"Just who is this fellow?!"
The elders were all restless, and Sylra also stared at that back figure in a daze for a moment before saying in astonishment. "Is that not my peak’s Taryn?"
Hearing this, everyone instantly fell silent, their expressions becoming incomparably complex.
The implication seemed to say: Senior Brother Sylra, are you not bullying people a bit too much? Secretly passing down such a powerful fire technique to your disciple Taryn, letting him come straight to the Elemental Trial to unleash a dimensional strike on our disciples.
For a moment, everyone finally understood why Nerin had so strongly opposed letting Taryn participate in the Elemental Trial back then.
If they had known this fellow’s strength was this outrageous, they might as well have let Aya Cale participate.
However, even Sylra’s face was full of shock. He had not expected Alex to actually have such an astonishing performance.
Nerin, however, appeared incredibly calm, sitting expressionlessly with his arms crossed as if he had anticipated this all along.
In fact, of those present, only Nerin knew that Alex absolutely showed mercy on account of Sylra’s face.
Otherwise, their disciples would not just be simply burned. Rather, they would be directly burned to ashes, not even leaving behind a single bone fragment.
After successfully advancing from the final rings, Alex yawned and lazily walked toward the Heaven-Reaching Platforms.
As for the five heavenly geniuses on the platforms, watching Alex approach them step by step, they could not help but slightly change their expressions.
They had all witnessed his terrifying performance just now.
Clement, Collin, and the others, who had been immensely dismissive and sneered at Alex just moments ago, instantly revealed stern expressions, not daring to be the slightest bit careless.
After all, relying on a single move, Alex had directly wiped out the thirty disciples of the final rings.
Those thirty were the batch with the most outstanding elemental talent in the entire Divine Blade Sect. Even for them, defeating any one of those thirty would require quite a bit of effort.
Yet Alex had effortlessly defeated all of them as if crushing flies.
They finally realized that even though the Elemental Trial had just begun, they were already facing an unprecedentedly formidable challenger.
In an instant, Alex had arrived beneath the Heaven-Reaching Platforms. He clasped his hands together, stretched lazily, and looked up at the handsome men and beautiful women atop the five wooden pillars.
The five also looked down at him from above, treating him like a formidable enemy.
At the same time, they secretly felt nervous in their hearts, guessing which one of them Alex would choose to challenge.
The most nervous among them was naturally Collin.
As a fire cultivator, Alex naturally had elemental suppression against wood cultivators., challenging him would be the wisest choice.
Collin had clearly witnessed the terrifying power of the Fire Cloud Tribulation just now. Relying on his own wood manipulation technique to block it would probably be harder than ascending to the heavens.
If he wanted to defeat this fellow, he had to strike first to gain the upper hand. He absolutely could not give him a chance to attack. He had to defeat him a step ahead.
Just as Collin had already thought up a method to deal with Alex in his heart, and when everyone else was certain that Alex would definitely challenge Collin, Alex stood in place in silence for a long time before suddenly speaking up.
"Which of you wants to go first?"
The five heavenly geniuses were stunned.
According to the rules, challengers advancing from the final rings only needed to defeat any one of the five to occupy a spot on the Heaven-Reaching Platforms.
This kid actually asked which of them wanted to go first, could it be that he wanted to defeat all five of them, one by one?
"Heh, kid, what are you acting so arrogant for!" A trace of anger flowed in Collin’s eyes. Feeling as if he were being looked down upon, he gritted his teeth.
"If you have the capability, come up to the ring! To deal with you, I alone am enough!"
"Alright, then it is you." Alex nodded.
With a flash of his figure, he directly teleported onto the wooden pillar where Collin was.
The pillar looked slender and narrow, seemingly only able to accommodate Collin alone.
But the moment Alex teleported into midair, a domain instantly unfolded around them, transforming into a sealed combat ring isolated from the outside world.
Clement, Ford, and the others could not enter the domain but could see what was happening inside. Seeing Alex and Collin standing several meters apart, they could not help but start guessing, they communicated silently using sound transmission techniques.
Clement said. "The way I see it, if Collin wants to defeat this Taryn, it probably will not be easy."
"Indeed, this Taryn defeated thirty disciples with a single strike, proving his skills are not beneath ours." Ford nodded in agreement.
"Under equal strength, how easy could it be for a wood cultivator to defeat a fire cultivator who naturally counters him?"
He did not forget to arrogantly flatter himself. "However, if it were me, the number one water cultivator of the Divine Blade Sect, stepping up, defeating him would be as easy as bullying a child!"
Feeling the somewhat mocking and gloating gazes of the others, Collin gritted his teeth, a trace of coldness flowing in his eyes.
"Bastards, how dare you underestimate me. I am, at any rate, one of the five supreme experts of the previous Elemental Trial, the strongest wood cultivator in the entire Divine Blade Sect."
"You think you can defeat me just by relying on elemental suppression?"
"Kid, do not be too whimsical!"
"Flying Leaf Shocking Stream!"
Collin let out a loud shout. From the sleeves of both his arms, thousands of pale green leaves flew out. Blown by an invisible airflow, the leaves spun at high speeds in a spiral formation, like a roaring wooden dragon, they howled and bit toward Alex!