105: Chapter 105 The Square is in Turmoil, 9527 Appears

The light of the teleportation array turned from blinding to soft before Zhao Ruoan's eyes, and finally dissipated completely.

The sensation of the solid ground came from under his feet, and the surrounding noisy human voices poured into his ears like a tide.

He opened his eyes and found that he had returned to Qingxuan Sect, on the familiar and spacious large plaza outside Zongwu Hall.

The plaza was packed with people, more than ten times livelier than before they entered Wanshou Mountain Range.

Countless Outer Sect Disciples, Utility Disciples, and even many secluded Inner Sect Disciples crowded here, surrounding the center of the plaza watertight.

Everyone's necks were stretched long, and their eyes stared uniformly at the huge spiritual power light screen in mid-air, their faces full of expressions of seeing a ghost.

At the very top of the light screen, a line of purple-gold characters aggressively occupied everyone's vision.

"First Place: Outer Sect Number 9527, Points: 13,500!"

This number, like an insurmountable mountain, heavily pressed on the head of the second place Chu Tianhe with his two thousand odd points, looking so out of place and shocking.

"They are back! The Disciples of the Grand Competition are back!"

Not knowing who shouted in the crowd, the entire plaza instantly became restless.

Tens of thousands of gazes swished from the light screen in the sky, all transferring to the more than a hundred Disciples who had just appeared in the teleportation array in the center of the plaza.

The moment they saw the scene in the teleportation array, the entire plaza fell into an eerie dead silence.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

What did they see?

The Prodigies of various peaks, who were usually high above and looked down upon others, were now one by one disheveled, injured, and in extreme embarrassment.

And what made them most incomprehensible was that the top Prodigies headed by Main Peak's chief Disciple Chu Tianhe were actually surrounding a bare-chested youth wearing ragged linen trousers like stars surrounding the moon.

These proud sons of heaven not only had no trace of resentment on their faces, but instead carried a heartfelt respect and fear, following closely behind the youth step by step, completely like a group of loyal little followers.

Who was that youth?

The ragged linen shirt on his body was clearly the lowest-grade attire that only Outer Sect Disciples would wear.

Yet he acted like nothing was wrong, with his hands tucked in his sleeves, surrounded by a group of top-notch geniuses of the Inner Sect, and a lazy smile still hung on his face, as if he had just gone on a country outing instead of participating in a near-death Sect Grand Competition.

"Th... Who is that bare-chested person? Why are Senior Brother Chu Tianhe and the others following behind him?"

"I don't know, he looks very unfamiliar, doesn't seem to be a famous Disciple of any peak, right?"

"Wait a minute... Look at the plaque hanging on his waist!"

In the crowd, a sharp-eyed Disciple let out an exclamation.

Everyone's eyes subconsciously looked at the extremely ordinary broken wooden plaque at Zhao Ruoan's waist.

On that wooden plaque, an extremely rich purplish-red light that was almost turning into substance was flashing!

This light was identical to the light behind "9527" in first place on the leaderboard!

"It's him! He is that 9527!"

"My goodness! This mysterious dark horse turned out to be just an Outer Sect Disciple?!"

"What a joke! An Outer Sect Disciple robbed Li Qingfeng and Zhang Kuang clean, and even suppressed Senior Brother Chu Tianhe? How is this possible!"

The entire plaza, after a short silence of three breaths, completely exploded!

Countless exclamations, doubts, and gasps gathered into a terrifying sound wave, almost blowing off the roof of the entire plaza.

On the high platform directly in front of the plaza, the expressions of several Elders were even more colorful to the extreme.

Peak Master of Lieyang and the Master of Tianjian Peak stared fixedly at Zhao Ruoan, who was surrounded by the crowd, fire almost spitting out of their eyes.

The chief Disciples of the two of them had their points cleared to zero and were eliminated in embarrassment, and yet the culprit turned out to be such an unknown, ragged-clothed Outer Sect kid?

This was simply throwing their faces, along with the faces of their peaks, on the ground, trampling them fiercely with feet, and grinding them back and forth!

"Bastard thing! Is it you, this little beast, who robbed my Disciple Zhang Kuang's points?!"

Peak Master of Lieyang had the most explosive temper, and he could no longer hold back. He stood up directly from the grandmaster chair, pointed at Zhao Ruoan's nose, and let out a deafening roar.

This roar of his contained the coercion of a Spirit Pill Realm powerhouse, rolling across the sky of the plaza like an exploding thunderclap, making the faces of countless low-cultivation Disciples turn pale and their blood qi churn.

However, Zhao Ruoan, who bore the brunt of this coercion, didn't even lift his eyelids.

He picked his ear, glanced at Peak Master of Lieyang with disgust, and lazily replied in plain language: "Who are you? Your voice is so loud, are you rushing to be reincarnated?"

"You!"

Peak Master of Lieyang was choked by this sentence to the point that a mouthful of old blood almost sprayed out.

