Chapter 23: High Purple Talent! The Same Talent Grade, Yet a Tenfold Gap in Combat Power!

Xiao Xuan nodded in agreement. A martial artist’s realm was the most important measure of all.

Of course, if one could continue raising one’s realm while still maintaining the terrifying combat power to kill enemies above one’s level, that would naturally be even better.

After that, Xiao Xuan looked over the next few batches of test-takers.

Almost all of them had Low Blue or Mid Blue talents.

A few had Low Purple.

The strongest among them was someone with a Mid Purple talent.

His explosive power had reached a terrifying seven hundredfold.

After all, a single Purple talent already meant a boost of more than tenfold.

Once the bonuses from cultivation arts and martial techniques were added on top, a multiplier of over seven hundred was perfectly normal.

There were also a few people with Silver Traits.

However, their combat power was still inferior to that person with the Mid Purple talent.

Their explosive-power multipliers were only a little over one hundred at best.

BOOM!!!!

Suddenly, after an earth-shaking blast, one of the D-Class testing devices exploded on the spot!

That enormous commotion instantly drew everyone’s attention.

Xiao Xuan and Su Qingwu also turned toward the source of the sound.

Amid the countless flying fragments stood a long-haired masked young man holding a sword, standing in the ruins like an exiled immortal.

Violent gales swirled around him, though they quickly subsided.

“Damn! He actually blew up a D-Class testing device! That thing can withstand the full-force strike of a martial artist at the Fifth Heaven of the Grandmaster Realm!”

“You would need five million kilograms of force to destroy it!”

“Five million kilograms? That is five thousand tons! I cannot even hit one hundred tons. That has to be cheating!”

“Who is that guy? How have I never heard of him before?”

“No idea, but he looks so handsome!”

“He is wearing a mask, and you can still tell that?”

“Handsome is a feeling, all right?”

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“That guy has also reached the peak of the Innate Realm? And his True Qi has actually reached the Second Revolution. Interesting!”

Xiao Xuan raised a brow the instant he glanced at Gu Xuan.

“Also? Do not tell me you have reached the peak of the Innate Realm too?”

Su Qingwu immediately caught the meaning of Xiao Xuan’s words.

“I only reached it yesterday. But this guy’s talent grade is higher than mine!”

Xiao Xuan said that with some surprise.

When Su Qingwu heard that, she looked at the young man as well, and she could not help feeling shocked.

Naturally, that commotion also drew Professor Liu Feng’s attention.

“This is definitely a genius at High Purple or above! I never expected Shanhe Province to produce someone like this this year!”

Liu Feng’s eyes lit up at once when he saw that scene.

Do not be fooled just because it was only Purple. This was High Purple.

Its combat power was so terrifying that it could even surpass an ordinary Mid Gold prodigy.

It could utterly crush even a Mid Silver one.

At that thought, Liu Feng did not hesitate.

He immediately began operating his Smartwatch.

RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!!!!

Soon, with one thunderous roar after another, the entire ground began to shake violently.

A massive fissure slowly split open across the earth.

The surrounding students were so frightened that they hurriedly ran toward the edge of the martial arena.

Very soon, a terrifying testing device more than one hundred meters in diameter and over seventy meters tall slowly rose from the previously empty center of the arena.

That testing device was forged from all kinds of powerful alloys. Judging by weight alone, it probably exceeded one hundred million tons!

And this was an E-Class Grandmaster testing device.

Its upper limit, however, was such that only an ordinary martial artist at the Fifth Heaven of the Great Grandmaster Realm could destroy it.

In other words, only an expert with a Vitality value of 50,000.

Unless one’s strength reached one hundred million tons, it was impossible to shatter it.

The young man soon entered it and retested his results.

A few minutes later—BOOM!!

A loud blast rang out, and the entire machine trembled slightly.

Then the test results were projected into the sky.

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Test Subject: Gu XuanDisplayed Traits: 【Strength Enhancement! Silver】【Speed Enhancement! Silver】【Defense Enhancement! Silver】【Storm Power! Purple】【Sword Dao Mastery! Purple】Vitality: 999Realm: Tenth Heaven of the Innate RealmExplosive Power: 17.25 million tonsExplosive-Power Multiplier: 17250 times!Speed: 554 m/sDefense: 1.51 million tonsOverall Rating: High Purple

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The moment those results appeared, everyone present sucked in a sharp breath.

“Damn!! High Purple talent? This is the kind of High Purple talent that can crush ordinary geniuses with Gold Traits?”

“And he even has three Silver talents?”

“Seventeen million tons of power? That has to be cheating!”

“If nobody can expose it, then it does not count as cheating! A genius like that was practically born with the world rigged in his favor!”

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For a time, everyone was shocked beyond words.

Do not be fooled by the fact that it was only High Purple. A prodigy like that would still count as top-tier even across the entirety of Huaxia.

“Just as I thought. He has that many Silver talents, and more than one at that!”

“But even a combination of a Silver talent and two Purple talents is already this powerful. Then just how strong must Mu Xiying be, with that whole pile of traits that are at least Gold?”

When Xiao Xuan thought of that, he could not help sighing inwardly in amazement.

But the next moment, what followed was delight.

“If Silver Traits can drop, then even the Eco Points from recycling just one of them should be enormous, right?”

“But killing him... We have no grudge between us, and I am not that ruthless yet. No, severely wounding him should be enough. After I wound him badly, at the very least a few Purple Traits should drop. That would still be quite good.”

