Chapter 103: He’s Here
The Great Dao Destiny Contest of the Zhongtu Divine Continent was considered to be the grandest occasion on the continent, attracting top-tier talents to participate for the sake of obtaining strands of Great Dao Destiny Aura.
What was a Great Dao Destiny Aura?
Many years ago, Great Daoist Brush Master brought millions of Great Dao Destiny Aura strands into the Guanxuan Universe. Obtaining even a strand of it meant that one would have the protection of the Great Dao.
To put it bluntly, destiny was luck. A cultivator needed luck alongside talent, hard work, and decent family background. There were even cultivators who believed that luck was more important than talent or hard work.
The Zhongtu Divine Continent’s Guanxuan Academy had one reason for hosting the Destiny Contest. It wanted to help the Main Guanxuan Academy recruit talents. The Main Guanxuan Academy only wanted extreme talents, and extreme talents needed enough destiny aura or luck to grow.
In other words, the Destiny Contest was the best place to recruit talented individuals.
The champion of the contest would literally rise to the top, and the cherry on top was that the champion could bring their family with them to the Main Guanxuan Academy.
It was a tempting reward, but most clans and organizations wouldn’t dare to even ask their talent to compete for first place. There were simply too many competitors fighting for it, and the chances of winning were too low for them to even consider it.
There had always been super talents during every Destiny Contest, and those super talents were extremely talented to the point that people wouldn’t even dare to think of competing against them.
There were only a few clans and organizations willing to participate in this century’s Destiny Contest, and it was all because they were aware that the Destiny Contest of this century was unique.
The An Clan and the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Clan were going to kill Ye Guan.
Ye Guan was the youngest Great Sword Immortal on the Zhongtu Divine Continent, so his name had spread long ago. He was arguably more famous than Dongli Mo.
A Great Sword Immortal was extremely rare in this era. Naturally, everyone got curious about Ye Guan’s Dao Protector. Everyone believed that Ye Guan couldn’t have become a Great Sword Immortal without a Dao Protector.
Ye Guan was so talented that it was simply absurd for him to not have a Dao Protector.
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The Destiny Contest would be held at a valley near the Guanxuan Academy. There was a huge square paved with bluestone, and the square was about ten thousand square meters.
The valley was surrounded by towering mountains.
The contest still hadn’t begun, but the onlookers had already filled the surrounding mountains. Of course, the Guanxuan Academy was charging them an entrance fee to climb the mountains, and the cheapest ticket started at five digits.
A million people had already gathered, but more and more people were still climbing up the towering mountains. They had come all the way here to witness the upcoming fight between heaven-defying talents up close.
The Chosen One of the current generation would also participate in the contest. It had to be known that the Sword Master was the Chosen One of his generation. In other words, the upcoming battle would definitely be an exciting fight for supremacy.
The Guanxuan Academy took advantage of the public’s interest by fanning the flames. They incessantly advertised the competitors of the contest, which resulted in the excitement reaching its current peak.
It was also worth mentioning that anyone could participate in the Destiny Contest. There were no prerequisites at all. Of course, the contest still had a test for its candidates, and failing it meant immediate disqualification.
Academy Chief Gu Chaoyuan was standing near a cliff at the summit of Mount Guanxuan. He looked down silently at the rowdy crowd.
Discipline Department Head Li Qiu stood next to him.
Li Qiu asked, “Will he come?”
“Yes, he’ll come.” Gu Chaoyuan nodded.
“He knows that he’ll die, so why would he do that?”
“He’ll still die even if he decides not to participate. Why not die fighting if your outcome has been decided?”
“Will Representative Ye come here to watch?”
“No.” Gu Chaoyun shook his head and said, “Representative Ye is a cream of the crop extreme talent among the extreme talents, but the Main Guanxuan Academy’s great clans and aristocratic families cannot be underestimated.
”Representative Ye is strong, but she can only hope to shake them.”
Li Qiu shook his head and sighed.
