Chapter 6664 Consecutive Battle to the Peak

“His name...!”

When Long Chen entered the martial stage this time, everyone was shocked to see a line of blood-red words on the stage.

“Consecutive battles to the peak?”

Shock rippled through the spectators, quickly turning into outrage. Was this a challenge to the entire Starry River Palace?

The “consecutive battles to the peak” was an extremely special combat setting within the rankings.

Once activated, the person standing on the stage could not reject a single challenge. Every challenge would be accepted automatically, without pause. In other words, as long as Long Chen remained undefeated, the battles would continue.

Only when Long Chen arrived at the very peak and looked down on everyone else beneath him would this mode end. It meant either reaching the peak of the Heaven Rankings... or failing miserably.

Long Chen was challenging everyone on the Heaven Rankings at once.

Although people had attempted this mode in the past, every one of them had been crushed. Even the number one Heaven Ranker could not withstand the cumulative pressure of ten thousand elite geniuses.

From their point of view, Long Chen had only gotten into the Heaven Rankings through blatant cheating. To choose this mode now was nothing short of courting death.

Even the fighters in the other martial arenas stopped when they saw the huge disturbance in Long Chen’s arena. As long as both sides consented and the martial stage’s item-spirit agreed to it, they could stop their battles with no loss to any side.

“Courting death! I’ll deal with him!”

A Heaven Ranker who had just finished his own battle caught sight of the words on Long Chen’s stage. Without even stopping to catch his breath, he raised his tablet and issued a challenge.

In the next instant, he was pulled into Long Chen’s martial stage.

Qu Yingying smiled mischievously when she saw this.

Just then, a sigh rang out behind her.

“Child, you are playing with fire!”

Qu Yingying jolted and turned around. “Patriarch!”

Standing behind her was Qu Liushang, vice palace master of the Starry River Palace and patriarch of the Qu family.

He had only just come out of seclusion when the chaos in the Starry River Managing Department disturbed him. After handling matters there, he returned to the Qu family. He wanted to personally hear reports on the palace’s situation and see if there were any outstanding disciples in this generation.

The reports confirmed his suspicions—problems had indeed taken root within the Starry River Palace. But when the Qu family’s heavenly geniuses came to greet him, one person was missing.

Their greatest genius: Qu Yingying.

Seeing their patriarch waiting on a junior unsettled the Qu family’s elders.

After investigating, they learned that Qu Yingying had immediately summoned a star boat after receiving the news and vanished. By all logic, she should have arrived long ago.

Knowing this, the elders grew increasingly anxious. They still couldn’t find her, and sweat dripped down their foreheads.

Fortunately, Qu Liushang was not angry. He calmed the elders down and simply spread his divine sense, which instantly encapsulated the entire Starry River Palace. He found Qu Yingying based on the Qu family’s bloodline and spiritual fluctuations.

When Qu Liushang saw that Qu Yingying was with Long Chen, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He then sent his spiritual body over to her.

That spiritual body was visible solely to Qu Yingying, thanks to her bloodline. Her eyes widened in shock. Only then did she remember that she was supposed to go pay respects to the patriarch.

Now, she had done it. Instead of going to see the patriarch, she had made the patriarch come to her.

Like a child caught misbehaving, Qu Yingying lowered her head, toes wriggling inside her shoes.

“Patriarch, please don’t scold me,” she said hurriedly. “I ran into someone on the way to see you. He’s extremely powerful, but his strength is hidden very deeply. The disciples of the nine heavens are being suppressed everywhere, so I didn’t want such a person to be crushed until he left the Starry River Palace. That would be a terrible loss for us.

“So I brought him here to climb the Heaven Rankings. This is his chance to shine. A genius like this shouldn’t be buried, right? I’m giving Long Chen and the disciples of the nine heavens a chance, and you... you wouldn’t blame me, would you?”

This girl’s mind worked quickly. That sudden display of righteous conviction would make it difficult for anyone to scold her outright.

But just who was Qu Liushang? He saw through her at once. If anything, she was a born troublemaker.

“When did they stop putting astral projections here?” asked Qu Liushang, looking around.

“Astral projections?” Qu Yingying blinked. “They stopped displaying them here long ago so people could watch the battles peacefully. Patriarch, is something wrong?”

Qu Liushang did not reply. At this point, what could he say? It wasn’t as though he could pull Long Chen off the stage.

“Have the person in charge activate the astral projection formation. Let the entire Starry River Palace watch this,” Qu Liushang ordered calmly.

“Yes!”

Qu Yingying immediately ran off to find the elder Long Chen had beaten earlier. When he started to protest, she added lightly, “These are the vice palace master’s orders.”

After that, she returned to the patriarch but found that he was already gone.

Just then, more and more nine star heirs arrived on the spectator platform.

After the astral projection was activated, countless disciples wanted to personally witness what was going on.

“Big Sister Yingying! The patriarch was looking for you! Do you know how worried we were?!”

Over ten young disciples rushed over anxiously.

They had all gone to pay respects to the patriarch and had been waiting for Qu Yingying the whole time. Back then, the situation was so nerve-wracking that every second felt like a year. They could no longer count how many times they had grumbled about Qu Yingying in their hearts.

Qu Yingying waved them off. “Hehe, it’s fine. I already saw the patriarch. He didn’t scold me.”

Pointed toward the martial stage, she continued, “Come, watch the fun with me. See that handsome man in black? He’s my new little brother. I’m telling you, he’s incredibly strong. In the future, think of some ways to bring him into our Qu family. That will raise the level of our junior generation by an entire tier—”

All of a sudden, Qu Yingying realized that everyone was looking at her oddly.

“Hey, what’s with that expression?” she asked.

“Big Sister Yingying, do you still remember your seventh uncle?” asked one woman.

“Huh? Why wouldn’t I?” Qu Yingying asked in confusion.

“This Long Chen beat up your seventh uncle not long ago. And... it was quite a bad beating too.”

“Huh?”

Qu Yingying froze. Suddenly, the strange expression on the patriarch’s face earlier made perfect sense.

Just then, the martial stage flashed, and everyone turned to look at it.

The battle was about to begin.

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