“The top figures of the Eighth Transformation of the Fish Dragon must all have undercards, and they will definitely use them out during the duel. I must also prepare a hand or two of undercards before I can do so.”
Originally, the Three Spirit Treasure Body and the Ninth Realm of Sword One were Zhang Ruochen’s two underhanded cards, but when he fought with Zhao Wuyan, both of his underhanded cards had been exposed.
The other contestants, for sure, would be on guard and make strategies to deal with them.
In the end, Zhang Ruochen took out two golden holy swords and handed them over to Xiao Hei, re-sacrificing the golden holy swords so that the form of the golden holy swords, slightly changed, or at least could not be recognised.
“Having two Sacred Artifact level battle swords as a base card should be enough to deal with unexpected situations.”
Zhang Ruochen’s six golden holy swords were all taken from the Yellow God Star Envoy.
At this moment, he took out the other four golden holy swords and placed them on the ground, arranging them together.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen’s finger touched on his spatial ring and instantly took out the pitch-black Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, squeezing the hilt with one hand and gently stroking the sword with the other.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword trembled a little, emitting a cheerful sword chirp.
“Go!”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword flew out and rushed towards the four golden holy swords.
The four golden holy swords sensed the danger and trembled, transforming into four golden light shuttles that flew out towards the heavens.
To be able to become a holy weapon, it naturally had a spirit, and sensing the danger, the holy weapons would of course have to flee.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword emitted a black glow and hurriedly chased after it.
About half an hour later, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword refined the four holy swords and flew back, landing in front of Zhang Ruochen and firmly inserting itself into the ground, shaking the ground into pieces, with a long crack that extended up to a mile away.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword became heavier and more powerful.
It was still at the level of a Hundred Stripe Saint Artifact, yet it was able to erupt with a power close to that of a Thousand Stripe Saint Artifact. If it was a hard encounter, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was even capable of destroying some lower quality Thousand Lines Saint Artifacts.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen gave Zhao Wuyan’s twelfth rank True Martial Treasure Artifact grade battle sword to the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword for it to refine.
“Swords can eat swords, and people will eat people. If I’m not strong enough, sooner or later, I’ll be eaten too.”
Zhang Ruochen put the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword back away and continued to start cultivating.
For the next half a month, Zhang Ruochen had been refining the Source of Spiritual Fire and cultivating the Fire Spirit Treasure Body.
If he could cultivate into the Four Spirit Treasure Body, Zhang Ruochen’s strength would become even stronger. However, the “Four Spirit Treasure Body” was quite difficult to cultivate, and Zhang Ruochen’s body reached a saturated state without absorbing much of the Spirit Flame Source, and was unable to absorb any more.
Although, it was still far from cultivating into the Four Spirit Treasure Body, but absorbing the Spirit Flame Source allowed Zhang Ruochen to completely consolidate his cultivation of the Fish Dragon Fifth Transformation, and his strength was refined a little more.
After half a month’s time, Little Black had also taken the two golden holy swords and re-sacrificed them.
The form of the two golden holy swords changed significantly, seven curved arcs appeared, just like two golden spirit snakes. On the surface of the sword bodies, faintly, fingernail-sized snake scales could be seen sinking and floating, appearing rather bizarre.
Zhang Ruochen asked, ”What’s going on? Why did the two holy swords appear to have the aura of a snake and python?”
Little Black said, “Didn’t you ask me to re-sacrifice the two holy swords and change the aura on the swords, so I had Xun Hua Liu and Mu Ji Ji go to the Ten Thousand Snakes Valley in the Fallen God Mountain Range and recapture two fifth-ranked savage beasts, the Golden Threaded Flying Cloud Pythons, and stripped them of their animal souls, sealing them inside the body of the swords.”
“This is good, even those who have seen the two golden holy swords before should not be able to recognise them again. From now on, it will be called the Golden Snake Holy Sword.”
Zhang Ruochen punched his true qi into the two holy swords and sacrificed them for a while, then, he lightly shouted, “Collect!”
The two holy swords quickly shrunk, becoming only the size of two golden needles, and flew into Zhang Ruochen’s brow, hovering in the centre of the Qi Sea and rotating around the Heart of Sword Intent.
After two days of fierce competition, the Fish Dragon Eighth Transformation level Sword Dao Competition had finally decided the top 100 ranked top experts.
Next, they were going to have a new round of competition to finally determine the top ten ranked candidates.
As long as they entered the top ten, not only would they be able to enter the Sword Pavilion in advance to train, but they would even be able to represent the Two Element Sect and participate in the World Sword Conference on the ninth day of September.
In the dojo outside of the Shangqing Palace, many disciples had gathered, both outer disciples and inner disciples, and even the figures of many Sacred Transmission disciples could be seen.
On top of the eighth jade tablet, there were only a hundred names left, and the rest of the participants, all of them, had been eliminated.
In the preliminary round, the more outstanding the performance of the contestants, the more their names were ranked at the front.
In first place was Qin Yufan.
In second place was Qi Fayu.
In third place was Dao Xuanqi.
In fourth place was Silkworm Winter.
In sixth place was Xu Changsheng.
Lin Yue’s name, ranked tenth.
On the contrary, Zhao Wuyan, who had lost to Lin Yue in the preliminary round, was ranked seventh, a full three places higher than Lin Yue.
For such a ranking, the disciples of the Eternal Life Academy, of course, were very unconvinced.
“Zhao Wuyan clearly lost to Senior Brother Lin Yue in the first round of the preliminary round, how is it that he is ranked higher than Senior Brother Lin Yue?”Zhao Han’er was quite annoyed and was the first to voice her opposition.