Gu Chaoyu turned and saw a beautiful woman on a mountain peak. The woman was none other than the current Clan Leader of the An Clan—An Ya. A black-robed old man stood next to her, not a hint of aura was leaking out of him.
The black-robed old man swept his gaze across them. The black-robed old man’s gaze seemed to have pierced their souls.
Gu Chaoyuan’s eyes glazed over as he fell into a trance. Gu Chaoyuan recovered moments later, and he hurriedly looked away while concealing the shock in his heart.
“How arrogant!” Li Qiu muttered.
The black-clothed old man had just disrespected the Zhongtu Divine Continent’s Guanxuan Academy.
“He’s strong,” Gu Chaoyuan said, “He must be a Divine Tribulation Realm cultivator at the least.”
Li Qiu’s expression turned grim. A Divine Tribulation Realm cultivator?
The realm above the Earth Law Realm was the Heaven Law Realm, Minor Tribulation Realm, Major Tribulation Realm, Law Tribulation Realm, the Imperial Realm, and finally, the Dao Tribulation Realm.
The realm after the Dao Tribulation Realm was the Divine Tribulation Realm!
The Zhongtu Divine Continent had no official Divine Tribulation Realm cultivators, but the An Clan had actually brought one with them here.
The An Clan clearly had ill intentions.
Li Qiu sounded cold as he remarked, “They’re truly overbearing.”
Gu Chaoyuan laughed and said, “They’re qualified to be overbearing. They’ve produced two Martial Goddesses, and they have a special relationship with the Sword Master.
”When it comes to connections and backing, I don’t think that any of the major clans and aristocratic families in the Main Guanxuan Academy can compare to the An Clan. The An Clan’s arrogance is justified.”
Li Qiu sighed once again.
Gu Chaoyuan turned once more and saw a middle-aged man standing on another mountain peak. The middle-aged man was clad in a long robe, which made him look scholarly. He stood there with his hands behind him.
The middle-aged man was the Clan Leader of the Undying Clan—Dongli Chen.
Dongli Chen seemed to have noticed Gu Chaoyuan’s gaze as he looked in the latter’s direction and smiled ever so slightly.
Gu Chaoyuan smiled as well. He looked around and looked around, realizing that the six great clans’ clan leaders had already arrived along with the family heads of the Zhongtu Divine Continent’s aristocratic families.
Jian Zizai was absent, but it wasn’t that strange because a legendary figure like her was always doing something in the Guanxuan Universe. She had long become a mythical creature on the Zhongtu Divine Continent.
Meanwhile, Nanling Ren from the Nanling Clan had come to watch the Destiny Contest with the clan leaders of the Zhongtu Divine Continent’s six great clans. He had obviously decided to refrain from participating in this century’s Destiny Contest.
However, it wasn’t like he didn’t want to participate. He simply had no other choice but to withdraw. The participating talents for this century’s Destiny Contest were simply too monstrous for him to compete against them.
Of course, there were also great talents in the previous Destiny Contests, but they weren’t as strong as the participating talents of this century’s Destiny Contest. In addition to being extremely talented, they also had powerful Dao Protectors.
The average cultivator couldn’t possibly compete against them.
Therefore, Nanling Ren decided to withdraw from the Destiny Contest.
The representatives of many aristocratic families had also made the same decision as him. Otherwise, they would have needlessly allowed others to slap them in the face without obtaining anything.
“Look!” shouted someone in the crowd.
The onlookers looked down and saw a woman slowly walking toward the tournament square. The woman’s long hair draped over her shoulders; her eyes were sparkling and pretty, but they were cold and sharp as well.
The white robe that she was wearing made her look pristine and divine, and a purple belt was wrapped around her waist, accentuating her gorgeous figure beneath the robe.
“An Daoxin!”
She was a monstrous talent from Qingzhou’s An Clan, and she would most likely become the third Martial Goddess of the An Clan.
“Martial Goddess An!” screamed one of her fans amidst the onlookers. It didn’t take long for the cheering to fill the valley. She was indeed a popular woman, but she was from Qingzhou’s An Clan, so it wasn’t strange that she was popular.
