Peerless Battle Spirit Chapter 57 - The Top Ten Geniuses

Qin Nan did not immediately accept the offer; he asked calmly, “Blue Dragon Badges? How do you know where they are located?”

Before the Trial of Versatility took place, the five elders had only told the disciples that there would be thirty Blue Dragon Badges on the Island of Versatility—they had not mentioned the exact locations of these badges.

The Island of Versatility covered at least a thousand square miles. This place was huge. How did Xiao Leng know where the badges were?

Xiao Leng said, “The seniors of the Mystic Spirit Sect have left pieces of maps on the island. These maps provide hints to where the precious resources can be found. At the same time, some of the maps also indicate where we can find the Blue Dragon Badges. There were five of these maps, and each map contains two Blue Dragon Badges.”

Xiao Leng hesitated for a while before continuing, “Rumor has it that when these five maps are put together, it would allow us to find the remaining twenty Blue Dragon Badges.”

Hearing this, Qin Nan was quite confident that Xiao Leng was stating the truth.

Previously, he had managed to find the Violet Flame Flowers with the help of his Eyes of the Divine Battle Spirit, but Lee Changyun on the other hand had found the flowers following the guidance of a map.

Qin Nan took some time to process his thoughts, before asking, “What’s your plan?”

Even though Qin Nan’s current priority was to improve his cultivation, finding the Blue Dragon Badges was a part of his goals too.

“I had a map once, but it was stolen by Wang Meng, who is ranked ninth among the top ten geniuses.” A cold flicker appeared in Xiao Leng’s eyes, as he snapped, “Let’s form an alliance, I will deal with this Wang Meng, but you will need to handle his two subordinates, who are both at the seventh-layer Body Tempering Realm.”

Following this, Xiao Leng stared into Qin Nan’s eyes.

The truth was that Xiao Leng was extremely unwilling to cooperate with Qin Nan. Apart from his personal grudge against him, Qin Nan had offended most of the participants too.

However, it was impossible for him to handle Wang Meng and his crew on his own; thus, he had no choice but to team up with Qin Nan for the time being.

Instead of telling Xiao Leng his decision, Qin Nan suddenly asked out of interest, “Who are the top ten geniuses?”

Since arriving at the Mystic Spirit Sect, Qin Nan had spent his time learning Martial Skills at the Skill Library or cultivating. He was completely clueless as to what this meant.

“Among the new disciples, there exists two different rankings. The first one is referring to the top two super geniuses—Huang Long and Ling Zixiao. Behind them are the top ten geniuses.” A smug expression appeared on Xiao Leng’s face. “Each of the top ten geniuses possesses an eighth-grade Huang ranked Martial Spirit. They are ranked according to their cultivation base. For example, I myself am ranked tenth among the top ten geniuses.”

After finishing the sentence, Xiao Leng gave Qin Nan a thoughtful glance.

Qin Nan was qualified to be listed as one of the top ten geniuses, as he possessed an eighth-grade Huang ranked Martial Spirit too.

However, since Qin Nan had offended Ling Zixiao and the other two hundred and twenty disciples, everyone already considered him a dead man—thus he was not included in the ranking.

“I see,” Qin Nan paused for a while, and then nodded, “Sure, I’ll team up with you.”

Qin Nan did not suspect anything fishy. He was not too fond of this Xiao Leng, but he was more trustworthy than the other disciples, mainly because Xiao Leng was Xiao Qingxue’s brother, and Xiao Qingxue had helped him out on many occasions.

“I still remember the way to the place marked on the map, so we’ll move out immediately. There might be some beasts along the way, but they won’t last long facing Wang Meng and his group.” After Qin Nan accepted his offer, Xiao Leng immediately gathered his strength and sprang forward.

Qin Nan shook his head after seeing Xiao Leng’s impatience, and quickly caught up behind.

The two advanced forward among the woods for a time, before stopping on a big tree.

Xiao Leng scanned the area before him with squinted eyes and said with a soft tone, “Don’t make any noise, we’ll confront them after they finish killing the beasts.”

Qin Nan nodded his head and concealed his presence, while gazing forward.

Before them was a lake, and at the center of the lake was a platform made of stone. On top of the platform were two jade pendants. The pendants reflected a faint but extraordinary blue light when the sunlight shone upon them.

These two pendants were the Blue Dragon Badges.

Qin Nan looked around and found three young men with unleashed Martial Spirits battling intensely against some beasts at the lakeside. The clear lake was slowly dyed red.

