“Now, everyone may scan the rooms ahead with your divine sense to confirm that no pills are hidden in any of them.”
After Ximen Haoyue finished speaking, waves of divine sense swept towards the more than three thousand rooms. With so many Martial Saints present, it was impossible for anyone to have hidden pills inside.
Lin Xiao also extended his divine sense. He discovered that divine sense could not directly penetrate the rooms and could only enter through the open doors.
In other words, their pill refinement scenes would not be discovered by anyone.
This also prevented the leakage of precious pill formulas or the specific formulas being refined from being spotted first by other spirit controllers.
“I can safely use spiritual energy for pill refinement now.” Lin Xiao sighed inwardly with relief.
After a short while, once all the Martial Saints had nodded in confirmation, Ximen Haoyue continued, “Please, all spirit controllers participating in the continental spirit controller grand competition, attach your respective labels and names to your backs.”
At that moment, another elder spirit controller from Spirit Pool Island flew forward and took out over three thousand special label papers. He used spiritual power to arrange them vertically in the void.
Each special paper was about half the size of a garment, making it easy to recognise at a glance. At the top were the names of the nine continents such as “Holy Continent”, “Yangzhou”, “Yanzhou”, and so on. Below were the individual names.
These names had been reported by each continent, and Spirit Pool Island had marked them all.
Most of these spirit controller names were unfamiliar to the crowd.
However, one label stood out prominently and was recognised by people.
On that label, the top row read “Holy Continent”, and the bottom row read “Mu Haoran”.
“Mu Haoran? Mu Haoran is among them too?”
“Mu Haoran is actually a spirit controller?”
“How is that possible? His essence power can sweep across the geniuses of the nine continents, and he still possesses spiritual power?”
“His spiritual power realm must be very strong too? Otherwise, how would he qualify for the spirit controller grand competition?”
“It should not be weak. However, everyone’s energy is limited. With such heaven-defying essence power, his spiritual power probably cannot be that strong. The spirit controller grand competition forbids the use of any essence power. It would be better if he did not participate. Once on the field, he will face attacks from many spirit controllers, and his outcome will likely be miserable!”
“Not to mention anything else, the Ji family will definitely find spirit controllers to take revenge on Mu Haoran, targeting him ruthlessly!”
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Waves of discussion arose. Mu Haoran’s recent fame was too great, and seeing his name on the spirit controller slots shocked the crowd.
People from the Xiao family, Ji family, Holy Heaven Sect, Yaochi Holy Land, and Tianji Holy Land all smiled.
In terms of essence power, they could do nothing against Mu Haoran, but in spiritual power, Mu Haoran was completely giving them an opportunity.
Lin Xiao also could not help smiling. His name had actually become Mu Haoran. Needless to say, it was An Miao who had used Spirit Pool Island’s slot to register him, not under his real name but as Mu Haoran.
As for name and appearance, they were actually unimportant. As long as the bone age complied and the referees could identify him, it was fine. Even if someone wanted to wear a mask or conceal their identity, the referees would not interfere.
As for the various voices talking about finishing him off, Lin Xiao ignored them completely. With his current spiritual power, even if he was just a hair away from early seventh-grade spirit controller, who could finish him off?
On the contrary, if anyone listened to certain forces and tried to strike him heavily, that person would face his ruthless counterattack.
“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”
At this point, labels flew towards each spirit controller under their control and attached to their backs.
Lin Xiao also attached the label with the name Mu Haoran to his back.
At the same time, Lin Xiao’s gaze swept over the spirit controllers. One figure was familiar: Shangguan Tong from the Shangguan family was actually participating in the spirit controller grand competition, not just spectating.
Beside Shangguan Tong, Spirit Phoenix Valley also had five people preparing to participate: a young woman in her early thirties, an elder, a middle-aged man, and another youth.
Spirit Phoenix Valley’s slots had probably all gone to their own spirit controllers.
As for the other spirit controllers, they were mostly unfamiliar faces.
Among these three thousand spirit controllers, most were middle-aged people and elders. Youths only made up a small portion.
After all, with the age limit under fifty, the younger generation under thirty had less cultivation time. Relatively speaking, it was hard for them to reach the level of middle-aged people and elders in their forties or fifties.
“Each spirit controller, prepare to enter the alchemy chambers. Before entering, every spirit controller must pass through the Spirit Illuminating Mirror.”
At this moment, Ximen Haoyue’s voice rang out again. “The Spirit Illuminating Mirror is a treasure artefact for detecting storage rings. Any storage ring containing energy weapons or pills will be revealed. Uncertain weapons can be taken out individually for public inspection. Otherwise, once detected, regardless of who it is or the reason, participation qualification will be cancelled.”
“Storage rings containing pills and energy weapons may be handed to people nearby or temporarily sealed and kept by Spirit Pool Island.”
As he spoke, a late seventh-grade spirit controller elder appeared beside Ximen Haoyue. The elder took out a box.
The box was about half a zhang in size, with countless small compartments inside. Each compartment could hold several storage rings, and each had a special barrier.
Within the barriers, no one’s divine sense could probe inside.
Once the box was sealed, no one could probe it at all.
Each small compartment also had a number for retrieval.
At the same time, another late seventh-grade spirit controller elder from Spirit Pool Island brought over a white mirror about half a zhang in size.
The mirror was framed with special white stone, an extremely unique material with fine array patterns on it.
Even more special was the mirror surface. It could not reflect the appearance of external objects and was like a smooth stone surface, unable to show any reflection.
“The Spirit Illuminating Mirror!” The Martial Saints from each continent were moved.
Although the Spirit Illuminating Mirror had not reached the level of a continental treasure artefact, it was not far off. Besides detecting pills and energy weapons in storage rings, it had other uses.
However, given Spirit Pool Island’s prestige and the rumours about the Spirit Illuminating Mirror, everyone had no doubt about its capabilities.
At this point, Ximen Haoyue still demonstrated it for the crowd. He placed a pill into a storage ring in front of everyone.
Then he controlled the storage ring to fly past the Spirit Illuminating Mirror. The mirror lit up, emitting a faint white glow.
By now, the competing spirit controllers had mostly handed their storage rings to their clan members or close friends. A small portion who came alone placed them in the box for sealing.
Lin Xiao handed the storage ring containing pills to An Miao.
Apart from weapons and medicinal ingredients, the pills he had were not worth much anyway.
Seeing that the spirit controllers had mostly finished transferring their items, Ximen Haoyue spoke again. “Now, all spirit controllers participating in the grand competition, please pass through the Spirit Illuminating Mirror to enter the alchemy chambers. Choose any alchemy chamber freely.”
“Once you enter an alchemy chamber, you may no longer contact people outside or approach within a hundred zhang. Otherwise, your qualification will be cancelled. Nine days later, I will announce the rules for the first round of the competition, as well as the battle location!”
As soon as his words fell, figures began flying towards the Spirit Illuminating Mirror one by one, passing through it before flying towards the alchemy chambers.
The spirit controller grand competition was finally about to truly begin. All the spirit controllers were already impatient.
