The Demonic World I designed-Chapter 717 - 708: Vermilion Bird Gate (Part 2)

"Oh, so the Eldest Young Master Chen and Second Young Master Chen have arrived?"

Outside the Vermilion Bird Gate, a young man dressed in white greeted two men, who were obviously middle-aged, with a teasing smile.

The reactions of the people around were polarized. The youths from Yundu looked confused, wondering why the greeting of a few young people would attract such a crowd, while the youths from the Southern Sea watched on, amused.

There weren’t many who dared publicly taunt the two scions of the Chen Family, but Third Young Master Su was one of them.

Since the Su Family had come to the Southern Sea, they had been riding on the crest of a wave. Nearly everyone from the younger generation had succeeded in Dragon Transformation, and many had inherited the best True Dragon Bloodline, like the one standing before them—Third Young Master Su, Su Changqing, who was the first among the youths to successfully inherit the True Dragon Bloodline, even before Chen Ye of the Chen Family.

He had become a figure with unequalled limelight for a time. Even so, within the Su Family, Su Changqing was still not the most outstanding. Such descendants gave the Su Family tremendous confidence, and allowed them to face the Chen Family, currently the number one aristocratic family of the Southern Sea, without apprehension.

Especially when facing these two good-for-nothings before them.

"Did the two young masters come to the wrong place?" Su Changqing’s lips curled into a smirk, "The Azure Dragon Gate is to the east. You two brothers couldn’t have overslept, could you?"

"Do you think everyone is like your Su Family, shameless enough to pick up leftovers at the Azure Dragon Gate?"

"Ha..." Su Changqing suddenly burst into laughter, "It sounds as if the two brothers could actually pick up a bargain by going there..."

This comment caused many of the Central Plains’ youths to suppress their smiles. Although they did not dare to mock openly like Su Changqing did, they also looked down upon the two brothers.

In the Sorcerers’ Realm, talent is king. This is the norm. Those young scions with poor talent, no matter how noble their maternal family, must yield to their siblings with better aptitude, or even become those who handle menial affairs, according to the unchanging rules of Sorcerer Families for thousands of years.

But these two gluttonous and slothful exceptions came from the Chen Family. Chen Baifeng’s wife was a famously jealous and domineering shrew—and Chen Baifeng was so indulgent towards her—that his two useless sons occupied far too many resources and only became Fifth Rank Magicians by middle age.

The resources the two brothers consumed were enough for many aristocratic families to cultivate five First Rank Magicians. Chen Baifeng had often been the subject of gossip because of this.

However, this was originally none of anybody’s business. After all, it was the Chen Family’s resources that were being wasted, not theirs. The family had money and wanted to squander it. What could you do about it?

But things were different in the Southern Sea.

Although the Nanhai Dragon Palace was seized by the Chen Family, once all the families were summoned, it became a public resource. However, the Chen Family still squandered a huge amount of resources on these two failures. They underwent bloodline purification three times, and after two failed Dragon Transformations, they finally achieved a reluctant success on the last attempt with an unknown quantity of materials and the use of secret techniques from the Nanhai Dragon Palace. Such resources, if given to other families, could have trained at least ten or more Dragon Vein Sorcerers.

Many saw this as exceedingly painful, but who could blame them when the Nanhai Dragon King was currently heeding mainly the Chen Family?

Within the Southern Sea aristocracy, few respected these two brothers, but not many dared to openly challenge them.

"You Su..." the Elder of the Chen Family glared coldly at the other, "don’t get too full of yourself just because you have a bit of talent. There are plenty of talented geniuses in this world, and not everyone... can have the last laugh."

"Whether I’ll have the last laugh is not clear, but as for you two... even if you were to eat the sea dry, you would not have the last laugh..."

"Scoundrel!" The two from the Chen Family were instantly furious. The other was openly mocking their use of the resources of the Nanhai Dragon Palace.

They both knew that many were dissatisfied, and they had been the subject of much gossip behind their backs, but what of it? Who told you not to be born in the Chen Family?

Just as the two were about to counter with a sneer, a chillingly cold voice came from above.

"The trial is about to begin. Please don’t move around. I will leave a safe route for everyone. If you wish to drop out, please take the route to leave."

