A gathering of geniuses

Long Chen was just about to step onto the bridge when a sudden gust of wind rushed towards the back of his head, accompanied by a contemptuous voice.

"Get lost."

Long Chen instinctively dodged to the side, and a long whip flew past his face. The powerful force made the air churn, creating a terrifying momentum.

"Whoosh."

A giant eagle sped across the bridge. It was so fast that in the blink of an eye, it disappeared from Long Chen's sight. Long Chen could only vaguely see the back of a youth on the eagle's back.

Clearly, that whip had been unleashed by the youth, but the youth hadn't taken Long Chen to heart. He didn't even glance at Long Chen as he flew straight ahead.

Watching that retreating figure, Long Chen felt secretly angry. This was too pretentious, right? Damn, you're riding a flying mount, what does that have to do with the bridge? Kid, don't let me catch you.

It looked like that person was likely here to register as well. He hadn't even entered the Xuantian Branch yet, and he was already trying to intimidate others. It seemed this path of seeking knowledge wouldn't be too peaceful.

Long Chen sighed inwardly. As he stepped onto the bridge and walked, the air darkened, and another huge figure flew past.

However, the person on the flying bird this time didn't attack Long Chen. Long Chen naturally looked up. In the air was a colorful winged bird, its body covered in shimmering, colorful feathers, looking extremely majestic.

Long Chen looked up, and the person on the colorful winged bird happened to glance at Long Chen. Long Chen couldn't help but exclaim inwardly, oh my, it was actually a great beauty.

It was a young woman, appearing to be sixteen or seventeen years old. Her body was slender, her white clothes were whiter than snow, and her long, jet-black hair cascaded down naturally like a waterfall. Her eyebrows were like crescent moons, and her eyes were like stars; she seemed like an elf untainted by the world.

However, while this woman was beautiful, she was just too cold. Her jade-like face seemed like permafrost that hadn't melted in ten thousand years, making it hard for people to approach.

The woman glanced at Little Snow with some surprise, then swept a faint gaze over Long Chen before flying past.

Long Chen felt a slight shock in his heart. Good heavens, could this person also be an applicant? She saw through Little Snow's disguise at a glance; what sharp eyes.

Moreover, Long Chen noticed that a faint mist was emerging from the woman's body. That wasn't ordinary mist, but a special Spiritual Qi released outside her body, forming an anomaly.

Furthermore, Long Chen actually couldn't see through her cultivation. One had to know that Long Chen's Soul power was extremely powerful; very few people could hide their cultivation in front of him.

"The kid in front, don't block the way. If you don't want to die, move aside for me."

As Long Chen was pondering, there was a sudden vibration from behind. A youth riding a giant wild ox rushed onto the bridge like a gale, ignoring Long Chen, and charging straight at him.

Long Chen couldn't help but be furious. This was bullying people too much, right? He was here to learn skills, not to be bullied.

Seeing the wild ox approaching, Long Chen took Little Snow and shifted to the side, clearing a path.

The man saw Long Chen give way and coldly snorted, "Consider yourself know… ah."

The man was about to say something imposing, but just as the wild ox was about to pass by Long Chen, Long Chen kicked out, landing a heavy kick on the wild ox's stomach.

That wild ox was huge, even a size larger than Little Snow, but it still couldn't withstand Long Chen's power and was kicked flying directly, scaring the man into screaming loudly.

"Plop."

Both man and beast fell directly into the big river, looking incredibly disheveled.

"Kid, you just wait for me. I've remembered you."

The man fell into the river and pointed at Long Chen, cursing loudly, which made Long Chen quite annoyed. Seeing no one around, he stood at the bridge head, unzipped his pants, and a pale yellow stream of water poured down.

"Damn, you…"

The man was shocked. He hadn't expected Long Chen to be this ruthless, actually urinating at him. Seeing the urine pouring down overhead, he hurriedly dived into the water to avoid the rain of urine.

"Your IQ is only fit for drinking urine," Long Chen said coldly while shaking off the excess water from his body, feeling an indescribable excitement in his heart.

Growing up in such a repressed environment, Long Chen's childhood had been almost completely dark. To avoid making his mother angry or worried, Long Chen had almost never caused trouble.

This time, he finally experienced the thrill of doing something bad. For a moment, his mood was incredibly comfortable, and he became more and more unrestrained.

The man held his breath in the water for a while, and hearing no movement on the water surface, he quietly poked his head out. But just as he poked his head out, a torrent of water sprayed over.

"Bastard, I'm going to kill you."

It turned out Long Chen had been waiting for him. This made him furious, his eyes almost spitting fire.

Long Chen looked at the angry man, wanting to give him another gift, but unfortunately, he was out of memory, so he had to give up.

"Vulgar bastard, how could you relieve yourself here?"

Just as Long Chen was adjusting his clothes, a sharp rebuke suddenly came from the sky. Another flying Demonic Beast flew by, and a young girl on it covered her face and cursed angrily.

"Tch, haven't you heard that it's improper to look? You knew someone was relieving themselves, yet you still peeked. If you took advantage, you should have just been happy secretly. To actually have the audacity to blame others, do you have no sense of shame?" Long Chen said brazenly.