“At the very least, I should first raise my main Traits or my True Qi to Ten Revolutions!”

The moment Xiao Xuan reached that thought, he had already made up his mind.

If the people present knew what he was thinking, they would probably all be dumbfounded.

After seeing Gu Xuan’s terrifying combat power, Xiao Xuan’s first reaction was actually to hold back and only severely wound him.

Very soon, Gu Xuan stepped out of the testing device, looked up at his own results, and a trace of pride flashed through his eyes.

“High Purple talent. In this tiny Shanhe Province, who could possibly be my opponent? Besides, my Sword Dao talent may very well advance to the Silver level in the future.

“When that time comes, my combat power will rival that of a High Silver talent.”

“And then, even on the Heaven Ranking, there will not be many who can stand against me!”

Gu Xuan thought to himself proudly.

“Excellent, very good. Not only are you High Purple, but even among High Purple talents, you count as a very strong one. Student Gu Xuan, your future achievements will surely be limitless.”

Professor Liu Feng landed in front of Gu Xuan and could not help praising him.

“I still need to rest for a while. Can I just take first place directly in the second round?”

“After all, not a single person here can withstand even one exchange from me!”

Gu Xuan swept a glance across all the students below and spoke calmly.

His voice was not loud, yet it reached everyone’s ears.

However, even those geniuses who possessed two or three Silver Traits only clenched their teeth when they heard him, unable to say anything in reply.

Although they had two or three Silver Traits, none of them could stack.

Forget comparing themselves to Gu Xuan—even certain geniuses with Mid Purple aptitude could crush them.

“That is only natural. As long as no one’s explosive power reaches one-third of yours, first place is rightfully yours.”

Professor Liu Feng nodded in agreement.

If they could not even reach one-tenth of his explosive power, how could they possibly defeat Gu Xuan?

Gu Xuan was no ordinary High Purple. His Strength, Speed, and Defense had all reached the same tier of High Purple talent.

If, in the future, he truly managed to raise his Sword Dao attainment to the Silver level, then his talent would directly rise to High Silver.

At that point, even among the human race, Gu Xuan would rank among the top hundred supreme prodigies.

“The rest of you, continue!”

After casually saying that, Professor Liu Feng no longer paid attention to the other examinees. Instead, he very courteously brought Gu Xuan to the main dais to wait there.

Although they were both examinees, Gu Xuan now seemed more like a leader than a candidate.

Yet no one had any objections.

That was the treatment a genius received.

They simply could not compare.

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However, Xiao Xuan, standing within the crowd, suddenly lit up as he watched one examinee after another emerge from the testing devices.

Because he noticed that during the defense tests, all of them had suffered injuries of varying severity.

Some of them had even suffered severe injuries just to improve their results a little more.

All that, just to raise their defense by a few extra kilograms!

“Most of the geniuses here have Green and Blue talents.”

“There have to be quite a lot of trait light orbs piled up inside those testing devices by now, right?”

“Once the examination is over, I need to go take a stroll around.”

The moment Xiao Xuan thought of that, he immediately made his decision.

“Student Xiao Xuan, I think it is my turn. I will go first!”

Just then, Su Qingwu’s voice sounded.

Xiao Xuan then saw Su Qingwu walking toward one of the testing devices.

A few minutes later, as the testing device trembled slightly, her test results appeared as well.

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Test Subject: Su QingwuDisplayed Traits: 【Strength Enhancement! Blue】【Speed Enhancement! Blue】【Defense Enhancement! Blue】【Fist Technique Mastery! Purple】【Berserker Body! Purple】Vitality: 81Realm: Eighth Heaven of the Vitality RealmExplosive Power: 125,000 tonsExplosive-Power Multiplier: 1540 times!Speed: 154 m/sDefense: 75,000 tonsOverall Rating: High Purple

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The moment her results appeared, everyone present was stunned once again.

“Another High Purple?!”

“But why is there a full tenfold difference in explosive-power multiplier when they are both High Purple?”

“One reason is realm. If your realm is lower, then the level of the cultivation arts you can practice is relatively lower.

“Also, Gu Xuan was already at the Tenth Heaven of the Innate Realm. He had probably already begun condensing Innate True Qi. Innate True Qi can go up to Ten Revolutions, strengthening combat power tenfold. He has at least already strengthened himself by two or three times!”

“Of course, the most important point is this: Su Qingwu only barely touched the threshold of High Purple.”

“Strictly speaking, she is still a little short of a true High Purple.”

“Her talent would need to advance a bit further before she could truly count as High Purple.”

“But Gu Xuan is different!”

“One more step, and he could reach High Silver.”

“In other words, one of them is among the strongest High Purple talents, while the other is among the weakest.”

“Damn, so there is even a distinction like that? Even so, that talent is already absurdly strong!

“If only I had talent that powerful too!”

“Wait, I could have sworn a beautiful girl just went in there. Why are all her talents the sort you would expect from some hulking brute?”

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All the students present immediately began discussing it heatedly.

When Xiao Xuan saw this, he also raised a brow.

“Su Qingwu actually has one more Trait.”

“She definitely did not have that Berserker Body yesterday!”

“Could she have awakened it overnight?”

“What a pity that her realm is too low. If she could also reach the peak of the Innate Realm, then this time, she might even be able to make a name for herself in the Hundred-Province Genius Tournament!”

Xiao Xuan found it rather surprising as well.