The Great Ruler: I, the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, Rule the Ages Alone
Chapter 7

All of You Don't Have Much Time-I'm the Spirit Road Champion!

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"Luo God Clan..."

The Heavenly Sage Dean of the Holy Spiritual Academy, who had been furious moments ago and wanted to personally enter the Spirit Road to kill Luo Li, was instantly left speechless.

In the Great Thousand World, there were many powerful and unique ancient clans.

Among them, the Luo God Clan was extremely renowned.

In ancient times, the Luo God Clan's ancestor, Luo God, had been the greatest beauty in the Great Thousand World.

Beyond her peerless beauty, Luo God's strength had also ranked among the top ten in the Great Thousand World. She was immensely powerful!

Although the Luo God Clan had now declined and no longer possessed its former glory, not even having a Heavenly Sovereign,

a starving camel was still bigger than a horse. It was stronger than the Five Great Academies no matter what.

The Five Great Academies were, plainly speaking, spiritual academy factions.

Their advantage lay in nurturing geniuses and the network of connections brought by generations of students.

Their strongest experts were merely in the Supreme Realm. They simply could not contend against the Luo God Clan, which possessed peak Earthly Sovereign experts!

If it truly came to a bloody clash, not necessarily anyone would offend the Luo God Clan for the Holy Spiritual Academy.

Likewise, it was naturally not worth having the Holy Spiritual Academy fight the Luo God Clan over a Ji Xuan who had not even reached the Three Heavens Realm.

Even though Ji Xuan's death had caused the Heavenly Sage Dean to lose all face, he still had to consider the bigger picture!

"The rules of the Spirit Road were jointly established by our Five Great Academies."

"Today, your Holy Spiritual Academy can openly break the rules for Ji Xuan and arbitrarily kill a trial participant who followed the rules."

"Then can our four spiritual academies do the same?"

At those words, the Heavenly Sage Dean's face turned livid, and his fists clenched tightly.

He had no choice but to stop himself from entering the Spirit Road and abandon his plan to kill Luo Li and avenge Ji Xuan.

With the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy stepping in to stop him, he was already hard-pressed to stand alone.

If the Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy truly took this opportunity to press the matter, then the Holy Spiritual Academy could forget about recruiting any of the Spirit Road's geniuses this time.

The Heavenly Sage Dean glanced at Wen Qingxuan. She was a disciple already chosen by the Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy.

In terms of strength, she was unquestionably one of the top five King-Sealing Prodigies on the Spirit Road.

If he made a move against her, the Holy Spiritual Academy would suffer even greater losses!

"Humph!"

A giant hand of spiritual energy condensed and directly seized Ji Xuan's corpse, which had been cleaved in two!

Then, the shattered heavens returned to calm.

The usually overbearing Holy Spiritual Academy rarely suffered such a setback!

Without another word, the Spirit Road fell silent.

The many trial participants looked at the silver-haired girl in the black dress with shock and complicated emotions.

No one had expected Ji Xuan to truly be killed!

He had died beneath the sword of Luo Li, who had once been hunted down by Ji Xuan and Yang Hong while all alone!

Of course, what shocked them most was Luo Li's background!

The Heavenly Sage Dean of the Holy Spiritual Academy, one of the Five Great Academies, had personally intervened, yet he still could not avenge Ji Xuan.

Not only had he been stopped by the deans of two great spiritual academies, he had even been forced to leave in anger, utterly helpless.

That background was no trivial matter!

Wen Qingxuan kept examining Luo Li, a smile appearing on her exquisite face.

She raised her right hand and lightly clenched it toward Luo Li.

Then, she murmured, "You are mine!"

The others cast strange looks at Wen Qingxuan.

This King-Sealing Prodigy probably meant that she wanted to defeat Luo Li and seize the Spirit Crown, right?

"Brother, it seems winning the Spirit Crown won't be so easy for you."

The blue-dressed girl, Wu Yingying, stood with her hands on her hips and sighed deeply.

She had a grandfather who was a dean, so among all these trial participants, her background was certainly extraordinary.

But using her background to make the dean of the Holy Spiritual Academy back down was still somewhat difficult.

Of course, everyone knew that Luo Li's status within the Luo God Clan was no ordinary matter either.

Otherwise, that beautiful dean of the Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy would not have said such things.

Apart from her astonishing background, Luo Li's own strength had already made her the undisputed strongest!

