Degrade from Nobility to a Humble Slave novel Chapter 406

"Younger generation? Are you kidding me? Vale, you're only a little older than me. You may have reached the Illuminating Soul Realm earlier than I do, but it doesn't mean you're more powerful than me! How dare you call me younger generation?" Zen snorted.

The participants of the All Peaks Competition were shocked when they had known that Zen might be Yan's elder brother.

When they heard the conversation between Zen and Vale, they were even more surprised to see Zen's attitude toward Vale.

Zen had shown great potential that made him the most powerful among the top disciples of the thirty-three peaks.

As a practitioner at the second-grade nature level, it was a miracle for Zen to defeat Cecil. Besides, his victory against Dick with his magical purple and black life vitality was the greatest miracle of all time.

However, both Cecil and Dick were only the top disciples of the thirty-three peaks. They were still far from Rocher, Wing, and Sheeny when it came to competence, and there was still a long way to go for them to be on par with the personal disciples.

Jacques was just at the second-grade nature level when he had participated in the previous competition. But because he was also a personal disciple, his power and competence had already been far beyond his peers.

The All Peaks Competition was held in many sessions. In each session, the first up to the third place had been won by the personal disciples, and it was seldom that the disciples of the thirty-three peaks would get the top ranks. When the personal disciples gave their best in the competitions, the disciples from the thirty-three peaks would lose their chance to be on the top twenty.

From this point, it was easy to see the gap between the disciples of the thirty-three peaks and the personal disciples. Although the number of personal disciples was small, they had easy access to abundant resources provided by the Cloud Sect and they had personal masters to teach them. Therefore, all of them were powerful enough with their own unique skills.

Vale was outstanding even amongst the personal disciples.

According to the Cloud Sect List, he was part of the top fifteen last year. However, the personal disciples' ranking in the Cloud Sect List was not reflective of their actual power and strength.

Because they seldom competed with the others and they could improve their skills so fast, the ranking list was unable to measure their real competence at all.

Even if Vale had ranked fifteen in the Cloud Sect List, it could be that he had the competence to be in the first rank.

The other disciples feared Vale and would stutter at the sight of him, just like how they would react in front of an elder.

And because of that, the other disciples thought Zen as extremely arrogant in his manner of speaking with Vale.

Vale had always been indifferent, but it was hard for him to stay calm right now because of Zen's sharp tongue. But since he had a reputation to protect, he dared not to speak ill towards Zen. But the rage in him had turned his face pale.

After all, Vale was no ordinary man. After many years of cultivation, he knew that it was very important for a practitioner to stay calm all the time. So, he summoned his life vitality and an extremely beautiful lotus formed in his hand. He crushed the lotus into pieces and then a gust of cold air came out from the lotus pieces.

After a short while, Vale regained his composure. He then said with a slight smile, "You were trying to provoke me so that I would make mistakes in our competition. That way you would have a chance to win. Am I right? I have to admit, you managed to piss me off. But now you have to pay for it!"

As Vale finished his words, sparkly red lights appeared around Vale. Like clusters of flame, the red lights brightened and formed lotus flowers, then they floated towards Zen.

'Vale has further improved again! I can see it from the lotus. But I will try my best to fight him for myself, and for Yan too!' Zen thought.

He summoned the six demonic phantoms which spiraled out from his behind. They hit towards the lotus with incredible speed and strength.

Sitting on his big chair on the platform with his hands tightly holding onto the armrest, Kenneth asked, "Xu, the members of Cloud Sect don't seem to take me seriously. Are they still considering me as the head of Cloud Sect?"

Elder Xu was surprised at Kenneth's question. He asked cautiously, "Sir, what makes you think that?"

"Zen is not only a potential disciple but the older brother of Yan as well. But how come I didn't know about this until today?" Kenneth asked back. Even though Zen was only at the second-grade nature level, he could already be on par with the Illuminating Soul Realm masters. That meant he must be extremely talented, but Kenneth wondered why no one had ever mentioned Zen to him. He seldom appeared among the disciples, so it was no wonder he knew little about Zen. However, how could those elders, the Saints and even the stewards of Cloud Sect turn a blind eye to such a talented disciple?

The very essence of Cloud Sect was to find gifted disciples in the Eastern Region for Cloud Hall. A reasonable set of rules in finding the talents had been designed in Cloud Sect. For example, if a steward found a disciple who performed well in the secret cultivation land, he would report it to his supervisor. Then his supervisor would report to the responsible person with a higher rank. When the higher rank official validated the newly found talent, the steward would then get a reward.

Under the rules, the disciples generally had little chance to be missed out if they were performing well.

Despite being a practitioner at the second-grade nature level, Zen had already defeated so many powerful disciples in the All Peaks Competition. That was enough reason to prove that he was a gifted disciple.