"Ohh, sky mist pills! I wonder which power is producing them?", Zhan Chen thought to himself.
He felt two pairs of eyes staring at him. So, he turned his head to look at the perpetrators. Two equally ice cold beauties came to his eyes and a look of amazement appeared on his face.
One of them was the most talented beauty from his Xuantian sect, Jia Lingyi. Zhan Chen could somehow understand if she looked towards him with curiousity on her face but the other beauty was a total surprise for him.
From the insignia on her robe, Zhan Chen could tell that she was someone from the Frozen cloud sect. Zhan Chen had already seen her fights but never looked at her closely enough.
The ice cold beauty smiled slightly after seeing Zhan Chen looking at her. Zhan Chen wanted to greet her but before he could say anything, she looked away. Zhan Chen looked towards Jia Lingyi to greet her but she also did the same. Zhan Chen felt speechless after both the beauty avoided him conveniently.
He felt slightly awkward but his awkwardness did not last because he felt another charming gaze towards him. It was the second princess, Xie Lanying who had become more interested in him after her first failure to bewitch him.
"Good, I am waiting for this opportunity. The more you become curious, the more I will have the possibility to conquer you", Zhan Chen thought as a glint appeared in his eyes.
Earlier, he was feeling slightly helpless because Xie Lanying was using an unknown soul treasure to protect herself. Such treasure could protect her from all kinds of soul sense including a peak level soul sense like his own. But now, she was walking into a trap by herself because of her newfound interest towards him.
"Soul seed technique, what a handy technique!", Zhan Chen thought to himself as his lips curled up a little. He watched the ongoing event with an amused expression on his face.
Xie Lanying who had yet to know that she was walking into a trap, kept looking at Zhan Chen from time to time. After the announcement, she was giving the awards to the top hundred participants in person.
She only had to talk a little and most of the participants were already bewitched by her. She only need to give a command and all of them would not hesitate to throw their lives for the imperial family.
With such charm and invincible technique, Xie Lanying was sure that she could conquer all the men in the world but the appearance of Zhan Chen made her think otherwise. Her curiousity and uneasiness increased with time, the more she looked towards Zhan Chen.
Elder Huo from the Spirit palace started his announcement once again after Xie Lanying handed over the awards to the top hundred participants. There were only ten participants remained who were the center of attention from the crowd at this moment.
"The top hundred participants are the future hope of our Northern desert continent. The same is true for the top ten rankers who has emerged as the leader among the top hunded participants.
Keeping the turbulent situation in mind, we have decided to open all the treasured lands for the top ten participants.
They can visit all of them and take the assistance of unique environments to improve their cultivation level. There is a condition of time limit as it is impossible for the clans and sects to give everyone an unrestricted acess", elder Huo spoke.
A surprising silence followed the announcement as the crowd took some time to digest the shocker of a news. 'All the treasured lands will be opened for the top ten participants', it was such a shocker of a news that the crowd got shaken to their core.
"Senior, it is unfair. Why should they have access to all the treasured lands while we can't even enter one", a participant among the top hundred rankers looked towards elder Huo. There was an aggrieved look on his face as he observed all the cultivators in the top ten list.
"How many of you think it is unfair? Please step forward", elder Huo spoke. Few other participants who were in the top hundred list also stepped forward as there were visible jealousy on their faces.
"It is natural that all of you find the situation unacceptable but this is the real truth of the cultivation world. Winner takes it all while loser could only watch helplessly.
I have no obligation to give you all an explanation but I am still giving you a chance. Challenge anyone among the top ten participants and you can take their places if you manage to win", elder Huo spoke.
"But there is one condition. You life will be at their mercy if you lose. You can no longer pull away safely after losing the challenge", he further added.
"Tell me, how many of you are prepared now?", he further asked and looked towards the aggrieved participants.
There was a deafening silence among the participants as they tried to hide their faces. Their hearts were overflowing with jealousy but they choose to swallow their bitterness.
"Cowards", loud boo came from the crowd and it became more embarassing for the aggrieved participants. It was supposed to be their glory day, yet all they could receive was humiliation and bitterness.
"Don't be hopeless. You can still surpass them if you do your best. My family will triple the award whoever choose to join the imperial army", Xie Lanying spoke.
"Princess, can I join your personal army?", a participant asked with an expectant look on his face.
"Welcome. You can join as a captain in my Redhawk army", Xie Lanying replied with a smile on her face.
Zhan Chen saw the entire ficaso with amusement in his eyes as he saw Xie Lanying manipulating the participants. She kept looking at him time to time as her curiousity kept increasing with the passing time.
"Finally, it is time for announcing the award for the winner of the competition. Our palace master will personally handover the award to Zhan Chen who has won this year's grand sect competition", elder Huo spoke.
A loud cheer came from the crowd as elder Huo looked towards Zhan Chen. Zhan Chen bowed slightly towards elder Huo to show some courtesy to the old tribulation realm expert.
"Zhan Chen as the winner of the competition will receive all the awards that the top ten participants are receiving. Besides that, he can choose any Nirvana grade artefact from my Spirit palace or from the treasury of the imperial family", elder Huo announced.
"Now it is interesting", Zhan Chen thought to himself as he thought what he could gain from the Spirit palace and the imperial family. He had to stop his train of thoughts after the palace master of Spirit palace appeared infront of him.
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