Chapter 1728: Chapter 1334: Endless Journey, Never Forget Your Original Aspiration
"All juniors of the Martial World!"
"Take one move from this village chief!"
Above the heavenly vault, the great sun hung in midair, the wind howled, clouds and winds surged. Jiang Dali’s majestic, deep voice was like Heavenly Thunder exploding overhead, heard near and far, making hearts clench and the river’s waters heave and surge.
The content of his words shocked and stupefied the hundreds of thousands of Players and natives below, leaving them terrified and trembling; some Players nearly fainted on the spot.
What the hell?
Take one move from the Black Wind village chief?
Who the hell can withstand that!
Is there anyone left in the Martial World who can take a single move from the village chief?
The hundreds of thousands of Players still hadn’t figured out what was going on... On the back of that Demon Dragon in the sky, Jiang Dali sank his waist and dropped his hips, his two palms tracing circles as he drew them back to his waist. In an instant, a golden Qi Shield, indestructible, emerged outside his body, emitting bell-and-drum-like dragon roars and Tiger Roar.
"Ha!"
He flipped his palms up to prop the sky, his heroic spirit surging. At once Qi Force flooded his whole body, his strong clothes bulged, the Inner Strength of his Great Strength Divine Skill coursing through him. He looked as if he alone could stand against ten thousand, standing between heaven and earth, fearless and unstoppable.
The water vapor churned up by the River around him eerily converged, and together with the vast Heaven and Earth Power, rapidly gathered between his two palms.
A rolling, circular Qi Force Group, like surging waves, took shape.
The Players stared, eyes bulging, then saw Jiang Dali raise both palms to the heavens and slam them down toward the Dragon Tiger Gang on both sides of the river.
That enormous, rolling circular Qi Force Group instantly split into two, swelling and surging as it crashed down.
With a booming "pop", the two blasts roared as one!
The two blasts of fierce, peerless palm power swept across the sky, like two enormous mountains suddenly collapsing.
The terrifying explosion of air blasted out heavy thunder, pushing aside clouds and tearing through mist, rolling over the heads of all the Players on both banks, rattling their eardrums.
Superpower Palm — Angry Nine-layered Tablet!
Heaven above!
Even though Xiao Feng, Lu Xiaofeng, Sikong Zhaixing and the others all knew Jiang Dali would personally strike today, they had never imagined he would act so abruptly and with such earth-shaking momentum. Was he trying to slaughter hundreds of thousands of Players in one fell swoop?
Yet those two rounded waves of Qi Force, like great snowballs rolling across the sky, suddenly veered as they swept past, dispersing the clouds and mist. When they were about to crash down a hundred zhang above the Players on either side, they abruptly stopped diving, then sharply turned, narrowly skimming a hundred zhang over the heads of tens of thousands of Players, grinding past like millstones, emitting the rumbling thunder of war chariots, enough to shatter the nerves.
Countless Players below, when they first saw that ferocious Qi Force plunging down like a meteor from the heavens, had already been scared witless, almost unable to stop themselves from fleeing the selection area.
Then, seeing the Qi Force Group suddenly turn and grind past overhead, many didn’t even have time to breathe in relief before their spirits trembled and their heads went woozy, as if a mighty pressure smashed down from above. Their entire skin tightened, eardrums buzzed, some even bled from seven apertures, the agony unbearable.
"Aaah! I’m gonna die!"
"Bro, hang in there!"
"I can’t! I’m about to piss myself!"
"Damn! The village chief hasn’t even gone all out and I’m already done for."
The Players were crushed by the savage pressure into a state bordering on madness, spewing blood and howling hysterically!
In an instant, the gap between high and low was laid bare.
Many Players, cowed into trembling spirits and bleeding from seven apertures, saw their Qi-Blood plummet wildly, one after another entering a severely injured State and collapsing to the ground.
The few who managed to hold on saw the Qi Force Group above their heads continue to grind madly into the distance. That terrifying pressure weakened rapidly as it moved away, yet even the lingering echoes, like rolling thunder, still left their hearts pounding. Some legs went weak, teeth chattered, others broke out in a cold sweat; all felt as though they had narrowly escaped a great calamity, surviving by a hair. Every one of them was shaken by Jiang Dali’s utterly terrifying strength, stunned by this feat that could be called earth-shattering.
By the strength of one man alone, he made hundreds of thousands’ souls nearly scatter.
The number one man of the vassal state—his title was truly deserved!
On both banks of the river, countless people of the Dragon Tiger Gang raised their heads to stare at that Qi Force mass rolling out like an exploding black cloud, dumbstruck...
That Qi Force mass was like rolling thunder, sweeping from east to west, resounding in all directions. Wherever it passed, people and horses were overturned. The hundreds of thousands of Players in the ten preliminary regions on both sides soon fell by more than half. Even at a distance of a hundred zhang they still couldn’t withstand the oppressive feeling of this Qi Force rolling past above their heads. In that instant it was as if a violent air pressure was viciously pressing down from above; not only did their eardrums roar and their five viscera churn, even their spirits were shocked into extreme tension and fear, on the verge of collapse.
Yet in merely ten breaths, the two rolling Qi masses swept past and then rolled back to the middle of the River.
Jiang Dali let out a bold, long laugh, divine eyes like lightning. As his arms crossed, his twin palms drew a circle; the two Qi masses instantly merged into one, then with a sweep of his arms he flung it out, and it exploded at once.
Boom!——!
In that moment, Powerful Energy tore the sky and raged, like a shoreline-shattering furious tide, whirling upward toward the clouds at Heaven’s Edge, stirring the cloud layer into rips and tumbling rolls, rubbing out countless root-like streaks of flashing lightning that lingered long, overturning heaven and earth, forming a bizarre spectacle that would be etched in memory for a lifetime.
