Chapter 72: Two Great Emperor Prodigies, One Retirement Prodigy
Under Chen Xia's strong request, all the women's clothes collected by the big yellow dog were burned.
It sat on the ground feebly, looking at the ashes in front of it, and the disappointment on its dog head was quite obvious.
"Change your hobby in the future. You can't beat them." Chen Xia advised from the side.
The big yellow dog was silent. After a long while, a gloomy sentence came out.
"My Dao heart is damaged."
It was like an inherited damaged Dao heart.
Chen Xia didn't say much more. He just patted the big yellow dog on the shoulder, indicating that it was for its own good.
"The water here is very deep. You can't handle it."
The big yellow dog nodded, still very sad. These were the gains it had worked hard for thousands of years, and now they were all gone in an instant.
Chen Xia squatted down and stopped talking. He squatted side by side with the big yellow dog, looking at the ashes with the still-burning flames in front of them, and thought a lot.
Among them, the thing that puzzled him the most was whose clothing that lace bellyband belonged to.
It was quite fashionable.
These were the little things in life, interspersed in a person's life. They seemed ordinary, but they were actually indispensable.
And among these little things, big things would also be mixed in.
For example, Di Du directly announced that he wanted to challenge Qiu Li and decide who was the most powerful Great Emperor's prodigy.
In his words, he didn't mention Chen Xia at all and only wanted to compete between himself and Qiu Li.
Qiu Li wasn't stupid. He definitely couldn't beat Di Du, who was at the Mountain-Moving Realm, so he didn't accept the challenge and just shouted.
"You're so powerful. Why don't you go and fight Chen Xia?"
Di Du's reply wasn't ambiguous either. "I've already fought. Although I lost to Senior Chen, since Senior Chen has already fought the sword attendant, then I'm approximately equivalent to the sword attendant."
"Rounding it off, that is approximately equivalent to the Overturning Sea Realm. Now I just want to knock down your flashy title."
"With just your insignificant Great Vehicle Realm, how dare you be called a Great Emperor's prodigy together with me and Senior Chen?!"
He was really good at rounding off numbers.
For a moment, Qiu Li didn't even have anything to say. However, he didn't accept Di Du's challenge either. After all, he wasn't stupid. With his Great Vehicle Realm, he definitely couldn't beat Di Du at the Mountain-Moving Realm.
So he just pretended to be deaf and mute, didn't reply, and just acted as if he hadn't heard it.
In this way, Di Du became even more enthusiastic. Every time he came out of seclusion, he would challenge Qiu Li, experiencing the feeling of being invincible in the world.
This was also beneficial to his Dao heart. It was really good.
So once a person figured things out, his thinking would become broader and his mentality would become better.
Chen Xia didn't have any opinions about this matter. He just felt that Di Du had grown up and there was a faint shadow of himself on him.
This matter was a big event in the Azure Sky Sword Sea in recent years. Although it didn't have much practical significance, it was quite interesting.
And the real big event was that there were no longer regional barriers in the Azure Sky Sword Sea. In other words, preparatory disciples could go to the cultivation places of formal disciples.
The moment this news spread, some ancient species preparatory disciples made an appointment with each other and excitedly passed through the Heavenly Pavilion and headed for the front tip of the sword where the formal disciples were.
However, they didn't stay there for long. About half a day later, they were all thrown back, and each of them was more or less injured.
The minor injuries were a few palm prints and fist prints, right on the faces of the ancient species, full of a sense of humiliation.
The seriously injured ones were half-dead and were carried out by others and hadn't recovered yet.
According to the disciples who went in, those with minor injuries were the ones who knelt down and begged for mercy, so they would be slapped a few times or kicked randomly.
Those who were seriously injured were the ones who dared to resist and naturally ended up in such a state.
Moreover, the elders in the sect didn't care and even told these beaten preparatory disciples to shut up.
"You went in and disturbed the formal disciples' cultivation by yourselves. How dare you blame the formal disciples for hitting you?"
"If you're not as skilled as others, don't complain. Just accept it if you're beaten!"
These were the words spoken by the elders themselves.
All the ancient species gave up. They really didn't have the strength or power. Even passing the entrance test was a problem for them.
In the entrance test of the Azure Sky Sword Sea, out of five hundred preparatory disciples, only thirty were accepted.
Among them, the Great Emperor's prodigies were definitely guaranteed. Even if they became formal disciples, they would have a considerable status, and even elders would come to win them over.
The Supreme Species and the Mysterious Species below them would also take up some positions.
These ancient species, who were considered prodigies outside, really didn't count for much in the Azure Sky Sword Sea.
After all, it was the supreme sect that had produced five Great Emperors.
Once these ancient species were beaten, they could only swallow their pride.
Without strength, whatever you said would seem like a joke, and it was the least funny kind of joke.
After the regional restrictions were lifted, formal disciples often came to wander around the houses of the preparatory disciples, experiencing a sense of superiority.
Formal disciples were at least figures from more than two hundred years ago. Now most of them were at the Mountain-Moving Realm, and a few prodigies had even reached the Overturning Sea Realm.
For example, the Great Emperor's prodigy from the previous session.
And the current preparatory disciples were only at the Great Vehicle Realm, and there were quite a few at the Nascent Soul Realm.
This led to the fact that the preparatory disciples didn't dare to speak loudly in front of the formal disciples at all.
Moreover, these formal disciples always went out in groups. They seemed to really like teasing the preparatory disciples. Things like extorting spirit stones, beating, and insulting were common occurrences.
The elders didn't mean to interfere either. They thought that the world was like this and you had to adapt in advance. If you didn't want to be insulted and teased, then work hard to improve your strength.
Among all the preparatory disciples, only the three Great Emperor's prodigies hadn't been insulted yet.
Because the Great Emperor's prodigies were really different and had obvious differences from other cultivators. The biggest difference was that the words "Great Emperor" were added in front of them.
You didn't know whether they could become Great Emperors in the future.
If they did, if you dared to insult them now, they would directly pull out your past and present lives from the long river of time and kill them all in the future.
Even you didn't need to wait until then. Once the Great Emperor's prodigies became Quasi-Sages, they could start killing randomly.
And with the talent of the Great Emperor's prodigies, it wasn't difficult to become Quasi-Sages.
This was the visible lower limit of talent, so few people would dare to offend a Great Emperor's prodigy unless you really had the intention to kill.
However, the Great Emperor's prodigies were only not insulted. They couldn't talk about having any say.
After all, among the formal disciples who formed groups, there was also a Great Emperor's prodigy.
It was Qiong Qi, a Great Emperor's prodigy from 1,200 years ago.
He was now at the Overturning Sea Realm and ranked fifth among the formal disciples.
His realm was high, and his name was even more imposing. Qiong Qi, meaning to be on a par with the sky and look down on all living beings.
It was he who became the leader of the formal disciples and made the preparatory disciples feel suffocated.
Di Du stood by and watched. He felt that he couldn't beat Qiong Qi, so he didn't want to fight. If they were both at the Overturning Sea Realm, he thought he could surpass Qiong Qi, but with his Mountain-Moving Realm, it was impossible.
Qiu Li was even more silent. His divine eyes and external attached immortal body were both very powerful supernatural powers, but his cultivation speed wasn't fast enough. It was absurd for someone at the Great Vehicle Realm to fight against someone at the Overturning Sea Realm. It couldn't be done.
The two most talented Great Emperor's prodigies both pretended to be dead and didn't express their opinions.
There was still one left. After being in seclusion for more than ten years, today he finally managed to carry a set of chess and a pot of tea and planned to sit in the pavilion.
When he got there, he realized one thing.
The pavilion had been demolished.