by Feng Yise
The moment these words were uttered, Ye Yuan's expression could not help changing slightly.
This sort of provisional rule, the targeting was too obvious.
Actually, not just Ye Yuan, the faces of everyone spectating all revealed looks of sympathy.
Actually, everyone all knew that even though holy artifacts were powerful, it needed the martial artist to unleash its power too.
A Divine Traversing Realm martial artist being able to utilize a holy artifact to this sort of extent in itself was extremely seldom-seen.
If it were another person, even if he were given the Starmoon Sword, he still would not be able to unleash one-tenth of Ye Yuan's ability.
Furthermore, Ye Yuan's cultivation realm in itself was lower than all the contestants. Therefore, this rule actually made many people's hearts uncomfortable.
But these words were personally said by the holy land's First Elder. Who would dare to refute?
The First Elder's position in the holy land was extremely high. It could be said to be the number one person under the Holy Lord.
The grand meet this time, he was entirely in charge of it.
Even though this sort of provisional rule was inappropriate, no one dared to say anything as well. Who asked the selection competition this time to be organized by them?
Chapter 795 - Fulfilling
"First Elder, didn't you say that you think very highly of this Ye Yuan? Why …"
First Elder smiled and said, "It's precisely because I think highly of Ye Yuan that I forbid him from using a holy artifact. Didn't you notice that after Ye Yuan used a holy artifact, his strength is already a great deal stronger compared to those so-called geniuses? Moreover, this boy didn't bring out his full strength at all! I banned him from using a holy artifact because I wanted to take a look at his true strength!"
That elder could not help being stunned. Already powerful to such an extent and he actually had not brought out all of his strength yet?
Just what were this Ye Yuan's limits?
"First Elder, since it's forbidden to use holy artifacts, then should Ye Yuan's previous battle results be nullified or not?"
When Wu Jiantong saw the First Elder actually personally made a move to restrict Ye Yuan, not mentioning how excited he was, he immediately climbed up along the pole, wanting to annul Ye Yuan's previous battle results.
"Previously was the holy land's issue. Therefore, Ye Yuan's battle results are valid. This rule will start implementation from the next match!" First Elder's voice sounded out once more.
Actually, not that the holy land did not consider about the matter of using holy artifacts. But Boundless Realm martial artists were completely unable to unleash the might of a holy artifact.
Even if they used holy artifacts, the augmentation towards their strength was also very limited.
Take Wu Jiantong for example, even if he used the Wu Family's holy artifact, it was also not possible to beat Nalan Chu. Hence, that was why the holy land did not target holy artifacts and implement restrictions.
But Ye Yuan's appearance completely shattered this kind of situation. This also forced First Elder to change the rules impromptu.
Facing this kind of unfair treatment, Yang Sen's and Pei Wenqiang's faces both revealed looks of refusal to comply.
But First Elder's position was too high. They totally did not dare to refute and also dared to feel indignant but did not dare to speak up.
Rather, it was Ye Yuan himself who appeared quite calm.
He looked at those few vague and insubstantial figures on the high platform and said coolly, "Whatever makes you happy."
Finished talking, he put away the Starmoon Sword and directly left the competition venue.
Ye Yuan's battles on the first day ended with complete victories for the three matches like this.
Ye Yuan domineeringly charging into the first-group was also out of everyone's expectations.
The first day's three rounds of competition all ended. But the contestants who won all three matches were scanty few; there were only five people!
The rest, the vast majority all had wins and losses. It could be seen that everyone's strength were all very close.
Beside the competition venue, there was a light screen formed using an array formation. After each round, everyone's battle results would be displayed on the light screen.
Nalan Chu's name was impressively ranked at first place.
Right after Nalan Chu were respectively Li Zongtao, Wu Jiantong, Zhang Tianyi, as well as Ye Yuan.
These five people all won the three matches on the first day fully and were tied at first place.
It was just that Ye Yuan expended too much time in the third battle, so he was ranked in the last place.
Of course, the first day's ranking list did not have much significance. Along with the passing of time, this ranking list would undergo tremendous changes.
Ye Yuan did not have the spare time to worry about these. After returning to his residence, Ye Yuan entered the Vast Heaven Pagoda immediately and continued refining the black metal lump.
Being able to pry into the mysteries of the golden characters, Ye Yuan was filled with vigor right now.
Ye Yuan's rate of progress in refining the black metal lump today seemed to be much faster than before. Even though it was only one night, he actually refined one-tenth too.
At the rate of this progress, Ye Yuan still needed five day's time to be able to thoroughly refine it completely.
Ye Yuan very much wanted to see what kind of transformation would happen to the golden characters at that time.
The competition in the following few days did not pose much of a challenge to Ye Yuan. Three consecutive days, Ye Yuan won all three matches completely.
After three days, Ye Yuan continued to firmly occupy the position in the first group on the ranking list with the battle result of nine complete victories.
While at this time, the contestants that had complete victories on the ranking list were only left with four people.
Li Zongtao ran into a powerful foe, Nalan Chu, on the third day's battle. In the midst of fighting bitterly for over a hundred rounds, he was defeated in the end.
