Chapter 580: My Sister Zhangxi Has the Qualifications of a King (Second Update, Requesting All)

Time flies like an arrow, and before one knows it, the month of December has arrived!

Over these past two months or so, Li Zhangsheng continued to maintain his low-profile homebody lifestyle.

Although he was low-profile enough, rumors about Li Zhangsheng advancing to the Fifth Rank had appeared in the outside world a month ago, and they showed a trend of intensifying.

Regarding all this, Li Zhangsheng did not feel particularly surprised; being able to hide it for a few months was already quite good.

From beginning to end, Li Zhangsheng did not come forward to refute it, because this was the truth; he chose to handle it with cold indifference.

Given that the person involved did not come forward, most people just treated this matter as after-dinner conversation, and those willing to believe it were ultimately only a minority; after all, a 17-year-old Fifth Rank exceeded many people's imagination.

Not beyond Li Zhangsheng's expectations, this matter did not spread for long before it slowly cooled down.

Throughout history, cold treatment is often the best way to deal with various events and conflicts.

Over these past two months or so, Li Zhangsheng had taken another step closer to the Fifth Rank critical point; it had already changed from a half-moon to nearly a full moon.

Li Zhangsheng estimated that as long as he was given another half-month, he could attempt to break through to the Sixth Rank.

The reason it came faster than expected was mainly due to the Five-Rank Star Palace Lotus Platform, and it was also related to the progress of his nine official demon pets.

In these two-plus months, Li Zhangsheng's nine Lord-rank demon pets each made significant progress; for instance, Aixi and Kailan reached the Lord 9th Rank level directly, and if it weren't for Li Zhangsheng holding them back, they could have already attempted a breakthrough.

The remaining demon pets were all between Lord 5th Stage and 8th Stage; with his current strength, if he encountered a Pseudo-King with only one or two Demon King-level demon pets, he could also defeat them.

At this moment, Li Zhangsheng took out the Jade Box containing the Time Dragon Scale.

After this period of research, he had preliminarily developed a technique to extract the power of time, but to create a Restriction of localized time dilation would at least require some time and a large amount of resources.

Besides this, Li Zhangsheng would also check the state of the Green Li Bird every day.

During these two-plus months, the Green Li Bird did not show any signs of going mad or losing its sanity, which also made Li Zhangsheng certain that the Bloodline Potion supported by Advanced Demon Essence Blood did not have the side effects he had imagined.

With this, Li Zhangsheng began to process the remaining three portions of Bloodline Potion, one of which he gave to Instructor Qian Yuanfei, obtaining a promise from him.

As long as Li Zhangsheng needed help, Instructor Qian Yuanfei would take action for him once, without any so-called "within his power" prerequisite, as long as he wasn't asked to go to his death.

This time, Instructor Qian Yuanfei had good luck and successfully took the final step, becoming another Sixth-Rank Expert of Yuanling Academy, eventually assuming the position of Vice Dean of the Alchemist Academy.

Like Lu Qian and Xu Fanghua, including his trump card, the Superior Quality Unicorn, several of Qian Yuanfei's main demon pets failed to break through to the Demon King level and did not become Pseudo-Kings in one go.

Even so, Yuanling Academy now possessed two Pseudo-Kings and five Sixth-Rank Experts; apart from lacking a King, in terms of top-tier combat power, it could be said to be not inferior to the Royal Academy.

As for the other two portions of Bloodline Potion and two Yuanhua Treasure Pills, not long ago, Li Zhangsheng gave them to Li Haoqiong and He Yan under the pretext of his cousin's birth, hoping they could advance further.

A few days ago, He Yan, who had been pregnant for ten months, successfully gave birth to a daughter; Li Haoqiong was also a strange one—not only did he not have the tradition of valuing boys over girls, but he actually preferred daughters.

According to the naming convention of their lineage, Li Haoqiong's generation had to have the character "Hao," and Li Zhangsheng's generation had the character "Zhang," so Li Haoqiong named her Li Zhangxi, with the nickname Nuonuo.

Li Zhangsheng also gave this newborn little cousin a Superior Quality Three-Tailed Wind Fox that had just been born; this was also the highest-quality Spirit Beast hatched recently.

Except for the difference in attributes, the Three-Tailed Wind Fox was similar to the Three-Tailed Snow Fox and Three-Tailed Fire Fox, quite fitting for a girl's aesthetic.

"My sister Zhangxi has the qualifications of a King!" At that time, before leaving, Li Zhangsheng had added this evaluation.

Li Haoqiong had once said this sentence to him, and now he had gifted this sentence to his cousin Li Zhangxi.

There was no help for it; Li Zhangsheng's ambition was no longer satisfied with becoming a King; his goal was to become an Emperor, and with his opportunities and abilities, the possibility of becoming famous was extremely high.

If Li Zhangsheng were to become an Emperor in the future, helping Li Zhangxi become a King would indeed be a simple matter.

The idiom "when a man gets the Dao, his pets ascend to heaven" comes from this.

With these Yuanhua Treasure Pills and Bloodline Potions, it was expected that the Li Clan would produce a Sixth-Rank Expert in the near future, or perhaps even two.

Of course, this was assuming Li Zhangsheng was ignored; Li Zhangsheng predicted that he would very likely become the Li Clan's first Sixth-Rank or even Pseudo-King.

The more powerful the family, the greater the help to Li Zhangsheng; for things like materials, intelligence, and labor, the family could provide a certain amount of assistance.

On this morning, Li Zhangsheng rarely came to the Elite Class classroom; this day was also the final lesson for the Elite Class.

