Chapter 430: Astonishing Five Elements!
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
All Eunuch Sun could do was nervously watched Yun Biluo heading up to the ring. She then took a step forward and placed her hand on the transparent crystal ball.
It was only an instant and a dazzling orangey-yellow shone from the bottom of the crystal ball, emanating a brightly, almost purely perfect light!
The crowd rumbled at the same time, "It's Gold League Level Ten!"
"Gosh! It's Gold League Level Ten! Throughout the entire Capital, including the teachers from White Academy, there was only a handful that could reach Level Ten! This Miss Yun is really amazing!"
"She is not just amazing, look at her, the Capital has welcomed such a beauty!"
"Miss Yun will surely win!"
When Yun Biluo saw the influence she caused, a bashful curve curled up on her lips, she said to those people, "Thank you." Her methods of captivating hearts were skillfully utilized.
The next one would be Helian Wei Wei.
Helian Jiao Er stood aside steadily, waiting to see how Helian Wei Wei would make a fool of herself.
Despite that, Helian Wei Wei casually walked up the stairs and extended her fair palm to put it on the crystal ball without any hesitation.
Helian Jiao Er nonchalantly chuckled, she was expecting Helian Wei Wei to be a mere Water League no matter how decent she might look like...
"Why are there no changes after so long?" someone sneered, "Could it be that she didn't know how to insert her martial Qi into the crystal ball like last time?"
"Don't criticize her like that, she is still one of Third Prince's."
"Why do you worry about that because soon she won't be anymore. If she has no talent at all, it's certain that she will be divorced!"
The sneers were getting louder, it irritatingly echoed around the streets and corners.
However, Helian Wei Wei did not care about the voices around her, instead, she seemed to be brewing something, then she landed her slim fingers on the crystal ball again and exerted her strength fully!
A swooshing sound emitted from the crystal ball before mist rose all around!
An unknown wind blew in from all directions.
It whistled as it blew and fluttered everything it came across.
The supervisor beside the crystal ball was somehow affected uncontrollably!
They unconsciously looked toward Helian Wei Wei and a trace of disbelief flashed over their hearts. No... it seemed impossible. The princess consort was so young, it was impossible for her to utilize that many attributes of martial Qi at once!
The whistling north wind rumbled around the ring, the crowd outside the ring could only feel their cheeks were painful. Great efforts were needed to clearly catch a glimpse of the changes in the crystal ball.
Wait!
What is that?
Gold?!
Such a pure and heavy gold color, which they had not seen before!
Is... is this Level Ten?
No, something is wrong!
It was much scarier than the Level Ten!
The scarier thing was after the gold color vanished, the flowing streams inside the crystal ball did not calm down, instead, it turned into a thick brown color!
That, that was Wood League!
How was that possible?
Everyone knew gold, wood, water, fire, and earth were five different elements; if they were fused together, they were prone to repel each other. Bad cultivation would cause one to be obsessed and lost their mind; that was why everyone was progressing league by league!
But now, Helian Wei Wei was controlling all the colors ignited in the crystal ball at her own will, every single color was lit up to the brightest. Lastly, the crystal ball shone in all colors and lit up everyone's eyes!
Helian Wei Wei stood there with one hand on the crystal ball while her dark long hair waved along with the wind, emanating an indescribable elegance.
At the same time, everyone there either noble officials or normal civilians was astonished!
They knew the upcoming crystal ball evaluation would be useless!
Throughout the entire world, only the Third Prince had once shown three types of different martial Qi elements, no matter how powerful the others were, they were only at Infant League!
This was unexpected!
The daughter of Helian family who was deemed as trash and always infatuated with men could actually control martial Qi of all elements!
Upon reaching her hand, all those martial Qi were wielded simply like nothing but a game!
Helian Jiao Er was paled by the scene. She put her hands together tightly, her eyes shook when she watched Helian Wei Wei walking down from the ring. She really wanted to dash up and check whether the crystal ball was faulty!
Even Eunuch Sun was shocked, he widened his mouth and glanced over to the cold-looking Baili Jia Jue who was sitting lazily.
Once he saw his master was not shocked at all, he immediately understood!
His master must have already known everything about the princess consort since the very beginning!
Otherwise, he would never agree to select a secondary consort!
Eunuch Sun's mood went from worry to excitement, he continued to pay attention to the scene!
Since there was no such situation happening in the previous crystal ball evaluation, the evaluators were a little stunned.
But soon, they suppressed their shocks and absent-mindedly announced the name of the next candidate.
However, everyone knew in their hearts that it was needless to continue the test already!