But to be able to force Nalan Chu to such a plight, Li Zongtao's strength also obtained everyone's affirmation.
Of course, apart from Ye Yuan, the one receiving the most attention was still Zhang Tianyi!
This Zhang Tianyi was the same as Ye Yuan; he was also from other division competition zone.
During these three days of matches, Zhang Tianyi repeatedly defeated powerful adversaries and kept on maintaining complete victories. His fame even overshadowed Ye Yuan.
Even though Ye Yuan also maintained complete victories, he did not run into any genuinely formidable foe in these three days.
But the fourth day's competition, Ye Yuan encountered the most tenacious obstacle since the start of the competition.
The first battle on the fourth day, Ye Yuan ran into a genius called Han Feng!
He, Zhang Tianyi, and Ye Yuan were the same; there were similarly from other division competition zones. But unfortunately, he ran into Nalan Chu on the first day. Hence, that was why he was not tied in the first place.
Even though he lost in the end, he and Nalan Chu battled for 200 rounds; even more formidable than Li Zongtao!
"Ye Yuan, hope that you won't disappoint me! I want to use you to sharpen the saber in my hand!" Right when he saw Ye Yuan, Han Feng released a powerful fighting intent.
Ye Yuan said with a smile, "I won't let you down!"
When the fight started, Ye Yuan felt that power coming from head-on.
This Han Feng's strength was indeed absurdly daunting.
This Han Feng's comprehension towards saber intent infinitely approached supreme true intent.
"This Han Feng seems to be even stronger than when fighting Nalan Chu! This time, Ye Yuan ran into a tough character. You never know, his momentum of consecutive wins might come t
o an end here!"
"Terrifying fellow. This blade after blade, the imposing momentum is overwhelming! Ye Yuan being able to receive such a berserk saber intent is also really not easy! He's only Divine Traversing Realm. Wait until he breaks through to Boundless Realm, he'll likely be invincible in the same rank. Even Nalan Chu might not be his match."
"Yeah. This Ye Yuan was born at the wrong time. If I give him another one or two year's time, he'll absolutely have the strength to have a showdown with Nalan Chu. Sadly, his present cultivation realm is too low."
"En? No, wait! You guys, look! Han Feng … seems to have broken through! He … He comprehended the elementary form of a supreme true intent!"
All of a sudden, someone exclaimed.
Han Feng's saber momentum was more fearsome than the last. The final blade, Han Feng actually broke through the fetters and achieved a supreme true intent!
One saber out, and there was an aura of cleaving the world into two halves.
Ye Yuan seemed to have long expected this. Facing this move with an irresistible force, Ye Yuan's longsword pointed. Immediately, the lands changed color!
An intangible sword intent flooded the entire platform as if the world was all sword intent!
The audience surrounding and watching beneath the stage, their expression changed again and again.
This battle was truly one wave higher than the former!
They originally thought that Ye Yuan lost for sure, but did not expect that Ye Yuan still had an even stronger move!
"Rending the Sky!"
Ye Yuan's sword being released, it immediately utterly obliterated the supreme saber intent which Han Feng condensed and formed.
The whole audience was dead silent, all waiting for Han Feng's counteroffensive to regain lost ground once more.
But no one could have expected for Han Feng to suddenly cup his fists at Ye Yuan and said, "Many thanks for Brother Ye helping me achieve my aim! Han Feng concedes! With Brother Ye's strength, even if you don't borrow the power of a holy artifact, it's also sufficient to have a showdown with Nalan Chu!"
Everyone was taken aback from shock. Could it be that Ye Yuan intentionally guided Han Feng previously, and his action assisted Han Feng's comprehension of a supreme true intent?
Chapter 796 - Divine Soul's Strange Transformation!
"This Ye Yuan is simply too strong!"
"Him comprehending a supreme true intent is absolutely not one or two days already. His comprehension in the supreme true intent is much stronger compared to Nalan Chu!"
"Nalan Chu, Ye Yuan, and Han Feng. This competition this time, there are actually already three genius youths who comprehended a supreme true intent!"
"My God, how can there be a monster like this? He, a Divine Traversing Realm, actually guided others to comprehend a supreme true intent!"
When everyone regained their senses, waves of marveling that feat erupted.
If Ye Yuan used Rending the Sky early on, he could have defeated Han Feng long ago.
But Ye Yuan saw through that Han Feng was just a step away from comprehending a supreme true intent. Hence, he willingly served as Han Feng's sharpening stone, guiding skillfully and patiently in the battle, letting the other party stride out this most critical step!
What made everyone speechless was that after Han Feng comprehended the supreme true intent, he was actually still defeated by Ye Yuan!
Ye Yuan's might could be seen at a glance.
Previously, everyone all thought that Ye Yuan was taking advantage of his weapon. But now, they finally knew just how formidable Ye Yuan's strength was.
Just using the Xuanying Sword, Ye Yuan similarly could sit firmly in the first group.
"Hahaha, what did I say, this brat indeed concealed his strength! Tsk tsk, looking at it, his supreme true intent has probably reached the third-stage of supreme true intent already, maybe even fourth-stage! By the time his cultivation realm reaches the Dao Profound Realm, he can absolutely become a Divine King powerhouse!" on the high platform, First Elder said with a roaring laugh.
