighing and warned people not to imitate Jiang Chen.
It was only by depending upon the Great Sovereign’s power that Jiang Chen managed to let the Blood Shadow Dynasty dread him and that he got a chance to have a contest against Wu Ziming.
“I already had enough of your arrogance.” Wu Ziming was flustered and exasperated. “I will let you realize that you are just an insignificant human.”
“I wonder what expression you will reveal when you lose to an insignificant human,” Jiang Chen said.
“This won’t ever happen!” Wu Ziming shook his head and looked toward the Blood Shadow Dynasty’s people. He said, “A contest is too troublesome, just let me have a duel to the death against him outside of the city.”
Upon hearing the words a duel to the death, many alarmed cries echoed out.
Fengyu Duo became worried and wanted to persuade Jiang Chen against accepting it. However, it was fortunate that even the Blood Shadow Dynasty’s members wouldn’t accept it.
The Imperial Uncle spoke in a deep voice, “You should first finish the contest. As for your life-and-death duel, you can play around like you want later.”
What the Blood Shadow Dynasty wanted was just power and prestige and wanted everyone to feel like they had complete control over Ancient City. This was also the reason why the dynasty’s princess had wanted to break Jiang Chen’s hand.
“Since you want me to kneel to him, what will happen if you lose?” Wu Ziming looked at Jiang Chen.
“Just state it!”
“Kneel before my residence’s gate until the start of the qualification battle.” Wu Ziming raised a scary request.
If either of them lost, he would have to kneel down, and such a matter was a great humiliation to any youngsters.
“Okay!” Before Fengyu Duo even started persuading him against it, Jiang Chen agreed.
“Ha, ha, ha!” When Wu Ziming witnessed him agreeing, he unexpectedly started laughing out loud heartily.
The crowd was taken aback by this for a moment before they understood what was going on. Wu Ziming had just put on an act on purpose and expressed that he didn’t want to have a contest with him and wanted to just fight him directly. He had done it just because he was afraid that Jiang Chen wouldn’t agree to his stakes. In Wu Ziming’s eyes, he felt like he would surely win this contest. It was because he was a Wind Spirit. His Wind Lore had already reached the fifth level, and he had mastered a Spirit technique capable of raising his speed. There wasn’t any possibility for him to lose.
“There are too many people Ancient City for now, so don’t carry it out at the same time. We will just judge it according to the time spent by you,” a Blood Shadow Dynasty’s member spoke once again. Such a contest already existed in Ancient City since long ago, and there was even an hourglass customized for counting time in the eastern gate.
By the time Jiang Chen and Wu Ziming had gone there, news about their contest had spread to the whole city.
“There are four city gates, and you must pass by them according to this order. The eastern, western, southern, and northern one. It doesn’t matter what path you take, but you still must take all the seals hung on the gate in order, before coming back here.” The Blood Shadow Dynasty’s Imperial Uncle announced the rules, while the others went to set everything properly on the gates.
There was a line drawn on the ground before the city gate, and it was the starting point.
“Who will go first?” The Blood Shadow Dynasty’s Princess asked.
“Me!” Wu Ziming didn’t give this matter a single thought. He strode forward and wanted to go first. He looked at Jiang Chen and spoke in mockery, “After a while, I will get to see your desperate look when you are aware that it is hopeless, yet you will still have to try it. It will be really a marvelous sight.”
He wanted to make a great achievement, which would make anyone feel powerless in the face of it, and wanted to destroy Jiang Chen’s confidence.
“If you are ready, just start,” the Blood Shadow Dynasty’s Imperial Uncle said.
Wu Ziming was full of confidence, and he stood leisurely on the horizontal line on the ground. It didn’t seem like he was storing power at all. However, in the instant the hourglass was placed upside down, a powerful divine wind erupted from his back and pushed him up into the air. He streaked in the air like a meteorite, and when he was just about to fall on a certain house’s roof, he tapped its roof lightly with the end of his foot.
“Shadowless Divine Wind!”
Wu Ziming’s speed became quicker by several fold, and people were already incapable of having a clear look of him. Many people just felt a breeze blowing atop their heads, and when they raised their heads up, they couldn’t see anything there.
“He reached the southern city gate.” Surprise appeared on the faces of the crowd at the starting point. Three seconds still hadn’t passed, yet Wu Ziming had already run ten miles. He was really as a quick as a meteorite, and such a statement wasn’t exaggerated at all.
“Traceless Divine Wind!” It didn’t end with just this, Wu Ziming used once again a shocking Spirit technique just to let Jiang Chen feel more pressure. The crowd could only see a breeze flying in the sky, and Wu Ziming turned into a flickering ray. He took just three seconds to pass by the eastern gate and the northern gate. In the end, the people near the eastern gate detected something and quickly made way and left. A strong breeze blew over. It possessed a powerful might, and people nearby felt like they would be swept to the sky by it.
Wu Ziming’s body had already appeared at the starting point once again.
“Six seconds!”
“That’s right, it’s six seconds!”
The Wind Spirit Clan’s disciples looked at the hourglass and shouted his achievement excitedly. This hourglass was accurate and could count with seconds, and if it wasn’t the case, it wouldn’t have been used to measure time and decide the outcome of the duel.
“It is too shocking! Those are four city gates, and according to the distance between the eastern, southern, western, and northern ones, it’s a distance of at the very least 100 miles.”
“Six seconds, he crossed it in just six seconds!”
“It’s terrifying! Wind Spirits are really terrifying!”
The crowd cried out in alarm and surprise many times, even though they were all aware that he couldn’t travel at such a high speed for long. However, if he just used it in a battle, all enemies would be helpless in front of him.
“He’s done for!” Fengyu Duo’s expressions were unsightly. Such simple six seconds brought great pressure on them. Jiang Chen was proficient in sword techniques, and even though his speed might not be slow, he was still vastly inferior to Wu Ziming.
“It’s now your turn,” Wu Ziming grinned with his eyes filled with pride.
“If you had known it earlier, it would have been better for you to just let me break your hand. In any case, you can fix it once again. But now, you will have to kneel for a long time, and your reputation will be smeared,” the Blood Shadow Dynasty’s Princess spoke to him.
She still didn’t realize how inappropriate were her previous actions and just felt like Jiang Chen was too hateful. Now, upon witnessing Jiang Chen falling into such a predicament, she felt quite pleased with herself.
“You are speaking like you have already won,” Jiang Chen spoke while walking toward the starting point.
“Are you ready?” The Blood Shadow Dynasty’s Imperial Uncle asked.
“Wait!” Wu Ziming interrupted them. “I can let you decide at which time you want to start because I don’t want to hear any of your excuses. Why don’t you first familiarize yourself with Ancient City’s terrain, so that you don’t say later that you weren’t familiar with the road’s condition.” Wu Ziming’s mockery revealed how arrogant and haughty he was. However, Jiang Chen just turned a deaf ear to him and looked at the southern gate. He said, “Start!”
The Blood Shadow Dynasty’s Imperial Uncle nodded and placed the hourglass upside down. However, strangely enough, the crowd witnessed that Jiang Chen still didn’t move.
One second, two seconds….
This contest’s outcome would depend on just trivial seconds, yet he still tarried.
“Wait! What is that?”
The crowd quickly noticed something odd. The sunlight was unexpectedly capable of penetrating Jiang Chen’s body, while Jiang Chen was still disappearing slowly.
“An afterimage! It’s just an afterimage!”
It turned out that this was just an afterimage left behind by him.