He didn't know why, but after doing something bad once, there was a kind of liberation in Long Chen's bones, a feeling of doing whatever he wanted.

In Fengming, he had been too repressed. Here, no one knew him; everything was a new starting point. He wanted to return to his true self. Whether a scoundrel or a rogue, he no longer needed to be constrained.

"You, you bastard, you just wait for me." The woman was furious, but she kept her hands tightly covering her face, not daring to look at Long Chen, and just flew away like that.

Having offended someone for no reason, Long Chen was both angry and amused, but he didn't take such threats to heart. Looking at the angry person in the water, he said,

"Those who humiliate others will always be humiliated. When you were humiliating others, were you ever this angry? Kid, Brother is giving you a lesson. It's already good that I'm not charging you tuition. Keep swimming slowly in there, and remember not to choke on the water."

Long Chen reminded him kindly and rode Little Snow across the bridge. The man was screaming in anger but couldn't do anything. The river was too wide, and he couldn't get to the shore quickly. By the time he got to the shore, Long Chen had long since disappeared.

After crossing the bridge, there was a dense forest, but it was very flat. According to the map, this was the territory under the jurisdiction of the Xuantian Branch.

The scope of the Xuantian Branch was very large, with a radius of over a hundred thousand miles being its territory. Even having arrived here, there were still over twenty thousand miles of road to travel before truly reaching the branch.

However, there was still plenty of time, so there was no need to rush so desperately. Otherwise, even if he arrived first, he couldn't take the assessment directly, so it was meaningless. It was better to move slowly and understand the terrain.

Traveling along the way, Long Chen met quite a few people, both men and women, but they were all youths, similar in age to Long Chen.

But what shocked Long Chen was that these people were all Blood Condensation Realm experts, their aura surging and solid as iron. Some even put immense pressure on Long Chen.

Besides that cold beauty, Long Chen also noticed a few figures. Among them, some had scales growing on their foreheads, and Long Chen felt a great threat from those scales.

Some had totems wrapped around their arms containing power like a volcano, and others had hands like eagle claws, their nails shining like iron and emitting terrifying fluctuations.

Along this journey, Long Chen saw all kinds of Geniuses, which really opened his eyes.

These people were all without exception in the Blood Condensation Realm, but basically they were all in the Late Stage or Peak, which left Long Chen somewhat puzzled.

Some people's aura had already reached the Peak of the Blood Condensation Realm, but they used some secret method or Spirit Pill to forcibly restrain their cultivation, forcing themselves to stay in the Blood Condensation Realm.

However, these people's combat power was absolutely terrifying. No wonder that when he fought the man in white, he was so contemptuous of someone like Long Chen who grew up locally.

These Genius-level figures all had to sharpen their heads to get into the Sect, which showed that the Sect's strength was absolutely terrifying.

It seemed his original choice was correct. At that time, he clearly felt that those Sect Elders had a fear of Tu Fang that came from their bones.

So Long Chen guessed that Tu Fang's strength was definitely the most terrifying among all the forces, otherwise he wouldn't have expelled Zhao Changxing of the Blood Luo Sect with one sentence.

And Zhao Changxing didn't even dare to let out a fart. At that time, Long Chen had set his sights on Tu Fang.

Now seeing so many terrifying Geniuses gathering here, Long Chen admired his own decision even more.

As he continued forward, Long Chen was shocked to find that more and more people were pouring in from the front, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea.

Some were in groups of three or five, traveling together, but most were walking alone. There were countless fierce beasts, and roars could be heard endlessly.

"Boom."

Suddenly, a loud explosion came from the front.

"Someone is fighting again, hurry over to watch the fun."

Someone yelled and rushed towards that direction.

Long Chen was stunned and hurriedly urged Little Snow to speed up and rush forward. Sure enough, after crossing a forest, in an open space, two people were fighting fiercely.

To Long Chen's surprise, one of them was the man with eagle claws he had seen.

At this time, he was waving his claws, and the claw shadows filled the sky. The howling wind was like rolling waves, blowing the surrounding people back one after another.

"What a terrifying attack."

"That is the unique skill of the Ying family of Ying Mountain. That person should be the Ying family's number one Genius, Ying Mingyang."

Someone muttered in a low voice, clearly recognizing the person with the eagle claws. The other person was also bare-handed, with dark red scales appearing on his fists, looking like snake scales.

"Pfft."

Just as everyone was muttering, Ying Mingyang suddenly grabbed out, and the four directions trembled. The sky full of claw shadows disappeared. Before people could see his movements clearly, he had already grabbed the other person's shoulder. That move was extremely strange.

That person was instantly unable to move, blood gushing from his shoulder, his face ashen.

"Kid, go back." Ying Mingyang looked at that person and said coldly.

The man nodded, his face dejected. In the eyes of everyone, he actually walked in the direction he came from, making everyone sigh with regret.

Long Chen was confused. If you lose, you have to withdraw from the registration? What is going on?

Just as Long Chen was astonished, someone suddenly approached him.