"First Elder's discerning eyes are akin to burning torches! This Ye Yuan is indeed a peerless genius hard to encounter in a thousand years! It's just …" that elder said rather hesitantly.
"It's just what?" First Elder said curiously.
"It's just that a genius like this, can our Crimson Afterglow Holy Land accommodate him? Furthermore … previously, in order to make him exhibit his true strength, you already offended him!"
"This …" First Elder was stunned and was actually at somewhat of a loss on what to do.
After comprehending the elementary form of a supreme true intent, it was only taking the first step to comprehending a supreme true intent, which was also the first-stage.
Supreme true intents were likewise divided from rank one to rank nine based on the degree of comprehension.
A rank nine supreme true intent was also called a perfect supreme true intent!
Once comprehension succeeded, the day of being known as a Divine King powerhouse was right around the corner.
If one comprehended the first-stage, they would have very high hopes of breaking through to the Dao Profound Realm!
About Ye Yuan's Azure Dipper Floating Zero Sword, although he only created four stances of sword moves, he actually already comprehended to the fifth-stage of supreme true intent.
First Elder's evaluation of Ye Yuan was still a little conservative.
After this battle, Ye Yuan's strength also obtained everybody's recognition.
He was regarded as a monster even more freakish than Nalan Chu. He was a peerless genius with the capital to rival Nalan Chu at the Divine Traversing Realm.
Starting from this day, Ye Yuan and Nalan Chu's showdown also became a highly-anticipated fight.
On the fourth day, Ye Yuan still won three battles completely. With the flawless victory battle results of twelve wins, he continued to be tied at first place with Nalan Chu and the rest.
Currently, Ye Yuan's refinement of the black metal lump also reached the final juncture!
After the fifth day's competition, Ye Yuan carried out the final refinement.
Finally, when the black metal lump was completely refined finish, the gold mark on the black metal lump finally revealed its original look!
Ye Yuan mind buzzed. The golden characters in his sea of consciousness formed an intense resonance with the black metal lump!
Ye Yuan discovered that on this black metal lump actually only had three characters. And out of these three characters, there were two characters among the golden characters.
The other one, Ye Yuan searched among the golden characters, but he did not find it.
Ye Yuan had already visualized these golden characters for a number of years. But these few years, his understanding of these golden characters, the progress was extremely slow.
These golden characters, each one contained extremely profound maxims of Great Dao. Ye Yuan kept failing to find the correct approach.
After refining the black metal lump this time, Ye Yuan actually sensed a trace of the lingering charm of the Dao from this intense resonance!
Even though it was just a tiny bit, it was very clear!
This sort of feeling could not be expressed using words. But Ye Yuan's understanding towards these two characters deepened that tiny trace.
All of a sudden, Ye Yuan's mind became more agile as luck hit, a feeling of needing to get it out of his c.h.e.s.t.
"Mou …"
Ye Yuan used all the strength in his body and spat out a syllable.
The moment the syllable came out, the essence energy sea within Ye Yuan's body was instantly drained, his entire person falling into an exhausted state.
And right at this time, Ye Yuan could clearly sense that his divine soul was actually continuously strengthening!
Although it was not too obvious, it was indeed truly becoming stronger!
"This … What's going on?"
Ye Yuan di
d not care about his body's exhaustion at all, his entire person in a kind of immense shock state.
He was already at the Eighth Level Divine Traversing Realm at present, and his divine soul had long reached the boundary of Alchemy Sovereign perfection and had no way of breaking through anymore.
For him to want to have some sort of breakthrough in the divine soul, he had to break through to the Boundless Realm first.
But now, his divine soul was actually strengthening once more. This was simply something beyond comprehension!
Ye Yuan did not sense the arrival of soul tribulation, which was also to say that his divine soul did not break through to the Alchemy Ancestor level.
He was truly unable to imagine that his divine soul was actually able to become even stronger on the foundation of perfection!
Ye Yuan sensed his own divine soul and was shocked to his core. He only shouted a syllable, and his divine soul actually broke through the Alchemy Sovereign perfection level and advanced once more.
Then if he shouted again, would his divine soul be able to improve a step further or not?
Ye Yuan's eyes lit up, clearly recalling something, as he muttered to himself, "Father said before at that time, his divine soul already surpassed Alchemy Emperor, but he did not break through to the Deity Realm. Could it be that my current situation is the exact same as his back then? If the divine soul can still have some advancement, even if I don't use some powerful alchemy technique, I can also leap realms to refine Tier 6 medicinal pills! These golden characters were definitely words written by a Deity Realm powerhouse! Deity Realm experts' means are simply inconceivable, to actually be able to use words to describe the Heavenly Dao and strengthen the divine soul, breaking through the shackles!"
The more it was so, the more intense Ye Yuan's d.e.s.i.r.e toward the Deity Realm was!
When Ji Zhengyang obtained this Medicine God's Soul Canon back then, he was already at the peak Alchemy Emperor Realm. Even if he only understood a little bit, it also let him refine out a half-step divine pill.