As soon as the voice fell, a line of fire lit up from the palace gate and stretched back a kilometer. At that moment, all magicians were stunned.

The fire was gentle and didn’t seem at all like one of those lethal techniques; it looked more like a technique for illumination. Yet, such a technique had appeared so suddenly that they had not the slightest premonition.

If an offensive technique had appeared at this moment, would they also be so unresponsive?

For a moment, including Su Changqing, who had just been in the mood to mock others, sweat beaded on their foreheads.

Perhaps... it was an accident?

While they were thinking this, a truly shocking scene unfolded. The line of fire extended outside the palace gate and suddenly, numerous lines of fire appeared out of nowhere around them. There were no signs, they just appeared—like they had been conjured out of thin air.

This sight not only shocked the young onlookers inside the arena, but even the Elders outside watching the event widened their eyes in disbelief.

This phenomenon of something appearing out of nowhere, they had encountered it before—when they received their invitations at home.

The summoning letter from the Heavenly Master Mansion had appeared out of thin air just like that.

Even Murong Ziyi, who had just rushed over, had her pupils shrink at the sight.

She was, of course, aware of this method... but she hadn’t expected that Zi Yue could have mastered it so quickly...

Then, an even more shocking scene unfolded. All over the sky, flames patterned in an orderly fashion began to trace intricate runes that formed instantaneously. Vast spiritual energy quickly enveloped the entire area as one enchantment after another shot towards the heavens. The energy was so intense that it could be easily felt even outside the palace gates.

At that moment, all the magicians, including Chen Baifeng, were utterly astonished.

They all could see clearly that these were arrays, but they hadn’t been prepared in advance. They were being inscribed on the spot.

What did this mean?

A magician, from a great distance, could use this mysterious space-transmission technique to directly convey energy out of the void, and then inscribe arrays out of thin air!

If the location was calculated correctly, this was nothing short of a divine tool on the battlefield!!

The magicians at the scene felt the vast spiritual energy even more acutely, prompting everyone, including the ever-proud Su Changqing, to abandon any previous intent to challenge the title of the number one court magician.

Leaving everything else aside, were these hundreds of arrays drawn by one person?

He had seen long-distance array inscription before. Many descendants of the Southern Sea families who had studied in Jiangnan would demonstrate upon returning home. It was indeed magical, but that was it... just magical.

But what lay before their eyes now... was nothing less than mythic!

Instantaneously creating hundreds of formations of this caliber?

Was this something one person could achieve?

If even a magician army could accomplish this, magicians wouldn’t have been suppressed by warriors for so many years...

"Look... up in the sky!" a magician suddenly pointed upwards.

All eyes turned, and despite already being numbed by shock, they were once again astonished by the sight above them.

In the sky, countless energies surged upwards, interweaving to form an incredibly complex web so intricate that it was beyond their comprehension. Yet there was one thing they did understand—these arrays were interconnected!

What kind of joke was this?

Hundreds of grand arrays interconnected?

Weren’t they afraid of causing an explosion?

Arrays were complex by nature, formed by intricate runes that channeled energy within the formation. The complexity of operating such energy, connected to additional arrays, was tenfold more complex than running two separate arrays on their own. Yet now, hundreds were connected...

Wasn’t this the standard of the Imperial Palace’s arrays in the Capital City?

That was something crafted by top sorcerer families over the course of a decade, and even maintenance required a hundred magicians acting in their respective roles to run it barely.

And now, such a feat... accomplished by one person?

This person was surely a monster!

At this moment, Su Changqing and the others had lost all heart for challenger’s posturing, fully acknowledging the merit of the title of Great Jin’s number one court magician.

They even wondered, with such capabilities, why didn’t he just become the Emperor himself?

The only ones not surprised by all this were the magicians from Jiangnan.

The young group, the youngest of whom were only about eight or nine years old, watched the interweaving of hundreds of grand arrays with a troubled expression: "The teacher’s questions are getting more complicated."

"From the Jiangnan Dragon Palace Academy..." Zi Yue’s voice rang out coldly, "If you can’t break through the formation and enter the palace gates within half an hour, you’ll immediately roll back to Jiangnan, repeat the grade!!"

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