Whether it was Wu Ling or anyone else, they likely found it difficult to contend with her!

Even strength in numbers might not work.

More than one or two people had died alongside Ji Xuan just now.

Dying in the Spirit Road did not necessarily mean truly dying.

If one's will was strong enough, there might be a chance to revive after the Spirit Road ended, under the protection of the Divine Artifact Mirror of Judgment.

But that sliver of hope was simply far too slim.

Across so many Spirit Road trials, there seemed to have been very few such cases.

Those who had reached the end of the Spirit Road were all geniuses among geniuses.

Who would want to die like Ji Xuan, like a dog?

If they did not have the strength to compete for the championship, they should not dream of the impossible.

The higher one climbed on this nine-tiered platform, the better the spiritual energy empowerment became.

But they did not necessarily have to go to the highest Champion's Platform!

Of course.

People like Wen Qingxuan and Wu Ling definitely still wanted to give it a try.

As for Mu Chen, his abilities were not weak, but he was still lacking somewhat.

His chances of competing for the Spirit Crown were exceedingly slim.

The others enjoyed the finest resources, while he could only search for them himself.

"Everyone, I will give you ten days on the Champion's Platform."

Luo Li gripped the Luo God Sword again. She looked at the Nine-leaf Sword Grass above, then said coldly:

"Once the time is up, I will claim victory!"

Without any hesitation, she rushed toward the ninth-tier platform.

The increasingly powerful pressure of each layer did not hinder Luo Li's steps.

As Luo Li sat upon the Champion's Platform, which resembled a golden throne, everyone fell silent.

Luo Li killing Ji Xuan could only mean that she was even stronger.

But the moment she broke through the pressure's restrictions and became the first to ascend the Champion's Platform, it had already declared her undisputed status as the Spirit Road Champion!

Ten days were neither long nor short.

If they could obtain a high-grade spiritual beast essence at the Divine Soul Stage, they would have a chance to rise to a higher realm and greatly increase their strength.

But a high-grade spiritual beast was not something one person could easily deal with.

Advancing by even a minor realm was not so simple.

Ten days were far too short.

It would likely be difficult to threaten Luo Li's position as holder of the Spirit Crown.

"Let's go improve our strength."

Wen Qingxuan, Wu Ling, Wu Yingying, Mu Chen, and several other King-Sealing Prodigies decisively left with the members of their respective camps.

They needed to reach a higher level as quickly as possible within these ten days.

Only then would they have a chance to contend with Luo Li.

It had to be said that there was one piece of good news: Luo Li would have no chance during this time to hunt spiritual beasts or search for spiritual medicines.

One way or another, it was not as though they had no chance at all!

Seeing those people leave to make one final push during the last ten days of the Spirit Road, Luo Li immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Honestly, she had truly never expected that killing a Ji Xuan would draw out the Heavenly Sage Dean of the Holy Spiritual Academy.

It had been extremely dangerous for him to take the initiative to break the rules.

"Luckily, nothing happened."

Luo Li patted her chest, still feeling somewhat afraid afterward.

She knew very well that the deans of the Five Great Academies were all Supreme Realm experts.

A Supreme Realm expert could already tear through space.

Such power was not something those at the Divine Soul Stage, or even the Three Heavens Realm, could hope to touch.

"I'm sorry. I nearly made you..."

Zhao Chen's voice sounded at that moment.

In truth, he knew that Luo Li could not possibly have been in danger.

Whether it was the Five Great Academies' fear of the Luo God Clan or the supreme treasure Luo God Sword in Luo Li's hand, both ensured that she stood in an invincible position.

There had been no way to tell Luo Li about such matters in advance.

He was only a blade of grass.

But Zhao Chen still sincerely apologized, hoping to receive Luo Li's forgiveness.

"It's all right."

Upon hearing this, Luo Li immediately said with smiling eyes:

"Although it was a little dangerous, nothing could possibly have happened."

If danger arose on the Spirit Road, the person most worried would definitely not be herself.

"Having personally experienced the threat of death from a Supreme Realm expert, I've actually gained quite a lot."

In the blink of an eye, her expression became somewhat desolate. She sighed softly and said:

"At least it made me realize the gap."

The Supreme Realm—if she wanted to shoulder the burden of the Luo God Clan, she had to reach at least that level!

Zhao Chen opened his mouth, but he did not know what to say.

He was only a blade of grass now. What could he possibly do to help?

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