Born Almighty Warrior
Chapter 475 The Recruitment Competition Officially Began

"Nice to meet you, too. My name is Jasper Zhang. I know you are a peerless genius and I am very desperate to test my strength against you. It seems that this is not the right time, though. I will wait for you until we can spar. When you become an inner disciple, we will definitely meet again. Would you really dare to fight against me?" Jasper asked in a straightforward manner with a smile on his face.

"Your challenge is accepted! I'm more ambitious than you can imagine. Now that you've said that you will wait for me, I will surely be able to spar with you in the future! When that happens, I will defeat you, so be prepared,” Ricky told him in a distant tone.

"Ha-ha! I never thought you would be so ambitious and arrogant! I like your personality anyway. So, I can't wait until we get to meet again!" Jasper exclaimed in excitement. He was not infuriated by Ricky's attitude. Instead, he felt truly elated to have such a powerful opponent waiting for him in the future.

It had been a very long time since someone had acted so arrogant in front of Jasper in the Oriental Realm. Jasper had felt very lonely. But now that another peerless genius had appeared, how could he stop himself from being thrilled by it? He was longing for a fight against someone worthy.

He did not think that Ricky was just talking big. As a peerless genius, he could tell that Ricky could make horribly progress in a short time.

"Hopefully you won't make me wait for too long," Jasper said to Ricky again.

"I won't. You have my word," Ricky responded with a determined look on his face. His combat power was being released from his body because he was also eager for a fight.

Jasper wanted to fight against him, and Ricky happened to also want the same thing! He was looking forward to a battle against a genius that was just as powerful as he was!

"I'm very pleased to hear that! A promise is a promise!" Jasper said as he nodded his head.

Then, he walked over to his seniors and bade goodbye to them. He came there only in order to see Ricky with his own eyes. He would not have shown up there otherwise. A recruitment competition was not worth his attention.

Afterwards, Jasper gathered up his men and left.

The Skyward Sword Spiritual King and the Array-shattering Spiritual King exchanged looks and nodded as if they were determined to say something. "I totally agree that it is a good thing for the Oriental College to have two peerless geniuses. There are also some drawbacks to it though!” the Skyward Sword Spiritual King said to the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor.

"Yes, I agree with you. Things would probably get worse," the Array-shattering Spiritual King chimed in.

"Are you afraid that they will become enemies?" the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor asked. "That's exactly what we are concerned about. We all know that one nation can't have two queens. There is no way for an organization to have two leaders," the Skyward Sword Spiritual King replied. "I don't think they will become enemies, but we, as seniors, should instruct them carefully just in case," the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor explained.

"Yes, we understand,” the two spiritual kings responded as the same time.

"All right! Let's get the competition started!” the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor said in an expectant voice. "I'm desperate to know how strong these geniuses who are joining us are!"

The two spiritual kings nodded in response. Then, they reached out their palms. There was an ancient stone rune that appeared on each of their hands, respectively. After that, they turned their hands up and down to deploy arrays. Inmediately, two middle-sized swirls appeared in the sky. Then, they threw their stone runes into the two swirls. Soon, they became two passages.

"These are the entrances of the demi-immortal battlefield and the spiritual king battlefield. Whether or not you become a member of the Oriental College depends on your performance on the battlefield,” the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor announced.

"Once you enter the passages, you will be given an enlightening mark. You can also snatch other people's mark.

If you have your enlightening mark stolen, you will be deemed unworthy and fail to pass the test. You will be thrown off the battlefield. This is the best outcome for those who survive. It is also possible that you will be killed during the process. In that case, your body will stay there.

You have half a year, and you must protect your enlightening mark at any cost. Don't lose it, no matter what!"

“What a simple yet cruel rule!" Many warriors thought things like that to themselves when they heard the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor's words.

That was very useful though! Only those with amazing power could keep their marks and pass the test.

There was something that might be unfair though. Many warriors would probably team up and that was unavoidable. There was no such thing as fair in that world, though. The strong survived and the weak died.

Being merciful to your enemies would get yourself killed.

"I will explain the use of the enlightening mark now," the Sword Spiritual King said at that point in time.

"Those marks are made by the supreme emperors of our college. They contain that emperors’ comprehension of the enlightenment more or less. If a spiritual king wants to make progress, the main part he should concentrate on is the comprehension of enlightening power.

So, I'm sure you know what those marks mean to you, and..."

The Sword Spiritual King stopped in mid-sentence. He was sure that all the candidates knew how precious the marks were to them at that point.

"What? They are made by the emperors!” As expected, everyone grew excited and was thrilled by the updated news.

There were three things an innate spiritual king should be concentrated on if he wanted to break through and reach a higher level. The first was to improve his strength, the second was to comprehend enlightening power better, and the last was to make his soul stronger. Among the three, the improvement of the comprehensive of enlightening power was the most important part. Any spiritual king, except one who was really stupid, would be able to improve his strength.

The most difficult thing to improve was one's comprehension of enlightening power. One must be talented to make any progress on that. Only after one improved their comprehension of enlightening power could they make their soul stronger. So, if a spiritual king failed to make any progress in improving their comprehension of enlightening power, it would be useless anyway, no matter how much strength they had. They would never make their soul stronger unless they improved their comprehension of enlightening power.

So, an emperor's enlightening power would be extremely useful. As a matter of fact, even an upper spiritual king or a completed spiritual king's enlightening power would be quite valuable to those lower spiritual kings. No wonder they were thrilled to hear that the marks were made by spiritual emperors.

Some were excited, while some were sad. Those who were relatively weak could imagine how their lives would become miserably terrible for the next half a year. They would spend the whole time hiding from the stronger candidates in fear of being killed.

“They are so generous! The competition is going to be fiercer! I just can't wait to collect more marks!" Ricky said to himself.

"All right. That's all the information we have to give you. Please enter the battlefields now,” the Array-shattering Spiritual King said as he watched everyone's reaction. "The left entrance leads to the demi-immortal battlefield and the right one leads to the spiritual king battlefield.”

Swish! Swish!

The moment he finished speaking, quite a few warriors and beasts dashed toward the entrances. Those who moved as soon as they were allowed were very confident in themselves.

Ricky, Soar, and Madeline nodded to each other before they jumped toward the right entrance one after another.

All the candidates would be dropped at a random place on the battlefields, so there was no need for them to enter the portal at the same time.

A shocking feeling ran through him as Ricky entered another world.

In that world, he seemed to feel like he was being suppressed by the natural rule.

'lt seems that this is a Small World created by the demi-spiritual emperor of the Oriental College. The highest level here would probably be equivalent to an ordinary middle spiritual king, * Ricky guessed as he thought to himself.

At the same time, he also sensed that the space he was in was locked from the outside.

Boom! Boom! Something had changed around Ricky though. Numerous intangible increments of enlightening power were released out of nowhere. Then the power gathered and formed into the shape of a new moon. Ricky reached out his hand and the new moon began floating above his palm.

"Is this the enlightening mark I was told about?” Ricky murmured as he grasped the mark.

He closed his eyes to try to feel its power. He was able to detect some comprehension experience and information about the enlightening power within it.

"This is really good!" he then exclaimed excitedly.

He immediately stopped trying to figure its power out. If he digested all the information contained in the mark, he would probably be thrown out of the contest!

The only way to get more enlightening power was to collect—no, not collect—snatch more marks from other warriors or beasts.

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