Zhao Han’er knew that in terms of looks and talent, she was far inferior to Senior Sister Qi Fayu Qi, and she was naturally not worthy of Senior Brother Lin Yue.
But this also didn’t affect her admiration for Senior Brother Lin Yue in the slightest, which was why she couldn’t accept that Senior Brother Lin Yue was ranked behind Zhao Wuyan.
Beside him, Pang Long walked out and let out a cold laugh, ”Everyone knows that the reason why Senior Brother Zhao lost to Lin Yue in the first round was purely due to a moment of carelessness. If it was a real fight, it’s impossible for Lin Yue to be a match for Senior Brother Zhao.”
Suddenly, another person stood out and said, “Although Senior Brother Zhao made a slight mistake in the first round and lost to Lin Yue, but in the later qualification battle, with his great strength, he won twenty-seven matches in a row, beating everyone who dared not answer the battle.”
“Lin Yue only won one game by fluke, who knows how strong his real strength is? But Senior Brother Zhao, however, conquered everyone with his twenty-seven consecutive victories, and it’s only natural that his ranking is higher than Lin Yue’s.”
When Zhao Han’er saw Pang Long, she first revealed a hint of fear, but she quickly gathered her courage and stepped forward, saying, “It’s not what you guys are saying, if it were to be replaced by Senior Brother Lin Yue, he would also definitely be able to win twenty-seven consecutive matches, and would definitely be even more powerful than Zhao Wuyan.”
“Another ignorant woman.”Pang Long laughed and left straight away.
“Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!”
At the top of the Purposeful Imperial Spirit Mountain, three long bells rang out, transforming into a circle of sound waves that spread throughout the 36 spirit mountains of the Shangqing Palace.
Hearing the bells, everyone knew that the first round of the duel at the Fish Dragon Eighth Transformation level kicked off and would be held today.
Thus, all the disciples, all of them, rushed towards the Purposeful Imperial Spirit Mountain, which naturally included Zhao Han’er, as well as the inner disciples of the Eternal Life Academy.
The Eternal Life Academy had a total of two participants ranked in the top ten, for all the Eternal Life Academy’s inner disciples, it was something to be proud of, and naturally, they had to go and support their idols, Senior Brother Lin Yue and Senior Brother Silkworm Winter.
The Fish Dragon Eighth Transformation level Sword Dao Competition was the first to enter the first round of finals because it had the least number of entries. The Sacred Transmission disciples and green-clothed elders who didn’t have a match had also rushed to Purpose Royal Spirit Mountain, after all, the battle would definitely be quite intense as they entered the final stage.
At this moment, all one hundred cultivators of the Fish Dragon Eighth Transformation who had entered the duel had arrived and gathered at the bottom of the B Word Battle Stage.
It was still the Pure Lan Half-Saint who announced the rules for the next round, saying, “For the first round of the finals, it will be divided into ten groups, with ten people in each group.”
“The ten participants who performed the best in the preliminary round will be placed in ten different groups to serve as ringmasters.”
“Qin Yufan, first group.”
“Qi Fayu, second group.”
“Dao Xuanqi, third group.”
“Lin Yue, tenth group.”
“Apart from the ten ringmasters, the remaining ninety people, all of them will have to re-collect their numbered orders, and enter ten different groups according to the numbered orders they drew. Now, start drawing the number orders.”
With a wave of the Pure Lan Half-Saint’s arm, ninety white points of light rushed out from his sleeves, flying in all directions.
Just as the ninety participants, were drawing their number orders.
“Wow!”
At the edge of the sky, a piece of cyan-coloured text flew in.
That’s right, it was a single text flying across the sky like a long bridge of scriptures suspended in the void, stretching all the way to the top of the Purposeful Imperial Spirit Mountain’s Sunset Palace.
Each text had to be almost a metre long, emitting a faint holy light.
One could only see a “white-clothed gentleman” stomping on the scriptures, strolling from the sky.
On the sixth floor of the Sunset Cloud Palace, the four Half-Saint Ancestors stood up at the same time, arching their hands and bowing slightly to the “white-clothed gentleman”.
The Pure Lan Half-Saint also turned around and bowed to the “White Clothed Prince”, saying, “The Sacred Book Talented Maiden has arrived at the Imperial Spirit Mountain, I wonder what I have to say to you?”
The Sacred Book Talented Lady wore a clean male outfit, holding a folding fan, with her hair tied up on her head to form a gongzi bun, appearing to have red lips and white teeth, with a graceful demeanour, she smiled faintly and said, “There is no need to be courteous to the seniors, the seniors have only heard that the Fish and Dragon’s Eighth Transformation’s Sword Dao Competition has reached the finals, and thus they have come to see it, and want to see the unparalleled elegance of the Two Element Sect’s outstanding human masters. ”
“Compared to a talented woman, any human jie, will be dim and lose colour.”The Violet Cloud Half-Saint said.
The Violet Cloud Half-Saint’s words, however, were not compliments, but, rather, exclamations from the bottom of his heart.
The Sacred Book Talented Lady was much younger than any of the Half-Saints present, yet, she had already become a Saint as well, and her cultivation level was unknown how many times higher than theirs.
With such a talent, I’m afraid that only the ones on the Heroic Fugue would be able to compare to her.
The Sacred Book Talented Lady didn’t look down on the five Half-Saints present just because she was a Saint, instead, she appeared humble.
She ascended to the Sunset Cloud Palace and put away her folding fan, and immediately, the thousands of words suspended in the sky immediately returned to the top of the folding fan, transforming into an essay in a beautiful script.
Afterwards, the Sacred Script Talented Lady sat side by side with the various Half-Saints, and with a pair of beautiful eyes, she began to survey the Fish and Dragon Eighth Cultivators below who had entered the top one hundred.
