Supreme Dragon Lord-Chapter 73 - Closing In!

"As someone ranked in the top thirty of the Martial Roll, could I possibly lie to you with a straight face?" Liu Bian said haughtily.

Gu Hanyue immediately covered her face and laughed. "Merely in the top thirty of the Martial Roll, and you have the audacity to mention it?"

"Hahaha! You should just say you’re thirtieth, not in the top thirty. That’s hilarious," Sun Bi’an laughed heartily.

Zhang Qianyu looked on with disdain. "Forget the top thirty. Even if you were in the top twenty, to us, you’re no different from an ant!"

Hearing these words, Liu Bian flushed with shame and anger, but he was utterly unable to retort.

Gu Hanyue and her companions were all in the top ten of the Martial Roll. Indeed, to them, those ranked in the top twenty were like ants, easily crushed with a wave of a hand.

"Senior Sister Su, it doesn’t matter if he’s a first-class disciple! We can pick another date for our battle," Gu Hanyue suggested.

Clearly, although Gu Hanyue looked down on Liu Bian, she believed what he said was true. She had already accepted that Long Chen was a first-class disciple.

"Pick another date to fight?"

Long Chen had anticipated this. He knew Su Miaoyu had suffered a setback in Dragon City and had barely escaped with her life. Given her cowardice, she wouldn’t dare to initiate a battle rashly.

"That depends on when she decides to fight. That way, I can also set a date to fight all of you," Long Chen sneered.

Gu Hanyue narrowed her eyes, staring icily at Long Chen. "It seems you’ve calculated everything, just waiting for this outcome!"

Since it was Long Chen who first challenged Su Miaoyu to a life-and-death duel, they naturally had to fight first. Only if Long Chen survived could Gu Hanyue and the others engage him in their own life-and-death duel!

"Let’s make it ten days from now!" Su Miaoyu suddenly sneered. "I’ll exchange all my Earth Martial Pearls for Superior Spirit Stones. I just need ten days of secluded cultivation to break through to the War Ancestor Realm and merge more smoothly with my Emperor Meridans. Once I emerge, I’ll definitely take your life, Long Chen, you cur!"

"Senior Sister Su is wise!" Gu Hanyue praised.

Sun Bi’an nodded repeatedly. "Senior Sister Su possesses the Emperor Meridans, so her progress on the Martial Path is far faster than an ordinary person’s! If she can break through eight layers consecutively in this seclusion, just like yesterday... Heh, then someone in the top ten of the Martial Roll is about to get kicked out!"

"The one ranked tenth on the Martial Roll... if I remember correctly, it’s Tuoba Jiao, right?"

"Your Human Institute is already the weakest. Only two of its members are in the top ten of the Martial Roll, and one of them, Tuoba Jiao, is just scraping by at the bottom. I bet that in ten days, the Human Institute will only have one person left in the top ten. At this year’s Demon Pursuit Conference, your institute is doomed to suffer heavy losses and come away empty-handed, solidifying its place as the worst institute in the Sect!" Zhang Qianyu gloated.

At the mention of the Demon Pursuit Conference, Liu Bian clenched his teeth. As a disciple of the Human Institute, its honor and disgrace were his own.

"I will give you ten days. And on the same day, after the fight, I’ll test the abilities of you three from the Martial Roll’s top ten!"

With that, Long Chen turned and walked away. It was pointless to stay. First, Su Miaoyu was too scared to fight. Second, he couldn’t kill her now, not with Gu Hanyue and two other top-ten Martial Roll experts protecting her.

"Who is stronger or weaker at the Demon Pursuit Conference remains to be seen, but I know that in ten days, Senior Brother Long will be the one who comes out on top!" Liu Bian sneered. "And as for you three, the fact that Senior Brother Long dares to fight you ten days from now proves you’re no match for him!"

As his words fell, Liu Bian hurried after Long Chen, waving his hand mockingly without looking back. "In ten days, the Earth Institute won’t be adding any new faces to the Martial Roll. Instead, you’ll be losing three members, and on top of that, a genius with the Emperor’s Pulse Talent who can draw phenomena from heaven and earth!"

"Presumptuous!" Gu Hanyue’s eyes flashed with cold light.

Suddenly, Su Miaoyu asked, "Liu Bian said Long Chen is a first-class disciple, and Long Chen didn’t deny it. If we assume he is one, then teaching him a harsh lesson right now wouldn’t be a violation of Sect rules, would it?"

Hearing this, Sun Bi’an and Zhang Qianyu exchanged a look, both smiling with narrowed eyes.

"Fighting between disciples of the same rank indeed doesn’t violate Sect rules, but we have to wait for him to leave the Martial Institute and board his ship," Gu Hanyue said.

Su Miaoyu murmured, "Oh, so unauthorized fighting is forbidden in the Martial Institute. In that case, we’ll just have to teach him a harsh lesson when he leaves!"

"Senior Sister Gu, Senior Brother Zhang, please accompany Senior Sister Su to the Martial Hall. I’ll stay here and keep an eye on him so he doesn’t escape again," Sun Bi’an suddenly proposed.

"Good! We’ll be counting on you, Junior Brother Sun," Gu Hanyue and Zhang Qianyu both nodded in agreement.

Su Miaoyu gave a slight bow. "Many thanks, Junior Brother Sun. Once Brother Po Jun is out of seclusion, I’ll have him thank you personally."

"It’s my pleasure, my pleasure," Sun Bi’an said, overjoyed and waving his hands dismissively.

Meanwhile, Liu Bian, who had just caught up to Long Chen, couldn’t help but look back toward Su Miaoyu and the others on the shore.

Seeing Sun Bi’an remain behind and even take a seat while the other three approached with smiles on their faces, Liu Bian was struck by a bad premonition.

"Senior Brother Long, I’m afraid we won’t be returning to the Human Institute in one piece today."