"He lied to me! He lied to me!"
For a moment, Liu Yunxi's face was deathly pale, and her lips trembled.
Ye Xuan not only possessed talent in both alchemy and artifact refinement—he was not even a Mortal Body!
Everything had been Ye Xuan deceiving himself!
At that moment, Liu Yunxi felt as if she had been deeply betrayed.
"But even if you can cultivate, so what? Without a Spirit Physique, you're still useless!"
Yet very soon, hatred once again veiled Liu Yunxi's eyes.
Even with talent in the Dao of Alchemy and the Dao of Artifact Refinement, without extremely high martial talent, possessing such treasures would only invite disaster!
Since she could not have him, she might as well destroy him!
"Damn it! You only blocked one wisp of my aura, and you think you can act arrogantly before this Holy Son?"
At that moment, Xiao Chengfeng, who had just recovered his senses, flew into a complete rage.
So what if Ye Xuan was not a Mortal Body?
Below the Spirit Physique, everyone was trash!
"One wisp of aura?"
"Is that so?"
Ye Xuan merely sneered coldly and continued forward without stopping.
One step—he entered the Qi-Controlling Realm!
Two steps—he stepped into the Spirit Sea Realm!
Three steps—the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm!
After only three steps, Ye Xuan's Peak Spirit Sea Realm cultivation was displayed before everyone in the venue!
For a time, everyone gasped.
Ye Xuan had only become a disciple of the sect's sacred land a month ago. He was said to have been merely at the Body Tempering Realm back then, yet now he was already at the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm!?
Even if he had not entered the Heavenly Gang Realm, such cultivation speed was still frightening enough!
At the very least, this absolutely was not the so-called Mortal Body!?
At that moment, Liu Yunxi was completely stunned.
Ye Xuan's cultivation was stronger than it had been three years ago!
Could it be that all his talent had returned!?
"No, that's impossible!"
At that moment, Xiao Chengfeng was also frozen.
Because he suddenly discovered that the aura released by Ye Xuan, who was only at the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm, actually made him feel fear!
He was clearly the one in the Heavenly Gang Realm!
"It's over!"
At that moment, Ye Xuan, who had stopped after three steps, raised his palm and extended one finger.
Buzz!
In an instant, a gigantic finger suddenly condensed in the void above the arena.
It was dozens of meters long, incomparably solid, and flashed with dazzling radiance!
As Ye Xuan pressed his hand downward, the finger abruptly descended. Ripples exploded through the void beneath it!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Amid the thunderous sound of air being forcibly crushed, the finger descended upon Xiao Chengfeng's head in the space of a breath!
"Not good!"
Only then did Xiao Chengfeng recover his senses. He swung the long sword in his hand, his Heavenly Gang Dharma Idol shaking as he slashed toward the heavens!
Crack!
Yet to Xiao Chengfeng's horror, the Sword Qi shattered inch by inch the instant it came into contact with Ye Xuan's finger!
Boom!
In merely one breath, the Sword Qi was blasted into fragments that filled the sky!
Pfft!
Xiao Chengfeng held his long sword horizontally before him as his final defense, but in the next moment, the force of ten thousand jun carried by Ye Xuan's finger pierced through his body.
A great mouthful of blood sprayed out, and Xiao Chengfeng's entire body flew away like a kite with its string cut!
"This is an artistic conception!?"
"That clearly isn't a finger technique, yet it's filled with finger intent!"
"Only by comprehending a martial artistic conception can one defeat a stronger opponent across a realm!"
"I heard that this youth defeated Ji Fengliu at the Marquis Manor banquet through his comprehension. Now that I've seen him for myself, it's true!"
Throughout the venue, everyone who witnessed this scene could not help but rise from their seats in shock.
On the first high platform, Marquis Qi Chuan was even more dumbfounded.
No, why was Xiao Chengfeng still holding back!?
Was he holding back until he was crippled by a single finger?
He truly could not understand why Xiao Chengfeng's Sword Qi contained no sword intent. How had he then created the Hundred Refined record, and how had he caught Master Ji's eye!?
The cultivators from the Azure Mist Sect were also completely stunned.
Xiao Chengfeng was the trump card they had prepared for three years. Their promotion to a first-rate sect depended entirely on him!
Yet now, Xiao Chengfeng had actually been blasted away by a single finger from Ye Xuan!?
Now that both the Saintess and the Holy Son had been defeated, the Azure Mist Sect had suffered a complete defeat. There was no longer any possibility of being promoted to a first-rate sect!
"No!"
Liu Yunxi was utterly thrown into chaos.
She had lost to Chu Wan'er, while Xiao Chengfeng had lost to Ye Xuan!
Had they actually lost so thoroughly!?
The champion of artifact refinement and alchemy, comprehending an artistic conception in the Spirit Sea Realm, defeating a Heavenly Gang Realm cultivator with a flick of his finger!
Ye Xuan seemed to be even stronger than he had been back then!
And what had she done!?
She had chosen Xiao Chengfeng and discarded Ye Xuan like trash!
Had everything happened because she had made the wrong choice?
Pfft!
Boundless humiliation and remorse surged into Liu Yunxi's heart. She spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted on the spot!
"A true dragon?"
"A true worm!"
By then, Ye Xuan had already returned his finger to his side. He glanced down at Xiao Chengeng, who had fallen from the arena, then turned and walked back toward the second high platform.
Xiao Chengfeng's strength was even weaker than he had imagined!
