Chapter Thirty-Eight: First Place

"Deliberately belittle you?" Qin Lang shook his head and smiled. "Is there any need for that?"

Even if you are the young patriarch of the Huang family and the number one genius of the younger generation in Qingfeng Town, so what? Compared to Yun'er, who possesses a Ten-Star Supreme Martial Soul, your achievements are simply not worth mentioning!

A Supreme Martial Soul appears only once in hundreds of millions; she is destined to become a legend of the Lingwu Continent. And you, the young patriarch of a mere small-town family, actually want to take Yun'er as a concubine? Who gave you such audacity?

Of course, Qin Lang disdained all of this and saw no need to explain it to Huang Bo.

"Hmph! Ignorant child! My son, Huang Bo, obtained 399 points and is the first-place winner of this Heavenly Wind Mountain trial competition. How is he unworthy of a lowly maid?" Huang Guang looked at Qin Lang with disdain, wondering where this brat had popped out from, spouting such nonsense.

"Rest assured, your son will no longer be the first-place winner of this trial competition very soon! Furthermore, he won't even make it into the top three!" Qin Lang replied with a faint smile.

"Hmph! Talking utter rubbish!" Huang Guang sneered. This youth was young, but his tone was arrogant. It was already set in stone that his son, Huang Bo, would be the winner. Not only did this boy claim his son wouldn't be first, but he even suggested he wouldn't make the top three! Huang Guang couldn't be bothered to argue with such an insolent youth; the facts would soon leave this brat speechless and ashamed of his own words.

"Yun'er, come here!" Ignoring Huang Guang, Qin Lang turned to the girl in white standing nearby, who was staring at him in a daze, her eyes reddened and brimming with joyful tears.

"Young Master!" The moment Yun'er saw Qin Lang, a surge of emotions—surprise, relief, excitement, and joy—flooded her mind. Unable to contain herself any longer, she flew to Qin Lang's side, letting him take her small hands into his.

*The Young Master is fine! My Young Master Qin Lang has returned safely!*

She had thousands of words to say, but at this moment, Yun'er couldn't utter a single one, merely repeating that thought in her heart.

"Silly girl!" Seeing the unconcealable exhaustion on Yun'er's lovely face at close range, Qin Lang gently stroked her hair. It seemed this little girl hadn't rested at all while worrying about him for the past month.

"Hmph!" Seeing Qin Lang act so intimately with Yun'er in public, Huang Bo's eyes gleamed with malice. Qin Lang’s actions were a blatant provocation!

"Qin Jian!" "Qin Yue!"

Having long since seen the return of Qin Jian and Qin Yue, Qin Zhanshan and Qin Zhantian both stood up excitedly, their joy plain to see. They had assumed the two had perished in the beast tide and had held no hope, yet at the very last moment, they had returned safely! What pleased them even more was that by returning at this time, even if their points were zero, they would still qualify to join a sect for cultivation.

"Oh? To have young ones returning at this late hour—that is no easy feat!" one of the sect representatives said with a smile. The other nine nodded slightly. With their strength as Martial Masters, even they would have had a narrow escape in the beast tide. For these three youths to have survived and stayed until the very end, regardless of their scores, their temperament and courage were beyond that of the other participants.

"Hand over your bracelets!" At this moment, trial officials had already reached the three of them to collect their bracelets for tabulation. Upon seeing the points on their bracelets, the official flashed a look of astonishment, scanned the three of them with disbelief, and then quietly handed the bracelets to the representatives of the ten great sects on the high platform.

The ten representatives, who had been chatting idly, were all stunned upon seeing the bracelets, and then turned their gazes toward Qin Lang, Qin Jian, and Qin Yue with utter incredulity!

Qin Lang: 752 points!
Qin Jian: 614 points!
Qin Yue: 587 points!

Tian Yuan looked at the three bracelets before him, his pupils contracting slightly. He took a long look at the trio. The points of any one of them were far higher than Huang Bo's, and all three had shattered the highest record for first place in the history of the Heavenly Wind Mountain trials! Breaking the record once is not too difficult, but for three people to break it simultaneously is truly rare.

Seeing the reaction of the ten representatives, Huang Guang frowned, a vague sense of unease stirring in his heart.

"Haha, it seems I was right from the start—Qingfeng Town has produced some real talent this time!" Tian Yuan was the first to speak, laughing heartily. The other nine exchanged smiles and nodded.

"Very well, the time for the trial has ended. It is time to announce the final results!" Tian Yuan stood up, took sixty-six bracelets from his storage bag, placed them with the three belonging to Qin Lang and his companions, and waved his hand. A surge of potent spiritual energy left his body, instantly manifesting a massive formation screen on the side of the platform. This display of raw power—manifesting a formation through sheer spiritual energy—was a feat only a master of the Martial Master realm could achieve!

As the screen appeared, the sixty-nine bracelets flew into it as if alive, transforming into giant names and numbers, ranking the sixty-nine youths from highest to lowest!

Instantly, everyone's eyes were fixed on the massive screen! Huang Bo looked at it confidently, but his expression changed drastically the next second! He discovered that the name at the very top was not his own!

"First place: Qin Lang, 752 points!" someone in the crowd read aloud.

"First place isn't Huang Bo?"
"He actually got 752 points!"
"Hiss, what an incredible score!"
"It has far surpassed the previous first-place record!"
"Qin Lang? Isn't he only at the seventh level of the Martial Apprentice realm? How could he possibly be first?"

The crowd erupted! Everyone had assumed the first place would belong to Huang Bo of the Huang family, but the result was that Qin Lang had taken the top spot—and with a score several times higher than Huang Bo's!

"This is impossible!" Watching his name pushed down, Huang Bo looked at the screen in disbelief, unable to accept the reality.

"What!" Huang Guang stood up abruptly, finally understanding why he had felt so uneasy.

"Qin Lang? That piece of trash from the Qin family is actually in first place?" Wang Shi's eyes flickered, deeply surprised.

"How can this be!" The gray-robed elder behind Xue Qianyao wore an expression as if he had seen a ghost. He had not thought highly of Qin Lang at all, believing he wouldn't even make the top one hundred, yet here he was in first place!

"Qin Lang's performance is even better than I expected! It seems I underestimated him!" Xue Qianyao’s small mouth parted slightly, a brilliant sparkle in her beautiful eyes. She had hoped for an impressive showing, but she had never anticipated that he would take first place!