Chapter 623: Two Legends

"Balanced Palace Realm?"

Facing the powerful resonance force fluctuations rising from Li Luo's body, even Vice Principal Suxin was momentarily stunned, before her eyes bloomed with a peculiar brilliance as she looked toward Li Luo. On her gentle, soft features, an undisguisable smile surfaced.

"Li Luo, you and Jiang Jiang Qinge have truly brought our academy quite a few surprises today."

Clearly, Vice Principal Suxin was also extremely delighted and satisfied with Li Luo's breakthrough. After all, this was a rare record—since the founding of the Sacred Origin Star Academy, no student had ever reached the Balanced Palace Realm while still in the One Star House.

Generally speaking, the genius students capable of achieving such feats would only appear in those ancient academies of the Inner Shenzhou, and these ancient academies formed the core of the Academy Alliance. Their status was naturally far beyond what their Outer Shenzhou Sacred Academies could compare to. Whether in terms of students, cultivation conditions, or cultivation resources obtained, the two sides were not even in the same league.

Some of the other Purple-Glow Mentors also understood this point, so at this moment they all cast sidelong glances at Li Luo. They were equally astonished by his cultivation speed—this seemed to be something an ordinary dual-resonance practitioner could not possess.

Vice Principal Suxin was also decisive and swift in her actions. After confirming that Li Luo had truly broken through to the Balanced Palace Realm, she did not hesitate, directly taking out a jade bottle from the spatial orb worn on her wrist, then handing it to Mentor Xi Chan, saying: "Student Li Luo has cultivated diligently and created a record for the academy. He should be rewarded."

"The ten extra 'Origin Sha Pills' from the Three Star House side this time, let's treat them as the reward."

Mentor Xi Chan took it, then turned and handed it to Li Luo.

"Thank you, Vice Principal!" Li Luo rejoiced in his heart and quickly expressed his thanks.

This was a benefit obtained for nothing. Ten 'Origin Sha Pills' placed at the Golden Dragon Treasure House—setting aside how there were too many monks and too little porridge making them hard to snatch, even if one managed to snatch them, it would cost an additional million Heaven-Weight Gold. Yet now Vice Principal Suxin just waved her hand and gave them to him directly—it simply made one unable to resist giving a thumbs up and praising her generosity.

The Era of Genes

However, when Li Luo was putting away the 'Origin Sha Pills', he sensed a cold, furious gaze being cast toward him from beside him, so he turned his head and saw Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan, whose face was somewhat twisted, staring fixedly at him.

"Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan, I'm truly sorry, but your Extreme Flame Prefecture is a big family with a great business, so you probably don't care about these few 'Origin Sha Pills'." Li Luo revealed a gentle smile and said.

Zhu Zhu Xuan's mouth corner twitched slightly, his gaze cold. Although ten 'Origin Sha Pills' were not cheap, if truly lost it wouldn't be much of a pain. It was just that now being snatched away directly by Li Luo cutting in, what was lost was his face.

"Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan isn't planning to snatch them by force, right? Or will you say something about winning the Origin Sha Pills through a duel?" Li Luo said upon seeing Zhu Zhu Xuan's gaze.

Zhu Zhu Xuan stared fixedly at Li Luo. When the latter spoke these words, there was no fear in his eyes, instead seeming to carry a hint of anticipation. This made Zhu Zhu Xuan feel even more aggrieved in his heart. Duel my ass—in the past he could still rely on his resonance force level to suppress Li Luo slightly, but now Li Luo had already surpassed him, taking the lead in stepping into the Balanced Palace Realm.

In the past when Li Luo's level was weaker than his, he didn't even have the confidence to say he could win. If they fought now, wouldn't that be inviting humiliation?

This Li Luo, truly cunning and hateful to the extreme!

"Student Zhu Zhu Xuan, you need not harbor any grudge over this distribution of 'Origin Sha Pills'. When there are leftovers from the Three Star House side later, I will set some aside for you." At this moment, Vice Principal Suxin spoke up, soothing Zhu Zhu Xuan.

Since Vice Principal Suxin had spoken, Zhu Zhu Xuan could only reveal a forced smile and nod.

