“AHHHH!!”
A shrill scream echoed from the girl as her male opponent savagely sent a kick to her stomach, knocking her off the stage to win first place.
Seeing the male disciple showing such viciousness to a rather good-looking female, most of the disciples had grimaces on their faces.
The male disciple had a cold expression on his face that soon turned into a wide grin as he heard the elder's voice announcing his victory. He beca extrely ecstatic and was overco with joy.
Under the jealous stares of the other participants who lost, that male disciple quickly leaped off the stage to stand at the winner's section. The second-place winner, the girl that had been viciously kicked off the stage, ca to stand there as well but her eyes glead with hatred as she gave the male disciple a death stare while holding her abdon.
After the third-place winner, which was another male disciple, ca to stand there as well, the elder address the crowd.
“The Inner Disciple rounds will imdiately start! Inner Disciples step forward to draw your lots!!”
After saying that, the elder began looking around the crowded venue, as well as the airspace above the stage, and he couldn't help but take in a large gulp.
For the past few days when the Outer Disciple rounds were happening, practically no one was there in the audience other than the Academy’s disciples and a few people from the small clans and aristocratic families.
But now on the final day of the Freshn Disciple Competition, the venue was flooded with so many people that so had to resort to flying in the air on various magic treasures or swords.
The thing that frighten the elder was that each of these people was from prominent families on the continent, and even elders from various academies.
Practically every power on the continent had a representative here at the venue.
And the elder wasn’t the only one intimidated, all of the disciples who were there had watched these people sail from over the horizon with horror on their faces. Each ti one additional party ca to the venue, the suffocating pressure of these high-level experts' presence weighed down on them.
At first, the Celestial Academy was contemplating on whether to allow so many people into their academy, but the sheer number of influential powers forced them to agree to it. They didn’t want to offend so many powers, because even though they were the number one academy, it didn’t an they were indomitable.
Upon hearing the announcent that all of them have been waiting for, they all perked up.
All the disciples gulped simultaneously as the tension in the air seed to amplify all of a sudden.
One by one the 33 Inner Disciples participating walk up to the stage and draw their lots in order to match with an opponent.
Their first-round consists of a one v one battle and the winner of each fight will head to the next round.
Due to there being a total of 33 participants, one lucky person would be eligible to skip this round and advance to the second round without fighting.
Suddenly a small commotion rippled across the crowd of powerful experts, as the youth from the Ming Clan that had opened his ridian in the Blood Purifying Realm, ca up to the stage.
They had all co to personally see the effects of the new cultivation path that the Ming Clan had created.
Most of their eyes also shifted to the other Ming Clan youth that had not taken the test. They all suspected that the previous youth wasn’t the only one that had opened his ridians.
This made them all wonder how many ridians this youth had open.
One should rember that each ridian open will result in having a significant amount of strength in the Sea Expansion Realm.
This was also another reason why Ghuanyu had garnered so much attention after revealing he had a way to opened ridians so early on in the Four Physical Realms.
Phase One of the ridian Opening Realm is opening 1-9 ridians, Phase Two is opening 10-27, 28-57 is Phase Three, and 57-90 is Phase Four.
Cultivators in the Sea Expansion Realm could be categorized into people who broke through from each phase.
In the history of the Celestial Academy, or even the continent as a whole, the highest phase and number of ridians a person had broken into the Sea Expansion Realm using is the Fourth Phase with 59 ridians.
However, that record was shattered by three outstanding people of this generation.
The Crown Prince had reached the Sea Expansion Realm after opening a shocking 93 ridians. Followed by the mysterious disciple of the Divine Star Academy with 91 ridians, and finally, the sword genius that possesses the Sword Constitution, Ling Tian, who opened 88 ridians.
When these three had broken into the Sea Expansion Realm, no other experts in the sa realm as them could compare to them in raw power alone.
Within the Sea Expansion Realm, one would start creating and expanding their Qi Sea within their dantian. The speed and quality of the Qi gathered was determined by the number of ridians one has opened.
So with their Spiritual Qi alone, they could easily overpower Sea Expansion Realm cultivators who had broken through from the first or second Phase.
The only competition the three of them had was each other, and it stayed that way at all levels of their cultivation. And even now in the Nascent Soul Realm the only cultivators who could match up to them are those from the older generation that had been in the Nascent Soul Realm for quite so ti.
This is what the clans and various academies wanted.
They want to replicate the invincibility the Three Peaks had shone in the Sea Expansion Realm, and even the subsequent realms further on.
If their clan or academy could have just one such person, that would boost their power and influence to a level they hadn’t achieved before.
Ghuanyu’s thod hinted at the possibility that such an outco was possible if this thod of opening the ridians early on is cultivated.
So they ca to observe this youth, they also wanted to know how he would fair against Bone Reconstruction Realm and ridian Opening Realm cultivators.
Would he have the power to battle across realms with this new cultivation thod? Would he lose tragically?
That’s what they were all trying to figure out, but one thing’s for sure, is that if either of them put on a big enough display, like say winning the competition, then most of them would have their hearts sway at the idea of cultivating invincible Sea Expansion Realm cultivators.
Soon after, all of the disciples had chosen a lot, with only one person remaining, Yang Su.
As he walked onto the stage, his breath hitched in his throat as all those soul penetrating eyes of the high-level cultivators bore into him.
A small commotion had occurred because of his presence as well. Even though Yang Su opened an astonishing amount of his ridians at practically breakneck speed, his existence had mostly gone unnoticed, because if Ghuanyu’s thod worked, there could be plenty of disciples who would be able to open fifty or more of their ridians before breaking into the Sea Expansion Realm.
However, they still took notice of him since the news had gotten out that he was affiliated with the second prince.
But with that said, their reactions to Yang Su opening 50 ridians would have been completely different if they had known that he hadn't used four months to reach that level of cultivation, but a re four weeks. If they had known that, they would have probably died from a heart attack.
Reaching the middle of the large stage, Yang Su ca to the box that held the last lot.
Unbeknownst to most people in the crowd, every one of the Inner Disciples, especially the senior Inner Disciples, was looking at Yang Su with an ugly expression.
Pulling his hand out of the box, Yang Su look at the empty piece of paper that was without a number in his hand before he turned to look at the elder with a confused look.
Seeing the confused look on Yang Su’s face, the elder explained, “You’ve gotten the free pass to move onto the next round.”
When the crowd heard that, they all looked at Yang Su.
Each gaze was different, ranging from suspicion, surprise, or even both.
Under these different gazes, Yang Su leaped down from the stage and stood off to one side.
As soone who was from a small village with about two hundred people, Yang Su never had this many people staring at him before, so needless to say he was fidgeting with nervousness. If it wasn’t for his soul increasing in size and quality, which ultimately helped his overall ntal strength develop, he would have probably had a nervous breakdown by now.
As Yang Su was taking deep breaths to wash away his nervousness, the elder announced the start of the first battle.
“Number 1 and Number 32, step onto the stage!!”
Everyone's eyes focused on the group of participants to see who had those numbers.
Suddenly, Sun Donghai could be seen strolling out of the crowd and onto the stage.
Seeing this a chorus of noise erupted from the disciples. They didn’t expect to see him battle so soon, however, their mouths suddenly clamp shout as they stared wide-eyed at the first Ming Clan youth stepping up onto the stage to stand in front of Sun Donghai.
Now it was the high-level experts' turn to began a chorus of noise around the venue.
No one had expected to see a match-up like this in this round, much less the very first battle.
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