"He could not be wanting to defeat all five of the strongest experts on the Five Great Heaven Reaching Platforms one by one, right?"
Hearing this, the elders all remained silent, their expressions complex.
Ever since Magnus took over as Sect Master, the Elemental Trial had been held hundreds, if not thousands, of times.
Generally speaking, for an ordinary divine blade sect disciple to fight from the primary rings all the way to the final rings and occupy one of the Heaven Reaching Platforms was already a massive success, enough to make them weep tears of joy.
But a method like Alex’s was truly unprecedented in all the history of the Elemental Trial.
For a moment, Loris, Aerin, Torin, and the other elders all simultaneously cast complicated gazes toward Sylra.
The implication seemed to be saying: Senior Brother Sylra, just look at the good disciple you have trained, cuch domineering arrogance is simply cut from the exact same cloth as you.
On the Heaven Reaching Platforms, watching Alex leap down from midair again to size them up with deep interest, Clement and Ford instantly felt the urge to cry.
They never could have imagined that, as the dignified defenders of the Heaven Reaching Platforms, supposed to exist as two of the top five strongest and accept challenges from all disciples, they were actually frightened into trembling fear by an absolute nobody.
Ford struggled internally for a moment before biting the bullet. "Taryn, stop here! You have consecutively defeated Collin and Irene."
"The champion of this year’s Elemental Trial is undoubtedly you, we are all willing to revere you as the strongest."
"We just ask you to show a little mercy, alright?"
Ford’s words even carried a hint of pleading, the implication was clear: conceding the championship to you is no problem.
They only begged Alex to leave them a shred of face and not knock them all off the platforms.
However, Alex did not have the slightest intention of leaving them any face, his gaze swept over the remaining three. "Who is next?"
In fact, Alex genuinely was not doing this to act tough or pick fights, he was already reluctant to participate to begin with.
He only resorted to bullying the weak because he needed to obtain the Sun and Moon Five Elements Wheel, and he had no past grievances or recent enmity with these juniors, so there was no need to slaughter them all.
But Alex was truly afraid of trouble.
If he only defeated one and sat alongside the other four, then after the trial ended, how would the final results be calculated?
He would only be one of the five strongest, not the strongest person.
To get the Sun and Moon Five Elements Wheel, would he still have to go through some tedious tie breaker to defeat the other four later? Who knew how much more time would be wasted.
It was precisely because of this that Alex simply decided to go all out and finish the job, he might as well defeat all five of them today.
This way, all five platforms would be occupied by him alone, and the champion position and the Sun and Moon Five Elements Wheel would directly and securely belong to him.
"Kid, do not get too arrogant!" Seeing their proactive show of goodwill mercilessly rejected, Clement and Ford instantly felt they had lost all face, their expressions turning darker than charcoal.
"Hmph, do you really think you can defeat us with one hundred percent certainty? When it comes to elemental power, we might not necessarily lose to you! If you have the ability, then come and try us!"
Promptly, Alex sequentially teleported onto their respective platforms and fought a battle with each of them.
Two minutes later, the two were similarly thrown off and carried away on stretchers in a state of severe injury.
Even as they lay on the stretchers, their expressions remained frozen in sheer terror.
Today, Alex had thoroughly taught them a lesson, he showed them what it meant to throw an egg against a rock, and what it meant for a mantis to try and stop a chariot.
Though Clement and Ford did not sacrifice themselves completely in vain.
At the very least, crossing hands with them let the spectating elders realize something. Aside from water, fire, and wood, Alex could also freely use gold and earth techniques.
In an instant, all the elders present could no longer remain calm.
Five elements. To simultaneously manipulate five types of elemental power, what kind of concept was this?
Anyone who could master three elemental powers was already guaranteed to become a Supreme Realm powerhouse.
To fully master all five was a grand divine ability that only legendary Saints, or even Great Emperors, could possess.
This Taryn was guaranteed to be a Saint level talent in the future.
For a time, Alex’s status in the hearts of the elders directly caught up to, and even surpassed, Aya Cale’s.
After all, Aya’s Vault of Divine Blade Heart was obtained through external forces due to relatively good luck.
But Alex’s proficient mastery of these five elements was entirely born from his own innate talent.
Including Sylra himself, they could not help but wear expressions of astonishment and disbelief.
He had anticipated that since this kid dared to make such arrogant boasts, he definitely had attainment in the Dao of Elements, but he never imagined Alex’s elemental talent would be terrifying to this extent.
No wonder this kid dared to guarantee to his face that he would definitely bring the championship back.
To simultaneously manipulate all five elemental powers and possess extraordinarily proficient mastery over all of them.
With Alex’s level of strength, not to mention within their sword focused Divine Blade Sect, even in the world’s number one elemental sect, the Five Elements Sect, he would be a rare genius seen only once in ten thousand years.
Aerin remained silent for a moment before saying faintly. "Everyone, let us head over right now."