Seeing the crowd’s excited appearance, the Yuan Long Half-Saint nodded in satisfaction and smiled, “You can start signing up now, and the registration period will last until the end of the eighth day of March.”
With a wave of Yuan Long Half-Saint’s arm, in his sleeves, nine pieces of jade immediately flew out, rushing towards the nine directions of the Shangqing Palace’s dojo.
With a rumbling sound, the nine jade stones landed on the ground and immediately transformed into nine huge jade monuments.
On the surface of the jade tablets, there was a green inscription pattern floating up and down, and at the top of the tablets, there was a number printed on each of them, ranging from “one” to “nine”.
“I want to participate in the Fish Dragon Second Transformation level Sword Dao Competition.”
A cultivator of the Fish Dragon Second Transformation was the first to rush to the bottom of the second jade monument, pressed his palm inside one of the grooves of the monument, injected a piece of true qi into it, and yelled out, “Zhao Kun.”
“Wow!”
The jade stele’s light flashed, and Zhao Kun’s name, immediately appeared at the very top.
Although Pang Long was severely injured, he still quickly rushed out and came to the bottom of the second jade stele, leaving his name on top of it.
He had actually signed up for the Fish Dragon Second Transformation Level Sword Dao Competition, and although this scene surprised many people, they quickly understood.
Pang Long was able to enter the top 100 of the Heavenly Ranking, so he was naturally a top tier Heaven’s Pride, and was completely capable of defeating a cultivator at the Fish Dragon Third Transformation level with his Fish Dragon First Transformation cultivation.
The top ten of the Fish Dragon Second Transformation level Sword Dao Competition would be able to receive a twelfth rank True Martial Treasure Weapon as a reward, which was naturally more valuable and challenging than a Sacred Stone.
In fact, Pang Long had also considered participating in the Fish Dragon Third Transformation Level Sword Dao Competition, however, after careful consideration, he ultimately did not dare to take the risk.
This was because, as far as he knew, there were many veteran Sacred Transmission disciples whose cultivation was now stuck at the Fish Dragon Third Transformation. If he were to meet them, Pang Long, who was at the Fish Dragon First Transformation cultivation level, would not have any chance of winning at all.
“I’d better participate in the Fish Dragon First Transformation!”
Xun Hua Liu made a relatively conservative decision.
Xun Hua Liu was at the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, and was also a martial artist who had entered the Heavenly Ranking, so her qualifications were naturally still first-rate, but of course they were only first-rate, and had not reached the top level.
Even in the Fish Dragon First Transformation’s ring, his strength, he could only be ranked after 500, without any chance of entering the top ten, so naturally, he was even more afraid to sign up for the Sword Dao Competition at the Fish Dragon Second Transformation’s level.
Zhang Ruochen’s finger stroked his chin and laughed, “I think you can sign up for the Fish Dragon Second Transformation level Sword Dao Competition.”
“Brother, don’t instigate me, okay? There’s no way I can make it to the top ten in the Fish Dragon First Transformation level Sword Dao Competition, let alone the Fish Dragon Second Transformation level Sword Dao Competition.”
Xun Hua Liu shook her head and insisted on travelling towards the first jade tablet.
Zhang Ruochen said, “If you believe me, I can let you break through to the Fish Dragon Second Transformation before the Sword Dao Competition.”
Xun Hua Liu was shaken and immediately stopped in her tracks.
If it was in the past, Xun Hua Liu would not have believed this kind of big talk of bragging.
Now it was different, Xun Hua Liu was witnessing Lin Yue’s cultivation skyrocket in just a few months, reaching a height that he could not imagine.
Xun Hua Liu clenched his teeth, his entire body trembling, as if he had made some major decision, and turned around abruptly, grabbing Zhang Ruochen’s shoulders, his face a bit grim as he said, “If you can allow me to break through to the Fish and Dragon Second Transformation realm before the ninth day of March, I will let Senior Sister Luo Chan go to you.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t expect Xun Hua Liu, to be so excited, and slightly froze for a moment, saying, “No need it’s just a show of hands. As for that Senior Sister Luo Chan ahem, I have little interest.”