Unless Helian Jiao Er too could ignite all five elements in the crystal ball, then she might still win.
However, the upcoming outcome did not stray away from expectations.
Helian Jiao Er's delighted Gold League Level Nine was nothing compared to the colorful crystal ball!
It seemed like Helian Wei Wei had always been like this, refreshing people's knowledge about her every time!
Trash?
She was utterly the genius of the decade, no, the century!
"I hereby announce the Third Princess Consort wins!" Eunuch Sun's words subsided.
Baili Jia Jue who sat aside stood up right after, his glare had a trace of delight but that delight would send chills down one's spine. He casually twisted his jade ring and said in an elegant voice, "Shadow, do you remember the things that I've told you?" action
Shadow shut his eyes, "I remember them well."
"Read it out loud to them then, let them know why I want to cut their tongues," Baili Jia Jue said casually.
Then, as Shadow uttered the names one by one, all of those who had criticized Helian Wei Wei earlier knelt onto the ground, their clothes were all drenched in cold sweat!
They never would have expected this!
They thought the Third Prince was thinking of switching Helian Wei Wei a long time ago.
Why did he stand up for her like this?
Were all the previous rumors fake?
When the possibility came into mind, the faces of those people went pale like they had lost all of their blood, the pale looks were terrifying.
"Take them away." It was only three words but one could feel the killer intents like never before.
Yun Biluo's eyes were watching that shockingly while her hands subtly clenched. When she noticed the gaze from the opposite crowd, her eyes seemed a little bit red but there was still a smile on her face as if she was voicing her grievance...
The bystanders dared not criticize Helian Wei Wei anymore, but there were still other young ladies from the noble families who were close with Yun Biluo softened their voice beside her ears, "Sister Yun, don't feel sad, even if she has great talent, it's still a waste if her looks were bad..."
Chapter 431: Preparing To Astonish The Crowd
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
The person was right.
No matter how fantastic the result of the cultivation test, as long as the look was not favorable, it would be useless!
Helian Wei Wei's biggest weak point right now would be her looks!
It was not a problem when someone was to look only at her features, but her face was too dark and she had something similar to freckles smeared all over her face, which was not presentable.
It was impossible for such a face to win over Yun Biluo who was called the tender beauty.
"Sister Yun, you must look at the bright side. Everyone knows your looks are deemed as the number one. Certainly, you will win the next round and someone will surely get disqualified." The person spoke very softly, no one else except Yun Biluo could hear her.
Despite that, Yun Biluo knew how she should react, so she smiled tenderly. "There are many other sisters other than me who are a beauty themselves, like you, Sister Lan, and..." She still has no idea who would be the first on the appearance evaluation.
"And what?"
Yun Biluo cleared her throat softly a few times, making herself appear more sympathetic. "Nothing, I just feel that sometimes no matter how good looks are, they are not an attraction to His Highness."
"Sister Yun, don't say something like that. The presence of His Highness proves that he still cares about you."
Yun Biluo smiled through tears, causing her to look extremely innocent, "Really?"
"Of course, it's real," said the person as she took a glance at Helian Wei Wei.
After the crystal ball evaluation, there were only five that remained.
Helian Wei Wei, Yun Biluo, Helian Jiao Er, and so on.
The five that remained would enter the next round, which would be a contest of looks.
However, anyone with a clear sight could see, if swans were used as a figure of speech, and Helian Wei Wei would be the disharmonic ugly duckling.
Yet she stood at the first position, anyone who looked at her only remembered the blackness of her face, no further attention was paid on her facial features.
Everyone was impressed by the Third Prince's sense of beauty for choosing such an ugly woman as a princess consort back then!
Even Lord Liao, who was in charge of the secondary consort selection this time, could not understand. He turned around and said loudly, "The second round, the contest of looks, begins now! After the contest of looks, you can reveal your number and see whether it is the same with the initial appearance evaluation! All the xiunu¹ please come up on stage and stand accordingly!" action
As soon as his voice subsided, five of them walked up the tall ring together.
Helian Wei Wei was indubitability arranged in the first position as she won first place during the first round.
"Every xiunu¹ has a basic point of 50 and additional points will be added on the basic points. The one with the highest points wins. Three xiunu¹ will be eliminated in this round, which meant the two left will rely on their combined results to decide the winner. Whoever wins will become the secondary consort of the Third Prince!" Lord Liao explained as he looked at the civilians and officials who were selected as temporary judges. "The ten judges here are all personally handpicked by Eunuch Sun, they have no connections with any of the xiunu¹ who had made the cut, so they will be judging based on their own opinions, it is impossible to cheat! We will begin according to the sequence of numbers, the first one is the fifth place of the previous round, Miss Lan!"
