
On the day of the competition, the weather was clear and Huang Xiaolong came out of his room and saw Fei Hou waiting for him respectfully in the courtyard.
When Huang Xiaolong, Fei Hou, Wang Ning, and the three Marshal Mansion guards arrived at the Academy square, a sea of people had already gathered in the Academy grounds.
As today was the Academy's classroom competition and annual year, the Academy's authority specifically allowed each student to bring their family or servants to enter the Academy and watch the competition.
Of course, each student can only raise up to five people.
Coming to the Academy grounds, Huang Xiaolong and his group of six people headed straight for the Sacred Hall.
The Academy's Sacred Hall was several times larger than the front square; even if tens of thousands of people were crowded inside, it wouldn't feel crowded at all.
"That's Huang Xiaolong!"
"He's this...
When the crowd saw Huang Xiaolong step into the Sacred Hall, a buzz erupted among the people around. Huang Xiaolong, despite being a new student, was already famous throughout the Academy, to the point that even the older students and teachers all recognized him.
Ignoring the hush-voiced discussion around him, Xiaolong came to a corner of the hall and stood with Fei Hou and the four guards.
“Xiaolong!”At this moment, a pleasant and surprised voice shouted. Huang Xiaolong turned to look and saw a happy Li Lu running towards him. Huang Xiaolong smiled at Li Lu.
“I heard this time, not only is the King coming to watch the competition, Marshal Haotian is coming too!"
“Marshal Haotian is also coming? Rumors circulated were, that super-abnormal monster Huang Xiaolong was the illegitimate son of Marshal Haotian, not knowing if this was true or not?"
Once again, the crowd roared with this news.
Listening to these people's words in his ears, Huang Xiaolong could not help but smile in bitterness.
Suddenly, Huang Xiaolong felt a cold and piercing look on his body; turning towards the source, Huang Xiaolong saw Zhong Yuan standing in a group of people.
In front of Zhong Yuan stood an imposing young man around eighteen to nineteen years old, surrounded by a group of flattering students of both sexes. From the looks of it, this young man should be the Prince of Luo Tong Kingdom, Lu Kai. Also, he was the strongest First Year student according to everyone.
At this point, Lu Kai felt Huang Xiaolong's gaze and two pairs of eyes meet in midair.
“He is Huang Xiaolong?"Lu Kai's mouth opened and did not ask anyone in particular.
“Yes, he is Huang Xiaolong's!”Zhong Yuan stepped up and replied immediately.
Lu Kao nodded; his expression was the same the entire time, completely unperturbed.
As time flowed, the number of people gathered in the Sacred Hall became more and more, and some time later, from outside the Sacred Temple came a loud voice announcing, “King, Marshal, and, and the Headmaster has arrived!"
King Lu Zhe, Marshal Haotian, and the Head of the Cosmic Star Academy, Sun Zhang, arrived together!
Instantly, Huang Xiaolong and everyone in the hall turned to look at the entrance. At the entrance, a middle-aged man dressed in a light yellow dragon robe walked up gracefully and walked into the Sacred Hall under the protection of a group of bodyguards. Without a doubt, the middle-aged man was Royal King Luo Tong, Lu Zhe, and half a step behind him was Marshal Haotian, and the Head of the Cosmic Star Academy, Sun Zhang.
With the arrival of King Lu Zhe, the crowd quickly saluted, and the crowd started to noisy in the Sacred Hall.
“Haha, everyone get up, stand up!”King Lu Zhe climbed onto the specially prepared honorary main platform and sat in the main seat. Marshal Haotian and Principal Sun Zhang sat on each side next to the King.
Not long after everyone had sat down, Sun Zhang stood up and gave a short speech about the competition and the results. Hearing the award, Sun Zhang raised his voice, “Despite the usual rewards, The king was generous enough to add a million gold coins and a set of early Earth-class cultivation techniques to all the first winners of the Year category."
A million gold coins!
Early Earth rank cultivation technique!