“How could you have no interest?”
Xun Hua Liu was very puzzled and said, “Senior Sister Luo Chan is the number one beauty of our Zhen Demon Academy’s inner sect, in the beginning, haven’t you always been quite interested in her? Could it be that you don’t think the price is enough?”
Xun Hua Liu slapped her chest with a bang and said with a firm resolve, “Alright! I’ll take one more step back, and in the future, as long as you have your eye on a woman, I, Xun Hua Liu, swear to the heavens that I will never come within three feet of her.”
Zhang Ruochen rubbed his temples, he really couldn’t stand it a bit, how come this guy’s opening and closing his mouth was about beautiful women, could it be that apart from beautiful women, he didn’t have anything else loaded inside his head?
Zhang Ruochen said, “If you really want, before the Sword Dao Competition, to break through to the Fish Dragon Second Transformation, then, from today onwards, you must listen to my arrangements”
Xun Hua Liu agreed without thinking and immediately said, “Good! In the future, you are my big brother, if you say one, I will never say two.”
Zhang Ruochen cried and laughed a little, not wanting to say any more and said, “You go ahead and sign up!”
Xun Hua Liu went ahead and queued up, ready to participate in the Fish Dragon Second Transformation Level Sword Dao Competition.
Gai Hao clasped his hands in front of his chest, glanced towards Xun Hua Liu and said, “With his natural talent, signing up for the Fish Dragon Second Transformation level Sword Dao Competition doesn’t have any chance of winning at all.”
“Is that so? I don’t think so.”
After thinking about it, Zhang Ruochen added, “Do you want us to make a bet?”
“What kind of bet?”Gai Hao said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “My cultivation, having reached the fourth change of the Fish Dragon, has gone ahead of you, so no matter what, you can’t be my opponent. Why don’t we bet on who is stronger between Pang Long and Xun Hua Liu in the Sword Dao Competition?”
As long as a Half-Saint with a higher level of cultivation, almost all of them could see through Zhang Ruochen’s true cultivation realm, thus, there was no need for him to hide it at all, and fortunately, he said it.
Hearing Zhang Ruochen’s words, Gai Hao first frowned, after all, he had not expected that Lin Yue’s cultivation, had already reached the fourth change of Fish Dragon.
Gai Hao snorted coldly, obviously a little angry, and said, ”You’re the first person I’ve encountered, who’s even wilder than me. Say it! How to bet?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “If Pang Long wins, I’ll lose a holy sword to you. If Xun Hua Liu wins, you must promise to do one thing for me.”
“To actually be able to take out a Saint Sword as a bet, it seems like your strange encounter is really not small. But don’t think that you are the only one who has had strange encounters, others also have the same.”
In Gai Hao’s opinion, Lin Yue was able to break through to the Fish Dragon Fourth Transformation in just a few months’ time, he must have received a shocking encounter.
In the thousand worlds, there were no wonders.
In the history of the Two Element Sect, there had been quite a few people who had encountered miracles, and there was even a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist who had encountered the bombardment of the Heavenly Lightning of Sacred Tribulation, and not only didn’t die, but instead, he also made a breakthrough to become a half saint overnight.
There was also an ordinary servant disciple who had a miraculous encounter, and within just three years, he cultivated into a saint, and then left the Two Element Sect to challenge all the saints in the world, without compensating for a single defeat.
Lin Yue’s strange encounter, although remarkable and enviable, was still within the acceptance range of the crowd.
Gai Hao’s eyes were like burning flames, not showing any weakness at all as he raised his voice and said, ”I’ll agree to your bet. Pang Long and Xun Hua Liu aren’t even on the same level, you’re bound to lose!”
Zhang Ruochen, however, looked full of concern and only nodded slightly.
The reason why Zhang Ruochen had made the bet with Gai Hao was, in fact, for a certain reason.
It was because, Gai Hao was a Yang Spirit Saint Body, and the masculine Qi in his body was very thick, so he might be able to cultivate into an “Extreme Yang Body” in the future.
One of the five types of body qualities that Little Black was searching for was the Extreme Yang Body.