At the moment, the crowd had all eyes on the lady named Lan, the points given were decent but it was far behind from Yun Biluo who was next.
The third was Helian Jiao Er, her tender look plus her temperament which she intentionally cultivated since young had added a lot of points for her.
Even so, she did not manage to surpass Yun Biluo.
Every one of them gave Yun Biluo very high marks.
97 points were already the lowest, let alone that there were many who gave her 100!
The crowd was in clamors, many cheered for Yun Biluo's high points as if the contest of beauty had ended with her while judging that Helian Wei Wei was not necessary.
This was because anyone with eyes could see that with Helian Wei Wei's looks, she could only be the last!
Lord Liao cleared his throat twice, "Silence! Silence! Judges, please grade the princess consort."
Helian Jiao Er smiled for the time had finally arrived!
What a b*tch, so what if she won the cultivation test? She still had to lower her head in front of them in the end!
She deserved it!
Helian Jiao Er finally felt a lot more comfortable, her gaze at Helian Wei Wei was filled with mockery that took pleasure toward the misfortunate.
Yu Biluo's voice was soft, "Wei Wei, maybe you should stop them from grading you, I'm afraid that you'll get hurt."
Her words might sound like she was saying it for Helian Wei Wei's sake, but she actually meant that Helian Wei Wei was the ugliest among them!
"Sister Yun, just let her get her gradings. We are already here anyway, let her try and hear everyone's grading so that she won't have regrets later," Helian Jiao Er continued Yu Biluo's words hypocritically.
Helian Wei Wei just smiled at her faintly, she then told Lord Liao calmly, "Before the grading, I want to wash my face so that the judges can have a better look at me before grading."
Lord Liao was thinking that it was useless for her to wash her face since it was naturally dark. Yet, he ordered the men to bring her a wooden bucket of clear water.
He would not want to unintentionally offend the Third Prince because of this.
Although he was also one of the four influential families, he would still try his best from stepping on Third Prince's tail.
However, he could not understand the reason why the princess consort requested to wash her face now.
The others were also puzzled by the sudden request of Helian Wei Wei.
Even Second Master Hei who always understood her furrowed his thick brows as he had no idea what she was trying to do.
Only the man in white standing in the crowd who was caressing the little one with his fingers was slightly stunned. When he looked up, his dark gaze landed on Helian Wei Wei, it faintly looked like his eyes were shining.
Helian Wei Wei stood there without caring about the little commotion that she had caused with her request.
She nimbly flipped her left hand and several fresh red strawberries appeared magically on her palm.
Yuan Ming evilly chuckled and Whitey meowed elegantly yet indifferently. The two of them knew what exactly Helian Wei Wei was trying to do, so their ridiculing gazes were natural.
She absent-mindedly crushed the strawberries into juices in the wooden bucket at a position where people could not see her movements. Then, she softly scooped the water up with her hands and tapped it on her face...
Xiunu¹ – Young unmarried women awaiting selection test to become a concubine or secondary consort in this case.
Chapter 432: Instant Kill With Looks
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
As she washed her face, black droplets of water seemingly rolled down her cheeks, white jade-like fairness shone before the crowd a little by little...
"W-What is going on?"
"Can the black spots on the princess consort's face be washed off?"
The crowd was looking at the fairness of the skin in disbelief before they even got a full look at Helian Wei Wei's face. They were already on their feet in astonishment!
However, even under their scorching gazes, Helian Wei Wei was not in a hurry. After washing her face with her head down, she wiped the water away with a white handkerchief. With a flick of her fingers, a folded umbrella with black feathers embedded on it appeared in her jade-like hands.
Then, she looked up slowly, her skin was as fair as snow, her gaze was bright like a star, and the beauty mole under her eyes glistened...
At that instant, all clamors were halted.
She was like an untainted lotus that blossomed from the mud, the bright moon that rose high!
Everyone's eyes were widened to their maximum size as they looked at the once ugly person whose appearance was almost incurable. Their eyes were filled with unspeakable shock!
That fair skin looked like it was shining, her flower-like narrow face was sparkling like jade, moreover, her indolent gentle smile made her beauty almost suffocating!
Especially when she walked over with the black feather folded umbrella, the sleeves sewn with silver floral patterns drifted along with the air, and the little opening at the hem of her long robe gave out a lazy temptation. As she moved, the beautiful shape of her calves was showing, revealing her attractive ankle.
She simply walked close to the judges' seat. Her eyes were deeper than the others, the dark color of her pupils was pure, appearing hollow as though a person could be dragged in.