Among them, a young man wearing a golden robe and a prideful face caught Qin Nan’s attention immediately.

Behind him floated an eighth-grade Huang ranked Martial Spirit in the form of a sword, covered in ice, and—as if it were made of dark ice aged over a thousand years—a frosty aura could be felt from it.

Besides this, this young lad had reached the Minor Success Stage of One with the Sword; every slash of the sword was accompanied by a frosty sword intent, which caused a part of the lake to freeze. The power of a slash alone was enough to kill a beast with strength equivalent to a seventh-layer Body Tempering Realm cultivator.

“This guy must be Wang Meng; with the Minor Success Stage of One with the Sword, together with a cultivation base of the seventh-layer Body Tempering Realm and his Martial Spirit, he could easily kill cultivators at the eighth-layer Body Tempering Realm. Pretty impressive to be ranked ninth among the top ten geniuses I should say.” Qin Nan was slightly astonished, but a frosty murderous intent appeared in his eyes.

Although Qin Nan was not familiar with this Wang Meng, he could still remember him to be one of the two hundred and twenty disciples who had teamed up with Ling Zixiao.

Meanwhile, the number of beasts was getting lesser under the massacre from Wang Meng and his group. After a brief period, every single beast guarding the lake had been eliminated, including a powerful eighth-layer Body Tempering Realm beast.

Wang Meng and his followers looked relieved immediately.

The two disciples standing beside Wang Meng immediately sucked up to him, “Congratulations Senior Brother, as the beasts are gone now, the two Blue Dragon Badges will be yours. You will surely come in the top ten in the trial.”

Wang Meng wore a smug expression as he gave the two disciples a complimentary glance and said, “Thanks to your help. Without your assistance, I wouldn’t have been able to get the map from that idiot Xiao Leng. I will keep your contributions in mind, and I’ll make sure you two get rewarded when I succeed.”

The two disciples were overjoyed.

However, Xiao Leng—who was hiding on the tree—ran out of patience after hearing these words and yelled furiously, “Wang Meng, you stole my map, and still dare to curse my name; I’ll make you pay with your life now!”

Following this, while surrounded by a murderous aura, Xiao Leng sprang toward his enemy as a Martial Spirit was unleashed behind him; it appeared to be a sword, which had an archaic appearance, as if it were a weapon from ancient times.

Xiao Leng immediately executed his strongest ability after showing himself; he grabbed the ancient sword in his hand and gathered his sword intent, aiming for Wang Meng’s head.

The sudden danger had caused the three to briefly lose their thoughts.

As Wang Meng recognized who the attacker was, he laughed disdainfully and said, “Look who’s here, isn’t this my vanquished foe? You dare to come back after I spared your life? If death is what you hope for, I’ll make sure to grant you your wish this time!”

Wang Meng had no place for Xiao Leng in his eyes; he let out a cold harrumph and gathered a frosty aura, before unleashing his sword intent while slashing at the approaching Xiao Leng.

BANG!

The two streams of sword intent collided with each other, causing a forceful explosion.

Wang Meng was ranked ninth among the ten geniuses, which was one rank higher than Xiao Leng. Even though the two were matched with each other in terms of cultivation base, it seemed like Wang Meng was more experienced in utilizing Sword Arts.

As a result, the sudden offense from Xiao Leng had been negated by Wang Meng with ease.

Xiao Leng’s expression remained unchanged as he locked his gaze onto Wang Meng and said, “Wang Meng, you only managed to steal the map from me with the help of your companions. If you’re a real man, fight me fairly one-on-one.”

“One-on-one?” Wang Meng said with a mocking expression, “Who would want to do that? Let me tell you something; I’ve planned to bully you by abusing our numbers all along.”

Saying this, Wang Meng did not hesitate to give his commands, “Let’s attack together, and give this guy a thorough end to his life right now.”

The other two disciples immediately let out evil grins; they then gathered their might and sprang forward toward Xiao Leng together with Wang Meng.

Upon seeing this, Qin Nan who remained hidden on top of the big tree decided to show himself. He leapt down from the tree and said calmly, “It’s not a fair battle since Xiao Leng is on his own. I’m happy to team up with him and challenge you three to a duel.”

At that instant, Wang Meng and his group came to a sudden stop, with twisted expressions appearing on their faces.

Had Xiao Leng managed to find help?

Translator: XephiZ

Editor: DOCuinn