The prodigies of the other six heavens all turned their gazes toward him. He was a silver-haired man with a rugged face, radiating an immensely powerful aura of calamity.
"Is he Xu Tianji, the champion of this Nine Heavens Heavenly Talent Ranking?"
A prodigy from the Eighth Heaven was astonished. He could clearly sense that the calamity aura Xu Tianji emitted was even stronger than Yuan Qingcang's.
Yuan Qingcang felt Xu Tianji's aura and frowned slightly. "Even if he has not cultivated a battle body, defeating him would still be extremely difficult for me!"
The Nine Heavens had fewer cultivators than the other six heavens, but they received better resources and training. The prodigies who could rise from there naturally possessed equally terrifying talent.
Boom!
Suddenly, another powerful suction force swept in from a different direction, causing the calamity qi around them to surge madly that way.
"It's Feng Nian, the champion of our Seven Heavens Heavenly Talent Ranking!"
Several prodigies from the Seven Heavens were delighted as well.
One champion after another from the various Heavenly Talent Rankings completed the transformation of their Calamity Origins and began frantically absorbing the calamity qi around them.
Yet because their Calamity Origins differed, the force with which they absorbed it also varied.
One after another, even Jin and Jiang Huanyu completed the transformation of their Calamity Origins and began absorbing calamity qi.
However, among the sixty-nine people, several had an extraordinarily terrifying absorption range.
Xu Tianji of the Nine Heavens, Yuan Qingcang of the Eighth Heaven, and Feng Nian of the Seven Heavens.
Though the ranges absorbed by the three varied in size, the differences were not great. Still, they were clearly a whole level greater than those of the other prodigies.
"Xu Tianji's absorption range is roughly ten zhang in diameter,