Originally, Zhang Ruochen didn’t take Xiao Hei’s words to heart at first, nor did he think that by finding the five qualities, he would be able to control the legendary divine weapon, the Divine Dragon Yin Yang Chaos Tower.
However, the consistently unreliable Xiao Hei was really doing his best to cultivate the Orange Moon Star Envoy and Ao Xin Yan, making Zhang Ruochen take it seriously as well.
Of course, the Yang Spirit Sacred Body was far inferior to the Extreme Yang Body, and Zhang Ruochen was just trying to reach out to Gai Hao right now, so that he would owe him one thing, which wasn’t a bad thing.
Gai Hao added, “You’re so arrogant, which level of Sword Dao Competition are you planning to participate in?”
Zhang Ruochen knew that Gai Hao’s heart was unconvinced and said, “What? You want to choose the same level of Sword Dao Competition as me?”
“Why not?”Gai Hao said.
Zhang Ruochen smiled, put his hands behind his back, and began to observe the nine jade stele in turn.
Among them, the first jade stele, the second jade stele, and the third jade stele, which had the highest number of registrants, had long since formed three long queues.
Zhang Ruochen’s heart secretly sighed, the Two Eyes Sect was worthy of being the number one sect in the Eastern Region, its heritage was just too deep to have produced so many Fish Dragon Realm cultivators.
The number of top experts in any of the seventy-two courtyards was also comparable to a Saint Sect.
By the fourth jade tablet, the number of cultivators who had signed up had plummeted by half compared to the first three.
The cultivators in front of the fifth jade tablet were again slightly less than those in front of the fourth jade tablet.
When Gai Hao saw Lin Yue’s gaze, staring at the top of the fifth jade stele, his taut face finally loosened slightly.
Because, the fifth change level of the fish and dragon was already the limit of what Gai Hao could bear.
Although Gai Hao was a saint body, able to cross three realms to defeat his opponent.
But his aim wasn’t to defeat the Fish Dragon Fifth Transformation cultivators, but to defeat the strongest group within the Fish Dragon Fifth Transformation cultivators and break into the top ten.
The difficulty of the former and the latter was not a concept at all.
With Gai Hao’s cultivation at the early stage of Fish Dragon Third Transformation, participating in a sword dao competition at the Fish Dragon Fifth Transformation level was already a huge challenge.
If, before the sword dao competition, he couldn’t raise his cultivation to the peak of Fish Dragon Third Transformation, there wasn’t even the slightest possibility of entering the top ten.
Suddenly, Gai Hao’s face changed slightly as he said, “What is he doing?”
Only to see that Zhang Ruochen merely glanced at the bottom of the fifth jade stele and shook his head, turning towards the sixth jade stele, then the seventh, and finally, coming to the bottom of the eighth, he finally stopped.
“If I can win the top ten in the Fish Dragon Eighth Transformation’s Sword Dao Competition, I’ll be able to obtain a Ninth Grade Glazed Treasure Pill.”
Zhang Ruochen was quite interested in the Glazed Treasure Pill because the Glazed Treasure Pill could only be refined by such an ancient and huge power like the Two Eyes Sect, and could not be bought outside.
A cultivator of the Fish Dragon Eighth Transformation would be able to cultivate into a Glazed Treasure Body and break through to the Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation in a very short period of time by swallowing a Glazed Treasure Pill.
Even if it was the Two Element Sect, it would require a huge amount of resources to refine a glazed treasure pill. Thus, the Two Element Sect could only reward the most talented cultivators, and other cultivators, had no chance of getting it at all.
Thus, Zhang Ruochen walked to the bottom of the eighth jade tablet, stretched out a hand, pressed on the groove of the jade tablet, and shouted out the name “Lin Yue” in a low voice.
“Everyone, look, Lin Yue is actually participating in the Fish Dragon Eighth Transformation level Sword Dao Competition.”
An alarming cry rang out, spreading throughout the entire Shangqing Palace dojo.
Everyone present, including the three Half-Saints standing above, were stunned and cast their gazes in the direction of the eighth jade tablet.
