For the next ten years, Gravis prepared himself even more. There was sothing else that he needed.
After doing what he had planned, Gravis waited for the ten years to be over.
’Now, everything is hinging on this tournant,’ Gravis thought. ’The tournant will be held inside the central palace of the Nine Elents Sect, and I need to be ready for everything. Let’s hope that the Nine Elents Sect doesn’t go back on their word.’
Gravis waited near the arena where the preliminary tournant had been held. Ten years passed by in a flash, and so of the people had already gathered.
The Immortal Emperor arrived punctually, but what surprised Gravis was the fact that there was no one else accompanying him.
Gravis looked around and noticed that only six contestants had gathered. Gravis guessed that the other contestants were no longer interested in the tournant. After all, they had only joined the tournant to prove themselves to the Nine Elents Sect. Now that they were Elite Disciples already, they didn’t need to participate in the tournant anymore. Their goal had been accomplished.
"Everyone’s here," the Immortal Emperor said. "Follow ," he ordered.
The participants bowed in politeness and followed the elder. All of them flew to the Nine Elents Sect and directly entered it. They didn’t even go through the entrance but simply flew over the high walls. Usually, sothing like this would be t with lethal retaliation, but nobody stopped them since an elder was with them.
Gravis had already seen the inside of the Nine Elents Sect, but the others hadn’t. The other participants looked with amazent at the wonderland beneath their feet. It was like they had entered paradise.
So of them even regretted that they had declined the invitation from the Nine Elents Sect. How powerful would they beco if they could cultivate here?
"Look, all these people are flying!" a disciple of the Nine Elents Sect said as he pointed at the group.
"So?" another disciple to the side said. "Immortal Kings are allowed to fly in the Sect. Instead of envying others, you should work harder on yourself," she said.
"But I’m only in the Nascent Nourishing Realm," the disciple said helplessly.
"Then, hurry up!" the other disciple said.
"I’m trying!"
After flying over the Nine Elents Sect, the elder and the contestants landed at the entrance of the central palace. Another elder was guarding the entrance, and she nodded at the elder that escorted the contestants.
The elder nodded back and gestured for the contestants to follow him. From now on, they would no longer fly. Flying in the outside of the Sect and flying in the central palace were entirely different concepts. Not even elders were allowed to fly in the central palace.
They slowly walked along the humongous corridors, which were filled with valuable treasures. The walls were filled with portraits, and every portrait showed a previous Sect Master.
There were thousands.
Immortal Emperors could live for 250,000 years, but even if every Sect Master had only been a Sect Master for 100,000 years, these thousands of pictures would already show how ancient the Nine Elents Sect was.
The Nine Elents Sect had a history that had probably stretched for hundreds of millions of years.
This was already beyond impressive.
Why?
Because becoming a Peak Sect was easier than staying a Peak Sect for such a long ti.
One single fuck-up in these long years could have destroyed the Nine Elents Sect. Yet, the Sect had always been a Peak Sect.
Near the end of the corridor, Gravis looked at a specific portrait.
He knew the person in the portrait.
It showed a red-haired woman with a proud deanor.
This was Stella’s teacher, the previous Ancestor of the Nine Elents Sect. Sadly, she had died when she had interfered with Stella’s tribulation.
Behind the portrait were two more, but they were the last ones in the corridor.
A middle-aged man with blue hair was in the next picture, and a young woman with blue hair was in the last one.
’These had all been Sect Masters before,’ Gravis thought. ’Before Stella’s teacher beca the Ancestor of the Nine Elents Sect, she has been the Sect Master. This ans that the next portrait is of the Sect Master of the ti when Stella’s teacher had still been alive.’
’After Stella’s teacher died, the current Sect Master probably broke through the Peak Immortal Emperor Realm and beca the current Ancestor. The last picture of the blue-haired lady should be the current Sect Master.’
Gravis looked back at the corridor again.
’Over 80% of the past Sect Masters have either blue or red hair. The remaining ones have hair-colors that correspond to other Elents, but they are definitely in the minority.’
’Stella mainly used the Inferno Elent in her fight against , and she has red hair. Her teacher also had red hair. Yet, the newest Sect Master and Ancestor have blue hair. Does this an that there is so kind of faction rivalry in the Nine Elents Sect? Is this the reason why Stella is in so much trouble right now?’
