Free Web NovelChapter 137: Chapter 137: Twin Trial Settlement
The settlement panel appeared above the Twin Trial Summit.
For the first time, Qin Yuheng saw a split evaluation screen comparing two teams directly.
[Floor 25: Twin Trial Canyon]
[Parallel Rival Trial Completed.]
[Qin Yuheng Team]
Route Clear: Complete
Stabilizing Altars Activated: 3 / 3
Team Survival: All alive
Contribution: 61%
[Zhao Tianyu Team]
Route Clear: Complete
Rival Corruption Contained
Team Survival: All alive
Contribution: 39%
[Shared Objective]
Prevent rival corruption from exceeding critical threshold — Completed.
[Guardian: Twin Trial Summit Guardian defeated.]
[External corruption thread detected.]
[External corruption thread partially severed.]
[Calculating evaluations...]
Qin Mo stared at "partially severed."
"I dislike partially."
Qin Yuheng did too.
The result appeared.
[Qin Yuheng Team Final Evaluation: SSS]
[Zhao Tianyu Team Final Evaluation: S]
Zhao Tianyu’s face tightened.
In the past, he might have exploded with anger.
Now he only stared at the panel, jaw clenched, as if something inside him had finally become too heavy to ignore.
Rewards appeared for Qin Yuheng’s team.
[SSS Evaluation Rewards]
EXP +11,000
Tower Coins x160,000
S Grade Twin Trial Canyon Chest x1
S Grade Rival Resonance Crystal x1
S Grade Corruption Severing Chain Fragment x1
A Grade Twin Summit Guardian Core x1
A Grade Golden Stabilizing Altar Stone x1
Special Mark: Rival Corruption Breaker
Additional shared objective reward:
[Both Teams Survived]
SS Grade Parallel Path Anchor Crystal x1
Qin Yuheng’s gaze rested on the Corruption Severing Chain Fragment and Parallel Path Anchor Crystal. Both were useful against Blood Sun.
Across the summit, Zhao Tianyu received his own rewards, but he did not look at them.
The return light formed two gates.
Before stepping through, Zhao Tianyu suddenly spoke.
"Did you know?"
Qin Yuheng looked at him.
"Know what?"
"That something was wrong with my class."
"Yes."
Zhao Tianyu’s fists tightened.
"Why did you not say it before?"
Qin Mo stared at him as if he had heard the stupidest question in three floors.
Qin Yuheng answered calmly.
"Would you have listened?"
Zhao Tianyu opened his mouth.
No words came.
His silence was answer enough.
Qin Yuheng continued, "Zhao Lan suspected something. Yu Qingmei watched. I warned you during the trial. You chose not to hear until it hurt."
Zhao Tianyu lowered his head.
For a moment, the arrogance cracked.
Then shame hardened over it.
"This does not make us allies."
"No," Qin Yuheng said. "It makes you a target who finally noticed the arrow."
The return light took them.
When both teams returned to Heavenly Gate Academy, the platform erupted in chaos.
Two teams returning from a linked rival trial was rare. The evaluation records immediately drew instructor attention.
Yu Qingmei’s face turned cold when she saw:
[External corruption thread detected.]
[External corruption thread partially severed.]
Zhao Tianyu was taken for immediate inspection.
This time, the academy had cause.
Zhao Lan arrived not long after, expression pale but controlled.
"What happened?"
Yu Qingmei looked at Qin Yuheng.
He gave a concise report.
Zhao Lan listened without interrupting.
When he finished, she looked toward the medical inspection chamber.
"I warned him," she said quietly.
Qin Yuheng did not answer.
There was nothing useful to say.
The inspection confirmed abnormal blood-class contamination. Not full possession. Not irreversible. But serious.
The Zhao family tried to interfere.
Yu Qingmei blocked them with academy authority.
Zhao Lan supported the academy publicly, shocking many Zhao elders.
The matter could not be fully hidden, but the official statement used careful wording:
During Floor 25 Twin Trial Canyon, Zhao Tianyu experienced abnormal class instability caused by contaminated external resource influence.
Academy treatment and investigation are ongoing.
Blood Sun was not named publicly.
But everyone who mattered understood.
Zhao Tianyu’s reputation suffered.
But he survived.
Qin Yuheng’s team, meanwhile, gained both praise and new danger. They had not only cleared the floor; they had prevented a rival’s corruption from becoming catastrophic.
Some students saw mercy.
Some saw strength.
Some saw terrifying control.
At the Qin Estate, Qin Wanshan listened carefully.
"Blood Sun used him as a living trap."
"Yes."
"And you severed only part of the thread."
"Yes."
Mu Qinglan’s expression was cold.
"Then the rest remains in him."
Qin Zhengyuan looked thoughtful.
"Which means he is now both danger and evidence."
Gu Tianhe added, "And bait still connected to the fishing line."
Qin Yuheng nodded.
He evolved the Twin Trial Canyon Chest later.
[S Grade Twin Trial Canyon Chest]
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[SSS Grade Ancient Parallel Fate Trial Chest]
Opening it produced:
[SSS Grade Parallel Fate Anchor Crystal x1]
[SS Grade Skill Book: Twin Path Thunder Command Step x1]
[SS Grade Rival Corruption Severing Talisman x3]
[S Grade Golden Rival Stabilization Core x1]
[S Grade Blood Thread Detection Lens x1]
The Blood Thread Detection Lens was immediately useful.
Enhanced:
[S Grade Blood Thread Detection Lens]
↓
[SSS Grade Crimson Law Thread Revealing Eye Lens]
Effect:
[Can reveal hidden blood-law threads, delayed corruption hooks, class contamination traces, and blood contract residues.]
This could help inspect Zhao Tianyu.
But offering help too openly could create political problems.
Qin Yuheng decided to wait.
Zhao Tianyu had to choose whether to accept help.
For once, the choice could not be forced.
