Martial Arrogance Dragon Soul-Chapter 142 - 133: Both Breaking Records
That massive bolt of lightning, like a savage black dragon, dove fiercely towards Qin Qing from above.
Qin Qing’s eyes flickered slightly as he sensed the imminent danger in the moment the lightning descended.
The next moment, he leaped towards the First Rank cloud ladder above and to his right...
"Boom!"
The lightning column slammed down, striking where Qin Qing had been!
At this scene, everyone’s eyes widened in shock.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment!
However, the next moment, everyone saw clearly that the figure struck by the lightning wasn’t the real Qin Qing but a mere afterimage of him!
Because of his extreme speed, Qin Qing had left a visual afterimage behind him...
The shattered image was just an illusion; the real Qin Qing had already reached the cloud ladder on the right above.
"Crash!"
The column of lightning instantly shattered that piece of cloud ladder into countless fragments.
The cloud ladder vanished into smoke and clouds, and the roaring thunder charged on without any decrease in its ferocity, raging as it struck the ground.
It immediately blasted a deep crater into the ground, with countless bolts of lightning pouring into it, twisting like mad snakes...
Everyone was stunned speechless by the sight.
As for Qin Qing, there was no sign of hesitation; his speed remained extremely fast as he continued to dodge the lightning strikes descending from the sky.
Each subsequent lightning strike was far more formidable than those that the disciples from the East Campus had encountered before.
But the resistance from the cloud ladder was almost non-existent for Qin Qing, who kept dodging nimbly, evading each lightning strike.
And then, the torrential downpour began.
The fierce winds, mixed with the torrential rain, suddenly made the cloud ladder seem like it was in the midst of a stormy ocean.
All around were endless waves and the obscuring downpour of rain.
Yet Qin Qing, his speed still unslowed.
Next came the ice, bitterly cold to the extreme, with coldness pervading everywhere, even covering the cloud ladder with a thick layer of frost, as if even the air began to freeze...
The cold was merely a harsh environment; what was truly terrifying were the weapons like Ice Blades and Ice Swords that would occasionally condense out of thin air.
These weapons appeared abruptly, coalescing silently, and then suddenly lunged at Qin Qing...
"Boom!"
Qin Qing’s entire bloodstream suddenly erupted in flames.
Even without the resistance from the Spiritual Patterns on the cloud ladder, Qin Qing felt extremely strained.
The pervasive extreme cold almost made his blood freeze, causing the flow of Spiritual Power within his body to become extremely sluggish and strenuous.
However, as Qin Qing employed the Blood Burning Secret Technique.
In an instant, within Qin Qing’s body, his blood boiled, and Spiritual Power surged.
The previous sign of difficulty in channeling Spiritual Power disappeared at once.
"Hmm?"
Qin Qing’s brow furrowed slightly as a crystal-clear Ice Sword stabbed straight at him from behind, close to piercing the area behind his right ear.
But at this moment, Qin Qing’s speed increased sharply, and with a step, he dodged...
As for the final elemental attack, the flame attack!
It could hardly pose any threat to Qin Qing; he weaved through the flames like a dragon god born within them, traveling through the endless fire to reach the Cloud Palace!
Throughout the process, everyone held their breath and watched him intensely, all eyes fixed on him to the point that everyone else was ignored.
"How... How long?"
Xu Fang’s lips trembled a few times, and he asked in a somewhat hoarse voice.
"If I’m not mistaken, it should be eighty-nine breaths of time!" Bai Qiuhe answered from the side.
"Eighty-nine, eighty-nine..." Xu Fang murmured repeatedly in a low voice, even though he had actually known the answer in his heart for quite a while, he just... found it somewhat unbelievable.
"Indeed, it was eighty-nine!" Elder Mo Kong was also immensely excited, "Qin Qing has broken the fastest record of the Great Qian Martial Institute since the Red Cloud Ladder was used as an assessment category. Moreover, he beat the previous fastest record by a full three breaths!"
"Qin Qing... truly deserves to be the greatest talent since the founding of the Great Qian Martial Institute. He climbed the Red Cloud Ladder, faced attacks from visions that were at least three times stronger than those faced by other disciples, yet under these circumstances, he actually took only eighty-nine breaths of time!" Xu Fang slowly nodded, his eyes gleaming as he looked up towards Qin Qing in the Cloud Palace, his gaze filled with admiration.
Similarly, the entire West Courtyard was boiling with excitement at this moment.
Eighty-nine breaths!
Everyone was calculating the time!
The process of Qin Qing’s climb up the Red Cloud Ladder was much more spectacular than the other disciples’, with lightning, flames, ice... all sorts of vision attacks being far superior to what others faced.
The performance was extremely exciting, and the speed was unbelievably fast!
One could say that visually, Qin Qing had delivered a feast to everyone’s eyes.
Moreover, Qin Qing broke the fastest record of the Great Qian Martial Institute in the category of the Red Cloud Ladder!
After a brief silence, the West Courtyard erupted again with thunderous cheers.
"Senior Qin!"
"Senior Qin!"
"Senior Qin..."
The cheering, like a tidal wave, rushed over. Even though the Cloud Palace arena was located hundreds of feet above the top of the Red Cloud Ladder, Qin Qing could still clearly hear the overwhelming cheers rising from below.
"Junior brother, not bad at all!"
At that moment, Jiang Ruorong’s voice rang in Qin Qing’s ear.
Qin Qing turned his head, flashed a slight smile, "Senior sister, you’re also not bad, just a tiny bit slower than me. Senior sister, you weren’t deliberately letting me win, were you?"
"Vain glory, why would I let you win?" Jiang Ruorong gave Qin Qing a white look, "The Red Cloud Ladder can very clearly reflect a martial cultivator’s talent. Junior brother, your talent surpasses mine. I’m only one breath slower than you. Even though it’s only one breath, in reality, it’s a huge chasm."
Jiang Ruorong was also acutely aware of this; her time to reach the Cloud Palace took ninety breaths, only one breath slower than Qin Qing.
But that one breath slower compared to Xie Jin’an being slower than Gu Fengxian by one breath was not the same concept.
Not long afterwards, the disciples from the West Courtyard ascended the Cloud Palace arena one after another.
In total, sixteen disciples from the West Courtyard topped the summit, while fourteen were eliminated.
Nearly half were eliminated!
However, from the East Campus, out of thirty disciples, twenty-six made it to the top!
From this, it was evident that the disciples from the West Courtyard were indeed a bit weaker than those from the East Campus.
Nevertheless...
This time, due to the presence of Qin Qing and Jiang Ruorong, the highlights of the West Courtyard far outshone those of the East Campus.
"Qin Qing, eighty-nine breaths! Jiang Ruorong, ninety breaths..."
As the elder hosting the assessment announced the results, the tumultuous voices roared once more.
Both Qin Qing and Jiang Ruorong had broken the record.
One surpassed the fastest record by three breaths, and the other by two breaths!
On the other side, Xie Jin’an and Gu Fengxian faced such an outcome with very dark expressions on their faces.
"How did they do it? Especially that Qin Qing... Could it be that his talent is really that formidable? On the Red Cloud Ladder, does talent truly mean everything?"
Xie Jin’an squinted, looking at Qin Qing and Jiang Ruorong, who stood like a pair of unmatched individuals not far away, with jealousy and murderous intent growing ever more intertwined and intense in his heart.
"Talent, so what? In the next round, the arena challenge, Qin Qing... if you dare to accept the fight, I shall take your wretched life with a single strike!" Xie Jin’an sneered to himself in a cold laugh.