’The blue-haired people are probably most comfortable with the Frost Elent, and the Frost Elent is the opposite of the Inferno Elent. If all of this is faction-based and not individual-based, it would explain why Stella is having difficulties right now.’
’However, I’m not certain who’s currently involved in this idiotic decision regarding Stella. The Ancestor is only responsible for protecting the Sect from life-threatening danger and Cultivation. The Sect Master should be responsible for dealing with all the political affairs and decision-making.’
’Lastly, the old Sect Master probably chooses the new one. Therefore, it’s possible that the current Ancestor has nothing to do with Stella’s situation since he had been chosen by Stella’s teacher. However, the current Sect Master is definitely involved.’
Gravis now had a better idea about who was involved with Stella’s current situation. If the Nine Elents Sect decided to be stubborn idiots, he would now know who his enemies would be. However, that was a big if.
Gravis had proven to be very capable, and when he won the tournant, there was a genuine possibility that Gravis could ask for Stella’s hand. As long as the Nine Elents Sect remained honest, there wouldn’t be an issue.
However, Gravis also knew that it wasn’t even certain that Stella wanted to see him. It could be that she wouldn’t want to get involved with him due to their situation back then. Yes, Gravis had only done that to help Stella, but was that enough to offset the horrible actions he had done to achieve his result?
Gravis wasn’t nervous about the Nine Elents Sect, but he was nervous about Stella.
Yet, if Stella didn’t want to have anything to do with Gravis, Gravis would lose in the tournant on purpose. However, he would need to et Stella before that, or he wouldn’t know if she was still interested in him or not.
CRRRR!
Gravis had not paid any attention while thinking, but the group had arrived in front of so gigantic gates. The gates were opening slowly, and after so seconds, Gravis saw the hall behind it.
The hall was gigantic!
According to logic, this hall shouldn’t fit inside the palace since it was many tis bigger. However, Gravis wasn’t surprised. This was simply the effect of a Formation Array that used the level six Law of Space.
The Nine Elents Sect might not currently have soone that knew the Law, but they probably had had soone in the past. As long as they took care of the Formation Array, they could use it indefinitely.
Yet, Gravis was still shocked by one thing.
The entire hall was built with Major Circulation Immortal Emperor Materials!
That was absolutely insane!
The chains below the Sect couldn’t even compare to this hall!
’It seems like so Sect Master in the past wanted to immortalize themselves in this Sect by building this huge hall.’
"Please wait here," the elder said.
A many kiloters wide arena was in the middle of the hall, and the contestants were supposed to wait at its edge.
"These will be your opponents in the tournant," the elder said as he gestured to the other side of the arena.
On the other side of the arena, they could see 16 young n.
Wait, only 16?
The participants had expected more people.
Gravis inspected the people and noticed several things.
First of all, they were all Peak Immortal Kings.
Second of all, six of them had Will-Auras on the level of a Mid Minor Circulation Immortal Emperor.
Third of all, the sa six people wore the uniforms of three Peak Sects, the All-Matter Sect, the Primordial Force Sect, and the Life Sect.
The Purist Sect was absent.
The other ten people were from several high-profile Sects, but there was never more than one person per Sect. The Peak Sects were the only ones with two slots each.
Lastly, there was no one from the Nine Elents Sect.
Either the people of the Nine Elents Sect would arrive later, or they wouldn’t partake in the tournant. Gravis guessed the latter.
Gravis was already quite certain that the Nine Elents Sect wanted to use Stella to gain so advantages from so other Peak Sect. Because of that, Gravis guessed that the Nine Elents Sect wouldn’t take part in the tournant. After all, if one of their own won, what were they supposed to do, marry Stella to soone of their own Sect? That wouldn’t be useful to the Sect.
The people from the Sects didn’t pay any attention to Gravis’ group.
Well, everyone except for one.
One young man with grey armor glanced at Gravis with surprise and shock.
"Fancy eting you here, Gravis," he transmitted to Gravis.
"Hey, Zern! You’re also here?" Gravis answered, equally surprised.
This was soone that Gravis had t in Arc’s clearing.
He was part of the All-Matter Sect, and he was also one of the main reasons why Gravis had targeted the All-Matter Sect with his grand plan.
Zern was supposed to be his inside man, who would make sure that everything went smoothly.
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