Qingzhou was the Sword Master’s birthplace, and everyone loved Qingzhou for giving birth to the Sword Master.
Meanwhile, the An Clan was a clan with a deep history. The people respected them because they had produced two Martial Goddesses, and even the aristocratic families in the Main Guanxuan Academy couldn’t possibly compare to them.
An Daoxin walked with confident and unhurried steps to the middle of the tournament square. She had no qualms about showing everyone just how proud she was of herself and her clan.
Her pride was as high as the heavens!
An Ya looked down at An Daoxin with a smile.
An Daoxin soon reached the middle of the tournament square.
Meanwhile, a man abruptly appeared. The man’s hair was long, and he was clad in a black robe. He walked calmly toward An Daoxin with both hands hidden in his sleeves.
“Dongli Mo!” someone shouted, causing an uproar.
The man turned out to be Dongli Mo of the Undying Clan. If one were to ask whether there was a clan that could compare to the An Clan in the connections and backing department, it would be the Undying Clan.
And it was all because the Sword Master’s mother was from the Undying Clan!
The Sword Master himself had a great relationship with the Undying Clan. He had once fought alongside them and had been in many life-or-death situations with them, which earned them the respect of many people.
Dongli Mo himself was extremely popular, and a commotion erupted the moment he appeared.
Dongli had awakened the Undying Bloodline, which meant that his regenerative ability had no limits. He wouldn’t die as long as he still had even a single breath in his lungs.
The Undying Bloodline was the best bloodline on the continent.
The Sword Master had enhanced the Undying Bloodline by giving it a trace of his Mad Demon Bloodline. It was just a trace amount, but it allowed those who had awakened the Undying Bloodline to display terrifying prowess!
Dongli Mo had successfully awakened the Mad Demon Bloodline, which led to his popularity. Everyone was convinced that he was pretty much invincible among his peers.
The onlookers cheered incessantly as Dongli Mo walked over to An Daoxin and stood next to her with a crooked smile.
The onlookers’ expressions changed upon seeing Dongli Mo’s actions, but they quickly realized what was going on. Dongli Mo and An Daoxin were working together!
Roaaar!
The terrifying roar of a dragon abruptly pervaded the air above the valley. Moments later, a massive creature loomed over the mountains as it pierced the clouds and circled the sky above the tournament square.
The onlookers looked up and saw a thousand-meter-long gold dragon.
It was an Ancient Heavenly Dragon in the flesh!
A terrifying dragon aura soon inundated the onlookers. They gasped and trembled as they found it hard to breathe under the dragon’s bloodline suppression.
Swoosh!
The Ancient Heavenly Dragon turned into a white beam of light that flew toward tournament square.
The white light faded, revealing a burly white-haired man. The burly white-haired man nodded slightly at An Daoxin before standing on her left.
Everyone fell silent.
It turned out that the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Clan, the Undying Clan, and the An Clan had formed an alliance for this century’s Destiny Contest!
Gu Chaoyuan fell silent.
Those daring enough to fight the alliance of the three great clans would definitely die.
Gu Chaoyuan reckoned that even an aristocratic family from the vast Guanxuan Universe wouldn’t dare to underestimate the combined power of these three major clans, so how could Ye Guan possibly defeat them by himself?
They were invincible!
Gu Chaoyuan sighed.
An Daoxin closed her eyes.
The outsiders could only see the An Clan’s prestige, but they were unaware of the hard work behind maintaining such extreme prestige. In fact, the An Clan’s prestige was a burden on the shoulders of every An Clan member.
Today, An Daoxin would uphold her clan’s prestige, and she had decided to use Ye Guan’s death as a stepping stone to start her journey into becoming a Martial Goddess.
Meanwhile, a certain young man finally arrived. The onlookers’ gazes landed on the young man, and they were shocked to see that he was none other than Ye Guan.
Ye Guan was here!
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