After the second Fire Flame Secret Realm ended, Yuanling Academy launched the trials in advance to select Elite Class Members from the four grades.

People like Li Zhangsheng were naturally exempt from the assessment; otherwise, with his strength, he would simply be a bug-like existence in the trials, and if he wanted to, he could even easily let First-tier Students pass the trials.

After this lesson, the Elite Class of the four grades would screen the final ten people to represent Yuanling Academy in this year's Academy Exchange Tournament.

Without surprise, Qin Danxin, Luo Xiaoman, and Li Wanru of the first grade easily became the representative students; among them, Qin Danxin and Luo Xiaoman were completely carbon copies of Li Zhangsheng and Zhao Shuyi from last year, reaching the Third Rank before the Academy Exchange Tournament began.

The second grade was no exception, except that this year Li Tianyu successfully squeezed out one person and did not fall behind like last year.

The third grade was led by the transfer student Wang Xinyi, who was only one step away from the Fourth Rank; even so, the third grade had only improved slightly, yet it was still the bottom-ranked existence among the four grades.

The fourth grade was still dominated by Luo Jing; after the last trip to the Fire Flame Secret Realm, Luo Jing's strength improved rapidly, and according to Ning Bizhen, there was a chance to reach the Fifth Rank before graduation.

Besides this, there was another piece of good news: shortly after ending the trip to the Fire Flame Secret Realm, Zhao Shuyi successfully took the final step and became a Fourth-Rank student of the second grade.

With this, Yuanling Academy possessed one Fifth-Rank and two Fourth-Rank top combat powers, and its strength was more than one tier stronger than last year.

Of course, compared to the Royal Academy, it was still clearly a notch inferior.

After the four grades decided on the final candidates, Li Zhangsheng and the others followed the Instructors to the plaza to wait.

Not long after waiting, nine Dragon Horses pulled a hall and landed on the plaza.

Different from last time, this time, not only did the two Pseudo-Kings Xu Wenhua and Ning Bizhen set out together, but there were also the two Deans, Zhang Kaishuo and Ning Wei.

Lu Qian, Xu Fanghua, and Qian Yuanfei also wanted to go along; they knew very well in their hearts that this year Yuanling Academy had high hopes of replacing the Royal Academy as the number one Academy, and no one wanted to miss it.

Unfortunately, they were opposed by Xu Wenhua and the others and could only unwillingly stay at Yuanling Academy to "watch the house."

Simply put, Zhang Kaishuo and Ning Wei, relying on their higher seniority, successfully obtained the opportunity to lead the team.

"Everyone, come up!"

Under the arrangement of the Instructors, the group boarded the Dragon Horse Hall in an orderly manner.

"Depart!"

Once everyone was on board, the nine Dragon Horses let out a long whistle toward the sky, and they flapped their wings covered in fine Dragon Scales, flying toward the direction of Yecheng.

At the speed of the Dragon Horse Hall, it would only take two or three hours to reach Yecheng.

During the flight, a huge invisible Restriction enveloped the Dragon Horse Hall, blocking the biting cold wind outside.

The journey was without a hitch, and the Dragon Horse Hall successfully arrived at Yecheng, landing at the Yecheng Arena adjacent to Yecheng.

Like the previous session, this place was still the venue for the Academy Exchange Tournament.

Led by Xu Wenhua, the group arrived at the guesthouse outside the arena.

This time, the guesthouse arranged a courtyard for them that was larger than last year's, second only to the Royal Academy.

"These are the latest materials on the other three Academies; I hope you can spend some time on them."

At Xu Wenhua's signal, several Instructors handed out thick manuals to the forty participating students.

The other three Academies mentioned here naturally refer to the Four Great Academies, excluding Yuanling Academy.

As for Yecheng Academy, it can almost be said to be finished; it might still occupy a spot in the top eight for now, but in a year or two, it will be completely dragged down.

Li Zhangsheng arrived in his room, which was located right next to the four high-level officials and connected to a fairly large backyard.

Immediately, Li Zhangsheng activated the red, yellow, and blue Restriction, enveloping the entire room and a portion of the backyard.

Li Zhangsheng opened the manual he had just received and began to browse through it casually.

Tiandu Academy and Huating Academy were the same as always; both had two Fourth Rank students, and overall, Tiandu Academy was slightly stronger, yet it still struggled to pose a threat to Yuanling Academy.

Thus, Li Zhangsheng's focus naturally shifted to the Royal Academy.

Compared to last year, this year's Royal Academy was even stronger.

According to the data, Dou Yuanhua still had not advanced to the Sixth Rank, though it likely wasn't far off.

The Royal Academy possessed two Fifth Rank students and three Fourth Rank students; besides Dou Yuanhua, the other Fifth Rank student was not the current fourth-year student Lin Jieru, but the third-year student Dou Yuansheng.

The current Dou Yuansheng indeed possessed much of the flair Dou Yuanhua had last year; it was no wonder he could become a strong contender for the throne, as the resources he consumed were far beyond what an ordinary Prince could compare to.

"Cannot be careless; there might also be hidden strengths!"

After finishing the materials, Li Zhangsheng did not lower his guard; just as Li Zhangsheng tried his best to hide the fact that he had advanced to the Fifth Rank, the Royal Academy might also be concealing its strength.

Li Zhangsheng had already prepared for the worst-case scenario; it was possible that Dou Yuanhua had already advanced to the Sixth Rank, or that the Royal Academy was still hiding another Fifth Rank student.

By the way, asking for monthly votes!

(End of this chapter)