Bewitching, stunning and indolent.
She was like the alluring devil's snare that bloomed in the dark world, capturing souls without any signs!
Everything turned to silence.
Helian Jiao Er's face turned pale and faltered backward vehemently!
H-How could this be possible?
How could Helian Wei Wei be that person?
Impossible, it was impossible!
No one noticed Helian Jiao Er's reaction because the crowd was silenced and stupefied by the beauty altogether!
Including Eunuch Sun and Master Hei.
They once thought that maybe Helian Wei Wei would be a lot prettier if she was fairer.
But to their surprise, she became this aesthetic. Her beauty was comparable to a deity that descended from heaven. It was heart-throbbing!
Especially her temperament – the gentle and bewitching laziness. Not to mention that any man would be more than delighted to marry her home, but even a woman would fall for her!
Heize pinched his own thigh and when he felt the pain, he strongly turned around to the butler beside him, "Is that really my little sister? Your big boss?"
The butler calmly replied, "The boss showed her true face a few times but none of which Second Master was around."
"She could have made a living with her face! Why would she rely on her martial Qi instead before this? No, I have to think carefully about how to protect my little sister in the future as a qualified sworn brother. Before this, her looks were so safe, so I've never thought about this problem!" Hei Zhe turned back and stared at Helian Wei Wei.
The butler was speechless.
Just let the Third Prince worry about it, why are you putting your foot into this, you sister obsessed freak!
However, from the Third Prince's expression, why it seems like he is not very pleased with this?
Fire Qilin who peeked into the butler's thoughts grinned evilly. It ran over and asked Baili Jia Jue, "Master, how are you feeling now?" It did not forget what its master did when he first saw its lady master's true looks – he smeared her face darker! It was obvious that his domineering desire was at play, but he was too proud to let others know and now... hehe!
While the crowd was fully petrified, Baili Jia Jue casually glanced over at the Fire Qilin that curled up beside his feet in soul form as he faintly lifted his lips. "You really want to know how I feel?"
Godd*mn it! Here it came!
The monstrous smile!
Fire Qilin's head went numb, "I-It's not like I really want to, b-but if master really wants to talk about it."
"Hmmm..." The corner of Baili Jia Jue's mouth curled into an obvious evil grin. "My feelings? It's simple. It seemed like I have failed to discipline you enough recently and maybe I've underfed you with vegetables."
Fire Qilin was rendered speechless.
Could he not say something so perverted in a way as though it was something normal?
It started to regret asking its master about his feelings!
It knew its master would be unhappy so asking his feelings was actually torture for itself!
After Bali Jia Jue said that, he returned his gaze on the petrified people while clenching his fists.
The feeling when his most precious thing was peeked at by the others was really not good...
He would have to think of a way to make her compensate after returning to the palace.
Baili Jia Jue was playing with the ring on his finger as the corner of his mouth slowly curled, only then it's fair, isn't it? action
Helian Wei Wei had no idea about His Highness' thoughts, her gaze was on the group of men who maintained the same expression. She spoke up to remind, "Judges, you may grade me now."
Only then the judges woke up from their trance, they blinked as their minds slowly regained composure, reminding them about what they were supposed to do...
Then!
They graded madly!
Eventually, the crowd outside the ring had also regained their senses.
Somehow someone grumbled in the crowd, "Why does the Third Princess Consort look so familiar?"
"Now that you've mentioned it... Ah! I remember! Didn't a deity appear in the capital some time ago? Isn't that deity the Third Princess Consort?!"
"Who would have thought about that! Full points! It must be full points for the Third Princess Consort!"
The atmosphere at the scene was getting merrier!
In order to prevent the crowd from going out of control, the soldiers were busy maintaining orders!
When Yun Biluo saw this, the tenderness at the tip of her mouth stiffened.
She thought Helian Wei Wei would surely lose in the beauty contest, that was the reason why she was not concerned about the martial Qi test earlier.
But now!
She was the one on the brink of losing!
Deep down, she had never taken Helian Wei Wei seriously because of Helian Wei Wei's face.
In the end, only she realized that this woman had always been a ringer who was hiding a good hand under her sleeves!
The more Yun Biluo thought of it, the harder her hands clenched under her long sleeves.
Her master had given her the order to win and return to His Highness' side.
If she lost today, how would she return?
Unless...
Right at the moment, excitement swept over the ring and interrupted Yun Biluo's thoughts, "Gosh! It's really 1,000 points!"
"Everyone gave the princess consort full mark, great!"
"Hehe, only the blind ones could not see the boss' beauty!"
"Boss? Why are you calling the princess consort as your boss?"