Lin Ye gathered his thoughts and settled into meditation.
He took out the star-magnetic crystal fragment and tried to incorporate its star-magnetic fluctuations into his stellar vortex.
At first, the two forces were utterly incompatible, repelling each other. He kept adjusting the vortex's trajectory until it finally gained a strange power that could interfere with energy.
"It worked!"
"From now on, I'll call it the [Extinction Magnetic Vortex]."
After that, Lin Ye remained indoors, devoting himself to consolidating his cultivation in the meditation chamber.
Only when the jade token at his waist grew hot did a transmission from the Heavenly Sword Sect arrive.
"All competing disciples, proceed immediately to the Sword Debate Platform on Heavenly Sword Peak."
He rose, straightened his robes, secured the mind-clearing jade pendant against his body, and pushed open the door. The other disciples of the Qingyun Sect emerged as well.
"Let's go." Elder Gu led the way out of the courtyard as soon as he spoke.
At the foot of Heavenly Sword Peak, a white jade plaza stretched as far as the eye could see, with the Sword Debate Platform at its far end.
The plaza was already packed with people. Nearly a thousand disciples from the Southern Region's sects had gathered, and cultivators at the third level of the Hua Yuan Realm could be seen everywhere.
The finest talents of the Southern Region's younger generation had all assembled here. An intense thirst for battle permeated the air.
"Silence!"
An aged voice rang across the plaza, drowning out every other sound.
Several figures stood above the Sword Debate Platform. The elder at their head was Jian Wuchen, sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect. Behind him stood the foremost experts of the various sects.
Jian Wuchen swept his gaze over the crowd below, as though