A battle between Saints was incomparably fierce, unleashing the essence and energy contained within their bodies.
Elder Li Ruoyu possessed one of the Daoist tradition's supreme Nine Secrets and claimed the first victory.
The All-Word Secret had been created by Emperor Venerable.
More precisely, it had been created by one of the Nine Heavenly Venerables of the mythological era whose renown shook the ages—the first incarnation of Emperor Venerable, master of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
Once cultivated to perfection, it could instantly increase one's combat strength tenfold, allowing one to cross secret realms and slay powerful enemies.
With his masterful All-Word Secret, the old man kept the Demon Ridge Great King completely suppressed, forcing the latter, unable to secure victory after a prolonged battle, to cup his hands and concede.
The victor of the second match was the Source King Ancestor, the seventh-generation Source Master, who cultivated both Source arts and cultivation arts.
The third match ended in a draw between Celestial Pivot's mountain-guarding Saint Beast and the third king of Demon Ridge.
In the fourth match, the former headmaster of the Extraordinary Scholars Academy had poor luck and encountered the ancient ancestral king ranked second in combat strength among Demon Ridge's Seven Kings, suffering an unfortunate defeat.
In the fifth match, the Northern Region's number one bandit and the Mystic Tortoise Saint both won.
The sixth match was won by Fairy Caiyun, the Divine King's wife, who had only just attained sainthood.
That Saint artifact, the Nine Phoenix Hairpin, had been forged by Divine King Taixu from divine materials gathered beyond the domain, using the Hengyu Emperor Scripture. It contained a trace of Great Saint Dao laws.
Fairy Caiyun relied purely on the power of the inherited Saint weapon to overpower the ancient ancestral king.
In the seven Saint-level