A big dark horse, absolutely a big dark horse.
One had to know that even just a few months ago, jokes about Jiang Chen still abounded in the capital. Jiang Chen had even been the butt of all the jokes of the Hidden Dragon Trials, a unique character who couldn’t even pass the foundational exams!
However, the affairs of the world are inconstant!
They say that changes in prosperity and decline were capricious in their rise and fall, such as feng shui being favorable on the east side of the river for thirty years, and being favorable on the west side for the other thirty years.
This Jiang Chen had such a rapid change in prosperity and decline, that feng shui had shifted to the other side of the river in three months!
Multiple teams also completed the test after Jiang Chen’s team had passed the tests and walked out of the arena.
Long Yinye and Long Juxue’s team were close behind Jiang Chen’s, with the rest of the four great dukes following afterwards.
There was still quite a basis for talk of family foundations and strength at times like these.
Compared to the other dukes of the first rank, the advantages of the four great dukes were quite apparent.
The Duke of Soaring Dragon had even more apparent advantage out of the four great dukes.
Of course, there was no point in contrasting any of this at this moment because Jiang Chen had appeared. This caused the four great dukes, even the heirs of Soaring Dragon, to be overshadowed and eclipsed.
This was unprecedented that the limelight of the heirs to Soaring Dragon had been suppressed by someone!
One had to know that the Duke of Soaring Dragon had occupied the position of duke of first rank for far, far too long. Almost no powers had appeared in several hundred years to challenge their existence.
Even the existence of someone close to them didn’t exist, not to mention someone who could challenge their position.
However, an unexpected development had appeared today.
An unexpected development that hadn’t been present for hundreds of years had appeared!
Although this small test wasn’t a pivotal one, and just a minor detail that had nothing to do with the greater picture, a general observation of previous Hidden Dragon Trials would reveal that the existence of Soaring Dragon heirs stood out like a crane standing amongst chickens. They were far in the lead, whether in terms of the greater picture, or in the smallest details.
And now, even though they had been surpassed by someone else in the smallest of details, this was still a first in hundreds of years!
News travelled fast, as if it had grown legs and ran along the wind. It had traveled through almost the entire capital in fifteen minutes.
This news was simply too shocking.
The heirs of Soaring Dragon had been surpassed by someone on the Hidden Dragon Trials!
As for the person in question, Jiang Chen, he didn’t feel smugly satisfied at all. His sights were set directly on the third mission after completing the second.
Only after successfully completing the third mission would it be the equivalent of pronouncing that the Jiang Han territory had successfully attempted for duke of first rank.
The succeeding ranking battles would determine the internal rankings of the dukes of first rank.
The ranking battles were the true goal of Jiang Chen’s participation in the Hidden Dragon Trials this time.
These so-called missions were all just warm-ups and appetizers.
His reaction was diffident, but he couldn’t stop the spread of the story behind this time’s upset. The reactions from all sides were greatly beyond his forecasts.
When the Soaring Dragon household received this news, all those present burst into an uproar. Long Zhaofeng, the Duke of Soaring Dragon himself, was silent for quite a while. He had given the order previously that no matter what the methods, Jiang Chen had to die and could not be permitted to grow into his power.
Within the palace, Eastern Lu was similarly speechless for quite a while when he received immediate updates of this. He tragically realized that in the tussle between the royal family and the Duke of Soaring Dragon, Jiang Chen, this originally nameless kid, had become the greatest weapon that the royal family had no choice but to rely on.