The Sacred Book Talented Lady said, “Of course, so far, Lin Yue only has a high chance. In the end, whether or not he can become one of the nine Realm Sons will still have to be chosen by the Empress herself.”
“If he is able to cultivate Sword Two to the Great Perfection Realm in the Fish Dragon Realm, he will definitely be able to become one of the nine Realm Sons, and in the future, he will be the Empress’s imperial disciple.”
It was worth mentioning that since Empress Chi Yao had selected the Boundary Sons, she naturally wanted to cultivate them vigorously. The nine Sector Sons would surely all be powerful figures in the future, with great responsibilities, just like the nine pillars holding up the Kunlun Realm.
Among them, the most outstanding one would succeed the Queen’s throne and become the next generation of the Kunlun Realm’s monarch.
In other words, if one wanted to become the future master of the Kunlun Realm, the first step was to become a son of the realm first, and only then to compete for the position of the emperor.
Upon hearing the words of the Sacred Book Talented Maiden, the several Half-Saints present all shook their heads and smiled.
In the Fish Dragon Realm, being able to cultivate Sword 1 to great perfection was already quite a remarkable achievement, how easy was it to cultivate Sword 2 to great perfection?
In the last thousand years, in the entire Kunlun Realm, there were only two people, in the Fish Dragon Realm, who had cultivated Sword Two to great perfection.
They were the Empress and the Sword Emperor respectively.
No one would deny that Lin Yue’s natural talent in the Dao of the Sword was high, but no one would believe that he could reach the heights of the Empress and the Sword Emperor.
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden’s pair of eyes dripped as she glanced at the expressions of the five Half-Saints, revealing her snow-white white teeth as she laughed, “A few seniors wouldn’t be thinking that the late generation is deliberately making things difficult for Lin Yue?”
“Honestly speaking, in the Fish Dragon Realm, cultivating Sword Two to great perfection is already the minimum requirement for him. If he can’t do that, how can he compete with the other few young swordsmen in the Kunlun Realm?”
“The young lord of Ten Thousand Fragrant City, Xue Wuyi, has already cultivated Sword Two to the realm of. Within a year, he should be able to reach the Sword Two Grand Completion Realm, becoming the third person in a thousand years.”
The Pure Lan Half-Saint sighed and said, “Xue Wuyi is a descendant of the Sword Emperor, he has the elegance of the Sword Emperor of the past, he can be called the number one Sword Dao wizard of the Kunlun Realm in the past five hundred years, Lin Yue is far from being able to compete with him right now.”
The Sacred Book Talented Woman added, “The Ru Dao Zither Sect’s Years of Cold, four years ago, had already reached the ten layers of the great circle of Sword One, and now he has already cultivated Sword Two to the realm of the Yin and Yang, the realm of the Sword Dao is directly after Xue Wuyi.”
The Zixia Half-Saint nodded and said, “Since he was a child, Agehan has been a peerless hero, his zither skills and sword dao, can be considered as a double excellence, in today’s world, there are very few people who can compare to him.”
Throughout the Kunlun Realm, there were countless people who used swords, and naturally, there were many sword dao wizards among them, and among them, Xue Wuyi and Yearning Han were the most prominent.
The five Half-Saints present, hearing the Sacred Book Talented Lady say the names of Xue Wuyi and Yearning Cold, it was as if they were splashed with a pot of cold water, and their original, excited moods, immediately cooled down.
Lin Yue’s sword dao talent was indeed very high, however, when compared to Snowless Night and Yearning Cold, it was immediately dimmed and lost its colour, just like a firefly compared to the white moon.
The Sacred Book Talent Maiden laughed, “Lin Yue is only at the cultivation level of the Fifth Transformation of the Fish and Dragon, he still has a lot of potential in the future, so he might not be unable to catch up with the two of them.”
According to the rules of the finals, the ringmaster would be able to have one hour to recover the consumed True Qi after each battle.
Since Zhang Ruochen had not consumed much True Qi in the battle just now, he quickly regained his peak state and began to meet the next battle.
The second person to ascend the battle stage was a green-clothed elder, hunched over and full of wrinkles, possessing a hundred and twenty years of age, but at such an age, he was as fit as a fiddle, and did not have the slightest appearance of old age.
“Yu Qing Palace, Liu An.”The green-clothed elder reported his name.
Zhang Ruochen folded his hands and arched his hand, “Elder Liu, please.”
“Since this is the case, I will not be polite.”
Liu An was using a battle sword with an ice-cold attribute, and when the sword move came out, it immediately froze the entire battle platform.
The two men exchanged fierce blows, and on the battle stage, only staggering silhouettes remained.
With Zhang Ruochen’s strength, he could completely defeat Liu An within three moves.
However, considering Liu An’s advanced age and being a famous member of the Two Element Sect, Zhang Ruochen gave him enough face and fought for thirty moves before using the “Heavenly Heart Breaking Plum” move to defeat him.
“Transmission Courtyard, Han Dance.”
“Fire and Thunder Courtyard, Feng Tianlu.”
Then seven more challengers ascended the battle platform in a row, striking one after another, only to be defeated by Zhang Ruochen one by one.
At this point, Zhang Ruochen had won nine matches in a row in a sweeping fashion, with a momentum like a rainbow, subduing all the inner disciples and Sacred Transmission disciples present with his superior Sword Dao realm.
Those who were in the tenth group of participants had originally felt quite lucky, thinking that they had met a soft target, but they hadn’t thought that they had crashed on top of an iron plate.
Now, all of them revealed bitter smiles and shook their heads helplessly.
Those who were able to become ringmasters were indeed all first-rate powerhouses.