Bestowing a finger upon him had already been a stroke of fortune!
At that moment, everyone's gazes followed Ye Xuan's figure.
The Violet Firmament Sect's Saintess and Holy Son had made two moves, and both victories had been crushing.
Such powerful younger-generation disciples truly lived up to the reputation of the Northern Region's number-one sect!
"Ye Xuan, I refuse to accept this!"
At that moment, Xiao Chengfeng, who was sprawled beneath the arena, roared.
Qi Chuan valued him. He could have defeated all the Violet Firmament Sect disciples and entered Cloud Palace Academy to cultivate!
If he had not been careless and underestimated his enemy, how could he have lost to a Ye Xuan in the Spirit Sea Realm!?
That was right. Everything had happened because he had underestimated his enemy too much!
If they fought again, he would unleash all his strength!
But by then, Ye Xuan had already returned to the second high platform.
With his back to Xiao Chengfeng below, Ye Xuan did not look back. Instead, he slowly spread open both arms!
At that moment, his battle had yet to end.
Before that, however, he had to advance to the Heavenly Gang Realm!
That was right. Just as he had done at the Azure Mist Sect a month ago, he would undergo the Heavenly Gang Tribulation before everyone's eyes!
Buzz!
As Ye Xuan pushed his Sea of Qi to its limits, the thunder contained within the Alchemy Heaven, wrapped in the power of the Eternal Life Emperor, shook violently. The Heavenly Gang bottleneck that had been suppressed for so long shattered with a thunderous crash!
"You brat, you're actually going to undergo the tribulation in front of everyone!?"
At that moment, Little Pagoda's voice suddenly rang out, accompanied by an amused curse.
"Forget it. I'll help you withstand this Heavenly Tribulation first!"
With that, Little Pagoda broke out of his body. When he appeared again, he was already outside this world.
Beneath the starry heavens above, the tribulation thunder of the Great Dao was condensing!
Although Ye Xuan's Nine Lightning Tribulation Heavenly Body had only awakened one bolt of lightning, the Heavenly Gang Tribulation it summoned was still extraordinary.
If this tribulation truly descended here, it would inevitably attract prying eyes!
Little Pagoda was a divine artifact, and it even contained a Great Emperor Imprint. Outside the world, it swallowed the entire Heavenly Dao Tribulation.
Afterward, Little Pagoda manifested one percent of the tribulation lightning within Tianxuan City!
"Rumble!"
Even though Little Pagoda had weakened it a hundredfold, when the tribulation lightning stretching ten thousand meters descended, every cultivator present still cried out in alarm!
"This fellow is going to undergo the tribulation in front of everyone!?"
"Tribulation clouds nearly ten thousand meters across? What kind of talent is this!?"
"If I remember correctly, when Ji Fengliu underwent his tribulation a year ago, the tribulation clouds he summoned were only five thousand meters across, right?"
"Twice as large! That means Ye Xuan's potential is even greater!"
"There don't seem to be many ten-thousand-meter Heavenly Gang tribulation clouds even in Cloud Palace Academy, are there?"
The sect masters looked at one another. Ye Xuan was apparently not merely gifted with high comprehension!
At that moment, Qi Chuan grew increasingly puzzled.
Why did he feel that Ye Xuan was the one who should have caught Master Ji's eye!?
"Undergoing the tribulation!?"
Beneath the arena, Xiao Chengfeng stared fixedly at Ye Xuan, who was bathing in descending lightning. His expression gradually twisted, and then he suddenly burst into wild laughter!
He understood that Ye Xuan was taking revenge!
When Ye Xuan had left the Azure Mist Sect back then, Xiao Chengfeng had also undergone his tribulation in front of everyone to ridicule him.
Now, Ye Xuan was returning that humiliation to him!
And he was doing it before all the forces of the Barren Continent!
Without a doubt, this was even more humiliating!
Pfft!
At that moment, Xiao Chengfeng could no longer endure the humiliation. He spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted as well.
On the second high platform, the Saintesses and Holy Sons of the three great sects also grew solemn.
Ye Xuan was undergoing his tribulation in front of everyone on the platform. If he advanced to the Heavenly Gang Realm, the Violet Firmament Sect would achieve the feat of having two Heavenly Gang Realm cultivators in one sect.
Combined with Ye Xuan's forceful display just now, this was clearly a naked provocation aimed at the geniuses of the three sects!
Soon, the tribulation clouds above Tianxuan City dispersed.
Ye Xuan drew all the lightning into his body. At that moment, his Sea of Qi had expanded to a hundred times its former size!
The Eternal Life Emperor Lightning floated above the vast ocean, thicker and more overbearing than before.
Ye Xuan landed. As his eyes opened and closed, faint arcs of lightning wove through their depths.
"Ahem..."
Qi Chuan gave a light cough and was just about to rise and announce the beginning of the first-rate sect martial tournament.
Yet before he could stand, Ye Xuan had already arrived at the center of the second high platform.
"I, Ye Xuan, will take the martial crown of the Sect Tournament!"
"If anyone refuses to accept it, come at me together!"
His gaze swept imperiously across all the great sects' prodigies present.
His voice was like thunder from the Nine Heavens, resounding throughout Tianxuan Square!
Yet when everyone heard this, their expressions were filled with shock.
Qi Chuan, who had just raised his butt, froze where he was.
What the hell—could you really be this arrogant!?
The martial crown had not even begun, and you were already claiming it!?
And you were telling all the other prodigies to attack together?
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