As Chen Chu stepped forward, many people's gazes froze, especially those of the Nantian students.1

With the previous trial participants' return from Kyrola, the tales of Chen Chu and his companions had spread like wildfire.0

Such as how, immediately after breaking through to the Third Heavenly Realm, he, Li Hao, and Xia Youhui had hunted down a king-level bloodline mutated beast at peak of the Third.0

Or how, toward the end of the trial, Chen Chu had gone to Kyria and defied the odds by slaying a middle stage Fourth Heavenly Realm Blood Emissary.0

If those stories were true—which the terrifying strength he had displayed while sweeping through so many of the mutated beasts in this purge seemed to indicate—then perhaps he truly...1