Chapter 186 - 112: Divine Technique - Wangchuan Curse, The Five Peaks Discussion Is Approaching

Chapter 186: Chapter 112: Divine Technique - Wangchuan Curse, The Five Peaks Discussion Is Approaching

"By the way, do you know what us old folks have been saying about you behind your back?"

Hearing this, Jiang Dongliu adjusted the small sunglasses on his face without changing his expression and asked calmly, "Saying what?"

"Saying that you’re the biggest reverse jinx in the Nine Provinces. Whoever you harshly critique immediately begins to transform and achieves Ascension right on the spot."

Jiang Dongliu’s expression immediately soured.

He thought to himself, "Wait, how am I a reverse jinx? I obviously just have a great eye for talent! I wouldn’t even bother critiquing average people if they asked me to."

Perhaps to save face, Jiang Dongliu stubbornly said, "Then why don’t you ask me about my evaluation of Junior Lu, Teacher?"

Hearing this, Nangong Broken Sword immediately became interested. "Oh? Let’s hear it."

"Looking at Junior Lu’s talent and Heart Nature, he will definitely be able to stand as my equal in the future, becoming one of the only two people in the Immortal Alliance to achieve Ascension in the past five thousand years," Jiang Dongliu said seriously after thinking for a moment. "Although geniuses in the Nine Provinces are a dime a dozen, in my eyes, the only ones who can truly be considered unrivaled prodigies... are just me and Junior Lu."

"Great, another sure thing!"

"What sure thing?" Jiang Dongliu looked at Nangong Broken Sword with dissatisfaction.

"I’m saying that student Lu Chen’s future achievements will definitely be far above yours. After all, your teacher has specifically paid attention to the people you’ve harshly critiqued over the years.

"And guess what? Little Dragon Marquis, whom you said would only reach eighty percent of your future heights, currently has the highest Power and potential among those four.

"Wei Heshan and Fan Tianyi, who you said would only reach sixty percent of your future heights, are next. And Meow King, who you said would only reach half of your future heights, is at the bottom of the group.

"Look at this list. Every single one of them is currently a peerless prodigy showing off their sharp edges!

"Since you’re already working your magic, why don’t you also evaluate the Pure Yang Cultivator Chen Fugui, the Phoenix Tribulation Cultivator Mu Xiaoye, and that mysterious Ghost Master Shen Feiyang we saw earlier?"

Jiang Dongliu pondered for a moment and seriously evaluated, "Although Teacher Chen Fugui currently has a Pure Yang Body, his personality is undisciplined and he’s on the older side. It will probably be difficult for him to catch up from behind. I estimate he will only reach forty percent of my future heights.

"Although student Mu Xiaoye has outstanding talent and the support of the entire Ten Thousand Professions Immortal Sect behind her, the path she walks is just following a predetermined map. It will be very hard for her to forge her own Great Dao. Let’s tentatively say she has ninety percent of my future heights.

"As for that Shen Feiyang, I’ve never thought highly of the path of relying on external forces. He should barely reach thirty percent of my future heights."

As he spoke, Jiang Dongliu suddenly noticed something was off. "Wait, Teacher, if you’re going to listen, just listen. Why are you writing it down with a pen?!"

Seeing Nangong Broken Sword pull out a pen and paper beside him to record everything he just said, Jiang Dongliu couldn’t help but complain a little.

Meanwhile, Nangong Broken Sword closed the notebook without a blush or a skipping heart, saying solemnly, "The palest ink is better than the best memory. I’m just writing down what you just said so we can look at the achievements of these people in the future.

"If their future achievements all surpass yours, it will prove that your title as the biggest reverse jinx in the Nine Provinces is fully deserved!"

Hearing this, Jiang Dongliu couldn’t help but retort, "Just you wait and see, Teacher! In the future, I will definitely trample them all under my feet and let you know that the words of Jiang Dongliu are not empty."

Before Jiang Dongliu could remain stubborn to the end, Nangong Broken Sword kindly reminded him from the side, "Well, I might not need to wait. It seems Meow King and the others already have the momentum to surpass you.

"If you want to suppress them in next year’s Daoist School Tournament like you did last year, I’m afraid it won’t be that easy."

Jiang Dongliu’s mouth twitched slightly, but he still stubbornly said, "Talk is cheap. Let’s wait until they can actually beat me."

Although Jiang Dongliu verbally insisted that he wasn’t acting as a reverse jinx, when so many coincidences appeared together, he also somewhat doubted whether he really was one.

Things couldn’t possibly be that outrageous. It couldn’t really be that whoever he harshly critiqued would step on his head and soar upwards in the future, right? Were they really treating him, the Chief of the Sword Institute, as a quality inspector for the prodigies of the Nine Provinces? Anyone who beat him was a peerless prodigy, and anyone who lost to him was just an ordinary genius?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Just wait and see. At next year’s Daoist School Tournament, he, Jiang Dongliu, would become the well-deserved, unrivaled, world-suppressing peerless prodigy of the Nine Provinces.

A gatekeeper for prodigies? You’ve got to be kidding!

Calculating the time, next year’s Daoist School Tournament wouldn’t just perfectly coincide with the enrollment of Lu Chen and his batch of students, but it would also be the final tournament for his and Meow King’s senior year. Thinking of it this way, next year’s Daoist School Tournament was very likely to be the most intense tournament in the past hundred years.

Not even counting himself, Meow King and the others were all entities at the Peak of Foundation Establishment Stage. It could be said to be a proper battle for the title of the number one prodigy in the Nine Provinces.

At this thought, Jiang Dongliu’s originally somewhat frivolous expression gradually turned serious, and his gaze became incomparably sharp. He looked as if his fighting spirit was soaring high.

...

Three days later, at the Cyan Cloud Sect’s Danyang Peak.

"After spending so much effort, I can finally stably concoct the Nourishing Essence Pill..."

Inside his immortal cave, Lu Chen looked at the furnace of refined Nourishing Essence Pills, feeling quite good.

[Name: Nourishing Essence Pill]

[Quality: Ordinary Quality]

[Effect: Upon consumption, grants 500 Experience Points. Maximum of one pill can be consumed per day.]

"Just an Ordinary Quality Nourishing Essence Pill can grant me 500 Experience Points upon consumption," Lu Chen noted.

"Coupled with the Realm-Breaking Level Body Casting into Soldiers’ special trait of doubling Elixir effects, in other words, the Experience Points I can gain from consuming one Nourishing Essence Pill is a full 1,000 points."