Of course, there were very few who truly believed in Terra Su. The scions of noble families naturally assumed that Qi Yuntian would emerge victorious without any suspense.
As for the children of humble origins, although they hoped Terra Su could win and bring some honor to their kind, deep down, they felt that Terra Su’s chances of winning the competition were slim.
“I bet he won’t last more than ten breaths before Terra Su can’t take it anymore and runs out of the testing room with ten times the Celestial Fire’s power.”
“Absolutely, who can withstand ten times the Celestial Fire’s power?”
The noble scions all had mocking smiles in their eyes as they stared at the door of Terra Su’s testing room.
In their view, in less than ten breaths, they would be able to enjoy the sight of Terra Su fleeing from the testing room in a sorry state. At that time, it would further prove that the children of humble origins were nothing but worthless.
Yuan Qingcheng stood outside the testing room with his arms crossed, a relaxed smile on his face as he watched the door of Terra Su’s testing room, waiting for Terra Su to come out in a humiliating state.
However, time passed by second by second.
After about half a quarter of an hour, there was still no movement from Terra Su’s testing room.
Yuan Qingcheng sneered, feeling a bit surprised, “This kid, he can actually hold on?”
He naturally didn’t believe that Terra Su had any significant fire-attributed talent, but rather thought that Terra Su was stubbornly enduring in the fire-attributed testing room.
This kind of endurance could only last for half a quarter of an hour at most, any longer would be impossible.
However, to Yuan Qingcheng’s astonishment, as time continued to pass, Terra Su still hadn’t come out of the testing room.
Looking at the time, a whole quarter of an hour had passed.
A full quarter of an hour under ten times the Celestial Fire’s power was no longer a matter of mere endurance.
Yuan Qingcheng’s expression shifted from a smile to one of growing seriousness. He began to wonder if something had gone wrong with Terra Su in the testing room.
Although he wanted to suppress Terra Su, he didn’t want anything to happen to him in the testing room, because he was responsible for this talent test. If something happened to Terra Su, Yuan Qingcheng, as an old student, would definitely be held accountable.
Moreover, he had played a role in orchestrating this competition, which was evident to everyone.
So, Yuan Qingcheng started to panic. He couldn’t stand still and began pacing back and forth anxiously. He wasn’t afraid of Terra Su dying, but he was afraid of being implicated.
The problem was, once the testing room door was closed, it couldn’t be opened from the outside, only from the inside.
So, despite Yuan Qingcheng’s growing anxiety, he couldn’t enter the testing room to check the situation, and could only wait outside.
Inside the testing room, as soon as Qi Yuntian entered, he immediately began to circulate his “Great Sun Fire Art,” starting to resist the scorching heat emanating from the ground.
Being a fire-attributed Martial Practitioner, he could absorb some of the Celestial Fire’s power through his cultivation technique. The remaining fire power could be resisted with his True Essence and physique, so it wasn’t a problem for a short period.
However, the Celestial Fire’s power still made his body feel uncomfortable as it scorched his hair and skin.
Qi Yuntian wasn’t fully focused on the test in front of him; his mind was more on the adjacent testing room, listening intently for any movement.
As a whole quarter of an hour passed, Qi Yuntian still hadn’t heard the door of the adjacent testing room open.
This meant that Terra Su hadn’t left the adjacent testing room and was still inside.
This was far from Qi Yuntian’s initial expectation. He had thought that Terra Su would be crying out and fleeing from the ten times Celestial Fire’s power testing room within ten breaths.
But now, there were no cries, not even the sound of the door opening.
Two quarters, three quarters…
A full half-hour passed, and there was still no sound of the door opening, not even a single complaint.
“Could it be that the guy fainted from the heat as soon as he entered the testing room?”
Qi Yuntian speculated, thinking that this must be the case, but he didn’t dare to bet on it. What if Terra Su was faking it?
If he stepped out of the testing room now, as long as Terra Su came out a moment later, Terra Su would win!
“No way, I can’t let that poor country bumpkin take advantage of this.” Qi Yuntian gritted his teeth. He knew that if he lost to Terra Su, his reputation as a genius would be ruined.
“How can I lose to a humble genius?”
Qi Yuntian took a deep breath and focused all his attention on resisting the ten times Celestial Fire’s power in the testing room. As time passed, the fire power in the room accumulated more and more, making it increasingly difficult to resist. Even with all his effort, Qi Yuntian began to struggle.
In the adjacent testing room, however, the scene was entirely different from what Qi Yuntian imagined.
Terra Su sat cross-legged in the center of the testing room, with the Celestial Fire infant standing on his thigh, its small mouth wide open, devouring the ten times Celestial Fire’s power in large gulps.
The Celestial Fire infant ate with great relish, the heat waves in the testing room being sucked into its mouth in long streams from all directions.
“Yum yum yum, delicious!” The Celestial Fire infant smacked its lips, looking very satisfied.
The rest of the testing room was clean, with not a trace of the Celestial Fire’s power. The fire power was almost entirely consumed by the Celestial Fire infant as soon as it emerged from the ground.
At this moment, those outside probably thought Terra Su was struggling bitterly in the testing room, not realizing that he was leisurely sitting inside, watching the Celestial Fire infant feast.
The ten times Celestial Fire’s power was the best nourishment for the Celestial Fire infant, just like humans need food. The Celestial Fire infant also needed this kind of nourishment from time to time, similar to rare fire-attributed treasures.
Because it was a Celestial Fire, it could digest the ten times Celestial Fire’s power.
After eating its fill, the Celestial Fire infant’s body noticeably grew larger, its round form plopping down on the ground, satisfied, and it burped out a thick pillar of fire.
The fire pillar hit the wall of the testing room, immediately leaving a charred mark. This wasn’t common; since the room was a fire-attributed testing room, the walls were made of heat-resistant materials. But these materials were still marked by the flames spewed by the Celestial Fire infant.
It could only be said that the temperature of the flames from the Celestial Fire infant was incredibly high.
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