The crowd broke out in a commotion, hot eyes with burning desire.
Even Huang Xiaolong was shocked. A million gold coins was not a change in reserves, and was even augmented by early Earth rank cultivation techniques. In Luo Tong Kingdom, this was not something that could be bought even with gold coins.
Xiaolong's eyes narrowed. If he took the first place of Year One, in addition to the reward, there was still an Earth rank battle skill that Sun Zhang had promised him; hence, would he obtain one Earth rank cultivation technique and one battle skill?
Earth rank cultivation techniques and battle skills were useless to him. But, it could be passed on to his parents and younger brothers and sisters; nonetheless, learning extra battle skills was an advantage.
“Then, let the competition begin!”Sun Zhang glanced at the crowd and finally declared.
After Sun Zhang finished his announcement, the hall fell into a brief silence, and then the class competition began.
Cosmic Star Academy had a total of three years of classes, so the competitions were held in three different places.
However, only the winners of each class are eligible to enter the year category competition. Each class needs to compete every year.
The First Years had the most number of classes, a total of fourteen of them and Xiaolong was in the last grade, the fourteenth grade.
In a grade-level competition, not all grade-level students would fight it out. Instead, the class teacher would nominate the two strongest people to compete, and the winner was considered number one. Of course, if there was someone who disagreed with this, they could also challenge the winner.
In the First Fourteen Years' Class, there was no denying it, the two strongest people were Huang Xiaolong and Jiang Teng. But, yesterday Jiang Teng was almost paralyzed by Huang Xiaolong; from the injury, without a break of ten days to half a month, it would be difficult for Jiang Teng to get out of bed. Thus, without a choice, Xiong Meiqi could only nominate Huang Xiaolong and another student named Chen Tong ...
However, the student named Chen Tong had recently advanced to the Fourth Order. As Chen Tong walked onto the stage, he immediately gave up. This result shocked everyone who was speechless, but nothing came as a surprise. Even Jiang Teng who had an eleventh grade martial spirit and broke through to the Fifth Order was almost wasted by Huang Xiaolong, not to mention the new Fourth Order of Chen Tong?
Chen Tong's concession was considered a smart move on his part, knowing one's limitations.
With Chen Tong's actions, no one else in the Fourteenth Grade dared to challenge Huang Xiaolong. So, by default, he became the winner of the class without moving a finger.
When Xiong Meiqi announced Huang Xiaolong's victory, her face was filled with complex emotions when she saw Huang Xiaolong standing on the stage.
While the winner of the Fourteenth Grade had already been announced, the other thirteen classes were still in progress; therefore, when Xiong Meiqi made the announcement, everyone exclaimed with gasps.
On the honored guest platform, King Lu Zhe also noticed the situation around the Fourteenth Grade stage; watching Huang Xiaolong, King Lu Zhe said to Marshal Haotian, “He is Huang Xiaolong? A young hero in the making, ah; Haotian, during our time, when we were ten years old, we were just a true Fourth Order warrior?"
Marshal Haotian laughed and said, “That's how it is, King."
Lu Zhe nodded and looked the other way where his son, Lu Kai, was. His eyes showed spoiled love and he smiled, “I heard some say Huang Xiaolong bet with Zhong Yuan, wanting to get first place in this year's competition. Later, maybe he'll fight Kaier."
Although Lu Zhe spoke in such a way, his behavior was relaxed; apparently, he did not believe Huang Xiaolong was his son's rival to fight for first place. After the class competition, the contestants for this year's competition will draw a lot to determine their next opponent. One after another, until the end, the winner of the year category would come out and in Lu Zhe's opinion, Huang Xiaolong would be eliminated halfway through, not having the chance to play against his son.
Noting King Lu Zhe's smile, Marshal Haotian had already seen through his mind; smiling, Marshal Haotian said nothing.
Moments later, the fourteen classes of the First Year category had been determined with their representative winners. Then, the next event was the fight for the First Year champion.