“No wonder during the preliminary round, Lin Yue was able to defeat Zhao Wuyan, his strength is really quite powerful, old me is far inferior to him.”Earlier, Liu An, who had been defeated by Zhang Ruochen, sighed with a smile.
Liu An was very clear that Lin Yue had deliberately given him face before he fought with him for a few dozen more moves, thus, he had an extremely good image of Lin Yue.
Previously, he had only treated Lin Yue as an opponent, a junior. Now, he was quite appreciative of Lin Yue, and even developed a trace of admiration.
As the sky gradually darkened, the tops of the eighteen copper pillars on the Imperial Spirit Mountain were lit up with roaring flames, forming eighteen huge torches that completely illuminated the four battle platforms.
It wasn’t until late at night that the battles of the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth groups all came to a close.
Among them, Zhao Wuyan and Lin Yue became the first in the seventh group and the first in the tenth group with nine complete victories.
The ringmaster of the eighth group, Mo Xin, became the first of the group with eight wins and one loss.
The ringmaster of the ninth group, Han Zhang, wasn’t as lucky, winning only seven matches and losing two, becoming the second in the group.
In the ninth group, there was another powerful disciple called “Yang Qi”, who won all nine matches and became the first in the group.
Today’s final was over, and in the next two days, the finals of Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, Group 5, and Group 6 would be held, and ten group winners would be chosen in the end.
The cultivators who were able to become the group first were already top experts who had gone through layers of screening, and even if there was still a final round of challenges, the list of the top ten would not see much change.
Therefore, today’s four group first cultivators, Zhao Wuyan, Mo Xin, Yang Qi, and Lin Yue, were sought after by all the disciples. The crowd surrounded the four of them tightly in the centre, calling out their names.
Surrounded by a group of disciples from the Eternal Life Academy, Zhang Ruochen left the Purposeful Imperial Spirit Mountain.
Xu Changsheng stood at a position on a higher ground, looking out over the distant hustle and bustle of the crowd, a grim look on his handsome face as he said in his heart, “Lin Yue’s cultivation has risen a great deal again.”
“If this person doesn’t really have quite an extraordinary encounter, it must be some evil person who has been disguised into Lin Yue’s appearance. Which bottom is the case?”
Afterwards, Xu Changsheng’s gaze, again, glanced in the direction Qi Fayu had left.
All along, Qi Fayu had been extremely cold towards anyone, with an appearance of rejecting others. However, she had immediately become very close to Lin Yue simply by breaking into the Ancient God Mountain with him.
It was inevitably too abnormal.
Could it be that Qi Fayu also had problems?
Should we start with her and check her out first?
Just the strength displayed by Lin Yue had already made Xu Changsheng quite fearful. Not to mention, there was also a Qi Fayu whose strength was even more unfathomable.
“Lin Yue and Qi Fayu teaming up is quite troublesome. In the entire Two Yi Sect, aside from the Half-Saint Ancestor, I’m afraid that only if Eldest Senior Sister were to step out of the gate, she would be able to suppress the two of them with nine out of ten certainties.”Xu Changsheng’s eyes, became sharp.
Even if Xu Changsheng were more confident, he wouldn’t dare to provoke the two of them at the same time.
However, without any evidence, Xu Changsheng didn’t dare to alarm the Half-Saint Ancestor.
In the event that both Lin Yue and Qi Fayu were innocent, then he would definitely have to be pressed with the charge of cynicism and jealousy and suffer some degree of chastisement.
“It seems that we can only go to Earth Furnace Valley to ask Eldest Sister to come out of the gate, as long as she comes out of the gate, even if ten Lin Yue and ten Qi Fayu are added together, they can’t possibly be her opponent.”
“Swish!”
Xu Changsheng’s body swayed and immediately disappeared into the Purposeful Imperial Spirit Mountain, arriving at the outside of a ruddy-coloured valley at the fastest speed possible.
The Earth’s Furnace Valley, a valley where not an inch of grass grew, was filled with crimson coloured mud, sand and stones for a hundred miles in every direction.
Because the ground was extremely hot, when Xu Changsheng’s feet stepped on it, there was a “giggling” sound, and his shoes looked like they were about to burst into flames.
If one were to look closely, one would even find that there were wisps of flames coming out of the ground, causing the temperature in the air to be higher than that of boiling water.
“Wow!”
The flames were like streams of water, surging out madly from the valley, piling up and gathering into a giant that was as tall as a mountain, looking down at Xu Changsheng below, saying, “Xu Changsheng, why did you disturb my closed-door cultivation?”
The voice was quite thick, like heavenly thunder exploding, and it was impossible to tell if it was a man or a woman.
Xu Changsheng was standing right below the flame giant, his body, by contrast, was only the size of a grain of rice. The image was as if he was an ant, standing in front of the giant.
Knowing that the flaming giant in front of him was the Dharma phase of Senior Sister, Xu Changsheng was naturally quite in awe in his heart, and beads of sweat on his face fell downwards like raindrops.
He hurriedly bowed down and paid his respects to it, and then, he reported in detail to Eldest Senior Sister about Lin Yue and Qi Fayu.
After a long time, the Flame Giant seemed to be muttering to himself as he said, “To be able to ascend the second mountain of the Ancient God Mountain with the fourth becoming cultivation level of a Fish Dragon, this person’s natural talent is quite remarkable.”
“What’s even more valuable is that he was able to cultivate Sword One to the ninth level of the realm, which can be considered a Sword Saint’s talent. I didn’t expect that after only one year of my seclusion, a person of such exceptional calibre was born within the sect.”
