Urban Cultivation with a Demonic System-Chapter 134 - 133: Is Chen Xian Essentially a Sliding Rheostat?
At 9:30 in the morning, a massive arena covering over one square kilometer was already packed with people.
This was an enclosed bowl-shaped arena, with a central stage over five hundred meters in diameter, surrounded by seating for nearly two hundred thousand people.
Above the stage, a cube-shaped virtual screen was suspended, broadcasting the action on the stage in real time.
At this moment, the audience seats were completely filled.
The reputation of the Observing Heaven Pavilion’s tourism delegation, representing the highest level of Taihua City’s high school students in the eight-school joint exam, was a huge draw, and tickets were selling extremely well.
In the Taihua High School candidates’ waiting area, Su Yuan looked towards the row of seats closest to the stage.
That was the judges’ seats.
The composition of the seats was simple.
Each of the eight high schools sent a prominent figure as a judge.
Yaoxing High School and Xiaoshui High School, unsurprisingly, invited Golden Core Stage great cultivators as guest teachers, the only Golden Core Stage cultivators among the eight school judges.
The judges from the other schools were merely Foundation Establishment Peak-level gold medal teachers.
It was worth mentioning that Taihua High School’s judge was Taibai Phecda.
This Golden Core powerhouse who had already gone to the Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm obviously wouldn’t be present, leaving only a nameplate there.
Publicity, not a problem.
Yet even though Taibai Phecda wasn’t present, their seat was still the most central among the judges’ seats.
As for who was sitting in the very center row of the judges’ seats?
It was naturally the instructor from the visiting Observing Heaven Pavilion delegation.
Su Yuan’s gaze shifted slightly, landing on the Observing Heaven Pavilion instructor who had just taken a seat.
She was an elegantly dressed woman, flawless in appearance, looking barely over twenty-five years old.
Her most distinctive feature was her eyes.
The Observing Heaven Pavilion instructor’s eyes were different from the average person; the part that should be black was a deep golden color, with ripple patterns circling it.
Within each ripple, a faint star seemed to orbit along the circular wave track.
Such peculiar eyes, appearing to pierce through everything in the world, yet gave this seemingly gentle and smiling woman a sense of aloofness.
Without a doubt, she was a Golden Core powerhouse.
And unlike the two accompanying Golden Core cultivators who laughed beside her, she was an equal to Taibai Phecda, a Golden Core Peak cultivator.
Within the next ten years, she might become a Nascent Soul True Monarch, a genius in the making.
The nameplate revealed the identity of this Observing Heaven Pavilion instructor as Ye Muyu.
Golden Core Great Cultivator, Ye Muyu.
But for some reason, even though it was Su Yuan’s first time seeing Instructor Ye, he felt a familiar sensation.
Just as Su Yuan was puzzled by the deja vu, a familiar figure suddenly entered his view, heading towards the judges’ seats.
It was a white-haired lolita no older than twelve.
Who else but Taibai Yuxi could it be?
Her appearance surprised the other judges, but the white-haired lolita confidently leapt into Taibai Phecda’s seat, sitting still.
When the white-haired lolita and Ye Muyu were seen together, Su Yuan fell silent.
He realized where the deja vu came from.
Ye Muyu and the white-haired lolita had a three-part resemblance!
On second thought, with Taibai Phecda and Ye Muyu being of similar age, hiss—could it be true?
Fortunately, Su Yuan soon found a discrepancy.
Ye Muyu had legitimately pure black hair, and though her eyes were golden, it was clearly due to some sort of cultivated divine technique, with a color that didn’t match the white-haired lolita’s.
And Taibai Phecda was neither white-haired nor golden-eyed.
From a genetic perspective, there should be no close relation between Taibai Yuxi and Ye Muyu.
Perhaps they weren’t related at all and just happened to look alike.
But one thing was certain; the two of them clearly knew each other.
As other judges wondered whose child the white-haired lolita was, Ye Muyu skillfully picked her up and placed her on her lap.
The process was so natural, such that Ye Muyu’s conversation with another Golden Core judge wasn’t interrupted.
The duo, one large and one small—where the large one appeared gentle but looked indifferent, and the small one seemed expressionless yet lively in her gaze—complemented each other.
The circle of influential people was indeed tight.
This scene slightly eased Su Yuan’s tension.
No matter how one looked at it, with the relation to Taibai Yuxi, Instructor Ye wouldn’t form a grudge against him, right? 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
He turned his attention away from the judges’ seats and looked at a special area in the front row of the audience seats.
That was a special section with five seats.
And those sitting there were evidently the other five members of the Observing Heaven Pavilion visit delegation.
These were the elite students of the Observing Heaven Pavilion.
Three of the five Observing Heaven Pavilion college students had already achieved Foundation Establishment.
The other two, though freshmen this year, were still in the foundational stage, resonated an aura far surpassing an ordinary Peak Qi Cultivation cultivator.
One of them, whom Su Yuan had met several times in Golden City, was Chen Xian.
Currently, the esteemed Eldest Young Master Chen, a pride of Taihua City, was chatting and laughing with other classmates and senior students, without sparing a glance at Su Yuan’s direction.
However, being aware of Chen Xian’s true nature, Su Yuan could faintly sense that part of Chen Xian’s attention was focused on him.
Especially when Su Yuan approached Chen Nuoyi, Chen Xian’s attention noticeably increased.
Su Yuan pondered, then raised his hand, subtly reaching towards Chen Nuoyi sitting beside him.
Chen Xian’s focus on him surged instantly.
Withdrawing his hand, the attention rapidly decreased.
Reaching out again, it increased.
Withdrawing it again, it decreased.
What was this surprisingly entertaining phenomenon?
So, was Chen Xian essentially a variable resistor?
Beside Su Yuan, watching him move his hand back and forth in midair as if operating an invisible remote, Chen Nuoyi tilted her head curiously.
Given Su Yuan’s notorious reputation, Chen Nuoyi had reason to suspect that Su Yuan genuinely had a remote control in his hand.
After considering, she swiftly grabbed Su Yuan’s hand and pressed it against the armrest of her chair.
Su Yuan: "???"
Chen Xian: "!!!"
The genteel and elegant Eldest Young Master Chen’s expression instantly stiffened, and the exposed skin turned visibly red at an eye-catching speed.
Steam even began to subtly emit from the top of his head!
He was flushed!
Yet fearing that Chen Nuoyi might notice, Eldest Young Master Chen didn’t dare to make any sound.
Darn, the variable resistor got messed up.
Heaven knows, he never intended to hold Chen Nuoyi’s hand right in front of Chen Xian.
If Chen Xian felt wronged, his revenge would be even worse, okay?
But it was Chen Nuoyi who made the first move; you can’t blame him for that.
Well, now that made it more awkward.
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