As a dignified peak master and a high-level Elder of Qingxuan Sect, when had he ever been talked back to like this by an Outer Sect Disciple?

"Good! What a sharp-tongued little beast!" Master of Tianjian Peak also stood up, his face as black as the bottom of a pot, and a bone-chilling coldness in his voice, "Instead of seeking progress in the Grand Competition, you used despicable means to rob fellow Disciples' points, causing my peak's chief Disciple Li Qingfeng to be seriously injured! Do you know your crime?!"

The two peak masters sang in harmony, directly putting a big hat on Zhao Ruoan.

In their view, a mere Outer Sect Disciple, even with dog shit luck, could never defeat the chief Prodigies they carefully nurtured with real strength.

The only explanation was that this kid used some shady and sinister methods, such as poison, sneak attacks, and the like.

As long as this crime was substantiated, they could rightfully cripple this kid's cultivation and cast him into the Sect's dungeon to vent the hatred in their hearts!

Facing the joint trouble from the two peak masters, everyone in the plaza held their breath, their gazes all concentrated on Zhao Ruoan.

Everyone wanted to see how this mysterious dark horse that created a miracle would deal with the thunderous anger of the two real-power Elders.

However, Zhao Ruoan's reaction once again exceeded everyone's expectations.

He was even too lazy to defend himself with a single sentence.

"Qiuyin, Xiamo, come here." He waved at the two little maidservants outside the crowd.

Qiuyin and Xiamo had been waiting impatiently for a long time. Hearing their young master's call, they immediately squeezed out of the crowd like two happy butterflies and pounced to Zhao Ruoan's side.

"Young master, you finally came out! How is it, how is it? Did you get first place?" Xiamo lifted her little face, her eyes full of little stars.

"Nonsense, when your young master takes action, is there any first place he can't get?" Zhao Ruoan scraped her little nose, then took out a big pile of storage pouches from his storage ring, shoving them all into the arms of the two maidservants.

"Count the goods and see how the harvest is this time. Especially the contributions from those two batches of people from Tianjian Peak and Lieyang Peak, don't count them wrong, that is all our hard-earned money."

His oblivious operation directly dumbfounded the two peak masters on the high platform.

This kid... what is he doing?

We are interrogating him here, and he actually still has the mood to count money down below?

And right in front of our faces, he said that the robbed things were his "hard-earned money"?!

This was no longer arrogance, this was simply naked humiliation!

"Brat! You're courting death!"

Peak Master of Lieyang completely went berserk, his body's spiritual power erupted with a boom, raising his hand to slap Zhao Ruoan with a palm strike.

However, before his palm could land, a figure more formidable and domineering than him suddenly blocked in front of Zhao Ruoan.

It was Chu Tianhe!

"Elder Lieyang, please calm your anger!"

Holding a golden longsword and with a solemn expression, Chu Tianhe faced Peak Master of Lieyang's towering anger and said word by word: "Senior Brother Zhao, he did not use any despicable means! Junior Brother Zhang Kuang and Senior Brother Li Qingfeng were both defeated by Senior Brother Zhao in a head-on duel!"

As soon as Chu Tianhe said these words, the whole audience was shocked!

"What? What did Senior Brother Chu say? Li Qingfeng and Zhang Kuang were defeated by him head-on?"

"How is this possible?! He, an Outer Sect Disciple..."

"Senior Brother Chu has no reason to lie! Could it be that... the strength of this 9527 has really reached such a level?"

Peak Master of Lieyang and the Master of Tianjian Peak were also stunned, and then their faces showed even more angry and incredulous expressions.

"Chu Tianhe! Stop spouting nonsense here! How can an Outer Sect Disciple who hasn't even reached the Pulse Condensation Realm defeat my Disciple Zhang Kuang head-on?!" Peak Master of Lieyang rebuked angrily, "I see you have been bought off by this kid, actually helping an outsider speak!"

"I am not talking nonsense!" Chu Tianhe's tone also became tough, "Not only Junior Brother Zhang Kuang and Senior Brother Li Qingfeng, but even all of us were defeated by Senior Brother Zhao! Moreover, the lives of all of us were saved by Senior Brother Zhao!"

He took a deep breath, and his voice spread across the entire plaza.

"Just one hour before the end of the Grand Competition, we encountered a Tier 3 mutant beast king—the Three-Headed Ice Soul Wolf King! Dozens of us prodigies from various peaks joined forces, yet we weren't even a match for a single strike from that wolf king, and we were on the verge of being completely wiped out!"

"It was Senior Brother Zhao who descended from the sky and, with his sole strength, confronted the Tier 3 beast king head-on!"

"In the end, with a single finger, he killed it on the spot!"

"Everyone of us can testify to this matter! Most of Senior Brother Zhao's points came from that Tier 3 beast king, and were not robbed! Not only is he not at fault, he has meritorious service!"

Chu Tianhe's words, like heavy bombs, exploded with a roar across the entire plaza and in the hearts of all the Elders!

A single finger to kill a Tier 3 beast king?!