Then he cast a gloomy look at Li Luo and said in a low voice: "Young Prefecture Master Li Luo, cherish your last month. Perhaps in a month, the House Luolan Prefecture will be gone. At that time, you might indeed need these 'Origin Sha Pills' more than I do."

Having said that, he flicked his sleeve and turned to leave.

Li Luo smiled faintly, paying no heed to Zhu Zhu Xuan's threat. After all, the Extreme Flame Prefecture was already a great enemy of the House Luolan Prefecture—this enemy was almost a certainty. So at the Prefecture Sacrifice a month later, this Extreme Flame Prefecture would inevitably intervene.

Just now when he deliberately provoked Zhu Zhu Xuan into a duel, he was actually harboring the thought of taking this opportunity to cripple the guy into serious injury first.

Although Zhu Zhu Xuan's strength didn't qualify him to do anything at the Prefecture Sacrifice, if he could be used as a chess piece to make that Prefecture Master of the Extreme Flame Prefecture fly into a rage and lose composure, it might bring some pleasant surprises. After all, angry people always do irrational things.

But unfortunately, this Zhu Zhu Xuan was also quite clever, knowing that the current him was no longer an opponent, so he simply didn't pay attention to his provocation.

That mentor of Zhu Zhu Xuan's also shook his head helplessly at this moment. He had no objections to Vice Principal Suxin's distribution, after all Li Luo's Balanced Palace Realm was right here. Whether in terms of strength or contribution, Li Luo was more qualified than Zhu Zhu Xuan.

So it could only be counted as Zhu Zhu Xuan's bad luck.

He cupped his hands toward Vice Principal Suxin and also turned to leave. "Li Luo, are you planning to go choose a 'Marquis Grade Art' next?" Vice Principal Suxin gazed at Li Luo and asked again.

Li Luo nodded and smiled: "Now that I've broken through to the Balanced Palace Realm, cultivating a 'Marquis Grade Art' should be a bit easier."

"A negligible improvement." Vice Principal Suxin pondered slightly and said: "If stepping into the Balanced Palace Realm meant you could cultivate a Marquis Grade Art, then you'd be underestimating our academy's Seven Star Pillars too much. After all, even they haven't managed to cultivate one to this day."

Li Luo was speechless. Vice Principal Suxin, you're being way too discouraging.

Seeing Li Luo's resentful look, Vice Principal Suxin smiled charmingly and said: "But that's for normal people. You, who often stir up some unbelievable miracles, seem to not quite count in this category, so perhaps this time you can also continue to amaze everyone."

"Then I'll borrow the Vice Principal's auspicious words."

"Go ahead. I'm also quite looking forward to your result." Vice Principal Suxin said with a smile.

Li Luo nodded, then stopped lingering. Following Mentor Xi Chan, he left this boiling plaza directly. However, when he came, countless people were paying attention to Jiang Jiang Qinge, but now when leaving, nearly half the gazes were cast toward him, faintly and subtly.

Clearly, in this short period of time, the news of Li Luo's breakthrough to the Balanced Palace Realm had already spread like wildfire.

The shock this caused, from a certain angle, was no less than Jiang Jiang Qinge securing a seat on the Seven Star Pillars with her Three Star House identity.

After all, if Li Luo could break through to the Balanced Palace Realm at the end of the One Star House year, then when the day came that he also entered the Three Star House, what level would he reach? Replicating Jiang Jiang Qinge's achievement and even doing it slightly earlier shouldn't be difficult, right?

If it really was so, they would probably become the two most peak figures since the founding of the Sacred Origin Star Academy.

As for those gazes of amazement along the way, Li Luo paid them no heed, because as he drew closer to the Resonance Art Tower, his mood also began to stir with excitement. This excitement was not something that could be compared to when he obtained the 'Origin Sha Pills' earlier.

Under this excited mood, about ten minutes later, Mentor Xi Chan, who was leading the way, stopped her steps.

Li Luo raised his head, and an antique-styled tower building appeared before his eyes.

The three big characters "Resonance Art Tower" shone brilliantly under the sunlight.

A smile curved Li Luo's lips.

Marquis Grade Art, here I come!