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Seeing how determined Lin Jian was agreeing, Gongsun Waner could not help but be somewhat astonished. In her heart, she had a feeling that she had been tricked.

But after thinking about it for a while, she still could not figure out where Lin Jian relied on. Based on the grand feat she had established on Wanxiang Pagoda back then, even her teacher, Chen Xuanliang, had once said that in the entire Greencloud City, within the span of a hundred years, there were few people who could compare to her in terms of talisman talent.

Gongsun Waner snorted, she twisted her waist and turned, walking towards the exit of the assessment hall.

Gongsun Waner stopped in her tracks, turned around, and raised her proud snow neck.

In the distance stood two enormous stone tablets.

On the stone tablet, each one had ten names formed from light, and on the lower stone tablet, the one ranked first was none other than Gongsun Waner.

"Earth Board Rank 1, Gongsun Waner, 396."

Lin Jian muttered to himself.

In Low-rank Charm Magician, Gongsun Waner's record was one hundred and forty-seven, and currently, as a Mid rank seal master, her record had already reached three hundred and ninety-six. With such a large progress and leap, even in the entire Charm Association, it could be considered counted on one hand, and it was worthy of the title of being a genius.

But, what was a pity, was that she was about to face Lin Jian, who had the Path of Divine Symbol.

"Let's begin."

There was no fear on Lin Jian's face as he turned around and walked toward the Wanxiang Pagoda.

Gongsun Waner snorted softly and said to the deacon in charge of Wanxiang Pagoda: "Thank you."

The man nodded and opened the door.

Lin Jian stepped into the tower, and when the door closed, darkness surrounded him, but very quickly, in the entire space, countless rays of light suddenly lit up, illuminating the entire Wanxiang Pagoda as brilliantly as the stars, and these countless rays of light represented an endless number of talismans.

smiled indifferently, extended his hand to grab, and more than ten spots of light appeared in his hand.

"I'll swallow it!"

Following that, Lin Jian activated Spirit Devouring Method and absorbed all of the light spots.

Very quickly, within Lin Jian's sea of consciousness, the Path of Divine Symbol began to revolve at a very fast speed, and completely analyzed the runes and the meaning of them.

According to the Wanxiang Pagoda's rules, Charm Magician only needed to distinguish the 'intent' that these beams of light represented. As long as one could recognize its name, even if one had completed the analysis of the talismans, one did not need to comprehend it completely. But Lin Jian, who had passed through the Path of Divine Symbol s, was now in one step.

Gradually, two hours passed by.

When the door to the Wanxiang Pagoda was opened, Lin Jian walked out with an expression of satisfaction.

Outside the door, everyone's eyes followed him.

"Finally out?"

Gongsun Waner snorted as she took out a jade scroll and threw it at him, "Inscribe all the charm characters you have comprehended from the Wanxiang Pagoda onto this jade scroll. At the same time you write your name, you will need to imbue this jade scroll.

Generally speaking, if it was a duel between Charm Magician s through Wanxiang Pagoda, then after coming out, one would have to calculate the number by means of a jade chip, except in a very small number of cases.

Lin Jian reached out, took the jade strips, and shook his head instead. "There's no need to go through all that trouble."

"Oh?"

Gongsun Waner's pretty face turned bright, and her smile became even wider: "Seems like you're prepared to admit defeat?"

From her point of view, Lin Jian must have said this because he knew that he had already lost this duel, and perhaps his loss was very ugly, so he did not want to reveal the number of talismans he had comprehended within the Wanxiang Pagoda in front of everyone, since it would be embarrassing if it was too low a price.

"No, I just need to wait a bit."

Lin Jian shook his head.

Gongsun Waner frowned, but just as she was about to ask, she heard a burst of surprised exclamations from the crowd.

"Earth Board!" "The Earth Board has changed …"

"What?"

Gongsun Waner was startled, and turned to look at the name list.

All they saw was a code name 'Spirit' appearing at the tenth rank of the Earth Board, and immediately after, all the way up, all the names on the original list, including Gongsun Waner's were stepped on, and finally fixed at the top of the list, and behind the code name, were the numbers written …

762!

In the blink of an eye, the entire Charm Association was overwhelmed with shock.

