Chapter 680: Identity Exposed! He Is Actually Xu Jingming?

Xu Jingming's steady, powerful voice rang out across the entire area, causing the many seventh-rank Grandmasters around him to freeze for a moment.

What followed was a wave of disdainful mockery.

"Who do you think you are? Just because you say we take it all, we take it all? Did you ever bother to ask for our opinion?"

"Exactly. A mere upper seventh-rank Grandmaster — anyone who didn't know would think you were an eighth-rank Master Zongshi."

"Judging by the look of him, he's already past thirty. How can he still be so naive?"

"..."

There were fifteen people present. Apart from Leng Yuechan, the rest were all seventh-rank Grandmasters.

Nine of them were upper seventh-rank, and there were even four at the peak of seventh-rank!

The reason no one had acted and instead proposed splitting the Divine Blood evenly was that not a single one of them had the confidence to suppress the entire field.

But now, those few peak seventh-rank Grandmasters hadn't even spoken, yet here you, an upper seventh-rank, had jumped out. If they didn't mock you, who would they mock?

"What's going on with the Flame Emperor?"

Breidi, the eighth-rank Grandmaster of the Dejiaka Battle Group who had previously invited Xu Jingming, furrowed his brow.

"Breidi, is he really an eighth-rank Grandmaster of your Dejiaka Battle Group? How can he be so impulsive?"

A fellow seventh-rank Grandmaster beside him, who had not joined the Dejiaka Battle Group, asked in confusion.

Any Esper certified as an eighth-rank Grandmaster within the Dejiaka Battle Group was extremely powerful.

Moreover, according to Breidi, this was an eighth-rank Grandmaster who had experienced at least four or five major campaigns and possessed a nickname.

By all rights, he should have had enough judgment to read the current situation.

It was impossible that he would now step forward to oppose everyone — that would be an utterly foolish move.

"Who knows." Breidi spread his hands helplessly; he had no intention of helping.

After all, Xu Jingming had just refused him, so naturally he wasn't going to press his warm face against a cold backside.

"What's going on with this guy?" Leng Yuexi's pretty face was likewise full of confusion.

Based on her observation of him in the last battle, he was absolutely a ruthless man with a fierce fighting style — how could he be so stupid?

"Are you sure you really want to take all this Divine Blood for yourself?"

A tall, thin peak seventh-rank Grandmaster with his Esper activated and a single horn growing from his head said mockingly:

"If that's really the case, we can take care of you first. That way there's one less person to split it with — wouldn't everyone agree?"

As his words fell, the surrounding seventh-rank Grandmasters all revealed ill-intentioned expressions.

One less competitor, and they could still split his spatial ring — why not?

"On what grounds?"

Facing the crowd's questioning, Xu Jingming's sword-shaped brows rose, and his entire figure suddenly began to swell!

At the same time, the golden flames wreathing his body rapidly transformed into lightning!!

In less than a single second, the flame-wreathed figure had completely changed form!

In its place stood a silhouette like that of a demon god!

He stood over three meters tall, with shoulders and a back broader than a double-door refrigerator.

A pair of dragon-like vertical pupils filled with brutal, violent intent, and powerful muscles that looked as if they would burst straight through his battle suit!

If it were only a change in physique, that would be one thing — any Enhancement-type Esper present could do that.

But what shocked them most was—

The flames wreathing this man's body had vanished, replaced by endless golden lightning radiating a wild, violent aura!

"What... is going on?! Someone who can possess both lightning and fire-type Espers at the same time?"

Some seventh-rank Grandmaster-level experts felt their entire worldview had been overturned.

Especially Breidi, who was also from the Dejiaka Battle Group — his face was utterly dumbfounded.

Zhou Xuan, who bore the nickname "Flame Emperor," was actually a lightning-type Esper!

Who could have possibly imagined that?

"This aura... could it be..."

Leng Yuexi's beautiful almond eyes stared fixedly at that towering, god-like majestic figure.

As a woman who had lived and fought alongside Xu Jingming in the wilderness zone for nearly a month, she naturally would not forget those brilliant, dazzling golden bolts of lightning.

"Sister, this looks like Xu Jingming's SS-rank Esper, Doushen Shenlei!"

Her younger sister Leng Yuechan, though a beat slower to react, had also recognized it. She widened her eyes and said in disbelief.

"Mm, it should be him, no doubt about it."

Leng Yuexi's rosy lips curved slightly upward. "This little junior of ours actually hid his identity and appearance to come to the wilderness zone.

Still, the lightning is the same as before — just as sacred, just as domineering..."

Clang!!

A Fangtian Huaji fully three and a half meters long slammed heavily into the ground, producing a thunderous roar.

At the same time, a resplendent golden ring slowly hovered into existence behind Xu Jingming, who was the focus of everyone's attention.

Every golden bolt that flickered and leapt as the golden ring rotated carried a heart-palpitating sense of danger.

"This is my confidence!"

A majestic, powerful voice rang out as Xu Jingming's aura climbed to its peak.

Wreathed entirely in golden lightning, he swept his gaze over the crowd with those crimson, violent dragon-like vertical pupils, looking down upon them from above.

His words brimmed with boundless domineering pride!

The Fangtian Huaji gave him a handy weapon for close combat!

The Extreme Glory Lightning Ring gave him five times the Esper endurance!

The Thunderstorm Form had boosted his strength to a full seven or eight times what it had been before!

Xu Jingming — complete form!

At this moment his body was brimming with power.

As wild lightning flickered around him, he even felt that he alone was enough to sweep away every powerhouse present!

"This ability, this form — why do I feel like I've seen it somewhere before?"

A seventh-rank Grandmaster-level powerhouse showed a puzzled expression, and an irritable fellow beside him immediately cut in:

"Cut the crap! How could it not look familiar? That's freaking Xu Jingming's combat form from the Genius Tournament!"

"Holy crap! Xu Jingming? Isn't he training over at the Moben Lei Ting Martial Hall? How could he show up here?"

"No way, right? Zhou Xuan has taken part in more than one campaign on our front-line battlefield — couldn't this just be a similar-looking ability form?"

"..."

Wave after wave of shocked or bewildered voices rose up.

But just then, the tall figure everyone was watching underwent a shift in his facial muscles.

From a burly man in his thirties, he transformed into a young man of only about twenty.

And that face was precisely Xu Jingming, who had caused a sensation worldwide just a few months ago!

"Xu Jingming?! It's really him?"

One Grandmaster-level powerhouse nearly popped his eyes out, overcome by a powerful sense of incongruity.

The seventh-rank Grandmaster-level powerhouses present were, on average, at least 35 years old.

Yet now, among combatants of the same level, a young man in his twenties — no, twenty — had suddenly appeared; this was absolutely the height of defying common sense!

It was like a college class full of grown-ups suddenly producing a fourth- or fifth-grade elementary schooler.

It was a dimensional reduction strike — they weren't even on the same level at all.