The Strongest Dandy in the City

Chapter 2467 - 2456: Illusionary Selection

The Wu family has a total of fifteen branches.Each branch elected three members of the younger generation, totaling forty-five people.

Upon receiving the summons, the ancestors of the fifteen branches all gathered on the left side of the fifth low mountain adjacent to Ascend Heaven Mountain.

The top of the fifth low mountain had a huge square built on it.

The disciples from these branches were still not qualified to set foot on Ascend Heaven Mountain, nor enter the Wus headquarters.

Once all members of the fifteen branches arrived.

Wu Zhiming appeared on the vast square, indicating he was solely responsible for this matter concerning the branches.

Ultimately, only three people could be selected from the forty-five, and if they were to fight one by one, it would be too troublesome.

Wu Zhiming, being the ancestor who enforces the laws, also lacked the patience for repetitive battles, and besides, what excitement would a battle among branch disciples truly offer?

After Wu Zhiming arrived.

The entire massive square became quiet.

Wu Zhiming did not speak immediately but scanned the crowd. He was actually a bit perplexed because Ye Chenfeng should have contacted him long ago. After all, he made it clear that as long as it was within his ability, he could help Ye Chenfeng with anything.

For the disciples of the Wu family branches, this was practically a godsend opportunity, yet Ye Chenfeng never contacted him.

This puzzled Wu Zhiming the most.

He couldn’t help but send a voice transmission to Ye Chenfeng: "Little guy, with your strength at the fifth stage of the Earth God Realm, you probably won’t make it to represent our Wu family in the branch battle against the six great hidden sects. If you speak up, I can directly grant you a spot."

To be honest.

Ye Chenfeng had no interest whatsoever in the branch competition, but he now needed to gradually understand the internal dynamics of the Wu family, so he had to stay and participate.

As for Wu Zhiming directly giving him a spot, he didn’t think much about it. He simply replied via voice transmission: "I will use my own strength."

Right now, Ye Chenfeng was not suitable to reveal his identity. If he took a spot directly, although other branches wouldn’t dare to say much because of Wu Zhiming’s influence, it’s better not to complicate things.

After hearing Ye Chenfeng’s reply, Wu Zhiming became increasingly interested in him and transmitted, "Little guy, overconfidence is not a good thing. I’ll be watching to see how you perform."

After Wu Zhiming finished the transmission to Ye Chenfeng, he finally spoke: "Due to the large number of participants, I do not intend to use the conventional fight format."

"Does anyone have any objections?"

Naturally, the people from the branches all agreed with Wu Zhiming’s decision.

Standing next to Ye Chenfeng, Wu Gui kept scanning the other branch participants, whispering, "Brother, do you see the guy in white on the right? His name is Wu Qishui, and his strength is at the initial stage of the Heavenly God Realm. He’s quite famous among all the branches, and his combat prowess is said to be outstanding."

"And look at the guy in black on the left. His name is Wu Xingjian, and his strength is also at the initial stage of the Heavenly God Realm. Like Wu Qishui, he’s one of the only two people among the younger generation of all branches who crossed into the Heavenly God Realm."

"Looks like these two are set to claim one of the participant spots."

While Wu Gui was speaking.

Wu Zhiming waited a while, and seeing that no one objected, he casually waved his arm.

A bright light flared up on the huge square.

Soon, a gigantic chessboard appeared on the square, with stone chairs placed within its squares.

Wu Zhiming said: "All participants should pick a chair and sit down. The mechanics are simple: those who remain seated until the end are the ones representing the Wu family branches in the branch battle against the six great hidden sects."

"Of course, once seated on the stone chairs, you’ll encounter illusions, and only by resisting them can you remain seated stably."

It turns out they need to undergo an illusion test.

Since the content of the test was already known, what difficulty could there be?

Many disciples from the branches were full of confidence, continuously reminding themselves that everything coming up was just illusions, and there was no need to take them seriously.

After Wu Zhiming finished speaking.

All branch members chose a stone chair on the giant chessboard and sat down.

Of course, Ye Chenfeng, Wu Gui, and Wu Lingyu also stepped onto the giant chessboard.

After all the disciples were seated on the stone chairs, Wu Zhiming’s body slightly emitted a spiritual energy fluctuation, and then the entire gigantic chessboard was enveloped in a bluish glow.

Sitting on the stone chair, Ye Chenfeng.

Once the chessboard was enveloped by the blue glow, driven by some kind of force, his eyes involuntarily closed.

His actual strength was at the peak of the Divine King Realm.

And the chessboard-like mechanism only created illusions for those below the Divine King Realm.

Thus, although Ye Chenfeng suppressed his power to the Earth God Realm, and even ordinary Divine Venerable experts couldn’t detect it, the mechanism sensed it.

As a result.

Ye Chenfeng did not enter the illusion at all.

Among those seated on the stone chairs, Ye Chenfeng appeared to have the weakest apparent strength, and those ancient ancestors watching from outside the chessboard naturally assumed Ye Chenfeng would be the first to be eliminated, jokingly teasing Wu Ren.

"Wu Ren, your branch is becoming more and more useless. You even selected a kid at the fifth stage of the Earth God Realm to compete?"

"Wu Ren, has your branch’s younger generation declined to such an extent that you let a kid at the fifth stage of the Earth God Realm compete? He’s mostly just here for the fun."

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As of now, Wu Ren still didn’t know Ye Chenfeng’s true strength.

He always assumed Ye Chenfeng’s strength was at the fifth stage of the Earth God Realm, but as the disciple of Wu Fengxian and Jiang Yuntian, Ye Chenfeng’s combat power was extremely powerful.

Yet, no matter how strong the battle prowess, ultimately it couldn’t transcend the huge gap in cultivation levels.

As the other branch ancestors continuously spoke.

A sudden scream echoed: "Ah!"

One disciple from a branch, at the sixth stage of the Earth God Realm, showed a face full of pain, his throat producing exceedingly sharp sounds, and he was ejected from the chessboard.

After being thrown out, he kept muttering: "No, no, no..."

Clearly, his senses hadn’t fully recovered.

Contrary to everyone’s expectations.

The first to fail wasn’t Ye Chenfeng.

At this moment, Ye Chenfeng appeared as calm as an old monk in meditation, his face without any expression.

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