Gongsun Waner's delicate body trembled, and a trace of disbelief flashed through her beautiful eyes. How was this possible?!

In the Charm Association, there were a total of two rankings. One was the Heaven Ranking, and the other was the Earth Ranking.

The Heavenly Rankings was the overall rankings, and all Charm Magician s could rely on their strength to enter, but the Earth Ranking was different. There was a strict restriction that only Charm Magician below the age of twenty would be able to enter.

"This guy is actually not even twenty yet!"

Everyone looked at Lin Jian and gasped.

Although they had never thought that Gongsun Waner would lose the duel this time, what they had never expected was that the person who defeated Gongsun Waner, was actually not even twenty years old, and belonged to the same age as Gongsun Waner!

And...

Upon recalling the cause and effect of this matter, the crowd couldn't help but feel perplexed.

The duel Gongsun Waner proposed, was a record when Lin Jian defeated her Low-rank Charm Magician. This was clearly because Gongsun Waner had subconsciously placed herself on an even higher seat, as she looked down at Lin Jian from above.

But at this moment, not only had Lin Jian defeated Gongsun Waner's record at Low-rank Charm Magician, he had also crushed the record that she had maintained, which was a complete crushing defeat!

On the other side, after Lin Jian's code name 'Ling' had appeared on the Earth Board, there had been some changes to the Heaven Ranking, and the tenth place had disappeared. The eighth and ninth places had been pushed down, becoming the ninth and tenth places, and the current eighth place was occupied by Lin Jian's name.

"Heavens, this is unbelievable!"

"At the same time, there are people who occupy the Heavenly Rankings and the Earth Rankings. This has never happened before in the entire Greencloud City!"

"Who exactly is this person?" Could he be the genius from the Charm Magician who came to visit us? "

"…"

The place was in an uproar, and the crowd's discussion was like a tide.

Seeing that, Lin Jian smiled faintly.

In fact, this number did not reach his limit. If not for his current mental strength being too weak, he could have crushed the first ranker on the Heavenly Rankings and comprehended all the talismans in the Wanxiang Pagoda. This was the power of Path of Divine Symbol.

"Now it seems that you've lost."

Lin Jian calmly looked at Gongsun Waner. Towards this woman whom the original owner deeply admired, her eyes did not waver in the slightest.

"…"

Gongsun Waner's face was ashen, the huge blow had shaken her mind. At this moment, her head was lowered, and she was depressed. All along, her greatest source of pride and confidence was her talent in the Dao of talismans, but at this moment, a fellow peer wearing a mask had completely shattered her pride.

She raised her head with tears of unwillingness in her eyes and asked, "Who are you?"

"This has nothing to do with you."

Lin Jian shook his head and said: "You just need to fulfill our previous agreement of a duel, we have nothing else to do from now on."

Hearing this, Gongsun Waner's delicate body could not help but tremble slightly.

That was nearly 20,000 gold!

Before this, she had never thought that she would lose and would not feel any pressure when she promised. However, now that she had truly lost, this fictitious pressure turned into a heavy mountain pressing down on her, making her unable to move.

"I …"

Gongsun Waner bit her lips, her mind was in a mess.

"Could it be that he wants to go back on his word?"

Lin Jian asked.

"No way!"

Although the amount of money was an astronomical figure, it was not as if she could not afford it. She just needed to pay slowly, and if she wanted to ask Lin Jian to loosen up a little, she would have to give her face, but she could not.

Just then, a sigh came from outside the crowd, following that, a white-haired old man slowly walked in. He was Charm Association Chen Xuanliang, the current number one of the Heavenly Rankings.

"Tea-teacher …"

Gongsun Waner turned his head to look, and subconsciously lowered his head, her face full of shame.

Master Chen glanced at her, then shook his head and said: "Wan'er, you were previously full of yourself, but now do you know that there is always someone above you, that there is always someone above you?"

"Disciple understands his wrongs."

Gongsun Waner lowered her head even more, and didn't dare retort.

Master Chen nodded, he then looked at Lin Jian, and a look of admiration flashed past his eyes: "Young man, you are truly talented."

"I don't dare."

Lin Jian's expression was calm, facing this esteemed old man, Lin Jian was neither humble nor haughty: "Master is Gongsun Waner's teacher, he wouldn't help disciple renege our bet, right?"