Thunder rolled and rumbled, heaven and earth as if for an instant lost their color; the exploded mists turned into a torrential downpour, cascading wildly from the Heavenly Vault in all directions, blurring the vision of the countless people on both banks.
Countless spectators, even with their clothes soaked through, utterly ignored it at this moment, all of them drawn to that bold, mighty man standing proudly on the dragon’s back in midair, laughing up at the sky.
They only felt that the surging, astounding power contained within this Number One Under Heaven’s body seemed capable of destroying everything, capable of anything, making people look up to him as to a lofty mountain. This mighty image had already been deeply carved into their hearts.
"The preliminaries are over! You juniors of the Martial World, know that in the path of Martial Arts there is no end. Do not forget your original intent, and you can sharpen yourselves and move ever forward!"
Jiang Dali stood proudly at Heaven’s Edge, his whole figure shrouded in the dazzling Golden Light of lightning still flashing in the sky behind him, like a Divine being. His thick, bold brows, full of rugged masculine charm, lifted; laughing, he clasped his fists in salute and addressed them. With his voice supported by robust Inner Strength, it spread in all directions along both banks, falling into the ears of countless people. After speaking, he rode the dragon away, stirring up a rumbling roar that shook the sky.
Everyone raised their heads to watch his godlike figure ride the dragon and depart, only feeling the shock in their hearts turn into a long-lasting, empty wordlessness. All the comments and evaluations in their hearts finally condensed into just four words—"Martial Arts Legend"!
The World’s No.1 Martial Arts Tournament truly began after such an unprecedented and grand opening ceremony.
In a preliminary round of the Dragon Tiger Gang that lasted barely ten breaths, over two hundred and ten thousand Players were directly eliminated, leaving only one hundred and forty thousand Players successfully advancing to the next stage of the arena matches.
However, the vast majority of eliminated Players did not feel unconvinced, because merely experiencing such a grand spectacle in person and taking a single palm from the Black Wind Village Chief already made them feel this trip was not in vain. What’s more, even though they were eliminated, they still obtained a certain participation consolation prize. Only a small number of Players felt psychologically unbalanced at being eliminated, but the fairness of this world has always been that strength is supreme—how could it ever care about the many feelings of the weak?
At the same time, the preliminaries at more than four hundred other Black Wind Village sub branches also began one after another, each adapting to local conditions.
In Divine Iron City, which ranked second in number of participants with more than two hundred thousand Players, Qin Mo Murong Qingqing unleashed her full firepower, using the Heavenly Demon Zither to play a piece of the Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds, eliminating nearly sixty percent of the preliminary Players.
At the Heavenly Mountain Sect Main Altar, which ranked third in participants with more than one hundred thousand Players, Bai Ting personally took the field, ending the preliminaries after unleashing pressure in succession more than ten times.
In the other sub branches across various lands, Heavenly Beings such as Chamu Long, Dugu Fang, Island Master Long Mu, Hell God Monarch, Yin Yang Temple People, Six Plate Taoist, Hongying Old Man, Ning Su, Tie Niu and other Gang Qi experts all took charge, promoting the rapid and efficient completion of the preliminaries.
Yet no matter how the preliminaries unfolded at the various sub branches, compared to the feat within the Dragon Tiger Gang, where Jiang Dali personally took action and overawed heaven and earth, they were all ultimately like a small witch before a great witch... His miraculous scene of personally acting on the River in the Dragon Tiger Gang, even stirring up changes in the heavenly phenomenon, was swiftly posted by Players to the Jianghu Forum, sparking a wave of heated discussion. It drew many new Players who had just entered the Mixed Martial Arts World to once again turn their gaze to this legendary NPC who repeatedly created major events.
Thus, the World’s No.1 Martial Arts Tournament entered its second stage.
This second stage was the moment for the experts and famous seniors of the various sects—those whom Jiang Dali had widely invited with Heroic Invitations—to come into play.
In this second stage, the Players were still not fighting one-on-one on the arenas; instead, every hundred formed a group to jointly challenge the various sect experts and famous seniors, who were organized three to a group. If they could fight to a draw and win recognition, or persist for more than half the time it takes an incense stick to burn, they would be considered to have passed.
At this time, the experts and famous seniors of the various sects were all called Gatekeepers, usually three to a group, accepting joint challenges from one hundred Players whose Realm was one major Realm lower than theirs. Though the numbers seemed vastly unequal, in reality it was extremely difficult for the Players to obtain advancement qualifications.
This involved the template gap between native NPCs and Players; and in general, after the large-scale elimination of the preliminaries, it was almost impossible for any Players in the Outer Qi Realm to remain—at worst, they were of Bursting Energy Realm strength.
As for Players in the Bursting Energy Realm, what they faced were NPCs whose strength had reached the Gang Qi Realm. This gap of one major Realm meant that even a hundred Players might not be able to match them, let alone when they were facing NPCs in teams of three.
Confronted with such a terrifying difficulty in the second round of challenges, quite a few Players immediately expressed that they found it hard to accept.
Yet this is the World’s No.1 Martial Arts Tournament—the over-the-top, gold-laden World’s No.1 Martial Arts Tournament. Any Player able to stand out from it could be called a talent among talents.
While this grand event continued to blaze on, after Jiang Dali rode the dragon away, he headed straight for the distant mountains, seeking a range of undulating peaks and lush forests, a place rarely visited by people, preparing to officially break through to the level of Returning to Truth 9th Realm...
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