The handsome man with a goatee led the Yunyang Sect disciples to the front, then turned around solemnly.
He seemed to dislike talking, only saying "The sect competition begins" before disappearing.
A few murmurs immediately broke out inside the hall.
"The Immortal Venerable Blazing Sun has left just like that?"
"They didn't even say a few more words..."
Before they could voice their dissatisfaction, the elders of their respective sects quickly cast a silencing spell on them to prevent them from speaking recklessly again.
Another person suddenly appeared in front of the main hall. He looked hurried and apologized to everyone, saying, "The sect leader has to leave first. Yang Xi apologizes to everyone on behalf of the sect leader. I hope you fellow Daoists will not take offense."
Venerable Yangxi was, after all, a well-known elder in the Yunyang Sect. Since he had adopted such a humble attitude, no one would hold a grudge.
"It's almost time." Venerable Yangxi calculated with his fingers and then tossed something out.
The object suddenly multiplied several times in the air, transforming into a giant water mirror that appeared before everyone.
The water mirror was divided into one hundred pieces, each displaying a different scene.
"The water mirror will display the scenes of your matches. At the same time, after each match ends, the water mirror will randomly select the disciples for the next match. You can choose to accept the challenge or refuse."
He then formed a hand seal and tossed a communication jade talisman into the air.
Instantly, an identical, miniature communication jade talisman appeared in front of each disciple participating in the competition in the main hall.
"To avoid you all having to stay here all the time, Yang Xi specially made a little thing to notify you."
"If you feel unwell during the competition and want to withdraw, you can do so at any time using this jade pendant. However, this is considered an admission of defeat, and you will no longer be able to continue the competition."
Qi Yu curiously reached out and grabbed the small, round jade pendant that was floating in front of her.
The jade pendant instantly became completely transparent, and three characters appeared on it: "Jade gives rise to smoke".
Good intelligence.
This sect competition attracted countless sects of all sizes, with tens of thousands of disciples participating.
Venerable Yangxi was able to instantly replicate a single jade talisman into tens of thousands of copies, precisely pinpointing the location of each cultivator.
No wonder he's the one who organizes these large-scale events.
After everyone had put the jade pendant away, Venerable Yangxi continued:
"During the competition, Yunyang Sect will monitor the situation of both sides throughout the entire process. When one side is no longer able to fight back, it is considered to have lost."
"Please stop here. Although Yunyang Sect has a few skilled medical elders, they can't withstand working continuously through a hundred secret realms."
He blinked and made a joke.
Everyone smiled politely.
"The Yunyang Sect has also invited the elders of your sect to come and watch the battle. They should arrive shortly."
"We've already wasted quite a bit of time, so let's officially begin this sect competition!"
Venerable Yangxi stretched out his palm and slapped it, and the scene on the giant water mirror changed accordingly.
On one hundred small water curtains cut out from the ground, characters scrolled rapidly, each detailing the sect affiliation, cultivation level, and the cultivator's name.
Everyone held their breath in tension, their eyes fixed on the string of information displayed on the water mirror.
Three, two, one.
The scrolling of characters gradually stopped, revealing the information about the monk displayed on them.
At the same time, the jade pendants obtained by some disciples in the main hall also lit up with a blue light.
Suddenly, Qi Yu felt a warmth emanating from the jade pendant in her hand and looked down at it.
The characters on the jade pendant quietly changed into a different form.
[Martial Arts Battle: Yu Shengyan, a Golden Core cultivator in the early stage of the Flying Star Sect, duels against Bao Rongtao, a Golden Core cultivator in the early stage of the Cloud Sun Sect.]
Please select: Accept the challenge or Reject it.
They're disciples of the Yunyang Sect right away.
Qi Yu smiled and readily accepted the challenge.
Among the Yunyang Sect disciples standing not far from her, a thin man looked at the jade pendant in his hand and murmured, "Yu Shengyan from the Feixing Sect, never heard of her..."
Those with inside information pointed at him with a sneer and said, "Senior Brother Bao, you're really too oblivious to what's going on around you. This person is the newly accepted personal disciple of the Flying Star Sect's sect leader, who rarely shows his face."
Bao Rongtao scratched his head, embarrassed, and said, "I'm not naturally gifted, so I can only start early and practice more."
He looked at the jade pendant in his hand, hesitating. "The personal disciple of the Flying Star Sect Master must be very powerful. Am I going to lose the first match again...?"
"Tsk, Senior Brother Bao, hurry up and accept the challenge. We all want to see what kind of person this Yu Shengyan is."
Several people around him egged him on, and one of them even pressed the "accept challenge" button displayed on the jade pendant when he wasn't looking.
"Hahaha! Senior Brother Bao, you have no choice but to go now. Anyway, you lost in the first round of the sect competition twice, so no one will be surprised if you come again. Consider it as helping us scout the way!"
The narrow-eyed disciple who had accepted the challenge for Bao Rongtao laughed, which made the other disciples laugh as well, seemingly not thinking that teasing their senior brother like this was too much.
Bao Rongtao looked at them and sighed helplessly.
Inside the main hall, streaks of white light flashed continuously, and the selected cultivators were successively engulfed by the white light.
Qi Yu and Bao Rongtao were also drawn away by the jade pendant and entered a random secret realm for one-on-one duels.
Whoosh—whoosh—
wind.
The first sensation upon entering the secret realm was the pervasive, biting wind.
The howling, biting mountain wind lashed against her face, and Qi Yu frowned as she opened her eyes.
What came into view were towering, precipitous peaks that surrounded her atop the mountain.
She slightly moved her toes, and a few pebbles slid past her feet and plunged into the bottomless abyss below.
Qi Yu swallowed hard and couldn't help but take a few steps back.
It wasn't that she was a coward; it was just that as soon as she transmigrated, the male lead stabbed her and caused her to fall off a cliff, which almost gave her psychological trauma.
If she hadn't known that she had disguised herself properly, Chu Mo probably wouldn't have recognized her. She would have seriously suspected that someone had deliberately placed her in such a small, dangerous place where it was easy to fall off a cliff.
She turned around and looked at her opponent.
A thin man also turned in her direction, cupped his hands and said, "Greetings, Fellow Daoist Yu."
Seeing this, Qi Yu also greeted him, saying, "Fellow Daoist Bao, please enlighten me."
After the two greeted each other, seemingly annoyed by their slow movements, a voice appeared out of nowhere and said seriously, "The competition officially begins. Anyone who falls off the cliff is considered a loser."
Qi Yu summoned the Xuan Yu Sword. This black iron sword was covered with spots of rust, making it look like a casual work by a blacksmith in the mortal world.
She took a deep breath, held her sword horizontally in front of her, and made a sword incantation with one hand.
As soon as Qi Yu assumed a stance, Bao Rongtao sensed the power contained within the person opposite him. He gave a wry smile and summoned his weapon.
It seems to be another defeat without a doubt.
The competition is about to begin.
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