"Hehehe."

As Chen Yu's words trailed off, the long-haired man appeared beside him, smiling faintly, "Chen Yu, I can understand your desire to stand out. Everyone fantasizes when they're young."

"But,"

the long-haired man said, clapping Chen Yu on the shoulder, "keep your fantasies to yourself. If you say them out loud, others will laugh at you."

"Big brother, hello!" At his side, the chubby neighbor promptly saluted, giving the long-haired man face.

"Mmm." The long-haired man nodded slightly, his expression returning to its usual sternness, "You see, this friend of yours is much more down-to-earth."

Chen Yu glanced at the long-haired man and asked, "Do you still stand by what you said earlier?"

"What did I say?"

"That my score exceeded one hundred."

"...Are you okay?" the long-haired man frowned, "You took that seriously?"

"I thought your word counted." Chen Yu scratched his ear.

Hearing this, the long-haired man fell silent for a moment, suddenly feeling a trace of annoyance towards Chen Yu, "Alright, it looks like you're serious. I'll change the rule then. Forget about a hundred points. If your score exceeds twenty, I'll put that bitter tea hood on you."

"Okay!" Chen Yu's eyes lit up, he turned back and extended his pinky to the long-haired man, "Pinky promise."

"No need." The long-haired man turned away coldly, "My word always counts."

Halfway through leaving, he looked back, "Also, someone who lacks self-awareness doesn't qualify to be my underling."

After the long-haired man had walked away.

The chubby neighbor muttered doubtfully, "Yu, since when did he become his underling."

Chen Yu was clueless, "No idea."

"Okay!!"

Suddenly, following a shout from within the crowd, the scene burst into an almost deafening applause.

Chen Yu and the chubby neighbor turned their heads.

On the gigantic screen in front of the crowd, a "terrifying" score was displayed.

[**:12 points]

"What?!" The chubby neighbor was shocked.

Chen Yu also narrowed his eyes.

With such a large venue, and the rule where every ten kilometers deducts 1 point, a score of 12 points means that the individual had beaten (or scared off) more than fifteen people.

Especially considering that this assessment had a large number of foreign clan participants, surely encountering foreign Transcendents, yet not falling behind.

At that thought,

Chen Yu turned his gaze from the screen to the stage.

There, he saw a young female Transcendent.

Her clothes were disheveled, but she bore no injuries.

Under her neat short hair, her eyes were firm and piercing. The scars that covered her body only added to her fierceness.

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On her, Chen Yu sensed the aura of those E-level and D-level Transcendents who fought constantly outdoors.

"Congratulations." On the stage, the beautiful chief examiner smiled as she took the electronic tablet, "You're very likely to make it to the ring competition now."

"Thank you." The female Transcendent nodded and walked off the stage.

Even then, the applause in the hall didn't fade in the slightest.

The flashes of cameras came from all directions, and were even brighter than the chandeliers above.

"Ladies and gentlemen! The first competitor to score in the double digits has appeared! She's one of our beautiful female Transcendents..."

"12 points, terrifying indeed!"

"Damn! Awesome!"

"In today's broadcast, our channel has replayed several clips of this formidable Transcendent. She's daring and combative with swift attacks, which I believe you all remember..."

"First place! Currently, ** holds the top spot firmly..."

The scene's energy lasted for a long time.

A Ka Xiu clan centaur, standing on all fours in the corner, grew annoyed by the noise, left his kin, and with his strong arms, parted the crowd like plowing through leeks, his face grim as he stepped onto the stage.

The crowd below was stunned.

They gradually quieted down instinctively.

On the stage, the beautiful chief examiner looked the centaur up and down several times while maintaining a smile, "VP.;[.KHY'FB[P... (Respected representative of the Ka Xiu clan, it's not your turn yet.)"

"T]B[F. (I'll go first.)"

With that, he forcefully snatched the electronic tablet from the chief examiner.

However, after fiddling with it for a while and not getting it to work,

he lifted his "leather apron," revealing the numerous metal Tokens hanging around his waist and yanked them off, ",F.KT] (Help me calculate.)"

The Tokens clinked against each other, producing a clear, echoing sound that resonated through the entire hall.

Finally, the cheers stopped.

Everyone understood what those blood-stained Tokens meant.

"..."

The scene fell silent for a long while.

The chief examiner still held her smile, her eyes now icy cold as she waved, "Someone, help him calculate. Let's make an exception."

"Yes." A proctor walked onto the stage, took the stack of Tokens with both hands, and started to count them with a serious expression.

As the hosts of the assessment, the supervising group could easily determine each competitor's score.

Therefore, for "promotional" and "political" reasons, there was a planned order and significance to the sequence in which each competitor's score was calculated upon reaching the stage.

The Ka Xiu clan's brusque interruption of the proceedings had already incited a murderous intent in the chief examiner's heart.

But it was just murderous intent indeed.

As mere humans, facing one of the top hundred clans, they didn't possess much capacity for resistance.

No diplomacy for the weak, no stage for the losers.

It's been an eternal truth...

"All counted." The proctor set down all the Tokens, tapping continuously on the tablet.

Then, the score of the Ka Xiu clan centaur was displayed on the big screen.

[O]'F:17 points]

The entire venue fell dead silent.

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